nutmeg

I have had multiple conversations with family and friends, both technical and non, where they express the concern about their phone or Facebook listening to conversations. They may not use the work "surveillance", but people are definitely concerned.

A bill for "my phone is not allowed to eavesdrop" would have wide public support, and would open up the conversation on all the ways that surveillance takes place that does not include listening to conversations.

Seconding The Magic Labyrinth. The kids really enjoy moving the pieces, and it does takes some memorization to figure out the path.

Term life insurance helped me deal with this fear. Take care of yourself and know that there is no guarantee on tomorrow.

From the article you reference:

  But during an outreach trip by two Alpha Project workers on Wednesday, most of the homeless people the team encountered said they hadn’t noticed much of a change in behavior in terms of bag use.

  Dr. Wilma Wooten, the county’s public health officer, said plastic bags haven’t come up as an issue during her team’s investigation of the outbreak.

Another anecdotal-data-of-sample-size-one, my wife was at a bar and struck up a conversation with another person to whom she had no connections. After she left, Facebook suggested this person as a friend.

The other person may have searched for her on Facebook, causing her to be listed as a possible friend. Or perhaps Facebook uses location data to group people that are in the same location for an extended period of time.

It would be interesting if someone at Facebook could provide some insight into this.

A perfect example of regulating your competitors out of business.

Truecaller appears to be built into my Cyanogenmod OS. I certainly appreciate it since ~90% of my phone calls that are not immediate family seem to be spam.

I think he is more on the mark about streaming video than conversational commerce / bots. If you are a regular Facebook user, you can get an idea of where they are headed with the notifications that get greater priority and what is more likely to appear in your feed.

I have noticed greater visibility of Events and Live Video streaming. When a friend starts a live stream, I get a notification that shows up on my lock screen.

I'd put my money on Facebook going into video in a big way. Maybe they will be the one streaming sports games around the world.

I am not familiar with any of this, but could a lower SCSI be caused by more shipping supply being available as opposed to fewer containers being shipped? Is there an index that tracks the number of containers shipped?

Why have taxes at all if rich people always find a way around these things? Or laws, for that matter?

"It was difficult to transact legitimate business with cash in the Sprawl; in Japan, it was already illegal."

In a documentary about Studio Ghibli, they show every couple hours where everyone gets up from their desk and does calisthenics, even Miyazaki.

I don't know if this is common in Japan or just a Studio Ghibli practice, but I was impressed with the idea of it.