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wordofchristianon United States of Secrets (Part Two)

Actually the summary of that whole segment seemed to simply be that, 1. google is really good at tracking users 2. NSA became very interested in that fact. 3. NSA piggybacked on Google's tracking without them knowing.

I didn't get that they were saying google knew that the tracking cookie was being used in this way. Only that they were setting the example of how best to spy on people.

wordofchristianon How a Light Saber Works

"Also, the filaments are so thin and so far apart (relatively speaking), that beams from energy weapons hardly affect them and just pass through."

A lightsaber is supposed to reflect the beams of energy weapons. Not let them through.

wordofchristianon Spritz – read 500 words per minute without any training

It seems to really break down when dealing with parenthesis and other kinds of punctuation that uses matching. Just from my personal testing on the linked page it got really confusing when they got to the founders section about "Frank Waldman (CEO and Co-founder), Maik Maurer (CTO and Co-founder)"

The parenthesis here, rather than showing a complete group, end up getting broken apart and stuck to whatever word they're adjacent words. "...Co Founder)"

wordofchristianon Why do Americans write the month before the day?

Not only does China use the best date format but they also only have one time zone for the whole country and DON't practice DST (summer time). If only the whole world could adopt this policy it would solve a lot of headaches.

wordofchristianon Nitrous.io brings its browser-based app development environment into public beta

Does the collab mode work with vim?

wordofchristianon SQL injection search

I'd love to see the number of search results graphed over time.