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Thanks, I didn't see that.

At a $1,000 a license? I don't think so.

>The vulnerability is already being exploited by at least two display ad analytics companies across billions of page impressions per month.

Who are these companies?

"...Windows VPs Julie Larson-Green and Tami Reller..."

Had to mouse-over to figure that out.

One of the networks you mention owns them now. And it can be argued that Twitter is guilty of the same thing, in light of their treatment of third party developers. Perhaps you were being sarcastic though.

While it seems ridiculous now that I think about it, I thought I was tuning in to a live video stream from Mars. Damn.

Yes, but it costs me nothing to go to foxnews.com or dailykos. I think something like the Daily would appeal to someone like my father who still places a lot of value in spending $80/month watching news and "analysis", but I think it will be hard for the industry to find a larger audience as time goes by.

The hyperlink has dealt a mortal wound to the newspaper industry, and social media will end up dealing the coup de grace. Old media would love to still have the ability to consolidate news into a nice pre-packaged product that they can sell, but the web has destroyed the ability for that to happen. Why have a Daily app when you can have Twitter or even RSS deliver the news? It's hard to pay for something that is just lying around everywhere.

Here is the direct download for the portable Windows version of Inkscape:

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/inkscape/InkscapePortable_0...

So I was in Best Buy the other day and asked a Microsoft rep who was there touting Windows 8 where the Surface tablets were. He said they only sell them online and through their store. Why is that? Perhaps they would sell more Surface tablets if they had them visible in a Best Buy where a good portion of middle America demos new electronics?

On another note, why is the Nokia Lumia 920 an AT&T exclusive? If they want their platforms to become more popular, why do they hamper their access so much (the same can be said for Nokia who are supposedly in trouble)? Most Windows phones available from carriers are pretty lackluster. The only ones that catch my eye are the Lumia 920 and the HTC One X.

gagege, you have been hellbanned. When you post comments, very few people can read them. I checked your comment history and my guess is it was the "thank you, captain obvious" comment that got you hellbanned.

Sorry to be offtopic, I just hate to see people wasting their time here when their reason for being hellbanned is a bit dubious (there was only that one bad comment that I saw). It makes me paranoid; perhaps I am just talking to myself!

It'll be interesting to see how the "app boom" turns out. The demand for apps right now reminds me of the demand for all of the shareware, etc programs of the late 90s, when personal computing was growing at a rate analogous to smart phone usage today. Utilities to speed up your internet and computer and the cute little animated tray programs, etc. (I had a soft spot for Tiny Elvis, who at random times would be awed at the size of a an icon on my desktop and then do a little jig). It was normal to pay for a web browser or video player.

I find myself only using apps that satisfy a core set of use-cases: favorite website consumption (HN reader, Reddit is Fun), media consumption, and social media. I play games much less than I thought I would have but I think it is the one subset of apps that will continue to see demand. The apps that list different types of knots...not so much.

I thought that was an awfully large explosion for one millisecond until I realized that light would travel 30,000 times that far in that time frame.

Plausible deniability?

Regarding hellbanning, I just checked nodrama's history as well and there are a lot of posts by nodrama since he/she was hellbanned. I tend to think before I post so even a small reply by me may have taken me five or more minutes to think about before composing.

It's sad to think of all the wasted time this person is spending posting here, all because he/she called someone's post "stupid". Hellbanning should be reserved for true trolls.

He was also complaining just before that that his visor was fogged over. Perhaps he deployed because of that.

I am sure the author meant 1837, but yeah, the rest is a mess. I notice these high profile tech blogs have a lot mistakes like this, probably due to the pressure to push a certain number of stories a day...quality and accuracy be damned.

I still have Slashdot in every browser as a bookmark, even though I rarely visit the site. I can't bring myself to remove it.

My tuition rate is $273 per credit hour (in-state).

In Fall 2011 I racked up $3,283 in tuition and other fees. $1,775 of that was paid for by a grant from the state and $1,500 was paid for by a Federal Pell Grant.

All of my financial aid was in the form of grants which I don't have to pay back. However, I am the sole supporter of my family so I get a hefty Pell Grant every semester.

I'm finishing my CS degree at a state school at around 25k, which includes the two years I spent at community college. A lot of that was paid for by grants.

Some people know the computational complexity of something they write without knowing it in terms of Big O. Before my CS degree, I understood that looping through a list and for each item, looping through the same list again was not optimal. And someone only needs to write an O(n^3) algorithm once to realize that it's a very bad idea for any but the smallest amounts of data. Knowing about Big O is nice though, if only to understand documentation (realizing that O(nlogn) is better than O(n^2)).

You know, I always groan a bit when I read headlines like this. I decided to click through so I could satisfy my pathetic desire to scoff and ended up reading a great story. Very inspiring, and I hope the best for you guys.

See you later alligator...

>Guess what? There are factions that are actively moving to make sure that doesn't happen.

Do you have any examples? This is interesting. Reminds me of the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson.

I also wouldn't mind trying out a Windows Phone if Verizon had a decent one. You would think that Microsoft would have the cash to force the issue a little more.

This is terrible news. He was way too young! Back when I hung out on polycount he was a helpful member of the community and an inspiration to many there. Dammit....goodbye, Paul...:(

Who cares, it's better. IronSpread brings to mind really solid margarine or perhaps cream cheese.

Hacker, engineer, ninja, rock star...these terms are bandied about in this community and I don't have a problem with it, it's just part of the lingo. Anyone stumbling on this community who may get confused with the term "engineer" (for example, in a HN job posting) would figure out pretty quickly that that they mean someone who makes websites. It's not like a company really wants a rock star or someone trained in martial arts, or someone with a P.E.

>Even if the account provided no utility, I don't see why any intelligent person wouldn't maintain one, just to avoid this type of stigma.

Exactly...what do they have to hide, I wonder?