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I think what you will usually see as you work your way through the different layers of IT, is that IT workers on the lower rungs, especially help desk, have to deal with all of the irritating IT requests. The guys towards the top usually don't have to deal with end users, because whatever comes to them is filtered on the lower levels. I'm not saying that there aren't incompetent IT workers, just that you should realize that a lot of IT requests are mind-numbingly stupid.

If you want to keep the features you could just stay with your current firmware. It is optional to upgrade, not a forced decision. Also it begs the question of why you want to keep the functionality. If you were going to use it for the cell computing power or just messing around you could always use the old firmware and upgrade when you want to use the playstation network functionality. If you want to keep both features there is a good chance the reason why you would want to do so is to pirate games. Could someone explain to me why there is any legitimacy in this suit?

To be honest it would be nice if HN was less like Reddit.

The main Bing search works, if what your saying is correct then since MSNBC's search is just a modified version of Bing, Bing would also need to have the problem for there to be no fault on MSNBC's end.

That is the first result I get.

Just think about it this way. How many people using msnbc will actually make the query that will match the regex "/^wikileaks$/i". If they were truly trying to prevent people from accessing information about it they would have done a better regex.

"It seems pretty obvious to me that their search dept is trying to stop people from finding the story. Either that or their search is broken in a truly bad way--given that those words should stem to the same query, it's suggestive to say the least."

It really doesn't. I'm going to take a big guess here and say that the good people over at MSNBC are not that inept.

Redditors/Wikileaks is making a big stink about it, but it really isn't about being righteous. Its about making a big stink.

Every army fighting a war against an insurgency makes mistakes like this. If you are saying that the rules of engagement are flawed it might be eye-opening to realize the reduction of military casualties by having a more aggressive set of rules. The only solution in my mind is to not go to war from the beginning and to end it as soon as possible with the best means possible.

If I remember correctly the deal is still being reviewed before it actually happens (but it will be soon). The wikipedia article also says the current owners are Vivendi and GE still.

I tried it just now and it worked so I'm guessing there was a mistake on your end.

ah your right I put in additional words. That is weird though since its only for the embedded bing search.

It works perfectly fine for me guys. I'm not sure what you are talking about.

I think this is one of those moments where it would be considered wrong to disagree, but everyone eventually will just disregard it due to impracticality.

I'm probably out of touch with what is stylish when it comes to packaging, but in general I could probably care less what my part comes in as long as it works as advertised. Another thing is that the system requirements and other additions to the packaging is generally helpful for people. I remember my mother bought me a printer as a present and didn't know that it came without the cable.Luckily I had a spare in my basement but it still stands that people who don't really research their products or just normal people in general benefit from all the information plastered on the packaging.

It isn't the same price though. There is a setup fee of 150 euros and a monthly rate of 70 euros. This is in comparison to a rate of 80 usd a month with no setup fee. There is a fairly large difference in cost there.

Interesting stuff. Although you might want to get rid of the large background image crowding out the content on your site.

Many people said the same thing about netbooks, when they first came into the picture. In any case there might be a market for it, and it might be too early to decide the usefulness of the device.

I honestly think this is the best way to do it. I've been a lurker on hacker news for a while now for the occasional article that doesn't involve business tips (most of them are bogus). In addition to what you said I think that maybe that users could be sorted into groups by upvote/downvote correlation, and that users with a higher correlation to you would have a greater weight on the tiering of your articles.

Because the majority of the voting population has no problem obtaining food.

I think the main difference here is that this is an across the boards increase in complexity of technology. Whereas during the Luddites time any bloke could become a worker in a textile mill. Now technology is increasingly moving in a direction that requires more intelligence and a larger skill set to operate in a useful way. The eventual problem will be that unless we evolve or engineer ourselves to become more than we are now, we will eventually hit a wall where we simply cannot comprehend beyond.

I rarely do a fresh start of firefox, so its immaterial to me what my homepage is.

Sometimes I wonder if at some point there are diminishing returns in the prospect of censorship. Even if the chinese government puts vast amounts of resources behind censoring the 10-15 thousand users of the Tor network, they have a much larger population to worry about and those users are often technically competent enough to circumvent the attempts at censorship by the chinese government.

It shouldn't be too much of an issue considering Iceland is going to eventually join the EU.

The fact that google is going to leave the pricing structure to the publishers disappointed me. While the flexibility draws in more publishers the publisher acceptable pricepoint will not be competitive with the likes of Amazon.

But then again you have to "spend alot of time to raise money" especially when your company hasn't proven its viability yet.

Meh. The only ones I really agree with are 2 and 6. The other ones from a glance either don't make sense or aren't necessarily a unique benefit of a startup.

Good luck with that :)

This is a great example of what I don't want to read, or be convinced to read by a semi-interesting title.

Agreed. I think there should be multiple ways of actually learning a subject that a student/parents can choose from, but that there should be a standard obviously for evaluating that learning. The problem with this kind of system is that a tremendous amount of responsibility is put on the child and parents who may or not comply with what he/she is expected to do.

Yeah that is true and addition to what you said arctic oil reserves would also be more accessible. But I still think that the damages to coastal economies such as the Netherlands from flooding would outweigh the benefits.

My main point though was that the reasoning that the guy was using, a single example of anecdotal evidence, made me a little uncomfortable. Aside from that I think the other points he made were thoughtful.

I thought it was reasonable for the most part too, but the section where he argued because Eric the Red found global warming to his advantage we could also find it in our interests made me a little skeptical.