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dc2k08··on Gone Forever: What Does It Take to Really Disappear?
>Prosecutors accused her of being involved from the beginning, but Roberson says he isn’t sure

I think I agree with the prosecutors. The set-up sounds like she was in on the plan, taking a stroll with her husband (without the child) so as to be the eye witness in the charade but I reckon they probably made a pact that if he was found out, they would protest her innocence and say he did it behind her back and swam below the frigid water until he reached another dock down stream out of sight. That would be hard to do especially for someone who sounds like he was fairly out of shape. I doubt he got his toes wet. I'd say the dog got a dipping and they said their goodbyes.

dc2k08··on The New Google Search
Why do I get the feeling someone's trying to 'emperor's new clothes' me?
dc2k08··on Ask HN: Where do you live?
me three.
dc2k08··on New Twitter Homepage Goes Live With Search Front And Center
They need to do something about the spammers who use it brazenly to remain continually on top of the search results.
dc2k08··on Digg’s Kevin Rose Not Pleased With DiggBar Change
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=713694
dc2k08··on Cigarettes Without Smoke, or Regulation
Yes, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong and Iran have banned them outright. S.Korea consider them a tobacco product and tax them accordingly. Other restrictions apply in some other countries.
dc2k08··on Blu: Electronic cigarettes that look, feel, and taste like the real thing
The Blucig started getting marketed about 3-4 months ago. They are actually owned by a very large internet porn king. He rolled out ads on all his sites and consequently they came to the attention of large number of people even though they have been out for about a year and a half prior. Electronic cigarettes are made by about 6-8 factories in China.

The Blucig is a rebrand, just as pretty much any the rest of them are. A lot people ordered the Blucig and then flooded the e-cig forums to complain that they had not received their order in over a month. This is either due to the fact that Blu did not foresee demand and did not order enough stock or more likely, their large shipments were seized at customs as the FDA has decided that they are illegal to market (at the request of Senator Frank Laudenberg who received $128,000in campaign donations from Big Pharma) though two other large E-cig companies are currently challenging the FDA's decision in court. The judge is expected to make a decision this week.

Smaller home based e-cig companies are still managing to get their shipments to slip in. If you are to order one, I recommend ordering from one of those.

E-cigs are currently one of the most spammed products on the internet as far as I can tell. If you read anyone's recommendations, consider whether it is an affiliate. There is a lot of expensive rubbish being spammed. Also consider that these cost $12-$17 wholesale on average and make sure you read the warranty before ordering. Most of them become useless in a very short period of time, batteries especially. Atomizers should be considered consumable products as the liquid will gunk them up. I go through at least one a month.

dc2k08··on [dead]
There are 1000's of people selling the electronic cigarette right now. This is one Chinese site of many. Currently, two large American distributors who were selling in bricks & mortar stores are in a legal battle with the FDA who started confiscating shipments around last April. They argue the FDA had no jurisdiction to do so. The judge's verdict is expected next week. Smaller home based operators are still managing to get the product into America though some have had random shipments taken.

I keep a slinkset updated with info: http://e-cignews.com

dc2k08··on Men emerge from Mars experiment
One of the sexes would need to be made infertile also.
dc2k08··on The Best Internet Addresses Will Cost a Cool .Million
Every phisher's dream. I wonder if ICANN would be short-sighted enough to let that one through the application process.
dc2k08··on Lost suitcases, or how to DoS an airport
Completely. The IRA proved at the peak of their notoriety that all they needed to do was make a threat of action. They closed Gatwick down for a day in '97 with only a phone call and forced Britain's Grand National horse race to be postponed with another, causing huge disruption, panic and anger. They got the attention they wanted but no-one lost a life. It surprises me that we don't see the tactic copied more often today.
dc2k08··on How News of Michael Jackson's Death Traveled Across the Web
x17online.com were the first to report he was rushed to UCLA but even they acknowledge that it was TMZ who broke the story that he was dead.
dc2k08··on Microsoft to Vista Owners: You'll Pay for Our Mistake
The cheap 'two week sale' upgrade option is only available for certain regions which notably excludes the EU (apart from the UK). Due to the action against Microsoft concerning browser bundling, EU users will need to preform a wipe and clean install to get Win7.

http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1552-windows-7-cheap-prices-bu...

dc2k08··on Feedity: Create RSS Feeds From Any Website
I was recently looking for one of these and found feed43.com. It's a lot more complicated so it probably doesn't attract the casual user but it is very useful. you can apply a template to your feeds and pick out as many parameters as you need and then sort them in what ever way you would like them to appear. Only problem is, it seems to be down often enough. I would use feedity's service if it was similar. At the moment, only offering a link and title - it doesn't suit me needs.
dc2k08··on Ask HN: How do you deal with domain squatters?
can I ask you if you had trademarked your name? I was recently asked a similar question by someone else. He had registered a domain through gandi and a minute later as he went to register the plural, he discovered it was taken in that instant. I imagined that there was little he could do legally if he had not trademarked the term prior. Neither of us know how someone knew to register the plural or whether it had anything to do with gandi. It was registered anonymously through iregistry.
dc2k08··on Things about Web Images I Just Learned
If anyone has Adobe FireWorks, you can dramatically compress an image using their save facility too. That's really all I open it for.
dc2k08··on CSS3 breaking in the design community
Gosh, what a total content-jack. might as well link directly to the source: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/06/15/take-your-design-...
dc2k08··on Tomorrow Market offering infinite private beta spots for HN users
a trade is the same as a contract? If it is, won't more than one of the same contract devalue the shares in those contracts?

BTW, there is a typo on the FAQ page 'How much many do I start with?'

dc2k08··on Tomorrow Market offering infinite private beta spots for HN users
Can two members make the same prediction?
dc2k08··on Tomorrow Market offering infinite private beta spots for HN users
Can I ask what it is?
dc2k08··on Review HN: 1clickwebpage - the easiest way to build a webpage
Could you give the option to get rid of the page header or make it not be a self-link? Changing the bg colours and the ability to have my own domain would be great too. I can see it being useful.
dc2k08··on Ask HN: Looking to furnish our new office in NYC. Any suggestions, inspirations?
I like what these guys did with cardboard: http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2009/march/step-into...
dc2k08··on Ask HN: Review my students start-up
Maybe s/he should just focus on one particular market - say computer hardware or video games etc - and excel at bringing in results for that market, best current deals etc. Otherwise it's no different than a froogle.com or something similar and would have difficulty competing.
dc2k08··on How to add firbug to Chrome?
what's lacking in firebug lite is you cannot live-edit code. That's what I use firebug for primarily.
dc2k08··on "Pizza profitable" Airbnb now in 1,000 cities worldwide
really, you don't think there are lots of hostels in the US? I've stayed in quite a few, both in big and small cities.
dc2k08··on "Pizza profitable" Airbnb now in 1,000 cities worldwide
I'm not seeing dramatically different prices to a hotel or hostel, but it is a good idea. Take Paris for example: http://airbnb.com/travel/paris/fr?y=0&min_price=&lng...
dc2k08··on Ask HN: Please review my app
no worries. if you need any help, let me know.
dc2k08··on Ask HN: Please review my app
I know you probably are more looking for feedback as to how it works but you do really need to compress the images you are using.

At 56.6 Kbps just the top portion of the letter graphic takes over 35 seconds to load.

Here's the same graphic saved as a jpg using the fireworks engine - no different in appearance but 10 times smaller: http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/3946/amalfitopcreate.jpg

Here's your png for comparison: http://www.fromabirdie.com/images/Amalfi_Top_Create.png

you'll have to work in the exact matching background gradient but it will be worth it.

dc2k08··on How Often our Anti-spam Search Toolbar Blocks Sites
could you write about the reason for naming it 'duck duck go'? I see there is a game called duck duck goose. Is there a connection?
dc2k08··on The Future of Facebook Usernames
Brilliant, I feel that HN will now disregard each of the various blog posts that will discuss these issues at length as they occur.
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