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I'd file a claim in small claims court, then tell every blogger about it. Might stir up enough commotion to get it fixed. I've seen a couple press hits about people taking Google to small claims over Adsense.
I once flew both legs of a return flight with a foot long knife in my bag. I had put it in there while moving and forgotten all about it. Didn't empty the bag at my destination and never found out.

When I emptied my bags after coming home, I had one of biggest "oh shit, phew!" moments of my life, accompanied by visions of Guantanamo.
Exactly.

From Apples point of view it would be very hard to see the difference between the two.
If they were so inclined, they could simply give him an 11k loan until the situation resolved itself. What's your point, though?
MIT was probably holding back their number 1 star faculty member "Noam Chomsky". If he had been there you would have come out prepared.
I'm sure they can't, actually.

All that's necessary is verifying that the individual in question is an suitable officer of the corporation.

As long as you stick to the form and procedure in place things will run smoothly and you'll be fine.

Unless Apple decides otherwise. We've had payments come in months late for no apparent reason, and didn't see resolution until Apple received a spate of bad press.
We've had a similar conversation before, but I think you confuse "hard work" with "uncomfortable, obsessive, frantic work."
Yes, there's an argument that changes minds by the millions. All the people who are willing to do damn near anything in the name of "security", because "you can't be too safe", will understand that it doesn't really matter whether a danger exists.
:s/Apple/Google/G

Hey Google, please change the account associated with this adsense publisher ID please, make it point to my bank account in this here other country and please pay me pronto or I'll go public on you.

Would you make that call ?

And what would you do if two weeks later the CFO of company X is on the line asking where their payment is ?
What about the lesson learned from commitment? That promises that have strings attached are important enough to require longer than normal consideration?

Although it could very well be considered a school of hard knocks, learning about x Year commitments at a younger age may help tremendously for same or larger commitments later in life (starting companies, buying a house, committing to a relationship, etc.).

If I choose something I know I can get out of fairly easily, I may not give it enough time to see it work, because I have an easy out.

(Insert reference to military leaders who have cut off their own forces' abilities to retreat here).
The take is, just because you already have a database, it might not be the best place to but all your data.
But I'm assuming here that you didn't do anything 'strange' yourself.

The 'for no apparent reason' sort of proves that already. So if you had would you blame apple ?
"what you need done is so close to fraud and so sketchy sounding that only if you present well in person and can find someone helpful are you going to get this done." -- can't you just get a lawyer to do everything on your behalf?
The two resolutions -- verifying him as a suitable corporate officer, versus floating him a personal 11k loan -- are so widely different, I can't even begin to fathom what your point is?
In terms of needing to eat and pay rent, iPhone App developers are still in demand. Why don't you pick up some contract work, take a percentage up front and the rest on completion of the app, and continue trying to make headway with Apple on the side?
As a first approximation, I'd say your safest choice is to create an official "power user" or "moderator"-type user class, with explicitly defined responsibilities and privileges, and make him the first member of that class.
I just went to see if my ISP still had a usenet server I could use so I could use a spam-filtering tool at home but it seems that Bell has discontinued it. Looking at a list of usenet servers, it seems that more than half of US ISPs and the major Canadian ISPs no longer have usenet servers :/
Talk to the bank manager and explain the situation.
Yeah, good idea. Thanks!
The 'for no apparent reason' sort of proves that already. So if you had would you blame apple ?

If Apple put up their usual bureaucratic wall, ignored our requests, or required multi-week/month turnaround times to resolve the issue -- then yes, I would blame Apple.
Yep, if you front them the money (in England, probably $500 US an hour) to go through this, first explaining the situation, then having them work through the bank's structure. It might be worth it. If you can convince the lawyer they're not participating in fraud.
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the hell are you talking about? It's fine to smirk at a kid he says something like I'm going to be an astronaut, cause it's cute. maybe you don't know what a smirk is. I used a different example for the professor, don't mix and match sentences to try and improve your point. People's advice is people's advice, if you want to hang them over the fire for it if they don't tell you what you want to hear then you're an idiot. If someone says, 'If I had your intelligence I would have became a doctor or tried to change the world', that's a compliment. The 'you should' in the statement of advice usually comes from the position of 'if I were in your shoes'.
Not to mention the wonderful mouseguard RPG mentioned in that article. Its not free but its a great introductory product as well as a great game all round
Thats why notorized articles of incorporation &c. should be sufficient.
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I had someone like this a few years ago but they were asking for other little things they could help with. I found them some low-level yet important things they could do for us, made sure to thank them publicly in several places, and it was win-win. At no point did I give them user/pass somewhere nor did they receive elevated privileges anywhere; just something free for their time/effort.

His motivation, had I asked him, was probably that he thought we were really small, really bright, and that he could save money with a creative solution to our problems. He was right and it worked out great.

Good luck!
Can you ask that they simply cut you a cheque?
Second that. And be very clear about what he is not allowed to do as well.

Power users running amok is the last thing you want.

And make a trial period where you check stuff he does before it goes out.
I'm starting a new long-distance campaign this week actually. I was disappointed to find that Skype doesn't support multi-way video chat, as my friends and I are in three separate locations.
One of the difficulties for me here is that I have extremely poor long-term memory, probably due to extended (and now habitual) sleep deprivation.

I simply cannot commit a large enough number of games and sequences to memory.

I do however have a better-than-average working memory, which allows me to compensate in most games by visualizing lots of different game sequences simultaneously.

Go is not one of those games.
Hey Google, please change the account associated with this adsense publisher ID please, make it point to my bank account in this here other country and please pay me pronto or I'll go public on you.

It took the original poster 3 months to even get a response from Apple. The issue remains unresolved, and if they remain unresponsive to his plight, it will likely remain so for some time.

Your hypothetical situation is not even remotely equivalent.
I had inferred their existence by their effects (non-empowered frontline support reps)--like dark matter. :-)

I should apply for that job--might leave me with time to work on my startup.
You could grab the latest Ubuntu CD image (the new 9.10 ships on Thursday) and give it a try in live cd mode. That will give you a good idea of how much will work without chasing down drivers.
Well, "Joe The Plummer" wasn't a plummer and wasn't named Joe but he was still more successful as a media sensation than this kid has been so far.

Still, I think you put a finger on the Kid's narcissism. But consider, we're getting closer to a society where being well-thought-of in High School really seems like as good a guide for your chances of becoming a billionaire as anything.

I mean, Sara Palin resigns as governor of Alaska because being a manager is kind-of a hassle but still seems to be taken seriously as a potential president. Now it's starting to make sense...
When you compare the meat yield of persistence hunting vs. rock climbing, PH's case does come out quite stronger.
At this point I have nothing to say that jacquesm and vessenes haven't already said, so I'll spare you the long-winded response and just say this doesn't look like Apple's problem.
I believe they still don't include pinch zoom for the same old reasons though.

Definitely great news, however.
He's not incorporated though, is he? Isn't that his problem? He (for some reason) made up a fake company in a country he doesn't even live in.
I don't really feel like eating my shaving cream, deodorant, or toothpaste, or drinking my shampoo. The water, on the other hand, is something I'm fine with just drinking before the checkpoint. As such, any solution that only solves the problem for things I'm willing to ingest only solves the lesser problem.
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Email me, I'll spot you some cash (if your story is legit).

We can also talk about subcontracting work if you're interested.
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The cause of this acquired imbalance, the woman. :D
Good luck with that.

For starters, which court ?

The one where his 'original' business was listed ? (the UK one). The court in the home country ? (why would it have standing ? )

The one where apple resides ?

As soon as you go 'cross border' the costs of litigation square.
This is an interesting idea, but there doesn't seem to be much evidence that specifically points to running. A lot is made of the fact that we aren't made just for walking, but humans do a lot more than just walk and run.

And the gluteus maximus, the largest muscle in the human body, is primarily engaged only during running. “Your butt is a running muscle; you barely use it when you walk,” Dr. Lieberman said.

Ah, yes, the gluteus maximus, primarily engaged only during jogging, punching, lifting, tackling, sprinting, throwing, and swinging a club.

And most humans can store about 20 miles’ worth of glycogen in their muscles.... “Ancient humans exploited the fact that humans are good runners in the heat,” Dr. Bramble said. “We have such a great cooling system”

Which allows us to perform any endurance activity over long distances, including swimming. Or carrying a kill back to camp. Or carrying water, children, tools, and materials for building shelter. Pretty much any hard work.

Haven't any of these scientists noticed that it's easy to get tired and overheat while building a fence in your back yard? For many animals, running might be the only thing they do that causes them to overheat, but when you're an intelligent, tool-using, shelter-building, material-possessions-lugging human, there are lots of things that can tire you out or give you heatstroke on a warm day.

If I remember correctly, the hunter-gatherers in the Jared Diamond television special based on Guns, Germs, and Steel didn't spend much time jogging. They walked, climbed, and paddled. They chopped down trees and carried heavy stuff. They hunted in the forest, stalking and then sprinting to attack. Their efficient cooling system, powerful glutes, and springy tendons served them admirably in all of these activities. Obviously they had a very different culture from the San Bushmen in Africa -- how can we be sure what culture and environment had the greatest influence on our physical evolution? I have read that the San seem to be closer to our origins, geographically, linguistically, and genetically, but it is all speculative. Even if they are our closest contemporary link to our evolutionary origins, we can't assume their lifestyle resembles the lifestyle of our ancestors.

Furthermore, a lot of the popular appeal behind the "born to run" idea is based on simple astonishment at the difference between trained and untrained people. Running is the example that has caught the popular imagination, but many other physical activities could lead to the same result. For example, with regular training, ordinary people can learn to lift way more than you would expect, enough to convince a man on the street that people are "built to lift heavy stuff." If you found a tribe that was as into lifting stuff as the Tarahumara are into running, I'm sure you would find examples of older people lifting burdens that would amaze us. And then it would seem quite obvious that our powerful glutes and efficient cooling system were evolved to help us carry game back to camp, swing heavy primitive axes and weapons, lift baskets of wild yams, and carry animal skins filled with water.
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Sure. But they probably had the option to stay longer and possibly could've left earlier if they wanted to violate their contract and lose money. (This is speculation on my part. I have no idea what the terms of the conde nast sale were)
He (for some reason) made up a fake company in a country he doesn't even live in.

Which, if true, Apple never actually verified existed in the first place. Seems a bit odd to be pushing for it now.

I can't really blame him, either. The sign-up is confusing, the legal requirements are often poorly specified, and it's to do something that seems to makes sense (I want a fictitious name, I'll create the company later) that's actually a really bad idea given Apple's requirements.
The fact that there's a potential digital image of my strip search defuses the embarassment aspect of it?

Uhh, yes. Embarrassment is an irrational, emotional response to a situation. When there is no "situation" - you're no longer in physical proximity to someone with authority over you, who is demanding you do something you don't want to do - there's no embarrassment. I can understand if you object based on principle, but I doubt you're actually embarrassed by it.
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"Email me and I can spot you some cash (if your story is legit)."

Don't take it the wrong way, just one HNer helping another.
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Apple's finance department has been pretty fast with us too.
The problem is that .to_xml doesn't belong in the model any more than .to_html would belong there. This is a presentation of data for external consumption, hence belonging in the 'v' layer of MVC.
I would like to see ActiveRecord and ActiveResource use URLs like this in place of primary keys and for pagination.
not so easy. email is sent to thousands (if not millions) of address. when someone presses spam in gmail, most likely if the mail is truly spam hundreds of others marked the same mail as spam. the email could be quickly added to their training data, the sending agent black listed, etc.

Now groups is a different thing. How many of you mark messages that are spam? A few I am sure, but the point is the offending person is long gone and the message is already been posted. Harder problem unless you can wall off the source and control the users access.
I don't think there's any ambiguity here about whether the author made a mistake. He knew he didn't have the company when he started. He just didn't expect that mistake to cost him so much. I sympathize, but his mistake involves both taxes and accounting, and I'm having a hard time blaming Apple for the fact that it's a debacle.
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Since Apple isn't at fault for the original mixup, they have no responsibility to help resolve their outstanding debt in a reasonably timely manner? It has been months.
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I would install metal detectors, x-ray luggage, randomly search people and bags as often as my resources reasonably allowed, use bomb-sniffing dogs, and use law enforcement and intelligence agencies to try to prevent terrorist groups from showing up at the airport in the first place. I would train my security personnel to be on the lookout for suspicious behavior while recognizing that most acts of terrorism in the United States have been committed by white males, and that terrorism is a statistical outlier in every demographic.

That's just me. You're right, though, institutionally mandated racism would probably be way more effective.
"People that had enormous problems in school, became presidents of big companies, made their own restaurants chains,got political power, became famous as scientific researchers..."

I doubt this very much.
If you dig deeper there is still a lot of good stuff. It turns out that the idea of having each subreddit be a small 'community' kinda works. Each day my wife checks out /r/Frugal just to see if there is anything new. She doesn't really have any use for the rest of the site unless she's REALLY trying to kill time but the Frugal reddit does a great job of aggregating stories she's interested in.

If all you look at are /r/funny, /r/pics and /r/politics then you're missing out.
I have no trouble blaming Apple for failing to resolve an outstanding debt after many months of poor communication with the individual to which they owe.
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>But when it really comes down to it, isn't almost anything a good thing to do "until you figure it out?"

In this case, no. Almost anything that doesn't have a predetermined length of service is a good thing t do "until you figure it out."
Do you control the English Ltd?

Get your app on your new account with your new company. By the way, the whole point of limited liability companies is so that a different legal entity is handling the transaction -- at least in America, using your personal account with a corp or an LLC is a very bad idea. The corp/LLC needs to be operating from its own checking account.

If you have control over that English LTD, get a bank account from there. Since you don't live there, one method is asking someone who is there enter in as a partner or someone who would be able to open up the account there. You'd probably have to provide enough evidence of credibility so you don't come across like a Nigerian scammer. Give that person a fee to setup the account, a percentage of how much Apple actually gives to you. Don't be greedy, cut your losses, the amount you pay for someone to pull the money out is a great lesson to learn (you probably won't make that same mistake again). Once it is done, shutdown the old account and the company and keep your records. In the meantime, make sure new revenue isn't going into the old account. You'll also want to make your intellectual property and ownership of the copyrights are very clear so there is no question down the road on who owns what.
I'm with you. I know people who can remember every game they've played and i'm just not one of them. I learned "the western way" myself. I've noticed, though, that i don't remember the recurring patterns or sequences, i just kind of feel them. It sounds weird, but your brain gets quite good at the pattern recognition if you let it.

I would say that being able to visualize lots of different game sequences is crucial in go to learning tactics. You'll do great! Give it another shot :D
Apparently (from upthread), most Americans would be fine with overt strip searches at the airport, because they have nothing to hide and they'd rather be safe. So if you're conceding this argument, I have a hard time seeing where your argument about the chemistry of specific liquid explosives will get you.

Look, all I'm saying is that the both the (lame) comic and the discussion here are missing the point of the actual problem. It's not that 6 ounces of clear fluids could or couldn't be more dangerous than batteries. It's the orgnanizational dynamics that allow debates like this to shape policy.

Seriously, tell me you honestly believe that a highly publicized argument about the safety of laptop batteries on airplanes wouldn't simply get laptop batteries banned at this point.
really, super gesture.

Count me in as well if you go through with this.
to quote you: because the TSA people live in an entirely different universe than you do

okay, so they left their universe and entered ours.
You may want to form a legit company.

Get an EIN number from the IRS - http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=98350,00.h...

Set up a business banking account with a bank using that number. Give that info to Apple, when they pay you, use some of that money to set up an LLC through legal zoom - just the bare stuff, none of the extra fluff they try to sell you.

And at some point you'll have to pay some taxes. Good luck!
Until hardcore depression sets in.
You think a 1/10000 chance of arrest is going to deter a suicide bomber?
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I haven't tried play-by-Wave yet, but was involved in a number of play-by-e-mail games back in the day. I'd say PBeM can be just as fun as face-to-face, it's just a slightly different kind of fun. It's less of a social event, and there's less instant gratification. But a well-done PBeM can be very rich in a way that's hard to do face-to-face. You don't get that instant rush of gaming (very often, anyway) but you do get much more time to think about what you are doing and saying, which can be really helpful for the "role" part of role-playing.
The onus is not on Apple to verify it to that extent up front, but if they suspect fraud or tax evasion they'll go by the book on it. That will take time.
Does the zoom problem hamper your ability to read small graphs? I would be concerned about graphs that fit into one of two columns on the page.
You know, it could be my fault. I assumed you were talking about http://www.xkcdsucks.com/

If you were talking about that, I rest my case.

On the other hand, maybe you were talking about http://xkcdsucks.blogspot.com/

The author of that is at least trying to say something. As a matter of fact, he's saying a lot, without contributing much.

As for the nick: brilliant deduction ;)
This looks like a nice GPS app. I am currently using instaMapper to record and display my GPS loc on my website http://www.instamapper.com/ext?key=8445164355070808348. I would like a really lightweight app to measure and upload my location to somewhere where I can plug the waypoints in to the google map API. Just a feature idea.
No, my objection based on my assumption that regardless of whether they store images today, 10 years from now when we've socialized the idea of electronic strip searches, we will end up storing them, and some douchebag minimum wage TSA dead-ender is going to circulate them on the Internet.

There's principles here too, but I don't need to evoke them.
Hi, the link tries to install some app on my (non-existent) iPhone. Is this the app?

http://appshopper.com/navigation/gaia-gps-lite

Based on the screenshot, my only nitpick would be that the colors on the compass are a bit too toned down. I would prefer a more colorful "N" at least.

Also, did any of the (hopefully) good ideas from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=880814 help in any way?