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Slimyon India OKs censoring Facebook, Google, Microsoft, YouTube

Not really. Google gave up on censoring search results in China and simply moved its operations to Hong Kong (http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/02/googles-china-...).

China blocks websites that don't follow its rules. India is threatening to do something similar. From this article: "Like China, we too can block such websites," said Justice Suresh Kait.

Slimyon Stop looking for a cofounder

Relevant: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=77246

Slimyon RIAA: Someone Else Is Pirating Through Our IP Addresses

This article was published on December 21, 2011.

Here's a previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3377641

Slimyon Full Gameboy Color Emulator in Javascript

Very well done!

I'd love to see an analysis of how the different major browsers handle this emulator.

Slimyon Why I Hate Android

Summary: MG says he doesn't give Android a fair chance when he compares it to the iPhone not because he loves Apple but because he hates Google.

Slimyon Justin.tv Moves Domains from GoDaddy

It seems like the fact they no longer support SOPA doesn't matter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3396634

GoDaddy screwed themselves and I'm not what they can do to recover. I don't know if they'll actually lose money over this, but PR-wise they're pretty screwed.

Slimyon Show HN: Move your Flickr photos to Facebook (with privacy)

More info: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/how-to-move-your-flickr-p...

Slimyon Looking back at 2011: ‘The year of the tablet’ falls flat

I think the tablet market will either be completely turned upside down when Windows 8 comes out, or iOS will just keep dominating. I hate to say it, but right now it looks like Android is only successful on phones, and it doesn't look like that is changing anytime soon. Come CES 2012 though, I may have to eat my own words.

Slimyon Bye Daddy: Search who hasn't fled GoDaddy yet

Click on the link "Why ByeDaddy?"

Slimyon Jacob E. Goldman, Founder of Xerox Lab, Dies at 90

This is bigger news than anyone else's death in quite a while, at least in my mind.

Slimyon Why Hasn’t Safari Skyrocketed Like Chrome Has?

tl;dr

Safari sucks, especially on Windows.

Chrome rocks, especially on Windows.

Slimyon Anonymous did not attack Stratfor

Here's what Anonymous did do this holiday: http://www.techmeme.com/111220/p19#a111220p19

Slimyon How To Get 30 Million Facebook Fans

This is not an article. This is an advertisement.

Slimyon Reddit admin: "If SOPA passes it would almost certainly mean the end of reddit"

Veto SOPA: https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/veto-sopa-b...

Slimyon Facebook threatens to sue man who changed his name to Mark Zuckerberg

Israeli entrepreneur Rotem Guez has legally changed his name to Mark Zuckerberg. It’s his latest response to a legal battle he’s fighting with the social networking giant over his Like Store.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-is-suing-mark-zu...

Slimyon Space Planes & Secret Prisons: 9 Secret Military Programs You Shouldn’t Know

I love articles like this. Opened in a tab and moved to the left for reading over the holidays.

Slimyon Google easter egg. Search for 'Let it snow'

haha, I love how the search button turns to "Defrost" :P

Slimyon Windows Live Messenger supports XMPP

I wonder if this is because Microsoft is becoming better and better at embracing open source when it sees a business advantage to do so, or if it's simply a last-ditch effort to keep Messenger alive as more and more people use it less frequently or not at all because the likes of smartphones, apps, and Facebook (Chat) are becoming more widely adopted.

Slimyon [Django] Python 3 port - all tests now pass on 2.7.2 and 3.2.2

I'm one of the students from UofT that helped with this project. Basically, my group for one of our Software Engineering courses had the assignment of helping with this enormous task. We didn't finish (this was two years ago), but we did make a lot of progress (fixing bugs to get the tests to pass in both versions). It was one hell of a goal so it's great to see this finally done!

Slimyon Apple's 'Let's Talk iPhone' keynote liveblog

iPhone 4S? I want the iPhone 5 :(

Slimyon Facebook’s Cookiegate: Controversial Tracking Cookie is Back

Facebook has since confirmed the bug, and tried to do some damage control: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-cookie-tracking-...

Slimyon Facebook fixes logout issue

A Facebook engineer has made a statement saying there was not tracking involved in the "Update" section of this article: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-fixes-cookie-beh...

Slimyon Facebook denies cookie tracking allegations

I don't believe Facebook is doing anything malicious, but it can never hurt to do a little investigation.

Slimyon Chrome Privacy

I thought it was general knowledge that the closed-source Chrome sends (some) data back to Google while the open-source Chromium does not.

Disclosure: I use Chrome (default) and IE9 (whenever Chrome fails).

Slimyon Michael Arrington: Editorial Independence

I wonder how much of this whole brouhaha was staged.

Slimyon Ceglia: Facebook planted a fake contract on my computer

Original article (posted yesterday): http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/exclusive-paul-ceglia-say...

Slimyon Facebook blocks another contact exporter tool

Here's the first one the company blocked: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2729084

Slimyon Facebook blocks Google Chrome extension for exporting friends

Interesting that it took the launch of Google+ for Facebook to notice this extension.