I have flown nearly 100 times this year so far and have not been through one once. I make it a practice to make it as uncomfortable for the screener as the process is for me. I am rude and comply only to the bare minimum. If I have time, I make a point to call the supervisor over and complain about the process. If I am pulled aside and made to wait longer than 15-20 seconds for the patdown, I loudly complain. What they're doing is illegal (unreasonable search and seizure) and I feel no obligation to make that job easier. On the contrary, every single person who flies should be doing their damnedest to make this process excruciating for the TSA.
Childlike logic. Just because someone else is doing something wrong doesn't give you license to do it too. Arrington should have brought it up as an issue, not used it as a trump card.
There are lots of laws that are going unenforced that have had far more severe consequences to this country than allowing people to play a game of skill for money.
So coming down on the DOJ for selective enforcement is absolutely appropriate.
How do they get around the SEC's "sophisticated investor" regulations? Ignoring them may make follow on rounds extremely complex -- if not impossible. Also, having a polluted cap table makes subsequent raises far more difficult. [Edit: By polluted, I mean having many, many investors.]
Most people have very different ideas and goals for fitness than a physical trainer. They come from the perspective of already having a minimum level of fitness, so a more rounded regime is necessary. For a bare beginner, the 100 pushup and 200 situp programs are great. They are compound movements, meaning they use lots of different muscles, rather than the typical machine workout you get with most trainers. I would only add a similar program to get you to 300 squats so that you get some lower body workout in as well, especially as your goal is a triathlon, requiring both running and cycling. The buildup should be about the same as the other exercises, so it should be as easy as multiplying the 100 pushup workout by 3. Good job for getting started and if you get really serious, I highly recommend looking up your local Crossfit affiliate (http://www.crossfit.com). They take it to the next level.
It appears that they take payments in as deposits and then disburse the money when another user requests a withdrawal. This requires either a bank charter or a designation as a money transfer agency. Without one of those, they are running an unlicensed bank. You cannot hold the money as an intermediary in the US without satisfying one of those requirements. I don't see anything on the site about either one of them, but knowing at least a little about the capital requirements needed to get one or both of those I would doubt that they have them. Please correct me if I am wrong, I think mobile payments is an idea who's time is past due but its very difficult to pull off in the US.
Twitter appeals to the 30-50 demographic because they do not have the unlimited time it takes to deal with Facebook or MySpace. I'm 33 and have a Facebook account that I rarely ever use because it just takes too much effort. I don't want to spend hours buying virtual bumper stickers, uploading photos, or any of the other myriad things that people with lots of free time do on Facebook. I use Twitter as I can and it requires no more of me. Neither is necessarily better or worse, they are designed to do different things.
Back in 2000 I was working at a startup in Washington, D.C. and we had been working 80-100 weeks for nearly 1.5 months before management finally brought in some contractors as reinforcement. All of the developers were in a 20x20 or so room working at folding tables. One of the contractors that they brought in had a form of Tourette's that caused him to make this noise that I can only describe as a loud squawk at random intervals, about every 60-180 seconds. Combine that with the pressure, lack of sleep, and the effort to concentrate and it became my own personal version of Chinese water torture. I truly think I came close to having a nervous breakdown during those two weeks.
The next blog post will be about how you can do almost everything without "being evil". There are other ways to get the information or behaviors you seek without requiring external logins. Twitter clients are entirely different animals as the credentials are stored individually in many different places (phones and pc's). Hackers look for large, easy targets, like a web site's database or server logs that contain lots of info, they don't do individual hacks by and large because the ROI is just not high enough. Not saying that its not a risk, just that the risk is MUCH smaller.
I cetainly don't trust them to control all my logins. But my level of trust for them is much higher than for most in terms of their ability to secure their databases and applications. I use different levels of passwords, depending on the type of site: nytimes.com < gmail.com < bankofamerica.com. I have tried to use password manager, and am currently trying one out on Safari, but the use of many computers makes it difficult.
That's a good point. OAuth would at least centralize the problem towards a more trusted source and limit the number of places the credentials would be stored. I trust Google or Facebook to have more safeguards in place than a webapp that popped up yesterday. As for password managers, I totally agree people should use them, but as a practical matter, most non-tech people do not.
Twitpay is focusing on micropayments in order to alleviate some of the risk in using a medium like Twitter. A user can only put or take a maximum of $50 in or out of the system on one given day. So while that attack is theoretically possible, it would not be very lucrative. You would also have to ensure that the accounts that you have brute forced are funded.