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zaon Night Vision: a very real UX problem

The Compiz 'color filter' can do this.

zaon Dell Announces A Linux Laptop Designed For Developers

They can start by unfucking the internal/external display mode key. http://www.osnews.com/story/23202/The_win_p_Mess_Will_Micros...

zaon Is Google Burying Firefox With User Agent Strings?

I wonder if the problem goes away if SPDY is enabled on firefox (it ships off by default in v12)?

zaon Ziptastic: Isn't a zipcode enough?

Yes. You can get a coordinate - postcode list though: http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/code-poin...

zaon Mosh: SSH for 2012

related - Rocks: Reliable Sockets (unmaintained) http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~zandy/rocks/

zaon Save the Internet from the US

People want a climax - to win and relax.

SOPA as the goal is framing things wrong. SOPA is merely the product of a broken system.

zaon UK government to monitor email and web use under new laws

Sharing is optional. The choice of license is not.

zaon SpaceX CEO claims he can send you on a round-trip to Mars for $500K

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthrise

zaon VEVO Execs Must Face Criminal Charges For Copyright Infringement

Original Article: http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/09/music-labels-joint-venture-...

Update, 2/10:: ESPN says it will not be pursuing legal action. A spokesperson gave us the following statement:

“We’re disappointed the exhibitor took this route, especially at a festival for an industry whose jobs are most at risk if we are not able to curtail stolen content.”

zaon FileSonic disables all filesharing

Also: http://gigaom.com/2012/01/05/bittorrent-share-app/

zaon How I survived one week without an adblocker

Firefox addon that does the same thing, albeit on a superset of advertisers: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/beef-taco-tar...

zaon Color Identification System (for the color blind)

Using the same symbol for red and blue (albeit rotated) seems a bit broken. eg a die with different colors on different faces.

The shapes which currently add up to a square instead need to add up to something with a rotational symmetry of 1.

zaon Time to fork the FSF

The inflammatory agenda makes sure his group stays alienated from society and within his control.

zaon Database of last words of Texas execution victims

My bad.

zaon Database of last words of Texas execution victims

http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/cases/usa-troy-davis

I think your point on human nature applies equally to those executing a justice system. Capital punishment shows arrogance.

zaon Facebook doesn't like privacy countermeasures

I would be happier if Google had a priority of not collecting user data in the first place.

zaon AMD and ARM's new CPU/GPU virtual ISA

Does this portability compromise performance at all?

zaon Universities 'dumbing down on maths' to fill places

England has multiple exam boards which offer the same qualifications, and compete with each other for business. Total WTF.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/aug/25/teachers-cho... http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/may/26/exam-boards-...

zaon Put a thousand books from the British Library on your iPad for free

http://pressandpolicy.bl.uk/Press-Releases/BiblioLabs-and-th...

zaon War on Urchin

In a world with analytics you have content farms.

zaon Drugmakers undermine medical journals and skew medical research

"The vast majority of drugs - more than 90 per cent - only work in 30 or 50 per cent of the people," Dr Roses said. "I wouldn't say that most drugs don't work. I would say that most drugs work in 30 to 50 per cent of people. Drugs out there on the market work, but they don't work in everybody."

-- Allen Roses, worldwide vice-president of genetics at GlaxoSmithKline 2003

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/glaxo-chief-our-dr...

zaon Google +1 Button Performance Review

If the latency cost of multiple requests is so significant couldn't google just lump everything into one (base64 encode the image)?

zaon AusCERT arrest - yes, "arrest"

Please define "real justice".

zaon Ask HN: Dead man coding.

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.h...

zaon Tynt, the Copy/Paste Jerks

It's in the easyprivacy filter - http://easylist.adblockplus.org/

zaon How to make a movement. Lessons learned from dancing guy.

Yes. IMHO the party was started by the second guy.

zaon Ask PG: What is the list of banned sites and why are they banned?

There are many Browser addons for this. I like "Text Link" - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1939

zaon Ask HN: moving beyond screen to persist SSH sessions?

Rocks sounds ideal, but it's not maintained. http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~zandy/rocks/