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This could get interesting
“…to spite your face”
About Bank Transfer Day….
You do not hurt large banks by withdrawing your own (small) accounts. Really. On the contrary, you’re doing them a huge favor, and making them more efficient and more profitable.
More details at Why Bank Transfer Day actually helped banks.
This is consistent with what I learned in the 18 years I was employed by large banks.
IT Inferno
I know I have been in 5 of these. Perhaps more: I may be repressing some memories.
From Slashdot
An elegant scheme
How Frequent Fliers Exploit A Government Program To Get Free Trips (NPR)
Linked from News From The Future: Travel Hacking with Failed Government Currency (Make:)
This is perfectly legal. Note the differing titles, and the implied views of government.
Google learns from its mistakes
Privacy experts praise Google+ rollout so far via Slashdot.
Does this mean Google is “better” than Facebook. Perhaps marginally. However, the fundamentals are the same: These “free” internet services are offered by for-profit companies. Their purpose is to make money for their stockholders, and they are going to do it one way or another. As I posted in in January:
“if you’re not paying for something, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold”.
Lost in the Cloud
Apple turns the screws
Apple wants 30% of Kindle App ebook sales
It’s quite amazing how unpopular the move is. Even people on Apple sites are against it.
It’s all rather strange – Unless you consider the fact that people who are reading are not doing things Apple wants them to do i.e. watch movies, grow stupid, become consumers, watch TV, etc.
Books turn brainwashed consumers into free thinkers, and that might be the last thing Apple wants.
More, including comments (many NSFW), at Apple responds: we want a cut of Amazon, Sony e-book sales.
The rise and fall of a bookstore chain
Borders struggles amid rapid changes in book sales
Though only 8 percent of readers surveyed in a recent Harris Poll own e-readers, those owning the devices were nearly twice as likely to buy six to 10 books a year as those who were sticking with print.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 