The secret eyes watching you shop

The secret eyes watching you shop: "Most Americans don't even know that data brokers exist, let alone that they collect and trade a staggering amount of our personal data. Brokers operate invisibly, buying and selling data about us without interacting directly with us."

Audio/video web content manifesto

"Brothers and sisters, we deserve better than this, and those whom we write for deserve better. This is not what we built the web for! For the first time in human history, you can have anything you write read by millions of people, whether within days or within hours, and all it takes is talent, imagination and the discipline to put up something worth reading. There are no obstacles anymore - so why must we create new ones?" Link

How to Tell if An Android App is Potentially Dangerous

How to Tell if An Android App is Potentially Dangerous: "Google doesn’t manually approve apps like Apple does, but they do scan apps in the Google Play Store for malware. Permissions, reviews, and other reputation information can also tell us a lot."

use multiple cell phones via single (multi-handset) home phone system

This phone system [link] lets you use cell phones with a multi-handset cordless home phone system. As described by someone I work with:

"At our house we dropped the home phone because already had 2 different cells in the house.

But, for convenience, got a combo cordless phone/answering machine with cell phone integration.  For example, Panasonic makes a base station with 3, 4, or 5 cordless handsets – that gets a cordless phone in each major room…. Plus an answering machine.  The Panasonic also integrates up to 3 cell phones with Bluetooth.

So you come home, put your cell phone near the base station for charging.  It ties in via bluetooth.   If a phone call comes in, all the cordless phones ring.  And it is a distinctive ring to differentiate one cell from another.  So dad’s ringtone in the house is different than the ringtone for mom.  Placing a phone call is easy too, when you pick up a cordless, it will go out on cell #1.  If you hit Flash 2, then it goes out on cell #2 and so on."

Internet Citizens: DEFEND NET NEUTRALITY

Internet Citizens: DEFEND NET NEUTRALITY [Video]: "Listen as CGP Grey gives a simple explanation on what net neutrality is and tells us why we all need to defend it."