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chopsueyaron Netflix Secures Streaming Deal With DreamWorks

I don't see how any online streaming service can survive longterm.

There is still quite a digital divide (lack of affordable, highspeed internet access in the US in many areas).

By the time this is resolved, storage media will become so inexpensive and dense, it will be possible to store years of tv shows and movies locally and very cheaply.

Personally, I have grown tired already of having certain tv shows or movies available one week and gone the next. I also dislike having to watch Hulu commercials if I decide to watch the same episode multiple times.

It doesn't make sense to spend billions of dollars on infrastructure when cheap, ultra high capacity media can do the job.

chopsueyaron They’re Watching. And They Can Bring You Down.

I believe that was the drawing and not the actual mask.

Link, please?

chopsueyaron They’re Watching. And They Can Bring You Down.

Now I know where the Guy Fawkes mask idea came from:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434409/

chopsueyaron Lulzsec fiasco - from HideMyAss VPN provider

Is his infrastructure that complex?

Is this not just some deploy script on a bunch of VPSs?

chopsueyaron Unfolding the IKEA Effect: Why We Love the Things We Build

Does anybody have the link to the IKEA hacking info?

There was a site where people used multiple IKEA pieces that were never intended to be used together in new and interesting ways.

chopsueyaron USBTypewriter - new and groundbreaking innovation in the field of obsolescence.

Perhaps his penmanship is not the best? I've known several people that have had crippling arthritis, making them unable to hand-write legibly.

chopsueyaron Payment processing for Django

This is much appreciated. Thank you for your efforts!

chopsueyaron The Most Patriotic Thing You Can Do

Buy a failing basketball team.

chopsueyaron World Domination Using Arduinos and Websockets

Yeah, I know, however the author made it seem like all you need is an Arduino (no mention of shields) and you can connect to a network.

chopsueyaron The $2 Billion UBS Incident: 'Rogue Trader' My Ass

They seem to be doing a dandy of a job without Anonymous.

chopsueyaron In-Car Algorithm Could Rapidly Dissolve Traffic Jams

http://www.smartmotorist.com/traffic-and-safety-guideline/ma...

chopsueyaron World Domination Using Arduinos and Websockets

No talk about the network shields?

chopsueyaron I have Crohn's, an incurable digestive disease, and built Crohnology

Perhaps a social media element with picture sharing?

chopsueyaron The Long Grind Before You Become an Overnight Success

After I read this article, I was wondering why something that took 3 days to build needs $6million in investment?

Thank you for the answer.

chopsueyaron Fucking Sue Me

Of course, there is also the issue of weasel language and its nasty impact

Can you give some hypothetical examples of this?

chopsueyaron LucasFilm Tells Darth Vader that Return of the Jedi Hasn’t Made a Profit

If there was an exchange, there was consideration, and this seems more like a barter, not a free give-away.

I bet a good lawyer could have made a case for you.

I believe the IRS would consider the advertising to have some monetary value, which is what your gross profit fee would be based on.

The fair market value of goods and services received in exchange for goods or services you provide must be included in income in the year received.

http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc420.html

chopsueyaron Obama's job aid plan - $10,000 to $13,000 in assistance for entrepreneurship

You act like this was an unknown cost of having employees.

chopsueyaron LucasFilm Tells Darth Vader that Return of the Jedi Hasn’t Made a Profit

Best quote from article:

"Can you imagine the hedlines if Darth Vader sued George Lucas?"

chopsueyaron A curated catalog of iOS frameworks

Why not? It has been done with the Linux Kernel...

http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/millionvis/Treemap_Visualization_...

chopsueyaron Obama's job aid plan - $10,000 to $13,000 in assistance for entrepreneurship

If you fire an employee, why do you pay unemployment? I would understand if you laid them off, but firing?

Also, if you are paying for their unemployment, why is unemployment being deducted from their paycheck too?

chopsueyaron Light Touch Projector

That looks ike a pretty good idea for bars or restaurants, nothing really to spill food or drink on.

Could be some cool wireless thin-clients.

Looks like this was showcased at CES 2010.

chopsueyaron Raspberry Pi demos $25 PC running 1080p video, promises CD-quality audio

Where/how do you find a pallet of cheap LCD monitors?

chopsueyaron Yahoo up for sale

Maybe Mark Cuban will buy it.

chopsueyaron The Dark Art of Pricing

Nice.

chopsueyaron The Dark Art of Pricing

How about "The Dark Art of Getting Your Client to Pay You the Agreed Upon Amount in a Timely Manner"?

chopsueyaron The Dark Art of Pricing

Here is an excellent article on pricing, published in Harvard Business Review some years ago (it is such a great article, I feel obligated to provide it to the HN crowd)...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005RZ5D/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...

How Do You Know When the Price Is Right?

by Robert. J. Dolan

Published Sep 01, 1995

chopsueyaron Chef on steroids

Nice step with the port troubleshooting!

chopsueyaron 9 million hits/day with 120 megs RAM

That is how viaweb worked. All product pages were static, and once you finished editing, you would 'publish' and it would create the static files for your online store.

chopsueyaron How we found the file that was used to Hack RSA

Did you read the actual article about the VM exploit? It requires both OSs to be Windows based AND the use of a malformed video file.

But, yeah, paranoia is healthy in this circumstance.

chopsueyaron How we found the file that was used to Hack RSA

From your link:

Cloudburst uses a vulnerability in the virtual-machine display functions of VMware Workstation that can be exploited by a specially crafted video file.

and...

However, the Cloudburst exploit currently has certain limitations: it will only succeed on Workstation 6.5.0 or 6.5.1 or the associated Player versions. In addition, the guest and host must be Windows-based, among other requirements, Immunity said in its release notes.