I haven't heard of any mass exodus from uTorrent. Complaints? Sure. But the core features are still there, it still does a good job, respects the torrent standard (unlike a few other popular clients which do things against the standard, such as allowing the PRIVATE flag to be ignored). The ads introduced were a minor…

Why the fuck would you decide which application to use based on it's icon? VLC is a great piece of software, it is one of the few large, versatile, entirely self-contained media players out there, and it's not filled with crapware. The only reason to use other players is if you want to use system codecs for some…

This is an old wives tale. It's been debunked by several cooking blogs; potatoes simply aren't very absorbent, and even if they were, the alleged mechanism would not selectively draw salt in, but rather all surround fluids. So even if it worked, the amount you'd have to put in to consistently reuptake the salt would…

I wasn't advocating people doing nothing :P I was advocating teaching people a safer, more effective technique than one that has persistently been pushed on the public by an egotistical man with a background of making fraudulent medical recommendations, and for using money from his foundation to block the advance of…

The Heimlich Maneuver really shouldn't be the go-to for choking. Most medical organizations have stopped recommending it's use due to the fact it easily causes internal injuries and that back blows have been found to be more effective. The reason it's so well known is thanks to the efforts of Henry Heimlich, who is…

If the items in question are vanilla enough they could be considered gifts, then you shouldn't be embarrased buying them, because the cashier certainly doesn't give a fuck. If they are actually potentially embarassing (i.e dildos, STD meds, etc), they are either ungiftable (who gives crabs medication to people :P) or…

How is this a "powerful CLI program"? It's just an interface for a couple of APIs. He wrote about 43 lines of code that just plug various inputs and outputs into each other. I do agree with your sentiment though.

It's 43 lines of code because it's literally just a simple interface for Microsoft and Google's APIs. He didn't really code anything a first year student couldn't have.

Well it's certainly feasible for the display controller to disable unused pixels if a lower resolution is set, it would be a fairly simple thing to implement in firmware. The only reason it doesn't exist is that most people would never use it, and it would be weird to market.

So creating panic and murder was in good taste pre-911?

Proxy, SSH tunnel, VPN.

In a nutshell, Apple devices tend to be easier to use, more reliable (software-wise), and I've really liked the design of a few of the recent devices. Due to the degree of which iOS is locked down and regulated by Apple, it's pretty rare to see any kind of software problem, aside from the occasional bug. Android on…

This will not help for more than a minute or two unless the cold is sustained. As soon as the ice is removed, the bodies heat will slowly redistribute to the area until equilibrium is re-established. The same applies to hot drinks, though I've found that they actually have a positive effect of liquifying hardened…

Brain freeze is the result of the rebound dilation of blood vessels after the cold causes constriction.

Believe it or not, your life is of little import to the dreaded big corporations. They have no personal interest in your shopping list or location. In this case, all they can possibly get via these methods are your location in the store, and browsing statistics. Newsflash: CCTV cameras have been doing this for ages. A…

How is this an invasion of privacy? I mean seriously, who cares if the store gathers statistics about whether you're more interested in gardening over home renovation? That's information you'd likely give any stranger in passing conversation, hence, not private. And OMG! They're tracking you in the store itself!!111!…

I was about to say exactly this. Yes gorging on extremely sugary foods can cause blood sugar spikes, but ordinarily meals are not incredibly loaded with sugar, or are combined with a decent amount of fiber or protein to slow digestion.

Under Windows, seperate threads are not treated like seperate processes; their max memory allocation is global for the process (which is hard limited at the architecture's limits, 32-bit vs 64-bit, and soft limited by the programmers selection of heap size at compilation).

There must be some flaw to those tests, as the only way more RAM could affect storage writes is through either:

This could be a double edged sword. On one hand you're right that dense underarm hair can make removal of sweat more difficult (without it, you just wipe a towel on the skin, whereas you generally have to rinse the hair to clean it), but on the other hand it does wick moisture off of the skin and potentially gives it…