I meant additional 30% fee for buying using the ebay app on an ipad/iphone. I do shop and I sell items on ebay often, the paypal fees I pay is 2.9% + 30 cents. eBay final value fee is 10% (more importantly the fee is capped at $250, unlike apple store) and the listing fee is free for first 50 per month (again volume matters). eBay+Paypal fees is much lower compared to Apple, which doesnt happen often.

if eBay where to sell items on their iphone app, they would have to increase their fees by 30%. Making the final value fee as 40% instead of 10%. I for one would not be pleased.

Depends on your volume. Imagine if apple wanted a 30% cut of your ebay or amazon (regular purchases not e-books) purchases made using ebay/amazon app. I spend a lot on amazon.com, and I would consider that insane. If every middleman wanted a 30% cut, supply chains will completely collapse. Apple should honestly consider having a tired pricing based on volume. Apple is too stubborn to do that (so is google, so they dont have to worry about the competing mobile platforms doing better either), or they would rather have people use iBooks.

Again depends on their volume and how much amazon pays the content owners.

You mean they decided to take their CDN in-house? Which CDN provider does youtube use? I am really curious which video providers actually use external CDNs, it is pretty expensive and inefficient for video streaming.

A billion here and a billion there, and it begans to add up pretty quickly.

A handful of VPS provider's IP are banned. The ones that run popular proxies, and the really huge ones. It is not worth if for them to go after all VPSes. The cost-benefit just doesnt work out.

Well, it is time to bring back the positive connotations of the word "hackers"

You forgot Democrats and the Independents. Include them, and I partly agree with you.

Or just opensource bitch

Everyone already knew it is one of those two. Responding and choosing the easiest option doesnt take courage or make him any more liable. It would actually reduce liability. I agree he is not hiding, but he is being smart. A few words can save him a lot of trouble and lot of pestering by the media. If it was me (and I indeed made a mistake, or I had malicious intentions), I would have done the same. Not because I am courageous or anything, because that is the safest thing to do, right now.

Well, he hasnt admitted to anything. He has two options 1) Admit it was malicious 2) Admit it was a mistake. It doesnt take a genius to figure out 2 is the best option.

If you have money to play with, sure. But dont call it an investment. I have a small amount of my saving that I dont mind if it becomes worth 0 tomorrow (5% of my total saving in an year). I currently am buy bitcoins with it, but I wouldnt consider it an investment at all. Certainly not a good investment.

Because it makes him look interesting. Makes you curious about him. I am sure it is valuable too.

Not sure why that was moderated as overrated. Just to be clear that was not a joke. If you create paper wallets, and store your bitcoins in them (in whatever denominations you like, I use 1 BTC per wallet), no virus or malware or some e-wallet getting hacked, can get to your bitcoins.

Keep a paper bitcoin wallet. It as simple as that.

You are free to charge $16 for it. But you may not use the firefox trademark in your ads/product page etc. Dell should move to iceweasel and avoid using mozilla's trademarks. Then again none would pay $16 for installing iceweasel.