Comment Re:Not going to use it (Score 4, Interesting) 146
The requirement of using G+ to post on Youtube has made this a better world. I haven't posted any comment on Youtube videos since that tie-in began to be enforced.
Any scammer worth his salt does his homework and already knows the victim's kids' / grandkids' names anyway, so this is kind of pointless. Best advice is to hang up and try to contact the supposed kidnapped person first.
Not really. It's too much work doing research, those scammers work by infusing a sense of urgency to situation and the ones capable of keeping calm in the face of an emergency are the less gullible.
However, Sharp's strategy may backfire, for a scammer, upon being intercepted by a scam prevention system, may perceive that the person who he is calling as more likely to be vulnerable, and so, worth more effort.
(...), you have to buy your gas only from Apple gas stations (...) On the plus side, the exhaust smells like a combination of vanilla and smug.
It's more like it will be an electric car---and the plug will only be compatible with Apple charging station outlets---so, there will be no exhaust, and therefore no "plus side".
We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts. -- Patrick Moynihan
