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jdangu··on Au Revoir, Entrepreneurs
> ADDED: and our path is particularly odd there: as has been joked for some time, there is no French word for "entrepreneur".

A goofy quote from G.W. Bush relaunched by Newsweek some months ago.

jdangu··on Facebook Security Director Joins Bitcoin Startup Coinbase
Less random than paypal when it originally started. States had to come up with laws designed just for paypal, because an e-wallet was something completely new.

“We’re in uncharted territory, so hard to say if this stuff falls under a particular state’s MTL [money transmitting license] statutes,” says co-founder Fred Ehrsam. “We’re still talking to states to figure out how each responds, but Coinbase is prepared to get licensed where a regulator deems it’s necessary.”

In the meantime, he is continuing to do business, relying on the fact that Coinbase has its AML and KYC processes established.

[1] http://www.coindesk.com/coinbase-gmail-bitcoin/ (Oct 28 2013)

jdangu··on The newest threat on the official Android market
No check, Premium SMS technically doesn't require any opt-in. Charging on SMS receipt is called "MT billing" [1] and this is how PSMS works in most countries including the US. PSMS is heavily regulated but the nature of the business today makes it unattractive for anything but fraud.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_SMS_billing

jdangu··on Beets – Command-line music manager and auto-tagger
Would be perfect for my raspberry pi. Anyone tested?
jdangu··on What I learned from an unfortunate incident with the NYPD
You have an orphan note on [1]
jdangu··on Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
Still using PSP 6 from 1999, too! :) Will definitely look into Paint.NET, thx.
jdangu··on How Ad Retargeting Ruined Christmas
how is it supposed to retarget you without cookies then?
jdangu··on Experiments to do with your baby
Anyone fascinated by this will find this wikipedia article convenient to get going!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_binary

jdangu··on AutoJS – JS library for textarea lookahead
doesn't seem to work on FireFox 25.0.1

ReferenceError: AutoSuggestControl is not defined @ http://atmb4u.github.io/AutoJS/:78

jdangu··on How to guarantee continued operation for an SaaS startup
Open source is not the best way to call this.

This is more of a simplified version of the software escrow agreement, where you continuously push your code base to a trusted third-party in case your company goes belly-up.

I had to deal with a software escrow in the past, and this is a smart alternative to it - if the customer agrees. There is clearly less protection though.

jdangu··on HTML5 Flash Player (Shumway) lands in Mozilla
It also works in Chrome!
jdangu··on "Chrome-style" Desktop Apps that work today in Firefox
Check out Pencil (mockup app) http://pencil.evolus.vn/ for an example of multi-platform desktop app based on XULRunner.
jdangu··on Buy An Ad, Own a Browser Botnet
Flash is still the standard for "rich media" ads, despite the lack of mobile coverage. HTML5 ads are growing fast but still very small.
jdangu··on Buy An Ad, Own a Browser Botnet
Last time I checked, adwords failed to detect javascript injection from an obfuscated Flash creative. That's the kind of things that we detect at ClarityAd via dynamic analysis.
jdangu··on Buy An Ad, Own a Browser Botnet
(Shameless plug)

For exactly this kind of issue, we're building an ad tag monitoring solution for publishers (and we're hiring). www.clarityad.com

jdangu··on Unblock Torrent Sites, Blocked Proxies, & Cameron’s Porn Filter With Immunicity
You're mixing-up VPN (Virtual Private Network) and VPS (Virtual Private Server). A VPS can be used as a personal VPN, among other things. As parent suggested, it would be hard to imagine a ban on VPSs.
jdangu··on Why we'll use Google Universal Analytics over Mixpanel and KISSMetrics
> For one, there can’t be 2 [clientID, userID] couples with the same userID: with the way mixpanel does things, this is essentially a technically impossible scenario (...) And yet one user can access your site through different clients, leading to a systematic overestimation of the number of visitors hitting your site.

Really? Anyone can confirm this behavior? I'm pretty sure KissMetrics doesn't have this limitation.

jdangu··on The Baltic Demographic Disaster
Is it a good idea to build an offshore software development team in one of the baltic countries? Anyone has some perspective with that?
jdangu··on Canada's Start-up Visa
There's a designated list of VC/angel group investors: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/business/start-up/eli...
jdangu··on French parties call for Snowden political asylum
All countries spy at each other, it's just that some are better at it than others. As a target country, "outing" the attacker is a natural diplomatic reaction, albeit highly hypocritical. The recent communication war between China and the US is an interesting example.
jdangu··on Why to use Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus share links and not buttons
The discussion is also relevant for sharing widgets (addthis and friends). If anyone is interested, I wrote about their behavior and how to circumvent them: http://www.j-ro.me/nixing-the-dataholic-sharing-widgets.html
jdangu··on Netflix ditches Silverlight with support for HTML5 video in IE11
Incidentally, that puts another nail in the coffin for Adobe Flash, which is still widely used for DRM'd video streaming.
jdangu··on A Popular Ad Blocker Also Helps the Ad Industry
You would get the publisher black-listed by e.g. google. This would target the wrong people.
jdangu··on A Popular Ad Blocker Also Helps the Ad Industry
This is illegal and not in use by legitimate ad companies. They've learned their lessons [1]

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/ad-network-at-center-of-third-...

jdangu··on General Alexander wearing EFF shirt
appropriate plug:

Get your T-shirt or sticker at https://supporters.eff.org/shop

jdangu··on The doctors give me 30 days to live, each post is potentially my last
Looks like it's a term used in Belgium: https://www.google.fr/search?q=%22plan+pension%22&lr=lan...
jdangu··on How iTunes crushed music sales
Candid question: Volumes doubled and overall revenue got divided by 3 in 10 years. Is music 6 times cheaper than it was back then?
jdangu··on Good cookie (Memcache version)
Your comment is not very constructive...

Of course, there is a strong divide between the internet industry (driven for a large part by advertising) and the proponents of an ideal Internet that respects people's privacy.

It seems to me that web publishers should be allowed to decide what ad tracking they want to set up to monetize their website, as long as it's disclosed and you can opt out. You're also free to take any action that you deem to protect yourself against such tracking.

jdangu··on Good cookie (Memcache version)
Why would you store your session key with this? It's not meant for first-party domains.
jdangu··on Lifecycle emails with KissMetrics
My solution is probably 3-5 times cheaper though. It's actually free for me (KM via appsumo and Mandrill free tier)
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