GMail doesn't really "leak" information about e-mail addresses, it just displays any public information tied to that address's Google Plus profile.
Once upon a time, Google dedicated a massive amount of resources to launch a social network to compete with Facebook, Google Plus. When G+ launched, one of the "features" was linking your GMail account with your G+ account. G+ didn't really take off (obviously), but all Google employees were "strongly encouraged" to join, and the account you're looking at (foobar@gmail.com) belongs to former Google engineer, who does have a public G+ profile. If you go to plus.google.com and search for that e-mail address, it will bring up their profile page. If you know any GMail addresses that don't have public G+ profiles, you can verify their information isn't leaked.
Aside: G+ was the reason why Google Reader was killed #NeverForget
For those interested in other "legitimate" UFO sightings, I'd recommend "UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record" by Leslie Kean [1]. The author is an investigative journalist who sets out to interview observers of relatively well-documented UFO encounters, and ends up speaking mostly with military pilots from around the world. It's a good read, and is even-handed and well written, especially considering the genre.
In the book, two things stood out to me. First, there are a quite a few UFO sightings that are corroborated by non-human sensor data (mostly radar and video). Second, the narrative paints a picture where US government officials are much more secretive than any other nation, by far. Within that context, the releases of the last few weeks are even more surprising.
Highly recommended for anyone interested in a modern, not-too-X-files-like take on UFO phenomena.
I agree that the releases from the US Gov the last few weeks have been VERY surprising, nearly a 90 degree shift from the "deny everything" policy that they assumed for the last few decades.
Going one step further, at the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, I just wonder, what actually has changed to prompt this change in policy of denying everything
I've been suspicious for some time that the US federal government believes that there is likely to be sort of major societal upset in the near future. I can't imagine that it would be "Disclosure", though. I don't know what it could be.
Partially off topic: does anybody know of a hosted solution that turns a pdf into an html page, and hosts the output html (optionally, also hosts the pdf, with a downloadable link).
https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/ would probably be what you would need to build your own. I think you can also use just Google drive to make something like this.
Maybe this is too obvious (I assume you've already rejected it as an option), but depending on how desperate/minimum-viable-product you are: Google Drive, Dropbox, etc. offer PDF preview functionality.
What do you think about the fact that, in general, the percentage of Americans who move is on the decline?
> In the mid-1960s, about 20 percent of the population moved in any given year, according to the United States Census Bureau. By 1990, it was approaching 15 percent. Today it’s closer to 10 percent. The percentage that moves between states has fallen by nearly half since the early 1990s.
Great point here. It's a bit counter intuitive, right, that Americans on the whole are moving less. To add some color:
-The majority of Americans that live in rural or somewhat suburban areas are most certainly (though anecdotally) bringing this number down. In cities, you'd expect this number to be much higher than 10%.
-This data point from article below is bit more telling of our target market. Please don't mind their incessant use of the term "millennials" - they know not what they do.
1. Does your market analysis differentiate between intra-city and inter-city move? It feels like the service is much more valuable for people moving inter-city.
2. Is there a better source for the "planned future mobility" data? I would expect rent.com to have a strong editorial bias around the perception that the rental market is healthy and renters are competing with each other. I would not expect the same kind of bias in census data.
3. I would love to see the census data's mobility over time cohorted by age group. Is that something you guys have done, and can share?
Is anyone aware of an entity that attempts to objectively quantify the economic impact of an event like this (ransoms paid, data lost, labor hours lost, new security costs, etc)?
These voids change moving up the distance scale - while our star system is visibly not inside a void, there is evidence that the Milky Way is inside a galactic-scale void.
For reference, British Airways' parent company made a profit of €2.5 billion last year, and expects higher profits this year [0].
Without meaningful consequences at the top of the executive chain for sub-par IT/infrastructure quality, these kinds of incidents seem inevitable. But how do you hold people responsibly for "bad" software? We could adopt something akin to how PE licenses are required for civil engineering in the US. I suspect it is in the industry's best interest to address this need before a government entity decides to.
Cool! What was the motivation for the restoration project? Like, were the salt ponds causing some sort of environmental damage, or was the smell hurting property values, or something else?
There's a big push to restore the wetlands to something approaching their pre-industrial state, which were salt marshes housing many species and benefiting the ecology of the area.
"Part of the trick was that the service could automatically weed out junk mail, and when U.S. Postmaster General Pat Donahoe got wind of this, he wasn’t happy — at least according to Baehr."
"Donahoe summoned Outbox to his office, and Baehr made his pitch, arguing that the company was just a few smart guys with $2 million in financing who wanted to spend the next few years learning about Donahoe’s customers and even sending him data about what these customers needed. Donahoe responded by saying that the customers of U.S. Postal Service were not the general public. Its customers, he said, were a few hundred bulk mailers."
Once upon a time, Google dedicated a massive amount of resources to launch a social network to compete with Facebook, Google Plus. When G+ launched, one of the "features" was linking your GMail account with your G+ account. G+ didn't really take off (obviously), but all Google employees were "strongly encouraged" to join, and the account you're looking at (foobar@gmail.com) belongs to former Google engineer, who does have a public G+ profile. If you go to plus.google.com and search for that e-mail address, it will bring up their profile page. If you know any GMail addresses that don't have public G+ profiles, you can verify their information isn't leaked.
Aside: G+ was the reason why Google Reader was killed #NeverForget