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adrianb··on More Americans see man who leaked NSA secrets as 'patriot' than traitor
Not to mention almost half of respondents said they have no opinion yet. Title seems a bit misleading in my view.
adrianb··on The Pirate Bay in the cloud
Hundreds of proxys already exist - for people in countries where the domain is blocked (UK, NL...)
adrianb··on Why Google Should Customize your Gmail Login Page to Prevent Phishing
It's what Yahoo has been doing for a while. They call it "Sign-in seal" and it's basically a custom picture you select yourself.
adrianb··on Family trees: Tracing the world's ancestor
> More specifically, imagine the simplest case of a population of a constant size - say a million (the approximate size of the Holy Land at the time of Jesus).

The total human population was greater than 1 million.

adrianb··on Proposal - A Mountain Range for Texas
Related: Dutch mountains (http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/brainstorm-dutch-mountains)
adrianb··on Microsoft Moves from Followership to Leadership
The author's description is also a buzz-phrase:

Randy Ottinger is an Executive Vice President at Kotter International, a firm that helps leaders accelerate strategy implementation in their organizations.

adrianb··on Linux grabs its single biggest win
It's what Google has been doing ever since it was founded and why AGPL was invented.
adrianb··on New gTLD Applied-For Strings
It's not a doughnut company, it's a VC-founded internet startup!
adrianb··on New gTLD Applied-For Strings
.localdomain would be better.
adrianb··on New gTLD Applied-For Strings
.cat is already a (r)ccTLD for the Catalan community.
adrianb··on Sweden Twitter Experiment Goes Painfully Awry
The NY Times article was written in TROLLHATTAN. I thought that's a joke too. It seems it's a real city.
adrianb··on Richard Stallman Collapses At Barcelona Conference
President? I think you mean prime minister.
adrianb··on Messing with recruiters
I always wanted to add a section to the bottom of my CV titled "Technologies I know nothing about" listing everything I can think of, say .NET. Then wait for recruiters calling / e-mailing with messages like "I noticed you have experience working with .NET"...
adrianb··on Google made my son cry
How do you prove that a user enters the real date of birth when creating an account?
adrianb··on Fearsquare : see the official crime stats for the places where you 'check-in'
UK only.
adrianb··on MTV blames Internet piracy for its demise as a music channel into reality TV FUD
They thought about that, and so they made sure that the reality shows were really crappy.
adrianb··on U.S. warns Ottawa of WikiLeak release
What good is chatting to the media if they will go, edit the interview and show whatever they want that fits their own agenda? I don't know if this is a problem in Canada but it certainly is in my country and I know that it is an issue in the US.

Personally, I can understand why the public figures would not want to talk to the media. However, I don't understand why they aren't finding new ways to communicate more directly with the public.

adrianb··on Throw 1; < don't be evil
Didn't know that. Thanks!
adrianb··on Throw 1; < don't be evil
If another site would really want to include the script, it could also strip the initial text. Is the purpose only to avoid people from including the script by mistake?
adrianb··on Oracle forbids JSR spec downloads?
I got the same message when trying to download a JDK...
adrianb··on A Warning: Facebook dating apps see massive user drop after FB policy change.
There's a spelling mistake in the last phrase. It should be:

This is why you don’t build companies that are completely dependent on spam.

adrianb··on "Wikipedia of maps" open sources Atlanta map data
Wikipedia of maps is called Wikimapia.
adrianb··on How Apple's App Store is like McDonald's
I can see one little problem when the hardware/operating system of the competition doesn't match the set of features of Apple. After all, many applications for the iphone became famous for using multitouch / the accelerometer and not every competition phone has those.
adrianb··on Ask HN: business guy tries to build a website - qrisper.com
I noticed that the site has very good graphics. Did you do that yourself? Did you work with an expert?
adrianb··on The face of the first European
Never knew that Tom Hanks is 30 000 years old.
adrianb··on [dead]
Reading computer-related articles in mainstream media always makes me notice how out-of-touch some journalists are with the area and I wonder if all the articles they write are equally out-of-touch (in economics, politics, ...)
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