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By a charity.

http://www.economist.com/node/6919139

There are USB condoms built exactly for the scenario you describe.

http://int3.cc/products/usbcondoms

I doubt it, they don't claim to sell you contact information for the artists themselves, just their publicist. Big deal.

The information usually includes email and phone numbers to the artist's talent agent, publicist, legal representative, etc.

Yet it has solved nothing, because we still have investment scams all over the place. Those investment scams are already illegal, so prosecute them. Why do I need another law to "protect" me? This reminds me of taxi regulations. Local governments are trying to prevent your use of Uber and Lyft because of some regulations on the books that are meant to prevent you from unscrupulous drivers. Yet the actions of those unscrupulous drivers were already illegal, so prosecute them.

This is something the market can easily sort out. We don't need to throw out the good with the bad.

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Software Engineer

Blue Origin is developing technologies to enable private human access to space at dramatically lower cost and increased reliability. We have multiple openings for software engineers across our various teams. In particular, I'm looking for someone with deep Java/Spring experience. Experience working with Graph or Non-Relational database is a plus. So is front-end development experience using Angular, Ember, etc.

We have many interesting problems to work on, directly or indirectly related to building/flying spacecraft. We're growing rapidly, so even if you aren't an exact match, we'd love to hear from you. We also have unlisted openings we're recruiting for as well.

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Why not just purchase a VPN subscription instead? Why bother maintaining a whole server?

Exactly. Every company's business process has it's own uniqueness, so if you try to evolve it into a mass-market tool (as opposed to designing for it up-front), you end up with a Frankenstein system that is enormous and complicated. Then your company starts morphing to match what you're selling.

If some YC'ers want to make some serious cash, go build the JIRA of ERP. Make the system: pluggable, VERY configurable, give it a sexy UI and don't require an army of consultants to implement. Want some reasons? Pretty much all your potential customers hate their existing ERP system. Your competition is staffed by sleazy salespeople that sell nothing but snakeoil. Your market is filled with companies of all sizes who will literally throw cash at you to make them more efficient.

I still think it's an interesting question to think about. There's going to be a (long) period of time whereby autonomous vehicles are sharing the road with human controlled vehicles and the elimination of all/most accidents is not likely during that transition.

Why would it bother OCR'ing road signs? That seems much more error prone and needlessly complex. That data is readily available from a data sources based on your GPS location, I know TomToms and other navigation devices have it.

Interesting. I wonder if being behind CloudFlare would mitigate this?

Seriously, it's a pain in the ass. Click the apps launcher in the upper left of the Chrome start page.

They probably sold the cards in bulk to organized crime rings or the like, netting $40K. Those thugs then skim what they can from the cards that aren't locked and that's probably the majority of that $12.5 million.

I may be remembering wrong, but isn't the fact that Office existed on the Mac for so long also a result of the deal that Microsoft and Apple struck back in the 90's? Microsoft would keep making Office for the Mac and in exchange Apple would drop it's patent suit against them.

Interesting, but unsurprising. The more interesting aspect is that unlike tangible property, bank accounts or stock transactions that can be audited, this seems practically unenforceable on the IRS's part.

Why? I thought Icahn threw in the towel on that crusade.

That would be awesome, I'd buy it.

One could also argue that the SR-71 was a tool that prevented death rather than facilitated it -- by delivering intelligence. It was a reconnaissance aircraft and despite being operated by the Air Force the payload of the Blackbird was never weaponized.

Do you have any data on conversion rates? I imagine they would tank through the floor if you're asking a customer to turn over their online banking credentials.

I wasn't aware any PC manufacturers had integrity or consumer trust left, the least of which being Dell. Have you fired up a newly shipped Dell PC lately? It's a cesspool of crapware. No less than a dozen Dell Utilities, "anti-virus", media players, etc.

Don't worry though, they'd be happy to work on your "slow" computer if you purchase the support add-on.

Wow, good for you, I'm impressed. A quick Google search indicates that's a very competitive space (probably an understatement). What is your approach to marketing?

As a landlord you're trying to reach, I'm curious how you're getting the word out. As a developer, I'm curious what you've found most effective.

That's the NSA's rationale too. Except often times a collection of data points that are supposedly "anonymous" can eventually be correlated to a specific person.

It's not a win-win, since Comcast itself is a competitor to Netflix. You only have one side paying the tax.

Interesting about Private FLITE. Why would a company like that extend services without upfront payment? Especially for $100K+...

Yep, agreed, speaking from experience. Most sites on Flippa have had their traffic artificially inflated for the past 6 months using shady SEO practices just so the seller can get a good price. Within a few months Google inevitably slams the hammer on you.

Search engine ranking changes is more like it. Mostly due to Google algorithm changes.

Why bother? The switch needs to be made eventually, so why kick the can down the road?

It's exactly how 2-factor authentication works for banking sites such as Bank of America and Chase.

On both sides. You should assume they have broader and deeper capabilities now.

Translation: short the stock

Absolutely impressive. I'm an investor in an agricultural (non-software) startup and what people may not appreciate is the sales process required to make in-roads in this industry. Farmers can be very skeptical (rightly so) about anything that may disrupt their ability to yield crop. It can also be a very high-touch industry in which you need to give face time to your end users. The corollary to this is that once you've proven yourself -- your competition has a deep moat to overcome to take you out.