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by sunchild 15y ago
Is Groupon still "working"? The frenzied buzz has certainly died down. Also, the Groupon Now concept seems totally lame: the whole appeal of Groupon was the perceived scarcity of a daily email. Groupon Now is what I would call an "undiff
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by sunchild 15y ago
Agreed. This is, overall, bad news for users of Skype because it will now be part of the only company fighting to keep people locked into a desktop platform. Then again, the only reason I use Skype is because the Windows users on the othe
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by sunchild 15y ago
Aside from the parody, this kind of "plain English" contract always backfires. While most contracts are written by people who secretly wish we still spoke Latin, the real purpose of contracts is to write down expectations with extreme prec
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by sunchild 16y ago
This isn't legal advice, but this seems to meet the same legal requirements that big companies must adhere to when using outsourcing providers that will have access to sensitive client data. The magic words: "Like most major online services
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by sunchild 16y ago
In the beginning, JungleDisk allowed users to manage their own keys from the client-side without ever sharing the key with JungleDisk. I think they dropped this feature subsequently, and there must have been a reason... too many problems w
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by sunchild 16y ago
If I were hiring, I'd look at your ability to organize people and generate interest in what you do, and your ability to make something that others find useful.
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by sunchild 16y ago
Right, so "...is not accessible to employees" is very misleading and arguably incorrect.
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by sunchild 16y ago
I fully understand your point, but those words could be interpreted either way. Only Dropbox can confirm whether it is theoretically possible for Dropbox engineers to peek at user data.
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by sunchild 16y ago
It could be even simpler: Dropbox's admin interfaces for employees may simply not reveal data that could technically be revealed. When I started my own law practice, my partners insisted that "everything must be encrypted" so that no third
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by sunchild 16y ago
You keep putting lawyers up on pedestals and then trying to knock them down. Your question to me implies that lawyers are such specialists that you could never be expected to do their job. You do realize that law school teaches next to no
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by sunchild 16y ago
You're speaking from a position of ignorance, and that bothers me. This isn't an area where opinions matter. Either you learn the subject matter, or you don't. If you don't, you can only blame yourself for being at the mercy of professio
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by sunchild 16y ago
Now you're just molding the facts to your argument. The issue at hand in OP's case is a claim of copyright infringement – something anyone with half a clue can defend for themselves. And no, by "defend" I don't mean "posting a snotty resp
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by sunchild 16y ago
You are confused about the difference between equity shares and voting power.
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by sunchild 16y ago
Also, there is a long, demonstrable history of Wall Street analysts being flat-out liars. They've been caught pumping garbage that their own firms bet against so many times, one wonders why anyone listens to them at all. Larry Page knows w
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by sunchild 16y ago
If you choose to pay someone to speak on your behalf, you can't also complain about the price. I recommend learning to speak for yourself.
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by sunchild 16y ago
Yes, it is to me. You don't need a law degree. It doesn't take 3 years of your time to fight a C&D letter.
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by sunchild 16y ago
Perfect example of why I became a lawyer. You made yourself the victim of a lawyer that doesn't need to care about your satisfaction. Bar association self-regulation ensures that people like yourself continue to pour bad money after bad on
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by sunchild 16y ago
I was arguing for avoiding lawyers altogether by learning the subject matter, the court procedures, and handling matters for yourself. Court filing fees are tiny. The cost of your time is the biggest cost, unless you already know copyrigh
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by sunchild 16y ago
Why does OP expect the cost of defending a lawsuit to be at least thousands of dollars? Presumably because OP isn't a lawyer, and thinks: (1) it isn't cost-effective to learn to defense him/herself and (2) he/she would need to hire a lawye
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by sunchild 16y ago
Doesn't this prevent backup/syncing while the image is open?
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by sunchild 16y ago
Bntr is essentially just Tumblr chat posts, no?
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by sunchild 16y ago
IAAL
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by sunchild 16y ago
As a lawyer, I respectfully scoff at this response. The exchange servers running the biggest companies in the world are sourced to third party providers. I love how people will put their "legally sensitive" stuff in the hands of a $60K/ye
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by sunchild 16y ago
This attitude drives me nuts. Why would anyone want a staff of sysadmins? You're almost certainly buying (at a high capital outlay) the B-team when you can rent the A-team for next to nothing. There's nothing magical about your "private n
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by sunchild 16y ago
Cool. It sounds like we draw that line in different places. I think your comments about aligning motivations is universal, and applies regardless of whether or not a services is sourced. My position is the illusion of "control" by assign
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by sunchild 16y ago
The comments from their lawyer strongly suggest that he or she (a) knows next to nothing about technology or chatroulette, and (b) delivered what is essentially a template with standard, off-the-shelf questions (i.e., making the client do y
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by sunchild 16y ago
Google makes it possible to backup your data by yourself. There's nothing stopping your from archiving your email, docs, etc.
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by sunchild 16y ago
You avoided the question: what if something goes wrong with your in-house process? Is there anything you can do vis-à-vis your employee that you can't do to Google? Is that worth the price of keeping that person on your payroll, drawing b
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by sunchild 16y ago
Similar argument could be used against staying local: are your engineers as capable at data retention as Google's? What if your in-house people screw it up? Will you have some remedy that isn't available to you if Google had screwed it
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by sunchild 16y ago
Yeah, and how much of your time is spent going over obvious nonsense with that human on the telephone line?

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