AT&T will brand its 4G network as 5G E, and 5G as 5G+ - yet no one will sue and fine them for this illegal marketing ploy

America can't compete technologically with China and its juggernaut Huawei, so they just want to pretend that they're the first with 5G. What utter bullshit nonsense!

Sources: [link 1] [link 2] [link 3] [link 4]

ARM uses non-zero base in its comparison bar graphs in order to make performance gains in newer designs appear MUCH larger than the reality

Frankly, it's pretty cheap and shoddy for a company as large and engineering-driven as ARM Holdings. The MBAs who crafted these charts to fool foolish people should be fired and blacklisted. They're a disgrace to professionalism.

Trick used by cosmetics and food brands - 100% herbal or natural versus 100% herbal actives or 100% natural concentrates [COMPACTIDEA]

Due to growing consumer awareness, many buyers are looking for products that are 100% herbal or 100% natural, and do not include any artificial substances or chemicals. But that isn't the same thing as "100% herbal actives" or "100% natural concentrates". The latter two are carefully-crafted terms - like the stuff lawyers write - intended to give buyers the impression that the product is totally ayurvedic/herbal/natural, without it necessarily being so. The "actives" are 100% herbal, but what about the rest of the product? The "non-actives"? The "concentrates" are natural, sure, but what about the rest of the drink [presumably a juice pack]?

On its website, Postbox shows photos of only the Mac version of its email program, which looks much more beautiful than the Windows version [COMPACTIDEA]

You surf the website and you see this beautiful, colorful, lively email program. You are attracted and impressed and you end up buying it. But when you install and run it, it bears no resemblance to the photos you saw on the website. Because those were of the OS X / macOS version of the program. You feel deceived, especially because the Windows version looks so boring.

This happened to me. I felt disappointed with the looks and the feel of Postbox after having bought and installed it. I felt even more bad when I realized that, coincidentally [I didn't know this before], the Mozilla Thunderbird that I uninstalled in order to switch to Postbox is the same Thunderbird on which Postbox itself is based. Such a bad feeling - Postbox website never tells you about this.

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Control, submission and vote-bank politics disguised as empowerment and progress

While online Indian news media, newspapers and folks on social networking websites all blindly and foolishly hail and celebrate the appointment of a woman as India's first female Defence Minister, it's important to observe that this move was likely a well planned and calculated one by our shrewd PM Narendra Modi. He knew well that there will be quick and collective jubilation from impatient feminists [and women in general], and he appointed Nirmala Sitharaman as India's next Defence Minister to make himself seem progressive, and to thus secure votes for himself from females.

Further, my theory is that Narendra Modi is so cunning that his second, less-visible goal behind appointment of Nirmala Sitharaman was to exert more control over Defence expenditures and allotments. She's probably submissive and will quietly do as told [by Modi], and Modi needed exactly this kind of a compliant puppet in the [lucrative and money-making] Defence Ministry. Let's not blindly and foolishly believe what's visible. Dig deeper and observe what isn't directly visible. We have to remember that our PM is a clever and self-centered man. He thinks of only himself. It's yet another political masterstroke by Modi that he was able to kill two birds with one arrow - win female votes and applause, and appoint a controllable pawn in the profitable Defence Ministry. This is Modi's own way of using feminism as a tool to further his "political profit".

Lightning Deal on Amazon (India) is more expensive than regular price - WTF! [COMPACTIDEA]

Update [25-Sep-17]: Same today.

ESET Multi-Device Security for only one device - an oxymoron by definition

Bought "ESET Multi-Device Security" from Amazon. Not really anything "multi" about it, as "1 device, 1 year" is clearly labeled on the box. What nonsense is this? You've reduced a "multi" product to the regular ESET Smart Security. Almost an oxymoron.