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Maybe some Kindles and Nooks, but the Kindle Fire is certainly not a completely different type of device.

rtrunckon US sues Apple and publishers over e-book prices

Monetarily, the Government gets the fine. Then this money disappears into the bureaucracy and the people that were allegedly hurt receive none of it.

rtrunckon Schneier removed from TSA oversight meeting at TSA request

They presumably weren't always above the law and, one would hope, remember the pains of the TSA.

rtrunckon Apple announces iBooks 2, iBooks Author to "reinvent textbooks"

I would have been more inclined to agree until the Kindle Fire came out. That is starting to change things.

rtrunckon Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found on SUV

I wonder what the implications would be should a citizen or group place tracking devices on police vehicles. Though I'm sure they'd have some law in their arsenal to call that a crime.

rtrunckon California DMV Loophole Allowed Jobs to Drive Sans-Plates

Disobeying vehicle registration laws does not equal being an asshole. I doubt anyone actually makes it through a day without breaking at least one law. Quit being an asshole yourself and at least provide a legitimate reason why he was an asshole.

rtrunckon IPhone 4S has GLONASS in addition to GPS

I've been having significant jumps with my 4S compared to the 4 too. It seems like a regression in GPS quality so far.

rtrunckon Sprint to 'Bet the Company' on iPhone

Maybe I'm missing something, but why bye an unlocked phone? You pay more up front and the same monthly fee for network access. Is it just the contract you don't want to enter?

rtrunckon IPhone 4S with iPhone 4 design, leaked by iTunes

My bet is they skip NFC and go straight to Bluetooth 4.0, which includes Bluetooth low energy. They already went that direction with the new airs and minis.

rtrunckon How Steve Jobs handles trolls (WWDC 1997)

I'd call the end part questioning what Steve had been doing for the past seven years trollish.

rtrunckon It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad

Same here. I had the original 2G iPHone and its was absolutely amazing. It's hard to remember the state of cell phones back then anymore, but it was revolutionary imo and worked great from day one.

rtrunckon The 50 Best Websites of 2011

I appreciate the comment - and now much better appreciate popularity of the submission. Build a respect for your company and the support will follow.

Also, my username is my abbreviated real name, and pretty transparent. However, I do also have a company social posting policy I must follow...

I look forward for the one day in the future to talk about my own startup with you Andrew.

Thank you for the insight.

rtrunckon The 50 Best Websites of 2011

You're obviously getting downvoted, so I probably will too, but I have to somewhat agree. But more specifically, why duckduckgo? Are they better than the other 49? Why is this submission rated number 1 on hn? I really don't get it.... One of 50 on a list?

I work at one of the other 49, and didn't feel the need to submit when the list came out many many hours ago....

So, I guess I agree with the sentiment you express. Why duckduckgo in this situation? Maybe I'm honestly missing something

rtrunckon What If...: How Yahoo Almost Bought DoubleClick Before Google

Yahoo would have shut them down a few years later anyway

rtrunckon Large-scale Amazon EC2 Outage

I hear all these things about the need to run in multiple regions, etc. Why do I have to worry about this? Why isn't there an easy off the self solution? Honestly, isn't there an easier way to have redundancy?

rtrunckon Parse (YC S11): A Heroku For Mobile Apps

I completely agree. I've got a linode instance and use it for server side stuff, but I hate doing server side stuff. This seems awesome, but I'm going to hold off until I know I can afford it.

rtrunckon When patents attack Android

Being an exclusive licensee provides significant rights to Google, for example, they could sue for infringement of that patent.

rtrunckon OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

If you can make it to an Apple store you can apparently download it from there. http://9to5mac.com/2011/07/19/apple-retail-has-3-lion-instal...

rtrunckon The Conclusion: A 6 Figure Business That Fell Apart When I Was 16

You can get a trademark on a product as trade dress

rtrunckon This Guy Has My MacBook

https://twitter.com/jmk/status/75766707834200064

Arrested

rtrunckon Apple: if we get you subscribers, we deserve a cut

Gas Tax?

rtrunckon [dead]

Actually, each act of copyright infringement can constitute 20k in statutory damages. Depending on the use of the directly copied documents, each install of android could be an act of infringement (I'm not sure of to what the documents pertain, so this may be completely off). With 300+k activations a day, assuming all documents pertain (which may be a large assumption), that adds up to $240,000,000,000 a day. That's a lot of money.

rtrunckon Chromium Blog: More about the Chrome HTML Video Codec Change

Has Google donated the patents they hold encompassing WebM to the public domain?

rtrunckon A Vegan No More

I totally agree that it may be possible. But a deeper question is it optimum? We are coders, what could the A/B/C test of Vegan/Vegetarian/Carnivore be? No judgement, just interesting to me.

rtrunckon At My Wit’s End: Jason Calacanis Threatens To Sue Us

Lawyers and hackers aren't mutually exclusive.

rtrunckon The Mac App Store, it'a awesome, and you guys are missing why.

My guess is that the indies will hit it first, just like they did for the iPhone.

rtrunckon iOS developers: Are you shocked by how vengeful users can be in the app store?

Same thing happened to me. I have yet to receive an email that actually contains feedback.

rtrunckon A paper trail of betrayal: Google's net neutrality collapse

I think the anti-google anger arrises because many people didn't expect Google to compromise on something that Google, previously, gave the impression of being so important.

rtrunckon Coming Soon to Pastebot: Music in the Background

I agree. They labeled it an elegant solution. More appropriately, I believe, it is an elegant hack.

rtrunckon Three years ago, I sold my startup because I was an idiot

A non-compete is typically for around two years I believe. If they get too broad in length or scope courts tend to limit them or nullify them altogether.