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I was under the impression that Google gave bulk access to the NSA, and the NSA wiretapped them regardless. I don't have a source to substantiate that claim though.

While that was an overstatement, laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States have been fixed (Jim Crow).

Buy one and give it to someone else.

The issue is around compelling people to sell land they don't want to, that has a tradition of belonging to that family.

You could err on the side of the living ancestor(s).

In absence of saying "that fraction is approaching zero", you could assume the intent of the original buyer that they wanted anyone from their family living there.

They may not have the passwords to these wallets.

From what I understand they had front door access, but the NSA wiretapped between datacenters.

Google engineers issue 'fuck you' to NSA over surveillance scandal http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/6/5072924/google-engineers-i...

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What does this have to do with 1999 exactly? RSS 2.0?

I was with you up until wishing another human dead.

I'm guessing your brother is little, not big ;-)

You missed the point.

...But not Karl Rove

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plame_affair#Karl_Rove

I would use this chrome/ff extension!

The fact that you are acknowledging that "people don't always read everything" makes it very hard to believe this is anything other than an intentionally deceptive pattern. A responsible and ethical UX designer would show the email and allow an easy path to opt-out of emailing anyone.

This is generally called "Deceptive UX" or http://darkpatterns.org/

“It’s difficult for me [or the other customers] to tell if they do this deliberatively to try to sell… or if they’re just careless with the way they’re designing things,” he said. “You need to see your product from the user’s standpoint.” http://blog.web2expo.com/2011/10/deceptive-ux-how-to-trick-p...

Yes, he opted in to "vouch for" those people. A ethical UX designer would have shown a modal showing the full message with the list of people it would go to BEFORE sending it on the user's behalf.

He opted in for one action, and was signed up for two actions. How is the second action considered opt-in?

He clearly did not give his full consent because the UI was designed to bury the thing that he would have explicitly opted-out of.

This is exactly the problem- they choose to ignore / attempt to discredit the people giving them an early warning that this is "Not cool" / deceptive.

Yes.

You can't mock HTTP responses, the responses mock you.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/girliemac/6508102407/in/set-721...

How is Dwolla better than bitcoin? It seems like it has the same drawbacks of credit cards (chargebacks), without very much benefit.

Maybe I'm missing a killer feature, but Dwolla doesn't seem all that interesting, just another paypal competitor.

+1 for typescript instead of coffee.

Cups and Cakes Bakery uses BitPay.com- check out our video of it in action. Payments are verified in about 30s-1m

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCYE4V6C8a8

Also, Kai Ryssdal did a segment on us! marketplace.org/topics/business/cupcakes-meet-bitcoins

For what it's worth, I probably wouldn't have paid with a credit card (too much hassle!) but since I could pay with bitcoin you converted me into a customer.

:D

Thanks for accepting bitcoin!

Buy bitcoin while everyone else is selling ;-)

Brian is very level headed- glad he wrote this up. As a merchant, I'm not very concerned (my email is already public).

The bitcoin community spends a ton of time trying to educate people on cold-storage wallets and two-factor authentication for online wallets.

MtGox has even given away free YubiKeys in the past to help keep people's accounts secure. Does Chase or BofA anyone else offer that kind of security? :)

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Cold_storage https://mtgox.com/press_release_20120215.html

Growing pains.