This is absolutely true, but bear in mind that Mint is operated on Intuit/Turbotax's infrastructure, which also contains huge amounts of detailed personal information that would be a disaster to lose and very high visibility. Much worse than easily-canceled credit cards.

Yes. This.

Just to sum up my thoughts because I'm headed into some meetings for the rest of the day and can't keep replying individually (it's a good discussion, but I think I've said most of my feelings):

Try Hooked on Phonics.

I have not ignored that at all.

No, it's not countered by that. You have entirely missed the point.

A home is an asset. Assets are "investments". You buy them, own them, and sell them. They are like stocks, bonds, or iPhones in that they store value. The value of your iPhone might not increase over time, but the fact that it is an asset means that you can recoup part of your investment by selling it. Then you can…

I think this is generally a terrible way to choose a camera.

I'm not arguing with what you saw, only that it shouldn't be accepted as normal and disregarded as the inevitable consequence of jailbreaking.

There's something wrong that has nothing to do with jailbreaking, then.

In RE: "Pay off the House." Something a lot of people fail to take into account is you can still get that "home equity" if you're renting, but you have to be diligent about it. Between mortgage interest rates, taxes and repairs, home owners typically spend 50-75% more than renters, sometimes even more than that.

I was having this problem for a little while - not really over-spending, just never having a good grasp on my card balances.

I'm not trying to imply that this isn't "better" than a simpler method, or to say that using this stops at the Lifehacker example (I acknowledged that you could use this method to make good passwords).

The problem, though, is that any type of predictable pattern entry is going to be tested for.

I like the introspection in this article. It would have been easy to turn it into one of these dime-a-dozen commentaries on why we don't need more stuff but it actually isn't. It's not really about the stuff - it's about the behaviors.

The past few years, I've found that my neck pops and cracks just about every time I roll my head around (that is, not just turn side to side but also lean my head back).

My biggest current annoyance was that they changed something at some point in Jelly Bean so that notifications aren't as consistent. For example, I can't stop Google Voice from vibrating if I have my phone set to vibrate. When I have my phone set to vibrate, I actually only want calls to vibrate, so I turn off all…

The other thing to keep in mind is that t-shirts often don't fit the same as undershirts. In addition to the fabric thickness, undershirts often have the sleeves cut shorter, the neck higher, the collar thicker, and the fit is slimmer, all of which have a result on how the dress shirt is going to look.

Incognito/private browsing only prevents sketchy websites that you're browsing from hijacking cookies or sessions on other websites you're browsing.

Oh, I am well aware that there's a hole in the side of the donut. I'm not sure I've ever seen a time when you couldn't identify the filling from that... which is what made it all the more amazing.