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Shaving, cooking, gardening, driving and a vast host of other life skills seem totally off the radar here. Arguably, these skills are more important to an individuals existence than most of the ones being considered.
concertina226 writes: Computer science researchers from Boston's Northeastern University have proved that e-commerce sites are tracking the online shopping habits of people and will charge individuals different prices, depending on what type of device they are using to access a website.
300 participants ran product searches earlier this year on the websites of 16 big US and international retailers, online travel agencies and car rental companies.
Their search results showed that retailers like Home Depot, Sears, JC Penneys, Macy's, Cheaptickets, Orbitz, Priceline, Expedia and Travelocity have been charging higher prices to users on Macs or Android devices, and some retailers had been giving out secret discounts to users on certain devices.
Rambo Tribble writes: Groupon has announced they will work with the GNOME Foundation to come to a satisfactory resolution over the recent naming controversy that had the open source community up in arms. Their statement is appended to this Engaget article. Bottom line, "... if we can't come up with a mutually acceptable solution, we'll be glad to look for another name."
My question is, does this represent Gnu thinking on the part of Groupon?
Terrorists commandeer many of society's tools. From Boeings to biology to printing presses, almost any tool that serves a society can be turned by terrorists to serve their ends.
Rambo Tribble writes: The New York Times is reporting that pharmacy chains Rite Aid and CVS Health have disabled Apple Pay in their stores, this weekend. Speculation is that this move is to support the rival MCX (Merchant Customer Exchange) e-payment system. Rite Aid and CVS are both members of the consortium backing MCX.
... I first read about a couple innocently falling afoul of this phenomenon in the Reader's Digest, in the early ninteen-sixties. I was in grade school at the time. Here, some sixty years later, it's illuminating to see the progess we've made.
Meanwhile, the order is said to affect over 1,300 aircraft, and some airlines are baulking, since the problem has never been seen in operation, that the order presents "a high, and unnecessary, financial burden on operators".