rajpaul's comments

annoyed by a hoodie? they are going to make a mint from this deal.

bankers win again :-)

I assume the decrease in crime has a lot of factors. But, can't the decline of violent crime be partly explained by more people being kept in prison?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/US_incarc...

If criminals are kept in jail longer, they can commit fewer crimes against the public.

these 'pranks' are all marketing gimmicks.

"based on current global trends"

Interesting bit of science fiction, but current trends never continue like that.

The computer made a lot of things obsolete. For example, typewriters, carbon paper, and those calculators that printed to roles of paper.

Tablets won't make anything obsolete, let alone desktop computers.

I found Musk's slight display of emotion when he talked to Aldrin and Armstrong's criticism to be very humanizing and touching.

When he said his response to their criticism is to prove to them that it can be done and done well made me admire him.

That's true. Also, unlike other criminal organizations, 'ratting out' your hacktivist co-conspirators isn't harmful to your health.

Not 0-day, but you might find it interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DarkMarket

DarkMarket was an English-speaking internet cybercrime forum created by Renukanth Subramaniam in London that was shut down in 2008 after FBI agent J. Keith Mularski infiltrated it using the alias Master Splyntr, leading to more than 60 arrests worldwide. Subramaniam, who used the alias JiLsi, admitted conspiracy to defraud and was sentenced to nearly five years in prison in February 2010.

The website allowed buyers and sellers of stolen identities and credit card data to meet and conduct criminal enterprise in an entrepreneurial, peer-reviewed environment. It had 2,500 users at its peak.

I also think that a lot of black hats are working for the feds. But I think it has more to do with their lack of integrity and morals rather than threats and intimidation.

Legal advice is a big part of black hat literature, so I don't think any of them can claim ignorance.

When I was a kid and video game arcades were still popular, there was a huge one in the mall.

They had a restaurant and you could order food from a touch screen, and play games on it while you wait.

I hated it. A waiter always came by to make sure your order was correct. I had to wonder, what's the point? It was gimmicky and useless.

This was probably 13 years ago.

I tried to use the twitter mobile site. I'll never do it again because it takes too long to load.

This is why people use the twitter app instead of the site.

did the ipo turn out to be a better payout than google offered them?

I've seen a lot of these drone stories and discussion threads. The most interesting thing about them is the assumption that America has the right to violate other countries territory.

The situation described should never happen.

Did they pump contacts for recommendations on a good outsourcing shop first, or at least ask for references and follow up on them?

I wouldn't even take my car to a mechanic blind.

Apple's statement confirms that it is still in some iOS 5 products.

Cellphones and TVs prove that it's "winner takes all", because they all use standards that have won and now have it all. For example, despite the fact that Blu-ray players are made by different manufactures, the Blu-ray technology is still the take all winner in the HD format wars.

Also, throwing the PC industry out as an anomaly is a mistake because iOS and the PC both particular kinds of technology - they are platforms. In this type of "winner takes all" scenario it isn't the standard that takes it all, but the platform providers. The only hope for iOS is the web as the platform.

Aside, I think that Windows Mobile has an even more compelling business model than Android, because Microsoft has more of a financial incentive to improve their proprietary platform than Google does.

Take what Linus says about locked down technologies losing in the long term and consider that technology is often a "winner takes all" game and we have an interesting scenario playing out for iOS in the future.

Unsurprisingly, Windows dominates with more downloads than all others combined.

The article says that swearing is the easy way out, and that intelligent, talented people can do better. I'd go further and say that swearing nothing more than cheap fucking theatrics, and gimmicks.

This is Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway corporate website: http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/

It's very simple and clean.