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Posted by
alex_martin on Saturday July 16, 2011 @02:34PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Simple really - I can pretend to be my friend at the bank to withdraw cash at the counter with his card. I can't sneak into the gym with his card for there. And they are still MASSIVELY reliant on signatures.Seems like it would be so simple to just take a photo of customers when they join.
This is Full Tilt Poker - I can't put poker in the title.
Posted by
alex_martin on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @12:30PM
from the betting.betfair.com dept.
I wonder if this is a side-effect of (relatively) high engineering salaries. Financiers say 'ok, fine we can take paying $100k a year because we can write out your options at will.'. It may be a wider symptom of VC starting to attract more cut-throat PE firms.
Between this and the CG Japanese popstar it looks like we won't be able to trust video any more than we trust digital photos now.
This may be the first time the public gets really riled up by hackers in (almost) the same way they do about murders and robberies. I can imagine a police appeal for information resulting in literally thousands of names of hacker-types being given over.
I really like Fred Wilson's blog. But I'm wondering - he reckons there's a bubble in startups at the moment, should he be trying to exit USV investments [1]? I understand his complaints from a series-A investor perspective, but many of their portfolio companies are well established (Twitter, Meetup, Covestor etc.), why aren't they making a move for an exit?
[1] http://www.usv.com/investments/
Do we really need the fucking (R) sign after every mention of Blackberry. I went into the article thinking perhaps I'd written off RIM too early - not likely.
Aircraft must be the antithesis to Agile work and continuous iteration. It's a completely different mindset to anything I've done. Imagine it: 'I pushed a new flight yoke to 737 v2.199. It crashed so I've fixed the bug in v2.200. '
A restaurant the runs like an Amazon warehouse? Where the staff are controlled by a little robotic handset.
"turn left and pick up credit card terminal. Then go to table 32."
"say: 'how was your food today sir?'
Sounds fucking awful even if it does get you 10s faster service.
Is there a similar list of widely believed conspiracy theories? Or, even better, a list of conspiracy theories which have been proven true.
The 'App Store' brand is so important to Apple now that they have no choice but to go hard to try and own it. It won't look good for Apple's claim if Amazon can stand in court and list off reams of other App Stores.