... and limited to 30 Euro. Whereas with your phone there is a 30 Euro limit with a locked phone, and no limit with it unlocked.
Plus it's much faster (for me, at least) to take my phone out of my pocket and tap it than it is for me to dig my wallet out and then get my debit card from it.
Here in Ireland I find that I can use Google Pay in the vast majority of places. Basically anywhere that accepts tap with a credit card will also accept Google Pay and Apple Pay (I don't know about Samsung Pay, but I don't know of any bank offering that on their cards).
The compatibility here seems to be whether the banks offer it, not whether the shops accept it.
I only know of 2 shops where I haven't been able to use it: IKEA, which only accepts payments up to 30 Euro with tap of any kind, and a local hardware store that has a problem accepting various types of credit cards for tap too.
Otherwise I rarely take my wallet from my pocket. I just about always have my phone, and if I don't have my phone for some reason I'll likely have my watch on me.
Well, Europeans tend to have more liberties and freedoms than in the US, as well as many more protections from money grabbing corporations (GDPR being a recent case in point). Free Speech is protected, both in the European Constitution, and individual countries constitutions. In all, it's a great place to live.
It's not perfect. We have some laws that not everybody will agree with (the copyright stuff). But overall, the European Council seems to do stuff right, and generally doesn't come up with too many stupid ideas.
Plus we don't have an Oompa Lumpa in charge, so we have that going for us too, which is nice.
The registration number on a car here in Europe rarely changes, certainly never is the vast majority of cases. The registration number belongs to the car, and stays with the car for its life. One of the reasons the number might change is when a car is exported and thus re-registered in another country (e.g. in Ireland it's much cheaper to buy a used car in the UK and import and re-register it than to buy a lower spec used car here). Another is vanity plates, which aren't available in all countries. I think they still are in the UK, but not in Ireland -- Irish registration numbers have the year of first sale, the county, and a sequential number, so, say 191-D-1234 is the 1234th car registered in Co. Dublin in the first half of 2019 (192 for the second half). It's possible to reserve a number in advance, though, so you could reserve 191-D-80085. That's as close to vanity plates we have. Numbers above 120000 are reserved for imports, so a car originally purchased in the UK in 2010 and re-registered several years later in Ireland would get a 10-D-120000+ registration number. (The 3rd digit attached to the year didn't start until 2013, partly to boost latter-half sales by having 2 "years", and partly to avoid having 13...) Anyway, a registration plate is about â20 or less. Why would anyone pay â500 or more?
Of course we are. But in order to keep their "product", they need to listen so we keep using their apps. Otherwise we'll switch to something else. So use the feedback feature and let them know what they can do to keep you. Or leave and use something else. I, personally, don't care. But Google just might...
'cos there isn't really much else you can do with a rectangular slab of glass to differentiate yourself from everyone else, so lets do some crazy stuff that nobody really asked for...
Just give me a 6" 16:9 dead-flat screen. I don't need (or want) anything fancy, or curvy, or "3D"/"2.5D". Make the innards good -- a good processor, a good battery, lots of memory, lots of storage. Innovate there and give me the best you can give me. But stop with this other craziness...
There's also a lot you can do also. The onus cannot fall only on the companies. They can still have everything done perfectly correctly and have all of the latest patches and have followed all of the security advise they can get their hands on, and still get breached due to some other zero-day that was exploited. There will always be holes, no matter how careful they are.
So do what you can yourself to ensure that if a company is breached, and try to ensure your data isn't of much use. Some data will be (if they get your CC details, or your Social Security number, etc), but, for example, by using a different password for each and every site, and having MFA setup, etc, you can at lease ensure that when the inevitable happens that hackers can't use that data to login to another site and steal more data about you.
So I searched a couple of addresses and they are listed. Or, at least, the site tells me there are listed. What would be good, now, is if I could actually view the information about myself. Email it me, maybe? Like, I just gave you my email address...
Just how old is the password? And for what site(s)? that information doesn't appear to be particularly forthcoming...
You can. Gmail will allow you to do dots in the email address too, as many as you like, so you can use
e.x.am.p.le+slashdot@gmail.com
and the email will be delivered to the example@gmail.com account. The 'sent to' address doesn't get changed, so you can set up filters and rules if you want.
I have various filters in place to put emails into various folders automatically for me. Most of these folders contain emails that I can ignore (some go directly to the Bin, some are monitoring alert emails, some are status updates on deployment pipelines, some are incidents that my team, but not me, need to work on, etc). I would generally cast a quick eye over these, and when happy I'll just delete everything in the folder.
The rest stay in my InBox.
When I have new emails in there, I read them. If this is something I can reply to now, I reply now. If it's something I can ignore, I just close it and leave it there. If it's something I need to do by can't do now, I close it and mark it as unread so that I'll go back to it at some point.
This means that I generally have a small number of unread emails, listing this that I need to get back to.
Simple process that has worked very well for me for the last 20 years or so.
I employ a similar process in Google Inbox where I'll 'check off' emails that I'm done with. I can't mark emails as 'unread', but if I haven't checked if off then it's something I want to get back to at some point. Unfortunately checking off the email doesn't appear to do much on the GMail side, so when Google shutdown InBox it'll complete mess up my system. So I need to do something about this on the Gmail side before they do that. (rather miffed at Google about this, but that's Google for you...)
The issue is when you download an app and expect it to work, and it doesn't. And the reason is because the phone manufacturer decided to kill the app off and not tell you. And then you complain to the dev that it doesn't work and the poor dev is left telling you how to fix something that the phone manufacturer put in place that's non-standard.
I currently have a problem where chromecast connections (from YouTube or NetFlix) get disconnected on my phone when I turn the screen off. My chromecast will still play, but if I open the app again I generally have to reconnect, or even kill off the app and run it again and then reconnect. It's likely caused by Sony killing off some background processes, and I can't find what process it's killing off.
This is quite annoying. I found stuff like 'FolderSync', which will allow you to, say, copy the contents of a directory from your phone to your Google Drive automatically every night, would get killed off mid copy as it runs as a background tab.
Similarly when copying a large file using a file manager, or downloading a large file in the background.
It's possible to set an app up as an exception, but you have to do this for all applications that you want to be able to run in the background. Yes there are some apps that you probably don't want to run, but it's really frustrating when it stops the apps you want to allow run, and you have to go hunting for a setting that has a different name on each phone.
Could NFC technology be used for delivering a digital receipt to your phone without you having to hand over your email address (and thus get spammed)? It would also be a lot faster than waiting in line for people to spell out their email addresses.
Any time I'm asked for my email address so they can send me the receipt, I refuse. And I'll continue to refuse. So if this is to be forced, then a better way than email or SMS is needed.
Oh, and can you guys sort out those CVS receipts, as that one chain is probably responsible for half of all receipt paper...!
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Many places in the USA still ask you to swipe your credit card and sign...!!! They don't even have chip and pin, let alone tap.
... and limited to 30 Euro. Whereas with your phone there is a 30 Euro limit with a locked phone, and no limit with it unlocked.
Plus it's much faster (for me, at least) to take my phone out of my pocket and tap it than it is for me to dig my wallet out and then get my debit card from it.
Here in Ireland I find that I can use Google Pay in the vast majority of places. Basically anywhere that accepts tap with a credit card will also accept Google Pay and Apple Pay (I don't know about Samsung Pay, but I don't know of any bank offering that on their cards).
The compatibility here seems to be whether the banks offer it, not whether the shops accept it.
I only know of 2 shops where I haven't been able to use it: IKEA, which only accepts payments up to 30 Euro with tap of any kind, and a local hardware store that has a problem accepting various types of credit cards for tap too.
Otherwise I rarely take my wallet from my pocket. I just about always have my phone, and if I don't have my phone for some reason I'll likely have my watch on me.
("European Constitution" referring to the current European Treaty (Lisbon). Not an actual condition, per se, but is treated as such.)
Well, Europeans tend to have more liberties and freedoms than in the US, as well as many more protections from money grabbing corporations (GDPR being a recent case in point). Free Speech is protected, both in the European Constitution, and individual countries constitutions. In all, it's a great place to live.
It's not perfect. We have some laws that not everybody will agree with (the copyright stuff). But overall, the European Council seems to do stuff right, and generally doesn't come up with too many stupid ideas.
Plus we don't have an Oompa Lumpa in charge, so we have that going for us too, which is nice.
Well, in Ireland, UK, Poland, France, Italy, and Germany, in pretty sure that's the case. I suppose I did generalise for all countries.
Let me rephrase to "In many, maybe not all, European countries...".
One wonders how many scientists were "surprised" only in news articles...
How much of this "surprise" is down to newspapers trying to sell the story?
The registration number on a car here in Europe rarely changes, certainly never is the vast majority of cases. The registration number belongs to the car, and stays with the car for its life.
One of the reasons the number might change is when a car is exported and thus re-registered in another country (e.g. in Ireland it's much cheaper to buy a used car in the UK and import and re-register it than to buy a lower spec used car here).
Another is vanity plates, which aren't available in all countries. I think they still are in the UK, but not in Ireland -- Irish registration numbers have the year of first sale, the county, and a sequential number, so, say 191-D-1234 is the 1234th car registered in Co. Dublin in the first half of 2019 (192 for the second half). It's possible to reserve a number in advance, though, so you could reserve 191-D-80085. That's as close to vanity plates we have. Numbers above 120000 are reserved for imports, so a car originally purchased in the UK in 2010 and re-registered several years later in Ireland would get a 10-D-120000+ registration number. (The 3rd digit attached to the year didn't start until 2013, partly to boost latter-half sales by having 2 "years", and partly to avoid having 13...)
Anyway, a registration plate is about â20 or less. Why would anyone pay â500 or more?
Of course we are. But in order to keep their "product", they need to listen so we keep using their apps. Otherwise we'll switch to something else.
So use the feedback feature and let them know what they can do to keep you.
Or leave and use something else. I, personally, don't care. But Google just might...
The ads probably _are_ Google ads...!
Have you used the "send feedback" feature?
That's actually clever, if devious.
I think I might just bring that list to 20........
*click*
'cos there isn't really much else you can do with a rectangular slab of glass to differentiate yourself from everyone else, so lets do some crazy stuff that nobody really asked for...
Just give me a 6" 16:9 dead-flat screen. I don't need (or want) anything fancy, or curvy, or "3D"/"2.5D". Make the innards good -- a good processor, a good battery, lots of memory, lots of storage. Innovate there and give me the best you can give me. But stop with this other craziness...
In actuality it'll be more like the BrainPal from the Old Man's War series, I guess.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Reminds me of this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
There's also a lot you can do also. The onus cannot fall only on the companies. They can still have everything done perfectly correctly and have all of the latest patches and have followed all of the security advise they can get their hands on, and still get breached due to some other zero-day that was exploited. There will always be holes, no matter how careful they are.
So do what you can yourself to ensure that if a company is breached, and try to ensure your data isn't of much use. Some data will be (if they get your CC details, or your Social Security number, etc), but, for example, by using a different password for each and every site, and having MFA setup, etc, you can at lease ensure that when the inevitable happens that hackers can't use that data to login to another site and steal more data about you.
So I searched a couple of addresses and they are listed. Or, at least, the site tells me there are listed.
What would be good, now, is if I could actually view the information about myself. Email it me, maybe? Like, I just gave you my email address...
Just how old is the password? And for what site(s)? that information doesn't appear to be particularly forthcoming...
Looks like this will happen in Canada shortly too: https://www.narcity.com/news/n...
The last increase in Ireland was in 2017, so I can only guess this will be a worldwide increase in the next few weeks.
No mention of this is international, or just US. Prices listed are in USD, it seems.
Any idea if this will affect Netflix in Europe? Well, not if, but when?
You can. Gmail will allow you to do dots in the email address too, as many as you like, so you can use
e.x.am.p.le+slashdot@gmail.com
and the email will be delivered to the example@gmail.com account. The 'sent to' address doesn't get changed, so you can set up filters and rules if you want.
Very useful.
I have various filters in place to put emails into various folders automatically for me. Most of these folders contain emails that I can ignore (some go directly to the Bin, some are monitoring alert emails, some are status updates on deployment pipelines, some are incidents that my team, but not me, need to work on, etc). I would generally cast a quick eye over these, and when happy I'll just delete everything in the folder.
The rest stay in my InBox.
When I have new emails in there, I read them. If this is something I can reply to now, I reply now. If it's something I can ignore, I just close it and leave it there. If it's something I need to do by can't do now, I close it and mark it as unread so that I'll go back to it at some point.
This means that I generally have a small number of unread emails, listing this that I need to get back to.
Simple process that has worked very well for me for the last 20 years or so.
I employ a similar process in Google Inbox where I'll 'check off' emails that I'm done with. I can't mark emails as 'unread', but if I haven't checked if off then it's something I want to get back to at some point. Unfortunately checking off the email doesn't appear to do much on the GMail side, so when Google shutdown InBox it'll complete mess up my system. So I need to do something about this on the Gmail side before they do that. (rather miffed at Google about this, but that's Google for you...)
The issue is when you download an app and expect it to work, and it doesn't. And the reason is because the phone manufacturer decided to kill the app off and not tell you. And then you complain to the dev that it doesn't work and the poor dev is left telling you how to fix something that the phone manufacturer put in place that's non-standard.
I currently have a problem where chromecast connections (from YouTube or NetFlix) get disconnected on my phone when I turn the screen off. My chromecast will still play, but if I open the app again I generally have to reconnect, or even kill off the app and run it again and then reconnect. It's likely caused by Sony killing off some background processes, and I can't find what process it's killing off.
This is quite annoying. I found stuff like 'FolderSync', which will allow you to, say, copy the contents of a directory from your phone to your Google Drive automatically every night, would get killed off mid copy as it runs as a background tab.
Similarly when copying a large file using a file manager, or downloading a large file in the background.
It's possible to set an app up as an exception, but you have to do this for all applications that you want to be able to run in the background.
Yes there are some apps that you probably don't want to run, but it's really frustrating when it stops the apps you want to allow run, and you have to go hunting for a setting that has a different name on each phone.
Could NFC technology be used for delivering a digital receipt to your phone without you having to hand over your email address (and thus get spammed)? It would also be a lot faster than waiting in line for people to spell out their email addresses.
Any time I'm asked for my email address so they can send me the receipt, I refuse. And I'll continue to refuse. So if this is to be forced, then a better way than email or SMS is needed.
Oh, and can you guys sort out those CVS receipts, as that one chain is probably responsible for half of all receipt paper...!