I assume the flag is because there’s a “John Smith” who has committed some crime or another and has a warrant out, and if aranel’s real name is “John Smith” with no relation to the wanted criminal, the system would flag him when he tries to enter the US, as it sees “John Smith” and has to have them check which John…

It reminds me in high school of this kid I knew who put a disgusting amount of mayonnaise on his pizza. I was sitting at a nearby table once and saw him putting packet after packet on his pizza until it looked like it was more mayonnaise than pizza.

I was thinking the same thing. I recently moved to Wisconsin from Pennsylvania, and it’s the weirdest thing seeing an alcohol aisle in a walmart, with the alcohol just sitting on shelves in the grocery section.

Mine seemed to extract the relevant info from my resume, but is under my actual salary by almost $50k (that’s after converting to $). I don’t know if that says something about the tool or about me.

Wow, reading fail. I completely misread the question multiple times. Now I know why I shouldn't reply to articles I read shortly after waking up.

The only one I had an issue with was number 2, and that was because of the phrasing. When they say is the money more than it is today, they don't specify whether they mean the value of the money, or the amount of the money. If the money in the account is $101 dollars but interest is 2%, there is more "money"…

On a similar note, my mother was able to make pretty good taco bowls by taking tortillas, folding them over the top of an upside down coffee can (in a roughly bowl-like shape), and baking them. They turned out really well and were great for taco salads.

When my parents had ants, my father did some research and eventually decided on traps using boric acid. I'm not sure of the ratio he ended up using, but the gist of it was that you mix boric acid with either sugar water or some type of sweet food, and set it somewhere the ants can get. They were all over it the first…

I use Swype as my main keyboard, and I've tried switching to SwiftKey every time they update. I always end up going back to Swype though because SwiftKey's Flow always seems to be worse at figuring out what word I'm trying for than Swype, even after multiple days of use (for it to learn my swiping style). In addition,…

Google updates its apps in staged rollouts. That means they release it for X number of people, wait a couple of hours/days to make sure there are no major reported bugs, release it for another X people, repeat. Unfortunately, this means it can sometimes take several days/weeks for everyone to get the update.

Teamviewer is an application that runs on the both computers, and allows one to remotely control/access the other using VNC. They manage this without a domain name by having their server keep track of your IP address so that other clients with your Teamviewer Id (and password) can connect and control the computer.…

You can also just change your search settings to return more results (if you aren't using instant).

Unfortunately, one of the features that chrome beta for android introduced has spoiled me (probably also in non-beta version at this point). The double-tap and drag to zoom is indispensable if using the phone with one hand. Using other browsers now feels really annoying and limited, because I can zoom in all the way…

I read it as just missing a comma.

From what I saw, it's not very hard to set up a WiFi Direct connection on stock android, you just can't actually do anything with it unless you have an app that uses it. For instance, All-Share Play (I agree, ridiculous name) adds an item to the share menu that does 2 things: allows you to select from nearby people…

What makes this better than WiFi Direct? WiFi Direct doesn't require a WiFi network (it creates an ad-hoc connection). And it doesn't require using qr codes or NFC to initialize. I don't know what phones/tablets do or don't support it, but you just have to go to WiFi settings, click WiFi Direct on the receiving…

Try changing the skin in the preferences. Personally I always like olddefault, but there are a bunch. As far as I can tell, none of the others have the audio visualizer.

I would like to point out that many (all?) debit cards are supported by a credit card company, and can almost always be used as credit instead of debit at the machine/register. When used as credit rather than debit, most debit card users experience many of the security benefits that credit card users enjoy (such as…

I jumped to the comments to see if anyone else noticed when I read that line.

As a note for anyone who read your comment and isn't aware: