Would you give your kid a credit card to go buy M:tG cards at the local shop without going along? No? Then why would you give your kid a phone with a credit card input into it and let him play games with in-app purchases without supervision? It's the same thing. Yes, it really is.
If you want the convenience of having your phone babysit your kid, and the convenience of having your credit card stored in the phone and accessible to apps, then you accept the responsibility for your phone being a shitty babysitter.
If the parents don't put the credit card number into the phone (and buy one where they can do that), then they have given their snowflake a credit card, and sent them down to the game shop without supervision.
As a resident of California, who lives a short drive from Hollyweird, this law is no surprise. The second stupidest legislature in the US sucks Hollywood's dick at all times, in all ways.
If they want to make age discrimination in Hollywood illegal, they should pass a law making age discrimination in Hollywood illegal. And if that's what they wanted, that's what they'd do. This has nothing to do with actresses not getting roles when they're too old to pretend to be teenagers any more, and everything to do with pretending to care what the celebs want, while actually protecting the studios from public scorn for the age discrimination.
As noted, dates of birth are readily available to anyone who wants to know anyway. And producers and directors already know how old an actress is before they even consider casting them (if they care), and a professional makeup artist can make a 90 year old grandmother look like a teenager anyway with their magic bucket of spackle and trowel.
This law isn't intended to keep the industry from being able to discriminate based on age, it's intended to keep the public from realizing how widespread that discrimination is. This is to mask the age of actresses from the public, not the industry.
It's hardly a new idea. Magic: The Gathering was based on the same business model, and Warhammer 40k before that. Most parents would rather spend money for babysitting, even by a toy, than pay attention to their kids.
You wish to secede. To do so, you will have to give any water coming from out of state, and let northern California control the rest, and gasoline will cost $25/gallon from now on, plus whatever export tariff the United States chooses to add on.
Enjoy your avocados and almonds, because all staple foods are grown somewhere else.
There is exactly as much chance of this happening as there is of Hillary Clinton winning Miss Congeniality as a consolation prize.
Hillary supporters are starting to remind me of a two year old throwing a temper tantrum because he's been told, for the first time in his life, that he can't have a candy bar.\
The only surprise so far is how little Trump supporters are crowing.
this morning, trying to figure out why Hillary lost. It was because the same party candidate after a two President usually loses. It was because she was a woman. It was because the current President is black. Now it was because of Facebook.
Absolutely any possible reason except that the voting public do not like and do not trust Hillary Clinton. She lost because Trump was less distasteful.
(And because he beat her at her own game, on her home turn. Her whole political career has been based on being so vicious and nasty that no one would dare cross her. And it turns out Trump was even more vicious and nasty. And Americans love that shit.)
The question isn't how they can comb through 650,000 emails in nine days. The question is why they could do so this time, but it took a year to go through 33,000 emails last time. And the time is very, very convenient. The announcement that they had them came as an October surprise, and even made Comey look less like Clinton's loyal little bitch. But then, just in time before the election, a further announcement of "move along, nothing to see here."
Comey may be a Republican appointee, but the GOP leadership hates Trump as much as they hate Clinton. Neither will accomplish anything in the White House, but with Clinton in office, the Republicans will look a lot less stupid blowing off the White House at every opportunity. Or maybe they all just have a boner over impeaching her ass, and they can't do that if she's not elected.
No, not the whitewash of Clinton's mishandling of classified data. I accept what the head of the FBI told Congress (under oath), that Secretary Clinton is too stupid to understand what she was doing was illegal. OK, fine.
But there's at least 110 emails sent to her that contained information that was classified at the time it was sent. That's the whitewash. Each of those emails represents at least three federal crimes:
Removing the classified data from secure computers Removing the fact that it's classified Sending it through a non-secure channel.
That's a minimum of 330 serious crimes by the people who sent those emails. There is no investigation of those people, and there will be one. No one will ever go to prison for those crimes. I'm guessing that most of them were sent by Clinton appointees, insiders who would be very, very embarrassing to Clinton should they be prosecuted. But we'll never know, because the White House (and it can't come from anywhere else) has whitewashed the entire affair.
People have forgotten the basic premise that was drilled into my head when email first arrived -- don't write down anything you wouldn't be comfortable posting in public for the world to see.
This is good advice for the entirety of the internet. The idea of any form of privacy online is laughably naïve. It isn't even possible.
I find 60 or so years of experience by people who what watched friends die in launch pad accidents somewhat more credible than less than 15 years experience by people who have never launched a human being into space.
I know which group I'd like to have making safety decisions if I were sitting on top of that bomb.
People how loudly cry that no one should ever talk to the police cry the loudest when they're the victim of a crime, and they know their neighbors know who did it, and won't talk to the police.
From my experience, that's because Colorado keeps all highways torn up all the time, and Colorado drivers are required to come to a complete stop to examine each and every orange cone, individually.
However, I did notice that nobody stopped to observe the pickup truck that was dripping fire and smelled like fireworks. That, apparently, is not noteworthy is Colorado.
Like pretty much everything coming out of Apple these days, this translates to:
"You have money you're not giving us. And even worse, you're giving it to someone else, you Satan worshipping devils. And equally bad, you're doing things we can't keep a record of to sell to advertisers. How dare you keep secrets from your deciduous overlords!"
When Elon Musk is willing to let me pick any place in the United States, accessible to road, get into a car he built with no manual controls, and bet his life he will arrive there safely, in the rain, at night, then I'll accept that there are self driving cars in existence.
Until then, they are, at best, an experiment in the earliest stages, but mostly, some rich guy's toys.
A plausible theory. In the absence of any details (which we do not have), it is also plausible that the entire protest was staged for the cameras, at her instigation, which would, indeed, make her a conspirator (assuming the protest committed a crime).
I doubt we'll ever get enough detail to tell.
(You're right about sketchy laws in some parts of the country, but the pipeline protestors have engaged in organized violence against the pipeline before. I suspect it's more of a pox on all their houses situation.)
I cant beleive you wrote that entire post just to say "I know nothing about EMV".
That says more about you than it does about me, or EMV.
Now the real defence that is stopping stolen cards that is going along with EMV is the elimination of signatures for purchases. This is because signatures are easily faked (including removing the old signature and putting your own on, which is pretty redundant as no-one checks it anyway). You cant sign for a purchase any more and enforcing this means getting rid of the old terminals which would ask for a signature.
With chip & PIN, perhaps, but since virtually no credit cards in the US are chip & PIN, you have no idea what you're talking about. My employer had gotten to where we didn't need a signature on small transactions. With the implementation of EMV, since most cards are chip & signature, we now must get a signature on all transactions again, even for less than a dollar. That'll change, but you clearly have no idea what you're talking about.
This is what the US card issuers should be sued for. How is Chip-and-Sign any more secure than mag strips?
EMV has nothing to do with security at point of purchase. EMV is the first step to point of point encryption (which is available on may systems now), which eliminates breaking into Target's network and stealing 100 million+ card numbers at the same time.
Is this yet another way that the powers-that-be discourage Americans from international travel so that they can't see that much of the rest of the world has the same freedoms that America has?
A week ago today, I was in Iceland, mostly using my magnetic strip card for everything. I had zero trouble doing so. The only minor issue was that you can only buy fuel for your car with a card that has a PIN, and their system does weird-ass things with authorizations on ATM cards. But I had no trouble buying a gas card with my mag strip card. I just had to walk inside to do so. Big deal.
The part that isn't talked about much, and not yet a mandatory part of the system, is the point of point encryption that goes hand in hand with EMV. When fully implemented, the store never sees any card information at all, it's all tokenized. That means that when somebody breaks into their network, there's nothing there to steal.
That is the point of EMV. It's got nothing to do with protecting the consumer. It's about reducing losses for the banks.
I keep almost leaving my fucking card in the slot and walking away.
That says far more about your than it does about chip cards.
With no PIN, I can't see how it is really any safer to me.
It's not intended to be. It's safer for the banks, and indirectly, for the merchants. You're not protected by the technology, you're protected by the law.
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Would you give your kid a credit card to go buy M:tG cards at the local shop without going along? No? Then why would you give your kid a phone with a credit card input into it and let him play games with in-app purchases without supervision? It's the same thing. Yes, it really is.
If you want the convenience of having your phone babysit your kid, and the convenience of having your credit card stored in the phone and accessible to apps, then you accept the responsibility for your phone being a shitty babysitter.
If the parents don't put the credit card number into the phone (and buy one where they can do that), then they have given their snowflake a credit card, and sent them down to the game shop without supervision.
As a resident of California, who lives a short drive from Hollyweird, this law is no surprise. The second stupidest legislature in the US sucks Hollywood's dick at all times, in all ways.
If they want to make age discrimination in Hollywood illegal, they should pass a law making age discrimination in Hollywood illegal. And if that's what they wanted, that's what they'd do. This has nothing to do with actresses not getting roles when they're too old to pretend to be teenagers any more, and everything to do with pretending to care what the celebs want, while actually protecting the studios from public scorn for the age discrimination.
As noted, dates of birth are readily available to anyone who wants to know anyway. And producers and directors already know how old an actress is before they even consider casting them (if they care), and a professional makeup artist can make a 90 year old grandmother look like a teenager anyway with their magic bucket of spackle and trowel.
This law isn't intended to keep the industry from being able to discriminate based on age, it's intended to keep the public from realizing how widespread that discrimination is. This is to mask the age of actresses from the public, not the industry.
It's hardly a new idea. Magic: The Gathering was based on the same business model, and Warhammer 40k before that. Most parents would rather spend money for babysitting, even by a toy, than pay attention to their kids.
You wish to secede. To do so, you will have to give any water coming from out of state, and let northern California control the rest, and gasoline will cost $25/gallon from now on, plus whatever export tariff the United States chooses to add on.
Enjoy your avocados and almonds, because all staple foods are grown somewhere else.
There is exactly as much chance of this happening as there is of Hillary Clinton winning Miss Congeniality as a consolation prize.
Hillary supporters are starting to remind me of a two year old throwing a temper tantrum because he's been told, for the first time in his life, that he can't have a candy bar.\
The only surprise so far is how little Trump supporters are crowing.
this morning, trying to figure out why Hillary lost. It was because the same party candidate after a two President usually loses. It was because she was a woman. It was because the current President is black. Now it was because of Facebook.
Absolutely any possible reason except that the voting public do not like and do not trust Hillary Clinton. She lost because Trump was less distasteful.
(And because he beat her at her own game, on her home turn. Her whole political career has been based on being so vicious and nasty that no one would dare cross her. And it turns out Trump was even more vicious and nasty. And Americans love that shit.)
The question isn't how they can comb through 650,000 emails in nine days. The question is why they could do so this time, but it took a year to go through 33,000 emails last time. And the time is very, very convenient. The announcement that they had them came as an October surprise, and even made Comey look less like Clinton's loyal little bitch. But then, just in time before the election, a further announcement of "move along, nothing to see here."
Comey may be a Republican appointee, but the GOP leadership hates Trump as much as they hate Clinton. Neither will accomplish anything in the White House, but with Clinton in office, the Republicans will look a lot less stupid blowing off the White House at every opportunity. Or maybe they all just have a boner over impeaching her ass, and they can't do that if she's not elected.
No, not the whitewash of Clinton's mishandling of classified data. I accept what the head of the FBI told Congress (under oath), that Secretary Clinton is too stupid to understand what she was doing was illegal. OK, fine.
But there's at least 110 emails sent to her that contained information that was classified at the time it was sent. That's the whitewash. Each of those emails represents at least three federal crimes:
Removing the classified data from secure computers
Removing the fact that it's classified
Sending it through a non-secure channel.
That's a minimum of 330 serious crimes by the people who sent those emails. There is no investigation of those people, and there will be one. No one will ever go to prison for those crimes. I'm guessing that most of them were sent by Clinton appointees, insiders who would be very, very embarrassing to Clinton should they be prosecuted. But we'll never know, because the White House (and it can't come from anywhere else) has whitewashed the entire affair.
That's the coverup.
"The studio is not remaking the film but is said to be going back to the original Heinlein novel for an all-new take."
So, by "all-new," they admit that it won't be based on the actual novel. Because that wouldn't be new.
A more accurate description would be, as always, "Based on the title of a popular novel we didn't read."
If you ask him, he'll probably put it the other way around. God's doing his work. He knows his priorities.
People have forgotten the basic premise that was drilled into my head when email first arrived -- don't write down anything you wouldn't be comfortable posting in public for the world to see.
This is good advice for the entirety of the internet. The idea of any form of privacy online is laughably naïve. It isn't even possible.
Criminals with two brain cells to rub together aren't bottom class criminals, they're lawyers and politicians.
I find 60 or so years of experience by people who what watched friends die in launch pad accidents somewhat more credible than less than 15 years experience by people who have never launched a human being into space.
I know which group I'd like to have making safety decisions if I were sitting on top of that bomb.
People how loudly cry that no one should ever talk to the police cry the loudest when they're the victim of a crime, and they know their neighbors know who did it, and won't talk to the police.
You live in the world you create.
From my experience, that's because Colorado keeps all highways torn up all the time, and Colorado drivers are required to come to a complete stop to examine each and every orange cone, individually.
However, I did notice that nobody stopped to observe the pickup truck that was dripping fire and smelled like fireworks. That, apparently, is not noteworthy is Colorado.
Let's keep the test fair. Most people shouldn't drive in a blizzard, either.
Like pretty much everything coming out of Apple these days, this translates to:
"You have money you're not giving us. And even worse, you're giving it to someone else, you Satan worshipping devils. And equally bad, you're doing things we can't keep a record of to sell to advertisers. How dare you keep secrets from your deciduous overlords!"
When Elon Musk is willing to let me pick any place in the United States, accessible to road, get into a car he built with no manual controls, and bet his life he will arrive there safely, in the rain, at night, then I'll accept that there are self driving cars in existence.
Until then, they are, at best, an experiment in the earliest stages, but mostly, some rich guy's toys.
A plausible theory. In the absence of any details (which we do not have), it is also plausible that the entire protest was staged for the cameras, at her instigation, which would, indeed, make her a conspirator (assuming the protest committed a crime).
I doubt we'll ever get enough detail to tell.
(You're right about sketchy laws in some parts of the country, but the pipeline protestors have engaged in organized violence against the pipeline before. I suspect it's more of a pox on all their houses situation.)
I cant beleive you wrote that entire post just to say "I know nothing about EMV".
That says more about you than it does about me, or EMV.
Now the real defence that is stopping stolen cards that is going along with EMV is the elimination of signatures for purchases. This is because signatures are easily faked (including removing the old signature and putting your own on, which is pretty redundant as no-one checks it anyway). You cant sign for a purchase any more and enforcing this means getting rid of the old terminals which would ask for a signature.
With chip & PIN, perhaps, but since virtually no credit cards in the US are chip & PIN, you have no idea what you're talking about. My employer had gotten to where we didn't need a signature on small transactions. With the implementation of EMV, since most cards are chip & signature, we now must get a signature on all transactions again, even for less than a dollar. That'll change, but you clearly have no idea what you're talking about.
Chip and PIN works.
Pity virtually no US chip cards are chip and PIN.
This is what the US card issuers should be sued for. How is Chip-and-Sign any more secure than mag strips?
EMV has nothing to do with security at point of purchase. EMV is the first step to point of point encryption (which is available on may systems now), which eliminates breaking into Target's network and stealing 100 million+ card numbers at the same time.
Is this yet another way that the powers-that-be discourage Americans from international travel so that they can't see that much of the rest of the world has the same freedoms that America has?
A week ago today, I was in Iceland, mostly using my magnetic strip card for everything. I had zero trouble doing so. The only minor issue was that you can only buy fuel for your car with a card that has a PIN, and their system does weird-ass things with authorizations on ATM cards. But I had no trouble buying a gas card with my mag strip card. I just had to walk inside to do so. Big deal.
The part that isn't talked about much, and not yet a mandatory part of the system, is the point of point encryption that goes hand in hand with EMV. When fully implemented, the store never sees any card information at all, it's all tokenized. That means that when somebody breaks into their network, there's nothing there to steal.
That is the point of EMV. It's got nothing to do with protecting the consumer. It's about reducing losses for the banks.
I hate the fucking chip things....
I keep almost leaving my fucking card in the slot and walking away.
That says far more about your than it does about chip cards.
With no PIN, I can't see how it is really any safer to me.
It's not intended to be. It's safer for the banks, and indirectly, for the merchants. You're not protected by the technology, you're protected by the law.
Chip and PIN works.
Pity virtually no US chip cards are chip and PIN.