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After seeing a few stories like this, it seems facebook advertising makes sense for one thing: buying likes. When one of us sees a site with 11.2K likes, we would know better. But the average user might not.

Fake it until you make it.

C# and .NET get a bad rap for being created by Microsoft. But one thing that can't be ignored is how polished their development tools are. I absolutely love coding in Visual Studio.

There are many things you don't need to do. I'll take the time saved in development over cutting out an extra framework.

The handful of Philly tech meetups I've been to haven't even had 1/5th of the attendees go to the bar afterward. I'd like to think we have it under control here.

I'd love to see some rules in the future where a domain has to be used. Something needs to be done about domain squatters. It's getting out of hand.

I've noticed over the years that every other Windows release is good. The next version should be good.

Win 8 - Crappy

Win 7 - Good

Vista - Crappy

XP - Good

etc.

The point is that even quadrupled, the number is so low, it's a drop in the bucket for the government.

Until they add an ignore rule specifically for this text.

On the topic of technology ruining human interaction: I recently read an idea worth trying. When you go out with friends for drinks, take everyones phone and stack them face down with yours on top. The rule is the first person to grab their phone pays the tab. I used to make fun of friends that were engrossed with their phones by acting like I was texting on an invisible phone. But, this works much better.

I don't think it's a stretch to think the government has the ssl keys. Or the ability to find the ssl keys.

If it's going over the wire, you can bet they have access to it, with or without 'access.'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

I'm not saying they are, I'm only saying they can.

They can hear everything you say at any given time, even if your phone is off. Only removing the battery can prevent this. If you think this is a stretch, you are sorely mistaken.

This is ridiculous...

...ly awesome.

Try explaining that better. There's 3 possible people that could need an account depending on how you look at it.

1. An email account to create a wall for an organization.

2. A person in that organization so they can comment about their own organization.

3. A random person that wants to comment on an organization.

I'm not sure which you're targeting.

>>Only people with a verified company email address can join your company network.

What's anonymous about that?

They aren't failing to see what they've created with CFAA/SOPA/PIPA. They know exactly what they're doing and occasionally feigning ignorance.

This REALLY could have helped me a week ago. Two oauth consumers later, it's not as easy as it seems.

When you use something like this, do you have to have the laser bouncing into some type of mirror? Is the laser burning his walls while not burning the objects? Or does it's power diminish over longer distances?

An anecdote: If you ever take a tour of Amish country in Pennsylvania, most of the houses have two or three generations living in them. What the Amish do is put an addition onto the house for another generation of family. It's been that way for a long time and will be in the future.

I've had to login to my phone provider's website and block numbers on two separate occasions. If I don't pick up after calls/voicemails every day for a week straight and you continue to call, you are doing your job wrong.

There's something about WCF that rubs me the wrong way. I like coding Web Services. WCF just feels like bloat on top of web services. And traditional web services can be used cross-platform. I'm not sure WCF can. Maybe I'm just sticking with not fixing something that's not broken.

I've been programming .NET since 1.1 and love the platform. It just works. But, I pick my technologies carefully. I called silverlight not working out. I've been staying away from WCF/WPF. No one writes in the news when something goes right, only wrong. This article is more rabble rousing than anything. You can focus on the things that are going wrong. If you are putting out new technologies, some are going to fail. That's the nature of the game.

Doesn't something like this compel people to use bitcoin more rather than less?

Bad name choice if you're going for originality.

https://www.leapmotion.com/

I'm usually pretty careful about picking technologies and websites to use. I've steered clear of linkedin and as time goes on, I'm pretty happy with that decision.

I would be pretty happy if I could make a room in my house look like a scene from Avatar.

I'm currently working on something close: location based notes.

http://www.writenear.com

Velcro would work.