Actually, most pre-paid cards (Visa, AmEx, etc.) won't authorize things like gasoline purchases.
Is this a regional thing? Because I've never seen a prepaid card being turned down for that (or for renting cars, hotel rooms, etc.) The usual practice for those things is that the business puts a hold on a larger amount than the charge is expected to be, then releases it after the transaction is complete.
You can't get a real credit card until you're 18.
This is also not true. I've known several minors that had real credit cards. That's a little harder, since parents have to cosign for it, but still. It's even in their names, not the parents.
It will be when most sites will become paywalled. More high quality sites will go down the drain because of the lack of funds, so they'll either have to block completely (there are some already doing this) or devolve into clickbait.
Fine by me. Most sites -- and especially sites that rely heavily on advertising -- aren't exactly indispensible to me. The ones that are, I'm already paying cash money to.
I think it's high time for the web to break its addiction to advertising. There are other, better, ways to pay operating costs, but none of them will be adopted as long as it's easy to do ads. I don't think that it's a coincidence that the overall quality of web offerings dropped when advertising became the predominant revenue model.
For all the shit I give Apple (and it's a lot -- Apple is not exactly a saintly company), they do have this going for them. It places them head-and-shoulders above the other major players.
I don't know about why it was downvoted, but the comment misses the target. The people behind this are not "Google executives" and so what Google executives say and do has no bearing on it.
I generally agree with you. I actually laughed when I read your comment because I can't tell you the number of times people have berated me here for making very similar arguments.
Maximum security is not the right answer for all circumstances. However, as much security as you can reasonably implement is a good idea. Multilayered security is always desirable.
Case in point: in my home network, almost everybody behind my firewall still talks using encrypted channels. Why not, when the machinery supports this without a noticeable performance hit? Should an attacker breach my outer defenses, they still won't have free reign over my systems.
However, I do have small devices on my network that can't realistically support encrypted communications. So, they don't use encryption (instead, they're segregated on a different subnet).
Ahh, the old "if it can't be perfectly secure, then there's no point" argument! Personally, I'll take "as secure as possible" as preferable over "not secured at all".
Yeah, me neither. But you have to admit that there are plenty of people who haven't worked out that they can avoid a lot of stress and expense with a little planning.
Milk used as an example in the summary but you can't keep it in one of these boxes.
Technically, they could, really. Milk is primarily sold refrigerated in the US due to tradition -- but there are many places in the world where they ultra-pasturize the milk and don't refrigerate it at all.
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"and did return" should be "and did not return"
Remember those webpages in the 1990s that didn't just have a couple ads, but pages and pages of ads interspersed with the content, with Popups?
Vaguely, but even then, it didn't bother me that much. I disabled Javascript and did return to those sorts of sites.
Much like I do now.
The problem is that some sites break when you break 3rd-party cookies, and you have no indication why.
That's not a problem. I just think to myself "that site's broken" and move on. I don't care why the site's broken.
It's definitely an invasion of privacy and obnoxious, but unfortunately it isn't illegal (in the US, anyway).
Actually, most pre-paid cards (Visa, AmEx, etc.) won't authorize things like gasoline purchases.
Is this a regional thing? Because I've never seen a prepaid card being turned down for that (or for renting cars, hotel rooms, etc.) The usual practice for those things is that the business puts a hold on a larger amount than the charge is expected to be, then releases it after the transaction is complete.
You can't get a real credit card until you're 18.
This is also not true. I've known several minors that had real credit cards. That's a little harder, since parents have to cosign for it, but still. It's even in their names, not the parents.
All of that is for the user who is visiting the site, not the maker of the browser they're using.
You can't violate an agreement that you didn't enter into.
It will be when most sites will become paywalled. More high quality sites will go down the drain because of the lack of funds, so they'll either have to block completely (there are some already doing this) or devolve into clickbait.
Fine by me. Most sites -- and especially sites that rely heavily on advertising -- aren't exactly indispensible to me. The ones that are, I'm already paying cash money to.
I think it's high time for the web to break its addiction to advertising. There are other, better, ways to pay operating costs, but none of them will be adopted as long as it's easy to do ads. I don't think that it's a coincidence that the overall quality of web offerings dropped when advertising became the predominant revenue model.
You forgot your sarcasm tag.
Well thought out advertising can actually be helpful to the consumer, but I almost never see well thought out advertising.
I never see it. Helpful advertising is advertising that tells me what I need to know about a product and is honest in its representation.
The last time I saw advertising that was actually helpful was in technical journals in the late '70s/early '80s.
All the advertising I've seen since then (and that was niche) has been useless garbage, whether or not it's for the type of product I'm interested in.
Yup.
For all the shit I give Apple (and it's a lot -- Apple is not exactly a saintly company), they do have this going for them. It places them head-and-shoulders above the other major players.
It's not an ad blocker. It's more like a "self-destructing cookie" plugin.
Um, if you're ignoring them why do you care what they are?
Personally, I don't care if they're there -- but I care a lot about the tracking that they bring with them.
I can't believe that the ad agencies are still trotting this out:
The groups say the feature also hurts user experience by making advertising more "generic and less timely and useful."
It's almost as if they actually believe that spying on everyone is a good thing. But then, they also say this:
collectively representing thousands of companies that responsibly participate in and shape today’s digital landscape
Judging by their use of the word "responsibly" there, I'm thinking that they simply don't understand what words mean.
Yes, the number indicates the difference between debit and credit cards, but prepaid credit cards are actually credit cards.
Pretty much. These things are obviously aimed at the more affluent demographic.
What if someone picks a box of Cheese Nips from the shelf, opens the box & scarfs down half of it, then puts the box back in?
Wouldn't the cameras see that?
I don't know about why it was downvoted, but the comment misses the target. The people behind this are not "Google executives" and so what Google executives say and do has no bearing on it.
I generally agree with you. I actually laughed when I read your comment because I can't tell you the number of times people have berated me here for making very similar arguments.
Maximum security is not the right answer for all circumstances. However, as much security as you can reasonably implement is a good idea. Multilayered security is always desirable.
Case in point: in my home network, almost everybody behind my firewall still talks using encrypted channels. Why not, when the machinery supports this without a noticeable performance hit? Should an attacker breach my outer defenses, they still won't have free reign over my systems.
However, I do have small devices on my network that can't realistically support encrypted communications. So, they don't use encryption (instead, they're segregated on a different subnet).
Thanks for the correction. I was thinking it was a NYC-only term, but hedged my bet by saying "east coast" instead.
Ahh, the old "if it can't be perfectly secure, then there's no point" argument! Personally, I'll take "as secure as possible" as preferable over "not secured at all".
And will each of those boxes have the same inventory?
TFA covers this. The idea is that the inventory for each vending machine is customized for the specific location the machine is in.
Yeah, me neither. But you have to admit that there are plenty of people who haven't worked out that they can avoid a lot of stress and expense with a little planning.
Milk used as an example in the summary but you can't keep it in one of these boxes.
Technically, they could, really. Milk is primarily sold refrigerated in the US due to tradition -- but there are many places in the world where they ultra-pasturize the milk and don't refrigerate it at all.
You must have lost track of this particular comment thread. We were talking about farmers using farm equipment, not engineers.