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So this is a fork of webkit? Does Safari get stuck with some incompatible because different engine? Apple can/will join blink too? How will it display the >blink< taglement? It's like Google are saying, "thanks for all the stuff you did on khtml, now we'll take it from here bub."

You can amass cash in Euros by slowly withdrawing it from chas machines then instead of leaving the country with the cash, you can use a local bitcoin trader to buy bitcoins with it, then turn them back into normal currency when you have left the country.

Cowboy BeBop at His Computer http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CowboyBebopAtHisC...

Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for that rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge. —Erwin Knoll

"could not be stolen through any amount of force". If bitcoins are practically unstealable/unconfiscatable then that'd be neat, but they aren't. They are stolen in vast quantities all the time by malware. If the government wants your bitcoins badly enough it can run a tank into your house, use force to compel you to tell them your password, torture you etc. You're not screwing the state over, you're giving it an incentive to take a hostile interest in you. Did anyone download the clients anonymously? Not many did. They will know.

(Stomp Aberdeen.) Loch Ness. Monster on the map.

Does/will bitcoin make Cypriot (or anyone's) capital controls ineffective?

I've given up trying to keep OSX java up to date. I can still use Libreoffice. I just keep the plugins disabled in the browsers. Oracle has made it, or rather left it, unusable.

I'm just gonna throw this slight grenade in. Opera is closed source. Does that in practice mean that it is unforkable (as is - with Presto)? On the desktop or mobile versions?

My putting arguments from an explicitly European perspective always gets me in trouble here. But here I go.

There may (MAY) be some Socalization [sic] going on here. I.e. Americans think this is what people do in America, therefore they must be like this everywhere.

Americans might keep expecting you to give them a car as a Christmas present. Europeans would never be so materialistic as to want or expect one. Have at it.

The overall TCO of a nice German car is easily $1m. So most people don't understand that 15m is only 15 cars. And I mean only. And you can't buy anything else on that hypothetical basis.

Is my partner into my or my money? Maybe I DON'T know the answer to that. But I'm past caring.

So one day, Mark says to Bill, "Call THAT a monoculture? I got your Central Point of Failure right here!"

The "problem" is that when almost none of the web works in IE6/7/8/9 is that people won't upgrade because they have no idea how to. They'll buy a new PC, which is fair enough if they were running XP, but then they'll be shocked to realise there is no start menu.

Ok, maybe it's a troll. (What isn't?)

1. I don't understand. Is the wearer of 2 headphones not allowed to talk, or is he not allowed to be verbally addressed?

2. If all the girls are wearing headphones, how the fuck...? Am I RIGHT?!

Contra the best article they ever ran... what's next? Why diamonds actually are scarce and valuable, sponsored by deBeers. ??!!

Does this mean that The Atlantic is not a CIA front, or does it mean that it is? Semi-in-jest.

I've noticed this problem with using the spacebar. But a top and bottom header will never add up to more than 1/3 of the vertical height of the browser window. Should be poss to build a javascript overlaid scroller button than only scrolls pages by 2/3 of window height at a time, in either direction?

You can monitor the UK National Grid inputs and transfers, sales, demand etc. in almost real time here http://www.bmreports.com/bsp/bsp.php

You need flash, I've never got this page to work in Chrome, but it works in Firefox

The causes of the problem as I see it.

1. A female who is a geek doubles her hotness to other geeks. 2. The guys in question are in the US, which has a shortage of hot women (which is hotly debated) and an even bigger shortage of geeks in general, and therefore of women who are also geeks.

Some are, I see, already mocking the ideological presumptousness of this, from a law enforcement agency. Gee Mulder, there's also this report of blah blah blah.

Well, why is PREVENTING some citizens from changing the ALWAYS "pro-business" status quo their job?

Socialism is coming anyway (not the socialism-for-the-rich-kind), esp if you consider socialized medicine to be a trojan horse of socialism.

The reason America fought socialism is not that it was bad, it was that it was foreign (Soviet domination) and undemocratic in that form. Via democracy you can have it any time you vote for it, and even press mogul Republican billionaires can't stop you.

(See my record.) I never comment these days anyway, since I worked out that this is not a board of intellectuals (and I allow that there are conservative intellectuals), it is a board of (inherently capitalist and "selfish") Silicon Valley VCs and startup people. And here come the some people to argue with me, and some Randroids among them.

They have a facebook that the secret police adore and that is controlled by a corporatist elite.

We have an actual facebook that various security agencies adore and that is owned by Goldman.

One can make the argument... but I'm not making it. I'm just pointing out a similarity.

To ease the pain, hasn't somebody made a user style sheet that makes BBC News web pages look like Ceefax? White on black. Fixedsys?

They'd rather start WWIII and be nationalized (as many have already argued for, for different reasons, monopoly etc.) as a result than break a principle.

Question: should links to reason.com, instead of just saying (reason.com) have something like WARNING: Objectivism for people who forget that this site is by people who think free markets still work as a concept. I haven't read this link. If it's taking a pro-intervention stance, I'm ok with that, but many aren't.

But does it have protected memory? Can we write into it the things we want and need?

1. If this is true, and it seems right to me, maybe some of the massive effort put into designing new GUIs for Gnome/KDE/etc should be put into hacking the look and feel of the OS X desktop?

Unsanity ShapeShifter hasn't worked since OS 10.4

and I know about

http://magnifique.en.softonic.com/mac - 10.5 only

http://www.marsthemes.com/crystalclear/ 10.7 support claimed, but it's not very radical. I'd love xfce's window look controls or a Stardock windowblinds.

I know Apple don't want anybody to do this. I know they will deliberately introduce changes that break hacks. But as I said, how can it be more effort than Linux?

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2. To try to prevent OSx86 hacks, DSMOS.kext uses crypto to prevent the system running essential UI elements like Finder, SystemUIServer, etc. Can't we build our own versions of those parts? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%E2%80%93Intel_architectur...

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3. Is this true?:

Linux desktop - dying, dead

Windows 8 - trying so hard to copy OSX/iPad/Springboard/Launchpad that everybody is gonna hate its TWO UI's! (dying?)

Mac - winning, won (by default?)

silly question: Do I only need a black and white TV licence if I only watch live TV on my kindle?

I take nothing away from what he did and I'm one of those people who dislike it when some people belittle what he did. He did the browser and the protocol and the url scheme. The excellence of NeXTSTEP helped. I only recently learned that a lot of the design of html, in terms of deciding how to fit sgml to markup the "Web" was also Dave Raggett. So people who say TBL "copied" SGML are wrong in two ways. There was also Calliau. Then all the other html "tags" that came afterwards, with NSCA Mosaic and Netscape and then W3C additions. Andreessen famously suggesting img etc. But TBL joined html with what else it needed to take over.

It turns out -- US law is enforced in NZ, by ... the FBI (Megaupload) so no, I don't wish I was there.

I prefer a domain and my own server. But nobody will see what I write. The average user can't use G Reader. They can use twitter and facebook. Why hasn't this issue been solved? I want a network with friends who are users that gives me control. Contradiction in terms?

I've told people to leave the US before on HN, and got downvoted, so I won't.

America's #1 problem is that solutions that work are often fairly labelled socialist, because they are, and thus they immediately lose all popular support, because for some reason, you are all mentally still fighting the cold war?! (So are the Russians, but that's beside the point.)

"Socialism" needs to stop being pejorative. You're trapped by political language as much as insularity and self-regard.

for mockability, this is the web design equivalent of Icy Hot Stuntaz

BTW, can't they just leave the legacy behaviour in quirks mode only or does slimness and catching Chrome trump functionality?