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by imsaar 16y ago
A must watch video there about our consumer economy. "The Story of Stuff Project was created by Annie Leonard to leverage and extend the film’s impact. We amplify public discourse on a series of environmental, social and economic concerns a
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Buy, Use, Toss? A Closer Look at the Things We Buy.(storyofstuff.com)
1 points by imsaar 16y ago|1 comments
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New Open Marketplace for Mobile Apps works on iphone now(openappmkt.com)
1 points by imsaar 16y ago|0 comments
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International Space Station Comes Together (animation)(i.usatoday.net)
19 points by imsaar 16y ago|2 comments
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by imsaar 16y ago
Amazing how easy it is for anybody to get hold of sensitive data. I am not sure what is the purpose of a hard disk in a copy machine. They should not have these. The copy machine wants extra money for deleting images or encrypting.
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Copy machines, a data security risk?(cbsnews.com)
4 points by imsaar 16y ago|2 comments
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by imsaar 16y ago
Very interesting idea, I think OLEDs are still very expensive but they have started to show up in consumer electronics in small sizes. This combined with 10GUI.com interface enhancements and it would be awesome. I still wish there was a way
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Future of mobile computing : Rolltop(youtube.com)
5 points by imsaar 16y ago|4 comments
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Immigration and Jobs: Where U.S. Workers Come From (nytimes.com)
6 points by imsaar 16y ago|1 comments
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by imsaar 16y ago
I am using Toodledo.com (very ugly web interface but good functionality) with Ultimate To Do iphone app which can sync with Toodledo and it has been working out pretty well. I agree a To Do list that is not always with you is not an effecti
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Pessimistic Blog on Economy(theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
1 points by imsaar 16y ago|0 comments
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by imsaar 17y ago
Is there a possibility of creating a pool of non-accredited investors that solve the problems pointed out by the second article?
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by imsaar 17y ago
I think it is a neat idea and I have not seen such an app yet.The idea can be called micro-investing or micro-entrepreneur. What would be the business model of the company facilitating this transaction (the startup)? Commission on transacti
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Free Opensource Ruby Best Practices Book (Complete)(blog.rubybestpractices.com)
4 points by imsaar 17y ago|0 comments
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by imsaar 17y ago
They killed so many civilians without any apparent reason with such brutality and impunity including this 9 year old whose brain came out and fell between his father's feet as he watched him die. Worst of all they denied it all and told the
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by imsaar 17y ago
May be it was my 'incredibly ignorant statement' :-) May be it was the title of the post. Your post looks pretty relevant, related and good. I have voted it up if that helps.
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by imsaar 17y ago
I agree with you. I have written to such website before but it is just more one thing to do and follow up on. I was thinking if I start collecting all of them together I can do some kind of bulk action one day. This blog entry is just the s
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by imsaar 17y ago
I am glad I am not the only one who feel sending passwords email is a bad thing: http://www.techconsumer.com/2008/02/11/bad-form-companies-st... Thank you tomfakes for the comment.
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by imsaar 17y ago
I think Google Apps does this when you are setting up a new user account for other user. Sending that is different as in they need the password to access their account for the first time. Although there are better ways to setup an account a
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by imsaar 17y ago
Incredibly educational comment. I stand corrected that it is not necessarily true that they would store it in clear text in the database but if someone is sending me password in clear text in email I would not give them a lot of benefit of
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by imsaar 17y ago
At least record your protest or change your password to something not related to your real secret password.
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Boycott websites that send you email with your password in clear text(imsaar.posterous.com)
11 points by imsaar 17y ago|28 comments