Ever wonder why if you lend your money to an institution you are lucky to earn 1% interest - but if a credit card issuer lends you money, it will cost you in excess of 20%?
It usually means you have a shit credit score if your credit card interest rate is over 20%.
They don't really use SSN as a secret identifier, they use it as a NON-SECRET identifier. That is, its used like a username, not a password.
That's not true. Plenty of places I've called in to have used it as a "secret code" to verify my identity after already giving them my name, address, etc.
No, what we need is for companies/schools/etc. to stop using a SSN as a secret identifier. Your social security card even explicitly says it is not meant to be used as such a thing.
What are you talking about? Credit card companies and merchants are already legally liable for fraudulent transactions and have to bear the losses. In the case of credit cards, cardholders can only be liable to up to $50 but that is almost always waived by the credit card companies.
AMD is doing great? In what alternate universe? Their net income for the most recent quarter was -$180 million. That is not what a company that is "doing great" has happen.
But this can't be!! All the fanbois were telling us back when this was first announced how it was scaring Sony and Microsoft and was going to destroy their console businesses.
And yet Facebook never seemed to enforce it. I have family members with multiple fake accounts that have lasted for years and years all so they could invite those fake accounts as friends in games. And they weren't even remotely sneaky about making them appear as real.
And before someone comes along telling me how it's all the fault of local governments that we have these monopolies, that's simply not true. The reason these local monopolies exist, is that for decades the cable operators required these exclusivity agreements from the local governments as a condition of even serving their municipal area. It was not that the local governments decided to force these monopolies upon the cable companies against their will.
They could have already been bringing their "great" products to new cities without this merger. Though, that would have required *gasp* competing with other companies rather than carving out local monopolies to prevent having to compete with each other.
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Yeah, my ISP, mortgage company, phone company, etc. have all asked for the "last 4 digits" as a pass code.
Ever wonder why if you lend your money to an institution you are lucky to earn 1% interest - but if a credit card issuer lends you money, it will cost you in excess of 20%?
It usually means you have a shit credit score if your credit card interest rate is over 20%.
They don't really use SSN as a secret identifier, they use it as a NON-SECRET identifier. That is, its used like a username, not a password.
That's not true. Plenty of places I've called in to have used it as a "secret code" to verify my identity after already giving them my name, address, etc.
Where is the irony? The article used the pseudonym of Jonathan Franklin.
No, what we need is for companies/schools/etc. to stop using a SSN as a secret identifier. Your social security card even explicitly says it is not meant to be used as such a thing.
What are you talking about? Credit card companies and merchants are already legally liable for fraudulent transactions and have to bear the losses. In the case of credit cards, cardholders can only be liable to up to $50 but that is almost always waived by the credit card companies.
You lose more than "some performance". They also run hotter and use more power.
I bet they maintain an internal port now, and have been since day one. (Just like they did with PowerPC and OSX)
No need to bet and it's not internal. It's called the "iOS Simulator" and has been around for years and years as part of Xcode.
AMD is doing great? In what alternate universe? Their net income for the most recent quarter was -$180 million. That is not what a company that is "doing great" has happen.
Unless you're claiming OS X isn't one of those two aforementioned systems, you're wrong.
FYI: The Neolithic era began around 10000 BC not 300,000 years ago.
The Ouya didn't even appeal to most gamers. It was junk hardware with like 99% junk games.
But this can't be!! All the fanbois were telling us back when this was first announced how it was scaring Sony and Microsoft and was going to destroy their console businesses.
And yet Facebook never seemed to enforce it. I have family members with multiple fake accounts that have lasted for years and years all so they could invite those fake accounts as friends in games. And they weren't even remotely sneaky about making them appear as real.
It's nothing like mesh networking. It's simply roaming across multiple cell company networks.
Sorry it's shift right-click in Windows 7.
The one where you Right click the application and it's like the 3rd option in the context menu?
It's impossible? So when I right click and choose "Run as different user" do I have some magical version of Windows?
Right click->Run as different user. Yeah, real difficult.
Then simply state the year. I agree with GP and the others, adding in the iPhone is just for clickbaiting.
You think Hollywood invented it? Are you horribly naive?
And before someone comes along telling me how it's all the fault of local governments that we have these monopolies, that's simply not true. The reason these local monopolies exist, is that for decades the cable operators required these exclusivity agreements from the local governments as a condition of even serving their municipal area. It was not that the local governments decided to force these monopolies upon the cable companies against their will.
They could have already been bringing their "great" products to new cities without this merger. Though, that would have required *gasp* competing with other companies rather than carving out local monopolies to prevent having to compete with each other.
Slashdot is been posting general new stories since basically forever.
It is to anyone with even a half-working brain.