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I'm sure it's been brought up before, but what about only displaying comments either above or below a certain threshold. For example, hide the points on a comment once it's above 4.

Or show points after someone has upvoted or downvoted a comment?


Lawyers rarely take cases unless they're positive they'll win outright or negotiate a good percentage of any settlement. I'd say, the chances are good some of the claims are accurate against Zuckerburg.


... or really smart for not accepting his $2,000 back and diluting the partnership.


Even if he'd given back the $2k, he'd still have a case if he was coerced with false information, wouldn't he?


Agreed and now Samsung may be the ones who lauch the lawsuit. Though, how many people will hire NetSec consulting after blindly following the output of security scanning software? I mean, did he even look in the SL folder?


The damage done to Samsung via this false accusation will far outweigh the costs borne by NetSec. I'm against frivolous lawsuits, but I wouldn't mind if Samsung delivered one his way.


It's OK to be against "frivolous lawsuits" without thinking that every lawsuit is automatically frivolous. There are a lot of frivolous lawsuits in the world today but that doesn't mean the concept of libel should be discarded, and that it sometimes actually happens and should be prosecuted. No contradiction.

Samsung may choose to magnanimous and not sue, with a bit of cleverness they can spin this such that they get more out of that than any lawsuit they could possibly file... but it will be their choice, and if they do sue I won't hold it against them. It'd be fair.


The scary thing is that this publicity might, somehow, be good for the security company.


Very much agree about the openness argument. Though, speaking to the quote about teens and prediction, I present this:

This is what Motorola and Google and Samsung and BlackBerry and everyone else, with the sole exception of Apple, do not get about “open” computing. It’s powerful, but for ordinary people, it’s too powerful

Notice a prominent name missing from that list? If what the author feels is true (and being a teenager himself), this speaks volumes to just how far they are behind the curve.


I notice 2.

Microsoft and Nokia.

Also "BlackBerry" is a brand/model, not a company. What does that say for RIMs status in the market? It's defined by a single product.


My fault. I completely forgot about Nokia - and Windows Phone 7 is actually kind of nice. And yes, I have in fact used it. I'll update the post a little bit later (I'm planning a whole update post)


I'd bet money that a similar list is probably already floating around. Whether it's freely available or not may be up for interpretation.


In case you couldn't tell, it's fake.


I was wondering that. They're a whole week early on April Fools??


Isn't that different though? In the case you linked, the camera was in the homeowner's house (where as a guest, I would expect little to no privacy), whereas in this case the recording device traveled with the child into several different places (where there's an expectation of privacy).


Great idea and a good pivot.

My recommendations:

- No autoplay on the video with audio. Either let me click play or remove the audio in favor of subtitles

- The logo seems small compared to the rest of the site

- May need to reword some of the taglines in the body... I should understand exactly what the site does without having to watch the video. If it piques my interest, then I can watch the video for more information.


> No autoplay on the video with audio

We tried several approaches with video, and unfortunately no one ever clicked 'play'. Since the entire motivation for the service is given in that video we really wanted it to be seen. I was worried about getting your kind of feedback, so I guess we'll have to rethink this.

> I should understand exactly what the site does without having to watch the video

This feeds into what's discussed above.

Thanks!


I guess my only problem would be that this really shuts down users that aren't able to install RescueTime on their work PCs due to company security policies. These may be the hot-shot types that are actively seeking a new role and the relative data would be missing for these users unless they do moonlighting of some sort after hours where RescueTime can monitor that data.


Come to think of it - I'm locked out because I use Linux all day and there is not a good data collector on Linux!


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