sordidfellow

It says it checks if those folders are available - which could mean checking if the name is not already taken, and then creating the path for itself to use.

Thanks for that! I was hoping something like this existed so I could do the car audio aux + gps + charging.

So we finally get validation of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5300492

Yet another (hilarious?) false match: https://logo.clearbit.com/exxon.com

I don't know about you, but I can't bring myself to punch my ID into a random website.

Reddit has a lot of pictures of various setups, though maybe not specifically for "home office" purposes...

http://www.reddit.com/r/battlestations

Indeed - I stopped short for exactly the same reason. Can't imagine why I'd want a reader app to mess with my contacts in any way.

It's something I'd like to tinker with.. I plan on using it as a frontend for my media center with the raspBMC software.

http://www.raspbmc.com/

I ordered from Allied, and I'm also in the US.

I'm tempted to cancel and place the order elsewhere...

The Raspberry Pi sounds great, but like many others I've been waiting for weeks since my order with no feedback at all on when it might ship.

There's certainly a bias in the shipping thread, but you can find plenty of folks having issues!

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=23

Those look exactly like the phishing emails I received on my dropbox-specific email address

Thank you!

I was wary of this thread showing up on HN because I felt I was a bit unkind when posting in that thread, but Chris' comment towards me seemed completely unjustified. And he deleted a prior post along the same lines, hence why I quoted him on my next post.

I'm just relieved that they realized the moderator[s] were being dismissive. I'm not sure that it's a new breach, but it does look like something is going on...

Found a newer source than the wikipedia citiations: http://www.hypable.com/2013/02/12/kinect-sales-reach-24-mill...

24 Million Kinects and 76 million XBoxes!

When I saw folks flagging this story, the soda/sugar/teeth story was exactly what I thought of. This story has far more to do with tech than basic dentistry writeups.

The whois shows that it previously expired in April 2012. I thought most registrations were for 1 year increments, so this would be a strange time for a expiration.