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I don't have the coordinates of the excavation site but the ruins of the old baths are located at: 37°55'29"N 29° 7'29"E

It is safer to be a carbon chauvinist if you accept that ancient Mars was covered with oceans. A silicon-based microbe would be hard pressed to explain its distaste for water to its carbon-based neighbor.

There are localization issues as well. Some place names in Turkey appear to be transferred over from legacy windows-1254 code page (e.g. Avcılar displayed as Avcýlar) Some have replacement letters for certain characters (dotless i, ş, ç, ğ). For example, "Sık orman" (dense forest) became "Sik orman" (penis forest).

Overall (at least in Turkey) the legends appear to come from an old, low quality source.

    Your password can't be longer than 16 characters.

    ... we provide an inbox with ... rock solid account protection 
    powered by your Microsoft account ...

Those two do not chime that well.

I agree with your first paragraph but not with the Django example. User.objects.get(id=1) failing is exceptional because you are asking for an object with a specific and unique property. Otherwise, you would be using User.objects.filter(age>20) (which doesn't throw an exception).

Great idea and beautiful execution. I just copy/pasted a few photos from Instagram to Facebook. I will definitely use this.

There are languages with true alphabets, ie. there is a one-to-one relation with written letters and sounds. A good example is Turkish. Once you learn the sounds of the 29 letters in the alphabet, you can perfectly pronounce all Turkish words.

I believe there is a way around this. Google doesn't need to hide or remove pro-SOPA search results. Making them harder to find would be equally effective. Something like this perhaps?

    In order to show you the highest quality results, we have omitted some entries.
    If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included.

Is that impossible? Isn't it just a matter of running a root nameserver for the new internet?

The page was edited a week ago. He appears to be COO before that:

http://www.crunchbase.com/person/warren-adelman/diff/12/13

It would be interesting to see how Google would handle the fig sign [1]. It represents the letter T in ASL, but it is considered quite a rude gesture (cunt in Turkish, for example) in many Eastern-European cultures.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fig_sign

Don't skip (as I did) steps 15-19. Otherwise, you'll wait a week before GoDaddy releases the domain to your new registrar. When you manually accept the transfer as described in the blog post, the process should complete in a few hours.

But what happens if one of those sites lose their user database? Your other accounts would be compromised and you would have to change your passwords in every site you registered with the same password.

Then WM_DESTROY should have been called NM_DESTROY, since it is clearly a notification message not a command. The user is not wholly innocent here, but the Windows API team should be blamed for the misleading naming as well.

Change your work environment if you can. I lately started working one or two days a week at a friend's office. It worked wonders for me. I have a lot less distractions this way. First of I have no coworkers there. And second, clients call me less, only if it is really important. I suspect this is because they actually need to look up a number to reach me, and that cuts down a lot of noise.

> How does anyone possibly allow a data dump to come anywhere near somewhere Google could index it?

Let me just put this sql dump in the web root for a couple hours to copy over to the test server.

Same happened in Turkey this month (#22agustos). The Anon DDoS was portayed as a failure in Turkish media, and the government took credit for successfully fighting off the "cyber-attack". I wonder what would happen if it was LulzSec instead of Anon.

There are only a handful of browsers that doesn't support javascript today [1]. There also users consciously disabling scripting on their modern browsers but they don't add up to a significant percent of browser users [2]. The second argument that an external .js file can fail to load applies to the .css file as well.

There may be arguments against the modernizr approach, but the ones in the article are quite weak.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_browsers#Java...

[2]: http://visualrevenue.com/blog/2007/08/eu-and-us-javascript-d...

Did you try setting load-users=false under [UserManager] in /etc/lightdm.conf?

In my opinion, personal blogs are a bigger problem. Even wordpress.com does not sanitize pictures. I believe many bloggers are unaware of that.

If you can enable 3D acceleration in virtual box, installing virtualbox-ose-guest-x11 enables Unity [1].

[1]: http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2011/04/21/ubuntu-natty-in-v...

Also see GRACE (launched in 2002), which measures the time variation in Earth's gravity field, albeit with a much lower spatial resolution than GOCE:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_Recovery_and_Climate_Ex...

The cartoon chicken is Calimero: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calimero

- Hudson is a free continuous integration (CI) tool written by Kohsuke Kawaguchi in Sun. [1]

- Oracle took control of Hudson as part of their Sun acquisition.

- Hudson devs wanted to move the infrastructure from Java.net to Github due to frustration with Java.net.

- Oracle objected the move to Github. Oracle said they owned the trademark to the Hudson name and the devs were free to fork under a different name if they wanted to. [2]

- Devs forked Hudson as Jenkins. [3]

- BONUS: Hudson also moved to Github. [4]

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_(software)

[2]: http://groups.google.com/group/hudson-users/msg/cf0d72a7d97f...

[3]: http://jenkins-ci.org/content/jenkins

[4]: http://java.net/projects/hudson/lists/dev/archive/2011-02/me...

It appears that a few people are submitting every article in their company blog to HN. Not sure how they get the upvotes though.

Even though public repositories lack a search box, they are still searchable by adding /search?q=$keyword to the url:

https://github.com/ry/node/search?q=runshell

So true. My father-in-law needs a computer to check his email and FaceBook only. That's all he does. Even the iPad is too much for him.

The Cambridge professor was Ross Anderson. He replied to a letter from UK Cards Association requesting the university to take down a research paper by a PhD student. The issue was about the chip-and-pin no-pin vulnerability.

HN Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2039117

Take down request: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/20101221110342233.pdf (pdf)

Professor Anderson's reply: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/ukca.pdf (pdf)