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Also, the UI in Firefox for changing the address bar search engine is awful -- about:config, click through the warning, then find and edit keyword.URL (which is in a different format to everything else)

I think the only use for the search box now is to give people easy access to multiple (or a secondary) search engine. Sure, it's ugly, but it does give users a clear and simple way to search wikipedia for "widgets".

Chrome, on the other hand, only exposes non-Google search engines through the search engine keyword thingy, which means a user has to actually type "en.wikipedia.org widgets" into the omnibox. Sure, tab-completion will do half the work, but the user still has to remember to start typing "en." rather than, say, "wikipedia".

I know that Chrome (and, indeed, Firefox) allow you to edit those search engine keywords, but that is power-user territory, and power-users can edit their Firefox UI as well. http://i.imgur.com/mS5Ot.png

I've had a look at Google's docs[1], and it's really not clear to me what Chrome's omnibox offers that Firefox's address bar (or whatever they call it) doesn't.

http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ans...

Regular consumers really don't care about version numbers. They probably don't even know which version of Office they have installed, let alone their web browser.

FWIW, the first line of the linked page does read

Olly, the author of OllyDbg, presents his new open source joke:

It would have been a lot more useful if the link had said how/why the ADM-3A used hjkl as cursor keys.

They even admit it's not just governments they sell to: VUPEN customers include worldwide governments and major corporations in finance, technology and manufacturing. [http://www.vupen.com/english/company.php] although their continued use of weasel words does stop just short of admitting that they're enabling industrial espionage.

The headline is "major new version" not "new major version".

I would feel a lot more confident about actual compliance if Chrome came on board with this as well.

Search engines certainly should interpret it that way, but I think the point was to question whether they all (for someone value of "all") really do do it that way in practice.

Huh. ssh used to offer this feature natively -- just symlink any hostname to the ssh binary -- but it turns out that they removed this about ten years ago.

(I feel old...)

http://lifehacker.com/5305094/how-to-crack-a-wi+fi-networks-...

I prefer Chrome because its updater also includes the flash plugin, and it has its own pdf-reader plugin.

Chromium also doesn't do releases, just lots of bleeding edge snapshots, and one or two of those have been badly broken.

You've never heard of an evil genius?

I can actually see a good argument for the API remaining read-only so that Google+ emphasises original content and doesn't just end up as a ghost-town full of content syndicated in from elsewhere and sending people off to another site to join in the real conversation.

The fee for Sunrise B appears to be almost the same as the annual fee for actually registering. I assume you won't have to renew, though.

I would have assumed that the AOL deal wouldn't allow Arrington to set up a competitor so soon.

All vendors want market share in the Netherlands, so a few Dutch CAs get on the list; and they all want market share in China so the Chinese Ministry of Information gets on the list.

No browser wants to be the one which doesn't work with someone, somewhere's bank, so once you're on one list, you tend to get added to all of them; and it becomes nigh-on impossible for marketing reasons to remove anyone from the list ever.

15 years later, browsers have 80 CAs and 200 certificates built-in.

We don't know that they didn't get a forged certificate for ssl.google-analytics.com.

Diginotar haven't (AFAIK) released even a partial list of affected domains, other than admitting that there were quite a lot of them.

The pictures aren't representative of Tallinn as a whole, certainly not the central parts, but it is probably fair to say that it is more run-down in parts than similar cities in wealthier countries. (Remember that Estonia isn't rich -- GDP per capita is one third that of Belgium, for example.) How much you see of this obviously depends on where you live and where you go.

Best single Tallinn resource is probably In Your Pocket: http://www.inyourpocket.com/estonia/tallinn

You can pick this up cheaply in the city, download the pdf from their site for free, or get their iPhone app (also free).

Also new and interesting-looking is http://www.likealocalguide.com/tallinn

There is no great definitive online expat forum.

Also: when looking up stuff online, learn to love Chrome's built-in translation functions, and remember that it (and Google Translate) unfortunately does a better job with Russian than it does Estonian.

dittoing these sites.

If the grand-parent wants to be central, try Vanalinn (the old town), Kesklinn (city centre), and Kadriorg.

Also remember that many buildings don't have elevators.

7-8 months is certainly exaggerating, but 5 months is still a pretty long time to have snow on the ground.

At least the snow is white for most of this time (rather than dirty/sooty brown/grey as in many other cities), and it's less windy and humid than I'm used to in the winter (so it doesn't feel as cold as the thermometer says).

Grand-parent has slightly clumsy phrasing, but you both agree: "the lack of a monopoly is what's keeping Apple innovating"

patent detente

The patent trolls don't understand detente. They don't understand MAD. They're the real threat, not Apple/Microsoft/Motorola/HTC/whoever.

Scoble is the tech world's version of "famous for being famous".

You seem to have got your own domain wrong in the submission title...

Also clickable: http://www.athirdplace.com/

I found this in the UK... http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5072954.htm for GPB 70 (USD 115) new

But the Indian tablet has 3G and a "bundled data plan" (whatever that might be) as well as WiFi, so it's hard to find proper competition.

Other than that, tohugh, there's nothing remarkable about the Indian tablet.

According to the article, there is no "fruits of $3.5 million", no real IP, no nothing.

I assume you're being down-voted because you are comparing the price of a contract-free phone with that of a contract phone (but excluding the cost of the contract).

A quick look at the AT&T website suggest that to get that $49 iPhone, you need to sign up for at least $55 of services per month for 24 months, which comes to $1369 total.

Sure, there are probably deals to be had, but you'll never get it down far enough to even pretend to compete with a $80 phone and $0-20/month off-contract minutes.

I (probably) have the same phone as the grand-parent. Best modding info is at: http://android.modaco.com/forum/453-zte-blade-libra-blademod...