kovar

What previous similar missteps has Apple made that support your theory? Apple's been batting well over .500 and their sales and stock price both indicate appreciation and support.

I've done something similar, though gave myself many more months. I also pre-paid a number of expected expenses to get them out of the way. I still ran through the cash quicker than I thought I would. Thankfully, I've been doing consulting projects and that extended my run time.

I also gave myself a one month window at the end of the time frame to find a job. So, in your case, I'd only give you one month to work on your startup before needing to go look for a job.

I have to wonder if this article is incorrect - what part of the problem can't be solved using services already offered by the cell phone? Is a new chip really required and, if so, what will it do to costs, and what unwanted services might be included on this mandatory chip?

Bear in mind that Blizzard provides more robust authentication services than most banks.

This problem started in the 80s, if not earlier. The original MIT "hacker" definition morphed into a definition used by the medial and the public to refer to the cyber criminals of the time. And along with this evolution in the definition came people lamenting the change and railing against the media.

Flash forward three decades and hackers are still using a term to mean one thing while the media and the public are still firmly entrenched in the cyber criminal definition.

Now, which definition was in use by the media when Hacker News was born?

I found the most interesting part of this article the following quote: "... and would make them more vulnerable to security threats." Allowing users to opt out of tracking increases their security threat? I'd like to see more detail on this.

Yet, despite the taxes, companies keep starting up in San Francisco. Maybe some people in SF don't want a Google-plex in the city? If you want to argue that it is bad for the city, post commentary from someone who isn't an investor in startups.

The way car theft has been eradicated?

Oh, but I've had all sorts of other fun failures with dreamhost in the early days. A number of us regularly called it "dreamhose". It seems to have matured, and I keep some material on there, but I'm still wary of putting anything mission critical on it.

Apple license agreement covering the collection of location data - http://pastebin.com/EdFJr6iU

You're upvoting a tool that is harvesting information for spearfishing and advertising? Really? Engage your critical thinking capability.....

It works, for harvesting names and possible domains. Great tool for collecting information for constructing ads or spearfishing attacks.

Politics or no, it is getting more traffic than some unflagged technical posts.

Yes, I have. And been on my way in less than 15 minutes.

There are several reasons that one might turn over one's phone, all well documented in the media. The primary two are:

1) Voluntary cooperation with a request 2) Search incident to arrest

(Obligatory WTF on downvoting: I point out reasonable information and a technical challenge with doing this in the field based on personal experience as a forensic examiner, and I get downvoted?)

Given the response on HTCIA, HTCC, and the CCE lists, this was news to many people in the LE community. I think your edit touches on the difference - this is a new source for the information, and it is very easy to collect from the sync host.

The issue is that this data used to only be available via the service provider. Now it is available from the device, and the device it syncs to.

There's a lot of marketing hype in here. There are a lot of mobile device collection tools and none of them fully collect every device out there.

Also, collecting a 64GB i<device> over USB will take at least 24 minutes. (You don't really just want the photos, do you.) That makes for a long traffic stop.

And it doesn't work on all devices out there, and doesn't fully collect the devices it does work with.

Most forensics labs have multiple tools such as this, and still have issues fully collecting devices.

Details about the site, founders, philosophy, etc would be welcome. At least I didn't see this information on a quick pass, and it's information that I feel is important.

It looks like YC News combined with advertising for a bunch of startups and a twitter feed and something that may be an Angel List clone.

I don't have time to read mediocre books. I've found myself buying a number of ebooks and putting them aside, at several price points. I think I am more wary of the sub $9 ebooks, which may not make sense, but there you are.

While I'm not in favor of warrantless wiretapping or GPS tracking, I'd appreciate you elaborating on your claim that they're twisting logic until it nearly breaks. Unfortunately, this request seems like another step down a slippery slope and not a huge break.

People at DOJ aren't perverted, they're trying to protect you and the country from criminals and terrorists. This is but one of many tools they feel they need to do that job well. You may disagree with their mission, and you may disagree with the tools they use to execute the mission, but calling the people working there "perverted" is an enormous stretch.

Many services, including ones lauded on YC, collect data about you that could be used to track you at any time without a warrant, and give that capability to other civilians. I hope that you think that is perverted, too.

As an example, check out cree.py - http://redtape.msnbc.com/2011/04/just-how-creepy-is-creepy-a...

And hacking Color - http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/color-hack-allows-users-...

I guarantee you that a halfway decent lawyer would still find a way to sue you and win. Any lawyer could find a way to sue you and the ensuing legal scuffle would consume more money than you made on the project.

Just one of many points they'd raise - once the client pays, that kill switch is still present and could be tripped by the developer, the developer's employer, a hacker, or accidentally.

Hanscom Field is a bit smaller than DCA. A Cirrus is a bit smaller than a 737 (or whatever the planes landing at DCA were.) DCA is, oddly enough, immediately adjacent to Washington D.C. and Hanscom is hundreds of miles from D.C.

If the sleeping controllers were at Hanscom rather than DCA, this situation wouldn't have blown up nearly as far.

So what is the downside to you vetting these documents via a lawyer first? Ensuring that the documents are even a little bit better will save your users collectively a lot of legal fees.

Go buy a car. Go buy a lot of cars. Go buy a car while pretending to be broke. Go buy another one while thinking you've got a million in cash in the bank. Buy a used car. Buy a new car. (I don't feel bad about consuming car salespeople's time...)

Go to a market in Italy and try to buy anything without haggling. They can negotiate the price of a $10 necklace.

Go to a flea market and find something you want. Try to get a lower price.

I run an all volunteer, international response search and rescue team on the side. Http://www.1srg.org. Dkovar at gmail

Emphasis on "simple Google". Put a bit more effort into your research and you'll find:

"... and requires a debtor to prove: (1) That the debtor cannot maintain, based on current income and expenses, a minimal standard of living for the debtor and dependents if forced to pay off student loans; (2) that additional circumstances exist indicating that this state of affairs is likely to persist for a significant portion of the repayment period of the student loans; and (3) that the debtor has made good faith efforts to repay the loans."

Now, compare that with the poster's narrative and you'll find that the advice is flawed and worthy of downvoting, not upvoting. To be specific, he's been able to hold jobs that produced enough funds to invest into a entrepreneurial effort and he's made no effort to repay the loans.

How does the original post relate to private schools that screw students over? The poster incurred debt, ignored it for years, failed to make any efforts to pay it back, made risky investments, and now is at risk of legal action.

Sounds like an individual version of the recent financial crisis and you're siding with the banks.

I learned about distributed computing in the '80s by writing a lot of small client server applications, tearing apart early chat systems, looking at the internals of NFS, etc.

Pick some current distributed system you find interesting and write a simple version of it. You probably can hack together a lightweight dropbox clone pretty easily.

Pick up a good book on network internals. You should find a lot of good information on fundamentals as well as example problems for you to work on.

You often need to go through the discovery process to determine what is real and what isn't. To go through discovery, you need to file a suit.

Just because someone is a convicted felon doesn't mean they're not entitled to the same access to the judicial system as everyone else.