ancientt writes:
"Want to avoid someone and have iOS? With the app Cloak, you can. It will connect to Foursquare and Instagram (and soon others) to track people and alert you when they get too close.
The Washington Post quotes an email by the creator, "Personally, I think we've seen the crest of the big social network," Baker wrote in an e-mail. 'Things like Twitter and Facebook are packed elevators where we're all crammed in together ... I think anti-social stuff is on the rise. You'll be seeing more and more of these types of projects.'"
(Score: 5, Funny) by Geezer on Friday March 21 2014, @01:02PM
Stop bathing. The socially dysfunctional can save both money and water, and let others do the avoiding.
Generations of basement-dwellers have mastered this art.
Oh, wait! An app to track the savings! Maybe... GeekReek?
Scruting the inscrutable for over 50 years.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 21 2014, @01:48PM
Thing is most of these apps already accomplish this but not in the way you think.
Everyone gets together and then spends the whole time messing around with their phones. That is not getting together... Turn that sucker off and talk to me or why did you invite me over...
(Score: 3, Funny) by lx on Friday March 21 2014, @02:57PM
I didn't invite you over. Who are you? Why are you in my house? Stop eating my pudding!
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Friday March 21 2014, @05:59PM
Well, he did eat his meat first.
(Score: 2) by evilviper on Saturday March 22 2014, @12:12PM
If you install a small grey-water system in your home (needs just a barrel and a pump), using your sink/shower water again to flush your toilets and possibly water your lawn, then there is zero water wasted from showering...
Of course, that was never the biggest expense. Heating-up the water is what makes a shower expensive. Solar panels for water heating can make that pretty cheap, too, though still not really free.
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(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday March 22 2014, @12:33PM
I guess that depends very much on where you are. I'd expect that in the middle of the Sahara, getting the water would be quite expensive, while heating it up would be basically free.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by evilviper on Saturday March 22 2014, @03:13PM
As a desert dweller myself, I can assure you that water isn't much more expensive, and water heating is still very-much necessary, and dominates the cost.
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