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Re:Spicing unix shell scripts on Sunday February 19, 2012 @04:03PM (#3610402)
The Art Of Unix Programming
An honest question. From what I know Hotmail et. al. is free, so without ads how do they (Microsoft) make money?
Re:Ask HN: How to move away from Gmail on Sunday February 12, 2012 @07:55AM (#3581694)
I have a question regarding these so-called highly secure email providers which respect privacy. Is the data on the servers of these services encrypted? I mean, isn't it too resource consuming to do something like that? And if it is encrypted, do they do it like LastPass, with a client side JavaScript decryption module?
Re:Feynman on explanations on Monday January 09, 2012 @03:15AM (#3441814)
Yup, but I think in the 80's it was the standard explanation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/21/science/21ice.htm