richardburton

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by richardburton 15y ago
Correct. But that can often make the pranks even better. Especially if you send simultaneously from two people to one-another.
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Watching Apple win(37signals.com)
85 points by richardburton 15y ago|147 comments
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by richardburton 15y ago
Anyone who has industry experience knows that it's trivially possible to spoof SMS phone numbers. Exactly. My point is that the general public do not know. That is bad. What do you think?
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by richardburton 15y ago
To be clear, I am well-aware this is not a new issue. However, in the context of the Leveson enquiry into phone "hacking" and O2's recent blunder, I think it is a great time to revisit this issue.
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by richardburton 15y ago
Exactly. My friends are shocked when they see this working.
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by richardburton 15y ago
I know. But that does not mean the networks should not try to stop it.
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by richardburton 15y ago
Agreed. But they do not care at all. That is my complaint.
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by richardburton 15y ago
That is right: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3509228
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If you think O2 headers are bad, check this out.(kiteandcode.com)
54 points by richardburton 15y ago|58 comments
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by richardburton 15y ago
As bad as this may seem, SMS spoofing is way, way worse. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/watchdog/2010/04/mobile_spoofing.... Nothing has been done about it.
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by richardburton 15y ago
This is fascinating. I think the big (and scary) meta-trend is this: The population is increasing and the requirement for people is decreasing. This gap is made wider by increased birth-rates and better automation. More people are being bor
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by richardburton 15y ago
I hate how we have to refer to stupid judges with honour : 'His honour Judge Birss QC decided that a photograph of a red London bus against a black and white background of Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, with a blank sky, was similar
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by richardburton 15y ago
This is important context that should have been added to the quote: I am a lousy copywriter, but I am a good editor. So I go to work editing my own draft.
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by richardburton 15y ago
This is hilarious: If all else fails, I drink half a bottle of rum and play a Handel oratorio on the gramophone. This generally produces an uncontrollable gush of copy.
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by richardburton 15y ago
This quote is fantastic: I have never written an advertisement in the office.
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by richardburton 15y ago
I think GitHire is a great idea but I am not sure they have quite reached the status of "economic indicator". That would be like saying my new blog ( http://www.kiteandcode.com ) is the pulse of the blogosphere. It is not.
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by richardburton 15y ago
Yeh it is definitely a growing trend. I am not interested in going off the grid for a year. I love being online all the time. Love it. I just want to kite and code. I have decided to write more about a few things here: http://kiteandcode
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by richardburton 15y ago
Trading and app-work.
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by richardburton 15y ago
Lifestyle businesses are not to be sneered at. Small, cash-flow businesses that can be run at any hour of the day give you freedom . I am currently living in South Africa for 4 months just kiting and coding. Next stop Norway and then San F
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by richardburton 15y ago
Between 1980-1998, almost 8,000 small banks were acquired by larger institutions in the US. Incredible.
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by richardburton 15y ago
It is not an analogy. What is the analogue? The slope is descending from now (you cannot get arrested for singing happy birthday) to then (you can). Slippery.
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by richardburton 15y ago
This is a topic that is not discussed enough. We all know that entrepreneurship is a pursuit that requires us to ride an economic and emotional roller-coaster that can jerk us up and down far harder than if we decided to work for more estab
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by richardburton 15y ago
What an insensitive comment. You fail at vacationing. The man was trying to recover.
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by richardburton 15y ago
De dure, not de facto. Show me a report of someone getting arrested for it. Hence my accurate description of his ridiculous scenario appealing to a slippery-slope style train of thought. Case closed.
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by richardburton 15y ago
Fascinating. So your system acts as an email client too effectively? That is mission-critical. I built a system similar to this for my last business and have wondered why no one (even Salesforce!) have not offered it. I would love to talk f
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by richardburton 15y ago
Great idea. How does it integrate with Gmail?
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by richardburton 15y ago
You are using the slippery-slope argument here. That is a fallacy.
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by richardburton 15y ago
I think it is important to realise the difference between finding something you love and finding something that will benefit you economically. When those two things overlap it can be amazing! When they do not it can be hard. When you have n
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by richardburton 15y ago
Just switched to DuckDuckGo as my default Chrome search-engine. Should be fun :)
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by richardburton 15y ago
I cannot wait for their next earnings report.

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