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ethanaon Arq for Windows finally available

Where's the key file saved on the Windows' directory?

ethanaon Microsoft to stop producing Windows versions

Stream boxes run on Windows...

ethanaon Encrypting Your Laptop Like You Mean It

Just when I though I know everything about how computer works, here they are talking about freezing ram attack. I didn't even imagine this as a possibility.

ethanaon Maintainership transfer of uBlock: post mortem

As much as I dislike chrisaljoudi for doing shady things there as gorhill points out, this is as much of gorhil's hasty actions as it is chris' bad stewardship for the reputation of uBlock.

On April 1st, the transfer of ownership to chris are hours within the announcement of gorhil's leaving the project. I understand the frustrations he was getting, but that was not a smart decision on his part. Projects are easy to create, brand names are not.

ethanaon YouTube 10th Anniversary: Competition Puts Site on the Defensive

I notice a lot of people that used to watch silly videos on Youtube are now watching them on their Facebook stream just because it's re-shared by their friends. The fact that videos autoplay by default is attracting people to watch it right then instead of clicking a link to Youtube.

ethanaon The Net Neutrality Crack-Up – WSJ

non-paywall through google: https://www.google.com/#q=http:%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%...

ethanaon Dear FCC: Thanks for Listening to Team Internet

"But now we face the really hard part: making sure the FCC doesn’t abuse its authority."

I just feel that the EFF didn't do a thorough check this time around.

Also, the decision was made at 10AM and they still haven't release the 200+ pages ruling document. It's most likely that this will head back to federal court and the process will get more complicated and lengthy before the dust settle.

ethanaon Bringing asm.js to the Chakra JavaScript engine in Windows 10

Who's putting their bets on Microsoft going open source with Trident and Chakra next? Spartan is an opportunity for them to clean up the mess before releasing the codes I think.

ethanaon YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

As silly as this is, it's completely true ;)

ethanaon Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa

We know the answer to that question already. Man will not survive in space in the long run with biological limitations. The ISS had essentially proven that.

There should be more interest and development in the quest to preserve and backup the brain in foundations such as http://www.brainpreservation.org/

The current conception of space travel as displayed in much of popular media is next to impossible and wrong. The biological factor will impede any of such fantasies.

The only way to sustain human space travel is to eliminate biology and replace it with technology.

ethanaon How to mod a toaster to control PC games [video]

Good joke, I lost it when he types toaster into cmd using the toaster lever for 'a'. Needed that good laugh.

ethanaon 132-year-old rifle found propped against a national park tree

Same goes for a good men's suit.

ethanaon Bad Microsoft

I understand the reason behind replacing older coders. However, I think software companies like Microsoft should have transitional programs to better help seasoned programers proceed with their careers.

There are plenty of transition paths I think. For example, education, research, legacy support, etc.

ethanaon The world’s longest train journey now begins in China

They've also proposed a China-Russia-US Railway that have an under water channel between Russian and Alaska. That would be the longest under channel if it were to be built.

ethanaon Wire – Modern Communications Network

Or Windows for that matter.

ethanaon Will Microsoft Open Source Internet Explorer?

I think they should open source Trident, which would be more appealing to compete with the mess that Webkit has become. But who knows if Trident isn't already a mess itself. I do like how snappy IE11 renders webpages though, perhaps something to do with how they implemented Direct2D.

ethanaon Microsoft Band

When I had a L920, I noticed the charging plate and phone would get really hot, even after the phone is charged to 100%. Through the wire, the heat is minimal like every other phone. So, base on heat dissipation, I would say yes.

ethanaon The Affordable Care Act: Who Was Helped Most

Whenever a congressional law passes, just take the opposite view of the Act name and it shall be true. For example, there's nothing affordable about the ACA. My old healthcare plan was eliminated and replaced with a more expansive and less beneficial because of ACA regulations.

Then for people who are forced into ACA plans, they'll have their rates raised conveniently after the Nov 4 midterm elections...

ethanaon How the next version of IE, codenamed 'Spartan,' might support extensions

I remember the IE panel of this year /BUILD, they said they were considering adopting Webkit for future IE. Even if that wasn't true, time had really changed.

ethanaon I’m tired. So I’m selling my game that just went viral

I too advice you not to sell it. Branding is a hard commodity to come by. Give it a week or two before doing anything hasty.

The Flappy Bird guy ran into similar situation, but he kept it running. Perhaps there are some lessons to take away from that.

ethanaon Vice Raises $500M in Its Quest for 'Total Media Domination'

As long as Murdoch has anything to say about it.

ethanaon How a new HTML element will make the Web faster

I think this should just be a server side issue. Querying for images with size information and the server spit out lower res images on the fly. This way, the web design guys have less to do when creating graphics assets for a site.

ethanaon Poll: How religious is hacker news?

I've turned agnostic recently from being a sole christian. The more time I spend with computing and learn about machine learning/AI, I think that we can and will create self-aware AIs. At that point, we'll have to question what reality programmed us?

ethanaon Microsoft on GitHub

Is it too much to ask for .NET to be opensourced and on github?

ethanaon Alan Turing Biopic Trailer Released

If you have watched the trailer, then you would've watched the movie.

ethanaon Steven Colbert On Vessyl Digital Cup [video]

A "toylyt" would be a good medical analytic device actually. Get it on kickstarter Steven!

ethanaon Possibly the worst CAPTCHA ever.

The worse would be those that make you watch an ad video then type in the ad words.

ethanaon Consciousness on-off switch discovered deep in brain

Well...until brain electrical signal is decrypted, they'll keep on zapping until something interesting happens. Remember when electro-shock therapy was used for nearly everything in medical practices?

ethanaon No More Captchas

The method described is rather vague, but I think monitoring mouse movement and page scrolling should be enough to determine human user.