The_Sponge

I don't think that Google Voice will get shutdown. Google needs a unified communication product, tying Google Talk, Voice, and Hangouts together.

I wasn't aware that they were tracking eye movement (of any sort). This is incredibly cool, although the privacy implications could be disturbing.

A quick google search didn't reveal a list of all of the on-board sensors. If anyone knows where I can I find it, linking would be greatly appreciated.

It's interesting to see the availability of firearms to citizens presented as a violation of human rights.

>Firearms-related crimes posed serious threat to the lives and personal security of citizens in the U.S. Some shootings left astonishing casualties, such as the school shooting in Oakland, the Century 16 theater shooting in Colorado and the school shooting in Connecticut.

Also, please be aware that this is a translation, which explains for the awkward and sometimes grammatically incorrect wording of this article.

>When I think about my next "big" purchase, I will probably build a PC.

I did precisely that. Instead of upgrading my MBP, I built an i5, 16GB RAM, and a gtx650ti for well under $700. I've had some teething issues with regard to my workflow but VirtualBox has been a life saver.

http://i.imgur.com/s6LSUFR.jpg Much better.

They have good value for personal email and projects for personal reasons as well as in situations where a link is not clicked.

Personal Reasons: Gmail starts sucking? Change email hosts, and all is mostly well with little to no interruption to your email service. Also, they can be good for personal branding.

Professional Reasons: A billboard, an ad, a business card. It looks foolish when a company is @gmail.com, for example. There are security reasons as well.

I use google apps for my personal email. If Google were to drop IMAP support or enforce terms of service that were unacceptable, I would have the option of easily pointing my MX records to another email host. If I was on @gmail.com, I would have a difficult time switching. For me, <$10/yr is more than worth it.

If you live in SV/BA, there's a couple of these around. I tried one in Mountain View, and I totally love the idea of not having a box with something expensive in it sitting at my doorstep for 6 hours.

I was listening to this on the audiocast version on NPR. It's very good.

The image that is the four drugs side by side is hosted on imgur, which is unusual. http://i.imgur.com/P4csH.gif (right below the line “Because it's amphetamine, it's not recovering completely,” Kim says.)

Wonderfully laid out, however.

Completely unrealistic but a cool "device of the future" video.

It took me a good 10 seconds to locate it. Also, I signed in with my Microsoft ID which was confusing as it logged into outlook using my existing, non-microsoft email. If you don't have an @outlook.com email, it'd be nice for them to pop a prompt.

set your homepage to hn?

I think that the big deal is that they would essentially be setting a baseline level of hardware for developers (and consumers) to target.

If you live in Silicon Valley like I do, public transit is sadly lacking.

I can't help but wonder that with the way things are going if it would be smart for Mozilla to focus on getting the Gecko engine used in more third party projects. Webkit is practically everywhere, and while Safari and Chrome are the "big" projects using it, I can think of many, many more projects that use it silently.

For example, when my smartphone broke, I spent $50 on a (used) feature phone a few weeks ago to use for the last month and a half of my contract. I found that it had a Webkit based browser, why wasn't that Gecko/Mozilla?

"The code that you write on the computer should only stay on the compter that you wrote it on and nowhere else."

That is what I was taught. What it means is that if you write some code on your work computer, it stays on your work computer. If you write it on your home computer, it stays on your home computer. Nowhere else.

(obviously there are exceptions, but the basic rule is a good thing to remember)

He was booed possibly more out of fanboy-ism than anything else. Remember, at the time, the "Mac Community" was tiny, tightly knit, and viewed Microsoft and Bill Gates as Satan personified. Hell, there was even a mailing list called the Evangelist.

I like the concept of people being allowed to work freely on things like wearable computers. The downside is that it might go nowhere, the upside is that you might end up with everyone in the world using steam and paying for groceries through steam wallet.

Are you selling it?

More fun than playing the piano: following someone's cursor and watching them try to shake you off.

That's for the javascript engine, not necessarily for the caching.

When you go to select the list of carriers on your phone as you propose, your phone will only be able to show carriers for which it can tranceive. It's not like they all share the same spectrum.

Furthermore, switching numbers and accounts, and transferring them to other phones could be made more complex.

That's what I went straight for, too.

Something Awful is an interesting community. The people running it consider it to be an "idiot tax": if you're an idiot, you pay the tax.

I don't think there are very many (any?) other communities on the internet for which you must be a paid user to post.

If you're looking for a fairly brief overview of what LoseThos is and how it works, check out http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=342... .

Unfortunately, it takes a somewhat mocking tone of the creator's mental illness, but it provides lots of screenshots.

e: LoseThos' creator posted in the thread, view filtered posts with this link: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=342...

Go to amazon, search for data structures and algorithms. Those four words should bring up a whole bunch of results. Choose one that's well reviewed that has familiar elements to you.

Also, wikipedia is a great place to start (of course).

Sorry I can't be more specific, but I don't know your educational background or experience. Fwiw I used http://www.amazon.com/PartyTime/dp/0262033844/ . The only thing is that I had a decent, recent math background, and if you haven't done "real" math in a long time, it might be one more barrier to learning what you really want to learn.

1GB per file of reliable, fast storage. You can bet we passed larger files over it.

Intimidation. I bet they also want to "make an example" of megaupload and any other similar company.

It seems that way.

I use a subreddit to collaborate with team members. I know this is an extreme situation, and an odd use, but it's damn inconvenient.

I've heard excellent things about namecheap. I'm going to be moving a few less critical domains to them as a trial.