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eballon The Facts about LinkedIn Intro

Read a comment the other day wondering about what if two(or more) programs did this. Would you end up with a chain of proxies between you and the mail server?

From the excellent Old New Thing blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2005/06/07/42629...

eballon An unofficial alternative to the HN interface

Funny how it still shows the link to the below story that got buried by the flamewar detector.

"I lost years’ worth of Google Docs files because of a poor user interface"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6612854

eballon uTorrent tricking users into changing default browser settings?

Adware goes to where there are a lot of non tech savvy users. If desktop Linux gets more traction, you'll see such search hijacking on there too. Note that this story is about search hijacking on OS X, not Windows.

eballon Microsoft reports record first-quarter revenue of $18.53 billion

So if Android didn't exist, Apple's profits wouldn't be higher?

eballon Microsoft reports record first-quarter revenue of $18.53 billion

Microsoft even charges less for Linux VMs on Azure than Windows Server VMs with the same specs.

eballon LinkedIn ‘Intro’duces Insecurity

To me the bigger news was that iframes in emails are run inside mail clients. Anyone know if other mail clients do this or is it just the one in iOS?