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I agree college is for the privileged, but there is value in enjoying youth.
Re:Google now scraping GMail for your Amazon purchases on Wednesday August 05, 2015 @03:57PM (#10012403)
They just added the ability to hold down on words in any android app and get information on the word. For example if you press and hold "chinese food" it will pop up with yelp reviews of nearby places. This is not available on all flavors of android IIRC.
Re:Google now scraping GMail for your Amazon purchases on Wednesday August 05, 2015 @03:55PM (#10012386)
I know everyone freaks out these days about Google data collecting, but I find Google Now to be incredibly useful.

Getting android notifications of my flights with the gate and boarding times scrapped from my email is super nice.

What if I never come back?
Re:The FSF's statement on Windows 10 on Friday July 31, 2015 @02:23PM (#9983398)
>The Free Software Foundation urges everyone to reject Windows 10 and join us in the world of free software.

no shit.

Re:GravityLight: Generate light with gravity on Friday July 31, 2015 @01:55PM (#9983196)
It's amazing the amount of people who immediately cry hoax. Someone raised a good point about taking money from locals and bringing it to Europe/America/China, but clearly this isn't breaking the law of physics.
I use it in my class with my project mates. You can only have one person working at a time otherwise it's a disaster, but as far as "over the shoulder" programming it works very very well.