Maybe, but it could definitely be illegal. Anyone could have the right intentions, but make a mistake during an act of Good Samaritan-ship and get sued.

I think the point was that many people reuse their passwords, so if Google et al were proactive about it, they would force reset passwords for the emails in this leak. But I agree, that may be over-protective/paranoid in some sense...

Not me, but a co-worker at an internship I held:

Said person entered the number of metric tons of concrete 3 magnitudes higher than it should have been. Imagine the cost difference between 1.0 * 10^6 and 1.0 * 10^9 metric tons... Our boss was not pleased, to say the least.

But imagine how easy it is to enter a few extra zeros in an excel data cell. Yikes!

Even more interesting given that those two are among the rarest archetypes in the general population by some estimates: http://www.capt.org/mbti-assessment/estimated-frequencies.ht...

Also, no wonder we're all "judgmental".

A group of cows is a herd, a group of crows is a murder, and a group of INTJs is an argument.

I believe he was referring to the sign up process, which is just as easy (if not easier). In fact, I often have a very difficult time (as a payer) paying through PayPal with my credit card and not my PayPal account. Sometimes I just don't want PayPal to be a part of all of my transactions. Basically, anything outside of eBay.

Whatever. The whole benefit of PayPal is that almost everyone is already signed up.

It would be interesting to experiment with scraping the <title> tag of the linked webpage. This is what Quora does for links in questions, answers, and comments.

I love the way that HN shows the top domain of the linked site. Very elegant, and something that Quora (arguably) should implement.

ahem.

tesla.im survey.

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Sorry, it should work now.

The color scheme is very Apple-esque (iOS 7). Not as much of the brushed aluminium from iOS 6 (and 5?).

As a tangent, would you consider biometric identification (in the broad sense - retina, finger print, DNA) a priori identification as well?

I'd argue that one thing would make payments more seamless: identity = payment, in other words, you don't need a middleman (e.g. credit card, chip and pin, or mobile device) to verify your identity. You just show up and pay. No more carrying anything around. Think: Minority Report. That would possibly take decades and involve many privacy concerns from citizens.

Meanwhile, you'd have the same security risks you had before, playing the cat-and-mouse games with hackers (of all types, including biometric hackers).