November 2011
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Okay, Best Buy, why the hell do you need my email...
When did this evil practice start? I already gave you my driver’s license and phone number, why do you need my email?
Anyway, gripe long enough for the counter guy to call his supervisor, who’ll then come over and tell him to put in a bogus address. (That’s what happened in my case anyway.) What this tells me is that there is no valid reason for Best Buy to request this information....
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#occupywallstreet: 'Occupy' Blocked In China,... →
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Hunting For A Password That Only You Will Know →
nprfreshair:
Via All Things Considered…how to pick a secure password (seems relevant this AM)
In other news: Hotmail hates your cat.
But seriously, the problem with any of these password schemes (e.g., string three words together, as mentioned in the article) is that every account seems to have a different set of rules for acceptable passwords (restricting the number of characters to a...
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“Upon reflection, it is very obvious where the problems are. There’s no universal...”
– Mike Konczal in Parsing the Data and Ideology of the We Are 99% Tumblr | Rortybomb (via quotingthecrisis)
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“I think people are quite unhappy with the state of the economy and what’s...”
– Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, on why he doesn’t blame the people who’ve joined recent protests on Wall Street and elsewhere. (via officialssay)
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Infographic Overload? - 10,000 Words →
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onaissues:
Grace Dobush at HOW Interactive Design is on campaign to stop the madness. In her post, Quit it With All the Infographics Already, she points out several good reasons to think before inking an infographic, including:
Most infographics aren’t accessible for the visually impaired.
Most infographics aren’t search-engine optimized.
Those super-long...
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