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-2? Wow. For educational purposes, could those who down voted my comment provide an explanation. I mean... the linked article was about Google and a closed account... and someone seems to remember some Facebook thing and tossed it in, presumably to discredit the subject from the start. If those are not the very definition of OT and ad-hominem, what are they? No biggie, I care little about karma, but I would like to know why?

Is there any relevance to that tidbit in this context? ... thought not. Ad-hominem ftw.

At least the third demo has better visual quality in FF3 than in Chrome though.

A local transparent proxy could add that for you then your custom stylesheet could do what you want. Good OLD Proxomitron comes to mind :) for win boxes.

Wow. Onion eyes inducing.

>> In the EU telco's are required to retain information...

Just metainformation that is. When?, From where?, To where?, (if applicable) Who? but (so far) never What?.

Care to cite some european law about that? If true, I thing the GPL would also be illegal. I don't think that's the case.

>> It also says they do everything in accordance with the DMCA. The one thing people don't understand about the DMCA is that whilst it might be evil, it also protects individuals as much as companies because every single photo, sentence or anything you or I make or write are immediately copy protected in all western countries.

1. Warning: Wrong conflation detected. DMCA != copyright

2. Warning: Wrong conflation detected. copyright != "copy protected" (copyleft = copyright, copyleft = "copy invited")

3. DMCA is neither universal nor universal to western countries. It's actually no universal to anything. Just an internal USA law.

Well... it could be worse you know... you could get the superior-browser-F-U. Not long ago, my main bank's website told me to upgrade my FF install to IE6.

Is it the form or the substance of jrockway's comment that gets it downmoded? (pure curiosity)

"If I'm constantly changing my mind about how best to do something" then you're finding /more/ not /best/ ways.

2. "Joel is a dolt" - Neither on the lines nor between them have I seen this in Kent's post.

1. "Joel is neither stupid nor malicious" - Stupid + Malicious != AllThereCouldEverBe... Pompous and AttentionCraving are missing for example. Others are too...

0. I _partly_ dislike both stands on software dev. methodology (Kent's and Joel's) so don't take this a fanboysm. I respect Kent's life work more though.

1. Fixed IPs are the exception nowadays in residential connections.

2. That extension goes more against profiling. Not the case of your example.

I might be wrong, but I believe Winamp is still very much The King. Platform market share and all that...

1. "...data mainframe..." what's that?

2. Wasn't Google running on commodity (x86 comp.) GNU/Linux clustered machines?

Telefonica does satellite inet access in Spain. I remember prices to be quite high some years ago. You could check their site and see how they fare now.

> All my emails tend to be formal in style even to people I know well Maybe you should queue this on your reading list: http://www.cluetrain.com

It's not really recent (FWIW, this is ad blog not ad hominem).

spin is charged in this context

Could you, please, list some of them?

I've no idea if they're common in Europe. They're not common here, and they're available. Common people couldn't be bothered even if they'd knew what they are, not to mention know how to use them. This is a good thing I believe. Hey, I know what they are and how to use them and I still don't bother :)

We already have government signed x509 (not 100% sure about this detail) certs here in Spain. They can be used to fill taxes online. Just like you said, "showing your ID documents to a public official will be part of proving who you are". They use local administration offices though.

You forgot a div there. Those are 627 minutes. So more like 10.26 hours. Your conclusions stand though :)

Are they still trolls when the content is right and the object of they're trolling is risible to say the least though?

>The irony is that quality is the best marketing. The product that aims at marketability at the expense of quality will achieve neither, the product that aims at quality at the expense of marketing will achieve both.

It'd be nice if it'd be true. But look no further than the example at hand and its relatives.

> (although he's probably not yet in the league of those above ;)

those above are not in the same league either...

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The idea is pretty old too: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/07/19/icebox-on-wrist-to...

1. How about those that bought an iPhone anywhere between when the AppStore was announced and when this crap started?* Do they get to "whine"?

2. Even if 1. is not the case, why not "whine"? Some might even end up calling it userbase reaction, feedback. Not getting into something is not always the answer to having some issues with that something.

Also, equating negative opinions about something about which you have a positive one with "whining" ain't cool.

* not my case.

Apple's stance on acceptance/rejection of these apps is getting more disgusting by the week. There are many ways to discuss this rationally, and many have been used already, here and elswere. But the first, straight from the gut, reaction is just that: disgusting. I know it is their platform, store and will and right... it's still disgusting.