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I really like the idea. My only nitpick is that these days most projects seem to be ending up as jQuery plugins even when they don't really use much of its functionality. I think a standalone version would save a bit of effort for some of us bound to other frameworks (or not using any framework).

"And that's even after America disposes of thousands of tons of crop and dairy just to keep market prices high."

is this true ? is it legal..

Most of the sites on the list are not just download sites... they are active fan forums for Indian movies where lot of free publicity gets generated for upcoming movies.. and most of the people who are active on these sites are usually hardcore movie buffs who diligently go to most of the new movies. I don't see how blocking these sites will help any one..

It seems like nearly all the extremetech articles end with a big whimper at the end...

And considering the location (Texas), a slogan of "Lamar sold you out for big government" would have been much more effective and achieved the same goal. We have to remember that we are targeting people who may or may not give a shit about internet (and people who cares will hopefully vote the right way)..

Like the other comments noted, you won't go far with email verification alone (they might even use a completely unrelated email address). You can probably use a combination of email address similarity and ip address uniqueness but I think mobile verification would be much more reliable(and thanks to cheap sms via twilio, won't break your bank)

So what prevents people from creating new accounts and acquiring new favors ? May be you should keep a mobile number verification....

how would they make it photo proof ? I mean any guesses on the algorithm they use.. my dart in the dark would be that a photo would be absolutely still while a real person's face might twitch, shake, bat eyelids etc..

It's those minor but intuitive things that we get used to when using firebug. For example: 1) The inspect tool is at the bottom on chrome dev tools. It would have been much more intuitive to keep it at the top of the bar.

2) You don't see a change of cursor when hovering over editable properties. People who never used firebug might have gotten used to this but for me it feels clunky.

3) No single click edit. On firebug you can start editing a property with a single click. Not so on chrome. This is even worse when editing styles. When single clicking a style you don't even see a visual indication that something happened... again feels clunky..

4)Too many tabs that are not bunched according to how often they are used.. I don't think people use Resources, Timeline, Profiles, Audits as often as they use the other tabs.

5) The information is presented in more readable way. When a break point is hit, chrome displays a bunch of tabs on right which are vertical (often empty - because they aren't relevant to this break point) and wasting precious vertical space..

6) Clutter, clutter and more clutter.. just too many sub windows cramped into one another affecting readability...

I know that most of these reasons are subjective and vary across developers but wanted make a list of my own reasons as I found my self trying to use chrome dev tools and always jumping back to firebug.

May be the same reason 'lorem ipsum' is used in web templates :)

It's more of a massacre than war.. the strength of parties involved is simply not comparable (mostly due to apparently spine less UK govt)..

While first to market is a good thing to have, I think this space is still evolving so I don't think we can declare winners yet. Launch your product with reasonable differentiators. For example, what really drives most kickstarter projects is not just helping to fulfill a project they like but also the tangible rewards people get out of it (both to use and show off).. This is going to be very tough for purely science related projects because most of the time there may not be a tangible reward directly coming out of funding the project it self. This probably is also the reason why most successful projects on kickstarter are arts (comics, films etc), technology/retail (iphone covers, chargers etc) related. So probably you can differentiate by hosting projects will a tangible outcome for backers. For example a DIY glowing bacteria or growing indoors bonsai plants or a aeroponics/hydroponics mini setup etc... You can even try getting people to create projects that create science kits at the end along with educational videos...

Though one problem I see with above approaches is that you may not control what project proposals you get... that's okay as long as a portion of your projects are of tangible output type...

I suppose pi could eat into some of the arduino projects currently being done. Though arduino is much simpler to interface with various sensors - thanks to shields, once a few 'shields' for pi show up, the lure of powerful hardware and full blown OS will move many to pi.

the % would not matter if you can fool it 100% in a well defined flow...

the tone really got me.. it's like an alien infested corpse trying to mix with normal humans...

"Or the beast with 1000 features C# has become"

It's many things to many people. To beginners, its a friendly cub to play with. To enterprise coders its the beast of burden to carry things. To newbie web developers/existing c++ programmers its familiar face on a new road. It won't devour you unless you have a death wish.

well put. Most of the reasons can boil down to uncertainty.

For me the sad part is that there is an almost even split between people arguing the right way to bring this issue to every ones notice. I think this is the perfect way to show how serious the issue is and to get more sites to adopt the fix.

Exploits like this are worth a lot on black market. They are worth even more if you provide a precious and vulnerable target to go along (github).

what is this CreateJS that he keeps referring to ? I found only http://createjs.org/ ... which seems to be a simple editor...

Takes so long to generate first 50 names even when searching with just the defaults... looks like they don't really cache anything..

Liability might be unlimited, but most of the insurance products for other categories cap it based on premium. So that may not be much of a problem. I agree with the difficulty of modelling the events though... they need more data for any kind of modelling.. I'm guessing amazon already has some kind of insurance to cover its risks under AWS service agreement..

May be its time for some cloud insurance (covering outages/security etc) ? I don't mind paying a little extra if it mitigates risk.

At least die decently Yahoo. No need to have patent troll written all over your headstone.

I guessed the ending as soon as he entered the tank but this story still creeped me out :(

"Except the work Steve Wozniak is most remembered for was done with Steve Jobs"

It was actually a common misconception. Nearly all the engineering work for Apple 1,2 was done by Woz alone (as per his book). And Apple 1 was completely done in isolation in his apartment. His book is such an awesome read.

For any one curious, 'ಠ' is pronounced as 'Ta' (Kannada language) :)

Follow the link that facebook provides in its header: http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=219494461411349

It's very interesting. They straight out say P3P is a dead protocol. And from the explanation of how it works, it does seem to be a joke - trusting third party websites to honor user privacy ? seriously ? I think Microsoft is simply trying to raise a shit storm over nothing... at least Safari one is a real screw-up on Google's part...

Keeping Google's blunders aside, the P3P policy as described seem to be a joke. Do they really expect third party sites to be honest with a browser ? At least they had to do some magic on Safari.. this seems too straight forward and begging to be abused...

Once this case ends - one way or the other - will Oracle be able to sue Google again by picking up some more patents (from its 500 odd java patents) ? Or is this case the end of suing based on Java related patents...