Well, I'm not touching that one with a ten foot pole.

The way it's worded, it looks like it's bait for the Palestinians or the North Koreans to install.

I don't know about that one, but having worms in your intestine can make you lose weight for sure.

See picture. It's just like a big bowl of yummy pasta!

Come on, it's being used at work cafeterias and at the gym. It's not the end of the world if someone clones it.

Don't worry. The last thing we need is Ubuntu phone users sending naked pictures of themselves to others.

I mean. It's on the list, but it's way down the list in terms of priority.

This is actually how Android does it. In android, you don't need to develop a full app, you can just connect activities from other apps (including system apps), and the user won't know the difference. This approach doesn't work for games thought (unless your game is super simple).

Obviously, you don't watch James Bond movies.

There is already a third party app on Facebook that does that.

It only works on the most contrived examples thought, where the lighting is the same and everything is aligned the same way.

My bad. I just read the article.

Your post should be upvoted and mine should be downvoted into oblivion.

No, they didn't get screwed.

The contract is written in such a way that it is always the merchants that take the financial hit for fraudulent charges, not the banks (even if the merchants themselves did everything correctly on their end).

Also calling the receptionist at a dentist's office "an insider" is misleading. That kind of language was specifically designed for the banks to avoid taking responsibility for the fraud. It was not the dentist's office that was being ripped off, it was Apple. By that novel definition "an insider", there are millions of Apple/Banking insiders in the US alone, from the waitress, the janitor, and the bus boy of every restaurant or little hole in the wall where they serve food, to the regular employee, janitor, intern, and temporary employee of every office building where credit card numbers are taken over the telephone.

I know the use of the word "insider" was introduced by Slashdot itself (either the submitter or the editor), but the word "employee" used in the title of the original ITWorld article leaves a lot to the imagination too, probably for that same reason that if one was to clearly describe what happened, everyone would be assigning blame to the banks and their system, instead of excusing the breach on having an insider employee somewhere (which is very hard to protect against).

This is actually a job for a good Japanese animation/manga studio, not Disney. There is an entire Japanese manga/anime genre for doing that kind of stuff. Hikaru No Go has inspired me to learn the game of go (although, I've only read the manga, I haven't watched the anime itself). Beck has inspired me to learn to play the guitar. Beck is actually a great anime series (that is nothing like the feel-good oversimplified typical American cartoons/animated movies that we know Hollywood and Disney to produce).

And there is this Japanese anime that inspires teenage girls to become fashion models, or them not to become fashion models, I can't recall its exact underlying aim, nor can't I recall the name of the series (it had a pink butterfly as its main symbol), but that anime made me cry even thought as a guy, I'm definitely not part of the target demographics this anime was made for. That was definitely a great anime series as well.

What are you talking about? When you freeze salaries, decrease the employee count, cut the company in half and throw away the half that went bad, you better have increased the revenue per each remaining employee at the very least.

Mitt Romney is also very good at increasing the revenue per employee. Does that also mean he's a woman? Or does he have a gender issue?

I wouldn't blame the University. Sometimes, students are just stupid.

In this particular case, the student was not only stupid, but also super lazy. And this false positive will in no way affect the reputation of the police or the bomb squad. In this case, they reacted the exact right amount (given the suspicious nature of the attachment).

If ads are no longer sustainable, it won't be the fault of ad blocking software. It will be the fault of the ads themselves.

There is actually an entire spectrum of advertisements, and Adblock doesn't block all of them. On Craigslist for instance, it's actually helpful that potential employers and potential landlords pay significant fees for each listing, it helps keep the noise down from third party recruiters and third party brokers that would flood those categories with too many listings otherwise.

Also for the sites that don't abuse the system of advertisements, it's easy enough to disable that ad-bocking software for the particular site you're on with just a right-click of the mouse. Generally speaking thought, people don't install ad blocking software unless there is a web site constantly pushing the boundaries of how many ads they'll serve you. The latest culprit being Hulu for instance.

Yes, that was at the beginning, but on March 2014 Uber actually updated/modified its commercial insurance coverage. This is in effect old news, for Uber in the US at least.

Not that this guarantees that you won't need to sue. If you get seriously injured in a taxi cab as well, expect to have to sue (or threaten to sue) the taxi insurance company and anybody else involved to try to extract a fair settlement.

Since similar usernames can also mean similar full names, it could make identity theft that much easier for that other person bearing a similar name as your sister.

Anyway, I hope that's not the case, and I hope that other person is not a criminal.