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Re:Death of Matt Lightner (creator of Site5) on Monday January 02, 2012 @05:09AM (#3415406)
Matt's mother, Deborah, submitted a very poignant comment on Site5's weblog: http://www.site5.com/blog/s5/saying-goodbye-to-a-founder/201...
While this is a good point, concerted efforts against GoDaddy isn't a bad thing. The only way corporations will feel anything is if the entire Internet focuses on them -- we need to focus on one thing at a time and not spread ourselves across too many targets.
Re:Cheezburger Dumping GoDaddy over SOPA on Friday December 23, 2011 @02:56AM (#3385056)
You can't justify one wrong by saying the average human does something worse. The average human is a vicious, barbaric monster. Both killing wild animals and eating animals from factory farms is wrong.
Re:I Know What You Downloaded on BitTorrent… on Saturday December 10, 2011 @08:16PM (#3338994)
apparently some trackers have fake peers that might use your IP address. regardless of if that is or isn't the case, it lends you some deniability.
Re:Gmail’s new look on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @03:15AM (#3185741)
On lower resolutions, the Comfortable and Cozy options aren't available. I much prefer the look of Comfortable but am forced to use Compact.
Perhaps there could be a program to synchronize your Google accounts with Dropbox?
Re:New Firefox download manager appears in UX build on Thursday September 08, 2011 @12:01AM (#2972585)
This is the Nightly UX build, which appears to be something else?

I use Nightly and don't have this feature.

Re:Iran forged the wrong SSL certificate on Friday September 02, 2011 @12:57AM (#2952967)
Isn't the purpose of NoScript (in this context) defeated if you use Chrome?
Re:Anonymous Pledges to Take Down Facebook on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @12:30AM (#2866775)
No, that doesn't apply here at all. There's no (public) definition of who is or isn't Anonymous.
How do you know they haven't?
Re:Estimate your English vocabulary size on Sunday July 17, 2011 @12:09AM (#2772507)
And it was optional...
Re:Python and the Principle of Least Astonishment on Saturday July 09, 2011 @03:40PM (#2746210)
It being consistent with PHP is pretty much the same thing as being inconsistent.
Re:Why SourceForge Lost on Friday July 08, 2011 @02:58AM (#2741550)
If I had to attribute GitHub's success to one thing, it's that animation.
Re:Google just launched prizes.org on Monday July 04, 2011 @04:58PM (#2727856)
Not everybody is you.
Re:Lulzsec/gn0sis/AnonOps dox'd on Sunday June 26, 2011 @01:20AM (#2697436)
> It all sounds very 'schoolyard'.

Welcome to "hacking."