A week ago, I received this message from Yelp: Hi Paul, We’re writing to let you know about our decision to remove your review of Shields David S MD. Your review was flagged by the Yelp community, and our Yelp Support team has determined that it falls outside our Terms of Service (http://www.yelp.com/static?p=tos), specifically as …
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University of Waterloo economics professor Larry Smith doesn’t understand the Internet: This site is intended for the exclusive use of Larry Smith’s current and former students. Its use by other persons is expressly prohibited.
So the NAC SKI people try really hard to hide their contact information. There’s no phone number on the site or their Yelp page Why? Who knows. Update 2012-02-17: NAC SKI has now updated their Yelp page with contact information: 2635 N 1st St Ste 242 San Jose, CA 95131 (408) 922-0182 They even …
I was ordering some kitchen items from Webstaurant Store, my favourite online restaurant supply play (yes, really). All was fine until I hit the shipping page:
A couple years ago, I switched my Wells Fargo MasterCard to an Amazon Rewards Visa card. Unfortunately, Amazon’s Visa card is managed by Chase, who has no idea how to run a business, build a web site or provide customer service. The complaints piled up in my mind, but it wasn’t until I returned from …
While in Australia and New Zealand, I shot a ton of photos. Normally, my photos sit on a hard drive and no one sees them. I wanted to make sure that didn’t happen this time. First, I grouped the photos in to folders in the Finder. Then, I created a new project in Aperture and …
The latest CDT Policy Post discusses the importance Privacy by Design. They extensively reference Anne Cavoukian (Ontario’s kickass Privacy Commissioner and author of Who Knows). The seven principles of Privacy by Design are: Proactive, not Reactive; Preventative, not Remedial Privacy as the Default Privacy Embedded into Design Full Functionality – Positive-Sum, not Zero-Sum End-to-End Lifecycle …
I wrote Nancy Pelosi, letting her know that electronic voting machines are problematic and voter-verified paper ballots are essential. She wrote me back: Like her colleague Diane Feinstein, she is having trouble finding competent correspondence staff. Note the key paragraph here: Senator Bill Nelson (D-NB) introduced the companion Senate bill, S. 1431, on July 9th, …
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