michaelelliot
Re:Lenovo Caught Installing Adware on New Computers
on Thursday February 19, 2015 @12:22AM (#9072541)
Just found this: Spy agencies ban Lenovo PCs on security concerns (27th July 2013) - http://www.afr.com/p/technology/spy_agencies_ban_lenovo_pcs_...
"Multiple intelligence and defence sources in Britain and Australia confirmed there is a written ban on computers made by the Chinese company [Lenovo] being used in “classified” networks."
Re:Cancer Is More Bad Luck Than Bad Behavior, Study Says
on Friday January 02, 2015 @11:56AM (#8827449)
I believe overall cancer incidence rates have risen while cancer mortality rates have fallen.
Influencing factors could be improvements in the early detection of cancer and advancements in medicine for treating it.
Another possible cause is the almost global increase in exposure to non-ionizing radiation from the ubiquity of wireless devices. The International Agency for Research on Cancer have stated that non-ionizing radiation could cause cancer in humans. [1]
[1] http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/pr/2011/pdfs/pr208_E.pdf
Google Maps Implements Road Highlighting on Road Search
Re:The most minimalist commercial website you'll ever see
on Wednesday May 11, 2011 @07:52PM (#2538935)
That's not minimalism, that's just lazy.
Re:Specifications that are lacking: HTTP as an example
on Monday May 02, 2011 @08:19PM (#2508464)
I'm going to rewrite and "streamline" this whole article. Juice it up a bit, if you will.
Re:Specifications that are lacking: HTTP as an example
on Monday May 02, 2011 @12:06PM (#2506712)
Hrm. This is one of my first blog posts, and I feel like I made it too technical.
Specifications that are lacking: HTTP as an example
Re:Creating an open database of wifi and cell networks all over the world
on Sunday May 01, 2011 @12:37PM (#2503313)
They should ask Google for some of their data. Haha :)
Re:Firefox 4 first-day downloads doubling IE9's = Microsoft win
on Wednesday March 23, 2011 @02:17PM (#2360575)
A slower browser allows people to "savor" their Internet experience? Are you f*cking kidding me?
Re:TechCrunch -- has it gone completely anti-Google?
on Friday March 18, 2011 @01:51AM (#2339545)
http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?&w=400&h=220&o=f&...;
Isn't that drop in traffic around the same time AOL bought them?
Ask HN: Feedback on my real-time image board
This week I've been working on a real-time image board using AJAX long polling and various other JavaScript techniques to achieve hashbang navigation between pages (entire page doesn't need to reload). Pretty much everything is loaded dynamically without a page reload.When there's a new post in a thread, if you're viewing either the thread listing on the home page or are inside the thread...
Re:
on Friday March 04, 2011 @04:20PM (#2289847)
Starcraft 2
Re:
on Friday February 18, 2011 @10:37PM (#2238291)
So out of:
ly. 172800 IN NS phloem.uoregon.edu. ly. 172800 IN NS dns.lttnet.net. ly. 172800 IN NS dns1.lttnet.net. ly. 172800 IN NS ns-ly.ripe.net. ly. 172800 IN NS auth02.ns.uu.net.
dns.lttnet.net and dns1.lttnet.net are unreachable. nic.ly was using only these two for its name servers.
Re:
on Friday February 18, 2011 @10:34PM (#2238285)
I just realised that http://nic.ly is down. I wonder how many other Libyan sites have been shut off from the world.
The DNS won't be affected for the most part as .ly it seems to have redundancy in many different countries.
Libya protests: Death toll mounts as unrest spreads
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12512536
I hope my .ly domains are going to be okay.
Re:Ask HN: Quarter-life crisis
on Friday February 18, 2011 @10:22PM (#2238262)
More so than any other subject, programming is probably the easiest to learn using the Internet. There's a wealth of knowledge out there about many different languages, including tutorials to easily explain it.
That's how I taught myself most of my programming related knowledge.
Good luck.
Re:Ask HN: Does Anyone Else Have a "New" Gmail?
on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @08:10PM (#2229190)
It's not just Gmail. It seems that Google have changed their header menu for search and probably other services, too.
Re:Khan Academy Education Videos over Bittorrent
on Friday February 11, 2011 @09:51PM (#2209122)
Good luck finding the torrents using Google.
Re:Homeland Security Tries/Fails To Explain Why Seized Domains/Google ...
on Friday February 04, 2011 @05:12PM (#2181495)
These domain seizures are setting a scary precedent.
Re:What made thousands of birds fall from the sky?
on Monday January 03, 2011 @08:03PM (#2065371)
Oh. My. God. The Apocalypse has begun!
Re:Ask HN: Economics of domain hoarders
on Saturday January 01, 2011 @12:46PM (#2057927)
This has become quite a fruitless endeavor. WIPO and other domain arbitrators will swiftly hand domains over to their rightful owners if there is a trademark or history of trading under a particular name.
Steve Jobs named Financial Times ‘Person of the Year’
Re:Tumblr Adds $25 Million in Funding
on Friday December 17, 2010 @07:38PM (#2018486)
Let's hope they spend it on some well needed server infrastructure.
See: http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/17/ok-tumblr-this-is-getting-j...
Re:China is Changing Public Telephone Booths into Wifi Hotspots
on Friday December 17, 2010 @07:35PM (#2018475)
This is a great idea and could really compliment 3G networks.
Re:TIME Person of the Year: Mark Zuckerberg
on Friday December 17, 2010 @06:05AM (#2015871)
The picture of Mark on the cover of TIME makes him look like an alien.
Stuxnet apparently as effective as a military strike
Russian man pleads not guilty to global spam scheme
Re:The Age of Music Piracy Is Officially Over
on Thursday December 02, 2010 @12:33AM (#1961145)
Another incorrect article by Wired.
Re:Ask HN: How many people would buy a 1:1 monitor?
on Sunday November 28, 2010 @08:33AM (#1947325)
Our eyes are positioned next to each other on the horizontal plane. This is why a screen ratio with a larger width rather than height makes sense.