You can get a shift card, a bitpay card, and dozens of other debit style cards tied to your bitcoin. I mine bitcoin at home, and then I spend it EVERYWHERE AND ANYWHERE THAT VISA/MASTERCARD ARE ACCEPTED. I just bought lunch with bitcoin today. A couple days ago I bought a headset from best buy using bitcoin. I also paid my $1300 electric bill with bitcoin. I pay my car insurance with bitcoin.
Because mining produces FAR MORE money that the electricity costs, everything I bought with bitcoin was essentially free. If you truly believe that bitcoin is only for illegal things, you've got your head in the sand or otherwise somewhere where the sun don't shine.
About 10 years ago, I worked at an AT&T store and made over $60,000 per year. It was a good job, and if you could show people the benefit of a wireless phone, it was easy money. As time passed, market penetration increased rapidly. It became more difficult to sell phones to "new customers". It became more common to see kids at 10, 9, 8, or 5 years old already have a phone. Fast forward, and it wasn't too long before nearly everyone had a cellphone with a data plan.
Back then, AT&T needed a strong sales force to penetrate the market. They needed to sell cell phones and data plans to customers that had not yet owned one. As market penetration approached 100% all that AT&T (and other carriers) were doing to changing out somebody's data phone for another data phone. It became rare to sell a phone to a "new customer" and it became rare to sell a data plan to a former dump-phone user because they didn't exist anymore. As the market reached saturation, sales commission levels dropped correspondingly. Now that everyone already has a phone with data, the carriers don't need or want corporate stores.
You have no idea what you're talking about. I was doing business for 17 years straight with zero incidents of fraud, charge-backs or any other issues when they decided to arbitrarily declare me a risk and seize my $14,000. Do a little searching; they're doing this to 10s of thousands of people all day every day.
Within a few years, cryptocurrencies will make them completely obsolete. Personally, I believe PayPal is seizing assets to bolster their finances on paper for investors.
No. I don't mean recoup fraud. Start an eBay business and get it making more than about $4000/month. You'll find very quickly that PayPal will literally seize about 75% of your money and place it in "Reserve" status. You won't have any access to it for 180 days. In addition, they'll continue to freeze a certain percentage of all your income as your company grows. Need your money back to go on vacation: denied. Buying a house: denied. Think you can get your money back by closing your PayPal account: denied, for 180 days.
PayPal has all the power of a bank without being burdened by any of the regulations as a bank. They act as their own judge, jury, and litigators. They can and will seize your money at will, and their's nothing you can do about it. I know because they're holding $14,000 of mine.
With they way they unnecessarily seize the monetary assets of 100s of thousands of their customers, you're going to need the 2% cash back in order to justify your relationship with them.
It certainly is biased. I suppose from that perspective, all that I did was give my children the knowledge and ability to interact in a way that would be considered normal by previous generations. I'm fine with that.
My kids were introduced to cell phones and tablets and a young age, and I noticed withing a few months that they started to be less confident with social interactions than they should be for their age. For example, slight fear to talk to the lady at the drive-through for a cheeseburger.
As soon as I noticed the deficiency, I made immediate changes to their phone/tablet time and forced them into social interactions that would be suitable for their age. The changes helped significantly. As time passed, and phones/tablets became more prevalent, it became clear to me which parents had devoted any attention to how the devices were impacting their children.
We are always testing procedures to help stay ahead of our adversaries. We were testing the removal of books at two airport locations and the testing ran its course.
So, with that out of the way, you might be wondering why we were interested in books. Well, our adversaries seem to know every trick in the book when it comes to concealing dangerous items, and books have been used in the past to conceal prohibited items.
We are always testing procedures to help stay ahead of our adversaries. We were testing the removal of books at two airport locations and the testing ran its course. ~TSA
The headline in its current form makes Sony look bad, and this isn't necessarily their fault. The headline should read, "PayPal initiate 1000s of charge backs to PlayStation Network Accounts for Unknown Reason Resulting in Suspensions."
I worked in the wireless industry for 7 years. I'm not confusing anything with anything, and I am very educated in the "other details" that you speak of.
I'm simply making the argument that the general audience here on Slashdot is getting overly specific about what defines a cellular telephone to include only the devices they are familiar with. These are the same people that will tell you kilo means 1024 and mega means 1,024,000. Based on the lazy definition, they're right or righteous, but they're not correct.
I also realize that I have no chance is gaining support for this argument, as you have so eloquently demonstrated.
What defines a "cell" phone is the geographic area that the transceiver covers which is known as a coverage "cell".
tele means from afar, and phone means audible communication. So the only thing that defines a cellular telephone is any technology which allows remote (from afar) communication within a predefined geographic area (cell).
...and so were cellular telephones when they first came to market. All that you needed was a scanner.
It was so easy to listen to any cell phone conversation, that website operators even setup websites allowing anyone to listen to live cell phone conversation streams in various cities.
It is exactly what's going on here. The ability to call a voicemail platform system and leave a voicemail for any subscriber contained within it, without ringing their cell phone, has existed for years. This is not new technology wherein the telemarketer is "glitching" your phone.
...and before you go spouting off some self-proclaimed facts, please know that I worked for AT&T for a decade.
Slashdot Mirror
You can get a shift card, a bitpay card, and dozens of other debit style cards tied to your bitcoin. I mine bitcoin at home, and then I spend it EVERYWHERE AND ANYWHERE THAT VISA/MASTERCARD ARE ACCEPTED. I just bought lunch with bitcoin today. A couple days ago I bought a headset from best buy using bitcoin. I also paid my $1300 electric bill with bitcoin. I pay my car insurance with bitcoin.
Because mining produces FAR MORE money that the electricity costs, everything I bought with bitcoin was essentially free. If you truly believe that bitcoin is only for illegal things, you've got your head in the sand or otherwise somewhere where the sun don't shine.
Since when does a machine have to monitor its operator to ensure he/she is "engaged". Ridiculous.
About 10 years ago, I worked at an AT&T store and made over $60,000 per year. It was a good job, and if you could show people the benefit of a wireless phone, it was easy money. As time passed, market penetration increased rapidly. It became more difficult to sell phones to "new customers". It became more common to see kids at 10, 9, 8, or 5 years old already have a phone. Fast forward, and it wasn't too long before nearly everyone had a cellphone with a data plan.
Back then, AT&T needed a strong sales force to penetrate the market. They needed to sell cell phones and data plans to customers that had not yet owned one. As market penetration approached 100% all that AT&T (and other carriers) were doing to changing out somebody's data phone for another data phone. It became rare to sell a phone to a "new customer" and it became rare to sell a data plan to a former dump-phone user because they didn't exist anymore. As the market reached saturation, sales commission levels dropped correspondingly. Now that everyone already has a phone with data, the carriers don't need or want corporate stores.
I will never own a Lenovo device and superfish is only a small portion of the real problem: shitty hardware billed as enterprise/business class.
You have no idea what you're talking about. I was doing business for 17 years straight with zero incidents of fraud, charge-backs or any other issues when they decided to arbitrarily declare me a risk and seize my $14,000. Do a little searching; they're doing this to 10s of thousands of people all day every day.
Within a few years, cryptocurrencies will make them completely obsolete. Personally, I believe PayPal is seizing assets to bolster their finances on paper for investors.
No. I don't mean recoup fraud. Start an eBay business and get it making more than about $4000/month. You'll find very quickly that PayPal will literally seize about 75% of your money and place it in "Reserve" status. You won't have any access to it for 180 days. In addition, they'll continue to freeze a certain percentage of all your income as your company grows. Need your money back to go on vacation: denied. Buying a house: denied. Think you can get your money back by closing your PayPal account: denied, for 180 days.
PayPal has all the power of a bank without being burdened by any of the regulations as a bank. They act as their own judge, jury, and litigators. They can and will seize your money at will, and their's nothing you can do about it. I know because they're holding $14,000 of mine.
With they way they unnecessarily seize the monetary assets of 100s of thousands of their customers, you're going to need the 2% cash back in order to justify your relationship with them.
They named it AccuWeather for weather reports. If they wanted to convey an accurate privacy policy, wouldn't they have called it AccuPrivacyPolicy?
The spectrum on that side is reserved for Pink Floyd.
It certainly is biased. I suppose from that perspective, all that I did was give my children the knowledge and ability to interact in a way that would be considered normal by previous generations. I'm fine with that.
My kids were introduced to cell phones and tablets and a young age, and I noticed withing a few months that they started to be less confident with social interactions than they should be for their age. For example, slight fear to talk to the lady at the drive-through for a cheeseburger.
As soon as I noticed the deficiency, I made immediate changes to their phone/tablet time and forced them into social interactions that would be suitable for their age. The changes helped significantly. As time passed, and phones/tablets became more prevalent, it became clear to me which parents had devoted any attention to how the devices were impacting their children.
A technology news website reverses course on publishing technology news.
Antennas are cool and all, but did the headline have to be sarcastic and condescending to millennials?
Shouldn't they be inviting the people to attend?
Quotes from the TSA:
We are always testing procedures to help stay ahead of our adversaries. We were testing the removal of books at two airport locations and the testing ran its course.
So, with that out of the way, you might be wondering why we were interested in books. Well, our adversaries seem to know every trick in the book when it comes to concealing dangerous items, and books have been used in the past to conceal prohibited items.
We are always testing procedures to help stay ahead of our adversaries. We were testing the removal of books at two airport locations and the testing ran its course. ~TSA
Wooosh...
If I had to guess, I'd say it's based on common sense.
Proof is not required. The OP clearly stated "it's PROBABLY a decent way..."
The headline in its current form makes Sony look bad, and this isn't necessarily their fault. The headline should read, "PayPal initiate 1000s of charge backs to PlayStation Network Accounts for Unknown Reason Resulting in Suspensions."
I worked in the wireless industry for 7 years. I'm not confusing anything with anything, and I am very educated in the "other details" that you speak of.
I'm simply making the argument that the general audience here on Slashdot is getting overly specific about what defines a cellular telephone to include only the devices they are familiar with. These are the same people that will tell you kilo means 1024 and mega means 1,024,000. Based on the lazy definition, they're right or righteous, but they're not correct.
I also realize that I have no chance is gaining support for this argument, as you have so eloquently demonstrated.
What defines a "cell" phone is the geographic area that the transceiver covers which is known as a coverage "cell".
tele means from afar, and phone means audible communication. So the only thing that defines a cellular telephone is any technology which allows remote (from afar) communication within a predefined geographic area (cell).
...and so were cellular telephones when they first came to market. All that you needed was a scanner.
It was so easy to listen to any cell phone conversation, that website operators even setup websites allowing anyone to listen to live cell phone conversation streams in various cities.
https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-actions-and-decisions/investigations/investigations-into-businesses/incidents/2001/cf-dc_010917/
We did. I think they were called ham radios. They just weren't very portable.
It is exactly what's going on here. The ability to call a voicemail platform system and leave a voicemail for any subscriber contained within it, without ringing their cell phone, has existed for years. This is not new technology wherein the telemarketer is "glitching" your phone.
...and before you go spouting off some self-proclaimed facts, please know that I worked for AT&T for a decade.