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I have always considered it to be a good practice to use disk encryption on laptops (or other mobile devices), but after thinking about the burglar scenario, I think it is better to encrypt the desktops as well.

Anyone else read it as "Mobile Ad Blockers"? I came here curious to see how ad blockers could be used as DDOS vectors. Well, I guess theoretically, it might be possible to overwhelm a device with a page which has too many elements to block, causing the ad blocker to consume a lot of resources.

Hey, at least his grep did have the --color switch enabled.

Yeah, it was a huge pain. I usually deal with fast GIFs by left clicking on the GIF at the required frame and then dragging that away from the GIF. That's the only way I can deal with such GIFs other than decompiling.

You'd be surprised to know the similarities between India and Pakistan, culturally. The differences are based on ideologies, but the cultures are quite similar.

On the other hand, getting visitors from HN wouldn't necessarily increase any revenue for them as being the nerds that we are, I doubt that many of us use a browser without an ad blocker ;)

Can you open a feature request on their bug tracker to change it to a more secure alternative?

Nancy Powell was known for her proximity with Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton on the other hand was very much against Modi getting to power.

See for reference: http://www.sunday-guardian.com/news/obama-quietly-reverses-h...

Well, one I can point out is Nancy Powell (former US ambassador to India). She failed to assess the popularity of India's current prime minister on time, for instance. You can search for it on the net.

> Incidentally, you have some duplicates.

Nice catch. I guess that either he doesn't check for duplicates or he is doubly irritated by the duplicate ones :P

> Blacklisting SourceForge in your hosts file might be up there, if they are still bundling crapware with the few legitimate downloads that haven't moved elsewhere.

ublock origin has a "Badware risks" filter list with sourceforge in it.

Actually 2 died of kidney failure and 1 died of pneumonia.

While I don't quite agree with the ban on acid sale, please don't make it sound as if it happened due to a single instance of an acid attack.

This had become a regular occurrence and the government only acted due to increasing number of such cases.

Instead of asking questions, why don't you come up with some solutions. You see, reasoning doesn't quite work well with mobs. It is good that the government resorted to cutting the communications rather than resorting to violence.

Nice, carry on the FUD. You are conveniently ignoring UP, Bengal and several other states where violence is a daily norm. But because Modi is closely related to Gujarat, so it is the one singled out.

Yes, he ".is".

Yeah, this comment is so spot on, considering that North Korea just announced a new timezone for themselves.

Yes, a disclaimer over the validity of the results would be nice ;). But to be fair, most surveys are taken rather seriously, especially by the common populace and the main stream media, ignoring the lack of absoluteness in the results.

It's a community thing, I guess. Meaning, it depends on which community (online community in this context) you are interacting in. Such a thing wouldn't be so risky to say on 4chan or even Slashdot.

> Size is not necessarily significant unless is a random selected sample (and I'm not sure volunteers would count as random).

I would say that most surveys/studies are done on a voluntary basis.

> how much do journalists care about the truth vs selling a story?

Not much. And it's the same the world over.

Any ETA? I would love to try it on birds. It's a real pain searching for the name of a newly seen bird.

Edit: Aah bummer, seems won't be available for android anytime soon.

Ref: http://zoology-app.com/where-can-i-get-zoology-2/

Haha, when I read the headline, I immediately thought about gcc and apache httpd.

Got at least one right and one close enough ;)

For the last few days, I was getting 404s on a lot of tmux links on sourceforge. Guess this explains that ;)

Some other good things I like about them are that they do not enable logging for shortened links by default (which means less wastage of resources) and they clearly show the destination a shortened link points to.

Not really a solution, but using NoScript helps in such situations. I was using NoScript and only after seeing your comment (and temporarily whitelisting the site) did I notice the issue.

So it treats them as password reset emails...

There is v.gd, run by the is.gd people.

Well third party URL shortners can be useful when you are sharing the URL via SMS or an IM, i.e., just for a quick share.

Seeing that he is a member of the watson group at IBM, it just might be true ;)