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From other side of the fence:
http://www.theverge....hat-they-really-mean-fenixproductions (December 18, 2012, 04:37 PM)
The new terms actually make things clearer and — importantly — more limited. That "on, about, or in conjunction" with language is dead and gone. Now you're only agreeing that someone else can pay Instagram to display your photos and other information only in connection with paid or sponsored content. These phrases have very specific meanings — Instagram can't sell your photos to anyone, for example. It simply doesn't have permission. And Budweiser isn't allowed to crop your photo of a bar, slap a logo on it, and run it as an ad on Instagram — that would go well beyond "display" and into modification, which Instagram doesn't have a license to do
(Sorry... Had to sneak that in~! )
Also, this is the 1000th post in this thread-Stephen66515 (December 17, 2012, 08:42 PM)
So for luck I left the house at 12. Got to the store and played 12 lottery tickets at 12:12. Picked all sorts of fun numbers. Fibonacci numbers. Prime numbers. Birthdays. Ages. Random numbers. Squares, roots, powers of 2, etc. Spent $12.10.-Renegade (December 11, 2012, 07:40 PM)
What the hell? Renegade, tell us the story!-mouser (December 17, 2012, 10:53 PM)
He did here, please pay more attention to your forum-4wd (December 17, 2012, 10:59 PM)
On the other hand, it is a good way to avoid import taxed on the "Value" of the item being shipped.-Rover (December 15, 2012, 07:49 PM)
Unfortunately not in the UK - import duties are charged on the value of the package (including shipping costs!). I have been stung by this more than once buying from Amazon.com.-Carol Haynes (December 16, 2012, 07:28 AM)
Anti-slip material:
(see attachment in previous post)
The blue material in the image has been much handier than I expected.
Use it to open jars, stabilize tablet / pc stands, support make-shift arrangements for standing tablets, etc.
IIRC, obtained some at a Daiso store.-ewemoa (December 15, 2012, 09:58 PM)
I've got one, but a little different. Mine looks like a toilet and shoots water up from a spigot close to the water level. The reason the cats like drinking from it so much is because it's aerated, which makes the water taste better. Basically the same reason our inside faucets have aeraters, mixes in oxygen into the water giving it a better taste.-Tinman57 (December 15, 2012, 07:17 PM)
These are good to have for cat owners because the more cats drink the less chance they have of having urinary tract problems, which cats are well known for....-Tinman57 (December 15, 2012, 07:17 PM)
Before too long, zero day exploit for smart chips embedded into human brains-rgdot (December 15, 2012, 11:46 AM)
...everyone must pay...-tomos (December 15, 2012, 01:13 PM)
A proposed global telecoms treaty that would give national governments control of the internet has been blocked by the US and key western and African nations. They said they are “not able to sign the agreement in its current form” at the end of a International Telecoms Union (ITU) conference in Dubai.
People who used the mobile phone technology and attended 80 percent of the health education sessions lost 15 pounds and maintained the loss for one year. The average weight loss for the mobile phone group -- including those who did not attend the education sessions -- was 8.6 pounds. The control group -- which received the education sessions but no mobile app -- did not lose weight.
The company that made headlines in October for publicizing zero day holes in SCADA products now says it has uncovered a remotely exploitable security hole in Samsung Smart TVs. If left unpatched, the vulnerability could allow hackers to make off with owners’ social media credentials and even to spy on those watching the TV using compatible video cameras and microphones.
In an e-mail exchange with Security Ledger, the Malta-based firm said that the previously unknown (“zero day”) hole affects Samsung Smart TVs running the latest version of the company’s Linux-based firmware. It could give an attacker the ability to access any file available on the remote device, as well as external devices (such as USB drives) connected to the TV. And, in a Orwellian twist, the hole could be used to access cameras and microphones attached to the Smart TVs, giving remote attacker the ability to spy on those viewing a compromised set.
iOS is an unfriendly environment.-Tuxman (December 14, 2012, 07:37 AM)