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There's also a perma-delete a couple of levels deep in the help system that will deactivate your account forever. (Like deactivation, it probably doesn't delete anything, though.)

No, because that one person, having placed thousands of connectors, is most likely better at the job than you or anyone you know. Also, these are connectors - it'd be obvious in testing if they didn't work.

Are you sure? Vista added something called Boot Configuration Data to replace Boot.ini. Not somewhere they needed backwards compatibility. At the very least, they could have designed/adopted a sane binary database format. But no, instead they decided to use their precious registry hive format.

Yes. (at least mine from three years ago)

Normal Googlebot IP addresses resolve to names like crawl-blah.googlebot.com. These ones don't. You could use whois to detect them, but it's a lot slower than DNS. I guess that Google expects the SEO guys not to be smart enough to use something like pwhois to quickly check that the IP's on a Google AS (likely).

Too simple. The banks will never adopt it.

You can file a regular "mini" SIM down to size.

And it's a promo produced for General Motors. If only today's advertisements were as informative and modest.

I think that part of the problem is that the Netscape plugin API only allows the plugin to draw when the browser explicitly allows it to. This is also the case on Windows, but for some reason it's much slower on the Mac.

Switching to Core Animation drawing (as in Flash Player 10.1) allows the plugin to draw directly to a backing store in video memory without having to wait for the browser. The plugin still has to request that the view be updated, but it's much faster as it can be done mostly on the GPU.

I'm not an expert on plugins or graphics, but that is how I understand it.

The people who push for anonymity are those who don't understand the Internet (or anything else, quite often), usually politicians - the antithesis to the scientist or engineer.

Snow Leopard

Objective-C only continued to exist past the 80s because of Apple/NeXT. And the closest thing it has to a formal definition is the source code to Apple's GCC fork.

Interesting that the Objective-C runtime has a VS solution file and Windows #ifs: http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/objc4/objc4-437.1/

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=542689: "CNNIC is an evil organization. Reproducible: Always"

Sure, UTF-8 sucks for Chinese and UTF-16 is bad at English, but in practice, high-codepoint languages are rarely mixed with low-codepoint ones. Notice that when sending an email many mail programs will select the most concise encoding that happens to encompass every character in your message and usually not UTF-8 or UTF-16.

And a team from the People's Liberation Army's signals intelligence branch will find themselves in jail soon for embarrassing the government...

The x86_64 ABI mandates a 16 byte aligned stack. I think Apple's just doing it in their 32-bit ABI as well to keep it consistent.

Regardless of the rationale, it really isn't a big deal at all. He'll need to jump through the stack alignment hoops anyway when he gets to finishing his 64-bit compiler, and so what if he has to do the same with the 32-bit compiler?

It's more work to write a client library for XML-RPC/SOAP, but a single one of those libraries is likely to work with any such service you encounter. Most users never have to write one themselves.

On the other hand, it's easy to write an HTTP "REST" client library. But it seems that everyone has a different idea of what REST is. Amazon's implementation of REST isn't even close to the generally-accepted definition, for instance. Indeed, you need (to write) a separate client module for every service you use, and that's where REST fails.

Because it's so easy to write a REST service, it seems more like REST is an excuse for lazy server writers to get by.

It sounds more like a private version of Google Dashboard, which indeed only shows subject lines as the hackers apparently managed to obtain.