I think you meant to say Microsoft 10 phones.

Once their phones are compatible with Android, they're planning to ditch the Windows name.

It's going to look a lot like Florida, where the local sheriff's office makes checking-up phone calls to its elderly population every single morning as part of their primary duty. It's a great way to make sure the Sheriff gets re-elected that way.

On a side-note, it seems like the Japanese have found a replacement business model for their postal service. We could try doing something similar in the US.

Technology can only get us so far. There always needs to be a certain amount of (live non-remote) human contact.

I'm not an apple fanboy, but the real fact is that most people don't read warnings anyway (even if they had been given, which they clearly weren't).

For a limited time, Apple should just give refunds to people with tattoos on their wrists. It's not like that many people are going to qualify. Or if those people don't want a refund, they could just disable the wrist detection function and forget about using the heart monitoring and watch apple pay. Let's not pretend that this watch is anything more than a superfluous gadget, a wealth status symbol, or a fashion accessory.

People with tattoos have many more things to worry about than an Apple watch anyway.

It's really the tattoo parlors that should have warnings and disclaimer forms that clients should sign.

Also I should say, the first time I tried Uber, I was given a promo code for $20 (these are not hard to get if you want to give Uber a try yourself, you just need to google for one, the only problem is that you can only use them once).

In my case, I made sure that the upper limit of my quote was less than $20. So for the first Uber trip I took, I basically didn't risk any of my own money (although, I did need to provide the app with my credit card number). So if the Uber car didn't come within the 3 minutes it said it would, I could have basically walked away not losing a single cent on the transaction.

One beginner mistake I made thought, was to set the pick up location automatically based on my gps sensors. I shouldn't have done that. With Uber, you have to adjust the pick up location manually before you do anything else. The app doesn't allow you to tweak the pick up location after you've inquired about a ride, so be sure to set that part first. That's the only UI usability problem I had with the app, otherwise the rest of the process is done very well and the entire app is extremely well polished (even on Android, which is the phone OS I use).

FedEx is a lot more like Uber than you think. FedEx drivers are independent contractors. They get no benefits, no overtime, no sick leave, and no insurance. They pay for and maintain their own vehicles.

And yes, there was even a time when the US Post Office was trying to outlaw FedEx, because FedEx drivers had the gall to sometimes use door mail slots (instead of just leaving the envelopes on the ground in front of people's doorways when they were not home).

In any case, FedEx had some rough patches when it started out and FedEx did some questionable things. The same will happen with Uber. For one thing, now that Uber is no longer a startup, its CEO needs to get fired/resign. He is simply too direct and not socially mature enough to be the mouth-piece for the company.

Is that a new position? Or does Turkey like the Armenians better than the Kurds somehow?

When Noam Chomsky wrote about the treatment of Kurdish people in Turkey, the position of the Turkish government was to prosecute Noam Chomsky's Turkish publisher.

I don't need a guarantee. Uber lets me know in real-time where the available Uber cars are located (along with real-time traffic information and the number of stars that a driver has). That's more than enough for me. If I don't see an available Uber car on the map near me before I order, then I know I can't rely on Uber to pick me up. It's as simple as that.

And if I make an order, and an Uber driver accepts that order, then that Uber car is immediately taken off the public map of Uber cars, and I am the only one who can see it moving on the map.

Not only that, but once an Uber car driver accepts a pick up order from someone, he isn't being bombarded with other offers along the way. Also, his rating is at stake, because Uber will ask me to rate him after the ride (whether he picked me up on time, or not). In addition to that, even if I falsify my customer rating of the driver by saying that he took 30 more minutes than he was supposed to by taking a detour in between, Uber could verify my claim with the gps data of the driver, and/or the gps data and time of my pick up on my phone (which I assume is logged when the Uber app is in use).

So this isn't me being clever. I'm just someone who has used Uber in the past. Anyone who uses Uber at least once would come to the same conclusion I have.

That being said, let me add a disclaimer: When I make fun of Taxi cabs, I make fun of the Taxi Cabs in San Francisco. If you don't live or work in a city like San Francisco, or New York, where medallions are extremely expensive and insanely scarce because of corruption, then you may not have had the same problems with taxi cabs during peak hours as I have had.

It's not a taxicab because it actually shows up when you call one.

I bet that maintaining a Twitter and Facebook presence will help with her re-election campaign.

Also, she's not bad looking as far as judges go. In American politics, good looks count for a lot.

Slaughter is actually the perfect name for a judge in Texas. I bet she got 3,000 votes for her last name alone.

And Maloney sounds too much like baloney, that poor guy was doomed from the start. Why did he even run? I have no idea.

Sure, I was a dick, but I didn't do anything Microsoft didn't do itself.

I can confirm. Microsoft gave me a free Windows phone. It now has Android CyanogenMod on it and it is super smooth.

The ones with money.

You lose the market of the country in question.

In any case, you're asking the wrong questions. You're looking at it from the perspective of one of those big cloud providers. The truth is, the big players can't protect your site. The big players have too much to lose. If you want your site protected, you can not go to the cloud.

You have to contract with a small independent company (a real company, not just a reseller) who is willing to protect you. If you want to host a porn web site, there are hosting companies that specialize in that, these hosts can even protect you against denial of service attacks. If you want to host a site that doesn't bow down to China, there are hosting companies that specialize in that too. If you want to host a site that is free from the influence of the NSA, you at least know to stay away from US companies (even if they have their servers in your own country).

If you don't know where to look, you just need to look for content that is similar to yours on the internet and trace their ip address to see what host they're using. You'll have to pay a premium for their service, but that's only because those hosting companies are not reselling a commodity, they're selling you a very unique specialized service that is tailored to your needs.

Or the more likely case is that German Intelligence are traitors to their own country.

Finally, a like-minded individual. What movie/book should we boycott next?

I tried boycotting a Harry Potter matinee once, but those little 8 year old kids can be incredibly violent and cruel.

And continuing on my initial line of thought.

I think that Groupon should assign $500 to that one security flaw disclosed by Brute_Logic (again, it can't be 32 flaws, because it's essentially only one flaw on 32 sites owned by Groupon), and then it should give that money as a donation to the EFF (under the pseudonym Brute_Logic).

This would send the right message to future researchers who discover future flaws, that Groupon can be fair, but that researchers need to follow protocol if they really want the money to go to them.