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Comment: Re:Welcome to real world (Score 4, Insightful) 542

by ArrowBay (#37922466) Attached to: Is the Apple App Store a Casino?

Exactly so. If I remember my economics properly...

  • The average new small business closes shop in two years or less. Most of the rest close up within the first five years. Anything after that is likely to be a success.
  • There are thousands of new products introduced every month in stores across America. Better than 80% of them are failures. Most of the rest might achieve niche success.

OMG! The free market is a casino!

Comment: Re:NO TYPING! (Score 1) 204

by ArrowBay (#37353512) Attached to: Researchers' Typosquatting Stole 20 GB of E-Mail

True, contact lists and autocomplete should eliminate this... in theory.

In practice, there are legitimate holes in the system. Maybe you fatfinger the address when sending from your smartphone, where you can't access your contact list. Or maybe a colleague or client mistypes the address in an e-mail to multiple people, and then you simply "reply all" not realizing that address was wrong -- which sends the mail to the wrong address, but also gets your e-mail software to assume that's a valid address to add to your contact list.

It also has nothing to do with Windows, unless Microsoft is more omnipowerful than I thought...

Comment: Every computer in the house, plus... (Score 2) 266

by ArrowBay (#37342964) Attached to: IP Addresses Not Enough To ID Users

He'd have to search:

  • Every computer currently in the house.
  • Every computer that might have been in the house previously; e.g. old computers that were replaced in the meanwhile, as well as every computer of someone visiting the house (like a friend with a laptop).
  • Every computer that might have connected to the network via WiFi if the wireless router was ever publicly open, compromised, or had its password shared.
  • Every computer that might have been using the house's computers as proxies, whether by intent of the homeowners, unintentionally, as part of a botnet, or some other reason.
  • ?

Man, that's a lot of computers to search.

Tomorrow's computers some time next month. -- DEC

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