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area51mafia

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area51mafia··on Firefox OS phones now available from Geeksphone
Getting the same. One fails with denied by bank, and the other fails with "wrong authentication". Their credit card processing website seems to kinda suck..
area51mafia··on How Search Works
It's nice overall, but the timing for making items appear is a little slow. I was past most headers by the time they appeared, and I don't think I scroll too incredibly fast.
area51mafia··on Amazon's Ingenious Patent to Replace Your Bad Gifts
The wizard diagram listed on the patent is a complete rip off of the rules dialog included as part of Outlook. I don't have a Windows version of Outlook available right now, but it's very similar.
area51mafia··on Is Facebook Down? Yes. Outage Has Lasted An Hour And Counting
My loading of Facebook has been incredibly slow over the last hour, with it timing out several times.
area51mafia··on Ubuntu Releases 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin
They could just build it into do-release-upgrade and use bittorrent behind the scenes, then nobody would really be the wiser.
area51mafia··on Vim ported to iOS
Are you referring to the Split Keyboard available in iOS 5?
area51mafia··on List of Websites Monitored by Homeland Security published by Cryptome
Why Hulu? It's not like it accepts user generated content besides comments.
area51mafia··on Weekend Hack: Rotten Tomatoes reviews overlayed on Netflix (Extensions)
In the same area, there's also http://instantwatcher.com/ which lets you sort by Rotten Tomatoes, and New York Times picks.