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by sprovoost 15y ago
I think it's more appropriate to blame the second law of thermodynamics and the internet. It's increasingly, if not impossibly, hard to keep information isolated. My suggestion to anyone with secrets that valuable is to assume they get leak
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by sprovoost 15y ago
Definitely a step in the right direction, but I think they should just turn the Bay Area into a Special Administrative Region similar to what Hong Kong is to China.
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by sprovoost 15y ago
It does not justify the high valuation. That's what I meant with "clone the usability in no time".
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by sprovoost 15y ago
Just one more problem: as more and more great platforms become available, there seems to be a trend of users storing different kinds of data in their own specialist platforms. Photos on FlickR, music on Spotify, movies on Netflix, simple do
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by sprovoost 15y ago
The problem with owning shares is that it takes a decade or longer to earn back your investment just through dividends. I'd say it's almost certain lots of competitors will be crowding the space with that time span.
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by sprovoost 15y ago
iPad is most certainly a big deal, but if Apple doesn't keep innovating they won't be half as relevant five years from now when tablets are a commodity. They're already resorting to patents to fight off competition. Dropbox's simplicity is
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by sprovoost 15y ago
Microsoft may have just been too early. Once they recognize the success they can clone the usability in no time. Or patent troll Dropbox off the map. Very risky investment if you ask me. That said, Dropbox is a great product and the free ve
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by sprovoost 15y ago
I'll try to dig one up. Obviously they won't use such wording. They send out a completely automated message with fairly vague instructions. If you then do what they ask and explain the situation, you get another fully automated response rej
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by sprovoost 15y ago
It's interesting to look at the companies that are mentioned. Pearl-in-palm is based in Beijing and has been around for seven years [0]. They make games and this one gets great ratings on the English store [1]. But very bad ratings on the J
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by sprovoost 15y ago
I think a lot of people in Silicon Valley don't want to touch it, because of the stigma. Having that on your resume reduces your chances of getting a job with high profile companies or government agencies.
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by sprovoost 15y ago
It's a numbers game; it would help people without an @me.com account or with a secondary email address.
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by sprovoost 15y ago
As I mentioned in another comment, you don't have to go as far as verifying before usage (although in some cases you should), but at the very least alert the user of any new device, just like Facebook does.
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by sprovoost 15y ago
> In Hanselman’s case, though, he admits he was using PayPal, > not a credit card. Perhaps it’s therefore safer to use a > credit card instead of PayPal for iTunes Store payments? I don't see how that makes a difference if your
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by sprovoost 15y ago
They could do something similar to what Facebook does: as soon as they detect a new device using your account, send an email. If the new device is not in the same country as your other devices, don't allow purchases until you've clicked on
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by sprovoost 15y ago
There's a difference between someone using your creditcard to buy stuff on iTunes with a different iTunes account* and someone using your iTunes account to buy apps. In your case I'm guessing they did the first thing. * = possibly not their
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by sprovoost 15y ago
Only one way to find out; go through all your accounts and try that password. Let us know... Even if the password was unique to iTunes, a key logger on your computer could have intercepted it. Does Apple always use HTTPS? Otherwise it might
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by sprovoost 15y ago
If someone tried to buy an app "manually" using their own device and your account, they would need to know your email address and password. There's plenty websites out there that store password in plain text, some of them even email it to y
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by sprovoost 15y ago
In the extremely unlikely case that Bitcoin becomes a generally accepted currency, I suspect the government will regulate it. Such regulations will most likely provide a monopoly such that only certain credit card gateways and Paypal can fa
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by sprovoost 15y ago
I understand PayPal needs to take certain unpleasant measures to mitigate risk. The problem I have with them is their disrespectful attitude towards customers in general and their arrogant tone in particular. If something goes wrong they do
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by sprovoost 15y ago
Based on his story, I would guess that: 1 - someone got their hands on Apple's private encryption keys 2 - some got their hands on a list of Apple id's or device UDID's 3 - Apple knows this, but wants to fix the problem behind the scenes an
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by sprovoost 15y ago
That last link has the word "bptumblr" in their Amazon EC3 link. If you Google that term, you get a bunch of porn sites. That might explain their popularity in random bars and early profitability :-)
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by sprovoost 15y ago
I agree it would make more sense for the next generation of students to seriously consider alternatives to certain overpriced educational institutions. On the other hand, with the printing press at maximum, now is a good time to have debt.
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The Online Confessionary(confessly.com)
3 points by sprovoost 15y ago|2 comments
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by sprovoost 15y ago
I'm not from the USA, but agree the situation here is probably one of the worst in the world. However I've been to several countries in the past year and the best deals tend to be around 300 MB - 1 GB for anywhere between $10 and $30 a mont
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by sprovoost 15y ago
Regardless of whether it's true if the next iPhone has 4G, who cares? They quote spotty coverage and battery issues as a reason. But if I were Apple I would most certainly not support it for a very different reason: why offer a product that
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IPhone 4 may not support 4G LTE(online.wsj.com)
2 points by sprovoost 15y ago|3 comments
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by sprovoost 15y ago
It took me much too long to realize this, but there's a fundamental difference between a Startup and a Muse. A Startup is about creating something new, which takes years to develop, can scale hugely, but may never turn profitable. A Muse is
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by sprovoost 15y ago
From what I can gather from those two links and the original memorandum, you need to show that you are an employee. They are worried about three scenario's: * founding your own company and hiring yourself (especially if you do that on borro
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by sprovoost 15y ago
> offering to fix it, from the very beginning That does not contradict the victim's statement, but it ignores her statement that communications stopped after she went public with it and that she claims that she hasn't received any of th
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by sprovoost 15y ago
Technically this part of Paul's comment does not contradict the victim's statement; AirBnB has offered to fix it from the beginning (give or take a day), but perhaps just forgot to communicate after that. Any calls from her could have ended

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