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I suspect it is backed by experience.

> Why is this a problem?

Because when the light goes green zombie drivers looking at their phone move forward without checking that it is safe to do so.

You need to be aware of your surroundings ... including the (motor)bike who has just carefully manoeuvred his/her handlebar past your wing mirror, so you don't punt them into the ground. This is why we have laws, tests, licences!

Believe it or not, Joe public hasn't heard of f-droid.

Google Play is the app store for most android users (at least in the west).

Average Joe has a facebook account with a network of friends. They do not have a twitter account let alone any followers (Facebook DAU: 1.5 billion; Twitter DAU: 126 million)

> Weird, your source says the opposite.

No, it doesn't. Your quote truncates a sentence that supports GP's point.

You seem to be missing the point. The boss does not have to enquire if the information is already public!

Assuming Canada is like the UK, competition in the mortgage market means a bank hiking the rates will lose your business. Of course you can be unlucky if interest rates are unusually high at the time your fixed rate deal is up for renewal.

But Poland have the złoty, not the Euro.

> Maybe that's beneficial due to the risk 'it could be something bad'.

I would assume it's detrimental because it results in doctors' waiting rooms full of people with colds (making it a dangerous place for anyone who is immunosupressed and really needs to see the doctor).

Also it's very hard to debug...

A friend on iOS think he has sent you a (SMS) text message.

You don't get it on your (non-apple) phone.

You don't get it on your (non-apple) work computer.

Three weeks later you log on to your iMac/mac-mini/whatever that you hardly ever use to find messages from whoever uses apple phones and has your email address on their contacts. It turns out that logging in to your desktop PC can link your AppleId (email address) to iMessage and start swallowing your text messages. You can only rectify this setting on an apple computer.

(Yes, I know I'm an edge case but I will never see iMessage as a good thing, walled gardens can suck).

> (This ignores other reasons not to vote that aren't really a choice. eg. you can't get off work or don't have time or something)

This is why postal votes exist. Not being able to guarantee availability on several arbitrary dates in the future is fixed by postal voting.

I don't know if they exist in all countries/states though.

Psst...put it in your password manager.

> The only reason people store so much hand luggage is that the airlines charge for checked baggage.

I don't think this is true. Frequent flyers always tell me the purpose of a large carry-on is so you don't waste time at the baggage reclaim at the destination. This makes sense to me because that can often be 30+ minutes.

From my reading of it, they are saying that all passwords saved in the browser (potentially all users of the home PC or mobile phone) get associated with the google account but not that all users of the school system can see each others passwords.

Yes, that is the pop-up and upon reading it, it is pretty clear to me that you want to start a new chrome profile to proceed (or else your home passwords will get sync'd to the controlled account). The trouble is that this is not clear to people who have never signed-in to Chrome.

Re the special-snowflake usecase: there was a Simpson's episode about this where Homer helped create a terrible car:

http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/The_Homer

I thought the individual having control (and choosing to use Theranos) was a bad thing, no?

When you're buying one blood test you won't be able to tell what it missed. If you're a medical practitioner, ordering hundreds of blood tests per month (or something) you can afford to duplicate the test when you change testing provider and realise that they aren't doing a very good job!

Perhaps your google account has been compromised?

False positives are certainly possible. My office has an hour allotted to gaming on Friday afternoons. There have been occasions when TF2 kicked all players connecting from Linux clients (approx 50% of us).

This is true but they are often long and complicated and aren't always conducive to quick solutions or refreshing memories of a useful combination of arguments.

It is good to have both.

Indeed, I had trouble getting any way near enough vowels

An example of this in London is the Cornhill Devils.

Supposedly the architect of the building on which they appear fell out with the Vicar of the adjacent St Peter's Church.

http://hidden-london.com/the-guide/cornhill-devils/

If someone chops open your padlock you find out about it next time you see it.

The vulnerabilities in the article might go unnoticed, so the user keeps locking gates, chains, whatever with the bad lock and the crooks can come again and again and rifle through your shed, garage, whatever.

It is absolutely worse than a chopped padlock.

This is brilliant.

Very useful and quick. especially when i want to look at a couple of options.

I'm guessing jnichols35 does IT support in a large-ish office?

> This is cute, but with what we now know about CTE, I can't help but find boxing, American football (handegg), etc disgusting. FTFY

Seriously the rest of the world calls 'Soccer': 'football'

Yeah, plus maybe GGP has never _seen_ a Windows mobile :)

I want to say Anker but even they made a mistake and had to recall faulty cables

https://lifehacker.com/some-anker-usb-c-cables-are-getting-r...

Although at least they did the recall and presumably will be careful not to make such a costly mistake again.

Hang on ... mechanic shop is different to oil change place? Is this a USA-only thing?