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I see this a lot in general online. Paypal treating people like absolute crap and simply locking their funds for 'suspicious behaviour' and then just sitting on them for very long periods of time, gaining interest at the end-user's expense. The trouble is, Paypal can get away with it because they're so embedded in the standard end-user's online way of life. Shopping on Amazon? Might as well use Paypal, it's quick and easy. Ordering Pizza? Hey, I can just use Paypal for this, too!

I don't see the issue resolving itself until a viable alternative starts to knock Paypal off its golden pedestal.

I can see this kind of app getting really nasty, really fast if it has a decent uptake.

All of the anonymity of the internet without any repercussions? Knowing human nature, it'd likely just end up in a quagmire or mud slinging and gossip.

I'm sorry for the offtopic, but upvoting for that amazing title alone.

"..We're actually selling these mugs and are making money from their sale; around 90 cents per item. Moreover, by doing so, we are not breaking any laws. The photographers have made their work freely available on Flickr under a Creative Commons license, which allows for their commercial reuse, so we are free to use these pictures in any way we want."

In the "About Us" Section.

Update: A representative for Syddansk University has issued a revised estimate of the compound's efficiency. They told Vice in a statement: "I am just updating our story on our website, because it turns out that Prf McKenzie made a calculation error. Pls note that it is not a SPOONFUL of this stuff, that we need to rid a room of oxygen. It is a bucket (10 litres). We apologize."

Well at least they admitted it was all hype.

IANAL, but it seems a little bit of a silly idea to criminalize owning a TV. For that matter, 'receiving means' surely also includes having a laptop or tablet in the house, as that's a means of receiving live TV.

I'm not saying you're wrong, I know that I had to buy a TV license when I moved in with my SO, but I'm not sure if that's because we bought a TV (we never watch it) or if my SO just did the necessary paperwork out of habit.

It is legal. The only time a license is required is when you're streaming 'live' television by any means.

Effectively what this means is you can't dodge a license to watch television by watching live (By live I mean stuff that would be on the TV if you turned it on at that moment) TV through your iplayer. In Britain (not sure about other places), the iPlayer has a button to allow you to tune in to live TV. It's when you click that button you are in breach of licensing law.

The whole thing is stupid and archaic, but that's the price we pay for ad-free state TV.

>"As of now it is a hobby that brings in an income, which you can't complain too much about," Zarick said. "I've made over 50 Xbooks and PlayBooks, so I guess I could say it is a small business."

Out of curiosity, how does he sidestep Microsoft and Sony's legal teams? Is it that the operation is too small to bother with? It just seems strange that he can take the consoles, modify them and then sell them on for profit without Sony/Microsoft's say-so (I know the article doesn't touch legalities at all, but I assume such a garage-level operation wouldn't have agreements in place).

Forgive me for seeming naive, but as an avid wow player, what's the advantage of using this instead of using an addon like Auctioneer, if any?

Don't get me wrong, it's a really interesting article and I enjoyed reading it, but is there any practical use for it or is it just 'reinventing the wheel', so to speak?

From what I can gather, BigStash is a rebrand of Deepfreeze.io, which itself is a sideproject of Longaccess.com, launched in 2013.

Not sure why, but the old saying 'if it's too good to be true, it probably is' keeps going around my head.

5tb would cost you what, £170 to purchase? (Brief Google search, feel free to correct me). Multiply that by the amount of customers that will sign up for this and it seems a little bit of a loss maker to me.

Note this is all just conjecture on my part, and I could be completely wrong.

I recognize that headline. If I'm not mistaken, it's from the Evening Standard in London last night (18/12/14). No idea why that's stuck in my memory!

I'm a vegetarian for moral reasons (In that I don't believe in the suffering of animals for whatever reason), if I do eat Dairy I always buy organic, but if crap like this is as common as the article makes it seem, I might genuinely consider going Vegan. How have they got away with it for so long?

I'd be interested to see this, or a link to a guide someplace.

>The general figure I see for video game piracy on the PC platform is around 90-95% of players are not paying for it, yet, often they are still consuming resources on e.g. multiplayer servers.

Hang on a sec. If you pirate games, you can't get online on the official servers, that's the whole downside to pirating and the reason so many games now require always-online. Once the game is released through a torrent site, that's it, the developer has no more hand in it. The whole point of cracking a game is to cut the umbilical cord of DRM and online-based play.

I was recently searching for work, and one process took automated recruitment to a whole new level.

I was told I had a phone interview and given a number to ring, so I did and was horrified to discover my interviewer was in fact a robot.

Turns out there are services online that let you as a company submit questions you want to ask and then give the applicant a 30 second window to record an answer, which is then submitted to the company seeking the new employee.

Suffice to say, I didn't get that job. 30 seconds is nowhere near enough time to even consider your answer, let alone sum it up in a clear and concise manner.

Not saying I'm "The Best Talent" but I can certainly see the recruiting company having problems hiring by using such an automated system as that. As the article states, it's called 'HUMAN resources' for a reason.

I think the fundamental issue with mesh tech like this is that it requires quite a high uptake for it to be effective. I can see it being useful in an office environment, where IT policy can dictate what apps people use on their work mobile devices, but I can't really see this catching on with the not so technically literate average Joe. It's an amazing idea and I can think of a lot of really useful applications for it (Disaster recovery springs to mind, earthquakes etc), but I just don't think that people will jump on the bandwagon of Mesh Networking.

Facebook app synchronizes with your address book. My best guess is that you've left facebook sync on and forgotten about it, added his number. Facebook has looked up that number, seen it belongs to this friend of yours and suggested a facebook friendship through that.

This is the greatest extension I have come across that I didn't know I needed ever. Thanks for sharing this.

Hate to be that guy, but in About Us you have a minor typo; "Having one of your online accounts hacked and loosing all your.." should read; "Having one of your online accounts hacked and losing all your.."