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I'm surprised that they don't explain more their design choices (mainly the black bar).

Yep that must be because of copyright reasons as someone once pointed to me, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMG_v._MP3.com

I've seen this before in an other smaller extension (I can't remember which) while I was studying how it worked, but fortunatly the code was commented.

Firefox extensions are just plain zip files, I wonder why he hasn't checked the code.

It's just like the websites that require you to login with Facebook first, I don't like that.

I think it's important to be able to gauge a website without giving out personal info.

Whoa, that quiet ridiculous. Why wouldn't they hash/check the files before ? Is there any good reason ?

I have yet to find a way to clearly explain what I do to non-techies (intranet developper). I have seriously pondered to take some time working on an official title and job description for them.

In Europe 3700 euros (net) is a very large salary, except for a few big cities.

If you Google http://www.google.com/search?q=samsung+keylogger+monitor+the...

You'll have thousands of quotes from a so-called "Samsung supervisor" who "said it's used to "monitor the performance of the machine and to find out how it is being used."

What is this bullshit ? From where did the quote come from ?

Amazing how most are just copy-paste. It just prove that very few online news websites verify their source if the keylogger claim is false.

I'm kind of expecting it to end any day soon, I guess the next announcement will be "ditch Buzz welcome Circle".

How much Rails is left in the Twitter project today ?

Metafilter does this and I find it pretty useful to find sources on the same subject.

Thanks, it wasn't clear in the article as they said Bao discovered he could access some features of the machine

How did you access your laptop (ssh, vnc...) ?

I wonder why Google prefers that you block a whole domain instead of a result (what searchwiki did).

As said in another comment I wouldn't be confortable to block the whole expertsexchange.com domain, I get revelant results sometimes, yet some of the results of the same website are so unhelpful I'm sure I don't want to see them again (auto approved solutions and stuff like that).

It also happens when I search for something I already searched for a while back. Some of the results remain irrevelant, but not necessarily the whole domain.

Yes almost like a taxi, what I meant to say is that today you don't drive to work in a taxi because they are so expensive most of the time or inconvenient because few are available.

If driverless cars became maintream I'm pretty sure it would drastically decrease the price of such commutes thus changing the way we own a car today.

Imagine cars on demand. You don't own a car, you text a car to get you to work at 8:30, the car picks you up at home, drops you off (no parking space required) and goes on to the next ride.

I can't wait to see driverless cars.

Could anyone list some practical uses ?

I have no problems without using Alfred, Mail is always open : cmd+tab

I would have no use for the original app in the link, I mean how hard is it to just do cmd+tab and cmd+n in Mail ?

The bouncing icon in the dock is definitely annoying.

I think vista (and seven ?) handles softwares updates in a more friendly way, asking you if you want to do the updates when you shutdown the system.

I think Microsoft tried that with Office (2000 and more ?), they had adaptative menus. Apprently most of the users disliked this feature and it was eventually removed (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jensenh/archive/2006/03/31/565877.as...)

What's the test data like ? Is it a sample of real anonymous data or random strings ?

I had the confirmation of an order from an online store directly into the spams recently, I guess too many people dislike their newsletter or something.

It took me a while to figure it out and wasn't sure if my order was properly registered, if I mistyped my email or if it was a problem on their side. Lesson learned, now I systematically scan and empty the spams.

Any advice on what could be better than reading monster.com ? (genuinely interested)

Actually on Ebay she is not, she could have stated that she entered a wrong bid : http://pages.ebay.com/help/buy/questions/retract-bid.html

I thinks "NoSQL" a bad name too. With NoSQL you would expect the opposite of a db managed by SQL when in fact it's something completetly different.

I'm not sure he's saying you shouldn't save. You could leave a good amount of capital to your kids too without owning a house.

What's the feature you expect the most in Lion ?

They alredy extract the most popular posts http://www.tumblr.com/popular/top

I'm sure they have no problems to know which blog is the most popular (page views, number of "reblogs"...)

Ads on the website too I guess.

What's your job ?