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If that were the case, then the collapse of the bubble should not have harmed the banks.

In fact, banks typically sold off the AAA tranches and kept the toxic waste for themselves. If housing continued to go up this would not have caused any problems.

Regardless, even if banks and homeowners were conspirators, why should regulators punish one while rewarding the other? Shouldn't both parties be punished?
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That makes sense. I didn't know that. Thanks.
I imagine IE is more the default browser when people buy PC's or laptops. FF and Chrome are browsers out of choice. I can't imagine lay people in India (my friends and relatives or people in my HR department) installing FF or wanting to check out other browsers. So it is remarkable that FF is #1.

Until other browsers can match FF's vimperator/pentadactyl, there's no way I can seriously consider moving. (I've tried Chrome, Opera and Safari)
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I like booth babes for the same reason I like the bands at certain Apple keynotes, or at the WWDC bash. They're a fun distraction, and they make tech expos a more fun and lively environment than a room full of white nerds would.

Our industry needs to include more people, regardless of their technical knowledge. We should not exclude booth babes just because they're not nerds.

I'm personally good friends with many girls who do promotion for companies, and I'm grateful for the fact that my industry is becoming something "cool," rather than a asylum for socially inept white nerd men.
Strange that this is only 11 months since the acquisition, I would have assumed he would leave at a 1 year vesting.
He isn't leaving; he just won't be the editor.
> Oh, and this was similarly obnoxious (if not said tongue-in-cheek): Your developers stare blankly or say 3 "Hail Marys" when they hear the name "Zed Shaw": Scala == Hard

That basically means if you follow technical news, and cutting edge stuff, you have most likely heard of him - for his software(mongrel2, lamson), his books, his essays(rails is a ghetto, programming motherfuckers). Mongrel was a big deal some time back, and still is in the rails world, and rails is a big deal; all these factors kinda make Zed a known name.

If you don't know Zed, that's not a big deal - no one gives a fuck about Zed. But not knowing Zed here is weakly implying(not necessarily though) you have been living under a rock and you aren't familiar with Rails, Mongrel2 etc, which is not a good thing IMO.
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Glad to see he's still writing for TC. If I notice MA's name in the byline, I usually read it.
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> at the risc of performance

that's some good punning.
While I agree with the original poster, i.e., those who are already using netflix are unlikely to go back, netflix is supposed to be a growth business (P/E of > 60), ergo, if this leads to less growth, that will be terrible terrible terrible for the company.
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Actually no it didn't read cynically, that was just an addendum directed at the prevailing stereotype of government workers.
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It's a good point.

RSA, of all places, has booth babes. Because a good pair of tits should really decide someone on which enterprise firewall they want to buy for their mid-size organization, I suppose.

At a gamer convention it's regrettable but vaguely understandable (in commercial terms), but at a security convention?

One of the worse effects of this is that the hired booth help tends to shade from "out and out bimbo in fetish wear" all the way to "attractive person wearing the company shirt". The latter characterization, unfortunately, will overlap with competent engineers who happen to be female and attractive, who will thus get treated like rented decor by a lot of the attendees.
Not sure why, but I first thought you were building this kind of RPG: http://bit.ly/quBlcD
My thought was pet foods would be ahead of human foods in adopting this, due to, well, a less-than-discriminating end-user.
Ya, just checked 3.6. Might be a knock against the design, but its the gray box, across the bottom of the right column/side.
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In many cases, falsified or inflated income on applications was done by the bank, not the applicant. The applicant provided the correct data, and the bank adjusted it to make sure a big mortgage would get approved. The banks were very eager to push mortgages.

The story of my mortgage is a good illustration of how ridiculous the banks were in approving mortgages:

I bought my first house in 2007, after almost 30 years of apartment living. I analyzed the crap out of my budget, and concluded that I could take up to a $300k loan tops. Any more would put in territory where my mortgage payments would be at a very risky level, and I'd have to be careful on spending to keep from falling behind.

I went to Countrywide to get pre-approved so I could go house hunting. My credit rating had normally hovered around 790 at the big three, but when they pulled my credit report it happened to have zoomed up to around 830 (I do not know why). They asked for two months worth of bank statements covering my regular bank account and my investments, and pay stubs for the last month.

Result? They would pre-approve up to $750k, and instead of an appraisal on any house I decided to buy they would just do some kind of online check of tax or insurance records.

WTF?

They are supposed to be professionals in this area. Yet they were willing to let me have a loan WAY beyond my means, and to trust my judgement as to the value of a house--based on the fact I've got a job, have managed to save a decent down payment, and my credit score is high (which doesn't show any financial sophistication--it just shows I have been able to pay my bill on time).

I laughed at the ridiculous amount they were willing to pre-approve, and told them $300k was a big enough pre-approval for me, and continued looking for houses in the range I determined I could afford. (I ended up borrowing $224k).
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TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington is resigning as editor of the popular technology blog, and will run a $20 million venture-capital fund backed by TechCrunch-owner AOL Inc. and several venture-capital firms.

Mr. Arrington "will run the fund and will continue to write for TechCrunch, but will have no editorial oversight," said an AOL spokesman. Erick Schonfeld, who has served as co-editor in New York, will become interim editor while AOL searches for a replacement for Mr. Arrington, the spokesman said. AOL purchased the site last year.

Mr. Arrington's new fund, called CrunchFund, closed Thursday with $20 million, according to people familiar with the matter. AOL leads the limited-partner group, which includes a long roster of venture firms that kicked in $1 million each: Austin Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Greylock Partners, Redpoint Ventures and Sequoia Capital.
Several individuals contributed money, including Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz; general partners at Benchmark Capital; angel investors Ron Conway and Kevin Rose; and Yuri Milner of Russian firm DST Global.

It isn't immediately clear what is the fate of AOL's venture-capital arm, AOL Ventures, which has made recent seed investments in start-ups such as spam-defense company Impermium and price-tracking service Shopobot.

Mr. Arrington's partner in the fund is Patrick Gallagher, who has been a partner at VantagePoint Capital Partners since 2008.

Mr. Arrington wasn't immediately available for comment. He posted a message on Twitter after news of the fund broke: "slow news day."

Mr. Arrington, a former lawyer who is known to be well connected in Silicon Valley, started TechCrunch in 2005. The site built up a following for its coverage of young tech companies.

Long an angel investor himself, Mr. Arrington announced on TechCrunch in 2009 that he would stop making investments in start-ups due to a perceived conflict as both publisher and investor. It's "a weak point that competitors and disgruntled entrepreneurs use to attack our credibility," he wrote at the time.

But in April this year, after AOL acquired TechCrunch, Mr. Arrington announced he was investing in start-ups again, while also becoming a limited partner in venture funds Benchmark Capital and SoftTechVC.

Mr. Arrington has often said that transparency and full disclosure keep things above-board when his blog writes about companies he has some financial stake in.
There's room for all sorts. I'm sure he has his own strengths to bring to the table. Besides, not everyone goes for the skill, the finesse, the low-drama, and I think that's ok.
Yea I'd at least investigate if they were any criminal wrongdoing FIRST, then deny employment if it turned out they were.
As long as Netflix keeps streaming Korean crime movies and Japanese dystopia movies and Scandinavian crime/thriller movies and The Third Man, I could give a rats ass about Starz.
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> "Isn't the premise of Faith itself unreasonable?"

It's only in the past hundred years or so (with the rise of Christian Fundamentalism in the 1920s) that "faith" has been used to mean "the opposite of reason" or "believing something without evidence". In ancient religious writings (particularly Christian and Jewish) and in most of religious history, "faith" means acting upon something you know from experience to be true, particularly in the face of adversity. Far from being unreasonable, it can be thought of as the triumph of reason and experience over temporary emotion. This also matches with the ordinary meaning of "faith" when used to describe something other than religion.

> "western versions of Christianity don't normally allow people doctrinally to be hostile but isn't that attributable to outside influences?"

I would say the opposite -- most of the "hostile" versions of Christianity were/are such because of influences outside of scripture (for example, it became militant after being adopted as a state religion), and most of the shift away from hostility came about as a result of return to scripture (note the significant pacifist movements of the early 1500s, as the printing press was putting Bibles into peoples' hands.)

> "do you consider WBC to be unreasonable?"

Everybody considers WBC to be unreasonable.

More to the point, as I said in the parent, crazies think they're standing on solid ground, whether scientific or religious. The question is not "do they do this because of their faith", but "do they do this because of a reasonable understanding of Christian scripture?" Neither WBC, nor the Ugandan LRA, nor parents who disown children, have reasonable basis in scripture.
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> This isn't rhetorical: how would you see yourself or someone taking inbound traffic on a Linode that wouldn't similarly see that traffic go outbound or need to be stored?

In general I think your argument is pretty strong, but I _can_ think of a use-case: if you were analyzing the data, and reporting very brief aggregate results.

Say, have swarms of web browser extensions uploading all the domain names their users are requesting pages from, and then sending to a single user, once per hour, the list of the domains, and how many users requested each.

Edit: oh, look, a few comments lower on the page, other users came up with the same example (search "telemetry")
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YouTube is available on Roku, and works excellently.

I have all the users that upload old Formula 1, so I can watch old races whenever I want.

Democracy Now also has it's own Roku channel, as do many many other things like Ted that you might not have thought of. It's worth spending some time on Google searching this stuff out.

I'd say I spend more time watching YouTube, NetFlix and HULU+ on the Roku than any other consumption mechanism.

Local news on OTA HD follows behind.

One slightly sad note, I only have the base Roku, and it's quite slow (maybe buffering), so my 2 year old is now utterly tolerant of loading bars, and will watch the loading bar, since she knows that content will follow. Her absolutely favorite thing on TV, though she doesn't watch much (seriously), is the mime segment on Nihongo Quick Lesson, NHK's little Japanese-lessons show that runs about 2:15pm, right after her lunch. I guess really, it's not much different to me as a kid waiting for the TV to warm up and show a picture...
I work for Vodafone (Australia) and we definitely subsidise our locked phones. We charge a $75 (first six months)/$25 (thereafter) unlocking fee to cover the subsidy costs.
Hmm. I remember reading a lot of bad developer sentiment about the culture at Netflix. Any Netflix devs care to chime in?
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Even though I hope M.G. Siegler becomes the next head of TechCrunch, I have a feeling that AOL will view this as it's chance to take command, and put one of its own on top.
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The $2.5mm valuation is already accounting for all potential outcomes, in theory
I think he is. Leaving TechCrunch that is. If I'm reading the article correctly, he will be full-time at CrunchFund and serve as a contributor to TC (like Vivek Wadhwa and Rocky Agarwal does from time to time).
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These lawsuits are to recoup some of the loses incurred by issuing FHA loans (Frannie and Freddie). Both agencies were mislead by the various banks. Who did everything they could to issue "FHA"loans. Both agencies relied (and they still do) on the banks writing the loan to verify credit worthiness. Which of course, the banks didn't. They were making too much money.

It was a win win for the bank. Cause when the bottom fell out of the housing market Freddie and Frannie were left holding the bag - in other words, the taxpayers. Add that on top of that, TARP, and the banks walked away making trillions.

It was the biggest heist in history. And perfectly legal, in the US.

The case will probably be settled. Banks will pay like 20 billion (or so) and we're all forget it in a week.
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I did something similar with a side project a little while back --

If you pull up http://shadowcraft.mmo-mumble.com/us/cenarion-circle/adrine/ you'll notice that all the state gets pushed onto the URL. This is actually a (very big) JSON data structure, packed into an array (to strip key data) and, where possible, with numbers compressed as base62. The whole thing is then deflated and base64-encoded. In that example up there, I have about 2kb of data compressed into 316 bytes. The URL is a bit ugly, but it means you can pass around the entire state in the URL.
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Don't forget the costs associated with creating an album. The studio time required to record the album s cheaper than it used to be, but still substantial. Some of them may have needed new instruments etc. The costs are higher than missed opportunity. They would have needed real cash in the bank to get started.
It's not a crash. It's a wall preventing people searching for CC#'s without giving them a specific reason why they won't execute that search.
I see nobody has mentioned the Ergotron Workfit yet. I am very pleased with mine.

I think the adjustability, allowing you to move from sitting to standing at a moment's notice, is pretty important. If it weren't for that the various DIY solutions would be as much as you really need.
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I have cable TV that's included with my association fee and I watch about an hour a week. I'd much rather watch video on my iPad or Netflix Instant.
Part of me feels like that in order to bring people back, they need to change the name. IE has had such an awful reputation for the last decade or so.
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Arrington's articles are always interesting but is it best for journalism if he is still there?

There's no question that he still carries weight but he has been investing in startups for some time now. He may make for interesting reading but his motives will always be questioned.

I still don't know why AOL is interested in investing in his latest startup. Has the barrier of personal interests become so dissolved that this is glossed over?
As someone who gave up non-veg food about 15 years back, I'd welcome lab-meat since it avoids killing animals. However, whether we would adopt it ourselves seems to be irrelevant. I, for one, would not like to cultivate the taste for meat again. As an animal lover, I'd certainly not like to see menu items like "Synthetic dog meat, tastes just like puppies". Going to the extreme, replace dog and puppies with human and babies. I'll stick to veggies, thanks.
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When AOL acquired TC, I get the feeling that the clock had started counting down for Michael Arrington. Not because AOL wanted to get rid of him, but more because of his need to be disruptive which was being reined in to some extent. The "loose" cannon tag is well earned to some extent.Should be interesting to see some of Arrington's larger investments as a VC.
Even after excluding a big mortgage related charge, Bank of America's net income last year was only 756 million dollars. If you estimated that each of the named banks would have to pay out an eighth of the 20 billion with the other ten billion dollars spread out across unnamed banks, you'd still be charging them 3 times what they make in a year. That's more than a slap on the wrist.
But AOL is the primary LP in the fund. I'm sure they worked something out.
I'm willing to bet Arrington wanted out as soon as the deal was signed. He isn't the type that can have a boss.
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Actually I would've expected Autodesk to be a more fitting suitor given how easy it is to get into Unity if you already know Maya. The controls and hotkeys are identical between Maya and Unity and all character modeling, rigging, texturing and animating is imported seamlessly from Maya -> Unity. If anything, I'm waiting for Autodesk and Adobe to merge somehow.
It seems to have worked better in this case. It also would have worked better in the Comodo case, but it wasn't deployed yet. It certainly works better for the intranet case. I can't identify the case where it doesn't work better. Can you help?
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I wanna add something.. there is one saving grace in all this mess; investors, AIG, countries, other banks; are all suing each other.

BofA is facing 4 major lawsuits which could cost it billons (total I think is 80 billion). That alone might bring down the bank. But the more likely senario is that our government will once again step in to bail BofA out.

Now that would cause a HUGE fight in Washington. But you know, the biggest statement you can make is to pull your money out of bofA (and the others). Find a credit union or a local bank. You are insured up to $250,000 per account in any US bank. So you don't have to do business with the big players. They don't care about you anyway. They just want your deposits.
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- github (pay version)

- google apps for business (email, xmpp)

- campfire (team chat) with propane.app

- AWS (lots)

- pivotal tracker

- concept share (i dont use it much, but a few others at work do)

- sendgrid

- digicert (CA)

- dnsmadeeasy (dns)

looking at possibly using:

- new relic

- airbrake (used to be hoptoad)
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I only said am not very good at either - but competent enough at both to do them professionally, I think (and I have). Only trying to be humble ;) Anyways - Like the comment below, I don't believe anyone should be "forced" to do something, but at the same time no one should be closed-minded about learning new things.

The one thing I have learned from working in both areas is that in the beginning you improve very rapidly, but at some point only hard work drives you closer to perfection. I would advise anyone with an open mind to at least try learning something they are not good at. Not a requirement by any means, but I do not think anyone would regret trying.
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So the government can give the impression of fighting corruption.
Good on Mr. Arrington. I'm looking forward to seeing what he does in the next few years.

He can be polarizing, but his journalism and analysis have always seemed spot on to me.
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Are you suggesting that thousands of average home buyers were able to defraud the army of professional bankers, brokers and lawyers? Somehow, just in the last decade, home buyers became so wily and conniving that they were able to trick all the professionals who's full time job it is to think about these things and have all the inside knowledge, resources, connections, etc? Oh the poor banks! Well if that's the case then those people all the way up to the CEOs should be fired anyway.

I never understand this reflexive need of some people like yourself to defend the big powerful institutions in this type of discussion.