Go read up some on the Zero Liability Coverage from Visa. As long as the institution participates in the coverage (which, if they don't, indicates that you need to switch banks), then you will get provisional credits on your account until the dispute is resolved either for or against your favor. Generally it isn't instant (usually takes about a week or less, depending on the institution), but it's not like you are sitting without your money for a few months as you would have people believe. Seriously, research before you spout off. And yes, the dispute does generally result in the fees assessed as part of the disputed charges being waived as well. Again, if this is not the case with the bank you do business with, that's your fault for not doing some research to ensure you are with a good institution. This is one of many reasons why I prefer being with a credit union over a bank. Their business model isn't designed around screwing with people's money.
This is one of the things that really makes me want the inconvenience of having to buy monthly time cards like those sold for WoW and some other MMOs. Better to have to go to the store each month or buy a batch of these cards and input the codes once a month than to go through such a problem.
Good stuff until the FUD at the end. If it's a debit card with a Visa or Mastercard logo, the dispute rights are exactly the same as they would be with a credit card.
Even the Mac Book Pros are sub par gaming systems. I'm just saying, don't claim variety if they can't even deliver a good system that fits a whole sub-market.
What variety? Apple sells all the same shiny expensive stuff in different areas, but there is little actual variety. Unless you can point me to a sub $1000 Mac gaming laptop.
Comparing apples to oranges. It's unrealistic to expect a GUI to be as responsive as a command line UI that only renders text and special characters (and even that in only a relatively small spectrum of colors).
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You are referring to one specific Android device (and a poorly designed one at that) while my phone (the Droid) is both extremely speedy (more so than my iPod Touch) and does multitasking with ease. And no where in that article that you linked to was there a mention that the Android Tablet could not multitask, only that it was sluggish. Try reading articles before you throw them up as links of evidence to FUD claims.
Surprised it took this long for someone to state the obvious. Office Depot, Staples, etc do not want the Paperless Office, considering selling paper is one of the primary things they do. They'll do anything and everything to ensure that almost every technology product you use utilizes paper in some fashion.
You do realize that Windows 7, for all intents and purposes, is really Vista SP3 with some big tweaks, mostly cosmetic, and some loosening up of the security layer. Most of your bitches are about things that Microsoft simply patched up and released as a new OS.
Had Vista pre-installed on a gaming laptop and had zero problems with it, and ran just about everything under the sun on it. Run Win 7 on my current gaming laptop and still have no problems with it. About the only game I couldn't get to run on Vista was Neverwinter Nights 2, and ran plenty of apps that I had been using since the XP SP3 days with almost no issues. Most of the people who I personally knew who had issues with Vista were because they were running older hardware on it that Vista either never really supported officially or the support was through garbage patches later on that never really worked right. More often than not, computers designed with Vista in mind worked just fine.
Never said they never screw up. I just can't picture them being so amateurish that they would make such a simple blunder. However, being the geek that I am, that link contains two names of interest to me. Michael Dorf and Jean-Luc Sevenier..OMG, Worf and Capt. Picard should've changed their names to better protect their identities. I mean seriously, changing your last name or just a letter in your name won't make people not notice it. I'm sure the ridges on Worf's forehead was also a dead giveaway.
It just makes me laugh when I hear all of these people and their conspiracy theories about how *Insert Network Name Here* is in *Insert Political Party Here*'s pocket. They are in the pockets of stockholders and advertisers. The slant they provide is just a means of gaining *Insert Demographic Here*'s viewership in order to sell advertising.
Good point. Although I'd think considering you have a six digit UID that you'd understand by now that telling/.ers to RTFA is about as hopeless as asking them to not have knee-jerk reactions.
If we could destabilize Iran with only $400 Million, then perhaps we are moving towards being more fiscally responsible. That one sentence completely destroys the credibility of the entire article. They should've changed the 'M' to a 'B' if they wanted anyone to believe it.
What he said. Do you really think Israeli Intelligence was behind the Dubai Assassination? The Israeli Intelligence people are damn good at what they do. A likely scenario is it was done as a false flag by someone like Iran to implicate Israel and put them in a bad light. Could be wrong, but then again, when Israel Intelligence does something, you usually never hear about it. I don't think they'd do something as amateurish as forget about surveillance during a critical op.
It's called selling advertising, and all of the news networks will spin things as sensational in order to continue to get the advertisers to buy spots. If you follow the out of control space vessel continuously for like two hours, that's two hours worth of news + ad spots that you will see. Hence, if it was just all "Well, the space vessel is spinning but we're hearing it's okay nothing to worry about here" then of course you won't be watching for two hours straight and the advertisers are all like "OMGWTF no one is watching, pull teh ads!!!"
Where as the FUD crowd sees political bias I see economic bias. As in, they wants to keeps the cheese rollin' in, dawg! (translated for anyone who thinks economic bias is too complicated a phrase)
I think you are missing the point here. What is more plausible? The idea that these were connected to the US and we were just being OMGLOLSTOOPED and left the sites vulnerable, or that these were in fact controlled by Iran and this is all just Propaganda to help justify their position. What's really sad is how many people seem to believe that Iran is somehow capable of performing cyberattacks against legitimate CIA systems. Guarantee you, these sites have no real connection to US Intelligence, and if they do, it's likely as someone else pointed out that they are "honeypots to find the script kiddies."
I am assuming that your Omnia is through Verizon (not that I know what an Omnia is) but based on your comment, you indicated that it was locked down. I was simply stating that this doesn't mean that the GPS for every Verizon phone is locked down.
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Go read up some on the Zero Liability Coverage from Visa. As long as the institution participates in the coverage (which, if they don't, indicates that you need to switch banks), then you will get provisional credits on your account until the dispute is resolved either for or against your favor. Generally it isn't instant (usually takes about a week or less, depending on the institution), but it's not like you are sitting without your money for a few months as you would have people believe. Seriously, research before you spout off. And yes, the dispute does generally result in the fees assessed as part of the disputed charges being waived as well. Again, if this is not the case with the bank you do business with, that's your fault for not doing some research to ensure you are with a good institution. This is one of many reasons why I prefer being with a credit union over a bank. Their business model isn't designed around screwing with people's money.
This is one of the things that really makes me want the inconvenience of having to buy monthly time cards like those sold for WoW and some other MMOs. Better to have to go to the store each month or buy a batch of these cards and input the codes once a month than to go through such a problem.
Good stuff until the FUD at the end. If it's a debit card with a Visa or Mastercard logo, the dispute rights are exactly the same as they would be with a credit card.
Your sarcasm is barely worth a reply...just barely. Go jack off to your crisp new iPad.
Even the Mac Book Pros are sub par gaming systems. I'm just saying, don't claim variety if they can't even deliver a good system that fits a whole sub-market.
What variety? Apple sells all the same shiny expensive stuff in different areas, but there is little actual variety. Unless you can point me to a sub $1000 Mac gaming laptop.
And it will have tentacles
Comparing apples to oranges. It's unrealistic to expect a GUI to be as responsive as a command line UI that only renders text and special characters (and even that in only a relatively small spectrum of colors).
You are referring to one specific Android device (and a poorly designed one at that) while my phone (the Droid) is both extremely speedy (more so than my iPod Touch) and does multitasking with ease. And no where in that article that you linked to was there a mention that the Android Tablet could not multitask, only that it was sluggish. Try reading articles before you throw them up as links of evidence to FUD claims.
Don't feed the trolls...even the anonymous ones.
Surprised it took this long for someone to state the obvious. Office Depot, Staples, etc do not want the Paperless Office, considering selling paper is one of the primary things they do. They'll do anything and everything to ensure that almost every technology product you use utilizes paper in some fashion.
No no, it's Windows XP SP7
Yeah, but could you state that in a car analogy? Oh, wait...
You do realize that Windows 7, for all intents and purposes, is really Vista SP3 with some big tweaks, mostly cosmetic, and some loosening up of the security layer. Most of your bitches are about things that Microsoft simply patched up and released as a new OS.
Had Vista pre-installed on a gaming laptop and had zero problems with it, and ran just about everything under the sun on it. Run Win 7 on my current gaming laptop and still have no problems with it. About the only game I couldn't get to run on Vista was Neverwinter Nights 2, and ran plenty of apps that I had been using since the XP SP3 days with almost no issues. Most of the people who I personally knew who had issues with Vista were because they were running older hardware on it that Vista either never really supported officially or the support was through garbage patches later on that never really worked right. More often than not, computers designed with Vista in mind worked just fine.
Never said they never screw up. I just can't picture them being so amateurish that they would make such a simple blunder. However, being the geek that I am, that link contains two names of interest to me. Michael Dorf and Jean-Luc Sevenier..OMG, Worf and Capt. Picard should've changed their names to better protect their identities. I mean seriously, changing your last name or just a letter in your name won't make people not notice it. I'm sure the ridges on Worf's forehead was also a dead giveaway.
I'm pretty sure it was sloppy on purpose. Hence the reference to False Flag
It just makes me laugh when I hear all of these people and their conspiracy theories about how *Insert Network Name Here* is in *Insert Political Party Here*'s pocket. They are in the pockets of stockholders and advertisers. The slant they provide is just a means of gaining *Insert Demographic Here*'s viewership in order to sell advertising.
Good point. Although I'd think considering you have a six digit UID that you'd understand by now that telling /.ers to RTFA is about as hopeless as asking them to not have knee-jerk reactions.
If we could destabilize Iran with only $400 Million, then perhaps we are moving towards being more fiscally responsible. That one sentence completely destroys the credibility of the entire article. They should've changed the 'M' to a 'B' if they wanted anyone to believe it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag
What he said. Do you really think Israeli Intelligence was behind the Dubai Assassination? The Israeli Intelligence people are damn good at what they do. A likely scenario is it was done as a false flag by someone like Iran to implicate Israel and put them in a bad light. Could be wrong, but then again, when Israel Intelligence does something, you usually never hear about it. I don't think they'd do something as amateurish as forget about surveillance during a critical op.
It's called selling advertising, and all of the news networks will spin things as sensational in order to continue to get the advertisers to buy spots. If you follow the out of control space vessel continuously for like two hours, that's two hours worth of news + ad spots that you will see. Hence, if it was just all "Well, the space vessel is spinning but we're hearing it's okay nothing to worry about here" then of course you won't be watching for two hours straight and the advertisers are all like "OMGWTF no one is watching, pull teh ads!!!"
Where as the FUD crowd sees political bias I see economic bias. As in, they wants to keeps the cheese rollin' in, dawg! (translated for anyone who thinks economic bias is too complicated a phrase)
I think you are missing the point here. What is more plausible? The idea that these were connected to the US and we were just being OMGLOLSTOOPED and left the sites vulnerable, or that these were in fact controlled by Iran and this is all just Propaganda to help justify their position. What's really sad is how many people seem to believe that Iran is somehow capable of performing cyberattacks against legitimate CIA systems. Guarantee you, these sites have no real connection to US Intelligence, and if they do, it's likely as someone else pointed out that they are "honeypots to find the script kiddies."
Perhaps you should read the article.
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I am assuming that your Omnia is through Verizon (not that I know what an Omnia is) but based on your comment, you indicated that it was locked down. I was simply stating that this doesn't mean that the GPS for every Verizon phone is locked down.