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If your VMs are already isolated from the public Internet because they have to be very secure, we bother applying security patches to them?

But that would show the IP of the ISP, and you won't know it's from Syria.

Totally agree. I find it so difficult to tell my parents to switch an iPad slider to ON or OFF, so I simply tell them to make the capsule blue or gray.

Correct. a search might show an ad which is highly relevant, but in most cases, the same link also appears in the search result, and I always click the one in the search result. Sometimes I am wondering if I should click the ad instead to let Google earn some money, but I am afraid the link contains strange parameters that would send information which I'm not willing to share.

Taking GNOME to the Previous Level?

If you think it's obvious, Have you ever tried to double click the screen or pinch an image on your old Palm Pilot hoping the size would change?

I opened a long page, tilted a little, reached the end, and pressed the down button to scroll the page up. Heavens! It's like watching the first scene of Star Wars.

I've been brainwashed by the article and is wondering what JS means here. IS or JS?

I guess that keyboard and the monitor are somehow wired to an iPhone.

If the major reason for this behavior is so that you can press back to play the previous song, it can simply remember a short period of history.

Unless you really know the guys in the story or they have influences on your life, what is the difference between a true and a fake story?

I am not a native English speaker, can someone explain what "Counterbug (a bug you present when presented with a bug caused by the person presenting the bug)" means?

What I read from this article is: "Apple should release a 7" iPad and I will buy it at once. I am sad I have to use a Google product now but this 7" form factor is really irresistible".

It will also look crisp on my normal-resolution display. This website's font is too small for me so I always open it in 150%.

If someone can always "churned out 4 line solutions for an assignment that took you 10 pages of code to complete", he can use any editor or maybe simply "cat >".

At least it should allow one person selecting a block of text and make it also highlighted in the other one's window?

Oh, I thought Metro means a huge title in super thin font, and you can scroll either vertical or horizontal.

Why do the computer and skype windows have so thick title bars?

I tried it, on my Ubuntu 64 bit. Everything is fine, except that sometimes it's really slow expanding a directory on the left sidebar. This drives me crazy.

By saying "web app", there is an app inside the web browser, while "server side" means the browser only sees the final content.

I prefer the format at http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616. It has links and it also represents the precise original spec. The version here omits several sections and looks too dense. The link pane on the left is good.

They are back.

If Google has become so huge that theoretically they cannot enforce the "Do No Evil" motto throughout the whole company, they can remove that motto and publicly admit they are just the same as any other one.

MySpace can be accessed in China because there's very little Chinese using it, at least not using it to do anything the government dislikes. On the other hand, Facebook, Twitter and Youtube are totally inaccessible.

Take DropBox for example. At the beginning, there is no problem using it. But when people found out they can publicly share documents there, it was blocked. Now you can still use it as a backup service, but public sharing is not available.

None of the three reasons you said is correct. Yes, a Simplified Chinese character contains less strokes than a Traditional one, but they convey almost the exact same quantity of information. You will understand this when you notice that although people in (Mainland) China and Taiwan wrote differently, they speak almost the same, using the same number of characters to express the same meaning.

On the other hand, there is a difference between Classical (Literary) Chinese and modern plain speech Chinese. The Classical Chinese, used in ancient times mainly for writing purposes, with its different grammar and vocabulary, does use less characters.

Why people always emphasis h/j/k/l when we already have arrow keys? Do you really waste a lot of time moving your fingers between them? Also, arrow keys work in insert mode.

Both Google Maps and Nokia OVI work perfectly fine on my E71 here in China. I guess they just get that encryption library linked inside so the position of my locations always match the roads and buildings on the map. On the other hand, the satellite images in Google Maps do have an offset, which means Google has not redraw the satellite images. Either because Google is unwilling to do that, or, as machinagod said, they cannot take the encryption library back to their image server to do the recalculation.

This is nothing special. Lion says it would include a server version of Mac OS X, and this is just a very basic function for any server OS. Although I haven't played with OS X server before, I'm quite sure this feature has been there for some time.