rhubarbquid

Assuming there's anything left to sue for...

When you order a pizza it doesn't exist at the time you order. That doesn't change the fact that you're purchasing a product.

Though I think with kickstarter you're technically making a donation. Either way I don't see how that could affect your taxes (other than sales tax) unless you're backing something you want use as a deduction...

Among their list of prohibited items is "Financial incentives (ownership, share of profits, repayment/loans, etc)".

I suspect existing law forbids them from selling equity.

Not even the network carrier should be able to tell the duration of a web page visit. Only the browser (or tracking javascript) could record this, but that's still dubious. I've had some browser tabs open on my phone for months... but that doesn't mean I've been constantly looking at them for months. I doubt Android keeps a big database of every page you visit and how long it takes you to close the page or navigate away. I guess Google Analytics might have some of that data, but only for sites that use GA.

Don't forget that Google's headquarters is in a sprawling campus near the suburbs in Mountain View... with a small Microsoft campus near by. Your hypothetical "hipster" choosing between Google, Microsoft, and Apple in the bay area is choosing between bland suburbs and bland suburbs.

Google also buses people in from San Francisco... which you have to admit beats the hell out of having them all drive in... or even take up seats on public transit for that matter.

> On second thought, why do you even need an account to update the software?

From what I can tell, it seems to be largely based on having a record that you've checked the box that says you've read their legal agreements.

> Perhaps PirateBay, the EFF, or another consumer-oriented entity might be interested in sponsoring such an anonymizing service?

They do, or did in the case of EFF, it's called Tor.

Where does "without punctuation" come in to it? They say "Numbers and punctuation aren't altered." Sure enough, the bookmarklet doesn't remove punctuation.

Also, the bookmarklet seems to skip over paragraphs that have a character they can't represent. I tried it on your post and the paragraph with the 'ñ's wasn't altered.

I've used the osx terminal for "real work" every day for about 6 years now...

No, it responds with a redirect:

    $ curl http://goo.gl/OCK7V
    <HTML>
    <HEAD>
    <TITLE>Moved Permanently</TITLE>
    </HEAD>
    <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000">
    <H1>Moved Permanently</H1>
    The document has moved <A HREF="http://twitter.github.com/hogan.js/1.0.0/hogan.js">here    </A>.
    </BODY>
    </HTML>

Edit: I suppose the headers are more important:

    $ curl -I http://goo.gl/OCK7V
    HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
    Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
    Expires: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:18:46 GMT
    Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:18:46 GMT
    Cache-Control: private, max-age=86400
    Location: http://twitter.github.com/hogan.js/1.0.0/hogan.js
    X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
    X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
    X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
    Server: GSE
    Transfer-Encoding: chunked

Seems like this is something your developer should be answering for you.

Ah ha, their site doesn't play well with the built in popup blocker in Chrome and Safari.

Can you actually view the report?

Maybe I'm missing something, but clicking on the "Report" link just appears to reload the page.

I'm pretty sure iOS used to have a single search/URL input, but they separated them out in later releases.

It works including the defrost effect on my iPad...

Holy wars are pointless... but there is value to a reasonable discussion of two competing editors.

My understanding (though I'm not a lawyer) is that under the DMCA, Megavideo can sue. [edit: like dangrossman says, I don't think they can bring perjury charges, but the DMCA does allow them to sue]

Some information here: http://targetlaw.com/consequences-of-filing-a-false-dmca-tak...

So are they saying they only intended to bundle the crapware with closed source software, or am I misunderstanding?

I wouldn't call the mobile support in Reader "frist rate". Some of the UI elements (especially the "mark as read", "email", etc. links at the bottom of each post) are too small, I constantly expand the next post when trying to email one. A small detail, but one that drives me crazy.

Yes, they charge for sending and receiving.

I'd guess not much. Most people who wanted to use G+ already signed up with a Gmail account. Unless you're counting one person maintaining personal and professional profiles as 2 active accounts...

They also recently dropped the free version to 10 accounts instead of 50.

or "lender" in the context of this article.

Yeah, I have the same concern. "Americans themselves would start lending to small businesses" and " Starbucks customers would be able to donate money to the effort when they bought their coffee." don't really agree with each other. Donating isn't lending.

On the other hand, lending isn't a sure thing. We might be talking about people getting their $0 back from their $1 investment if the borrower defaults.

It's probably checking for updated help files. Apple regularly uses Akamai's CDN.

At first, I assumed it was some programming language I had never heard of ;-)

Is Spotify going to start giving a discount on subscriptions for all this marketing/advertising information they're pushing to Facebook?

Assuming Spotify is not run by stupid people, money would be the obvious reason (and the only one I can think of off hand).

How is Spotify "neutered" without Facebook? I've never connected it to Facebook and everything works fine for me, including sharing playlists with other users.

yeah, office 2008 was the first native x86 version, IIR (and I swear it takes longer to start up then the PPC version of 2004 did under Rosetta, which is just ridiculous).