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> there isn't enough wealth to go around.

Though one often reads that acquiring/making wealth isn't a zero sum game.

Online sites like eBay, always want to reduce their personnel costs. Dispute resolution should be a last ditch effort that exists to identify loopholes in a system that should ideally NEVER need dispute resolution.

Maybe regulation should be only limited to internet infrastructure -limited to the piping infrastructure; without interference in what is flowing in it.

Another proposal: IJKL. Your fingers don't move off the default home position.

We must differentiate between 'Education' in the ideal sense, and 'technical education' or 'training'. People don't go to technical colleges for 'Education', but for competency in a knowledge domain, and in applying it.

Nokia phones have a method for such convenience. A contact stored in one phone can be sent to another phone as a special sms message called a 'Business Card'. When the other Nokia phone gets it, they can save the contact from the message view options. Of course, it's not free, or local (bluetooth).

I don't feel safe carrying a private key around with me on my mobile. It could be copied without my knowledge and brute forced in privacy. Whereas with password authentication, I can impose limits on the number of tries and also on the time between the tries. Am I wrong in thinking this?

"So to make the most of your intelligence, improving your working memory will help this significantly"

This reminds me of how RAM is underestimated in improving computer performance.

When salary information is private, the employee has advantage while negotiating a new job, whereas, if the salary information is public, he has advantage while he is within the company.

Can't these risks can be guarded against by including relevant conditions and punishments in the support contract?

You may want to checkout Gog and Magog

http://en.wikipedia.or/wiki/Gog_and_Magog

In the islamic tradition (Yajuj and Majuj):-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gog_and_Magog#In_Islamic_tradit...

Some alternate bookmarking services...

Google Bookmarks, Pinboard, Historious, Diigo, Netvouz, Favbot, Favilous, Licorize, Wonderpage, Wheatt, Wajam, Markr, Xmarks.

Please add others which I may have missed...

I am a user of MyVidoop and Delicious. Both were very good concepts. By the way Vidoop has been acquired by Confident Technologies, Inc.

If the encrypted private-key is stolen, then it can be stored on a powerful computer and brute-force attacks can be applied on it. Even if symmetric encryption is used to encrypt the private-key ( which makes straight-on brute-force attacks unfeasible), if the user uses an easy passphrase to encrypt the private-key, then the private-key can be compromised.

From Wikipedia:

In the case of an offline attack where the attacker has access to the encrypted material, he can try key combinations at his leisure without the risk of discovery or interference. However database and directory administrators can take countermeasures against online attacks, for example by limiting the number of attempts that a password can be tried, by introducing time delays between successive attempts and locking accounts out after unsuccessful logon attempts. Website administrators may prevent a particular IP address from trying more than a predetermined number of password attempts against any account on the site.

We could have empty places interspersed in the city in which people living in the city could use as their spontaneity desires. It would also leave some room for upgrading etc

If your customer service staff can be replaced by a computer, then they should be!

(Similar to the quote: A teacher that can be replaced by a machine, should be! -Arthur C Clarke.)

"To make matters worse, I was born with a hyperactive cerebral sequencer that will sample and loop any catchy tune within a 100-degree radius."

I wonder if there is a name for this psychological phenomenon...

But, could the demonstrator have given any other lines and still caused the audience to observe them in the song? Those lines were deliberately designed from careful study of the song.

I just found this great site giving extensive information:

http://ip-lookup.net/

There is also the complexity of how much the food is cooked and whether it is consumed along with other complementary food that aids in its digestion. I had once heard of a theory that children left to their own devices in the presence of healthy food will eat what and how much they want and still remain healthy- even in the case of a child that prefers to repeatedly eat the same food. It's as if their instincts tell them what to eat and what not to eat by making them averse to a food whose nutrition they have had enough of.

I boot-time scanned my entire computer which ruled out virus infestation. Since I have only recently started using this IP address (4 months), I am guessing that the person using this IP address before me may have either been a spammer or may have had an infected system. I don't think it is because I goofed up in some way. So will this IP be blocked from HN for eternity? Shouldn't HN take into consideration that my account from which the comment was posted is older than a year with frequent activity throughout? (Mainly upvotes on submissions and comments) -and without any history of spamming or any wrongdoing? I would very much like to participate in the HN community. I request you to allow this IP address.

This is weird. Even my complaints are not showing when I am not logged in. Is there any body there listening to me? The link to my comment does not work when I am logged out. It gives the message: parent [dead] . But the same link works when I am logged in. What is going on?

Can somebody enlighted me why my comment shows up only when I am logged into my account? It doesn't show when I am logged out or when I am logged in from another account. Is this a bug, or, what? Details: http://walkie-the-talkie.blogspot.com/2009/12/hacker-news-us... I am posting here because I don't know where else to post.

Can somebody enlighted me why my comment shows up only when I am logged into my account? It doesn't show when I am logged out or when I am logged in from another account. Is this a bug, or, what? Details: http://walkie-the-talkie.blogspot.com/2009/12/hacker-news-us...

Thanks. I needed this advice. Especially that 'Read books' one.

why can't they just get along? ;) i just want great service and so therefore i want ethical competition. so who am i to side with?: when one of the competitors, by virtue of their own hard efforts or whatever, becomes big enough to gobble up its competitor. hasn't the, now big, competitor earned it? shouldn't it, by the spirit of capitalism, be allowed? we are all scared of this point of competition where it kills itself. why should society have to intervene in such issues? i like a system that takes care of itself.

people are learning how much free rein competition should be given. should we enact laws that ban competitors from gobbling each other? it seems hypocritical.. also proper checks have to be put in so that there will only be ethical competition.