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Not sure about iPod but many players like the cowon iaudio or sandisk sansa series act just like USB drives. So you just drag and drop songs to or from any computer so its easy to share songs with friends.


Factor has not been related to JVM in any way for many years now. The core of the VM has been in C since 2004 and now it has been ported to C++.


Yes, which is why I said it is not at all what I thought it was. I was wrong before, and now I know. How wrong my existing knowledge of Factor was surprised me enough that I commented on it.


My guess is that the reverse is likely more true.


Fedora servers were indeed hacked if I remember correctly and malicious packets were uploaded but it was detected before they reached the users.

Repo security is certainly very important. But well, ultimately you have to trust someone?


The canonical example is http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html

But I guess that there are two ways to feel really secure : either use openbsd, or just don't use the internet.


Article title on TC : "Ztail Launches Innovative eBay Guarantee For Worry-Free Shopping"

(Why was this title not retained when submitting to HN?)


Please, can a moderator change the headline?


(Previously, the headline implied that the raid was part of an investigation into the leaking of the X-men movie.)


"To get GS to make the site look less official/confusing and bit less insulting" is only part of the answer.

The other part, as mechanical_fish has elqouently pointed out above, is to reach present/past/potential customers of 37s who were mislead by GS into thinking that 37s does not answer customer questions. Contacting GS alone would not have solved the damage GS already did. It was not enough for 37s to prevent future abuse, but also to turn back the damage already done in the past.


Not very interesting.

edit: Is it possible to have some filtering according to interests or whatever? Otherwise conversations are exceedingly random.


I guess the randomness is what differentiates it from thousands of other chat sites. However, the randomness also leads to the kind of conversations seen above.


You mean like a console?

They are also offering a browser plugin for your PC or Mac so you don't need their box. The box is only required if you want to use your TV and not your computer.


I strongly believe that these things are not trivial to do well yourself and maintaining such an infrastructure will distract you from your core competency.

Don't tell that to us here. Say that in a convincing manner on the homepage.


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