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Pwntastic··on My iOS Indie-Game Numbers
Steam Greenlight sort of fits this. You can gauge desirability by how many people specify they would buy your game if it were available. But I'm not sure if you get any actual insight into the numbers.
Pwntastic··on Show HN: Pangoly – Build your shiny new PC
You may want to check out HoverHound, a chrome/firefox plugin.

It'll let you compare the price of a part on newegg with the current price on amazon and tigerdirect.

When I rebuilt my htpc about 6 months ago, I was surprised to find that many of the parts were actually cheaper on amazon.

Pwntastic··on How a password changed my life
You just have to figure out his most important personal goal that shows up on social media around the last week of the month, when AD starts warning him to change his password
Pwntastic··on I'm dreaming of a pocket Macintosh
I really like this idea. I think you could add in accelerometer support and make the phone function like an actual mouse, physically moving it around the desk like you would a physical mouse.
Pwntastic··on Use of Drones for Killings Risks a War Without End
If it's an armed conflict between two groups of people who both consider themselves "citizens" of their locale and another country steps in, is it their right to decide which are the citizens and which are the terrorists?
Pwntastic··on Apple WWDC 2014 Live Streaming
And also your text messages and phone calls!
Pwntastic··on Use other DNS servers than your ISP's
you can use namebench[0] to help decide which dns server to use. it will run speed tests against various servers and give you some insight into them.

[0] https://code.google.com/p/namebench/

Pwntastic··on Level3 is without peer, now what to do?
Perhaps, but something has to give. Maybe directly pissing off 4 million customers is what's needed to get these monopolies broken?
Pwntastic··on China bans use of Windows 8 on government computers
This doesn't contribute anything worthwhile to the discussion.
Pwntastic··on WTF, HTML and CSS?
Ah. Well I hadn't checked the spec; I just meant that in my 5 minute testing it appeared that chrome set border-collapse to separate by default, which would explain why the parent commenter didn't ever have to set it to see table styles.
Pwntastic··on Exercising for Healthier Eyes
It might just be cookies or some kind of tracking. I got the login requirement in chrome (my default browser) but don't see it in IE (which I rarely use)
Pwntastic··on WTF, HTML and CSS?
It looks like Chrome's default user agent stylesheet defaults table border-collapse to separate. So you don't necessarily have to set it, but it's required and will potentially confound you if you use a css reset that changes this.
Pwntastic··on Needy robotic toaster sells itself if neglected
Actually I think Amazon supports something similar to this, wherein you ship them crap to hold on to and then after they receive and inventory it, they can optionally sell it for you.

Though I'm not sure how the shipping plays into that.

Pwntastic··on Sony sells its waterproof mp3 player inside a bottle of water
There's not really much of a choking hazard here though, is there?
Pwntastic··on Show HN: Codebox - Open-source cloud and desktop IDE
Could you do this with some dropbox and symlink magic? I have my ST3 package and config folders in dropbox and it works really well
Pwntastic··on Lightpack – Ambient backlight for your displays
They're finishing up a kickstarter[0], so it might be a while before they take any actual orders from their site

[0] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/woodenshark/lightpack-am...

Pwntastic··on Show HN: Real-time Bitcoin transactions plotted over Google Maps
This doesn't really make sense, as you can really only try to find the first node to report a transaction, and that has no real correlation with where the transaction actually originated
Pwntastic··on Web Latency Benchmark: A new kind of browser benchmark
I use/have used the term 'janky' before to describe similar kinds of things or things that seem off or strange.

Grew up in the midwest fwiw

Pwntastic··on Tumblr: ‘It Was the Biggest Game of Chicken I’ve Ever Seen.’
Looks like it links to the second page, but pops up the printable copy that has the entire article.
Pwntastic··on AMC is succeeding by breaking the rules of legacy television
Oh it must've been fixed then. It literally pointed to just http://qz.com when I commented earlier
Pwntastic··on AMC is succeeding by breaking the rules of legacy television
So the link points to the qz homepage and not the actual article?

http://qz.com/114483/amc-is-succeeding-by-breaking-the-rules...

Pwntastic··on Ultrasonic Networking via Web Audio
Is the title here misspelled? Ultasonic vs UltRasonic?
Pwntastic··on Apple Dev Center outage
No. I had to add a few new iPads, so I opened the organizer, clicked the 'use for development' button and it was good. It took a little bit for the actual provisioning profile to update but I was able to run the dev app on the device right away.

This was yesterday morning. I haven't tried today, though.

Pwntastic··on Apple Dev Center outage
I think so, yes. I provisioned a few devices yesterday through xcode during the outage and it updated my provisioning profiles successfully.
Pwntastic··on Apple Dev Center outage
I've managed to successfully provision new devices and run dev apps on them yesterday using xcode's organizer, so at least there's that.
Pwntastic··on Militarized police overreach — a second excerpt from Radley Balko's book
This makes me so incredibly angry, and I don't even know what we can do about it at this point
Pwntastic··on Movie Subtitle Fansite Raided By Copyright Industry And Police
Then perhaps it shouldn't be a violation if the average person doesn't even know...
Pwntastic··on U.S. Government Continues State of Emergency Declared in Response to 9/11
This was 2012.
Pwntastic··on [dead]
Agreed, though I have to admit that I chuckled at the ethernet cable one.
Pwntastic··on Decentralizing Trillian
I use Trillian as my primary client, and have been for a while. Their newest builds sync all of my chats across protocols across clients, which is nice as I frequently switch between my Mac and PC for various things and it's nice to have my chats all sync'd
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