Have you enabled the “Reduce difficult intersections” option? That’s supposed to reduce these kinds of directions.

This is why (one of the reasons) Google Voice is so great.

You can opt out of all these creepy services. We have a few posts on Lifehacker about it—it’s a several-hour process to contact all the damn services and send them the info they want. It feels worth it, though.

All the info they have is public info, what permission do they need from you?

This has a lot more information than I was expecting.

That’s f***in’ creepy. Not surprising, but it is creepy.

Not just facebook, but websites like truepeoplesearch.com have your information without you giving them permission.

It wants acess to evrything i have ever typed ...it even give a warning that sensitive things like passwords and credit card info might be at risk ...i think ill be uninstalling

Yeah, that’s great. It will also fuck up your experience with submitting to Kinja by randomly sending you back to the beginning of your submission.

Wisdom is not simply thinking before you act. No amount of thinking or self-reflection will ever be enough to accomplish something good or well without sufficient knowledge and/or experience.

It always baffles me as to how many people feel the need to upgrade their phone every single year with the latest high end one. Do you change your computer that often? What about your car or shoes? Does the new phone really have new features that you can’t live without. Is it truely performing that much better? I kept…

“in my opinion, is that cold temperatures kill the flavors in beers”

Over the years I have used Chase for both business and personal. Every time I tired of the high fees and terrible service and switched within six months. I consistently stay with the follow-on banks for years.

Over the years I have used Chase for both business and personal. Every time I tired of the high fees and terrible…

Great article, really. But...

You can’t smell an ebook.

My daughter goes to NYU, and they provide Amazon Prime and Netflix accounts by default.

They definitely ask you for proof of enrollment but I believe when you hit the four year mark the service ends regardless of your enrollment status because they only offer the service up to 4 years per Prime Account. You’d have to make an all new Prime account and get your University to hook you up with a new email…

been going for 3 years now, so yeah we will see.

What about those of us who are already Prime subscribers? Can we switch?

This comic pretty much sums it up I think. [bradcolbow.com]