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m_for_monkey··on Microsoft Censors Pirate Bay Links in Windows Live Messenger
If the e-mails are well-written, they will like it. You can't protect people from their own stupidity. Except maybe with censoring like this, but then we have another problem.
m_for_monkey··on Microsoft Censors Pirate Bay Links in Windows Live Messenger
If this is really a serious problem, then they should send an informative email to every user, say once every week about spamming, phising, passwords, etc. Of course, it should be easy opt out.

Moreover, when I last used Windows (XP, 2008), executables could still masquerading as .doc files. This would be easy enough to solve for MS, I think.

m_for_monkey··on Microsoft Censors Pirate Bay Links in Windows Live Messenger
Censorship is never the right solution, though. That would be education.
m_for_monkey··on Codename: Obtvse
Please don't do the same. I mean, apologizing is OK, but don't delete the original post, especially if there are twenty replies to it.
m_for_monkey··on Solar panel made with ion cannon is cheap enough to challenge fossil fuels
The real problem is that a nuclear power plant needs a staff of several hundred people. They can't travel 500 miles every day to work to the middle of a desert. Even if they wanted to relocate there, they would have to build a little town to serve these people and their families, and now we are back to the original problem.
m_for_monkey··on Our 3d printer is better than yours
Their title is better than yours.
m_for_monkey··on A "real" user proves Windows 8 fails on the desktop
I didn't say the touch screen will be horizontal.
m_for_monkey··on A "real" user proves Windows 8 fails on the desktop
He didn't say the touch screen will be vertical.
m_for_monkey··on TSA Out of Our Pants -- FAQ
Yes, it is.
m_for_monkey··on America, the Beautiful (And Nutty): A Skeptic’s Lament
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that.”

R. P. Feynman

m_for_monkey··on TSA Out of Our Pants -- FAQ
"Tilting at windmills is an English idiom which means attacking imaginary enemies, or fighting unwinnable or futile battles."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilting_at_windmills

m_for_monkey··on [dead]
From 2011.01.31.
m_for_monkey··on Stratfor Is a Joke and So Is Wikileaks for Taking It Seriously
I don't see it as if Wikileaks were fooled, they have debunked Stratfor, the "money-making scheme". They sell nothing for a fortune, I hope their subscribers will leave them.
m_for_monkey··on Microsoft kills Zune, Windows Live brands; Live ID renamed to Microsoft Account
And Visual Basic? Only the name stayed after they replaced the product with .NET.
m_for_monkey··on What's ailing Hacker News?
Not a surprising result. These are the symptoms that are listed as examples right below the search box on the frontpage, just a click away.
m_for_monkey··on Analysis of Body Position of Cattle Using Google Earth
The paper:

http://www.pnas.org/content/105/36/13451.full.pdf&title=...

m_for_monkey··on Why I use DuckDuckGo and You Should Too
This way you can use the exact same keywords in every browser. It can be confusing if you use someone else's computer or several browsers on your own machine.
m_for_monkey··on The Socratic Method: Teaching by Asking Instead of by Telling
It is only one (very useful) tool in the toolbox.
m_for_monkey··on Chrome 17 preloads autocompleted URLs as you type
And not only your and other Chrome users bandwidth. It generates unnecessary traffic and slows down the whole network.
m_for_monkey··on Romanian Prime Minister Admits He Has No Idea Why Romania Signed ACTA
I see many European countries mentioned from East to West, from North to South. So if everyone points to the others, who's the mastermind? Maybe it's just the effect of the EU?
m_for_monkey··on Romanian Prime Minister Admits He Has No Idea Why Romania Signed ACTA
The same was said and downvoted last week when the Poles demonstrated: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3515839.
m_for_monkey··on With 8.7% market share, Apple has 75% of cell phone profits
And, more surprisingly, the same for is true RIM, except the last quarter. Nokia is the big looser.
m_for_monkey··on A swarm of micro-quadcopters
Unless the drones can defend themselves...
m_for_monkey··on A swarm of micro-quadcopters
I think it's pretty paranoid. Why would you do that?
m_for_monkey··on Yale Discovers a Fungus That Eats Plastic
True, but we didn't care for plastic the same way, because we didn't need to. Until now. It's not the end of the world, of course, but we should prepare for this problem.
m_for_monkey··on Do You Speak VCili? (like Swahili, but more difficult to learn)
There's the guttural R, the nasal vowels, and maybe others, too.
m_for_monkey··on XaoS.js - a real-time fractal zoomer
For me, in the browser, the edges just smooth out to a straight line, and seem blurry only because of the color scheme. In the desktop version, however, I see this when zoomed in maximally: http://i.imgur.com/ryhai.png.
m_for_monkey··on XaoS.js - a real-time fractal zoomer
Try the desktop version, this is a very limited alpha. But no, not even the desktop version offers unlimited precision.

http://wmi.math.u-szeged.hu/xaos/doku.php

m_for_monkey··on XaoS.js - a real-time fractal zoomer
No, it's because the maximum number of iterations is too low for that zoom level.
m_for_monkey··on MusicForProgramming();
These are great, too. I can't stand the water sounds, though. After a few minutes I feel an urge to urinate :).
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