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Everybody has papadagen where I work too. However I've always wondered how much getting one is decided by the difficulty of securing daycare for all children and the costs it has.

Would they still get one if the daycare was cheaper and with plenty of room for everyone or would they prefer the salary increase?

This comment provided me with more information than the entire article. Would you care to add more details on what the key cards are and what their power is (the article seems to be stuck on "can they shut down the internet?")

Also people shouldn't be allowed to change the channel on tv when the ad breaks begin or even leave to use the toilet! They should be forced to sit and watch everything or else the ratings of the ads will not match the ones for the show.

My point it: people mostly hated ads since they were invented. Be it by not looking at them on the street, changing channels on tv or installing AdBlock on your computer, they do their best to avoid them.

Indeed, probably it's the number of times linkedin sent them some email titled "join linkedin now".

I get this all the time on the "suggested connections" page - names and email addresses extracted from my Gmail contacts, but the name is not a link to a profile (on normal suggested connections you can click on the name to see their profiles). I could easily spot those and not request to connect but it can be confusing for non-technical people.

What changed recently is that these fake profiles are also listed as having "shared connections" with me which is hard to believe considering those are not Linkedin profiles at all.

Google has a similar program for ISPs: Google Global Cache https://peering.google.com/about/ggc.html

Yes, it's a personalized video for your profile.

They are charging you for the extra channels. The call center people are motivated to make you pay more.

It's a bit different with this Internet filter.

Wouldn't it be easier to include all the original tools in a packaged form instead of reproducing their logic?

Actually I traveled to Japan with a blank passport and was selected for additional checks. Nothing aggressive or in any way impolite, but I would guess a blank passport would be regarded suspicious in many instances.

It would help to have the steps described in text next to the videos as well. Not only because some steps can be boring to watch for some people, but it would also help to be able to copy-paste URLs and command line options and so on.

The Google Account was already in use before Google+ was created. The difference was that you could have a mixture of services enabled for your account (I only use Gmail, I never use Picasa so I don't have it on my an account).

Now they seem to force you to always have the Google+ enabled even if you never use it. Including for older accounts. I guess this is what makes people angry. It's like being prompted to create Picasa albums every time you try to read your Gmail.

Interesting that the scribd link also redirects to the original PDF. Is it only me who has this?

this was / these were

I'm guessing the fact that it's an inert gas is important as it won't be a risk (in case of fire or toxicity) in case the enclosing is broken.

Also I think the density was presumed to be at room temperature, reasonable pressure. Under these circumstances He might provide the least drag. Having a pressurized enclosure might make the drive more expensive as stronger materials need to be used, and it would also make it more dangerous in case of mishandling, so I think there was a limited range of pressure they could maintain in the enclosure.

I believe there is a Microsoft April Fools video with this exact theme.

But how often do you get sunny weather in that location?

Entertainment and navigation systems in cars use Android lately. They normally use the base operating system and APIs while the UI is always heavily customized, so you might not recognize it, but it's of course very convenient instead of developing a full OS for your cars.

But the article does say that Airbus and Boeing each had a major project in recent years (A380 and 787) and they're unlikely to have anything major for the next decade. A350 sounds pretty major to me.

Pisa. Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_maria_della_spina_10...

Also my country can issue you a temporary passport if you're planning to travel in country A and you have a visa of country B in your passport, when countries A and B are at war.

I expect more countries do the same.

I thought Yahoo Mail didn't limit storage - they advertised it as "unlimited storage" a few years ago.

- terms and conditions apply, no abuse allowed

I believe Julian Assange worked on a system that would make it impossible for an external entity to determine if there is any useful information on a data partition. Basically you would have a hard drive full of random numbers and it would be unfeasible to determine if there is any actual information on it, without the right keys and tools.

I guess you're not familiar with the social-minded European person. They often prefer local businesses with a personality (I go to the book store and have a chat with the owner and other customers... maybe drink a tea, read something right there...) to the big corporation, even when the big corporation offers the same products cheaper.

The 24 points seem to be the "initial sign-up bonus" and a "daily login bonus". I got my initial bonus in 2011 it seems, so this must be an older Google service that was just renamed and re-launched.

That is the favicon for the Google Apps Admin Console - https://admin.google.com/ . I suspect the bug only happens for Google Apps accounts (it happens on my Google Apps, not on my personal Gmail).

Your TV's remote control should also not work during commercial breaks, otherwise you might change the channel and illegally watch the show.

It's described in the article as well:

"Finally, after several days on the island, the party stumbled across an elderly couple who were too old to run away, and several small children. Portman brought the two adults and four of the children back to Port Blair. But the man and the woman soon started to get sick and then died, probably from exposure to Western diseases like smallpox, measles, and influenza, to which they would have had little or no resistance. So Portman returned the four children to North Sentinel Island and released them with gifts for the rest of the tribe. The children disappeared into the jungle and were never seen again. "

Why would I trust the rent-a-shopper pick-up point? They might be tracking me as well. Once started, paranoia goes all the way.

It's mentioned in the article as well.