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Comment · 15 years ago
Disagree it still exists on Facebook very heavily. You probably just don't see it in your circle of friends. So yes Facebook has an edge in the sense they keep the hordes of dead accounts, spam bots, etc. away from you.
Comment · 15 years ago
It's not the packaging that needs work, its the product. Popular forms of effective male pregnancy prevention are pretty limited. There really hasn't been any innovation in the field in a long time. Really we can launch people into space but we still have to put some sort of poly vinyl silicone sleeve on ding dongs? That's the best it gets?
Comment · 15 years ago
multiple clicks break it
Comment · 15 years ago
Oh fuck off! If you want to be a woman, you're a woman, a man, then you are a man.
Comment · 15 years ago
Entrepreneurship is of course everywhere and all around us. Look how complex and developed of a black market we have here in the U. S. of A.
Comment · 15 years ago
I agree with the coat of paint comment but if we have learned anything about government agencies or large corporations being hacked in the past it is that their Internet security practices can sometimes be painfully bad.

@Below and HBGary was a IT security firm after all...

Comment · 15 years ago
That hummer also weighs in excess of 5000 pounds stock not including the missile system and is designed to have recoil less rockets fired from a top mounted turret. That Toyota truck weighs less, has a weaker chassis, and is in no way designed to have a non professional weld job mounted missile launcher designed for a hind gunship mounted in the bed. The Toyota truck only weighs about 3000 pounds, firing that system on the slightest of inclines would literally roll the truck over.
Comment · 15 years ago
That aircraft missile launcher mounted on that truck bed has to be terribly dangerous, either the back blast or recoil could easily roll that truck.
Comment · 15 years ago
http://www.jamesaltucher.com/ The authors bio page, he's probably in the freelance article shopping game and TC happened to pick this up. He seems to be all over the place, syndicated blogger or something, seems he's guest writer anyone see differently. The article feels like it could be written for any tech, business, entrepreneur, stuffy get rich quick tv booklet. TC save yourself the trouble and get a full time journalist staff or don't publish as much content just to get ads up.
Comment · 15 years ago
Yeah you can store each sessions activity but how can you accurately compare the data between sessions?
Comment · 15 years ago
"I think that social services that are public by default and have huge logged out user bases, should "phantom register" their logged out users by storing activity against their cookies and building user profiles on their logged out users."

What about if the user isn't allowing data to be stored, is using a vpn or proxy, a dynamic IP, or something else that prevents you from "storing activity"/comparing/etc.. I've seen this done before to target advertising to phantom users on adult sites, it doesn't work. Most of those people who aren't logging don't won't to log in/participate and "comparing activity" isn't exactly a piece of cake and is depending on those users having cooperating connections. You might argue that these people are fringe users but even then I doubt the ability/feasibility to accurately retain and compare data usefully and not just using IP or something to compare visits.

Comment · 15 years ago
This is not just used in Northern Europe it is sometimes used on American maps to indicate places of interests when there is already a heavy amount of key symbols used. This is a great read and its no surprise Susan Kare referenced a international symbol dictionary, a mark of a true designer using a recognizable and readable symbol for a very important command, a true genius. If you swap out historic with place of interest to "copy" it makes a lot more sense. I wish people would take this care in designing symbols today, I've seen some freakish ones as of late on mobile phones, and especially touch devices. Have we forgotten a touch button is still a command button?
Comment · 15 years ago
I saw a news bit about how breakout ISPs in the UK are selling 100mbps(I believe I might be wrong on the speed) for as low as 6.99 quid. American utility bubble? I think so. At this point I am positive the Verizons and the Comcasts could offer free service to everyone of there existing customers and still make positive returns from just new contracts. Can somebody please tell me exactly what you are paying for with 100Mbps for 199.99? Are they using solid gold equipment? There can't possibly be that much overheard, someone please set me straight.

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