Likely to be one of the shortest books.

Standards XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/

I should clarify I searched and found about a dozen articles from various publications discussing this claim. Some are just cribbing from the others, but a few have more in depth discussion. Almost every one of them has that same softening sentence though.

Every one of these article has a softening sentence along the lines that "it is unlikely your devices are listening to you". Why it is 'unlikely'? The technology exists and the PII-stealing data sellers have done worse in the past. Seems like a fairly logical next step attack vector for them.

Those 150 mph 2x4 spears would never hit me!

Where do you hide a tree? In the forest, of course!

How do you hide your data? Create a forest to hide it!

Set up random boring channels like CSPAN. Or channels of polar opposite interest, like Classical music and wresting. And keep streaming them to the tv whenever you go out. With enough randomization, they will never know what you are really watching and what is shown to the empty room

No organization that takes actions due to genuine concerns about abusive behavior ends up with Lawrence Summers on the BOD - Summers is the dictionary definition of abusive behavior (and stupidly abusive at that). Something else was going on.

(Two Questions: (Can I watch it in vi? (or vim?))

(Is there an emacs project to stream it to emacs))

So many people use the same password on multiple sites, including the big name site. So when a useless low value site gets compromised and its stupidly maintained username-password dictionary gets leaked, many accounts from big boys like Amazon, Google, Microsoft get compromised.

So password hashing, validation and the entire password process should be for free for anyone who asks. May be they can write it off as a loss and claim some tax benefit.

There are communities in Western and Southern India that have been practicing vegetarianism for centuries. Most famous are the Palghat, mostly Shaivait Hindu Brahmins from the Palghat pass in the Western ghats, on the border between Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Became civil servants during the Raj and large diaspora exists in Bombay, Delhi and all over the USA. Famous for coconut based avial, and other super delicious food.

Then there is Udipi cuisine, mostly Vaishnavait brahmins, well know for their restaurants. Gujarati food is mostly sweet, not very spicy and has lots of dairy. They are mostly Hindu trading castes spread all over the world.

If you want to get away from nascent experiments by largely meat eating cultures trying to develop a meatless alternatives look at those who have been refining it for centuries.

No amount of complaining/bellyaching will help. This is the much praised "efficiency of private sector" that some politicians talk about when they talk about social security or health care. Remember that, next time they denounce government as inefficient. Efficiency for private sector is defined as the ability to squeeze the last drop out of the hapless customer

Adam Smith's invisible hand providing the maximum goods and services at the minimum cost does not happen when there are monopolies, cartels and collusion. May be with the rise of ride hailing apps, someone will cherry-pick 200 to 300 mile sector away from the airlines and buses.

If you say "If xxx lives up to its promise ..." and you make the promise on behalf of xxx, you can finish that sentence any way you like.

If the new kind of zero coupon inflation protection bonds live up to its promise, all retirees will be rolling in money and be donating millions of dollars to get rid of mosquitoes in equatorial New Guinea....

See? Anything is possible if you add an if at the beginning ...

Understood, and yet every restaurant I went to in Australia printed the bill with a tip line and handed it to any USian they could identify in the party. So the idea is not unknown there.

I have some 27 years worth of transactions and investments tracked by Quicken.

Locked in, would be very difficult to move out. They tried hard to push all quicken users to on line account and mint.

Recently they said they are splitting on line version from desktop app. So I was sort of expecting them to dump one or the other. Looks like they are dumping the on line version.

Good thing they are ditching the on line version. The performance was horrible, when they tried to do all the work on their servers and tried to use the desk top app as a dumb terminal, (thin client is the term? ). Of late the performance is not bad, may be they have cut down the use of net work procedure calls. Or may be I am using a SSD now. One version of Quicken made so many disk r/w it was slow as a turtle stuck in a tar pit.

There are lots of sections of India that are openly hostile to India.

There is this party Communist Party of India (Maoist). [ The parenthesis is part of its name, assigned by the election commission. To see the entire cladogram of all the kingdom, class, genera and species of CPIs look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ]

They openly pledge allegiance to China and sabotage everything to favor China. They create labor strife, it takes very few miscreants to savor the investment and sow Fear Uncertainty and Doubt about investments. The Foxconn factory near Chennai, India constantly gets in the news about labor stoppage, strikes, managers being gheraoed (ghero is a hindi origin word, meaning encriclement) in the factory.

So, dont count China out. They have been sabotaging foreign direct investment going to India for several decades, and they are not going to stop now.

What with people buying bankrupt companies and what not...

Funding only dropped 63% and 37% of funding still remains!! Shocking!!!