kamjam

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by kamjam 15y ago
It may also depend on which part of the world you are in...
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by kamjam 15y ago
I meant it as a joke, but... That's the problem with the world and software today. It's a trigger happy lawyer friendly world that everyone is too quick to go sue for a quick buck. It wrongly taints legitimate people's work like this. If I
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by kamjam 15y ago
I too have had issues with Paypal, albeit it was just an account used for eBay purchases. Someone sent me some money, that person was somehow related to some fraudulent transaction so my account got blocked. They then wanted lots of ID and
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by kamjam 15y ago
He mentions that he put that clause in there after 9/11 and the war on terror had just started. So great, anyone who asks for exception from the clause should be the next focus of the Surpreme Lord and Ruler (the US government)... no need t
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by kamjam 15y ago
They should probably ban themselves while they are at it...
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by kamjam 15y ago
Exactly. Just a few weeks ago I read an article linked through HN about some 3rd party site branded as some Microsoft store, developed in India that stored passwords/credit card/some sensitive information in clear text... didn't take people
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by kamjam 15y ago
Ahh ok, that makes sense. Thanks for the link.
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by kamjam 15y ago
That's a good find. The cynical side of me however thinks that this may have been Google's plan all along - get a big enough user base and then enforce the rule. It's a good way to recoup some money for the cost of developing the Android OS
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by kamjam 15y ago
tl;dr. Directly answering the title, simple: money. Google started charging and companies do not want to pay! It helps that OpenMaps now has a decent amount of data!
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by kamjam 15y ago
Totally agree. It's the old west trying to keep up with the world, it's only a matter of time before you are run over! I have a question. Is copyright infringement (in the UK at least) a criminal offence or a matter for the civil courts?
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by kamjam 15y ago
I do agree with the opinion expressed in the article, though, that the British contribution tends to be downplayed. But as a brit myself we're used to that... I tend to find that is the case. Us brits tend to be less brash and more modest
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by kamjam 15y ago
Yeah, but they did the same with the iPhone as well... the iPhone 3/3GS, iPhone 4/4S. I've not really read up a huge amount on the specs of this, just a couple of basic articles - new stuff includes higher def screen, better camera, 4G supp
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by kamjam 15y ago
Compared to Sweden and Finland, EVERYWHERE is cheap!
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by kamjam 15y ago
But won't somebody think of the children!!! Oh they are. I'll shut up then... :)
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by kamjam 15y ago
I wonder how much of this is actually down to the OS vs the apps. For example, I have a very cheap Android phone. It's not the best, but it does a good job. But lately I've noticed that some of the apps are running much slower now after som
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by kamjam 15y ago
I bought a 2.1 phone when 2.3 was already out. Mind you, I knew what I was buying and it would be rooted and flashed to 2.3 within about half hour of purchase :)
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by kamjam 15y ago
Of course i'm exaggerating, I've worked in software for 10 years and never had any of those. Until about 3 months ago I didn't have a twitter account. I've never been out of work. BUT, the amount of people that look at me funny because I di
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by kamjam 15y ago
The article says they are longer requesting username/password and instead looking over the shoulder. Why not add in some of your real friends? I said nothing about bots. Tell them why you need this. Change the name of your real account to s
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by kamjam 15y ago
I have a relative of mine, who has around 20+ experience in embedded software/hardware areas How exactly is he going to put up an online portfolio, or a link to a website, when he works in embedded software/hardware . Not everything prog
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by kamjam 15y ago
That's rubbish, and if you think that is true then you have been watching The Social Network movie a few too many times and brainwashed by Hollywood. And the way the USA is acting right now trying to pass draconian laws and police the inter
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by kamjam 15y ago
Yup, just like every developer must have Twitter, GitHub, an open suorce code repo, StackOverflow profile, professional blog, tumblr account etc etc. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3669568 Personally, I like to have a real life off t
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by kamjam 15y ago
So just create a 2nd "fake" account with seemingly "real" data and show them that. Or tell them you don't actually have a facebook account. It is possible to set the security so that people are unable to find/search for you. Anyway, I presu
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by kamjam 15y ago
Well, you should have just stated that in the first place instead of name calling and acting immature. A simple "we have suspended his account while we carry out further investigations, this is practice" would have gone a long way to ease p
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by kamjam 15y ago
where you could cause colossal damage Exactly, you and every other hacker with out there. At least you had the good conscience to leave a note.
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by kamjam 15y ago
Man, I've just read through this whole incident and this is the exact same conclusion I got. Fair enough, he got his account suspended, they investigated and they reinstated his account. But the comments from the devs and admin is just disg
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by kamjam 15y ago
Why is it that a pharmaceutical company spends billions upon billions on R&D and only gets to patent it product for 20 years, but some poxy artist/record label gets paid royalty for a cajillion years. There's something very wrong there.
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by kamjam 15y ago
I agree with you, we went through the same thing at work. Developers may be dime a doze, but good developers are difficult to find. On the flip side of this, there's a good reason .Net developers are dime a dozen - .Net jobs are dime a do
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by kamjam 15y ago
And then sell it to the big corps for 10% less than twitter... excellent idea :)
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by kamjam 15y ago
Wow, thanks, I didn't know that. Why this stuff isn't decentralised is crazy, but at this point I guess there is a lot of vested interest to keep it that way. EDIT: Just read about BitCoin! Sounding better and better now!
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by kamjam 15y ago
What about .org, piratebay uses that right?

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