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jaachan··on Apple.com is down?
's Dead for me here in Europe, but isup.me says it's up.

I still get a "AkamaiGHost" response via telnet though.

jaachan··on Ask HN: Payment alternatives to Paypal?
There's http://www.wmtransfer.com/, besides Bitcoin/Litecoin, obviously.
jaachan··on 10 reasons to believe P != NP
Article is about believing P != NP, entirely different title
jaachan··on Plagiarism at it's worst ! Is it worth to sue the media and the bank?
The one on the right has a hidden smiley, and those /are/ Ghandi's glasses
jaachan··on A message from Gabe Newell
Hm. Didn't know that either. Thanks for the edit :P
jaachan··on Ask HN: Is MEDIUM down
http://isup.me/medium.com
jaachan··on Why Aren't Schools Grouping Kids By Intelligence Level?
In the Netherlands, we do group by intelligence, got a whole group of systems for kids age 12 and up. Seems to work well.

Still grouped by age too, though you can move up or down a class if that suits you. Grouping by age doesn't always work, as age is a big factor in what kind of people you feel comfortable around.

jaachan··on Tell HN: Change passwords for all your services
Like this:

1Password - http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/06/the-se...

jaachan··on Breaking Bad in the Netherlands
This one was made way before: http://www.eatliver.com/i.php?n=9956
jaachan··on A simple way of defeating the compiler backdoor attack
So what do you compile TCC with? It's written in C, so it needs a compiler.
jaachan··on Why are all app screenshots taken on Mac/Safari?
Single data point: A designer for a website I worked on made all the screenshots. That designer used a Mac.

In general, designers may be more into Macs, and thus use them for screenshots?

jaachan··on Ask HN: How legal is this?
First, for legal advise, always consult a lawyer. Even if there's a lawyer responding, they're not your lawyer.

Second, check if the site has a EULA or so. If crawling is against the EULA, you might be guilty under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (penalties for this can be pretty severe).

Third, data itself is not copyright-able, so in theory it could all work out.

IANAL, this is not legal advise.

jaachan··on Super Powers that Wont be So Awesome in Real Life
Why link to the reddit page instead of the actual item? Actual link: http://www.bubblews.com/news/1083267-super-powers-that-wont-...
jaachan··on I Asked 1000 Americans to Name a British City Other Than London
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/they

  often used with an indefinite third person singular antecedent <everyone knew where they stood — E. L. Doctorow> <nobody has to go to school if they don't want to — N. Y. Times>
If it's good enough for the NY Times, it's good enough for you and me
jaachan··on I Asked 1000 Americans to Name a British City Other Than London
If you see "he" everywhere, you assume being a man is the standard, and being a woman is somehow not applicable. This is a subtle affect that, if applied to everything, will change your perspective on the world.

And it's not that hard to just use "they" instead.

jaachan··on [dead]
Why bring it up again? Previous post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6319611
jaachan··on [dead]
And?
jaachan··on Bradley Manning says he is now a woman named Chelsea
Does this all sounds like a distraction to anyone else?
jaachan··on Ask HN: Is our criticism of surveillance not a bit hypocritical?
"All you do is automate X"? But automating means you can do things at a much larger scale. Before if you'd want to track cars on a given road, you'd need to pay a few people to write down plates. Now you can keep track of every car in every street 24/7 almost without fail.

Automating is a big deal, it's not something that makes no difference.

jaachan··on Ask HN: Is our criticism of surveillance not a bit hypocritical?
The bins article talked about things like "Installing a sensor in the bathroom so you know which gender the person has." Not to mention they'd connect things like which shops you visit and at what time. At any time a police officer could come along and say "We want all records you have on MAC address xx:xx". Quite a difference from websites tracking people.

The same problem exists with Google tracking - it's not that you know who's been to your site, it's that Google know every site you've been on, when you've been there, and what you did there.

jaachan··on Why You Secretly Love Commercials
So in short...

A) Variety is the spice of live

B) Commercials put variety in your TV habits

C) Therefore, commercials are spicing up your TV watching

Perhaps the conclusion should be

C) TV makers get away with boring shows because commercials help hide it

jaachan··on Online game firms need to do more to prevent addiction say researchers
"encourage all players to take regular breaks of at least five minutes every 45-60 minutes"

I have to do that because of RSI risk, and I can tell you, that completely kills the flow of the game. The whole point of an MMORPG is to not worry about real life for a bit. If the game kicks you out every so often, you simply stop playing.

jaachan··on The correct pronounciation of "byte" is "beet"
Top of the page says "byte: /bi:t/, n.", though there's no explanation for why it says so.

Wikipedia says "ˈbaɪt"

jaachan··on My Gmail account got a hacking attempt from China, anyone else?
Yup, had one in January this year:

IP Address: 60.166.238.248 Location: Hefei, Anhui, China

Annoying thing is that the mail didn't say whether they managed to access or not. (What's the point of resetting the password if they just spam dummy hack attempts at all addresses?)

jaachan··on File type icons with flat design style
That's not file type icons, that's extension icons? Windows has extensions hidden by default, so a lot of users might not know them.
jaachan··on HN Help: Sign the Petition to have Gmail support non-inlined CSS.
Lotus notes and Windows Mobile 7 also don't support it: http://newcampaignmon.cachefly.net/assets/files/css/campaign...
jaachan··on Aeroflot Flight from Moscow to Havanna avoided US airspace yesterday
Also made a landing at L.F. Wade International Airport, Bermuda apparently.
jaachan··on Ask HN: Does anyone else see a black band on top of the HN page ?
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5986307
jaachan··on The Register puts Soylent to the test
I can't find anywhere what it's actually made of (not on the campaign page either). And none of the people listed in the company has any training regarding food or medicine. #slightlyworried

Other than that, could be awesome. You could just have a cup with you all day and drink some whenever you feel hungry.

Question then remains, why isn't it green?

jaachan··on YouTube is down
No it's not
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