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Yeah, but buying the domain is cheaper than suing.

What's that stand for, Russian Federation?

Sorry, I fat-thumbed and downvoted you instead of upvoting.

I'd buy "tech people are poor predictors for social", but negative predictors?

Seems to be Flash.

>You can even transparently route over WiFi, etc.

Um...that's not exactly a ringing endorsement of the platform; on any OS with a modern network stack (Android, iOS, Windows 3.x...), the stack hides the details of what hardware you're connecting over.

You could eat negative meat, by raising cattle and not letting anybody eat them. ;-)

Correct.

Yeah, but who wants to seduce a car?

They've got an answer for that: you can add someone who doesn't have an account to a circle, and they'll get your message in email.

I haven't looked closely at what happens when you upload an image to Google+, but I can tell you that it's trivially easy to share photos out of Picasa, which does let you get the originals.

>There's no such thing as a "one time password".

Some people call the code generated by the authenticator a one-time password, because it can't be reused.

Just because it's not a work made for hire doesn't mean the company can't receive the copyright. A copyright holder is always free to transfer the copyright; if AOL has two brain cells to knock together, their contracts with these contractors include a clause saying that the copyright is transferred to AOL.

That's the default, but I'm pretty sure the contract can say AOL gets the copyright.

It's pretty hard to measure the speed of a crash after the fact. By the time any third party notices the scene, the speed is generally 0.

The IP number in the log is from a block in Japan, named GLOBALEV-IT, belonging to Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd. Traceroute shows it's reached via tokyjp01.jp.ra.gin.ntt.net, which suggests that it's actually in Japan, not just allocated to a Japanese company.

Given that the location in the article is somewhere in/around Seattle, I'd say it's pretty clear that CARWINGS is proxying the request.

<dig, dig>...oh, you're right.

Isn't AT&T dead? SBC bought the name, not the company.

So, once someone has a track record of being evil, any further evil they do is not worth covering?

>Today, thanks to Top Prospect, the social recruiting site that rewards users for helping their friends find jobs

This probably skews the figures in favor of social media companies.

I've seen a few of those, too.

I've seen one "print a ticket" lot, in a beach town in southern CA; I haven't seen any others when living in MA, PA, VA, GA, or the Bay Area.

>this type of scam doesn't happen in the US

In most of the US, this type of scam doesn't happen because we don't have this kind of parking lot. I think I've seen just one in my life. Most lots have either parking meters or gates and attendants.

There are more details in the interview tzs linked to [1].

>It was as though he thought his interpretation of policy superseded the authority of the people or office who/which set out the policy.

It's worse than that. According to the juror in the interview, there was no policy on who could get the passwords. So it wasn't a matter of interpretation; it was purely pulled out of his posterior data storage unit.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2588689

That was Compaq, wasn't it? I remember hearing about it, way back when, but I never heard anybody praise it before. Was it perhaps your first keyboard, or almost your first? I tend to type with both thumbs on the space bar, so it sounds dangerous to me.

OTOH, I don't think I ever press the space bar with the left thumb, so maybe I'm missing a trick.

Or emacs C-x 2.

I hope sites will be allowed to write a cookie saying "this user has declined cookies". Otherwise, users will be prompted over and over, and will eventually give in.

>"I think the problem is that photo-sharing services don’t allow you to easily provide copyright information,” said Sullivan, who operates SearchEngineLand.com.

Flickr's done that for years. The problem is with the social networks where photo-sharing is an incidental function.

>He thinks photo sharing services could offer users simple options like, "Would you be interested in selling images?" -- and could even act as agents for consumers.

Flickr does that, too.

Maybe 2.3 and 3.0; but it didn't exist before 2.2. So I guess 2.2 is when it started sucking.

Meta Meta: Arguing over whether to use Down to express disagreement is the HN way.

But 15 years from now people will need to virtualize Windows 2020.