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uiet··on Hipmunk needs to ramp up on usability
>Kayak lets you save searches so at least you don't have to enter all your information again.

The free iMacros macro recorder addons for IE, chrome and firefox solve this issue on any website: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/imacros-for-f...

uiet··on Trojan T-shirt targets German right-wing rock fans
Keep in mind the main goal was to spread the message (address & phone!) of an "exit" program for people who want to leave that scene. So those people who want to eventually leave know that they can get help. (It seems peer pressure is very high inside those circles)

From what I read that "attack" was a big talk in the German right wing forums websites... => people now know the Exit program exists => so it worked VERY well.

uiet··on What Happens When a Reasonable Developer Runs Into Aggressive Trademark Lawyers
Why downvote a response just because you disagree.

He has a point here: It is notch who wants to trademark a very general term, or?

Reminds me of the Ferrero case who wanted to trademark the word "Kinder" (German word for child): http://www.allbusiness.com/legal/legal-services-litigation/5...

uiet··on [dead]
Hi... me here: At no point it was my intention to claim ownership of this discovery. I simply wanted to share it with our users. I thought (and still think) quoting the author in the first line of the article makes the original source very clear: "I was googling for some Google Chrome documentation today, and discovered a fascinating post by Ilya Grigorik: ". Will now set the Ilya's text in cursive to make it 100% clear.
uiet··on Mark Cuban: If you want to see more jobs created -- change patent laws
Good software patent: MP3
uiet··on Scalability
Browser performance really matters for web automation, web testing projects with tools like imacros or watir.