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Apple Just Says Yes To iPhone Smoking Game 192

Posted by kdawson
from the thought-they-were-banning-e-cigs dept.
ZosX sends along a puff piece from Wired's Brian X. Chen: "Apple on Monday approved Puff Puff Pass, a $2 game whose objective is to pass a cigarette or pipe around and puff it as many times as you can within a set duration. So much for taking the high road, Apple. The game allows you to choose between smoking a cigarette, a cigar, and a pipe. Then you select the number of people you'd like to light up with (up to five), the amount of time, and a place to smoke (outdoors or indoors). And you're ready to get right on puffing."
Privacy

Olympics In Brazil? Beware The Visa Application! 5

Submitted by BuhDuh
BuhDuh writes "Not that I intend to go, but we planned to take a cruise later this year, as part of a European vacation, from Portugal to Brazil. That's when the fun started. You need a visa. No problem, fill in a form online starting at the official government site. Wait a minute! A government in a sovereign country can't afford a valid security certificate from a trusted authority?

It gets worse. Among other choice pieces of information you will be required to supply on this untrusted site are:
full biographical info, including mother and father's full names!?
complete details of your passport — number, date of issue/expiry/where issued etc
schooling details!?
current employment!?
full address/zip/phone/email

Is this a perfect recipe for identity theft, or am I just a paranoid who misplaced his tinfoil hat?"

Comment: Re:What Idiots (Score 2, Interesting) 229

by Cennon (#26589685) Attached to: Fraudsters Abusing Canada's Do-Not-Call List

I used to work as a caller for a marketing research company in Canada (read: surveys - NO sales), and we called the U.S. more often than not. We ran into a lot of people that would honk on mightily about their rights regarding the do-not-call list, not realizing that - at the time, at least - we were exempt by virtue of our business: opinions, not sales.

I can't imagine ever telling a person that 'the US list doesn't apply to us'. I wonder if they were actually in Canada, or just saying so (the telemarketer equivalent of a maple leaf on their backpack.)

It doesn't do any business any good to ignore the local laws. The logic of a previous post applies: - if people don't want to be talked to, why bother badgering them? There's plenty of other people to talk to.

However, it would have been nice (and more effiicient) if people realized that the do-not-call list was limited to sales. If they want it changed, they should talk to the people in charge of the legislation. If what people want is "no businesses I don't know may call me, EVER", they need to write a law that states that.

Mieux vaut tard que jamais!