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As a practical matter, no. Legal told me I have to implement it for all users because it covers EU citizens who might be accessing our site from or living in non EU countries.

We fixed one of the issues. I processed enough returns on refurbished units to know that there were still several bugs. One of the main complaints is that the wristband would be de…

1.) LOL I dunno! 2.) I never talked to PG, I can't speak to that. 3.) The problems were absolutely cumulative over the course of development. Neither Greg nor Arun were engineers o…

I used to work for WakeMate - feel free to ask me anything. This insane action from Greg doesn't surprise me in the slightest.

There is no way this product will ever ship. Greg, what are you even going to do with 150k or even 250k or 1mm? You already burned up almost a million bucks on this exact same idea…

The integration process was really easy. You just include the iAd framework and then add ADBannerView objects wherever you want them. The ADBannerViews work like pretty much any ot…

This is true, and a good point. One thing we do need, however, is to take the opinion of prominent economists with a little bit more salt. I remember when invoking the name Greensp…

As in any genre there is a wide range of talent and musical ability among rap artists. The record industry is really good at printing one hit wonders and then burning them up. Thos…

Sounds like a good opportunity for someone to undermine iTunes, or at least make a decent music synchronizing app for competing smart phones.

This doesn't seem like an outlandish bet to me. It seems to me that Facebook has, up to this point, spent much more time and energy on their core product rather than improving adve…

It doesn't need to be legally enforceable, they can just kick you out of the iphone developer program, and you have little recourse.

The utility of computer labs is huge, there's no doubt about that. What really surprises me is that only six out of over three thousand freshman ran Linux. Weak sauce! I guess comi…

I have not seen a single instance of "the media" promoting these stereotypes at all. On the contrary, it seems like there is some covert Twitter media blitz going on all around me.…

There is really no reason that I can see to try and figure out why API methods do what they do. You send it something, it sends what you want back. That's basically the nature of o…

Is there really a huge faction in our community who isn't in business to make money? When I left my middle class desk jockey job to work for trailbehind.com the chance (however sma…

The web interview where Cramer admitted to manipulating stock values with his hedge fund seems pretty damning to me. It betrays a mindset focused on manipulation, rather than provi…

Chemistry is fascinating. I'm really not too worried about mercury being the next terrorist secret weapon. It doesn't seem flasy enough to inspire terror, maybe just a creeping une…

I think this is a very exciting development for the open source community. More and more applications are going web based, and I can see a future where the only application anyone …

Thanks for the heads up and the link, I'll use that from now on :P

Requests have been timing out for awhile, I'm wondering if it's a problem with my pipes or if I should just wait patiently for Apple to get back up.

I think forcing them to boot over the network to access the test is your best bet. While QuestionMark may run in a windows VM on some machine the vast variety of different Linux/BS…

Extremely interesting discussion in this thread. When I first started reading sho's comment I was instinctively leaning the other way, but ensuing discussion has convinced me that …