Author Archives: Michael Froomkin

What The Wall Street Protesters Are So Angry About

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Michael Froomkin

CHARTS: Here's What The Wall Street Protesters Are So Angry About… via Business Insider.

Yup.

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The “MIT School of Law”

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Michael Froomkin

For many years I have joked that my dream job would be at the MIT School of Law, if only such a thing existed. Well, maybe someday it will. At least virtually.

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Tax Law and Airline Baggage Checking Fees

Posted on October 16, 2011 by Michael Froomkin

In Why The Tax Code Encourages American Airlines to Award Bonus Miles for Checking Bags in Boston View from the Wing explains how the tax code encourages airlines to add fees to base ticket prices rather than bundle prices like cable TV companies do.

I guess this means we have to start taxing baggage checking fees?

[Edited shortly after original posting for clarity.]

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Smoke t No More

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Michael Froomkin

Local BBQ joint Smoke t seems to have closed three days ago, or so I discovered at lunch today.

Apparently, I’m the last to know that the location will become Shake Shack.

Smoke t always seemed busy when I went there, and I would have thought they were coining it. Either I was wrong, or the gurus at Shake Shake made them an offer they couldn’t refuse.

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Putting an iPhone to the ‘Fullest Possible Use’

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Michael Froomkin

This image of the new Siri intelligent agent at work is the first thing I’ve ever seen that makes me think an iPhone might be a good thing to have.

Meanwhile, however, the Android remains a more open platform, which certainly has its virtues (and the occasional vice too).

Source: Brad DeLong (who got it from a Telstra user in Australia?).

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Opt-out of Verizon Marketing Your Location

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Michael Froomkin

If you have Verizon cell phone service opt-out of location marketing here. Note you will need to log in to your Verizon account, and then — get this — you’ll have to save your preferences three times, once for each of the three sections. Because saving just once would be too easy.

The three sections are: Customer Proprietary Network Information Settings, Business & Marketing Reports, and Relevant Mobile Advertising.

Found via Verizon Plans to Start Tracking Your Mobile Information – Instead of Freaking Out, Simply Opt-Out of It – Droid Life: A Droid Community Blog.

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