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The point of the 3 years seemed to me to be mostly making an example of the author to discourage civil disobedience.
Re:Show HN: Find members of Congress with similar voting records on Saturday October 19, 2013 @02:03PM (#6577211)
should be fixed now, thanks for letting us know!
Re:Show HN: Find members of Congress with similar voting records on Saturday October 19, 2013 @01:22AM (#6575456)
yep! for a great example, try out Rush Holt (http://www.congressbuddies.com/?name=Rush%20Holt)

None of his top-5 "buddies" have him anywhere in their own top-5 lists, which is pretty unusual.

thanks! Yea it's gotten a lot better looking (and hopefully more stable) since then.
The good thing about symmetric key encryption in the browser is easy enough to check. You just need to make sure that messages/images are encrypted before being sent to the server, and that the password is never sent to the server. Also ChatStep uses sjcl so the crypto isn't homemade like CryptoCat.
Re:33GB of public domain JSTOR articles, and a manifesto on Thursday July 21, 2011 @02:33PM (#2790654)
Really? Did you even read the post- "The portion of the collection included in this archive, ones published prior to 1923 and therefore obviously in the public domain..."
This is nice, but I'd love to see some more important features opened up instead- things like huddle on mobile web and working video playback in the Android app would be great.
Re:Google made my son cry on Monday July 04, 2011 @02:37PM (#2727371)
The limit is still unreasonable and the support procedure for solving the problem is terrible.
Re:HTML5 MP3 Player - Plays local files and parses ID3 tags on Saturday March 26, 2011 @10:55PM (#2374002)
Worked well in Chrome 10 on Windows 7 for the first few minutes then crashed. Adding files was a little bit slow but the audio playback and tagging worked well. Nicely done though, it's very cool!
Re:A DIY Origami Notebook to Keep in Your Jeans' Small Pocket on Saturday January 08, 2011 @06:26PM (#2084251)
Thanks! Very simple and convenient, only problem I had was a little uncertainty with the folding direction after the last cuts.

There are 12 pages when complete (not counting front and back cover) for anyone wondering.

Re:The Enemy Within: What is Conficker's Botnet For? on Sunday May 16, 2010 @01:13AM (#1351438)
if you're curious and want a technical read not filled with BS about how amazingly foreign and magical MD6 must be, just read this or the equivalent from mcaffee or whoever you prefer - http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=1...
I read this as 'don't hate the playa hate the game' If somebody wants to use their iPad to play Farmville, great for them. They can and still will find something just as pointless or stupid to do without the iPad or without Facebook. Just because it lets you do some pointless crap doesn't make it a bad tool, and it certainly doesn't mean that everyone who uses the tool is using it for that pointless crap.
Re:How did Facebook guess my email address? on Tuesday May 11, 2010 @09:45PM (#1339880)
to add my own creepy connection story I discovered today that FB will suggest that I add the friends of anybody who invites me to become their friend, whether or not I am connected with any of the other people