I have. Very interesting. One "feature" of debit cards is that if you use them at a cash machine and you don't get what you ask for, too bad, you lose. Now, if you get more than you ask for the financial institution will be all over you. And of course, as pointed out by many posters, there is protection against fraud for credit cards but not debit cards, at least in the USA. These are the reasons our family does not use a debit card.
One possibility credit card issuers could implement is to deny retailers the ability to accept their credit and debit cards unless they allowed the use of credit card electronic systems for their cards such as Apple Pay or Google Wallet. It might hurt the issuers for a while but the retailers more. Returning to cash and paper checks would impose enormous overhead to retailers reconciling mounds of cash and paper checks. Large retail stores will need fork lifts to move all that paper around.
The thing that makes Apple Pay so intriguing is that each transaction produces and transmits a unique code for each purchase that does not include the credit card number. I'm assuming the code is encrypted, but even if it's not, that code will not be used again so if it's intercepted it's useless to the thief. Not sure if the Google system uses the same process, but it would be easy for them to adopt it.
What speeds are really needed? I'd guess it depends on what a household uses Internet for and how many folks in the house will use it simultaneously. It seems to me we need to make it a national priority to get some kind of reasonable Internet speed in rural areas. Whether some areas have fiber to the home or some other technology that gives symmetrical Gigabit per second, in many areas dial up is the only thing available. Of course satellite or using a cell phone as a hot spot are possible but high cost and limited bandwidth aren't necessarily good choices. No video telephony or video streaming available there with dial up. Fifteen or 25 Megabits per second would bring rural folks pretty much up to date. My wife has cousins in rural Iowa about three miles outside a small town with those kinds of speeds from the local cable company but can only get 750 kilobits per second and 1.5 Megabits per second via DSL. Their parents live about half a mile down the same road and can only get dial up. Of course web pages now are filled with large images and it must be more than painful to load a single such page. My point is even if Gbps is made available in some areas a much more pressing need is to get reasonable responsive Internet speed to rural areas. Might be a good idea to go ahead and do it with fiber and skip coax.
I didn't read any comments here about the common situation when Apple removes features from its "yesterday" software in new versions of its "tomorrow" software then scrambles to restore some of those features because of user complaints.
I'm not a Mac user so I don't know if it's possible, but it would be good if Apple made it easy for users to select an OS font best suited to their needs. If one has an older 21 inch iMac and maybe poor eyesight, then maybe some other font, neither Lucida nor Helvetica, would be better for them. Apple might even go so far as to make suggestions for folks with a visual handicap like macular degeneration, glaucoma or something else. Heck, Firefox on Windows allows font choice, though it's an app.
Sapphire is aluminum oxide. Synthetic sapphire is made in factories at high temperatures and pressures and used on expensive watches as the crystal. It is not elemental aluminum.
In Colorado Springs we used to have the Tesla Conference. Tesla worked here for awhile. Anyway, some guy had what he claimed was a perpetual motion machine that looked like one of those desk toys with a hoop or ball that continuously moved. A reporter asked if it was a perpetual motion machine why the base had all those AA batteries in it. The guy's answer was they were needed to get the thing started.
There's a reason the Patent Office started rejecting perpetual motion machines decades ago.
If the US population is 330,000,000 and there are 56,000 biomedical postdocs, I think the % of the population is 0.017 %. Math is not the poster' s strength. If he's a scientist, even a NYC cab driver job might be a problem keeping track of mileage or making change.
Comcast does the same thing. I've experienced rare Internet outages and usually wait 20 minutes or so to call to see if there's a problem and the auto answer will confirm that but also say that one can get more information about outages by going to Comcast's home page. Hmmmm. I don't have a smart phone and I'm just out of luck. Ridiculous. I guess I could go to Starbucks or some other public hotspot, but why?
I guess when I saw the first letter in the word Adobe I thought this was Amazon. My first reaction was that you now can't buy the books you might want to read from Amazon and even if you can get them somehow, Amazon will know.
Someone, if not Microsoft, had better come up with an option to kill this on all Windows computers, phones, tablets, etc. I started to write this and put "kik.." in place of kill. Ya, kick this can down the road.
I wouldn't be surprised if the current Tesla model hasn't outsold the Volt by some large number maybe 10 times volt sales. Which would be considered a fringe vehicle?
I assume these comments are an attempt at black humor.
Immediately after noticing from any place on earth a weapons launch from the moon a laser beam of sufficient energy from the earth might be able to destroy the slow moving moon launched weapon. The speed of light is very high. Of course if the moon based weapon is a laser beam, well, things would be different.
Wonderful. The phone will adjust to fit its contanier, i.e., your body wear. Right now, I'm watching CNBC and they're showing the bending of the new iPhone. One idiot is saying this is by design because it can fit in your variously shaped cargo pants pockets. It's a real advantage for the larger iPhone 6 plus which needs to bend and is easier to bend because of its length.
If a court order doesn't make you turn over the codes or data on your iPhone you may end up in jail for contempt of court. If that doesn't work, and the cops really, really want the data, then you may end up on an airplane to a country that doesn't care much about your personal safety and have your sensitive body parts hooked up to electric circuits causing serious pain. This of course after the use of rubber hoses or harder objects to damage brittle parts of your body. Whether they get the data or not you may never be seen again with the explanation by the cops that you escaped and they can't find you.
The processes described produces high compression strength. What about tensile strength? Portland cement concrete can be made to have tremendous compression strength but it's strength in tension is poor. That's why bridges made of concrete use steel in tension so they don't collapse under load. The bending of high compression strength glass with low tensile strength will break even with a small force in a drop-collision with a hard surface. It would seem to produce glass that has both high compression and tension strength the glass must be reinforced with a fibers that traverses the full width and length of the glass and is attached at the edges of the glass plate. Of course for clarity, the fibers cannot be so thick to as to create opacity, reflectivity, refraction, diffraction or any other disturbing optical problem. A tough problem to solve.
If the September 18 referendum results in an independent Scotland then the BBC may be in trouble. I've read that the BBC will not be made available there and so will the TV and radio set fees Scots pay for the privilege of watching and listening to the BBC. I assume the total from Scotland is substantial so there's likely to be more job losses at the BBC, probably a reduction in content production and maybe a cut in channels for both radio and TV. Too bad for the lower paid folks, but the high earners will likely make out as usual.
Most of the show's "experiments" are nonsense or the results are obvious. Science isn't done this way. Never was, never will be. I'm waiting for them to do seances and contact the dead to prove something. Or conclude that because they can't contact the dead that need try to invent a new way to contact the dead, so stay tuned.
The second referenced article said Goodland, KS, is in the North East part of Kansas. Goodland, Kansas, is in the North West part of Kansas and is about 20 miles from the Colorado border on Interstate 70. I wonder of these writers can count days as well as they read maps.
The second referenced article says that Goodland, Kansas, is in the NE part of Kansas. This town is in the North West part of Kansas only a few miles - about 20 miles - from the the Colorado Border. Maybe the authors can't count days as well as read maps, so the article may be wrong.
It seems to me that customer service should try to fix things that are broken rather than sell additional services delivered to a customer with a broken set up. Why would I want something new that requires a working system when I can't get what I'm paying for now with a broken system?
Even if the systems are not connected to the public Internet, given enough money, someone connected to the systems with proper security clearance and access, could put the data that was stolen, and more, on to thumb drives, DVDs, or whatever. Snowden apparently wasn't paid for the enormous amount of data he purloined and didn't need the internet. Not so sure how protected the data was secured from the public internet, but it didn't matter.
I just checked my update history for my Dell XPS 15 running up to date Windows 7 SP 1 and the three patches listed in the OP post were installed and I have no problems. One was recommended and the other two were listed as important.
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I have. Very interesting. One "feature" of debit cards is that if you use them at a cash machine and you don't get what you ask for, too bad, you lose. Now, if you get more than you ask for the financial institution will be all over you. And of course, as pointed out by many posters, there is protection against fraud for credit cards but not debit cards, at least in the USA. These are the reasons our family does not use a debit card.
One possibility credit card issuers could implement is to deny retailers the ability to accept their credit and debit cards unless they allowed the use of credit card electronic systems for their cards such as Apple Pay or Google Wallet. It might hurt the issuers for a while but the retailers more. Returning to cash and paper checks would impose enormous overhead to retailers reconciling mounds of cash and paper checks. Large retail stores will need fork lifts to move all that paper around.
The thing that makes Apple Pay so intriguing is that each transaction produces and transmits a unique code for each purchase that does not include the credit card number. I'm assuming the code is encrypted, but even if it's not, that code will not be used again so if it's intercepted it's useless to the thief. Not sure if the Google system uses the same process, but it would be easy for them to adopt it.
What speeds are really needed? I'd guess it depends on what a household uses Internet for and how many folks in the house will use it simultaneously. It seems to me we need to make it a national priority to get some kind of reasonable Internet speed in rural areas. Whether some areas have fiber to the home or some other technology that gives symmetrical Gigabit per second, in many areas dial up is the only thing available. Of course satellite or using a cell phone as a hot spot are possible but high cost and limited bandwidth aren't necessarily good choices. No video telephony or video streaming available there with dial up. Fifteen or 25 Megabits per second would bring rural folks pretty much up to date. My wife has cousins in rural Iowa about three miles outside a small town with those kinds of speeds from the local cable company but can only get 750 kilobits per second and 1.5 Megabits per second via DSL. Their parents live about half a mile down the same road and can only get dial up. Of course web pages now are filled with large images and it must be more than painful to load a single such page. My point is even if Gbps is made available in some areas a much more pressing need is to get reasonable responsive Internet speed to rural areas. Might be a good idea to go ahead and do it with fiber and skip coax.
Does it feel me or do I feel it comprehensively? And how many CPU cycles and RAM percentages does it use to be "comprehensively" felt?
And the electrons go better one way than the other in that high priced cord.
I didn't read any comments here about the common situation when Apple removes features from its "yesterday" software in new versions of its "tomorrow" software then scrambles to restore some of those features because of user complaints.
I'm not a Mac user so I don't know if it's possible, but it would be good if Apple made it easy for users to select an OS font best suited to their needs. If one has an older 21 inch iMac and maybe poor eyesight, then maybe some other font, neither Lucida nor Helvetica, would be better for them. Apple might even go so far as to make suggestions for folks with a visual handicap like macular degeneration, glaucoma or something else. Heck, Firefox on Windows allows font choice, though it's an app.
Sapphire is aluminum oxide. Synthetic sapphire is made in factories at high temperatures and pressures and used on expensive watches as the crystal. It is not elemental aluminum.
In Colorado Springs we used to have the Tesla Conference. Tesla worked here for awhile. Anyway, some guy had what he claimed was a perpetual motion machine that looked like one of those desk toys with a hoop or ball that continuously moved. A reporter asked if it was a perpetual motion machine why the base had all those AA batteries in it. The guy's answer was they were needed to get the thing started.
There's a reason the Patent Office started rejecting perpetual motion machines decades ago.
If the US population is 330,000,000 and there are 56,000 biomedical postdocs, I think the % of the population is 0.017 %. Math is not the poster' s strength. If he's a scientist, even a NYC cab driver job might be a problem keeping track of mileage or making change.
Comcast does the same thing. I've experienced rare Internet outages and usually wait 20 minutes or so to call to see if there's a problem and the auto answer will confirm that but also say that one can get more information about outages by going to Comcast's home page. Hmmmm. I don't have a smart phone and I'm just out of luck. Ridiculous. I guess I could go to Starbucks or some other public hotspot, but why?
I guess when I saw the first letter in the word Adobe I thought this was Amazon. My first reaction was that you now can't buy the books you might want to read from Amazon and even if you can get them somehow, Amazon will know.
Adobe's tactic may give Amazon an idea. Too bad.
You've got to be kidding.
Someone, if not Microsoft, had better come up with an option to kill this on all Windows computers, phones, tablets, etc. I started to write this and put "kik.." in place of kill. Ya, kick this can down the road.
I wouldn't be surprised if the current Tesla model hasn't outsold the Volt by some large number maybe 10 times volt sales. Which would be considered a fringe vehicle?
I assume these comments are an attempt at black humor.
Immediately after noticing from any place on earth a weapons launch from the moon a laser beam of sufficient energy from the earth might be able to destroy the slow moving moon launched weapon. The speed of light is very high. Of course if the moon based weapon is a laser beam, well, things would be different.
Wonderful. The phone will adjust to fit its contanier, i.e., your body wear. Right now, I'm watching CNBC and they're showing the bending of the new iPhone. One idiot is saying this is by design because it can fit in your variously shaped cargo pants pockets. It's a real advantage for the larger iPhone 6 plus which needs to bend and is easier to bend because of its length.
Good grief. Apple fans in this case are crazy.
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If a court order doesn't make you turn over the codes or data on your iPhone you may end up in jail for contempt of court. If that doesn't work, and the cops really, really want the data, then you may end up on an airplane to a country that doesn't care much about your personal safety and have your sensitive body parts hooked up to electric circuits causing serious pain. This of course after the use of rubber hoses or harder objects to damage brittle parts of your body. Whether they get the data or not you may never be seen again with the explanation by the cops that you escaped and they can't find you.
The processes described produces high compression strength. What about tensile strength? Portland cement concrete can be made to have tremendous compression strength but it's strength in tension is poor. That's why bridges made of concrete use steel in tension so they don't collapse under load. The bending of high compression strength glass with low tensile strength will break even with a small force in a drop-collision with a hard surface. It would seem to produce glass that has both high compression and tension strength the glass must be reinforced with a fibers that traverses the full width and length of the glass and is attached at the edges of the glass plate. Of course for clarity, the fibers cannot be so thick to as to create opacity, reflectivity, refraction, diffraction or any other disturbing optical problem. A tough problem to solve.
If the September 18 referendum results in an independent Scotland then the BBC may be in trouble. I've read that the BBC will not be made available there and so will the TV and radio set fees Scots pay for the privilege of watching and listening to the BBC. I assume the total from Scotland is substantial so there's likely to be more job losses at the BBC, probably a reduction in content production and maybe a cut in channels for both radio and TV. Too bad for the lower paid folks, but the high earners will likely make out as usual.
1. If all these sites renew or get proper certificates it'll be a big improvement in cash for the Certificate Authorities.
2. Maybe most of these un-certificated sites will disappear, though it won't mean much for internet congestion if most are not accessed anyway.
3. Maybe swschard's comment that hackers will have a field day is true, although to what benefit to hackers or detriment to site users?
Most of the show's "experiments" are nonsense or the results are obvious. Science isn't done this way. Never was, never will be. I'm waiting for them to do seances and contact the dead to prove something. Or conclude that because they can't contact the dead that need try to invent a new way to contact the dead, so stay tuned.
The second referenced article said Goodland, KS, is in the North East part of Kansas. Goodland, Kansas, is in the North West part of Kansas and is about 20 miles from the Colorado border on Interstate 70. I wonder of these writers can count days as well as they read maps.
The second referenced article says that Goodland, Kansas, is in the NE part of Kansas. This town is in the North West part of Kansas only a few miles - about 20 miles - from the the Colorado Border. Maybe the authors can't count days as well as read maps, so the article may be wrong.
It seems to me that customer service should try to fix things that are broken rather than sell additional services delivered to a customer with a broken set up. Why would I want something new that requires a working system when I can't get what I'm paying for now with a broken system?
Even if the systems are not connected to the public Internet, given enough money, someone connected to the systems with proper security clearance and access, could put the data that was stolen, and more, on to thumb drives, DVDs, or whatever. Snowden apparently wasn't paid for the enormous amount of data he purloined and didn't need the internet. Not so sure how protected the data was secured from the public internet, but it didn't matter.
I just checked my update history for my Dell XPS 15 running up to date Windows 7 SP 1 and the three patches listed in the OP post were installed and I have no problems. One was recommended and the other two were listed as important.