Some gas stations allow you to pay for Diesel with cash at a discount. As a side note, Flash Foods has a card you can get that uses ACH with your debit account (I'm probably not saying that right). You get a flat $0.05 off of gas. They claim it's because of credit card charges (and because ACH doesn't cost them anything).
It's really a matter of personal preference. I haven't been able to find much on the Moto 360 (they seem to be keeping a bunch under wraps(I could be looking in the wrong places though)). But I assume it has a LCD screen. Which is potentially hell for battery life. The Pebble has around a 4-5 day battery life for me. This isn't constant text messages though.
Another thing you might want to keep in mind: Moto 360 will only work on Android. This isn't a negative for most people, except for those that might want to get an iPhone in the future. Pebble works with both (for the most part (from what I've heard, I have only actually experienced the Android side)).
There is a similar version that I know a friend plays at a large university. It's Humans vs. Zombies. If you get "bit", you are a zombie and have to wear something that identifies you as such (normally a bandanna tied around an arm). If you're a human, you carry a nerf gun with you. If you hit a zombie with a nerf bullet, they can't bite you for a while (next time you see them, or such).
Yea, this is a popular game. For a while (at least at a big state school), the rules were similar to "Assassin", but have since been changed. At my university, the game is only 'on' during defined sessions, typically after classes have ended. So people aren't sprinting through large groups of students waving fake guns, and campus police know when the game is being played. It works out because the people with Nerf guns are in large groups, and the people hiding and sneaking around don't have guns.
Even today I'm disappointed with Nexflix's selection so I never bothered getting past the free trials.
I would hope that some day Amazon would require everyone that wants to sell a physical copy join in on the program but I can see how that might damage their profits. Maybe once a majority of books are on the program they can make it a requirement and everyone selling books will have to decide to suck it up and join or not make money through Amazon.
What I really don't understand is why anyone selling books wouldn't want to join the program. Is there any scenario at all where they would lose by being a part of it?
No, I don't really see that. When I hear Kindle, I think more of nurturing, or beginning a fire. A fire needs to begin somewhere, just as an idea must. And must also be nurtured, and built upon, something that books do. That's what I see when I see "Kindle". Matchbook just goes along with the fire theme of Kindle, as publicfig said.
I agree. Specifically, the names remind me of a quotation by Victor Hugo - "To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark".
You're right, there is a spectrum of preference. But just because some are ok with it, doesn't mean all of us. Why encapsulate everyone under the same policy of track everything?
On the Do Not Track, I think turning it on by default is a bad idea. It gives companies no incentive to follow it and abide by it. (Yes, they have no reason to abide by it right now either). There is no law that says they have to abide by it, but it seems to me they might be more willing to abide by DNT if those that are tracking conscious were to turn it on, rather than it to be turned on by itself. They wouldn't lose as many people to track if it was opt in instead of opt out.
As i mentioned to another commentor, I don't think we should encapsulate everyone under the same policies nor do I think everyone should feel the same. I believe it's OK for people to want a lot of privacy. However, through this whole NSA discussion, I've seen a large amount of discussion on HN basically saying that anyone who doesn't desire a high level of privacy is wrong or ignorant. That's certainly what Zuider's comment about the possibility of me saying "I'm not doing anything wrong..." asserts. I think it's more ignorant to believe that everyone needs to have the same values and beliefs as you regarding privacy.
