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lol nope. cant say i have had the honor (horor) of being introduced to one.

Look closely at the pictures. You see the blue pack? with 3 cylindrical shaped things inside? this is a battery pack.

Mostly True. But still, hacking into your phone is one thing. And forcing you put a government sponsored bugged "car card" in your vehicle is another thing.

America doesnt need freaky raids like those at this time. If i own a web based business i would seriously consider alternative hosting countries... because honestly between the Patriot act and the actual raids, no business should feel safe.

I dont understand the chinese you pasted above. but on the pictures included in the article the battery pack is quite visible.

The device looks a bit low tech though...

Love the idea. Kind of an airbnb builder. I just have a comment though on this page "http://www.adormo.com/project/ownersite/en/features.htm. I would replace "cheapest" by "least expensive", or "cost effective". Cheapest well sounds cheap most of the times. Just a personal preference. That being said, i would love to hear more about your plans.

A calculator?... "i am doing 64.5 mph i am still at 111.12 miles from destination... hmm let me bring up the built in calculator to see how much time i still need".

Really nice. What i like mostly is the fact that you guys included screenshots within the article, great communication tactic. This definitely made me want to try your product. Good Job. I will keep an eye on your company for sure.

Yeah that is what i meant. Not "based outside of" ... well i think it is bad english anyway my fault, i meant "based in the UK".

Dude... where i am from... you ask such a question to the government they will laugh to your face ! should you insist security is called... If you come back you will be thrown in jail... On another note... a FAVICON generator website business startup anyone (of course based out of the UK)? lol

hmmm this really looks like a complicated matter to judge with the available information. Really there are several plausible scenarios where POF or Chris could be at fault. The information available to the public is not enough to make an informed judgement. Everything else is pure speculation or pure DH0 (as per Paul Graham's disagreement hierarchy).

For what we see now, it is clear that POF people were scared shitless from the report (obviously) and tried to limit the damage and gain time by manipulating Chris whom they thought has downloaded all their users data and is extorting them against the disclosure of this data. I think anyone in their shoes would think the same (at least primarily).

Now wether Chris really intended to extort them or not is another matter we cant judge from what we are seeing. He does seem like a nice guys from his emails, and kind of excited about the "opportunity" but really that is not enough. Nice people sound nice... so do most criminals.

One more thing that is unclear ! Was POF actually hacked (in the sense that data was leaked) or was it just that a vulnerability got exposed? I think this will tell us a lot as well about the real motivation of the "hacker".

I think one of his brainstorming result ideas is the "Hello HN user ..." banner. Pretty cool if that is the case. My first time on his blog so i dont really know.

While sleeping... DONT laugh... i (or my alter ego <-that bastard never sleeps) apparently do lots of problem solving while sleeping, since most of my AHA... EUREKA moments literally wake me up in the middle of the night.

It is odd that the Middle East is mentioned but not South America... or maybe HN thought WTH we will assume it is "US Other" lol

I think that if only a fraction of all the brain power put into building software was dedicated to making the world a better place for humans (all of them) (aka "take over the world") ... then the world would most certainly BE a better place. Instead most of us creators/philosophers are stuck into "the box" while the world is run by marketeers and accountants.

Take over the world.

I face the same problem. I think it is a "business owner/entrepreneurial" syndrome (if not chronic disease). The shear number of "stupid" (according to our entrepreneurial mindset) tasks that are necessary to accomplish is often discouraging and a turnoff.

My method of getting over this syndrome is made of a few simple steps:

- make myself unavailable for some time (could be a couple of hours or 2 days). And if this is not possible resort to waking up at odd times like 4:30 or 5:00 AM where you have no chance of being disturbed.

- I get started by picking the easiest tasks and doing them almost mindlessly. That helps in making you feel good about yourself (i think the fact of achieving tasks must release some "feel good" hormone/chemical in ones brain, i call it the "good job candy") and once you start getting a taste of the good job candy : you effectively start building momentum.

- Once you build momentum you are usually good for going through the entire list, because having started with the easiest tasks, each next one you complete yields a higher dose of good job candy and thus more drive to dig into the harder tasks.

That being said, an even better (in the sense of it's efficiency) motivator is the near disaster situation during which i suspect most of us become supper efficient.