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No I didn't. There's nothing stopping someone from finding my email address and sticking it in their contact list. How do you think spammers get email addresses in the first place? People give them their email addresses?

You (and I'm assuming you're the person who came up with this) need to think about it from the perspective of email recipients, because they're the ones who are going to be directly affected by this button.

You don't say at all how this works. Do you scrape the email addresses? What does the email look like? Does it have any sort of opt-out mechanism?

How do emails sent by this conform to Canada's anti-spam legislation, or any other country's anti-spam legislation?

I've opted-in to be friends with someone on Facebook. I've opted-in to follow someone on Twitter. I have not opted-in to be in someone's contact list on Gmail. That's the big difference.

This is nice and all, but I really hope nobody who has me in their contacts ever clicks that button.

I don't see how a postal code would work here.

Quick! Your partner has just keeled over and isn't breathing! Give me your latitude and longitude!

Your phone probably knows what your lat/long are, but can you quickly look it up in a high-pressure situation? Probably not. And emergency call systems such as 911 don't get that information either. Maybe they will in ten or twenty years, but they don't now.

You didn't read the story, did you?

> The best handwriting machines already vary some letters to avoid seeming too repetitive. Check out "offer" in the third line of that letter above: The "f"s are different from each other. The bot has been programmed to pen that letter a few different ways, the better to fool readers.

The article makes the point that A/C in conjunction with fans can reduce the amount of energy needed to reach the same comfort levels. You don't need to remove the A/C if you install fans, but you can set the A/C thermostat to a higher temperature (which saves on electricity use and cost) and turn on a fan to get the same comfort level.

That it still works today (at least on Chrome 37) is probably the real news here.

Recording a 4-6-3 double play isn't about keeping score either, it's about tracking detailed statistical information about every play. That's kind of the point of the article: baseball has standardized notation whereas tennis does not. It's as if different baseball stats trackers gave different field positions different numbers. One guy starts counting from left field, one guy starts at the catcher, one guy starts at the pitcher. Or maybe they use letters instead of numbers. Or maybe they use 2O for a double play (it's two outs, after all). Or STO for strike-outs.

That's the state that tennis is in, and that's the point of the article.

Wouldn't it be great if he donated that to the EFF to help their podcast legal battle?

Legally, how would this differ from a monkey stepping on a remote trigger, or stepping in front of a motion detector to trigger a camera to take a picture? Are all of the pictures on Snapshot Serengeti (http://www.snapshotserengeti.org/) copyrighted by the animals in them?

I would like to see a comparison between Uber, car sharing (like Zipcar or Car2Go or whatever local carsharing organization you might have) and car ownership. I'm a carsharer, and between me and my wife we spend about $500/month on carsharing, which looks about half of what it costs Mr. Altman to own and operate a Tesla Roadster.

Only for packet loss testing. If you don't have Java installed in your browser, you get "Pingtest.net requires Java for packet loss testing, but it does not appear to be installed in your browser. Click here for assistance." The ping and jitter tests still work without Java.

You could plot the average performance over time, which would show not only how well or poorly a hotel does in general, but how it weathers high-volume events like conferences.

They're using science as a noun. Think of it like "You're not allowed oxygen any more."

Read the post:

> My latest strategy was to pretend to be them on twitter to get some of their followers

Web app directories? Is it 1995 all over again? Are we going to have webrings again?

The redacted document can be found at the CIA's library at https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...

Note that it doesn't say when this happened, only "number of years ago" from when the document was written in 1967.

Your local library isn't open weekends? My library's open 9:30 am - 9 pm on weekdays, 9:30 am - 5:30 pm on Saturdays, and 1 pm - 5 pm on Sundays. Those hours definitely don't strongly conflict with 9-5 job hours.

So will IFTTT get a cease and desist sometime in the near future, or have they come to an agreement with Craigslist to provide their channel?

I could easily install a keylogger on any non-Windows machine in about five seconds. Hint: keyboards and USB are pretty much OS-agnostic.

Clearly the best way is to link to a popular site and have your webserver be overwhelmed by traffic. Can't serve images? Then users can't steal them!

I think you missed the point of that XKCD. If you're going to publish a heatmap of absolute numbers, then yes, it'll end up looking pretty much like a population distribution map. If you publish a heatmap of percentages, then you will probably get something quite different (assuming that the percentage isn't linearly correlated with population).

The buses in your story are between different cities and are proper buses. The buses in the original story are within New York (and out to New Jersey), and are mainly vans. Different people and services.

That's a sunk cost though. When someone gets in their car to drive somewhere, they don't think "this trip is going to cost me $7.50" because they pay for their gas at a different time, they pay for their insurance at a different time, they pay for repairs at a different time, and vehicle depreciation is largely invisible. They don't equate time lost to money lost either.

However, if you have a big visual reminder that the road you're driving on will cost you money as soon as you drive on it, then people will be less likely to either take that route or drive altogether.

I hate to say it, but maybe you should tone it down a little bit on your Twitter account. People are always going to Google your name when your resume comes in. Odds are they're going to find your Twitter account. Odds are they're going to find tweets like "Seriously tempted upload a sql.tar.gz that's just an archive full of obscene furry porn from the deepest trenches of fchan's /ah/ board."

If I was an employer and I saw a job applicant tweet something like that, their resume would immediately go in the shredder.

Think about it from the employer's point of view: "What happens if this guy is disgruntled with us for some reason? Is he going to joke about something that'll embarrass us? Maybe he'll turn our website into an archive of obscene furry porn?" Given you're tweeting things like that, why would I hire you?

(and yes, I know that that tweet's referring to the previous "HEAD /passwords.txt" tweet, but it's incredibly easy to take things out of context on the internets)

No, it's three million.

This is essentially a copy of the original press release from 1996: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1996/06/

From 44 meters away?