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"I didn't want to have a discussion. I just wanted to put it out there. "

WTF?

They're dedicating a whole $25k for this project. As a prize? Surely the government should be engaging a good UX design shop and spending a reasonable sum of money for a complete design and implementation cycle including user testing.

I'm not knocking this idea, but it would be so much better if the balls could be manufactured in Africa using locally sourced materials rather than paying a factory in Taiwan to make them and ship them around the globe.

"What could Iran possibly stand to gain from snooping on Israeli police?" I can think of lots of things, starting with information that is shared by Mossad. Even identifying the police officers who liaise with the intelligence service might be useful. If you can grab that info along with maybe the code names for a few projects, you can follow up with another email that sounds more plausible "Hey this is Moishe, can you shoot me the latest on the XYZ investigation?"

So mysterious unnamed "groups and people" have mysterious unspecified information discrediting prominent researcher. Meanwhile scientists all over the world have spent almost twenty years confirming and validating his results. Nevertheless you are super-dooper convinced he is a fraud because ... well because groups and people are gathering evidence. Hmmmmmmm. Well, ok. But I think I'll wait and see what evidence these "groups and people" present before I form an opinion.

I think we can assume that Square will transition to chip readers eventually. In the meantime, the swipe works on Canadian cards so it's not really an issue.

It's possible but not so likely, the 60s was not the Middle Ages. In any case, he was clearly very sick when he returned to the island and eventually felt better, became strong and lived into his 90's. Not that that proves anything in itself. It's just a journalistic device to illustrate the point of the story which is that people on this island do live a remarkably long time and that it's worth asking why this is so.

Just redirect calls from Rogers and other toll-free numbers to your voice mail

Very ubuntish.

Not to mention focus groups, research across cultures, endless committee meetings, flying people around to take meetings etc.

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I wonder if it would also warn of attacks by lonely shepherds.

Is there anything at all to substantiate this story other than an anonymous blip on Reddit? Anything?

It has nothing to do with legalities and everything to do with communicating the values that are part of the corporate culture. And it sends the message that if you have a problem working with/for people of a different color or sexual orientation, don't bother applying.

Thanks. That's a much clearer explanation.

小时 = one hour (or literally "small time period"). I searched through several dictionaries and couldn't find anything related to guns or revolutions that fit with xiaomi.

From the article "The name, by the way, translates to “millet” in English, but it is also the combination of two Chinese words that have a powerful resonance here: rice and rifle. As any patriotic citizen will tell you, together those words mean “revolution.” "

Huh? The two characters in xiaomi (小米) are xiao3, meaning "small" and mi3 meaning "rice". In other words, millet. Rifle is qiang1.

For many years I've owned what I think qualifies as a "killer" .com domain (i.e. three letters, cool sounding real word in English and other languages) and I would have been open to this arrangement with the right party (i.e. depending on your business plan, backing etc.). I still might be at some point in the future but right now I've got other plans for it. It would be relatively easy to set up some kind of escrow arrangement through lawyers.

American political propaganda. Doesn't belong here.

Within the rules of the Apple walled garden, yes, you're right. However, we should recognize that he has every right to publish his app in a more open venue. Having said that, the title of his rant is a little misleading in that there's nothing specifically hypocritical about Apple's stance. However much anyone might dislike their business model (i.e. curator/censor), that's their choice.

It's curious that a straightforward question has been voted down. The previous poster made some vague claims about IE being "plumbing" and the best alternative for some "things it can do" but doesn't mention what they are. Other than ActiveX integration which is not exactly a stunning recomendation.

Relax. It's just hyperbole.

"It may be a curse, but there is no better alternative for many of the things it can do."

What things are those?

I knew it had to be either kittens or women proffering their cleavage. I guess the second photo on the Internet was the kittens.

Who has the time? What would be the point?

Worst historical analogy ever. The French invasion of Russia was a massive commitment of resources and therefore failure would be clearly catastrophic. The Nexus 7 is at the most an incremental step in a much larger campaign. More importantly, the goal is to encourage a vigorous and somewhat cohesive ecosystem rather than to become a leading electronics manufacturer.

The author also makes a number of odd statements like "Like Napoleon’s obsession with the resources of Russia, Google continues to fall in love with the potential riches of the consumer market." WTF? Google has been almost entirely focused on reaching the consumer market since day one.

This "article" is completely incoherent gibberish. Who is voting this up?

Or do what Amnesty International does, and send polite but urgent letters of concern to persons of authority and influence including ambassadors (UN, US etc) and to Basher Assad himself. People are likely to be better treated if the authorities know that they are the focus of international attention (conversely it totally sucks for the thousands of anonymous people being tortured today in Syrian jails).

Yeah it works great for the lucky people who work at Microsoft and Google. Maybe not so great for most other industries.

It would be nice if there was some incentive to share a little of that income with the company's employees rather than only with the owners and directors.