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It's baffling that I'm being downvoted so much. Apparently most hackernews users are devoted fans of 4chan who use that site to get their child pornography fix.

You're thinking of facebook.

Chris Poole operates the world's most popular child pornography web site. Let's all listen to what he has to say.

Indeed, those who deal with web 2.0 startups would be well advised to read that article.

Everyone should block all access to 2o7.net, the same as Google Analytics. Nothing useful comes from them.

Hopefully Anonymous will use their new capability to destroy morally bankrupt companies, such as the financial companies that refused to handle funds for Wikileaks.

What are they going to do if you form a class anyway? Void your agreement and ban you? Countersue?

Interesting that you use website as a synonym for company. The web site of this company is nothing more than a front end for interfacing with the public for marketing and customer service. Presumably, the company also has their actual VPN structure which they use to deliver their service to their customers, offices (optional), bank accounts, etc.

Nice use of /tmp, I hope you're the only one on your machine.

You need to develop a thicker skin. It's just business.

Most people want to believe their brand is as special as Coke or Apple, but they usually aren't. Most people will not know what a Verisign logo on a web site means in terms of actual security measures, they'll only see it as a label saying "hey we claim to be secure!" And those who are familiar with Verisign will associate the logo with their misdeeds, and wonder why they should do business with a site that does business with such a company.

That seems somewhat backward, because it would discourage those with limited assets from starting businesses and trying to improve their situation.

That's because you're not having a conversation, you're filling in fields in a form. You're lucky they let you use email instead of redirecting you to a web form that more rigidly enforces the method of interaction with them (which needs to die even more).

It's so easy to incorporate it should always be done. I assume when someone starts working with that kind of money and has knowledgeable lawyers advising them that they'll be told to do that.

Even if it were changed to that, the story wouldn't end with "I couldn't buy food, my macbook pro got repossessed, and I went to federal pound-you-in-the-ass prison."

If you do get sued and your business collapses you can always start another one.

I agree, in retrospect my comment was totally inappropriate.

I paraphrase the FBI's cordial letter of November 1964 to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: "Arrington, there is only one thing left for you to do. You know what it is. You have just 34 days in which to do [it]. … You are done. There is but one way out for you. You better take it before your filthy, abnormal fraudulent self is bared to the nation."

Hopefully anonymous crackheads don't destroy the place.

It's baffling that no one at Google is able to foresee obvious ways of abusing the features of their products. It really should be someone's job to try to anticipate these problems and prevent them before new products or features are released.

"more than 8,000 people signed a petition that demanded the source code to Final Cut Pro 7 be sold to a third party"

I wonder that anyone would make such a short sighted demand. Apple should properly release the source code of Final Cut Pro 7 to the public under a Free Software license. That would prevent this type of thing from happening again.