Surely this would help local restaurants.
Sheesh, this city seems determined to force the tech companies that make up a large percentage of the tax base to leave.
Somebody (may have) scammed someone else for $11. Seriously, isn't there more important stuff Slashdot could cover? If I lost $11, I'd be ticked off for no more than a couple minutes. Seriously, this is not news.
If Tesla really thought that they had dirt on Aurora, they wouldn't have settled for $100k, which in the world of business litigation is practically nothing.
Not all the affected sites were "making money" off of piracy. What.CD had no ads and was funded exclusively by donations. There was never a profit motive.
One of the reasons I loved what.cd was the active, well moderated forums. I haven't torrented music in a long time, maybe years, but I did enjoy great discussions about music, technology and politics. I went to what.cd for music, before good streaming options existed. I stayed because of the relationships I built with people there. It was a great community that will be missed.
While this is a cool idea -- there are no women and no people of color featured on any US bills right now, and that doesn't accurately reflect the demographics of the country -- I can see it causing some confusion. On balance, it's probably a good decision, but this is a pretty major change.
I totally agree -- under current law, this isn't workable, but I think it would be a novel solution if congress were to pass something to allow for this. That said, my faith in congress passing any meaningful legislation on any topic is practically nonexistent.
Should lead to automatic denial of the next 2 claims from the same claimant. The second false claim should lead to automatic denial of the next 4 claims (and so on). I think that would solve the problem pretty quickly.
Until customers aren't the only ones left on the hook in the case of breaches like this, companies like Hyatt aren't going to take security seriously. Sure, they might pony up for credit monitoring, but that does little to actually make customers whole if their identities are stolen or their bank accounts are emptied. If we were to start fining companies like this, say, $10,000 per card number / identity / sensitive detail stolen, I have a feeling these breaches would become far less common. Until we do this, we shouldn't expect Hyatt to care.
I live and work in Pittsburgh, for one of the companies you listed above, and can attest that the tech community here is vibrant, the cost of living is low (but rising), and there's a ton of great stuff going on here.
How are those two things related at all? The H1B program brings non-citizens into the US to work temporarily. Uber doesn't bring non-citizen drivers to the US, and uber drivers (in most cases) make better money than cab drivers. Your argument makes no sense.
Your statements about Uber's contracting agreements are patently false. Drivers drive when they want to, they can turn the app on or off at any time. Many Uber drivers also drive for Lyft. Drivers can work for whoever they want without fear of retaliation. Drivers use their own phones, Uber doesn't require drivers to use a specific phone.
It's clear that you have no idea what you're talking about. The next time you post something on the internet, it would be nice if you could take the time to make sure that it's at least mostly true.
I'm the OP of this article and it made the front page a few days ago. I mean, I'm honored that you think it was such a good post, but do you even read the front page?
Also, how is this subscription service suppose to work? Am I suppose to give M$ my credit card number for recurring charges? I don't think so - although I imagine that's what many Apple consumers do (I don't know).
For the record, OSX users do not have to give Apple a credit card to receive updates. OSX updates are free and legal to install on Apple hardware. I have my fair share of gripes about Apple, but this isn't one of them. If you have their hardware and it is recent enough to run their latest software, you get it for free.
Here's the message I sent. If you're lazy, feel free to use it:
Disabling Apple Pay and Google Wallet, which were previously accepted is not OK. If you want to come up with your own competing system and give people rewards to use it, that's fine, but don't break existing functionality. Google Wallet just works. Apple and Google's solutions don't cost you any more money than a credit card transaction. Your payment app isn't even available yet and relies on QR codes, which means that when it does launch it will likely be very clunky by comparison.
If you can't come up with a sane response to this, I guess I'll be switching to Walgreens.
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Surely this would help local restaurants. Sheesh, this city seems determined to force the tech companies that make up a large percentage of the tax base to leave.
Somebody (may have) scammed someone else for $11. Seriously, isn't there more important stuff Slashdot could cover? If I lost $11, I'd be ticked off for no more than a couple minutes. Seriously, this is not news.
If Tesla really thought that they had dirt on Aurora, they wouldn't have settled for $100k, which in the world of business litigation is practically nothing.
How do we measure that? What does it mean?
Not all the affected sites were "making money" off of piracy. What.CD had no ads and was funded exclusively by donations. There was never a profit motive.
One of the reasons I loved what.cd was the active, well moderated forums. I haven't torrented music in a long time, maybe years, but I did enjoy great discussions about music, technology and politics. I went to what.cd for music, before good streaming options existed. I stayed because of the relationships I built with people there. It was a great community that will be missed.
While this is a cool idea -- there are no women and no people of color featured on any US bills right now, and that doesn't accurately reflect the demographics of the country -- I can see it causing some confusion. On balance, it's probably a good decision, but this is a pretty major change.
I accidentally rated this comment as informative, so I'm posting here to nullify that.
I totally agree -- under current law, this isn't workable, but I think it would be a novel solution if congress were to pass something to allow for this. That said, my faith in congress passing any meaningful legislation on any topic is practically nonexistent.
Should lead to automatic denial of the next 2 claims from the same claimant. The second false claim should lead to automatic denial of the next 4 claims (and so on). I think that would solve the problem pretty quickly.
Until customers aren't the only ones left on the hook in the case of breaches like this, companies like Hyatt aren't going to take security seriously. Sure, they might pony up for credit monitoring, but that does little to actually make customers whole if their identities are stolen or their bank accounts are emptied. If we were to start fining companies like this, say, $10,000 per card number / identity / sensitive detail stolen, I have a feeling these breaches would become far less common. Until we do this, we shouldn't expect Hyatt to care.
I live and work in Pittsburgh, for one of the companies you listed above, and can attest that the tech community here is vibrant, the cost of living is low (but rising), and there's a ton of great stuff going on here.
The thing is, Amazon customer service is actually pretty great. I've never had a problem with them at all.
How are those two things related at all? The H1B program brings non-citizens into the US to work temporarily. Uber doesn't bring non-citizen drivers to the US, and uber drivers (in most cases) make better money than cab drivers. Your argument makes no sense.
Really? I had no trouble getting a car yesterday.
Your statements about Uber's contracting agreements are patently false. Drivers drive when they want to, they can turn the app on or off at any time. Many Uber drivers also drive for Lyft. Drivers can work for whoever they want without fear of retaliation. Drivers use their own phones, Uber doesn't require drivers to use a specific phone. It's clear that you have no idea what you're talking about. The next time you post something on the internet, it would be nice if you could take the time to make sure that it's at least mostly true.
I'm the OP of this article and it made the front page a few days ago. I mean, I'm honored that you think it was such a good post, but do you even read the front page?
If you're not willing to report a security breach, you don't deserve a job in the public sector, or anywhere else.
I wonder if they were concerned about the jokes their potential German customers might make. "Windows? Nein!"
Also, how is this subscription service suppose to work? Am I suppose to give M$ my credit card number for recurring charges? I don't think so - although I imagine that's what many Apple consumers do (I don't know).
For the record, OSX users do not have to give Apple a credit card to receive updates. OSX updates are free and legal to install on Apple hardware. I have my fair share of gripes about Apple, but this isn't one of them. If you have their hardware and it is recent enough to run their latest software, you get it for free.
lol, I like your style!
It's a minor quibble, but the review states it's 204 pages and the table says 240. Obviously at least one of these numbers is incorrect.
TFA clearly states that there will be no contract and service will be offered on a month to month basis.
too much free time.
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Here's the message I sent. If you're lazy, feel free to use it:
Disabling Apple Pay and Google Wallet, which were previously accepted is not OK. If you want to come up with your own competing system and give people rewards to use it, that's fine, but don't break existing functionality. Google Wallet just works. Apple and Google's solutions don't cost you any more money than a credit card transaction. Your payment app isn't even available yet and relies on QR codes, which means that when it does launch it will likely be very clunky by comparison.
If you can't come up with a sane response to this, I guess I'll be switching to Walgreens.