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Dealt with similar issue with HP tx2000 (HP is a horrible company that refuses to acknowledge a problem that has plagued their entire series). I removed the processor, applied fresh thermal paste with a copper shim & gave it the oven + hair dryer treatment. It worked for a while but failed again. Not worth wasting time on it. It's better to ebay it for parts.

That's far too invasive.

- I could be allergic to certain smells.

- With traditional ads, I can cover my ears/eyes or turn away the channel, turn down the volume. All that's not easy with the nose.

- The smell persists beyond your control.

- Last but not the least, I don't think anyone would want ads for metamucil or norit...

regular-expressions.info has been a good reference site for me. Another useful tool is an online regex checker. Out of a handful or so options, I find this the best : http://regex101.com/?

Thanks for clarifying. Even though you may not have bad intentions, there are several points of failures e.g. server logs falling into wrong hands, man-in-the-middle-attack (using http) etc.

Maybe put a big disclaimer in red on top of every page.

I guess I've a better chance at lottery

For some, P(losing key) > P(key theft)

There's a finite probability of landing on the combination of login+password+2FA-string at any given instance.

Conspiracy theory : Is directory.io phishing ?

It is possible that people would try to find their private key on directory.io for fun. You can do that by jumping to the relevant page. Meanwhile, the servers at directory.io would cache the GET requests and blast through the handful of keys on that page.

The site is likely generating the pages on the fly. You can type directory.io/<any number upto x>

x : 904625697166532776746648320380374280100293470930272690489102837043110636675

Can't vouch for what's on directory.io but it goes as far as http://directory.io/9046256971665327767466483203803742801002... & beyond... have you tried paging through?

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Private_key

"In Bitcoin, a private key is a 256-bit number, which can be represented one of several ways. Here is a private key in hexadecimal..."

Edit : The bitcoin private key being a number was in response to your redacted comment.

If you analyse it as probability it makes a lot more sense than intuitively thinking about it. A login & a password combination can also be seen as a unique string combination and so is 2FA i.e. a 3 string combination. Not really multiple levels of security mathematically.

Slightly different Q :

Say I have a private key with some money. All I have to do is type 'importprivkey <private key>' in a new client and the money shows up (am I missing something)? If everyone randomly starts entering a couple of completely random combinations, is there a finite possibility that someone might simply steal a wallet? Is it like spinning a wheel of fortune?

Found a very interesting analogy here : http://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinBeginners/comments/1uhuge/wha...

"Imagine you hide some money in a hole in the ground, and take note its GPS coordinates. Now imagine someone publishing a list of all valid GPS coordinates on the planet, down to 10cm resolution. In that list, there will be also the position of your money."

It's the same story in US too. Many startups are desperate to build a patent portfolio. Those who can afford the lawyer fee, throw out big incentives to employees to patent left & right. Much of the stuff is crass. After a while I started hating the patent process at my work places (respected, popular companies).

You can't be practically tracking every co-ordinate at every second, not yet. Once you know what to track, you can do it effectively. For airplanes, it's already late. Maybe, if they are lucky, based on satellite imagery, they can gather traces.

"You are both the customer and the product" - that's oversimplified as well. You've just put FB, Google, Credit Cards & Whatsapp in the same bucket. That ain't right either.

There's overlap between being a customer & being the product. But the range is so wide that there's no harm in simplifying it by saying FB makes you the product & Whatsapp (pre-acquisition) is the product.

Sure he'll get a chair but that's where it stops. FB, the company is about targeted advertisements based on your profile, activity etc. There's no reason why they won't do that with Whatsapp. They have most definitely not paid $19 billion to get only 99 cent revenue every year. They perhaps are eyeing for much more per user.

Valid point. I hope a lawyer can weigh in.

Thanks for interpreting the ToS.

That pricing model you are talking about is old. They now make the first year free & charge $1/year after that for all platforms.

The meme maybe a cliche but it's true. For a for-profit company, there are 4 outcomes :

- Paid without ads : Whatsapp till now. Ideal for personal privacy

- Paid with ads : Bad for users. If whatsapp was doing this, it won't stay hidden for long. The breadcrumbs of your data will lead to whatsapp's door.

- Free without ads : Bad for company

- Free with ads : Facebook. Bad for some, good for others.

Point being, respectable companies that are in for the long run will probably have a clearly defined business plan i.e. sell the product to the user or sell ads to the user. If it's doing both, it becomes evident.

The important part from the article is : "until there is a clearer understanding of how the company intends to use the personal data of WhatsApp’s 450 million users"

FB would be drooling over all the messages, pics & videos on Whatsapp. For person-to-person communication, I prefer a paid app over an ad-supported free one. If I wanted the latter, there are no shortage of options. I wonder how Whatsapp spells out the usage of personal data in their ToS.

Which year was this shot in? (talks about iPhone)

Edit : Found it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seinfeld_(Curb_Your_Enthusiasm)

That's a LOT of determination. I'm amazed by his courage. There must be more to the story that was left out. Salute to the gentleman. A godsend.

9 Months ago http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4LvJOFTlGo

3 Months ago http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bohfoK-edfU

Trust on Google is the problem, let's not call it a Google flaw entirely. What's stopping anyone from registering a website and putting fake business details and make it rank higher than the original one. There are millions who won't know the difference between .gov & .com websites. Does that mean the whole internet is broken ? Yes, probably.

So what's the best 'free' app for Android & iOS that leverages OSM. I'd switch in a heartbeat.

Correct, but no evidence of Mtgox improving on the original spaghetti. Circumstances point to the contrary.

Hindsight is 20/20

I feel bad for Mark Karpeles but the way MtGox communicated & lied to its users makes me sad. It's those nameless individuals who believed in him, whose trust was betrayed - those are the ones that deserve the affection of the community. I've been following the news and I think MtGox was handling so much money that they should have focused on better security practices and audits.

Few examples of their lackadaisical attitude :

1. http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1x9gue/my_protest_a... :

I arrived at MtGox early, approximately 8am, and stood outside with a sign reading “MtGox, where has my money gone”. I got some curious looks, and a lot of questions from passersby about my protest. Then at approximately 9.20 am, Mark Karpeles himself came along carrying a large, and very fancy coffee in his hand that could have passed as a dessert. I immediately confronted him and told him we needed a chat. So he stopped to hear me out.

I told him he was playing with people’s lives, and some people stood to lose their entire savings. Like Gonzague told me the night before, he mentioned technical issues, and that he would look into my case.

2. http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1x9gue/my_protest_a...

I was told that up until a few weeks [at time of the interview] ago, there was hardly any development environment to test changes. Most changes were done straight on the production environment. Typing this made me throw up in my mouth.

3. http://i.imgur.com/xMeW43a.jpg

This should be at the top

This thread is one discussion where I hardly see any coherence or modality in opinions (not that it's bad). To me, this indicates that email innovation has a lot of latent potential. For example, email could have evolved to encompass messaging as a first class citizen rather than an add-on widget.

Google also says so...