Then get away from them! You are not required to get credit from anybody, nor are they required to extend you credit. All this faux-Libertarian hand-wringing about 'my rights' and whatnot. Well, you still have the right to do whatever you want with your own money.
CC companies do NOT control what you buy. They can control what you buy with THEIR money, and they would like to be paid back. If you don't like their terms, don't deal with them. Why is this so hard to comprehend?
People are acting as though they have a right to do whatever they want with unsecured debt. Speculative investments made with unsecured debt destroyed the US economy for more than a decade - it took WWII and a lot of luck to get us back on our feet.
If it's really your money, go for it - you are free to blow it in any way that suits you.
If you borrow the money, well, it's not really totally 'your' money - it's money you have to pay back. And credit card debt is unsecured - that's why the interest rates are usuriously high.
And when there's a weird speculative thing going on, creditors can lend to whom they want, by their own rules. You don't have to borrow from them. They are not a public utility or something.
Look up 'buying stocks on margin' and 'the great Crash of 1929'. Followed by 'The Great Depression', which was no joke. This crypto thing is not all that dissimilar. You could say the CC companies are being responsible, in their own greedy way.
But learning from history isn't cool these days. 'It's different this time'. Yah, right.
Why would they? It's about extending credit for dicey 'investments'. With cryptos heading south day by day, they consider people pouring money into it on credit as a bad risk. It's nothing but business.
Debit cards are cash - your money in the bank. If you want to blow it on cryptos, they don't care - they have no exposure.
"This protein, called syntaxin1A, isn't just found in animal models - people have it, too."
You f-ing idiot, people are animals - capiche? Not demigods, not brains in vat (as much as some geeks would love that). Animals. Meat. We are great apes. Like gorillas and chimps and orangs and so forth. That's what makes life interesting;-)
You must not have purchased a car in the last decade. The price of a Ferrari with a top trim package is astronomical. See, cars are much more expensive than trucks.
Trucks are inexpensive compared to cars. I drive a truck because it's the cheapest way to get 4 wheel drive, and also, I need to haul stuff - hay, firewood, etc. In fact, I'm not sure what your point was.
If my 'car' (I'm a truck guy) starts 'serving' me ads, I will go ballistic. A man's truck is his own private kingdom. We live in a broken world. Surely there can be somewhere that we can be free of FUCKING ADS! I was in a pretty foul mood before I read this article, but now I am really depressed. Why can't they leave me the fuck alone?
'NASA launches a mission to study blah, blah, blah'. No, it WILL launch a mission towards the end of the month. Then you can write 'NASA launches a mission'.
Have you tried Sysnative.com? I had a serious and convoluted f-up with Windows Update, made worse no doubt by trying various incantations posted around the net by people who really don't know what they're talking about. The folks at Sysnative basically assign you a case worker who gives you things to try and troubleshooting procedures to report back, in a systematic manner. I was incredulous when, after a long and complicated exchange of procedures, the darn thing worked! And for free! (I sent them a few bucks, though, for the real investment in time they put in, and for their expertise with WU).
Anyway, anyone having intractable problems with WU, I strongly recommend Sysnative.com.
This anti-Russia hysteria is really jumping the shark about now. A Russian company makes biometric software. Naturally, being Russian, they have 'close ties to the Kremlin', and are no doubt putting in nefarious backdoors to purloin the biometric data of unsuspecting Americans. Because, you know, Russia.
This is worse than the Kaspersky stupidity, which is saying something.
"...when activated will show a visible visual indicator..."
In my 35 years in the computer industry, I have always found that visual indicators that were visible were much more effective than ones that weren't. But then, I'm kind of old-school...
The internet is a cesspool, the big tech corps are vampires, and no, there is no anything that you can trust. The internet is over. Net neutrality is over. Sorry, but there it is.
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You have the source - you just recompile it. Although you don't have to, since all the distros already have. Your comment is what is bullshit.
You are confused. You don't 'buy' Bitcoin. You 'invest', 'speculate', etc. in Bitcoin. This has become increasingly clear.
The banks are only arbiters of what you can buy with THEIR money. Get it? You can 'buy' all the Bitcoin you want with your own money.
This whole thread is just about the most confused whiny shit I've ever encountered in Slashdot - which is saying something.
Then get away from them! You are not required to get credit from anybody, nor are they required to extend you credit. All this faux-Libertarian hand-wringing about 'my rights' and whatnot. Well, you still have the right to do whatever you want with your own money.
CC companies do NOT control what you buy. They can control what you buy with THEIR money, and they would like to be paid back. If you don't like their terms, don't deal with them. Why is this so hard to comprehend?
People are acting as though they have a right to do whatever they want with unsecured debt. Speculative investments made with unsecured debt destroyed the US economy for more than a decade - it took WWII and a lot of luck to get us back on our feet.
If it's really your money, go for it - you are free to blow it in any way that suits you.
If you borrow the money, well, it's not really totally 'your' money - it's money you have to pay back. And credit card debt is unsecured - that's why the interest rates are usuriously high.
And when there's a weird speculative thing going on, creditors can lend to whom they want, by their own rules. You don't have to borrow from them. They are not a public utility or something.
Look up 'buying stocks on margin' and 'the great Crash of 1929'. Followed by 'The Great Depression', which was no joke. This crypto thing is not all that dissimilar. You could say the CC companies are being responsible, in their own greedy way.
But learning from history isn't cool these days. 'It's different this time'. Yah, right.
Why would they? It's about extending credit for dicey 'investments'. With cryptos heading south day by day, they consider people pouring money into it on credit as a bad risk. It's nothing but business.
Debit cards are cash - your money in the bank. If you want to blow it on cryptos, they don't care - they have no exposure.
Cryptocurrencies are only foolish speculation. Credit Cards are Satanic.
Exactly. Where's the mystery?
'Need to sue the bastards.''
Go for it!
"They were happy with 2011 and don't need anything new or fancy, unfortunately they lost the CD and it probably wouldn't work on Windows 10 anyways."
I don't know about 2011, but I use Quicken 99 (yes, 1999) on Windows 10 every day without any problems.
I wasn't so much dissing the researchers, just the submitter of the article. And science 'journalism' in general just really sucks.
"This protein, called syntaxin1A, isn't just found in animal models - people have it, too."
You f-ing idiot, people are animals - capiche? Not demigods, not brains in vat (as much as some geeks would love that). Animals. Meat. We are great apes. Like gorillas and chimps and orangs and so forth. That's what makes life interesting ;-)
You must not have purchased a car in the last decade. The price of a Ferrari with a top trim package is astronomical. See, cars are much more expensive than trucks.
Besides, I don't want ANY of this shit!!! Off-setting costs for all this garbage that I DO NOT WANT! Fucking corporate nonsense...
Trucks are inexpensive compared to cars. I drive a truck because it's the cheapest way to get 4 wheel drive, and also, I need to haul stuff - hay, firewood, etc. In fact, I'm not sure what your point was.
It won't prevail. Because PROFIT. Because MONEY. Because CAPITALISM.
If my 'car' (I'm a truck guy) starts 'serving' me ads, I will go ballistic. A man's truck is his own private kingdom. We live in a broken world. Surely there can be somewhere that we can be free of FUCKING ADS! I was in a pretty foul mood before I read this article, but now I am really depressed. Why can't they leave me the fuck alone?
'NASA launches a mission to study blah, blah, blah'. No, it WILL launch a mission towards the end of the month. Then you can write 'NASA launches a mission'.
Have you tried Sysnative.com? I had a serious and convoluted f-up with Windows Update, made worse no doubt by trying various incantations posted around the net by people who really don't know what they're talking about. The folks at Sysnative basically assign you a case worker who gives you things to try and troubleshooting procedures to report back, in a systematic manner. I was incredulous when, after a long and complicated exchange of procedures, the darn thing worked! And for free! (I sent them a few bucks, though, for the real investment in time they put in, and for their expertise with WU).
Anyway, anyone having intractable problems with WU, I strongly recommend Sysnative.com.
Yes. Right. Of course. It's all about race.
Give me a break. It wouldn't matter if this guy was red, white and blue - he'd be hated. It has nothing to do with him being a 'brown man'.
It has to do with him being a known and declared tool of the telecom industry, deceitfully ramming through what they wanted, at the expense of us all.
And an abrasive, arrogant asshole on top of that.
This anti-Russia hysteria is really jumping the shark about now. A Russian company makes biometric software. Naturally, being Russian, they have 'close ties to the Kremlin', and are no doubt putting in nefarious backdoors to purloin the biometric data of unsuspecting Americans. Because, you know, Russia.
This is worse than the Kaspersky stupidity, which is saying something.
Who the hell is Jeff Kaplan, and why should I, or anyone else, care about his idiotic performance art?
"...when activated will show a visible visual indicator..."
In my 35 years in the computer industry, I have always found that visual indicators that were visible were much more effective than ones that weren't. But then, I'm kind of old-school...
The internet is a cesspool, the big tech corps are vampires, and no, there is no anything that you can trust. The internet is over. Net neutrality is over. Sorry, but there it is.
Exactly. It has become a fashion industry. What people will give up in order to be shiny and modern is astonishing. Oh well.
Chrome? Chrome?! Out of the frying pan, into the fire. I will not have anything to do with any Google product whatsoever.