Don't they already do that? :P

Not for the countries that don't use that date format. I wonder if people celebrated pi day back in 3/14/1592. :P

Create a bogus FB account and check it out. I have a few, each for various things I'm checking out.

I don't want a mobile phone, but I do want a smartwatch that doesn't need a mobile phone like the old school Casio Data Bank 150/300. :(

http://deslide.clusterfake.net... OR http://desli.de/11IH for one ugly web page to read all at once! ;)

A yellow icon that is quite obvious, and an information button telling you why you got the ad?

It's pretty obvious even at a glance, in fact, I'd say the color that is distinct, and no where else on the page makes it easier to see.

I click on ads all the time.

When I'm trying to do commerce, I find it a better experience clicking on the ad links. If a company is paying for ads, they likely also work on UX of their site too.

Car shopping? the first link is usually the manufacturers link, that's convenient too, and local dealerships. Perhaps that's blackmail though, because the first organic result tends to be the company too.

If people are willing to pay to give me information based on my search, there's a decent chance they have what I'm looking for, that's often a great way to find worthwhile links. This is all simply for when I'm looking to do business though, most of my searches don't apply.

What does style over substance mean in this context? The only thing I can think is design over specs?

That's not a strictly Japanese, or apple thing though. It's what makes an M3 better than a neon srt (obviously other things, this is an extreme example, as they were priced no where similar ).

The iPhone provided a good browser experience, yes, it wasn't 3g, but the browser was great, and there was WiFi. Everything you wanted to read on a phone, you could see twice as much of on an iPhone, calendars were better, text histories were better, maps were better, reading email was better. These are all arguably things of style, but it me for a better phone.

Style is how you get more out of the same substance, and it counts for a lot. It's why pottery is worthless, while others is priceless.

Join any of the closed but visible anti-vax groups on Facebook. These parties go on to this day.

... meanwhile on anti-vax FB pages that I have gotten into, they are having measles-parties, mumps-parties, and the like. Intentionally exposing their kids to disease.

"individual phones actually *poll* towers every few seconds"

I highly doubt that. A 2G gsm phone left next to an audio cable will only generate the familiar "bidibip" noise once an hour or so. I assume it does that in response to an "are you still there" request from the tower.

The radio transmitter in a cellphone is about one watt. For battery lifetime, you really don't want the transmitter to activate every few seconds.

Yeah pure battery won't work well. Hybrid+battery/capacitor would be better. Electric motor tech is fine for heavy stuff - diesel electric locomotives are really heavy.

Depending on the engine/turbine you could even have multi-fuel support - gas, petrol diesel, vegetable oil. This gives you more options in crisis scenarios.

Coal gets a bad rap because almost all of our coal energy comes from 1970s era plants that have been getting exemptions from required upgrades for close to 50 years now. The plants that have been built since then (about 5% of all current plants) are awesome technological marvels, but they're in the vast minority.

Gold (vs bread, or guns, or cars, or gas, or pretty much anything ) is not particularly stable.

Yeah encfs is great for live filesystems, no argument there. I meant for archiving and backups of things offsite, should have clarified.