The article says nothing about resolution, but it's not hard to see Netflix streaming CIF streams to such devices, given the screens are so small most people won't care.
as tech has always been, at the end of the day, and out of necessity, a meritocracy
I would FTFY as: as tech has always thought of itself as, at the end of the day, and out of necessity, a meritocracy.
We don't do very well at actually promoting by merit, it's usually the loudest, most obnoxious, voices that win the day. We've ended up standardizing on some pretty shitty infrastructure as a result of not being a meritocracy, but being opinionated about stuff we know little or nothing about. And I've seen with my own eyes too many good people burning out, exhausted from fighting fights they shouldn't need to fight.
$70 is actually on the high end for an unlimited plan in the US and their lowest cost plan that doesn't have a set quota of broadband data (they're all "unlimited") is $50.
Does the "Free mobile (FR) unlimited" include tethering? Is it really "unlimited" broadband or does it throttle after certain thresholds? Because once you omit tethering from your requirements for a plan, prices drop dramatically in the US and in most cases, Verizon and AT&T notwithstanding, all data plans are "unlimited" but with throttling or data deprioritization.
T-Mobile's lowest unlimited plan is probably their MetroPCS $40 a month plan which includes 10G before any throttling takes place. $50 buys "unlimited" (ie throttling only when the network is busy) data, and includes 5G of tethering.
You can probably find similar deals from Sprint, and of course there are plenty of MVNOs.
Most of them provide 3G. The phones currently in use vary from 2G only, 2G+3G, 2G+3G+LTEData, and 2G+3G+LTEEverything. Oh, and that last bit? Some phones support voice on LTE for some LTE bands but not others, meaning that the phone falls back to 2G or 3G for voice calls.
If any of the first complaints were "true" in any real sense (that is, people there find it overcrowded and/or are bothered by the traffic) it wouldn't cost so much to live there.
The reality is NYC is the kind of city people want to live in. There's a desperate shortage of places like NYC, which is why it costs so much to live there, despite it being very efficient and cost effective in terms of resource use.
Carmack is an important software developer who knows how the system works. Luckey isn't. He's an entrepreneur, not an engineer.
Additionally Facebook has pro-Trump people on its board, including Peter Thiel, who gave far more to the Trump campaign than Luckey, so the argument that Facebook fired anyone for supporting Trump is plain ludicrous on the face of it.
I'm glad to hear that! I've been wondering if there would have been a way to at least use some form of adhoc encryption to exchange the hostname with the server, and then verified afterwards that the encryption wasn't compromised, eg:
Client: Send me the public part of an encryption key
Server: 1234
Client: (Encrypted using 1234)www.hostname.com
Server: (Key for www.hostname.com)
Client: (Creates session using www.hostname.com's key)You sent me 1234 to use to encrypt the hostname, was that valid?
Server: Yep, that's the one I use today.
The only problem I can see is if multiple servers serve the same site, then you'd have to make sure the key used to encrypt the hostname is the same on each server (if it allows different keys for different TCP sessions then the attacker can just break the connection the first time they try to connect after faking being the server to get the hostname.)
You undermined your own point by mentioning the emails. The entire media, including the supposed "liberal" side which somehow never ever supports liberal positions, spent far more time talking about the emails non-story than Trump's very real history of fraud, racism, and failure.
If the media had been in Clinton's pocket, it would have ignored the "emails" story completely. If the media was interested in a fair election, it would have all-but-ignored the emails story because it was largely smears with little substance. It did neither.
The media isn't liberal, it's pro-controversy, and its agenda ultimately helped Trump get elected.
Okay, clearly it's not worth continuing this because no matter what I say you will just ignore it and assume I'm this imaginary SJW.
Dude, I've read what you write, you clearly think that women are people, and should be treated as if they have minds and feelings and are real. That's literally the definition I'm using of SJW, so you're an SJW, now I'm changing it to mean "Someone who is screechy and wants black one-legged lesbians to rule the world" so as you're an SJW I feel compelled to point out that you think that black one-legged lesbians should rule the world.
except you piss off your loyal customer base, who now pay more than new customers!
...for a different service.
Besides which, the article suggests that the lower prices will be for customers in other countries, and it generally doesn't piss people off that they pay $10 where a median income is around $50K, and people in Tenkayayearistan pay $5 where a median income is $10K for anything else.
At this point we don't know what Netflix is going to offer, but it doesn't take much imagination to figure out how they can come up with a lower priced plan for developing markets, from streaming CIF resolution video to marking some content (perhaps new third party content) as "Premium" and omitting it from the budget service.
The solution to that argument is to do what they do in the US (this is literally the practiced policy of DOTs in virtually every state since the 1940s): if it's faster to walk, use zoning and "free parking" mandates (every shop must be surrounded by dozens of empty, rarely used, parking spots, with only strip malls having some semblance of communal shared spaces) to make it slower.
If that works, but it's still practical to use public transport, then use road layouts that are optimal only for "Building to building" transportation, rather than "area to area".
Once you do this enough times, you not only ensure that every "city" becomes an anonymous collection of unrelated buildings with no personality, but you also force everyone, no matter how poor, no matter how dangerous on the roads, to drive. To what end? Because everyone likes cars! Vrrrmmm! Vrrrmmmm! I'm rich so being on a bus seems like the worst thing because that would mean I'd have to rub shoulders with not rich people, so cars must be what everyone wants! Vrrrmmm! Vrrrmmmm! Vrrrmmm! Vrrrmmmm! Vrrrmmm! Vrrrmmmm! Vrrrmmm! Vrrrmmmm! Vrrrmmm! Vrrrmmmm! Vrrrmmm! Vrrrmmmm! Vrrrmmm! Vrrrmmmm! Vrrrmmm! Vrrrmmmm! Vrrrmmm! Vrrrmmmm!
You undermined your own point by mentioning the emails. The entire media, including the supposed "liberal" side which somehow never ever supports liberal positions, spent far more time talking about the emails non-story than Trump's very real history of fraud, racism, and failure.
If the media had been in Clinton's pocket, it would have ignored the "emails" story completely. If the media was interested in a fair election, it would have all-but-ignored the emails story because it was largely smears with little substance. It did neither.
The media isn't liberal, it's pro-controversy, and its agenda ultimately helped Trump get elected.
Yes, we know that bit, what people here are saying that's a bad idea, given that if someone installs the Firefox plug in, they'll suddenly have problems accessing internal-wiki.myemployer.com, timeoff-booking-system.myemployer.com, and source-code-control-system.myemployer.com.
Sysadmins in general also like having control over their own networks, and having random employees use third party DNS, still worse to "protect their privacy" (prevent a sysadmin from determining what they were using the network for, something they have a legitimate reason for), undermines that.
It's not as useful as it once might have been. HTTPS used to be 100% secure with only hole being DNS. This would plug that... except that browsers have been migrating to SNI, a system to allow a single IP address to service multiple HTTPS sites, which means that the domain name gets exchanged in a snoopable (MITM) manner.
With SNI becoming common, the Cloudflare service really doesn't provide much security.
Pass a law requiring all airline CEOs be 6'2", and then that they're only allowed to travel (both on business and for pleasure) using the cheapest seats on their airline, ordered using the normal booking process.
Or, let's just skip that and start the beatings. It'll be more humane than forcing airline CEOs to use their own airlines.
Yeah, that's not what happens. Sexual harassment accusations are extremely rare, largely because women who on the receiving end of sexual harassment know that there are usually negative consequences for them. You are not going to get written up for complementing a woman on her dress, because nobody will make that complaint even if the complaint is offensive. The only way it'd come up is if it were part of a pattern of sexual harassment (ie you actually are a black hole of negativity and misery for the women who work alongside you), and even then... not likely to come up.
As an aside, if you're looking at a woman's dress and thinking "Hey, that's nice, I feel like complementing her on this", you can rather easily tell whether your complement is going to be well received or not. If it complements her decisions, it'll be taken well. If the "complement" is ultimately just a comment on her body, then... probably not something you should say. "I like that dress, I love the flower pattern, it looks really sharp on you" is fine and will never bite you, you're complementing her choices, her decisions, you're respecting her as a person just as you would if you said "Just finished peer reviewing your code to add a document to the file, really nice style, very clean code, great job."
But on the other hand "I like that dress, it really shows off your legs" may, ultimately, if part of many other such comments, may ultimately get reported to HR.
Which... I suspect you already know, but bear with me.
I mention that because you repeat the trope that somehow women are weird and some take things as complements and others take the same thing as offensive, but in fact some people say things that are kinda worded like a complement, but are actually kinda obnoxious if coming from someone you're supposed to work alongside, and then they pretend that it's their victim's fault. "I was just complementing her on her dress" they say when in fact their comment was really about the victim's legs, and came after a long list of "complements" about the victim's legs, boobs, and ass. Also it was the same dress she wears every week so why did he bring it up?
So, stop being paranoid, say something nice about her dress if you haven't before, just make sure it's really a complement before you say it. And make sure the dress is worth complementing.
In the last 24 years, the Democrats have only been in a position to pass legislation for two of them. They spent those two years trying to reform health care. While they ultimately failed to produce a health care reform that worked, you can't blame them for concentrating on preventing people from dying over preventing Sprint from lowering the bandwidth available during peak periods to certain types of service.
It's fine. No, really it is. You see, nobody's going to pay 5 different video sites $10-15 a month to get the films and shows they want on top of cable. Like you said. Kinda. You just didn't add the "why" which I did for you by adding the price.
So... things will change. Long term you'll probably ditch cable. You'll subscribe to Amazon Prime, because free shipping, free music, free movies, free free free, and then the question will be what other services will you subscribe to?
And that's where the different companies have to compete for your dollars. Disney isn't just competing against Netflix, it's also against Hulu, that CBS channel that shows the Star Trek, and DC Universe, to name but a few off the top of my head. Hulu's pretty compelling, a Netflix like library plus a way to watch the major shows on 80% of OTA channels no later than the day after they're aired. The CBS thing... not so much. DCU I can't comment on, but notice it's ALREADY cheap, it's like $6 a month if you subscribe a year in advance. And like Amazon it isn't just TV and movies. Which is good because the selection is poor right now.
What'll happen is they'll realize they're too expensive, or do not have enough content, or both, and those that are the worst value will have to cut prices, change, or disappear, with their content inevitably being swallowed by those remaining.
So it's not a problem. Relax. And be honest, virtually everything you'd want to watch that's made by Disney, as an adult, you'd rather buy anyway.
What states do you think classify sexual harassment as a crime?
One thing I've noticed about many anti-feminists is that they tend to conflate three or four different things, I don't know if it's malicious or reflects genuine confusion, but they tend to assume rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment to be all the same thing, often adding in hostile workplaces and so on. While you can argue, I guess, that rape is an example of all of the above, it's not the same in the other direction: groping someone is not rape. Wolf whistling is not sexual assault. Ignoring someone's ideas, or constantly unfairly belittling them, and spreading unsavory rumors about them is not (necessarily) sexual harassment.
Sexual assault and rape very definitely are criminal acts in most of the Western world. Sexual harassment? For the most part, no, it can rise to being a civil matter in certain contexts, such as employment, as it's usually under the umbrella of sexual discrimination. Criminal? A very small number of countries have sanctions for some specific types of harassment, such as public catcalling, but most jurisdictions have no laws at all in place.
So, I don't know if that helps, but if you are under the serious impression that sexual harassment is a crime in most places, well, it isn't. It probably shouldn't be on the grounds that most "Be a decent person" principles shouldn't need to be enshrined in criminal law so I doubt there'll be a movement to change that any time soon.
HP is Fiorina's fault, no question about that, but Mayer took over a sinking ship - Yahoo has been described as "Beleaguered" longer than Apple was.
Plus, you know, there are plenty of examples of great female business heads. Fuck, even actress Jessica Alba has managed to build a multibillion dollar corporation from scratch by selling organic diapers. Meanwhile half the electorate - including the kinds of people who whine about feeeeeeeeemale business heads - are going giddy over a male businessman whose main claim to fame is a string of business failures propped up by an inherited real estate empire and a lot of outright fraud.
So, uh, maybe that wasn't a great point to bring up on your part.
There's a precedent for this and it suggests this could be outrageously successful. Christian Bale played a character called "Bateman" in American Psycho. He then played "Batman" in some very popular DC movies in the late 2000s and early 2010s. Again, same name with letters (well, a letter) removed.
On this basis, I'd say someone going from Telstra to Tesla could be very successful, as long as the moving of the "L" doesn't upset anything.
With DCB, you enter your phone number, and then you get a confirmation on your phone, and are then prompted for a PIN.
Is that how you think it works? Because that's not how it works. As someone who suffered continuous fraud for several months until T-Mobile was persuaded to block these things (which it still couldn't do properly, it decided to block shortcodes too, which means I don't get text notifications from my bank when my credit card is compromised), I can tell you we never had any communication at all between us and the company stealing money from us.
And two other differences:
1. Credit card companies can and do pro-actively watch for fraud. We never saw T-Mo do the same thing.
2. T-Mobile refused to remove the charges directly, telling us we had to work with the company fraudulantly billing us.
It isn't more secure, it's stupidly insecure, and it should be banned. There's no reason whatsoever for this feature to exist, and if this country had any accountability, the execs who came up with this scheme would be in prison.
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The article says nothing about resolution, but it's not hard to see Netflix streaming CIF streams to such devices, given the screens are so small most people won't care.
I would FTFY as: as tech has always thought of itself as, at the end of the day, and out of necessity, a meritocracy.
We don't do very well at actually promoting by merit, it's usually the loudest, most obnoxious, voices that win the day. We've ended up standardizing on some pretty shitty infrastructure as a result of not being a meritocracy, but being opinionated about stuff we know little or nothing about. And I've seen with my own eyes too many good people burning out, exhausted from fighting fights they shouldn't need to fight.
They're actually more specific than that, apparently these dwarves aren't very bright. How do they know? HOW DO THEY KNOW?!
$70 is actually on the high end for an unlimited plan in the US and their lowest cost plan that doesn't have a set quota of broadband data (they're all "unlimited") is $50.
Does the "Free mobile (FR) unlimited" include tethering? Is it really "unlimited" broadband or does it throttle after certain thresholds? Because once you omit tethering from your requirements for a plan, prices drop dramatically in the US and in most cases, Verizon and AT&T notwithstanding, all data plans are "unlimited" but with throttling or data deprioritization.
T-Mobile's lowest unlimited plan is probably their MetroPCS $40 a month plan which includes 10G before any throttling takes place. $50 buys "unlimited" (ie throttling only when the network is busy) data, and includes 5G of tethering.
You can probably find similar deals from Sprint, and of course there are plenty of MVNOs.
Most of them provide 3G. The phones currently in use vary from 2G only, 2G+3G, 2G+3G+LTEData, and 2G+3G+LTEEverything. Oh, and that last bit? Some phones support voice on LTE for some LTE bands but not others, meaning that the phone falls back to 2G or 3G for voice calls.
If any of the first complaints were "true" in any real sense (that is, people there find it overcrowded and/or are bothered by the traffic) it wouldn't cost so much to live there.
The reality is NYC is the kind of city people want to live in. There's a desperate shortage of places like NYC, which is why it costs so much to live there, despite it being very efficient and cost effective in terms of resource use.
Carmack is an important software developer who knows how the system works. Luckey isn't. He's an entrepreneur, not an engineer.
Additionally Facebook has pro-Trump people on its board, including Peter Thiel, who gave far more to the Trump campaign than Luckey, so the argument that Facebook fired anyone for supporting Trump is plain ludicrous on the face of it.
I'm glad to hear that! I've been wondering if there would have been a way to at least use some form of adhoc encryption to exchange the hostname with the server, and then verified afterwards that the encryption wasn't compromised, eg:
Client: Send me the public part of an encryption key
Server: 1234
Client: (Encrypted using 1234)www.hostname.com
Server: (Key for www.hostname.com)
Client: (Creates session using www.hostname.com's key)You sent me 1234 to use to encrypt the hostname, was that valid?
Server: Yep, that's the one I use today.
The only problem I can see is if multiple servers serve the same site, then you'd have to make sure the key used to encrypt the hostname is the same on each server (if it allows different keys for different TCP sessions then the attacker can just break the connection the first time they try to connect after faking being the server to get the hostname.)
I'm not sure why you think your comment is news to the GP. It supports it, not undermines it.
You undermined your own point by mentioning the emails. The entire media, including the supposed "liberal" side which somehow never ever supports liberal positions, spent far more time talking about the emails non-story than Trump's very real history of fraud, racism, and failure.
If the media had been in Clinton's pocket, it would have ignored the "emails" story completely. If the media was interested in a fair election, it would have all-but-ignored the emails story because it was largely smears with little substance. It did neither.
The media isn't liberal, it's pro-controversy, and its agenda ultimately helped Trump get elected.
Dude, I've read what you write, you clearly think that women are people, and should be treated as if they have minds and feelings and are real. That's literally the definition I'm using of SJW, so you're an SJW, now I'm changing it to mean "Someone who is screechy and wants black one-legged lesbians to rule the world" so as you're an SJW I feel compelled to point out that you think that black one-legged lesbians should rule the world.
Besides which, the article suggests that the lower prices will be for customers in other countries, and it generally doesn't piss people off that they pay $10 where a median income is around $50K, and people in Tenkayayearistan pay $5 where a median income is $10K for anything else.
At this point we don't know what Netflix is going to offer, but it doesn't take much imagination to figure out how they can come up with a lower priced plan for developing markets, from streaming CIF resolution video to marking some content (perhaps new third party content) as "Premium" and omitting it from the budget service.
The solution to that argument is to do what they do in the US (this is literally the practiced policy of DOTs in virtually every state since the 1940s): if it's faster to walk, use zoning and "free parking" mandates (every shop must be surrounded by dozens of empty, rarely used, parking spots, with only strip malls having some semblance of communal shared spaces) to make it slower.
If that works, but it's still practical to use public transport, then use road layouts that are optimal only for "Building to building" transportation, rather than "area to area".
Once you do this enough times, you not only ensure that every "city" becomes an anonymous collection of unrelated buildings with no personality, but you also force everyone, no matter how poor, no matter how dangerous on the roads, to drive. To what end? Because everyone likes cars! Vrrrmmm! Vrrrmmmm! I'm rich so being on a bus seems like the worst thing because that would mean I'd have to rub shoulders with not rich people, so cars must be what everyone wants! Vrrrmmm! Vrrrmmmm! Vrrrmmm! Vrrrmmmm! Vrrrmmm! Vrrrmmmm! Vrrrmmm! Vrrrmmmm! Vrrrmmm! Vrrrmmmm! Vrrrmmm! Vrrrmmmm! Vrrrmmm! Vrrrmmmm! Vrrrmmm! Vrrrmmmm! Vrrrmmm! Vrrrmmmm!
You undermined your own point by mentioning the emails. The entire media, including the supposed "liberal" side which somehow never ever supports liberal positions, spent far more time talking about the emails non-story than Trump's very real history of fraud, racism, and failure.
If the media had been in Clinton's pocket, it would have ignored the "emails" story completely. If the media was interested in a fair election, it would have all-but-ignored the emails story because it was largely smears with little substance. It did neither.
The media isn't liberal, it's pro-controversy, and its agenda ultimately helped Trump get elected.
Yes, we know that bit, what people here are saying that's a bad idea, given that if someone installs the Firefox plug in, they'll suddenly have problems accessing internal-wiki.myemployer.com, timeoff-booking-system.myemployer.com, and source-code-control-system.myemployer.com.
Sysadmins in general also like having control over their own networks, and having random employees use third party DNS, still worse to "protect their privacy" (prevent a sysadmin from determining what they were using the network for, something they have a legitimate reason for), undermines that.
Well, Excel 95 and Office 2000 both have hidden features that would work pretty well on an Xbox.
It's not as useful as it once might have been. HTTPS used to be 100% secure with only hole being DNS. This would plug that... except that browsers have been migrating to SNI, a system to allow a single IP address to service multiple HTTPS sites, which means that the domain name gets exchanged in a snoopable (MITM) manner.
With SNI becoming common, the Cloudflare service really doesn't provide much security.
Pass a law requiring all airline CEOs be 6'2", and then that they're only allowed to travel (both on business and for pleasure) using the cheapest seats on their airline, ordered using the normal booking process.
Or, let's just skip that and start the beatings. It'll be more humane than forcing airline CEOs to use their own airlines.
Yeah, that's not what happens. Sexual harassment accusations are extremely rare, largely because women who on the receiving end of sexual harassment know that there are usually negative consequences for them. You are not going to get written up for complementing a woman on her dress, because nobody will make that complaint even if the complaint is offensive. The only way it'd come up is if it were part of a pattern of sexual harassment (ie you actually are a black hole of negativity and misery for the women who work alongside you), and even then... not likely to come up.
As an aside, if you're looking at a woman's dress and thinking "Hey, that's nice, I feel like complementing her on this", you can rather easily tell whether your complement is going to be well received or not. If it complements her decisions, it'll be taken well. If the "complement" is ultimately just a comment on her body, then... probably not something you should say. "I like that dress, I love the flower pattern, it looks really sharp on you" is fine and will never bite you, you're complementing her choices, her decisions, you're respecting her as a person just as you would if you said "Just finished peer reviewing your code to add a document to the file, really nice style, very clean code, great job."
But on the other hand "I like that dress, it really shows off your legs" may, ultimately, if part of many other such comments, may ultimately get reported to HR.
Which... I suspect you already know, but bear with me.
I mention that because you repeat the trope that somehow women are weird and some take things as complements and others take the same thing as offensive, but in fact some people say things that are kinda worded like a complement, but are actually kinda obnoxious if coming from someone you're supposed to work alongside, and then they pretend that it's their victim's fault. "I was just complementing her on her dress" they say when in fact their comment was really about the victim's legs, and came after a long list of "complements" about the victim's legs, boobs, and ass. Also it was the same dress she wears every week so why did he bring it up?
So, stop being paranoid, say something nice about her dress if you haven't before, just make sure it's really a complement before you say it. And make sure the dress is worth complementing.
In the last 24 years, the Democrats have only been in a position to pass legislation for two of them. They spent those two years trying to reform health care. While they ultimately failed to produce a health care reform that worked, you can't blame them for concentrating on preventing people from dying over preventing Sprint from lowering the bandwidth available during peak periods to certain types of service.
It's fine. No, really it is. You see, nobody's going to pay 5 different video sites $10-15 a month to get the films and shows they want on top of cable. Like you said. Kinda. You just didn't add the "why" which I did for you by adding the price.
So... things will change. Long term you'll probably ditch cable. You'll subscribe to Amazon Prime, because free shipping, free music, free movies, free free free, and then the question will be what other services will you subscribe to?
And that's where the different companies have to compete for your dollars. Disney isn't just competing against Netflix, it's also against Hulu, that CBS channel that shows the Star Trek, and DC Universe, to name but a few off the top of my head. Hulu's pretty compelling, a Netflix like library plus a way to watch the major shows on 80% of OTA channels no later than the day after they're aired. The CBS thing... not so much. DCU I can't comment on, but notice it's ALREADY cheap, it's like $6 a month if you subscribe a year in advance. And like Amazon it isn't just TV and movies. Which is good because the selection is poor right now.
What'll happen is they'll realize they're too expensive, or do not have enough content, or both, and those that are the worst value will have to cut prices, change, or disappear, with their content inevitably being swallowed by those remaining.
So it's not a problem. Relax. And be honest, virtually everything you'd want to watch that's made by Disney, as an adult, you'd rather buy anyway.
What states do you think classify sexual harassment as a crime?
One thing I've noticed about many anti-feminists is that they tend to conflate three or four different things, I don't know if it's malicious or reflects genuine confusion, but they tend to assume rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment to be all the same thing, often adding in hostile workplaces and so on. While you can argue, I guess, that rape is an example of all of the above, it's not the same in the other direction: groping someone is not rape. Wolf whistling is not sexual assault. Ignoring someone's ideas, or constantly unfairly belittling them, and spreading unsavory rumors about them is not (necessarily) sexual harassment.
Sexual assault and rape very definitely are criminal acts in most of the Western world. Sexual harassment? For the most part, no, it can rise to being a civil matter in certain contexts, such as employment, as it's usually under the umbrella of sexual discrimination. Criminal? A very small number of countries have sanctions for some specific types of harassment, such as public catcalling, but most jurisdictions have no laws at all in place.
So, I don't know if that helps, but if you are under the serious impression that sexual harassment is a crime in most places, well, it isn't. It probably shouldn't be on the grounds that most "Be a decent person" principles shouldn't need to be enshrined in criminal law so I doubt there'll be a movement to change that any time soon.
HP is Fiorina's fault, no question about that, but Mayer took over a sinking ship - Yahoo has been described as "Beleaguered" longer than Apple was.
Plus, you know, there are plenty of examples of great female business heads. Fuck, even actress Jessica Alba has managed to build a multibillion dollar corporation from scratch by selling organic diapers. Meanwhile half the electorate - including the kinds of people who whine about feeeeeeeeemale business heads - are going giddy over a male businessman whose main claim to fame is a string of business failures propped up by an inherited real estate empire and a lot of outright fraud.
So, uh, maybe that wasn't a great point to bring up on your part.
There's a precedent for this and it suggests this could be outrageously successful. Christian Bale played a character called "Bateman" in American Psycho. He then played "Batman" in some very popular DC movies in the late 2000s and early 2010s. Again, same name with letters (well, a letter) removed.
On this basis, I'd say someone going from Telstra to Tesla could be very successful, as long as the moving of the "L" doesn't upset anything.
Is that how you think it works? Because that's not how it works. As someone who suffered continuous fraud for several months until T-Mobile was persuaded to block these things (which it still couldn't do properly, it decided to block shortcodes too, which means I don't get text notifications from my bank when my credit card is compromised), I can tell you we never had any communication at all between us and the company stealing money from us.
And two other differences:
1. Credit card companies can and do pro-actively watch for fraud. We never saw T-Mo do the same thing.
2. T-Mobile refused to remove the charges directly, telling us we had to work with the company fraudulantly billing us.
It isn't more secure, it's stupidly insecure, and it should be banned. There's no reason whatsoever for this feature to exist, and if this country had any accountability, the execs who came up with this scheme would be in prison.