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Apparently someone has had a reply to an email sent to Tim Cook promising a bigger upgrade to the Mac Pros next year.

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/06/11/david-pogue-new-imacs-an...

Since the first example given is about wearing a T-shirt with the Dutch flag on it and getting Gmail adds about Holland, I think this is a offhand post about coincidences rather than something suggesting Google is monitoring voice calls to give more relevant advertising.

There's a nice article about this on the AgileBits blog [1]. In summary they say it's a net gain for security because trying variations on a supplied password doesn't help an attack much and reducing the number of password resets is a positive from a security perspective.

[1] http://blog.agilebits.com/2011/09/13/facebook-and-caps-lock-...

With PayPal you can send money to any email address. If that address isn't associated with a PayPal account an email is sent telling the recipient to sign up to PayPal and claim their money. [1]

I don't see why giftdish couldn't work the same way: you send your gift to an email address and the recipient then has to open account to claim their gift if they don't have one already. Having a gift waiting would be a pretty strong incentive to open a new account.

[1] - https://www.paypal.com/webapps/helpcenter/article/?articleID...

The UK is a signatory of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR), Article 10 of which guarantees freedom of expression. This became law in the UK with the 1998 Human Rights Act.

The text of the ECHR does explicitly mention "duties and responsibilities" and so is perhaps not as strong as the Bill of Rights in this regard, but it is wrong to say there is no guarantee to free speech in British law.

This is the key difference. Stack Overflow has said all along that it would always be free and the CC license helps ensure this.

If Stack Overflow decides to put up a paywall anyone could simply put up the all existing content, perhaps using one of the existing open source SO clones [1]. Also, a lot of the current Google traffic would instead go to one of the sites which currently legitimately repost all of SO's content [2].

[1] http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2267/stack-overflow-... [2] http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24611/is-it-legal-to...

The "collective management organisations" set up to manage this will be paying royalties to authors, something they wouldn't get if their books were made public domain.

Similarly, an author can assert their rights and ask for a republished book to be removed from sale, something which would not be possible if works were made public domains.

I'm not saying this a good idea, just that this is why they're not just removing the copyright from the works.

You could use the same argument to say IP Address are obsolete because of DNS, but I don't think IP addresses or phone numbers are going away any time soon.

It's possible he's using the photo sharing site along with Twitter or something similar and doesn't realise that images attached to private message are still become public.

Usually people are asked to take pay cuts because the company isn't doing well, often with the understanding that pay will go back up if things get back on track.

Here it seems people are being asked to take a pay cut not because their company is having problems buts because is doing very well indeed.

I'm currently staying away from iCloud syncing as I'm hearing lots of bad stories from people using its _supported_ functionality, so I too definitely won't be using a undocumented feature.

Since Dropbox is both free for 2GB and rock solid why wouldn't you just use that? (And there is an iOS client too.)

In proof of your point I was searching for comments by PG and instead found your request.

The key difference does seem to be that the jump from $99 to $499 turns DevDays from a conference that you can pay for yourself into one that most people are going to have their employers to pay for.

$499 for a two day conference is pretty cheap but what makes DevDays a hard sell to most managers is that the point of it is that it introduces you to technologies that you're not going be using day to day in your job.

Apparently when Steve Jobs announced they would be opening up FaceTime as a standard it was the first the development team had heard of it which might explain the delay.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/05/11/facetime-standar...

The 2-3 day wait isn't the case in the UK anymore. UK banks - under pressure from the government via the Office of Fair Trading - now process money transfers in half a day.

The point is that the transfer never required that long to process, but if a Bank (or PayPal) can hold on to your money for a few extra days then it's a few more days of interest on the money for them.

http://www.ukpayments.org.uk/faster_payments_service/backgro...

I think the Daily Cap is intended for situations just like this. So if you see someone with 5k+ reputation it's a good sign they've given good answers to a fair few questions (or asked good questions) over a period of time rather than just got lucky with a question that found its way on to Twitter. Because reputation entitles you do certain things like close questions SO is careful about how you can earn it.

US companies can store data from EU countries if they comply with the "Safe Harbour" principles. Organisations can self-certify and as yet no company has been challenged as failing to meet the guidelines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_Harbor_Principles

I'm not sure roads is the best example to give here. Doesn't Amazon benefit from the state maintained roads since it would be difficult to get its order delivered without them?

Although as his been said, Sales Tax is usually regarded as a tax on consumer consumption rather than a tax on business which is why business to business sales are often exempt from sales taxes.

Gmail already has something similar built in with the Last Account Activity Alerts:

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?ctx=gmail&a...

Since you can already buy upgrades to Windows 7 Ultimate from other versions Windows 7 online as a "Windows Anytime Upgrade" this is just the kind of thing I'd expect to see in Windows App Store.

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/en_US/pd/product...

Eric Lippert introduces some new features in C#:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2011/04/01/compo...

If you're running on Windows XP GPU acceleration in Chrome has been "blacklisted" due to problems. You can re-enable it with the --ignore-gpu-blacklist command line flag.

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=72975

Even if you started up 10,000 Dedicate Instances you would not tie up 10,000 physical machines. A Dedicated Instance won't share hardware with another customer's VM but it could share hardware with your other VMs. It would probably be beneficial to you if they did, as the post says:

"It is important to note that launching a set of instances with dedicated tenancy does not in any way guarantee that they'll share the same hardware (they might, but you have no control over it)."

This does work for me, but I think you mean DVD rather than VCR.