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Was using tinyurl really necessary?

This is not Twitter; cut that shit out.

No, it wasn't. "popcorn" is the password after the reset that was posted on /b/. If you look at the screenshots, you'll see that her password was reset using the "Forgot Your ID or Password?" feature.

To reset a Yahoo! Mail password, you need the person's birthdate, zip code, and answer to their "secret question". That information is easily accessible for public figures like Palin. Try it sometime with your friend's email/screenname and Facebook; it's quite easy.

This was already posted last month: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=270809

This has been posted before. Twice.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=79713

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=84297

Google distributes the installer with that option enabled if you check the box on their EULA that's shown before the download. You probably checked it out of habit without noticing.

That option is not enabled by default.

Your post is misleading. You cannot build a usable application for OS X.

http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2008/09/platforms-and-prioriti...

I don't want to defend Apple. Infact, I don't even use their products. My point is that he's as guilty as an Apple fanboy, except he's a member of the Apple haters' cult.

Some of his posts above about Apple products are just not factual. There have not been widespread issues with bricked iPhones nor have people been returning them in droves like he's claimed. I'd imagine that you could make the same exaggerations about the Motorola RAZR. There are always defective products from the factory and people who return them; the numbers are not any higher with the iPhone.

I don't think it's fair to dismiss Apple as hype.[1] Let's give them credit for creating some very well designed products and hate them for the right reasons.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=275608

I don't understand why anyone takes Matt seriously, everything he writes is very trollish. He's some sort of Apple bigot.[1]

I've seen him claim that Apple's "service is atrocious" yet their service is consistently ranked at the top.[2][3] Other times, he'll give some lame anecdote about his friend's MacBook constantly needing repair or receiving bricked iPhones. I have no idea if those stories are true, but if we made a poll, I think we'd find that he's exaggerating.

Once a troll in the poker world, today he's moved to this little corner of the Internet. Matt: we still hate your online persona.[4]

[1] http://searchyc.com/mattmaroon+apple

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=150563

[3] http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=1689

[4] http://mazeorbowie.blogspot.com/2006/12/why-i-hate-matt-maro...

OMG YOU RECEIVED A PHISHING EMAIL!?@!1

Take this shit somewhere else.

pg and his followers? I really hate how this site feels like a cult sometimes.

DUPE: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=261437

What's with all of the conspiracy theories?

I don't think people grasp how easy and widely e-gold was used to launder money. It was THE premier way to move money if you were involved with any sort of electronic fraud.

All you had to do was cash-out someone's bank account then wire the money to an e-gold affiliate, who deposits it into your online account. All transactions are irreversible. e-gold kept minimal records and after the money enters an offshore account, the government has little chance of recovery.

There were millions of dollars being moved through e-gold with fraud. They purposely made the process easy with as little verification as needed. Their market was criminals. I'm sure most of their profit came out of transaction fees related to fraud.

Where's the innovation? Their site looks like shit. They just managed to find a loophole to look legitimate and survive this long. I'm not surprised that the owners plead guilty to conspiracy to engage in money laundering.

"Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Your post reminds me of Black History Month. It's intended to celebrate great accomplishments by black people, but it feels more like pity. It seems as if their race were some sort of handicap so we need to make their work seem grand and donate an entire month to it.

I don't believe that anyone has ever truly been inspired by this feel-good crap.

Chumby is much more than an alarm clock; it's a cool extendable toy that people would buy. I was referring to: http://sleep.fm/

The bubble is in full effect.

There seem to be a lot of people that think their projects somehow require funding. Your online social alarm clock is not a startup.

Stop imagining how you're going to make money off of crappy widgets. Get out there, be curious and build things that solve actual problems.

Please don't upvote stupid posts like this.

pg hath spoken: "This is such a classic troll. Not even a subtle new variant, but practically a 1980s Usenet troll. I was going to ask if people minded if I killed it, but a forum just can't let itself be pwned by trolls this blatant. So..."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=162876