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Comment Re: 2FA already shows us a solution (Score 2) 39

This has nothing to do with Amazon being broken into. The breach was into a DB for a third party app commonly used by marketplace sellers to organize their inventory. Amazon's only connection to this is (1) that the db was hosted on AWS and (2) that some of these sellers sold on Amazon (as well as eBay and so on).

Comment Re: Use Amazon in your ads and... (Score 3, Informative) 29

Lying about what? Honey is openly and necessarily spyware. It's the nature of any browser extension that sends a detailed web request back to a central server every time you open a product page. There are techniques for reducing the extension's creepiness, such as with k-anonymity-like approaches (which drastically reduces the information content sent back to the central server at the cost of more bandwidth), but Honey doesn't use that. For multiple reasons.

Comment Can't Deadpool if you were never alive in the firs (Score 2) 41

I tried two of these services (KudoHosting and MegaZoneHosting) for hobby projects I didn't care about. Got them both refunded through PayPal because the "SSD" read and write speeds on MegaZoneHosting was measured in the kilobits per second, and KudoHosting just flat out didn't respond to pings after the first couple hours. Now I host my sad hobby projects on AWS Lightsail and it's working fine (at least on the rare occasion I check on them).

Comment Re: Who's in charge? (Score 1) 212

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Comment Who's paying /. to post these hit pieces? (Score 3, Insightful) 140

A data analytics firm that specializes in the Amazon Marketplace recently analyzed the site's 100 best-selling food products for CNBC and found that at least 40% of sellers had more than five customer complaints about expired goods....

So 40 goods that each sold a few hundreds of thousands of times had 6 or more bad reviews (for a rate of some 1 in 50,000)? My return rate on grocery store yoghurt is a couple orders of magnitude higher than that. What's more impressive is that the other 60 of the top 100 best selling goods didn't have 6+ spoiled reviews.

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Submission + - Open Source Music Fingerprinter C&D'd (google.com)

Nushio writes: The code wasn't even released, and yet Roy van Rijn, a Music & Free Software enthusiast received a C&D from Landmark Digital Services, owners of Shazam, an Android application that allows you to find a song, by listening to a part of it. And if that wasn't enough, they want him to take down his blog post (Google Cache) explaining how he did it because it "may be viewed internationally. As a result, [it] may contribute to someone infringing our patents in any part of the world".

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