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I like having each service as an individual contact. Much easier. Can we see the same for Pownce? - Chris Nixon

Well, IMified has taken bot to a next level.. I even created a customized option to check my google calendar appointments for today (a quick schedule for today) by interacting with bot! Not sure, if they have one for Pownce.. - Jigar Mehta from bTT

One year later. Just bumping this because it's the one year anniversary of the only item on FriendFeed to get more than 400 likes. (452 at the moment) - Ken Sheppardson

450. - Volkan Yılmaz ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶

bkudri, idk if that does the comments. Example: http://www.louisgray.com/live... Below the post is "On FriendFeed, this post was liked by 55 people and commented on 52 times Show" and the friendfeed project only seems to port my profile to drupal (example; http://czarism.com/user...) - Czar

That's the WordPress Plugin called FriendFeed comments at work.Allen Stern at http://www.centernetworks.com has a similar function that shows FriendFeed comments only on his drupal site, although I'm not sure what he did to get that working. - Rob Safuto

Okay. I checked the source on Allan's web page. What he's doing is using a Yahoo Pipe at http://pipes.yahoo.com/pathawk... to connect with FriendFeed via their API using JSON. You'll need to add a script to your node template, an example of which you can find in the source of the page at http://www.centernetworks.com/jskit-a.... - Rob Safuto

let me know if you have any questions about what i did - it's not that great of course but its a start if you look at this story you can see a massive comment stream from both ff and cn :) -- http://www.centernetworks.com/friendf... - Allen Stern

<script src='http://pipes.yahoo.com/pathawk...'> </script> - Rob Safuto

Thanks for the solution! (reshared at http://friendfeed.com/rooms...) - Czar

The example on my site is Blogger based, written by Pat Hawks, which Rob points to. Here's how to do it: http://www.louisgray.com/live... - Louis Gray

Talk about bring an item back from the dead, Hao! - Aaron Myers

:P - Hao Chen

Bump to promote support of replying via identi.ca just like with Twitter replies. - xero

Bump again to promote dupe detection between Twitter and identi.ca - Cesar Cardoso

Ability to reply and the ability to detect duplicate microblogging posts in general, DO WANT. - Voyagerfan5761

Yes, dedupe Twitter and Identi.ca! I want to keep supporting Identi.ca but been contemplating removing it because of the dupes. - Oliver Ortega Chua

Oops - Brian Sullivan

:) - Paul Buchheit

I wonder how often these things are people actually targetting the information vs. just snatching up an unguarded laptop. - Gabe

Oh that's funny. But you know what would be funnier? If they lost the database containing the no-fly list. And if that said database would end up in the hands of a public advocacy group, who would then take them to task on it. That would be beautiful. - Raoul Pop

CitiBank also lost millions of peoples id while transfering over ocean if i'm not wrong. In addition LayeredTech customer accounts and server administration password in ticketing application was hacked about a year ago :) - Harun Baris Bulut

Of course, who knows if the data was copied off. I can't believe that they have it all unencrypted. It could have been stolen at any time by anyone with 60 seconds access to the laptop without anyone knowing. - Kevin Fox

and we have to trust these fools with our data (during security checks!) - Shivanand Velmurugan

Kevin: Would it matter if the data were encrypted? Presumably the laptop was able to decrypt the data, so the person who stole it would be able to use the laptop to decrypt the data. - Gabe

I hope they had tracking software like LoJack for Laptops on it. - Mike Hussein Cohen

Gabe: Usually encrypted data requires a key or passphrase that isn't stored in the computer, and is entered as-needed by the operator to decrypt the sensitive data. I agree that encryption on the whole would be pretty useless otherwise. - Kevin Fox

On encryption: Mac's filevault encrypts your whole home directory and stores it as a sparseimage when you log out. When you log in, it decrypts the directory. Assuming that you have your computer set to require a password to wake from sleep, this is pretty good protection. On the other hand, it does slow things down somewhat, and caused a few programs to crash. I decided that I didn't really have that much sensitive data anyways. - Robert Felty

Even if the data was encrypted, and the password wasn't stored on the laptop, the enterprising thief could could crack a short password relatively quickly. And for longer passwords, EC2 would suffice in a jiffy, although it would cost a bit. - Benjamin Kudria

It's not necessarily the case that the password can be quickly cracked. Of course in practice the password would probably be "password", "password1", or written on a post-it note attached to the computer. Very few people actually understand security, and those that do are unlikely to work for the TSA. - Paul Buchheit

Paul: Maybe quickly enough, given enough cash? Cracking is easily parallelized, no? Given enough money, you could get a bunch of EC2 instances churning on it, and maybe, come up with the password, in, say, a week? I haven't run the numbers, though. Is there a calculator for this sort of thing? - Benjamin Kudria

That would be MY info, probably - Francine Hardaway from twhirl

It was probably US Customs who took it: http://blog.wired.com/27bstro... - Ryan Kaisoglus

I don't see what the big deal is here. If these people had anything to hide they wouldn't be applying for CLEAR in the first place. - Kevin D. White

It's not about having something to hide. This data includes unchangeable unique identifiers like fingerprints and iris images. The whole point of such exotic data is so that you can prove you're you. If someone else has access to that data they can spoof your identity with latex fingerprints and specially-printed contact lenses, and not just for getting ahead in line at the airport, but for whatever more secure things you might have access to later on in your lifetime. - Kevin Fox

Imagine if the data had your address and the key to your house, and anyone copying it could now get into your house whenever they wanted for the rest of your life, and you couldn't just change the locks because fingerprints and irises are permanent and unchangeable. - Kevin Fox

Kevin, I think Kevin may be making a humorous point about people eagerly giving up their privacy :) - Paul Buchheit

I have no sense of humor. I can't tell. Occasionally I throw in emoticons to cover this fact. - Kevin Fox

;-) - Kevin Fox

There's nothing funny about entrusting your personal data to people that spend their days shaking down old ladies because 4oz of Jergins is one ounce of death. - Kevin D. White

Agreed. - Kevin Fox

Technically this was Clear Inc. or whatever, right, not the TSA? Clear never shakes down old ladies. In fact, they have excellent customer service. Of course, they shouldn't exist. - ⓞnor

There's no excuse for companies not encrypting laptop hard drives. The technology is easy to use and readily available. - Steve Weis

This should have been encrypted if for no other reason than preventing a "common thief" from realizing what he has. If someone was specifically targeting this laptop then they no doubt have the means of getting past the encryption, but if it were picked up in a crime of convenience then at least the odds are very strong the thief wouldn't know what was stored on the laptop. :-/ - Robert DeBord

I think that common thieves don't have a clue how to find databases on laptops. Unless the data was in an Excel spreadsheet or something, a person who didn't know the data was there would be pretty unlikely to find it. - Gabe

So that's what CLEAR stands for -- providing transparent access to your private data to random thieves - j1m

Oops! It looks like the laptop was "not in an obvious location" in the room where it supposedly went missing from. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin... - Gabe

This just happened at Stanford (a laptop with Stanford employees' info going back a very long time) as well. - Chieze Okoye

ahhh geeks - Dobromir Hadzhiev

pg? on friendfeed? subscribed! - Benjamin Kudria

Welcome. - Gabe

subscribed! - Sarah Perez

Bienvenido! - Martin Añazco

Best "Like" of the day! - Erhan Erdogan

Greetings from (almost certainly) the other side of the planet - Jonathan Beckett

World, hello! - Eren Emre Kanal

Hello. - Aaron Myers from twhirl

Wow, ripple effect. See what happens when one person likes? - Hao Chen

Hi Paul - sergiooo

hi, where are your services? - Alan Le

Hi Paul! You look familiar for some reason... - Franklin Naval

Well hello there!! - Matt Donders from fftogo

Gold. http://www.paulgraham.com/article... - Hao Chen

Ah, yes. I think I was watching a video of him on startups early this morning. - Franklin Naval

main() { printf("hello, world"); } - Heidi Moon

Welcome. - Jonathon

(prn "Hello, world!") - Jim Norris

@Jim damnit, thats what i was going to say - Sam Pullara

<?php echo 'hello world'; ?> - AJ Batac

Hello PG! - Jonathan Tang

This post is rated PG - Gabe

Hello there! - Paresh Jain

Welcome welcome !! - Suryakant Patidar

welcome++ ; - pramodp

aww <3 - Pınar Yanardağ

is it the real pg :) - Rakesh

welcome Paul - Sudha Jamthe

Just a "hello" ??????? : ) - Erhan Erdogan

Seconded. If you have Reddit, you need News.YC too! http://news.ycombinator.com - Benjamin Kudria

news.yc needs per-user rss feeds first. http://news.ycombinator.com/item... - Paul Buchheit

I imported a custom http://ycfeeds.com feed into my FF for now (but it only shows the first line and links to News.YC). - Alex Barbara

I vote for this as well. - Brandon Titus