If their only other option is to pull themselves together and get a job, then I suppose that's true. It seems unlikely.

Don't use this as an excuse to do nothing. Be smart, but be compassionate.

Thank you OP (kennethologist) for fixing the title of this article. The nymag title is "JCPenney Permanently Cuts All Prices by 40 Percent" which is certainly not true. Copy editor Bill Walsh writes:

The company meant "permanent" in the sense of regular prices as opposed to sale prices. It’s lowering regular prices and cutting back on sales in a strategy that may or may not work. If the strategy doesn’t work, the company has every right to change course -- and if it does, a bunch of news outlets will be revealed as big, fat liars.

Bill goes on to criticize lazy journalists who just write what they're told: http://theslot.blogspot.com/2012/01/penney-want-cracker.html

That wasn't a quote from the article; it was a quote from the wikipedia page.

The author gives his email address at the end.

Funny how articles about computer-generated prose are never computer-generated.

rsnapshot. It uses rsync to be fast. It creates directories with full snapshots of my backed-up files and uses hard-links to avoid duplicating files that haven't changed.

If you're using Firefox, try Lazarus: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6984/

Be creative! How about Facebook only exports proxied @facebook.com email addresses?

Oh god...

How did they know how much money to transfer if it was stored on the lost card?

They can't - if you take money of the card using a coffee machine, they don't know how about it unless they log the coffee-transaction, in which case the auther above was bound to get in trouble for getting free coffee.

This is often quoted, but I suspect it's no longer true. When I referred him to an online article last year, he immediately replied about it. I bet he has access to a web browser when needed.