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Comment · 14 years ago

Ghostery does, though.

Comment · 14 years ago

Given the error message I received I think yes to the first :)

RECEIVED MESSAGE "Quota Exceeded. Please see http://code.google.com/apis/websearch.

HUMAN READABLE: "Mountainview, we have a problem."

ADVICE: A quota error indicates a temporary overload due to high demand. Please retry later.

Comment · 14 years ago

There's one here: http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/agents/n/news_ycomb.pdf

Comment · 14 years ago

Bob Iger (CEO of Disney) also joined Apple's board shortly after Steve's passing.

Comment · 14 years ago

In this case, GO Transit runs a commuter rail network (on the surface) so underground bombings shouldn't be a concern.

Comment · 14 years ago

Having access to Google Maps... there's a Starbucks (and Panera) basically next door. Granted the area isn't all that walkable and "next door" is still kind of far without a car.

Comment · 14 years ago

This project was clearly around before Autobahn (May 27 blog post vs June 8 start date) and according to the Chrome Web Store it has more users (785 vs 409).

http://danmaz74.me/2012/05/27/save-time-on-hacker-neww-mark-...

Comment · 14 years ago

E-mail is pretty crucial to me, and some MobileMe users couldn't access their mail for days.

http://www.macworld.co.uk/macsoftware/news/?RSS&NewsID=2...

Comment · 14 years ago

If you don't mind hosting it yourself it looks like you can buy VAG Rundschrift as a downloadable web font from MyFonts.com.

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/urw/vag-rundschrift/

Comment · 14 years ago

It's claimed the system will offer 12mbps or more to each passenger via ViaSat-1, which should offer 140 Gbps total throughput ("the highest capacity satellite in the world" with "more capacity than all current North American satellites combined")

http://www.viasat.com/news/new-exede-internet-for-commercial...

Comment · 14 years ago

When I stopped my Linodes I'm pretty sure I remember they warned that my DNS would be stopped along with them, so I do think you have to be a paying customer for that to work.

Comment · 14 years ago

According to the NY Times, it "contains almost all American-made parts" but "Semiconductor chips are more of a challenge. In some cases, the chips are made in the United States and shipped to Asia to be packaged with other electronic components."

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/28/technology/google-and-othe...

Comment · 14 years ago

It doesn't work for me either, but http://ac./ does.

Comment · 14 years ago

If you're paranoid about shoulder-surfing you can use getpass to hide your password as you type it in.

    >>> import getpass
    >>> password = getpass.getpass('Password: ')

http://docs.python.org/library/getpass.html

Comment · 14 years ago

Clay Shirky's "A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy" from 2003 is a bit of a classic.

http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html