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Seriously.

I actually tried to submit it before "martinoma" but was told that I was submitting too often. It's hard to say if TC really did submit its own story - throwaway accounts are quite common nowadays.

I'm not affiliated with TC.

Admittedly, I did decide to submit quickly so that I (might) reap the upvotes--HN has been transfixed by Aaron Swartz, and reasonably so, and I thought that people might like a reminder of how the community reacted a few months ago.

I wonder if it might not be better to not award karma for submissions which are upvoted. It's possible/probable that most stories of value would get submitted anyway, and it would discourage the mad rush to submit.

Not a bad idea. Or maybe simply bifurcate the karma. One value for stories and one for comment quality.

Well, does karma have any value?

Here we go again. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4978143

The batch requests should be helpful. Thanks for the update!

Actually, the article does mention it at the end, in regards to the name. The company is called Zave Networks, not Zavers.

Ok, but they called it Zavers (and referred to their company as Zavers)...it wasn't something Google rebranded.

Considering that Zavers is almost unknown, going forward with the name essentially is a new branding effort.

The good news is that they are going to cover the losses: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=135919.msg1448056#ms... edit: I was wrong about the title, see below comment.

No, some other site (https://bitcoin-central.net/) fixed it within 5 minutes, not the one that was compromised (https://vircurex.com/).

Vircurex developer Kumala says on the thread that they will cover the losses:

"Before the wild speculations beginn, the service will be recovered and we pay the losses out of our own pockets."

Shortest TC article ever. Here's the source: http://www.macrumors.com/2013/01/09/apple-now-locking-screen...

Actual source: https://developer.apple.com/news/index.php?id=1092013a

That is not the source of the 'To Ward of Scammers' part. Apple only tells you what will change.

http://www.macrumors.com/2013/01/09/apple-now-locking-screen... gives an explanation for the 'why':

  "This small but important update shuts down a widely used scam tactic, where
   developers would upload game screenshots to get an app approved by Apple and
   then switch them out with screenshots from another popular app.

   The scam tricked people into buying fake apps with screenshots ripped from
   another, more popular game, or a game that has not been ported to iOS at all."

I'd wait a bit and then get a Windows 8 ultrabook. It comes down to personal preference though, in the end.

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