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That's the importance of regular breast cancer screening! Men have our own equivalent too. If you're over the age, go do it!

Not even close. What an incredibly sensationalist title from PC Mag.

It's likely due to two (or more) automated pricing scripts duking it out. Here's how it works:

Seller 1 is a well respected seller. They've got thousands upon thousands of good reviews. As a result, they never price themselves the cheapest, but maybe pretty close to that. Their script finds the cheapest price, makes sure that it's above their cost, and then prices it at 15% above the cheapest.

Seller 2 is not as entrenched in the market. They try to undercut their competitors. They have good reviews, but not as many reviews over all. So, price is their main weapon. Their script seeks out well reviewed sellers and prices at 5% below their competitor.

Both scripts update every 15 minutes or so. You can see where this is going if both scripts don't have an upper bound. Each script is designed to make the most profit, and not be the lowest by too far. For example, if pencils suddenly had a shortage, you'd want your prices to automatically raise to match the perceived demand. You wouldn't want to be the sucker who sells all his pencils at a tiny profit while everyone else gets far more money.

Or, you know, it could just be a data input error. :p

I've gotten it too, and complained about it here on HN. I'm only running AdBlock and I doubt they're advertising.

New Tab page.

I guess I'm going back to using about:blank.

You missed /Users/<user>/Applications/ .

That's what I was thinking of. But, like I said, I doubt little ear lights are a substitute for giant light panels.

Then again, maybe they are. It's just too suspicious.

This sort of thing just screams bullshit. Yes, I get that light therapy or whatever it's called is prescribed but somehow I doubt that two little LEDs shoved in your ears is anything close to a substitute.

u413 tried (and may still try) to build its community as a piracy hub. The owner also stole content and despite the "cool" interface, the community is largely dead. Just a warning. :(

There's so many ways to analyze this and so many possible ulterior motives. It's also unfortunate that their anonymity is under threat, even if they don't release the info they are still in danger.

It was an unfortunate (and terrible) bug, but you have to admit the Dolphin team's response has at least been open and efficient.

The first thing that really kicks ass is that search doesn't suck. It's pretty amazing that it's a browser made by Google and that I still have to hunt for things. I really like the fact that you went with the pref UI. There were so many choices you could have made, but sticking with an established appearance really was a smart one. The only real feature request I have is thumbnails. I don't even mean live ones or anything, they could just be off browsershots or whatever.

Anyways, that's my 2¢.

That's because Samsung has a wider view of "smartphone". They release a LOT of Bada phones which they consider to be "smart", but often only mention their Android partnership when they release their numbers.

I just installed it. I use my history a fair amount. I'll be back here on Monday.

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Unlikely. Besides the fact that almost no one actually has any faith in it as a platform due to the way HP dropped it, even if they did do a 180, people would still have shaken confidence.

Not to mention that there are currently no currently officially selling WebOS devices (except for a few straggling phones in the discount bin), nor plans for new ones.

And, when your competitors are Android, WP7, and iOS, getting over the vicious cycle of "no developers making apps which means no people are buying apps which means that no developers are making apps..." is just too much. Even Android was struggling with that and still is on the tablet side even with the Google juggernaut behind it.

Plus, even in printers and lower end devices and phones like that, WebOS is overkill. Samsung's Bada and Android are crowding that market too tightly, not to mention Symbian.

Maybe we'll see WebOS as an "instant boot" option on a few HP PC models for which it was already in development but that doesn't really count.

There's no future for WebOS. It's dead. When your competitors are Microsoft, Google, and Apple, and they already have entrenched hardware and software products in the same market that are innovative and being actively developed, and are directly competing against yours, and are having far more money pumped into them, and have thriving ecosystems, and haven't been officially been killed off, you may just be best off going home.

Some backstory: They put out a comic in which they made a secondary joke that involved rape (you should probably read the comic, it's not necessarily ABOUT rape). There was some backlash, and some readers thought the concept was funny enough and a "Dickwolves" t-shirt was sold. Eventually, the shirt was pulled but that didn't stop criticism.

Penny Arcade never issued an apology as they felt they weren't obligated to, but at the same time acknowledged that there were people who were offended.

A few months of anti-rape blog members and Penny Arcade members "interacting" eventually resulted in death threats.

Original Comic: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/8/11/

Part of it is the advertiser tunnel-vision thing I've seen where you get ad people saying things like "People will be eager to opt-in to our fantastic savings and they like to be aware of the newest prices and products. Hey... why is almost nobody opting in?"

The iPhone has had it for a while if you are jailbroken. Qik, Bambuser, and Flixwagon come to mind.

This is people who don't understand the internet trying to apply rules to the internet.

It's good, but in my opinion it needs a lot of work making it more responsive and efficient

Yes, that's the joke.

Through a cannon.

Jokes aside, it's best to be respectful and use common sense. If it's because they're underperforming, you can be clear about that. If it's a long time employee and it's because of the economy, obviously, you have to be quite a bit more sensitive. This is especially true in a small company.

It's perhaps only tolerable in situations where a site has to deal with phishing on a large scale basis, perhaps on a forum targeted towards a younger audience. And even then, only if it is only a banner which says "WARNING: Don't give out your password to sites you clicked on from us!" as well as a swift way to see the page in full.

It's like some sort of idiot poem: (replace , with line break)

there wuz an air bubble, in the air plane, so that caused the plane, to float, thank god that , that air bubble wuz , there or the passengers , would have froze in the water,

The RSS feed directs me directly to the link.

It used to be a nightmare for viewing videos on the web.

This site needed Real, that site needed QuickTime, some other site needed Windows Media, and yet another site needed Some Bullshit Player 4 which only ran on Windows 98 on a good day.

If a blog falls in a blogosphere...

I wonder if patent trolling could be patented? A time machine would be fantastic.

Some talking head complaining, "But they don't have rules or regulations... It's a completely different scenario!"