Economic reasons not to buy an iPhone
But you can always sell me your old iPhone for 17 bucks! :)
Is it worth it?
"ASSESSING THE RISKS, COSTS AND BENEFITS OF UNITED STATES AVIATION SECURITY MEASURES" by M.G. Stewart and J. Mueller
The goal of the research is to perform a cost-benefit analysis over the countermeasures taken in the last years by the TSA United States Transportation Security Administration.
Even if reading some of the assumptions (giving to a human life an economic value, for example) could be synical, this is how the homo economicus thinks.
Hint: I know what are you thinking.
"Finally someone is going to prove that all the humiliating procedures (or, at least, time consuming) we - passengers - have to live, are completely wrong and useless."
Sorry. It's not about that. And better: actually the researchers assign a 50% success rate (in avoiding 9/11-like attacks) to the pre-boarding security(such as baggage check, no-fly lists, laptop check, ...). [UPDATE: after the jump, and after dasnake's comment, I inserted also an extract with the reason why the researchers assigned such rate]
After the jump, the parts I found most interesting.
Hacking: the only way to be
The quotation in the title is from "Floating Anarchy,[ the only way to be] " from Planet Gong but just a few of you (dasnake? :) could get that.
BTW, here Codejunkie talks hacking and why we do it (Why mod your PSP?) and here, on the contrary, some dude from (some) Locksmiths Association explains us (thanks pal!) how evil is the hobby of lockpicking and assure us they're going to stop that kind of dangerous time waste.
[ "if you can't open it", CC licensed picture by genista ]
Some thinks after the jump!
Knee on track!
Good Picture!
[ somehow taken from killboy.com; see the watermark ]
Earn with your music (without being Robbie Williams)
Thanks panoz (the guy behind ki55.org), I found this article.
The topic is how to avoid the usual distribution channel for your music and actually try to earn some money, without being Robbie Williams (in italian, "Come utilizzare una licenza Creative Commons e guadagnare dalla libera circolazione della propria opera?").
I know the article is in italian but you can try google translate. Or ask me :).
Tip: use a Creative Commons license and a lawyer (at least, if you live in Italy and you want to fight against SIAE - aka Italian Music Mafia -, who will go after you).
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