Dirt_McGirt

I believe pretty much every modern browser except Firefox comes with 3rd-party cookies turned off anyways, and I don't expect many people chance that default.

He's figured out the optimum way to burn all his pirated mp3s to DVD.

Calling it a $99 NAS is stretching the truth a bit.

People who suck at satire shouldn't be allowed to title things "A Modest Proposal".

Carl Jung and science do not belong in the same sentence.

"If the instapaper_body class name is present, the automatic selection and automatic stripping processes are disabled, leaving full control to the site’s author."

Yay, the instapaper future is full of ads.

Well now, that page seems to have been created 6 months ago, so I'd argue it's pretty new.

Jesus, virtual desktops have been around since the mid-80s. Crediting them to Gnome is like crediting cars to Preston Tucker.

If you get a 3 room apartment for $800 a month in SF, then why are people there always whining about super high rents?

> I guess it's OK to use a Drobo if you get another one as backup for the first one — but then, what's the point?

RAID is _not_ a backup. If you don't understand this, you'll never be satisfied with any RAIDish products.

Miley Cyrus upskirt pictures.

Well, there went my 191 day uptime. Which is incidentally the number of days ago they opened their London datacentre.

It's pretty obvious why they don't have a "doesn't take forever to load" checkbox.

Ah yes, I can't imagine there is a person in the world who don't read httpd logs on the regular.

Just FYI, the SSL-enabled homepage doesn't have a background.

Where can I find a low risk investment that yields a decent monthly return on 1 million?

Their blog feeds certainly are. I have to scrape the pages to get a decent Krugman feed.

Nope, different interfaces to the underlying webkit functionality. And they're packed up differently.

I suppose the core functionality of more advanced extensions could be shared, with only different interface glue, but with simple ones, it won't be worth the bother to try to share.

> Michael Arrington is/was a lawyer and runs a startup. I think his legal background has given him the confidence to pursue legally sensitive journalism

And what a runaway success the crunchpad saga has been. Especially from a him being a lawyer point of view.

The way syncing works is what's making me consider a switch. Oh how I despise the horrible hodgepodge of an app that is iTunes.

And make it like an iDevice and only allow sync from one computer...

> The FSF should take a more active role in GPL violations overall.

I belive they can't really do anything unless they own the copyright, as they do with GNU Go. The Linux HFS+ code is probably owned by whoever wrote it for example.

> but when you read the whole thing it seems that RMS likes to change his opinion as he receives more information.

He really does. I used to be involved in Emacs development back in the day and he frequently changed his opinion on things if you presented him with with a well-reasoned argument. Sure, he's a stickler for his principles, but he's not afraid to admit when he's wrong on practical details or unable change his mind about stuff if you give him a good reason to.

Well, I've tried it on Mac, Linux and Windows and it only blocks a minority of all flash files I've encountered. It seems especially bad with youtube and vimeo files embedded in blog posts.

In fact, I don't think it really can work in any real sense as an actual blocker since chrome doesn't provide an API for that. As I understand it, the best it can do is to remove the flash after the page has rendered.

Entitled much? You're using a free service and have the gall to make demands on how it is to be implemented?

It blocks like maybe 25% of all flash for me. Not adequate at all.

Great. Now if there was a flashblocker that actually works, maybe I could switch.

Not to mention that it's a pretty lame trend that's bound to be over soon, and then it'll just look out of touch.

I don't really feel more ads are valuable, no matter the quality.