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Comment Re:I use chrome (Score 1) 171

I do the same, but I still have uses for bookmarks.

1. Every morning, I open a new window and middle-click on the bookmark folder News->Daily, and websites like bbc, /., spiegel, die-zeit, hacker-news, etc. come up. (After opening and reading new links/pages from there, I move the unread ones to the chrome window for the weekend consumption).

2. While doing research, bookmarking comes very handy to keep different categories separated, and then open the same set of pages together from another machine elsewhere.

3. And there are pages which I don't visit often, but will need to go once in a few months. Having them in bookmarks helps.

Comment Re:Probably (Score 1) 761

2) Animals that kill people are put down, people are just animals.

In the second part of the sentence you say people are animals. If it is applied to the first part, I should ask:

"are animals that kill animals put down?"
or
"are people that kill animals put down?"

People are animals, but special animals. In some cases we could equate them (eg. biology/physiology). Not in psychology or intent.

Comment Re:Would you trust the answers you got from Slashd (Score 1) 789

They wouldn't straight away shoot/kill you. They'd want to know whether you have passed on the information to someone else.

They might also be interested in knowing the circumstances in which you witnessed it, so as to know whether (a) there was a leak from their group, (b) someone else witnessed it too.

Comment Re:Inferred interest? (Score 1) 146

I believe you can set the language in the default-search-engine settings (in Chrome).

I use bing as my default search engine. I use "setmkt=en-US" to get US english Bing results, even though bing knows that I am located near Frankfurt which it shows on top-right corner.

This is my default search engine:: http://www.bing.com/search?setmkt=en-US&q=%25s

Something similar should be possible for google as well.

Comment Re:Or you never visualized them in the first place (Score 1) 845

I did neither the step 2 (except the rewriting part) nor 3.

I figured it is 47*3 and all the options except the first are larger than 1000! And 47*3 can't be > 1000.
Yeah, it takes a second or two more, If I do the multiplication. But knowing it from looking makes it easy.

At the same time, the 5th problem needed working on it (math).
The options had 208.80 and 203 in them, and they are close enough that a guesstimate could get it wrong.

Submission + - Vim Turns 20 (arstechnica.com)

quanticle writes: 20 years ago today, Bram Moolenaar released vim to the public. Share your vim stories and your tales of battles with emacs users.
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Submission + - Facebook: The Law Says You Can't Have Your Data

An anonymous reader writes: After making 22 complaints regarding Facebook’s various practices, the Austrian group Europe versus Facebook stumbled upon an important tidbit: Facebook says it is not required to give you a copy of some of your personal data if it deems doing so would adversely affect its trade secrets or intellectual property. I followed up with Facebook and learned the company insists the law places “reasonable limits” on the data that has to be provided.

Comment Re:New Books Maybe Old Books Never (Score 1) 669

My ex-girlfriend (now 20) already had a HUGE paper-book collection at the age of 18 itself. Her younger sister has an equally big one too. I consider them exceptions though. In general, as "bigstrat2003" says above, today's youngsters' reading is goal-oriented than reading for its own sake.

Comment Re:Sensationalism and denial (Score 1) 1122

(a 40 year old train has an accident, kills 50, all others injured - would we call for a ban on trains? - perhaps we should, because all other means are accident-free) A major natural disaster leads to a few deaths in a 40 year old nuclear plant. And hundreds of people are 'infected'. [coal-extraction kills too; Remember oil-leak?]. In the longer run: Aren't we not aware of the dangers from coal-burning plants in the long run? Shall we not take the cumulative effects rather than just a month's news report?
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Why Linux Is Not Attracting Young Developers 742

judeancodersfront writes "Jonathan Corbet recently pointed out at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit that the Linux kernel team was getting older and not attracting young developers. This article suggests the Linux kernel no longer has the same appeal to young open source developers that it did 10 years ago. Could it be that the massive code base and declining sense of community from corporate involvement has driven young open source programmers elsewhere?"

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