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I don't see how a data structure involves money and corruption.

Literally just a usecase for a blockchain, reinvented..

They've even put Jetbrains' IDE at the bottom of the "Staircase of intelligence" in their little infographic... I'm not sure if developers familiar with those tools can take this company seriously (especially given what they've done previously.)

I wonder what their look on say, IntelliJ, is.

I don't think it has much to do with Facebook. The way it works (from their website) is that the target has to be sent a link to click on, which opens a page that places a cookie on their browser and immediately forwards them to a generic article. Presumably they'll then be targeted by major ad networks based on this cookie.

Also be careful with opening many of these images, as they open in Google Drive. Which will display all images viewed on this blog the next time you open it.

I don't understand why you have your privacy policy as it is right now, at all.

Privacy is important to us. We want to do it right. (...) At no time is your DNA data shared - or sold - to any external party, period. (...) If a genome is uploaded, but the user does not continue and generate a report, the uploaded genome is automatically deleted immediately. As soon as a report has been generated (no more than 10 minutes) the uploaded genome is deleted.

Wow! A company that isn't out to steal your data! Great!

When using Meports you are uploading your genome to our central website for analysis. (...) By uploading your genome you grant us a temporary, limited, revocable, royalty-free, world-wide license to process and use your genome for the purpose of providing you with the service.

"Vision: We believe in using data and software in order to maximize everybody's quality of life. "

(Actually - you even have a different company "vision" on gene.meports.com. Which one is it?)

So what does this mean then? Are you using the word "analysis" to trick people into thinking you don't store data derived from the genome on your servers, but you're not storing the literal file someone is uploading? While, at the same time, reassuring clients you'll never store or sell their data?

Well, I hope the designer accounted for multiple colors failing to displayer properly. The pink and red are impossible to discern for me. My bank uses colored QR style codes and they're impossible to use with (very common) blue light filters active in the evening hours.

As an unmarried Young Adult (in the Netherlands) myself I can give my 2 cents about why I wouldn't get married; I've simply taken to heart the advice nearly every senior developer would give me; Don't EVER get married.

You're leaving out many things about coffee. Specifically, caffeine, which energy drinks are often loaded with. Caffeine on its own can cause anxiety (See "Caffeine-induced anxiety disorder") and is linked to depression. Let alone workers consuming caffeine during work time with headaches(or other withdrawal symptoms) on their days off who still haven't figured it out the stuff is just plain not good for you.

They've updated it to Major Outage and posted on twitter, albeit 17 minutes after the fact.

That's interesting. It's down for everyone at my company also. I've even tried connecting from different countries over VPN but to no avail..

Edit: If you go to the homepage without previous cookies, it works. However if you try to log in you'll see errors only.

TLDR from the document "The keylogger generates a small transparent window which is always under the mouse pointer requesting focus. Hence, local listeners are capable of capturing the entire user input (keystrokes and mouse clicks). In the following, this keylogger window closes while the captured user input is imitated.".

On first sight, this looks quite silly..

Well, eleet would be $31337.-

However in Google's case their top bounty is $3133.70

> I have a nagging suspicion that Google hoovered up my browsing history, bookmarks, passwords, etc. in the guise of "sync".

It does save some state even when you erase all your history. You can log into GMail, then go to your history and click to erase all history, after which the history settings page will scroll down (to hide the fact you're still logged into this sync thing?), and then when you go to GMail you're logged in again, effectively making Google bypass you clearing your cookies.