Farewell Stack Exchange
news.ycombinator.com (1167) http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/02/farewell-stack-exchange.htmlI am no longer a part of Stack Exchange . I still have much literal and figurative stock in the success of Stack Exchange, of course, but as of March 1st I will no longer be part of the day to day operations of the company, or the Stack Exchange sites , in any way. It's been almost exactly 4 years since I chose my own adventure
Defendant Ordered To Decrypt Laptop Claims She Had Forgotten Password
slashdot.org (668) http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/24/024233"A Colorado woman that was ordered by a federal judge to decrypt her laptop hard-drive for police last month, appears to have forgotten her password . If she does not remember the password by month's end, as ordered, she could be held in contempt and jailed until she complies . It appears that bad memory is now a federal offense."
Producer vs. Consumer
news.ycombinator.com (621) http://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/pbjk1/what_are_the_small_lifestyle_changes_youve_made/c3o3ejruse the following search parameters to narrow your results: e. g. reddit:pics site:imgur
Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers
news.ycombinator.com (595) http://mclov.in/2012/02/08/path-uploads-your-entire-address-book-to-their-servers.html8 Feb 2012 – Singapore Dave Morin, the CEO of Path has responded in the comments and I’ve pasted it below. As an aside – never in my wildest dreams did I imagine this to blow up like this. I hope we can keep calm and continue to discuss this sensibly
Introducing Chrome for Android
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Honeywell Vs Nest: When the Establishment Sues Silicon Valley
slashdot.org (218) news.ycombinator.com (283) http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/06/honeywell-files-patent-lawsuit-against-smart-thermostat-developer-nest/"Honeywell filed a multi-patent infringement lawsuit against Nest Labs and Best Buy yesterday. The suit alleges that Nest Labs is infringing on seven Honeywell patents. Honeywell is not seeking licensing fees. The consumer electronic conglomerate wants Nest Labs to cease using the technology and is actually looking to collect damages caused by the infringement. Damages? Bull****. This is about killing the competition ."
Indian Court Orders Google To Remove Content
slashdot.org (399) http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/247410/google-agrees-court-order-india-remove-content"A Court in Delhi, India has ordered Google to remove content that 'is said to mock gods worshipped in India,' according to an IDG News Service report. Mufti Ajiaz Arshad Qasmi, a private citizen, 'had filed a civil suit against Google and other Internet companies including Facebook, objecting to certain content on their websites.' While Google agreed to remove the content, citing a 'long-standing policy of responding to court orders,' other Inte
Lenovo Ordered To Refund 'Microsoft Tax'
slashdot.org (386) http://www.techworld.com.au/article/414500/lenovo_ordered_pay_1920_making_french_laptop_buyer_pay_windows_too"A French laptop buyer has won a refund from Lenovo after a four-year legal battle over the cost of a Windows license he didn't want . The judgment could open the way for PC buyers elsewhere in Europe to obtain refunds for bundled software they don't want, according to French campaign group No More Racketware ."
Tapeheads and the Quiet Return of VHS
slashdot.org (349) http://www.rewindthismovie.com/"Joshua Phillips writes that something was lost when videos went from magnetic tape and plastic, to plastic discs, and now to digital streams as browsing aisles is no more and the once-great video shops slowly board up their windows across the country. Future generations may know little of the days when buying a movie meant you owned it even if the Internet went down and when getting a movie meant you had to scour aisles of boxes in search of one
Moglen: Facebook Is a Man-In-The-Middle Attack
slashdot.org (339) http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/247344/facebooks-man-middle-attack-our-data"In an email exchange with privacy blogger Dan Tynan, Columbia law professor Eben Moglen referred to Facebook as a 'man in the middle attack' — that is, a service that intercepts communication between two parties and uses it for its own nefarious purposes. He said, 'The point is that by sharing with our actual friends through a web intermediary who can store and mine everything, we harm people by destroying their privacy for them. It's not the sh
Differences Between jQuery .bind() vs .live() vs .delegate() vs .on()
news.ycombinator.com (309) http://www.elijahmanor.com/2012/02/differences-between-jquery-bind-vs-live.htmlFront-end Web Dev Tips, Tricks, and Tools <span style="border-collapse: collapse;">I'm a <a href="http://www. fellowshipnashville. org/" target="_blank">Christian</a> and a <a href="http://elijahmanor
Apple Intern Spent 12 Weeks Porting Mac OS X To ARM
slashdot.org (288) http://www.imore.com/2012/02/06/secret-apple-project-worked-port-mac-os-ipadstyle-arm-processors/"Apple hasn't released a Mac OS X device running on ARM yet, but a recently discovered thesis from a former Apple intern going by the name of Tristan Schapp details a 12-week project carried out in 2010 to port the OS to the ARMv5 architecture . The port got as far as booting to a multi-user prompt, but then hit hurdles to do with drivers and cache. The good news is that same intern now works for Apple as part of the CoreOS team. With rumors last
Little Ice Age: It Was Not the Sun
slashdot.org (288) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120130131509.htm"The Little Ice Age, lasting from the end of the Middle Age into the 17th century, may very likely have been caused by the combined effects of four major volcanic eruptions and increased sunlight reflection by increasing sea ice , the so-called Albedo effect . ... The University of Boulder has a press release with maps and photographs . Bette Otto-Bliesner, one of the scientists behind the 'volcano + sea ice' thesis, fields an earnest warning ag