The only problem here being is this requires you to bank with B of A. Anecdotal evidence (as in everyone I know who has any experience with them) strongly suggests you avoid them, and I'll bet there's plenty of quantitative customer surveys to back it up.
I'd be totally OK with facebook subsidizing some the cost of new phone; just because they intend it for use on facebook doesn't mean a lot of clever folks won't find ways to repurpose it.
And yeah, this seems about as newsworthy as the TV they keep advertising that allows you to tweet and post to FB from your sofa and has dedicated buttons on the remote. BFD.
Google and facebook, two of the most scandalous purveyors of communication
...hysterical much? Sure Google and Facebook have issues, and the potential to be truly evil, the only reason they are even ever referred to as 'scandalous' is because their misbehavior has been an exception to the rule of generally decent behavior.
What 'purveyor of communication' would you prefer? J Randolf Hearst's 'yellow journalism', or Fox News, getting us into wars that actually kill people?
Jack Parsons, one of the founders of the JPL, was heavily involved with sex magick and other weirdness with L Ron Hubbard & Aliester Crowley. It's pretty hard to imagine him passing a thorough background check. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons
Historically, Apple has done a good job of getting their products in schools. I still remember how annoyed I was at having to learn MS-DOS after using nothing but Apples in school during the late 80's. My attitude then was, and still is to a lesser extent, why teach me on this device when the people doing actual work and making money are much more likely to be using something else?
It's been my experience that racism runs deeper in the Pacific Northwest, whereas in other parts of the country it runs broader. The vast majority of people in the NW are anti-racist, and casual racism is relatively uncommon, but there are many insulated pockets of far right racists that are very committed. I'm glad you haven't met any but there are quite a few nazi skinheads in Portland.
Gin Rummy(voiced by Samuel L Jackson): Basically, nigga technology is asomething that doesn't plug into a printer. Does that plug into a printer?
Ed Wuncler(voiced by Charlie Murphy): No
Gin Rummy: Wanna know why?
Ed Wuncler: Why?
Gin Rummy: 'Cause niggas never have nothin' to print.
- The Boondocks
and before you call me racist, an earlier quote from the same exchange "...and dont start trippin callin me a racist and shit because I mean nigga as a general term for ignorant mothafuckas."
T~10,000 boxes carried in one truck is more efficient than 10,000 car trips.
That is way too over simplified. A truck is still carrying 10K items from the factory 99% (or at least the vast majority) of the distance to your house whether it's to a shipping center or a store. From there, maybe 10K relatively fuel efficient personal vehicles driving to the store is preferable to 10K commercial truck deliveries.
Did anyone else find the bit about y8.com having connections to a porn site ridiculous and hysterical? I mean, so what? The magazine rack where I bought my comics as a kid had adult magazines on the top shelf, the local video store had a back room with adult videos, etc. As long as kids aren't being directed to adult content, whats the big deal?
Advance warning of storms are just like antibiotics in that they only help those who receive them when needed. Which is not everyone. But the more who do receive help, the greater the benefit to humanity. Which was kind of the point of my original pointed question, so this is getting tedious.
Once again, how many people need to be helped before you consider it a benefit to humanity? All of them? There's people who have never had antibiotics so you would not call antibiotics benefit to humanity?
OK. from http://dictionary.reference.com/ :
1.
all human beings collectively; the human race; humankind.
2.
the quality or condition of being human; human nature.
3.
the quality of being humane; kindness; benevolence.
It clearly benefits humanity in the 2nd & 3rd meaning of the word. As for the 1st, that's a subjective call as to how many people need to benefit, and by how much, before it's a collective benefit.
The positive spin on this story seems to me that although there were exploited vulnerabilities (but there always will be, that's why security is an ongoing process) it was effectively dealt with before any significant damages occurred. As long as lessons are learned, and remedies implemented this seems to be a good thing as far as I can tell.
DIY and commercial aren't mutually exclusive. Nearly all DIY projects incorporate commercial components. Like buying a new alternator for your car to install yourself instead of taking it to the garage, installing an OS yourself even though you didn't write it, or building your own airplane, say.
And by 'DIY' the article means as opposed to buying pre-packaged algae grown in a commercial farm.
When I was a teenager my girlfriends mother commented on my long dyed green hair (which was much less common 20 years ago - now I dye my lawn green; so stay off it!) I tried to convince her that it was green on account of my culturing a symbiotic edible algae in it for convenient snacking, which I don't think helped my cause at all.
And yes, I was under the influence of something else that was green when I thought that'd be a good idea.
No, it's really not. Whether people are noticing what your doing or not is the most important factor in getting away with a crime. Casing a joint in person remains the only real way to determine this, AFAIK, and all the other things you mention are much better evaluated by a visit as well. Street View isn't really going to show you that the neighbor typically sits looking out on where you want to enter, and it's much less a big deal being caught acting suspiciously than it is red handed in a criminal act.
IANAB (I Am Not A Burglar), but if I was I'd like to think I'd be good one.
It's no different from people letting their mail / newspapers stack up, leaving conspicuously vacant garages / parking spots, all the house lights off or any number of obvious "I'm not home! Good time to rob me!" signs.
Headline might as well be 'Bad Things Happen To Those Who Make Dumb Choices'
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The only problem here being is this requires you to bank with B of A. Anecdotal evidence (as in everyone I know who has any experience with them) strongly suggests you avoid them, and I'll bet there's plenty of quantitative customer surveys to back it up.
And yeah, this seems about as newsworthy as the TV they keep advertising that allows you to tweet and post to FB from your sofa and has dedicated buttons on the remote. BFD.
Google and facebook, two of the most scandalous purveyors of communication
What 'purveyor of communication' would you prefer? J Randolf Hearst's 'yellow journalism', or Fox News, getting us into wars that actually kill people?
Jack Parsons, one of the founders of the JPL, was heavily involved with sex magick and other weirdness with L Ron Hubbard & Aliester Crowley. It's pretty hard to imagine him passing a thorough background check. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons
Historically, Apple has done a good job of getting their products in schools. I still remember how annoyed I was at having to learn MS-DOS after using nothing but Apples in school during the late 80's. My attitude then was, and still is to a lesser extent, why teach me on this device when the people doing actual work and making money are much more likely to be using something else?
It's been my experience that racism runs deeper in the Pacific Northwest, whereas in other parts of the country it runs broader. The vast majority of people in the NW are anti-racist, and casual racism is relatively uncommon, but there are many insulated pockets of far right racists that are very committed. I'm glad you haven't met any but there are quite a few nazi skinheads in Portland.
Ed Wuncler(voiced by Charlie Murphy): No
Gin Rummy: Wanna know why?
Ed Wuncler: Why?
Gin Rummy: 'Cause niggas never have nothin' to print.
- The Boondocks
and before you call me racist, an earlier quote from the same exchange "...and dont start trippin callin me a racist and shit because I mean nigga as a general term for ignorant mothafuckas."
T~10,000 boxes carried in one truck is more efficient than 10,000 car trips.
That is way too over simplified. A truck is still carrying 10K items from the factory 99% (or at least the vast majority) of the distance to your house whether it's to a shipping center or a store. From there, maybe 10K relatively fuel efficient personal vehicles driving to the store is preferable to 10K commercial truck deliveries.
60 WPM on a mobile device 'keyboard'? Impressive, *if* true.
you don't buy many groceries at one time do you? How many items can you list in 140 characters?
Did anyone else find the bit about y8.com having connections to a porn site ridiculous and hysterical? I mean, so what? The magazine rack where I bought my comics as a kid had adult magazines on the top shelf, the local video store had a back room with adult videos, etc. As long as kids aren't being directed to adult content, whats the big deal?
Advance warning of storms are just like antibiotics in that they only help those who receive them when needed. Which is not everyone. But the more who do receive help, the greater the benefit to humanity. Which was kind of the point of my original pointed question, so this is getting tedious.
Once again, how many people need to be helped before you consider it a benefit to humanity? All of them? There's people who have never had antibiotics so you would not call antibiotics benefit to humanity?
giving someone advance warning of an oncoming storm qualifies as kindness. I'm sincerely sorry if that is not clear to you.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/09/16/129910351/how-your-brain-figures-out-what-it-doesn-t-know
It clearly benefits humanity in the 2nd & 3rd meaning of the word. As for the 1st, that's a subjective call as to how many people need to benefit, and by how much, before it's a collective benefit.
Exactly how many individuals does something have to benefit before you consider it beneficial to humanity?
That would make for a riveting thriller.
I'd say rivet popping thriller.
The positive spin on this story seems to me that although there were exploited vulnerabilities (but there always will be, that's why security is an ongoing process) it was effectively dealt with before any significant damages occurred. As long as lessons are learned, and remedies implemented this seems to be a good thing as far as I can tell.
And by 'DIY' the article means as opposed to buying pre-packaged algae grown in a commercial farm.
And yes, I was under the influence of something else that was green when I thought that'd be a good idea.
IANAB (I Am Not A Burglar), but if I was I'd like to think I'd be good one.
Headline might as well be 'Bad Things Happen To Those Who Make Dumb Choices'
Didn't we all learn the importance of tactile response in a keyboard around the time of the Timex Sinclair?
of course I meant to type 'threats' above, but I kind of like the humor of my mistake seeing it now