I only ask for a changeable battery, the rest is going to be replaced at once every 1-2 years anyway.
Umm...then buy an android...or a BB...or anything besides Apple, really. There you go, problem solved.
You don't honestly think Apple is going to buy into this concept, do you? The same people who won't even let you add software unless it's blessed by their own priests and issues from their own holy garden? The ones that are now actively blocking aftermarket hardware too? Their claims that it is to protect their hapless users from these evil third party vendors is pretty laughable, as in they saw nothing funny about people refusing to pay their apple tax on frigging cables, so now they're 'protecting' people while laughing all the way to the bank...
Warrants have to be specific as to what they are searching for, but any evidence found during a legal search, whether named in the warrant or not, is fair game.
I suppose...but it's hard to imagine that people hide their guns inside file folders. Inside filing cabinets, maybe, but inside a folder, or an envelope in a folder (that obviously contains only paper)? So the search warrant was clearly a pretext to go looking for (and grab) items they couldn't get a warrant for.
Besides, these notes are evidence of what, exactly? That the reporter is doing her job? Perhaps she shouldn't have labelled them "My Illicit Income Receipts" and left them out on the desk...or she shouldn't have stored her Colt.45 with her source notes:)
"Using a warrant to search for guns, Homeland security officers and Maryland police confiscated a journalist's confidential files. "
I thought warrants had to be specific as to what they're looking for and allowed to confiscate? Somehow I can't make the mental connection between the stated purpose (guns) and a pile of papers, which were probably not left out in plain sight...
On the other hand, cat's out of the bag now, so there's no reasonable reparation possible. The notes can't be un-read, and I am sure that multiple copies were made the moment they got them back to the office...so what is a reasonable legal response? I suppose if any lawsuits develop against the sources, perhaps all evidence collected on them after this date should be tossed out as inadmissible due to illegal search and seizure? As in, they would not have begun gathering intel on the sources without the notes to point the finger at them, and the notes were seized outside warrant...
But what do I know, IANAL, just a crime show junkie:)
The WII appealed to women. No joke. I know a lot of guy's girlfriends and wives who hated Nintendos and Sega and Playstations absolutely loved the WII when it came out. Now it didn't last, but largely that demographic are still playing games, but now doing so on Facebook and their phones.
Not only (previously non-gamer) women, but grandparents. You know, the ones who can't figure out computers? Well suddenly there's this game that doesn't require extreme digit dexterity, and has very accessible controls that feel more natural (bowling, boxing, pretty much all of the wii sports pack, even the driving games such as Mario Kart). Suddenly they can actually play these games with the grandkids and not feel left out of the action: you better believe that sold a whole lot of consoles and games for them.
On the flip side, the new WiiU generation transitions to small, hard to see (with bifocals) screens and more button-mashing gameplay than the Wii: it's not surprising that it's not appealing to the same demographics.
It would start out how HD satellite did. Movies. Most films were shot on film or digital 4K. There's no shortage of content for a movie channel.
Content creation is not the problem: content delivery is.
What I understood him to be saying is that providers are just now offering most channels in 1080 because the hardware and networks are finally upgraded enough (barely) to allow the bandwidth for them. I can't even speculate how long it'll be before networks would be able to support all 4K programming...so your fancy new TV will only be able to strut it's stuff by playing purchased disc media, much like blu-rays and HD tv's back in the early days. You'll get *maybe* one or two channels offering 4K programming (if you're in an area that offers fiber connections), but you'll pay a pretty penny for it.
To make full use of that resolution ("Retina" quality, i.e. indistinguishable pixels) at a viewing distance of 10ft you'd need a screen 150" screen. That's 8ft wide 4ft6in tall.
Like a comment above, Huh? What?!! They are not going to have pixel densities on 65" or above displays at Retina display densities for 4K. 4K means the horizontal pixel width is 4,000 pixels, or so. If you can see pixels on a current 65" HD display from five feet away, you have bionic man vision.
And if you can see the discrete RGB components of each pixel, you have bionic woman vision!
>> The bill will require patent holders who are filing a suit to identify the specific products and claims which are being infringed
It's a good start - in the "trolls" who hold patents but don't have any actual products wouldn't be able to meet this bar. However, it still would not prevent a troll from selling said patents to someone who HAS such an infringing product - to whom violation of such a patent would be valuable, and valid for suit.
Ah, but then it's the manufacturing company that takes the heat and gets the press, and they have a public image to maintain.
I particularly like the "and force trolls to reveal anyone who has a 'financial interest' in the case, making them possibly liable for damages" bit. Basically companies can't hide in the wings anymore while their paid goons trash their competition with trollish nuisance claims.
I haven't used Freenet in several years (since the 0.5/0.7 split) but I was pretty heavily involved back then...and I keep checking out 0.7 occasionally so I do have *some* idea of the changes.
The problem isn't so much responsiveness...it's that there is *no such thing as a server*. There's no dynamic content. You upload a file and it gets shredded and distributed among a few dozen/hundred peers and there's no way to reach the original publisher. You could set up a spider that would publish a listing of torrent links, once per day or something (that's how index sites were done back then -- no way to do a search engine) but everyone would need to download the entire list and then perform searches locally. No clue how large TPB's database is, but I bet it's large enough to make this pretty difficult. Maybe publish the list and then a digest of changes every day but you still gotta publish the full list periodically for newcomers and it could take a couple days between downloading the search tool and being able to use it. And most torrent users won't see the benefits because TPB is working perfectly well for them, so you won't get significant adoption which will make it perform even worse.
Ah, I see what you mean. Yeah, that's not very practical...hmm. Too bad there isn't a way to publish only incremental changes to the list...
Do you know, was there a way to search the available files by filename in Freenet? By publishing the.torrent files themselves, if the files could be searched by name it would provide the necessary connection so long as the.torrent file names are descriptive enough. Sounds like you wouldn't have any metadata / descriptions available, and no user feedback system to weed out the torrent spam, but at least there's no single point of failure either.
TOR is a poor choice for media sharing as it's not P2P. Freenet was written as secure P2P from the ground up, and has had plenty of security review. While I don't trust anything to be safe from the NSA, the known attacks require far more resources than the *AA will ever use.
I doubt it's any faster than TOR, but being P2P if people actually started using it instead of open torrents, it would be.
The problem of course is "network effect". There's no content because no one uses it and vice versa. But it is the correct technical solution, with years in the field and years of security review.
Why 'instead of'?
Freenet the torrent lists/files (or the listing sites themselves, idk, is Freenet responsive enough to do that?), which seems to be the main vulnerability according to recent **AA attack vectors...stop giving them a single point of weakness to attack. Then they can go back to suing grandmothers for having 3 copyrighted songs on their computer.
I had a problem with that line: the ventricles of the brain are ALWAYS full of that fluid. That's what they take during a spinal tap. You don't need to be asleep for that.
ISOhunt provided the index. From the index they made a profit.
The "Yellow Pages" is a profitable form for finding things. The makers of the yellow pages make money, yet they provide none of the services they index.
Except, perhaps, advertising in the Yellow Pages:)
Ever since my horrible experience with MickeyD in Japan (teryaki burgers, yuk!) I don't go to any chains when I travel abroad, and certainly not US ones.
I usually steer clear of chains when I travel but I do like going to foreign McDonald's since it usually makes for a good story since so many people just love them. Besides I did have the royal with cheese and some Kronenbourg 1664 at the one on the Champs de Elysee and at it outside, I mean if you are going to go for the bastardized experience just go whole hog and be done. That was the only time I ate at McDonald's in the 3 months I lived in France and I did it on my first day there. I have done the same in Ireland, Israel, Austria, Belgium, and India. Once that is out of the way then I go for the local fare and just try random stuff I haven't had before and usually am not disappointed.
Korean McD's serve a delicious bulgogi burger...and in Nova Scotia (it's in Eastern Canada, for the geographically challenged), you can get a McLobster burger (at least you could when I was there). In the Philippines you can get a Longanisa meal for breakfast (yum!) and in Australia you can get vegemite for your english muffin (yeah, definitely an acquired taste...wish they'd gone with kangaroo nuggets instead...).
People laugh, but I do make it a point to visit a McDonalds at least once in every country I visit that has one (the only McD in Cuba is at Guantanamo Bay, apparently, and is only available to base personnel...a pity)
It is malware, because it adversely affects the gameplay of other players, who never consented to such software being used in the MMO they are playing.
Are WOW macros malware? How about macros in Word or Excel, ones that let person A do something with half the actual effort as person B?
How exactly does them using a bot affect your gameplay, other than frustrating you when others level or gear up faster? Bots aren't interactive, they're for the dull, grindy, repetitive sequences that make moderate amounts of gold or experience. Maybe the player doesn't respond if you try talking to them: does that hurt your feelings that much?
IDK about you, but you don't want to be anywhere near me when my Oreo supply runs out...I'll cut you, bitch! I'll cut you deep!:)
Seriously, though, at first I thought this was a legit test, but it's pure BS. A better* test would be three groups of mice in three mazes: Cookie vs Cocaine, Cookie vs Rice Cake and Cocaine vs Rice Cake. Guess what? Bet'cha rice cakes would be considered more addictive than cocaine as well, allowing us to draw the conclusion that...mice like food, the more calorie-rich, the better.
So when victim.email@victim.domain.com is asked to validate that he wants to send $1,000,000, and is asked to provide a debit card for the transaction, he'll go along with it because the email says he originated the request?
Sounds like (from TFS) once victim.email@victim.domain.com has sent money to someone, somewhere, their account details are helpfully stored by Square to 'streamline' the process next time...so unless Square sends an 'are you sure you want to do this?' email before transferring funds, the hapless victim might just get a 'you sent money!' confirmation email.
If this gains any traction, sounds like a pretty good profit percentage for scammers and spoofers. Hell, it'll be even odds whether the original spoof email will rake in more cash via direct transfer, or if the spoofed 'You sent money!' emails, with a helpful link to contest the payment (after 'verifying' your bank details, that is) will beat them out for profit margins.
We tried it. My co-worker sent me $15. After the initial email, we both tied our debit cards to our email addresses, and I had the funds in my account in less than 5 minutes. Since our cards are now linked I imagine it will be even quicker in the future.
So now can you spoof another e-mail from your co-worker to yourself, CC'ed to square and get more money from him in less than 5 minutes?
My thought exactly. Too lazy to RTFA, but hopefully there's some sort of secondary authorization required (like PayPal implements) before Square just initiates the transfer, otherwise you are basically hostage to any punk who can hack your email account...
I tried android for a couple of weeks to see what I was missing. I asked all my android owning friends "OK, what should I check out that I can not do on my iPhone". About the only useful response I got was wifi scanning tools. That was it. Which i don't use my phone for anyway.
Then your friends either aren't very smart, or are simply happy with their stock Android and have never wanted to change it.
Homescreen widgets, a decently-sized screen, NFC file sharing, third party keyboards (or a physical one if you prefer), custom launchers, completely customizable app icon placement (including whitespace where you want whitespace), ability to add a huge micro sd card to double your storage size (or swap it if you're bored with the media on this card and want something different for a road trip), ability to add and remove arbitrary files directly to/from the phone over cable without having to use iTunez spyware to do so, ability to go to pretty much any store and pick up a replacement charger/data cable for $5, support for a pointy stylus (on some models) instead of trying to use a marshmallow-on-the-end-of-a-stick capacitive stylus, etc., etc., etc.
Not to mention being able to take a video in any orientation and have it display correctly (i.e., not rotated 90 degrees) on any system...but from your comments, I'm guessing you partake of the entire apple pie, so you may not have seen this particular defect before if you only view your vids in your phone or on your Mac or via your Apple TV box. Oh, I didn't even know this one: apparently you can't email anything but a photo or video using the stock iPhone email app...huh. Guess you'll have to use the GMail account for business stuff, then...other Android advantages such as haptic feedback are pretty 'meh' for me, as I just turn them off anyway.
Looks like Apple is finally allowing homescreen widgets (?er, maybe? looks like you still need to buy an app?), so that's *one* thing off the list...once developers catch up and start providing more widget types, that is.
All that without having to root or 'jailbreak' the phone. If you root it, sky's the limit. True, most of the things you can do if you root the phone are things that your average Joe won't care much about (custom ROM's, complete bit-wise phone backups, ability to software-switch more system settings, ability to remove the stock apps instead of just disabling them, etc.), but to the tinkerer, they are delightful:)
So what? It's Facebook's site, it's their content, it's their rules. They can block whoever they want for whatever reason they want whenever they want.
Funny, I thought all those posts and photos and stuff belonged to the users who posted them...wait, wait, my bad. Didn't read the fine print, especially their "all your face are belong to us" policy...
Gawd, so glad I don't drink that particular Kool-aid...
Encrypt the serial number into the features on both sides of the bill. That way at least the forgers have to copy multiple bills using multiple plates if they want a bunch of different serial numbers.
So how is the *government* going to print these things, without having a different set of plates for every serial number?
FYI - Bills are typicallly printed in sheets, without the serial numbers, and the serial numbers are added in a later printing step.
Really? Because I seem to remember being able to batch-print form letters, envelope addresses, etc. using different names and addresses from an (admittedly dinky and annoying to set up) database in Word in the 90's, maybe (?) I think it was called Mail Merge or something like that (obviously haven't needed to use it in quite some time...)
Seems to me that they should be able to print sequential serial numbers on the fly pretty easy, unless they are still stamp-pressing the currency notes (which it sounds like they are, as are all other world currencies...hmm)...and even if they are, what prevents them from adding an encrypted version of the serial number at the same time that they're adding the human-readable version? I'm not sure how well this would actually work, but at least it would up the ante on the quality of machines needed to produce undetectable copies...
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Sure! What could possibly go wrong!?
Now, where did I put the remote for my genuine Sorny television again...ah, here we go, right beside the Magnetbox stereo!
I only ask for a changeable battery, the rest is going to be replaced at once every 1-2 years anyway.
Umm...then buy an android...or a BB...or anything besides Apple, really. There you go, problem solved.
You don't honestly think Apple is going to buy into this concept, do you? The same people who won't even let you add software unless it's blessed by their own priests and issues from their own holy garden? The ones that are now actively blocking aftermarket hardware too? Their claims that it is to protect their hapless users from these evil third party vendors is pretty laughable, as in they saw nothing funny about people refusing to pay their apple tax on frigging cables, so now they're 'protecting' people while laughing all the way to the bank...
Warrants have to be specific as to what they are searching for, but any evidence found during a legal search, whether named in the warrant or not, is fair game.
I suppose...but it's hard to imagine that people hide their guns inside file folders. Inside filing cabinets, maybe, but inside a folder, or an envelope in a folder (that obviously contains only paper)? So the search warrant was clearly a pretext to go looking for (and grab) items they couldn't get a warrant for.
Besides, these notes are evidence of what, exactly? That the reporter is doing her job? Perhaps she shouldn't have labelled them "My Illicit Income Receipts" and left them out on the desk...or she shouldn't have stored her Colt .45 with her source notes :)
"Using a warrant to search for guns, Homeland security officers and Maryland police confiscated a journalist's confidential files. "
I thought warrants had to be specific as to what they're looking for and allowed to confiscate? Somehow I can't make the mental connection between the stated purpose (guns) and a pile of papers, which were probably not left out in plain sight...
On the other hand, cat's out of the bag now, so there's no reasonable reparation possible. The notes can't be un-read, and I am sure that multiple copies were made the moment they got them back to the office...so what is a reasonable legal response? I suppose if any lawsuits develop against the sources, perhaps all evidence collected on them after this date should be tossed out as inadmissible due to illegal search and seizure? As in, they would not have begun gathering intel on the sources without the notes to point the finger at them, and the notes were seized outside warrant...
But what do I know, IANAL, just a crime show junkie :)
The WII appealed to women. No joke. I know a lot of guy's girlfriends and wives who hated Nintendos and Sega and Playstations absolutely loved the WII when it came out. Now it didn't last, but largely that demographic are still playing games, but now doing so on Facebook and their phones.
Not only (previously non-gamer) women, but grandparents. You know, the ones who can't figure out computers? Well suddenly there's this game that doesn't require extreme digit dexterity, and has very accessible controls that feel more natural (bowling, boxing, pretty much all of the wii sports pack, even the driving games such as Mario Kart). Suddenly they can actually play these games with the grandkids and not feel left out of the action: you better believe that sold a whole lot of consoles and games for them.
On the flip side, the new WiiU generation transitions to small, hard to see (with bifocals) screens and more button-mashing gameplay than the Wii: it's not surprising that it's not appealing to the same demographics.
You give him too much credit - I agree with you, but they were clearly talking about content and not delivery.
1080p is still not there on satellite or cable. Production, maybe, but not delivery.
Ah, after a quick re-read, I see that you are correct. Sorry, skimming skills are below par today... :)
It would start out how HD satellite did. Movies. Most films were shot on film or digital 4K. There's no shortage of content for a movie channel.
Content creation is not the problem: content delivery is.
What I understood him to be saying is that providers are just now offering most channels in 1080 because the hardware and networks are finally upgraded enough (barely) to allow the bandwidth for them. I can't even speculate how long it'll be before networks would be able to support all 4K programming...so your fancy new TV will only be able to strut it's stuff by playing purchased disc media, much like blu-rays and HD tv's back in the early days. You'll get *maybe* one or two channels offering 4K programming (if you're in an area that offers fiber connections), but you'll pay a pretty penny for it.
To make full use of that resolution ("Retina" quality, i.e. indistinguishable pixels) at a viewing distance of 10ft you'd need a screen 150" screen. That's 8ft wide 4ft6in tall.
Like a comment above, Huh? What?!! They are not going to have pixel densities on 65" or above displays at Retina display densities for 4K. 4K means the horizontal pixel width is 4,000 pixels, or so. If you can see pixels on a current 65" HD display from five feet away, you have bionic man vision.
And if you can see the discrete RGB components of each pixel, you have bionic woman vision!
>> The bill will require patent holders who are filing a suit to identify the specific products and claims which are being infringed
It's a good start - in the "trolls" who hold patents but don't have any actual products wouldn't be able to meet this bar. However, it still would not prevent a troll from selling said patents to someone who HAS such an infringing product - to whom violation of such a patent would be valuable, and valid for suit.
Ah, but then it's the manufacturing company that takes the heat and gets the press, and they have a public image to maintain.
I particularly like the "and force trolls to reveal anyone who has a 'financial interest' in the case, making them possibly liable for damages" bit. Basically companies can't hide in the wings anymore while their paid goons trash their competition with trollish nuisance claims.
I haven't used Freenet in several years (since the 0.5/0.7 split) but I was pretty heavily involved back then...and I keep checking out 0.7 occasionally so I do have *some* idea of the changes.
The problem isn't so much responsiveness...it's that there is *no such thing as a server*. There's no dynamic content. You upload a file and it gets shredded and distributed among a few dozen/hundred peers and there's no way to reach the original publisher. You could set up a spider that would publish a listing of torrent links, once per day or something (that's how index sites were done back then -- no way to do a search engine) but everyone would need to download the entire list and then perform searches locally. No clue how large TPB's database is, but I bet it's large enough to make this pretty difficult. Maybe publish the list and then a digest of changes every day but you still gotta publish the full list periodically for newcomers and it could take a couple days between downloading the search tool and being able to use it. And most torrent users won't see the benefits because TPB is working perfectly well for them, so you won't get significant adoption which will make it perform even worse.
Ah, I see what you mean. Yeah, that's not very practical...hmm. Too bad there isn't a way to publish only incremental changes to the list...
Do you know, was there a way to search the available files by filename in Freenet? By publishing the .torrent files themselves, if the files could be searched by name it would provide the necessary connection so long as the .torrent file names are descriptive enough. Sounds like you wouldn't have any metadata / descriptions available, and no user feedback system to weed out the torrent spam, but at least there's no single point of failure either.
So you go to a website and it displays a QR code it wants you to scan. Who knows where that QR code could redirect too.
Also, I go to a website on my smartphone. How do I scan the QR code? With my other smartphone?
Easy! You snap a photo using your webcam so your computer can authenticate you!
</sarcasm>
TOR is a poor choice for media sharing as it's not P2P. Freenet was written as secure P2P from the ground up, and has had plenty of security review. While I don't trust anything to be safe from the NSA, the known attacks require far more resources than the *AA will ever use.
I doubt it's any faster than TOR, but being P2P if people actually started using it instead of open torrents, it would be.
The problem of course is "network effect". There's no content because no one uses it and vice versa. But it is the correct technical solution, with years in the field and years of security review.
Why 'instead of'?
Freenet the torrent lists/files (or the listing sites themselves, idk, is Freenet responsive enough to do that?), which seems to be the main vulnerability according to recent **AA attack vectors...stop giving them a single point of weakness to attack. Then they can go back to suing grandmothers for having 3 copyrighted songs on their computer.
It's a cybernetic quandary; the only way the brain can protect itself from erasure is to periodically stop all inputs.
Sounds like a hard drive I had once...
I had a problem with that line: the ventricles of the brain are ALWAYS full of that fluid. That's what they take during a spinal tap. You don't need to be asleep for that.
Although you may prefer to be...
ISOhunt provided the index. From the index they made a profit.
The "Yellow Pages" is a profitable form for finding things. The makers of the yellow pages make money, yet they provide none of the services they index.
Except, perhaps, advertising in the Yellow Pages :)
Ever since my horrible experience with MickeyD in Japan (teryaki burgers, yuk!) I don't go to any chains when I travel abroad, and certainly not US ones.
I usually steer clear of chains when I travel but I do like going to foreign McDonald's since it usually makes for a good story since so many people just love them. Besides I did have the royal with cheese and some Kronenbourg 1664 at the one on the Champs de Elysee and at it outside, I mean if you are going to go for the bastardized experience just go whole hog and be done. That was the only time I ate at McDonald's in the 3 months I lived in France and I did it on my first day there. I have done the same in Ireland, Israel, Austria, Belgium, and India. Once that is out of the way then I go for the local fare and just try random stuff I haven't had before and usually am not disappointed.
Korean McD's serve a delicious bulgogi burger...and in Nova Scotia (it's in Eastern Canada, for the geographically challenged), you can get a McLobster burger (at least you could when I was there). In the Philippines you can get a Longanisa meal for breakfast (yum!) and in Australia you can get vegemite for your english muffin (yeah, definitely an acquired taste...wish they'd gone with kangaroo nuggets instead...).
People laugh, but I do make it a point to visit a McDonalds at least once in every country I visit that has one (the only McD in Cuba is at Guantanamo Bay, apparently, and is only available to base personnel...a pity)
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Funny, I thought it was only good for killing cats...badum-ching!
Thank you, thank you, remember to tip your waiters, I'm here all week! :P
It is malware, because it adversely affects the gameplay of other players, who never consented to such software being used in the MMO they are playing.
Are WOW macros malware? How about macros in Word or Excel, ones that let person A do something with half the actual effort as person B?
How exactly does them using a bot affect your gameplay, other than frustrating you when others level or gear up faster? Bots aren't interactive, they're for the dull, grindy, repetitive sequences that make moderate amounts of gold or experience. Maybe the player doesn't respond if you try talking to them: does that hurt your feelings that much?
IDK about you, but you don't want to be anywhere near me when my Oreo supply runs out...I'll cut you, bitch! I'll cut you deep! :)
Seriously, though, at first I thought this was a legit test, but it's pure BS. A better* test would be three groups of mice in three mazes: Cookie vs Cocaine, Cookie vs Rice Cake and Cocaine vs Rice Cake. Guess what? Bet'cha rice cakes would be considered more addictive than cocaine as well, allowing us to draw the conclusion that...mice like food, the more calorie-rich, the better.
*but not very much better
So when victim.email@victim.domain.com is asked to validate that he wants to send $1,000,000, and is asked to provide a debit card for the transaction, he'll go along with it because the email says he originated the request?
Sounds like (from TFS) once victim.email@victim.domain.com has sent money to someone, somewhere, their account details are helpfully stored by Square to 'streamline' the process next time...so unless Square sends an 'are you sure you want to do this?' email before transferring funds, the hapless victim might just get a 'you sent money!' confirmation email.
If this gains any traction, sounds like a pretty good profit percentage for scammers and spoofers. Hell, it'll be even odds whether the original spoof email will rake in more cash via direct transfer, or if the spoofed 'You sent money!' emails, with a helpful link to contest the payment (after 'verifying' your bank details, that is) will beat them out for profit margins.
Yeah...no.
We tried it. My co-worker sent me $15. After the initial email, we both tied our debit cards to our email addresses, and I had the funds in my account in less than 5 minutes. Since our cards are now linked I imagine it will be even quicker in the future.
So now can you spoof another e-mail from your co-worker to yourself, CC'ed to square and get more money from him in less than 5 minutes?
My thought exactly. Too lazy to RTFA, but hopefully there's some sort of secondary authorization required (like PayPal implements) before Square just initiates the transfer, otherwise you are basically hostage to any punk who can hack your email account...
I tried android for a couple of weeks to see what I was missing. I asked all my android owning friends "OK, what should I check out that I can not do on my iPhone". About the only useful response I got was wifi scanning tools. That was it. Which i don't use my phone for anyway.
Then your friends either aren't very smart, or are simply happy with their stock Android and have never wanted to change it.
Homescreen widgets, a decently-sized screen, NFC file sharing, third party keyboards (or a physical one if you prefer), custom launchers, completely customizable app icon placement (including whitespace where you want whitespace), ability to add a huge micro sd card to double your storage size (or swap it if you're bored with the media on this card and want something different for a road trip), ability to add and remove arbitrary files directly to/from the phone over cable without having to use iTunez spyware to do so, ability to go to pretty much any store and pick up a replacement charger/data cable for $5, support for a pointy stylus (on some models) instead of trying to use a marshmallow-on-the-end-of-a-stick capacitive stylus, etc., etc., etc.
Not to mention being able to take a video in any orientation and have it display correctly (i.e., not rotated 90 degrees) on any system...but from your comments, I'm guessing you partake of the entire apple pie, so you may not have seen this particular defect before if you only view your vids in your phone or on your Mac or via your Apple TV box. Oh, I didn't even know this one: apparently you can't email anything but a photo or video using the stock iPhone email app...huh. Guess you'll have to use the GMail account for business stuff, then...other Android advantages such as haptic feedback are pretty 'meh' for me, as I just turn them off anyway.
Looks like Apple is finally allowing homescreen widgets (?er, maybe? looks like you still need to buy an app?), so that's *one* thing off the list...once developers catch up and start providing more widget types, that is.
All that without having to root or 'jailbreak' the phone. If you root it, sky's the limit. True, most of the things you can do if you root the phone are things that your average Joe won't care much about (custom ROM's, complete bit-wise phone backups, ability to software-switch more system settings, ability to remove the stock apps instead of just disabling them, etc.), but to the tinkerer, they are delightful :)
So what? It's Facebook's site, it's their content, it's their rules. They can block whoever they want for whatever reason they want whenever they want.
Funny, I thought all those posts and photos and stuff belonged to the users who posted them...wait, wait, my bad. Didn't read the fine print, especially their "all your face are belong to us" policy...
Gawd, so glad I don't drink that particular Kool-aid...
"If manipulating people into doing things they wouldn't normally do is what you consider a "normal relationship", then you just might be sociopath."
Or just a talented salesperson.
There's a difference?? I've always considered them synonyms...
Encrypt the serial number into the features on both sides of the bill. That way at least the forgers have to copy multiple bills using multiple plates if they want a bunch of different serial numbers.
So how is the *government* going to print these things, without having a different set of plates for every serial number?
FYI - Bills are typicallly printed in sheets, without the serial numbers, and the serial numbers are added in a later printing step.
Really? Because I seem to remember being able to batch-print form letters, envelope addresses, etc. using different names and addresses from an (admittedly dinky and annoying to set up) database in Word in the 90's, maybe (?) I think it was called Mail Merge or something like that (obviously haven't needed to use it in quite some time...)
Seems to me that they should be able to print sequential serial numbers on the fly pretty easy, unless they are still stamp-pressing the currency notes (which it sounds like they are, as are all other world currencies...hmm)...and even if they are, what prevents them from adding an encrypted version of the serial number at the same time that they're adding the human-readable version? I'm not sure how well this would actually work, but at least it would up the ante on the quality of machines needed to produce undetectable copies...