mod up please. This AC has the most insightful response on this topic.

I find this belief correlates with people who have no idea what the constitution says or does. They don't even realize that it says basic things like that there will be a president, or that senators serve 6 year terms, or that the president is commander-in-chief of the military. These are simple concrete things people can understand, and they can then realize how relevant it is.

I gotta say while this is a double-edged sword, I like it. I use FF at work and when the IT department started a MITM attack and added their phony certs to everyone's machines, I was the only one to notice. Both because Firefox didn't pick-up the new certs, and because SSL observatory caught it. SSL observatory should be mandatory on every browser for this reason!

Bullhonkey! :-)

This saying is along the lines of famous phrases like "write once run everywhere" that are oversimplifications. You kinda point out the limitations of your own statement when you point out things that vary across browsers. Things like deployment becomes about deploying to servers and server farms and upgrading databases, which isn't trivial. Learning IIS, Apache, Tomcat, Postgres, etc. are serious skills. As for old versions: try upgrading a database when users may be on the system during the deployment. And think about old versions of browers, phones, etc: OS matters on both the client and server side.

Perhaps the problem is that the kind of people who can bring about large changes in society tend to be egotistical, ambitious, dictatorial personalities. Those who desire power are often the least likely to use it well. That doesn't mean that such a society is impossible, but merely that the kinds of people who are capable of bringing it about without turning into dictators are so rare that such a person has not yet been born.

So, none of them?

Honestly asking. I haven't bothered reading any video game specific site in years, primarily because video game sites seemed to either be the corporate "blatantly in bed with the publishers" type (IGN) or "shitty blog not worth anyone's time" type (Kotaku). I'm curious if any gaming review outlet actually turned down the offer and insisted on reviewing a release copy.

Which would explain how Zoosk got her postal code. Your Facebook name and profile picture are (by default at least) entirely public. Anyone going to your Facebook page can see them. They're available through Facebook's Graph API without any form of authentication.

Your postal code, on the other hand, is not. In fact, Facebook doesn't even record that type of information. Your "current location" is basically freeform. (Technically it's a "page" for a given city. But I think you can enter anything you want in there.)

Facebook's ads API, on the other hand, allows you to target by postal code...

Really? What's different? (Yeah yeah: someone will tell me I should buy the book... I'll add to my book list and get to it by 2047).

This is just a friendly reminder that the purpose of Facebook games is to get your personal information. When you "install" the game you get a EULA that grants the game access to your profile. But, as far as I know, clicking on a Facebook ad should not give them your profile. The article mentions OAuth, but that should not be relevant to an advertisement.

It is a big factor.

First, a clarification: They aren't talking about making small community police forces. They are talking about having the one central police force patrol with some consistency, so they get to know the community and build relationships. I'm imagining that officer Joe patrols Elm street every Monday, rather than seeing Elm street once a year.

Here in Maryland, both of the candidates for Attorney General were fighting over who could address this problem with the police force better. They talked about how difficult it is to conduct an investigation in a Baltimore City neighborhood when even the people you are trying to help don't know you and don't trust you. Previously, the department was organized by specialty. So there is a homicide investigator, a fraud investigator, a drug investigator, etc. They covered those crimes regardless of geography. Now they are saying each investigator gets a district, regardless of the type of crime. So the community gets to see the same face over and over again. That investigator learns who they can go to, who to believe, etc. Patterns form.

It's the realization that crime is about people and places not statistics.

Is London as diverse as NYC?

Hard time following this. The potential 4.7 million people contribute billions to the economy and without them we'd tank again. I heard the same screwing the american worker and milking entitlements myths repeatedly. It puts me in mind of what one commentator once referred to as "Factoids", arguments which have no truth at all, but people repeat over and over in hopes they will become true. Well, some of that is working, because some people are believing these tales as truths and would happily cut their own throats (mustard and onion extra) to act on these fantasies.

Tech, agriculture, service industries, foot services, etc. all benefit from the well behaved illegals. And we, the people who buy goods or services from these people benefit, as well. It's a mystery to me that so much untruth is accepted these days. I figure it began with Rush Limbaugh and is now carried out by hundreds of others since, who wind up people for profit. Nothing seems to sell like telling people what they need to fear and whom they need to loath.

The current version of OS X is 10.10.1. (10.10 is Yosemite. They stopped using big cat names with 10.9, which was Mavericks.)

The Windows kernel version has almost never matched the marketing versions:

Windows 95: 4.0
Windows 98: 4.10
Windows ME: 4.90
Windows 2000: 5.0
Windows XP: 5.1
Windows Vista: 6.0
Windows 7: 6.1
Windows 8: 6.2
Windows 8.1: 6.3

(Note: Starting with Windows 2000, the versions are NT versions, Windows 95/98/ME are actually numbered based on the DOS Windows (as in Windows 3.1).)