Not saying this as an apple fanboy -- Apple is a high-profile company culturally, so it seems to me this kind of news comes out because they know it will be more inflammatory (trolling news).
Do you know the working conditions of the other computer manufacturers or of the parts you bought to build your own? Are you sure they are significantly better? Do you buy them anyway? I know I have no idea.
I'll echo the above comment and also say that I really don't care if they see my credit card transactions at the mall or at a restaurants. I can always take out cash from an ATM if I want to make Shady Purchase X.
If you are really all that concerned you can just open an account at Bank A to hold all of your savings and use a personal account at Bank B. Use Bank B for transactions that you want to follow with mint. Use Bank A for savings so mint doesn't know how much money you have. Using an online bank like Ally Bank would make this easy.
Mint.com is pretty great for connecting to whatever bank you have and it'll download your reports and also automatic categorization. I have almost 2 years of data in it, and they let you download it all CSV. It also has me in the habit of checking all of my accounts once a week, by just logging onto one website. Nice way to be on top of anything that might be fraudulent.
What would be the difference in searching for them using a telescope? Sure, there are differences in the physiology of a machine versus a biological form, but either way the only thing we have to detect them is attempting to find discernible patterns from random noise in space.
So, no there are no important differences on the matter of detecting alien intelligence.
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[racism]I wonder if they'll call it the orient express?[/racism]
Not saying this as an apple fanboy -- Apple is a high-profile company culturally, so it seems to me this kind of news comes out because they know it will be more inflammatory (trolling news). Do you know the working conditions of the other computer manufacturers or of the parts you bought to build your own? Are you sure they are significantly better? Do you buy them anyway? I know I have no idea.
I'm really not sure what value they are going to derive from finding out that I am friends with a few college buddies and like MST3K.
I don't understand why we are working to try to reboot an evil robot AI. This sounds like the kind of thing that you do not do.
Follow up article: Mythbuster's lightweight armor fails in the field. MYTH BUSTED!!
Why would anyone be so bold as to say that this is the "last" delay?
No one can tell me to RTFA, since it wasn't even given to me!
Yeah, a real tragedy that you have to go switch the side the buttons are in the settings.
In the first rollout, there was no setting dialog to change it. You had to google ubuntu forums and modify files.
What does it mean to be "barely" 13%?
Yeah, it happened one time randomly when I was navigating the menu. I couldn't repeat it, and all seems to be fine now.
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I agree completely.
This article needs an update. Motorola has already officially apologized for the youtube admin's tone.
What happens when the lead car drives off the road?
is that the first game looks nothing like Pong, but rather, Breakout.
On the FL license it already states, "Operation of a motor vehicle constitutes consent to any sobriety test required by law."
You don't become a member. You either decide to act Anon or not.
I'm not sure that 1PC = 1Phone.
That's really interesting, because it's a pretty common joke that he made that mistake in the USA.
Oh, and that reminds me, Ally Bank lets you download everything CSV and retains all of your records online. This could be an option for the OP.
I'll echo the above comment and also say that I really don't care if they see my credit card transactions at the mall or at a restaurants. I can always take out cash from an ATM if I want to make Shady Purchase X. If you are really all that concerned you can just open an account at Bank A to hold all of your savings and use a personal account at Bank B. Use Bank B for transactions that you want to follow with mint. Use Bank A for savings so mint doesn't know how much money you have. Using an online bank like Ally Bank would make this easy.
Mint.com is pretty great for connecting to whatever bank you have and it'll download your reports and also automatic categorization. I have almost 2 years of data in it, and they let you download it all CSV. It also has me in the habit of checking all of my accounts once a week, by just logging onto one website. Nice way to be on top of anything that might be fraudulent.
I'm not going to even try to be insightful, informative, funny, blah. This is just lame.
What would be the difference in searching for them using a telescope? Sure, there are differences in the physiology of a machine versus a biological form, but either way the only thing we have to detect them is attempting to find discernible patterns from random noise in space. So, no there are no important differences on the matter of detecting alien intelligence.
"The Facebook account, which describes itself as male, says it is interested in men and is looking for networking." It explains everything!