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I have flown nearly 100 times this year so far and have not been through one once. I make it a practice to make it as uncomfortable for the screener as the process is for me. I am …

At the Atlanta airport, they have a repeating video with a slide that says that insists these machines are "perfectly safe".

Childlike logic. Just because someone else is doing something wrong doesn't give you license to do it too. Arrington should have brought it up as an issue, not used it as a trump c…

There are lots of laws that are going unenforced that have had far more severe consequences to this country than allowing people to play a game of skill for money. So coming down o…

If you can't take criticism, don't post in a public forum designed for exactly that.

How do they get around the SEC's "sophisticated investor" regulations? Ignoring them may make follow on rounds extremely complex -- if not impossible. Also, having a polluted cap t…

He may not have had ALS, but I'm pretty sure he still had Lou Gehrig's disease.

It seems like these are ALL items (and very basic ones) that should have been in place before a site dealing with financial details is launched.

Source?

Most people have very different ideas and goals for fitness than a physical trainer. They come from the perspective of already having a minimum level of fitness, so a more rounded …

It appears that they take payments in as deposits and then disburse the money when another user requests a withdrawal. This requires either a bank charter or a designation as a mon…

Twitter appeals to the 30-50 demographic because they do not have the unlimited time it takes to deal with Facebook or MySpace. I'm 33 and have a Facebook account that I rarely eve…

Back in 2000 I was working at a startup in Washington, D.C. and we had been working 80-100 weeks for nearly 1.5 months before management finally brought in some contractors as rein…

Well for one, Twitpay has checks in place to limit the amount that any one account can send or receive in a given time period.

The next blog post will be about how you can do almost everything without "being evil". There are other ways to get the information or behaviors you seek without requiring external…

I cetainly don't trust them to control all my logins. But my level of trust for them is much higher than for most in terms of their ability to secure their databases and applicatio…

That's a good point. OAuth would at least centralize the problem towards a more trusted source and limit the number of places the credentials would be stored. I trust Google or Fac…

Twitpay is focusing on micropayments in order to alleviate some of the risk in using a medium like Twitter. A user can only put or take a maximum of $50 in or out of the system on …

Actually, you have three options on cash out currently. Gift card, charity, or "Twitpay is brilliant, you guys can keep it!"