The practical difference between a credit card and a debit card is which system is used to clear payments. A prepaid credit card is a credit card in the sense that that's how payment processing systems will see it. As a result, you cannot make the assumption that just because a credit card is being used, the owner of it must be at least 18 years old.
If you want to encourage third parties, encourage your legislators to go to some sort of voting other than plurailty.
I agree entirely with this.
However, I was addressing the problem of finding both parties too distasteful to vote for. The best way to address that is to try to change one party so that it's something you'd vote for.
And we disagree with this. Even if you manage, somehow, to actually change a party's stance, all that does is disenfranchise other people. The underlying problem is that we only have two choices, and making one choice more acceptable to me personally does nothing to actually improve the system overall.
They also probably won't be able to sell any types of lottery tickets.
In my state, vending machines that sell lottery tickets are quite common, so that probably won't be an issue.
However, the corner stores in my area make ~80% of their money selling four things: cigarettes, beer, lottery tickets, and milk. These vending machines will, at best, be able to sell one of those four moneymakers.
Holy shit, that blog post is hilarious in its cluelessness!
When we first came up with the idea to call the company Bodega we recognized that there was a risk of it being interpreted as misappropriation.
And yet, they went with the name despite instinctively knowing it was a terrible idea.
We did some homework—speaking to New Yorkers, branding people, and even running some survey work asking about the name and any potential offense it might cause.
Unless your target market is limited to New York, speaking to New Yorkers tells you nearly nothing. Speaking to branding people can be a helpful, but only if you've hired them to actually conduct a real study.
It's been bubble time for a while now, but let's count how many people are going to be surprised when the bubble inevitably pops.
The venture won't see that, though -- my prediction it's an obviously dumb idea that will go exactly nowhere. In the meantime, I'll extract maximum laughter out of it.
True, but that difference is one only engineers care about. End users only care about "can I use it when I need it". If the answer is "no" too often, then it's unreliable. The root cause of the situation is purely academic to them.
If Abrams touches something, I have no interest in it. He does exactly one sort of movie well, and every movie he is involved in seems to transform into a variation of that one.
I guess that's fine for lots of people, but the one movie he knows how to make is uninteresting to me.
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The practical difference between a credit card and a debit card is which system is used to clear payments. A prepaid credit card is a credit card in the sense that that's how payment processing systems will see it. As a result, you cannot make the assumption that just because a credit card is being used, the owner of it must be at least 18 years old.
If you want to encourage third parties, encourage your legislators to go to some sort of voting other than plurailty.
I agree entirely with this.
However, I was addressing the problem of finding both parties too distasteful to vote for. The best way to address that is to try to change one party so that it's something you'd vote for.
And we disagree with this. Even if you manage, somehow, to actually change a party's stance, all that does is disenfranchise other people. The underlying problem is that we only have two choices, and making one choice more acceptable to me personally does nothing to actually improve the system overall.
You can't have a credit card until you're 18
This simply isn't true. It's quite easy to get a prepaid credit card when at any age.
As secure as possible. You don't want MITM attackers modifying the file, and you don't want your server to be compromised.
A mom-and-pop corner convenience store, I think. I don't live on the East coast of the US, so I can only guess.
It's the world of Silicon Valley.
Yes, there's exactly zero chance that I'll use a vending machine that requires me to use an app or that won't take cash.
But I'm sure there are plenty of people who would.
They also probably won't be able to sell any types of lottery tickets.
In my state, vending machines that sell lottery tickets are quite common, so that probably won't be an issue.
However, the corner stores in my area make ~80% of their money selling four things: cigarettes, beer, lottery tickets, and milk. These vending machines will, at best, be able to sell one of those four moneymakers.
Holy shit, that blog post is hilarious in its cluelessness!
When we first came up with the idea to call the company Bodega we recognized that there was a risk of it being interpreted as misappropriation.
And yet, they went with the name despite instinctively knowing it was a terrible idea.
We did some homework—speaking to New Yorkers, branding people, and even running some survey work asking about the name and any potential offense it might cause.
Unless your target market is limited to New York, speaking to New Yorkers tells you nearly nothing. Speaking to branding people can be a helpful, but only if you've hired them to actually conduct a real study.
In other words, they didn't do their homework.
It's been bubble time for a while now, but let's count how many people are going to be surprised when the bubble inevitably pops.
The venture won't see that, though -- my prediction it's an obviously dumb idea that will go exactly nowhere. In the meantime, I'll extract maximum laughter out of it.
FTP can be done using TLS and there is also SSH-FTP. FTPS is no more or less secure than HTTPS.
True, but that doesn't fix the rest of the things that make FTP suck.
Have you ever downloaded large files over HTTP?
Who said to use HTTP? That's not the only (or even a good) alternative.
A million times this.
FTP (and Telnet) are antique protocols that cannot be made adequately secure and have long since had more secure alternatives available.
They just need to go away now.
My reaction exactly!
Yes, this.
Wasn't this obvious??
I'm rich, then! I have around a dozen of them.
I wish I could find a smartwatch that's a good replacement for the Pebble. As near as I can tell, there isn't one on the market at all.
The two are very different.
True, but that difference is one only engineers care about. End users only care about "can I use it when I need it". If the answer is "no" too often, then it's unreliable. The root cause of the situation is purely academic to them.
Last I checked Apple and John Deere were both successful companies in their respective fields.
Perhaps, but Beats headphones were already well-established for being poor-to-mediocre headphones for a high price tag.
Apple is by far, not a premium brand. Its an expensive one, but not premium.
According to my marketing-wank-to-English translator, "premium" is a synonym for "expensive".
Eh, any terrorists are just using cloud services anyway.
you might not have to worry as much about malicious apps spamming your contacts or hijacking the camera.
I already don't have to worry about that, since I won't touch the app store with a ten foot pole.
Now, will Microsoft address real security issues, such as allowing us to turn off all the telemetry?
Don't confuse hating change for worse with hating change in general.
I will never be able to forgive him for what he did to Star Trek.
If Abrams touches something, I have no interest in it. He does exactly one sort of movie well, and every movie he is involved in seems to transform into a variation of that one.
I guess that's fine for lots of people, but the one movie he knows how to make is uninteresting to me.