I know you have to spend money to make money, but I don’t think these cards, at about £1,000 ($1,534) each, are a smart investment.
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The Somali Pirate situation has gotten so out of hand that insurance companies are starting their own navy.
They’re hoping it might go a little something like this.
It seems that in Britain, burglars aren’t bothering to steal CDs and DVDs. Why?
The reason is the falling value of physical media products. The average price of a CD album in Britain fell from £10.77 to £7.32 between 2001 and 2010, according to the BPI, a trade group—almost a halving, in real terms. And the dishonest get their music and films free, via the internet. DVDs are under pressure not just from piracy but also from video-on-demand services.
Instead they’re stealing computers, purses, jewelry, and anything else that has greater value. Technology has disrupted traditional thievery as well.
How companies can save money and “go green(er)” by simply lowering the air conditioning in data centers.
Headline shamelessly taken from Radley Balko, but this case of an innocent man turning himself in to police is disturbing.
William Giraldo was threatened with deportation and thrown in the notorious Rikers Island prison in New York when he was mistaken for the ‘Brooklyn Groper’.
He was picked out of a lineup, arraigned on his wedding day and spent a month in jail until DNA evidence cleared him.
In Balko’s words, “Yep, they had the wrong guy. He now has a mountain of legal bills. Oh, and while he was in jail, the actual ‘serial groper’ struck again.”
Yes, you need a lawyer.
In a strange turn-about, AdBlock Plus will now allow “acceptable ads.” Why?
Starting with Adblock Plus 2.0 you can allow some of the advertising that is considered not annoying. By doing this you support websites that rely on advertising but choose to do it in a non-intrusive way. And you give these websites an advantage over their competition which encourages other websites to use non-intrusive advertising as well. In the long term the web will become a better place for everybody, not only Adblock Plus users. Without this feature we run the danger that increasing Adblock Plus usage will make small websites unsustainable.
It’s an interesting idea. It allows users to support their favorite sites, without having to deal with obnoxious advertisements. This also encourages sites to only choose these acceptable or not-obnoxious ads.
(hat tip: Linear Fix)
The controversial V-22 Osprey, the Marine Corps’ hybrid helicopter/airplane just got its first taste of combat… and performed well.
Here’s a sample listing on eBay.
In time for Halloween, it’s how to carve pumpkins using cookie cutters and a rubber mallet. Looks much easier than the “old way.”
h/t Boing Boing
