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With taxes, you do.

Most spam calls in the US originate overseas (India) and ignore US regulation such as do-not-call registries.

Cheap, off-brand USB chargers often have poor or no circuit isolation. Some have even been tested to expose one leg of full AC current to the USB ground. Not a problem until you're…

People whose reactions when confronted with something new, unknown, and unexpected are to laugh at it or respond sarcastically, instead of to accept the surprise, approach with cur…

I also used to do exactly this. Except with Safari as my untrusted 3rd. Eventually, I just got tired of the trouble and found that having a complete, searchable web history was act…

One of those times I should have read the comments first. Thanks.

But that would be SQL injection! Unlike the parent. Barbaric.

*Conscientiousness

A guy in my office ordered a 60-inch LCD TV. They delivered. Two weeks later another arrived. Customer service wouldn't acknowledge the first, so now he has two.

What you describe there is a broken and unusable value system.

Exactly right. For at least some of the 99% of startups that are not VC-backed, it can be the constant struggle between working /on/ the business and working /in/ the business, whe…

As I said, that makes sense, and I agree. That does not mean it's financially possible.

This makes sense. But, for many (at least bootstrapping) startups, $1800/mo for the database is not in the realm of the possible. Is not having to deal with (future) sharding heada…

The server.

The demand for source code would likely include accompanying documentation necessary to build/use.

Nope. Incorrect. Google and Apple both have open SDKs for streaming to their devices. Amazon has chosen not to support them

Sounds like a market for an aftermarket service company to reprogram the pumps not to break!

> Victims have every right to hate their offenders and a just society should do everything they can to help the victims... Yes, society should do everything it can to help the vict…

Or else they're making such a fuss specifically to help sell the supposed effectiveness.

> If I 3D printed a set of lock picking tools would Wired run a story on me? Yes.

This is not SkyBox related, but rather aerial. Note the 15cm resolution.

> Seriously, he is more insignificant than any random educated citizen Wow. You're really living in your own little bubble.

> I'd rather not be born than be born in a place where I have a high change of dying of malaria, or dysentery. Seriously? You prefer a 0% chance, over, say, a 60% chance? But then …