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xtal··on Death of Matt Lightner (creator of Site5)
Matt's mother, Deborah, submitted a very poignant comment on Site5's weblog: http://www.site5.com/blog/s5/saying-goodbye-to-a-founder/201...
xtal··on Why Aren't Other SOPA Supporters Being Punished Like GoDaddy?
While this is a good point, concerted efforts against GoDaddy isn't a bad thing. The only way corporations will feel anything is if the entire Internet focuses on them -- we need to focus on one thing at a time and not spread ourselves across too many targets.
xtal··on Cheezburger Dumping GoDaddy over SOPA
You can't justify one wrong by saying the average human does something worse. The average human is a vicious, barbaric monster. Both killing wild animals and eating animals from factory farms is wrong.
xtal··on I Know What You Downloaded on BitTorrent…
apparently some trackers have fake peers that might use your IP address. regardless of if that is or isn't the case, it lends you some deniability.
xtal··on Gmail’s new look
On lower resolutions, the Comfortable and Cozy options aren't available. I much prefer the look of Comfortable but am forced to use Compact.
xtal··on Gmail nightmare: even if it’s “in the cloud” you still have to back it up
Perhaps there could be a program to synchronize your Google accounts with Dropbox?
xtal··on New Firefox download manager appears in UX build
This is the Nightly UX build, which appears to be something else?

I use Nightly and don't have this feature.

xtal··on Iran forged the wrong SSL certificate
Isn't the purpose of NoScript (in this context) defeated if you use Chrome?
xtal··on Anonymous Pledges to Take Down Facebook
No, that doesn't apply here at all. There's no (public) definition of who is or isn't Anonymous.
xtal··on Remove any Site From Google (even if you don't control it)
How do you know they haven't?
xtal··on Estimate your English vocabulary size
And it was optional...
xtal··on Python and the Principle of Least Astonishment
It being consistent with PHP is pretty much the same thing as being inconsistent.
xtal··on Why SourceForge Lost
If I had to attribute GitHub's success to one thing, it's that animation.
xtal··on Google just launched prizes.org
Not everybody is you.
xtal··on Lulzsec/gn0sis/AnonOps dox'd
> It all sounds very 'schoolyard'.

Welcome to "hacking."