You do realize that's not how fingerprint readers work, right?
To over-simplify, they basically take a hash of your fingerprint and compare that with the stored hash. Yes, a full fingerprint (and 3d printing etc) can get you back to that hash, but you can't build a fingerprint FROM it.
*IF* you can bruteforce from the 4-digit PIN/PW side then yes, it's trivial. You can brute force a 4-number dial lock in something like an hour.
If you can't and have to bruteforce the actual key (for example, apple secure enclave) then the answer is no. And yes I know there's been at least one POC showing a way around it but that's a vulnerability in the hardware, not a flaw in the algo/crypto.
Either you got this from a bad movie or you had some seriously terrible password security. Posting AC because your post is nonsense perhaps?
No reasonably secure password algo allows you to determine single digits individually. Hell, even a bad one wouldn't allow that.
If you're trying to say you had a 12-character password which was actually 3 people with 4 character passwords...well that's incredibly stupid and still wouldn't account for "determine the value of each position"
You have some rose colored glasses on or just very limited experience with how much of corporate america works.
Practically speaking, few companies actually require 80 hour work weeks. However it's definitely NOT uncommon for a company to classify someone as exempt (even though the law actually sets the bar fairly high for that) and then require OT 'as necessary'...to the tune of 5, 10, maybe 15 hours or more a week. Of course, they'll tell you that the extra $ is factored into your pay (which it might have been once upon a time).
Can you quit? Of course. But is it practical to up and walk away from a job at the drop of a hat? No. Does a company come out and say "hey, work twice as much starting tomorrow"? Of course not. You just get extra work and tighter deadlines, and what started out as a 40-hour week becomes 45, then 50, then you take some work home, then you're doing email on the weekend at your son's bball game or whatever.
Most of the rest of your points only apply if you work at large companies, and even then, only the much more progressive ones. That may be YOUR experience but it's certainly not the norm.
You let me know when how often individuals succeed in this type of "but...it's NOT CONSTITUTIONAL" type of arguments in regard to contract law. Hint: rarely. The time, effort, and cost to do so is extremely prohibitive so only large, broad cases (or someone wanting the limelight) make it anywhere.
And beyond that, Binding arbitration clauses have been UPHELD in court cases trying to call it unconstitutional and having it stricken (i believe it was verizon or comcast or something similar).
This is why it's beneficial to have these things spelled out clearly and separately.
It's not the coding. Code monkeys are easy to rent.
It's the idea and, critically, the user base they've built. I'm not saying they're anything special, the 158 million users are.
Now, there's immense potential competition - FB messenger and whatsapp jump out. Others like KIK and the myriad of chat/IM/social media sites are the same.
Snap's plan is to broaden the offering and become more like a visual FB/twitter/IG... except those already are good at what they do. Minor tweaks would put them on par (see: code monkeys).
There's one fundamental difference between many of the platforms - and that's identity. FB and Whatsapp target a 1:1 existence with your real self (phone number, etc.) while snap/IG/twitter/etc. are based on arbitrary names.
For one, they'd dilute (or dissolve) their voting block.
Two, there's two people who still have the large majority of shares. If they dumped them on the market en masse the stock price would tumble in a heartbeat.
Three, a CEO (and founder and majority stakeholder) is expected to hold much of their stock - especially in the short term - otherwise investors will bail too...and stock tumbles once again.
Also, there would almost certainly be SEC investigations into fraud and insider trading. You don't go public to divest yourself - the red flags would have their own red flags.
The main reason for an ARM is to save money on interest. Typically ARM mortgages have significantly lower interest rates because the bank doesn't have to factor in the long-term changes to base interest rates. The savings can range, but they're usually substantial. This also allows people to borrow more than they would with a fixed mortgage or pay off their mortgage faster.
The down side is, of course, the gamble. If interest rates go significantly higher you could have a greatly increased payment well beyond your ability to pay.
ARMs aren't bad - in fact they much more accurately reflect the 'cost' of your borrowing. A fixed mortgage just front-loads the risk. If you're borrowing within your means in a relatively stable economy, an ARM is generally a better choice.
Now, that also includes the salary you ask for, negotiate, and get. 10 people doing the same job with the same tenure and performance evaluations are still going ot have 10 different salaries... sometimes vastly different.
If i'm a hiring manager and someone will take $50k even though I have $60k budgeted because it's typical for the position... I'm going to pay them $50k. That's not discrimination, that's poor negotiation on the employees' part. Then you get promoted a few times which involve % increases...and suddenly you realize you're making 10% less than your peers who got promoted because you were all along because that's the $ you accepted.
While anecdotal, in my 18 years of corporate america I've found that people who aggressively ask for and pursue more $ typically get it. Gender is rarely, if ever, relevant at all.
Go to an actual Deli and order a sandwich instead of subway...you'll get 2-3x the meat, far less bread, and better quality (often fresh sliced) meat. Oh, and it will cost about the same too.
For sandwiches I'm still at a loss as to why people go to subway other than the bread smell.
People watch on phones, laptops, computers, etc. and stream without having 'Cable TV'
Not only that...but another angle to this. Around 2009 I believe was when cable companies had the switch to digital in full swing...thus requiring a cable box per TV nationwide. I presume a number of people decided it wasn't worth $xyz/month for that extra TV to have a box attached so just gave up.
I have two TVs technically but not a single one is attached to cable TV service. A computer and a media player for netflix, etc? yup. Got that!
Also unless they actually tell you what it will cost with taxes and fees.
TMO is throwing everything to the wind and doing what makes life simple for the consumer. Everyone else is trying to play catch-up and generally failing.
I do laugh at the comments 'oh but their network'... you're a year or three behind the times if you're still thinking that. Coverage is virtually equal and unless you live in the ~1% of the population that it makes a difference to you won't even notice....except for the monthly bill of course.
Basically anything not labeled a 'Tax' or 'Government mandated fee' is a BS surcharge by the provider padding their bill.
BS Surchages that are just $ to the provider: 'XYZ recovery fee' 'Administrative fee' 'Payment fee' (I love places that charge you to pay them) 'Ugly surcharge'
Examples of actual taxes not going to the provider: 'Sales tax' 'State 911 fee'
Now, some of the provider fees MAY be related to internal things that cost money. The fact that they decided to break that out of their monthly service charge is BS and just lets them advertise a lower cost while charging you more. It's virtually exactly the same thing the airlines used to do before their pricing was standardized by law (of course then they started charging for 'extras' like checking luggage.)
If a car is mechanically sound after 10 years and not a repair $ pit then replacing or rennovating the interior is certainly an option. Tesla doesn't completely change their car every 3 years which helps immensely.
Then there must be a awful lot of abnormal drivers...bc there are battery packs out there at 4+ years old (and older tech ones at 8+) which still work just fine.
Time will tell... but of course it already has and it disagrees with you.
It's a game of diminishing returns but there's never an absolute winner.
You can make it nearly impossible to circumvent, and then someone can build a complex circumvention...and so on. Remember when 'hacking' was dumping the plaintext password database after booting off a floppy?
You can make censorship difficult enough to circumvent that people will find something else to do...but the cost (implementation and maint) in that is very high.
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...and only the lawyers get rich. When will people learn?
Heck, they got themselves a pay day and didn't even get a clear ANSWER for the consumers.
You do realize that's not how fingerprint readers work, right?
To over-simplify, they basically take a hash of your fingerprint and compare that with the stored hash. Yes, a full fingerprint (and 3d printing etc) can get you back to that hash, but you can't build a fingerprint FROM it.
I mean...IM used to have broad federation and offline capabilities.
Then FB Messenger took a huge chunk away from AIM/Yahoo and other competing messaging platforms popped up...it's an evil cycle.
Yes and no.
*IF* you can bruteforce from the 4-digit PIN/PW side then yes, it's trivial. You can brute force a 4-number dial lock in something like an hour.
If you can't and have to bruteforce the actual key (for example, apple secure enclave) then the answer is no. And yes I know there's been at least one POC showing a way around it but that's a vulnerability in the hardware, not a flaw in the algo/crypto.
Either you got this from a bad movie or you had some seriously terrible password security. Posting AC because your post is nonsense perhaps?
No reasonably secure password algo allows you to determine single digits individually. Hell, even a bad one wouldn't allow that.
If you're trying to say you had a 12-character password which was actually 3 people with 4 character passwords...well that's incredibly stupid and still wouldn't account for "determine the value of each position"
You have some rose colored glasses on or just very limited experience with how much of corporate america works.
Practically speaking, few companies actually require 80 hour work weeks. However it's definitely NOT uncommon for a company to classify someone as exempt (even though the law actually sets the bar fairly high for that) and then require OT 'as necessary'...to the tune of 5, 10, maybe 15 hours or more a week. Of course, they'll tell you that the extra $ is factored into your pay (which it might have been once upon a time).
Can you quit? Of course. But is it practical to up and walk away from a job at the drop of a hat? No. Does a company come out and say "hey, work twice as much starting tomorrow"? Of course not. You just get extra work and tighter deadlines, and what started out as a 40-hour week becomes 45, then 50, then you take some work home, then you're doing email on the weekend at your son's bball game or whatever.
Most of the rest of your points only apply if you work at large companies, and even then, only the much more progressive ones. That may be YOUR experience but it's certainly not the norm.
Which is all fine and good.
You let me know when how often individuals succeed in this type of "but...it's NOT CONSTITUTIONAL" type of arguments in regard to contract law. Hint: rarely. The time, effort, and cost to do so is extremely prohibitive so only large, broad cases (or someone wanting the limelight) make it anywhere.
And beyond that, Binding arbitration clauses have been UPHELD in court cases trying to call it unconstitutional and having it stricken (i believe it was verizon or comcast or something similar).
This is why it's beneficial to have these things spelled out clearly and separately.
It's not the coding. Code monkeys are easy to rent.
It's the idea and, critically, the user base they've built. I'm not saying they're anything special, the 158 million users are.
Now, there's immense potential competition - FB messenger and whatsapp jump out. Others like KIK and the myriad of chat/IM/social media sites are the same.
Snap's plan is to broaden the offering and become more like a visual FB/twitter/IG ... except those already are good at what they do. Minor tweaks would put them on par (see: code monkeys).
There's one fundamental difference between many of the platforms - and that's identity. FB and Whatsapp target a 1:1 existence with your real self (phone number, etc.) while snap/IG/twitter/etc. are based on arbitrary names.
They can't.
For one, they'd dilute (or dissolve) their voting block.
Two, there's two people who still have the large majority of shares. If they dumped them on the market en masse the stock price would tumble in a heartbeat.
Three, a CEO (and founder and majority stakeholder) is expected to hold much of their stock - especially in the short term - otherwise investors will bail too...and stock tumbles once again.
Also, there would almost certainly be SEC investigations into fraud and insider trading. You don't go public to divest yourself - the red flags would have their own red flags.
For the investment firms, it surely is. Mere mortals can't buy at the opening bid.
That's...not...really it.
The main reason for an ARM is to save money on interest. Typically ARM mortgages have significantly lower interest rates because the bank doesn't have to factor in the long-term changes to base interest rates. The savings can range, but they're usually substantial. This also allows people to borrow more than they would with a fixed mortgage or pay off their mortgage faster.
The down side is, of course, the gamble. If interest rates go significantly higher you could have a greatly increased payment well beyond your ability to pay.
ARMs aren't bad - in fact they much more accurately reflect the 'cost' of your borrowing. A fixed mortgage just front-loads the risk. If you're borrowing within your means in a relatively stable economy, an ARM is generally a better choice.
I mean...except for the bonded termination clause that sounds pretty much like the job I have today in corporate america.
Yup, though keeping PS/2 ports around didn't exactly HURT the PC world either.
...all things being equal.
Now, that also includes the salary you ask for, negotiate, and get. 10 people doing the same job with the same tenure and performance evaluations are still going ot have 10 different salaries ... sometimes vastly different.
If i'm a hiring manager and someone will take $50k even though I have $60k budgeted because it's typical for the position ... I'm going to pay them $50k. That's not discrimination, that's poor negotiation on the employees' part. Then you get promoted a few times which involve % increases...and suddenly you realize you're making 10% less than your peers who got promoted because you were all along because that's the $ you accepted.
While anecdotal, in my 18 years of corporate america I've found that people who aggressively ask for and pursue more $ typically get it. Gender is rarely, if ever, relevant at all.
Go to an actual Deli and order a sandwich instead of subway...you'll get 2-3x the meat, far less bread, and better quality (often fresh sliced) meat. Oh, and it will cost about the same too.
For sandwiches I'm still at a loss as to why people go to subway other than the bread smell.
People watch on phones, laptops, computers, etc. and stream without having 'Cable TV'
Not only that...but another angle to this. Around 2009 I believe was when cable companies had the switch to digital in full swing...thus requiring a cable box per TV nationwide. I presume a number of people decided it wasn't worth $xyz/month for that extra TV to have a box attached so just gave up.
I have two TVs technically but not a single one is attached to cable TV service. A computer and a media player for netflix, etc? yup. Got that!
Also unless they actually tell you what it will cost with taxes and fees.
TMO is throwing everything to the wind and doing what makes life simple for the consumer. Everyone else is trying to play catch-up and generally failing.
I do laugh at the comments 'oh but their network' ... you're a year or three behind the times if you're still thinking that. Coverage is virtually equal and unless you live in the ~1% of the population that it makes a difference to you won't even notice....except for the monthly bill of course.
Google it. Really.
Basically anything not labeled a 'Tax' or 'Government mandated fee' is a BS surcharge by the provider padding their bill.
BS Surchages that are just $ to the provider:
'XYZ recovery fee'
'Administrative fee'
'Payment fee' (I love places that charge you to pay them)
'Ugly surcharge'
Examples of actual taxes not going to the provider:
'Sales tax'
'State 911 fee'
Now, some of the provider fees MAY be related to internal things that cost money. The fact that they decided to break that out of their monthly service charge is BS and just lets them advertise a lower cost while charging you more. It's virtually exactly the same thing the airlines used to do before their pricing was standardized by law (of course then they started charging for 'extras' like checking luggage.)
If the device is compromised in a technical sense.
Knox doesn't do anything at all for your password/PIN being compromised.
If you live in some places where you get totally ripped off today (Lower NY for example) then this sounds like a great deal.
If a car is mechanically sound after 10 years and not a repair $ pit then replacing or rennovating the interior is certainly an option. Tesla doesn't completely change their car every 3 years which helps immensely.
Then there must be a awful lot of abnormal drivers...bc there are battery packs out there at 4+ years old (and older tech ones at 8+) which still work just fine.
Time will tell ... but of course it already has and it disagrees with you.
Thanks for preaching!
Don't bother...Siri/Alexa/Google already have let her know and put her in touch with a good lawyer.
They no longer announce them on planes.
While still banned, it's not something on the immediate radar anymore.
Plus Samsung just needs to brand them 'Note 7a' or 7.1 or something so it's clearly different.
Not true.
It's a game of diminishing returns but there's never an absolute winner.
You can make it nearly impossible to circumvent, and then someone can build a complex circumvention...and so on. Remember when 'hacking' was dumping the plaintext password database after booting off a floppy?
You can make censorship difficult enough to circumvent that people will find something else to do...but the cost (implementation and maint) in that is very high.