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Lost my FaceTime capability after jailbreak.

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No, he's trying to say he operated a drop site (glftpd?) where couriers from groups like motiv8 used software like flashfxp or linfxp to trade releases from razor1911, paradigm, etc.

This assumes he was integrated at or near the top. Otherwise, he would be further down the trickle.

Haha, what did she say to kick you out?

Where did you end up living? I'm facing a similar situation regarding my living situation. I live in the heart of Boston, but most of my close friends do not, and this does have an alienating effect. I've contemplated moving up north to andover (a rural town -- opposite of boston) to position myself closer to friends/family, but would have to give up the city life. This is one of my current issues that I'm mulling over... thoughts?

Be prepared for it mentally and emotionally before getting FU money. It's not dissimilar to winning the lottery.

Most of you reading this site is either working extremely hard to get FU money or has it already. If you're not prepared for it, it will just amplify your worst nightmares and habits, and there's a good chance the meaning of many things in life, including life itself, will disappear. Plan for a use/purpose for the FU money.

The journey is sometimes better than the destination, so make sure that once you arrive at the destination, it is only one stop of a longer journey. Here's a story of a millionaire who liked the journey much more than the destination, so gave away all the money to restart the journey. http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/SmartSpending/blog/page...

After you've bought/rented all your material wants, you will feel an empty feeling and ask yourself, "that's it?", unless you have a purpose greater than yourself. Belong to a higher cause, whether it's joining a local non-profit or helping others (or start a yc? ;-). Money is a means to an end, not the end itself. Beyond buying power, money has no value unless it is used/invested/earmarked.

Here are some example people who were unprepared and how they used their FU money: http://www.oddee.com/item_97101.aspx

EDIT: Not sure why I'm being downvoted. Yes, we can talk about the great positives of FU money and the awesome power/material good it brings, but not about the potential downsides it'll bring if you don't keep it in check or plan for it in advance? For what it's worth, I've started several companies, each did well, and the points I've raised above were important for me (for belonging to a higher purpose, I sat on the board of a non-profit and helped raise money). There was a time when I thought I reached my "destination", only to feel that I had arrived at an deserted island.

Amazing! Now there's a name for this experience. I was a server admin for Tetrinet2 and naturally had all my friends playing for hours at a time. We all talked about how we'd dream falling blocks, the background music, etc.

Google Patent's link is a bit cleaner: http://www.google.com/patents?id=6yqbAAAAEBAJ&printsec=a...

Will this be a yearly event? Would like to make it for AngelConf 2011.

Disagree. He's not being "handled". It's essentially all in his head. And no, I wouldn't seek attention like this. There is no upside. You fight the case in court. That's where the battle is. His essay only hurts him.

To be clear, he's just being asked to serve as a witness and hasn't been charged with anything related to the iPad security. He just doesn't understand the legal process and is requesting things he is not entitled to yet, such as a public defender, and spinning conspiracy theories when they are denied. As of this moment, he is only facing a misdemeanor related to the drugs the police found.

It's not clear whether or not the EFF has the manpower to help him. The essay he wrote doesn't seem like he even tried. However, the EFF is usually very helpful with referrals or pointers. This is from personal experience.

If you want to bet on him over the government or Apple, that's your choice. Based on his actions so far (black hat approach to security disclosure; writing a long, ranting essay filled with conspiracy theories about the case and the way he is being "handled" and publishing it on the net), I'd most certainly call your bet and laugh all the way to the bank.

That makes sense. His jump to conclusions made the essay longer and more convoluted and confusing than of he just said "I need legal assistance and I don't have any funds. Help!"

Why aren't we reading about that, and instead reading about zionists and why a judge denied him a public defender for a misdemeanor drug charge unrelated to the computer security issue?

I upvoted you for bringing clarity to why he was denied a public defender.

The fact that he can't get a public defender because no charges higher than the misdemeanors were filed against him is, like you said, a good thing. He misunderstood, and creates a conspiracy theory around it. This is likely the case with most of his other points in the essay as well.

Why is it "shameful"? It wasn't clear whether or not weev even asked the EFF/others to defend. It seems like he only asked the judge for a public defender and was denied, and then he ranted about that for awhile.

Did he ask others to defend or at least give him some free consult/referrals? Did he get denied by them?

I'm still not convinced that his rights were violated. He says they are, but this is a guy who wrote a giant essay about his case, and then published it on the net, and ended it with a plea for donations/money. If I were in his shoes, I'd have spent the time calling the EFF to see if they can help, and asking for referrals. It almost seems like he is seeking attention.

Also, he seems to be able to obtain documents and requests from the gov to print online, yet also claims he can't get access to them but mentions some deadline. If you're not able to read the request/denied access to it, no judge will hold the deadline over you. That's just conspiracy/crazy talk.

He definitely needs to get an attorney to prevent him from writing future statements/positions in public. Now whomever represents him will have a much harder time defending him since he's written an entire essay on the matter. Each and every word, sentence, statement, and position can and will be used against him.

Don't know why you're being downvoted (I upvoted you), but I had the same thought and impression as you did.

weev talking about "this is not the first time" -- that whole section should have been left out. That makes it very conspiracy theory-like, and really has no bearing on what's going on now.

This post reminds me of the story I read of a Canadian billionaire who overcame this issue. Before he made big decisions, he wrote out on the notepad pros/cons and weighted each point with a number from 1-5, depending on how important each was to him. Then he would total it, and the side with the highest number wins. He did this from broke to billionaire and the story says he uses it to this day.

What are some HN'ers methods for keeping time & money?

If your objective is to stretch the $20K out over a long while through reducing your living expenses, I don't doubt you could make it last if clever enough.

However, if your objective is to turn that $20K into a much higher sum and gain much higher % returns (which I think Altucher was referring to), given the age range (20's), and the amount of capital, it makes sense to parlay that into knowledge and experience.

I've tried both commission-based financial planners and fee-based financial planners.

Not surprisingly, commission-based financial planners hawked their firm's mutual funds which just so happened to have high fees on them.

With my fee-based financial planner, their only incentive was to make sure I did well, was happy, and would be back next time to get more unbiased advice. If you're interested in a referral, send me an email. She appears on CNBC a couple times a month, and I've been satisfied with her work.

Not sure why you were taught that. If you walk into any financial planner's office and tell them you're in your 20's, they will set up your investment portfolio to be almost 100% stocks. They will then tell you that as you get older, they will scale back the % held in stocks and replace it with bonds (which are safer). As you near retirement, your portfolio will mostly be bonds/other safe vehicles, and very small % of stocks.

I think Altucher was under the assumption that high-interest loans and other debt were already taken care of, since he was talking about investing in the market vs investing in yourself.

I don't think it's a bad idea to have an emergency fund of up to 6-8 months of living expenses, especially in this economy. Once that's taken care of, I don't agree that the capital left over should be put in the market vs in yourself. $20,000 is not a lot of capital, and taking classes, building a web site, marketing it, etc will quickly use that up, but the upside and benefits are much higher.

Even you said it yourself, at 2-3% realistic (and 20-30% at the highest level), investing in the market is not really worth it.

If you're 22 and you have excess money (meaning your tax advantageous retirement contributions are maxed, your bills are all paid for, and you have 6-8 months of emergency fund), and you don't want to start your own company (and you don't want to donate the money), then you can become a small angel and help others start their companies. The reason I'm not saying things like "buy CDs", or "put it in a mutual fund", is because you're 22, this is Hacker News, and you can afford to swing for the fences and play conservatively later (eg. when you have a family that depends on you).

Also, by keeping the money in the bank, you're in effect saying that the rate the bank is giving you is the best return you'll get for your money (voting with your dollars). At present time, this is most definitely not the case, so it may be beneficial to look into anything that produces a higher return than bank rates (currently maxed at ~1.5%/yr).

In my experience, starting a company early yields extreme results beyond just money, and you're in a position to do so -- why, may I ask, do you say "besides starting a company"?

EDIT: Not sure why I'm being downvoted. Parent poster was looking for advice on how to invest in himself with excess cash. I'm posting from experience since I've been there, and looking to hopefully get him on some track to put his cash in a place that generates higher returns than in the bank. It's silly to give the bank free use of his cash with the return they're giving him, when he could be using the same one to generate higher returns elsewhere.

Yes, when young, investing in yourself will yield extremely better % than stock market ever could (unless your company IPO's).

The only money I have in the market are from SEP-IRA contributions, and that's only because it is tax advantageous. The gains I've gotten were nothing compared to when I invested capital in myself and my ventures. I was able to consistently turn $10-15K/mo investment into ~$150K-200K/mo return (normalized over a year). I cannot see anything remotely close to this with pure stock investments.

It may make sense when you're looking at a fund significant size, and the % per year = significant money. One of my friends manages a fund of > billion trading mortgages on wall street, and a half percent swing translates to significant sums for him. But at a smaller scale (less than $1mil), starting your own business yields tangible (money) as well as intangible results (invaluable experience).

Invest in yourself.

consumers are not used to paying for set top boxes. steve jobs stated as much in a recent interview when they were evaluating going after the tv market or the phone market. they chose mobile over tv for that reason.

there are many failed attempts at cracking the living room -- the cable companies make most of the money and they have little incentive to truly innovate the boxes that they are "renting" out to their customers.

to get truly elegant UI's that are powerful enough to do anything useful with all the TV signals (HD, etc) requires significant hardware. when Tivo was ported over to comcast boxes, most of the features that make it tivo were slashed since the boxes comcast gives to customers were significantly cheaper and underpowered.

most cable companies have a monopoly in the physical area they are servicing. where's the incentive to increase cost by upgrading equipment for your customers when the minimal viable product is happily received by the smith household?

Long time platinum amex holder. Every time I've disputed a charge, it's been in investigated timely and properly, and in my favor. They even have a nice tool on their "my account" page to dispute charges, and they follow up via snailmail to confirm. I also have visa and mastercard, but I only use them when amex is not accepted -- simply because AmEx offers me the best service.

if OS installation fails, you can do a server reinstall and it will preserve your data. Alternatively, you can take out the disk and plug it into another PC and there will be a hidden folder to access the files called \Data.

in terms of drive failure, in my experience it's less about the drive and more about the data you have. so, for instance, if you value your Photos directory like I do, you can select that to be duplicated across multiple drives. This will make sure there are multiple copies of that folder in case of any single drive failure.

I've also got an external RAID that I've connected to my WHS. WHS sees this as one drive, while in reality it's two drives in RAID config.

I've trusted my WHS build with 10TB of very valuable data. So far so good.

Yea, the allure to WHS for me was the zeroconf and that it all just works with all the devices/terminals I already have with minimal effort.

RE: concept, understood it may be used for other OS's. Was pointing out that WHS uses a different file system than normal windows, one built to scale in terms of drives.

If you want to buy a pre built solution, you're looking for HP MediaSmart. See: http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/mediasmart-server/...

Size wise, it's small (photo: http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/wp-content/uploads/hp_mediasmart...). Cost wise they're relatively cheap (considering it comes with enclosure, cpu, motherboard, hard drives, etc), I've seen them for ~$300-350.

It uses Windows Home Server plus their own custom add-ins. They're nice. You get everything I mentioned before, except this is pre built. They have things like integration with Tivo. I decided to build my own since I had spare parts lying around, otherwise I would have bought one of the MediaSmart machines.

Also, when you say something with "more media capabilities", it is doubtful you will be able to surpass a WHS-based system. This is because a system like MediaSmart, out of the box, will stream everything to any PC, any mobile device, any windows media center, etc. They've built it for streaming media, and all kinds of ways to access the content are already in the ecosystem. They have even included a silverlight/flash based streamer if you decide to only use a browser (they transcode on the fly then stream it to your browser). Devices (eg. xbox 360) and even entire OS's are designed to work with WHS (Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7).

One more thing: the WHS and MediaSmart communities are great. Many websites/forums discussing ways to use it, how to optimally set up your home, issues you'll encounter (and resolutions), etc. (http://www.wegotserved.com, http://www.mswhs.com, http://homeservershow.com, http://www.whsaddins.com, http://www.homeserverhacks.com, http://www.mediasmartserver.net, to name a few)

If you're looking to start out with your first home server/theater, the community welcomes you.

Remote access: You won't need to install your own web server. It's built into WHS (see screenshot: http://www.windows-now.com/blogs/dougknox/WindowsLiveWriter/...).

You will automatically get your desired, password-protected https://[whatever].homeserver.com, pointed to your server. (It's autoconfig too with your router). When you access that remotely, you get access to your WHS server, plus all your connected devices. (it looks something like this: http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q1.07/5B259B0F-B5B...)

For public URL, you can install dropbox on the WHS box or one of the connected PCs, if you'd like.

For movie playback, that's separate from the WHS. You need to think of the WHS as the Server and the playback devices as the Client. In this way, the WHS is very extensible and your playback options are limitless. You can use windows media center on a different PC, or just use VLC or windows media player.

Effectively, WHS is a very "insanely great" home server that stores your files and serves it, allowing you to decide how you want to consume it.

For what it's worth, I use windows media center on a machine connected to the TV, and a logitech dinovo mini for remote (see: http://www.logitech.com/en-us/keyboards/keyboard/devices/384...).

Because I'm a home theater junkie, I did start a side project called http://www.intellimote.com that uses the iPad as a remote to browse and play movies.