Oceanographers are at a loss to explain the lack of plastic floating in our oceans. "Where the fuck did it go?" asked Omar Roberts, head of oceanography at the Skips Institute. "We've thrown shit-tons of plastic into the ocean. Where is it?"
Omar, though, has a theory. "The Kraken ate it. We're feeding the fucking Kraken. Jeeeesus!"
Taxi medallions are so expensive because medallion owners want them that way. By restricting the medallions, they restrict the competition.
Has this resulted in better service? In NY, ask the people in the outer boroughs if they can get cabs.
I (and they) can do this already with Amazon PriceCheck and the normal Amazon app. Why bother making a whole cellphone just do reinvent the wheel?
It's odd - I'm not sure if a phone would drive more amazon services. What's their motivation? They already see what I buy, when, and in many cases for whom, but they don't really seem to use that information very effectively.
I see some targeted stuff, but not as much as I would expect given my ridiculously long shopping history. A phone would allow them to know more, but they don't seem to be using the data the have...so the extra data would be pointless.
They're not like google, in that their mobile is not a stalking horse for targeted ads. They're not really like Apple, since they don't really make high-end hardware. Launching a cellphone because you're feeling left out isn't really a great business case. Amazon doesn't really need to control the experience, since you can buy anything on amazon on other platforms.
Maybe they got a good deal on bulk minutes and cheap hardware, and want to pass the savings onto the public?
Title 47
http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/te...
I don't particularly want to understand the FCC's area of authority, so here is Title 47.
If it's stripe data, that implies the POS readers were compromised, just like Target. Interesting.
From what little I understand, the public WiFi stuff is on a separate upstream channel.
It's not using your bandwidth, but it is using bandwidth that Comcast doesn't want to make available to you, which isn't quite the same thing.
Well, this is an unfortunate simplification of reality.
Apple has changed processor architectures for various reasons, but the generally accepted reason for moving to the x86 architecture from PowerPC was that IBM was unwilling to continue to invest in a low-power version of the PowerPC line. You can't build a Macbook air with a PowerPC unless you have a lap made of asbestos.
There were other benefits as well, but that was a significant one.
Apple didn't move to x86 because it was popular, Apple moved to x86 because Intel was able to provide them the thermal envelope they wanted.
The only report I was able to find with real numbers estimated kindle sales at 20.5 million:
"A ton of them" is not how most people represent sales figures.
Just look at Samsung's sales reporting. They lied like crazy about sales.
Amazon has never told anyone how many kindles they've sold. Where did that 40 million number come from?
This has been happening forever. Did the OP just get online recently? What planet is the OP from?
As our limited experiences with radiation has shown, you don't get:
* monsters
* superpowers
* aliens
You just get dead, mostly. Then after that, not much.
Turn a bureaucrat into a leader? That's like turning a software developer into a manager.
If you kill enough leaders, you are left with a bunch of bureaucrats. And as everyone knows, bureaucrats don't do much of anything.
So yes, killing leaders works, in the sense that removing people who are able and willing to take risks will eventually cause their organization to atrophy and die.
A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. -- Thomas Jefferson
