gergles

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811.
by gergles 16y ago
Yeah, I was really turned off by the whiny "those Groupon customers sometimes come in and want to change their orders after they order!" OK, so say "No, I already started making it" and done. Why he kept banging this point in that Groupon u
812.
by gergles 16y ago
I don't care. I use Dropbox because of the unparalleled feature set and ease of integration. I have my taxes stored on Dropbox, along with a lot of other sensitive information. They're in an encrypted RAR file with a line-noise passphrase,
813.
by gergles 16y ago
I would never put all of the keys to the kingdom in one place, which is the only time Greplin becomes useful. Your e-mail inbox is, quite literally, a skeleton key to your entire online identity, and by extension, a great part of your life
814.
by gergles 16y ago
I think the whole point is that if you need to send more than 2 or 3 e-mails, you launched your holding page too early and should reconsider even having it up.
815.
by gergles 16y ago
Any "major law firm" will go after someone as long as your checks keep clearing. The weight of a law firm is not related to the likely validity of the claims. I mean, if you think you can get a 50% stake in Facebook, of course you're going
816.
by gergles 16y ago
The boot screen of every PlayStation product says "Sony Computer Entertainment of America Presents" at some point, so if he ever played any games on it, that would hurt his argument, I would think.
817.
by gergles 16y ago
Hobbyist developers to Nintendo: "We don't care, we're going to develop for your platforms whether you want us to or not." "Also, in doing so, you're going to force us to completely reverse-engineer your protections and enable trivial pirac
818.
by gergles 16y ago
It's impossible to compete with a national wireless carrier due to a multi-billion dollar barrier to entry in the form of a spectrum license.
819.
by gergles 16y ago
http://screencast.com/t/PKPkfdZc
820.
by gergles 16y ago
I don't know, let's ask California how their energy prices are doing now that they've been radically deregulated. Let's take a train on our efficient, safe, and inexpensive national rail system there to ask them.
821.
by gergles 16y ago
Right, and while it may be unprofitable to build roads to the trailer park, if a city thinks the trailer park deserves connectivity to the rest of the city, the roads will get built. Equal access is a fundamental principle of infrastructure
822.
by gergles 16y ago
AT&T was right that telephone service is a natural monopoly. There's still only one set of phone lines running into your house. This trend on HN of expecting every argument to be entirely self-supported and encyclopedic-length, defini
823.
by gergles 16y ago
So, you're relying on the editorialized summary of the legislation instead of the actual text to call the article "wrong"? Municipal broadband operators shouldn't have to "play fair". Broadband access is a natural monopoly, and a municipali
824.
by gergles 16y ago
Actually I burn up about 190GB with netflix, hulu, Xbox 360 games, OS updates, Zune pass, pandora, etc. I don't use any illegal means to acquire content and am already flirting with the cap regularly. The "bandwidth hogs" of today are the "
825.
by gergles 16y ago
I love the paper-thin justification here the most. "We have to do this because people don't want to pay for bandwidth they don't use!" OK, where's my $10 a month refund for every 50 GB I go under the limit?
826.
by gergles 16y ago
Bingo, especially since AT&T TV (which is all over IP and therefore is just as likely to 'clog the tubes' -- actually even more so since it has better QoS) is exempt. They are going to go kicking and screaming into the age of being a du
827.
by gergles 16y ago
1973 was almost 40 years ago. You should not have the right to profit from your work forever. 40 years is more than enough time. As such, I don't feel the least bit compelled by the second part of your argument. If Disney goes broke because
828.
by gergles 16y ago
The iPad was sold worldwide.
829.
by gergles 16y ago
http://arabnews.com/world/article266832.ece
830.
by gergles 16y ago
I don't really think it makes sense in SF, either. Taxi Magic, run app, push button, a taxi arrives. You pay half the price and don't have to worry about the driver flaking out on you, because dispatch will send another one automatically. I
831.
by gergles 16y ago
FWIW, it's a softcap. I have several friends who have gone well over (we're talking 1TB+) and haven't received the dreaded phone call.
832.
by gergles 16y ago
No, the point of SSL is encryption. SSH seems to handle key exchange just fine. (Hint: https should have been implemented the same way. CAs are fundamentally broken.)
833.
by gergles 16y ago
Yeah, and he is dangerously close to suggesting that you can DMCA keygens or cracks -- if you didn't write it, you can't DMCA it. Sure, if someone's redistributing your program you can, but if they just wrote a keygen, you don't have copy
834.
by gergles 16y ago
I wish there was a way to flag comments that obviously did not read the article, as there's an entire paragraph devoted to "omg you're just attacking Google you meaniehead!"
835.
by gergles 16y ago
This is complete hokum. States aren't allowed to tax interstate commerce -- it's in the Constitution as a power reserved for Congress [1]. I have long wondered why no constitutional challenges to "use tax" have been brought (the last one I
836.
by gergles 16y ago
"Remove malicious apps" doesn't undo the damage they caused. A reactionary approach only works until the first gigantic breach occurs, at which point people will finally start to ask "why do I have to give ShittyGame every permission under
837.
by gergles 16y ago
Letting your friends export your information through a facebook feature is substantially different than letting any shady "Platform" app get it.
838.
by gergles 16y ago
The argument is that more people would use the feature if the UI were better, and that hiding the feature because "nobody uses it (because it sucks)" is not the same statement as "nobody uses it (because nobody wants it)".
839.
by gergles 16y ago
Yeah, any domain that's "serving up copyright material" should be seized. Let's start with these: google.com news.ycombinator.com youtube.com reddit.com
840.
by gergles 16y ago
Zero to my part of SoMA in SF? Highly dubious, even if this is just one batch.

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