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Its not even g+, its worse than that. Facebook is trying to inspire awe with something google talk has had for ages.

It depends on what nix skills you're looking for. Basic shell and command line tool use? Yes you can get those, if you stick to using those tools and not the GUI. Working with the …

with the permissions of that account was able to arbitrarily assign himself a large number of Bitcoins Why the hell would any admin, let alone a former admin, have privileges to do…

Adoption will be slow, right now its just a playground of possibilties, but I think a slow ramp up of the userbase is more likely than the suprising amount of nay saying I've seen.…

>Don't hide it in the sidebar get over yourself

> the attention paid to LulzSec — a litter of script kiddies with kindergarten knowledge of the basest forms of technological harassment since 90s AOL proggies — is disgusting. And…

>I worry that rapidly improving the web's ability to deploy applications will make it less suitable for reading and writing. Will make it? It already has. The web as we know it is …

>But, they're still a startup So what? Aww... the cute widdle startup gets the bar lowered for them because we love startups here on HN?

No, we have people like you to thank. Standing on the sidelines bitching about the bad things that will happen in reaction to lulzsec instead of even attempting to prevent the gov'…

Way to suck the fun out of it :) -- I know, I just think a bitcoin exchange is an interesting concept, the kind of thing I would enjoy knowing my code was running in and got a litt…

Who wants to start an exchange? I'd be down for that, it sounds like a fun project in an interesting domain and I was actually thinking about what building one would entail as I've…

Yes, there is. I can't trust a service that makes these kinds of mistakes.

That doesn't help anything other than dropbox's efforts to obtain new customers because they would be ill informed about the track record of the service.

>There is no way dropbox would be able to explain to them what happened without scaring them silly. Opposed to who? People who do know what it means and should be scared silly but …

Indeed security is never prefect, however "its hard at it and we all suck at it" does not mean that everyone sucks at it equally.

>How do you know? Pubkey auth connecting to openssh on freebsd to hippa- pci- sox- and sas 70- compliant storage with a warrant canary and you can give them a call to talk to the e…

They do now . Here is a forum post where they admit that mobile SSL was impossible. http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=10669

I know. I didn't bring that up to accuse them of malice as far the DMCA part, I brought that up as an example that dropbox employees don't understand what their own internal tools …

I didn't say it was a good visualization, just that its not hard to understand what they're trying to convey.

Last time the Dropbox security thing was in the news, regardless of your personal preference on what encryption keys dropbox should have been using, the issue and more importantly …

At a glance it was easy for me, without even seeing the labels, to understand X was hops, Y was RTT and Z was the attempt number.

While I like many of Facebook’s PR team on an individual basis, as a whole, they are probably the worst in the industry when it comes to manipulation, double-speak, and all around …

jedberg - Its sad to see you go, I remember when you came on at reddit. Whats next for you?

You'd still have to pay for all the computing time to remain available during the attack. Its probably not worth it to try to stay up in that kind of storm.