Regarding keeping the code, you'd have to hide it really well such that only you can retrieve it. You should encrypt or otherwise scramble it for starters. It's not that hard. Criminals are usually caught because they're either stupid, or because easy money is addictive, so they keep doing it, and eventually, something happens outside their calculations (and they tend to get more careless over time too).
Too many potential points of failure - you could be quickly restrained or knocked out (like by a taser). They could cell jam you or otherwise intercept your data. Or they could have already hacked your phone in the time you picked up the bag and took it somewhere to check its contents. Better would be to set up some servers to send out the code at a certain time. If anything happens to you, then there's no one to disable that system.
I agree that the blackmailer, once the money is in hand, is incentivized to keep his/her end of the bargain. Sending out the code would just leave a potentially traceable digital trail and just having the code on-hand is incriminating evidence. And in this case, where Nokia keeps dishonestly quiet, all you have on your tail are a few police officers that can't even follow a bag.
Actually, paying the ransom was the best bet to protect the user. However, they also should have let everyone know they had been compromised, and that's the part where they put corporate greed before their customers.
Then get used to being extremely distrustful because I've never heard of anyone not start with C&D. I don't know why you'd equate that to knocking you down. It's more like telling to you stop versus saying, like, the more neutral why are you using our trademark?
I don't see why you wouldn't use paypal - you're just using them as the credit card processor. Your credit card company will cover any fraud anyway (use one with 0% liability). What sucks about Paypal is the high fees the seller gets hit with and trigger-happy merchant account freezing. As a buyer, it shouldn't matter to you, and you should always have $0 in your account.
Apple definitely started all this. They had two iPhone trademarks already and wanted to register iPhone for telecommunications but were told it was taken. Rather than retreat quietly, they brought a lawsuit to invalidate iFone's trademark.
Nah, robots will do the calculations and realize it's a waste of resources. They'll just hack your brain through your robots grafts and turn you into their slave instead. Just make sure if suspicious people try to give you drugs for free that you take the blue pill cuz that'll make you happy.
Many to chose from, but the price is fixed, and licenses are fixed to an artificially low number. It's counter to all the principles of free market. However, it's not a monopoly. It's just really bad regulation.
Why don't you list the regulations and how they protect the consumer? Insurance? Uber provides it, up to a $1 million I think. Very limited number of licenses? This is to limit competition. Fixed prices? Yup, again to limit competition.
The truth is, these regulations were written by the taxi companies to protect their business. Same with the dealership laws that prevent Tesla from selling direct.
Zediva tried something like this - they actually put physical dvds in a player and rented you output of the player exclusively. The studios got a judge to shut them down. As you say, it's price discrimination - studios want more money for streaming rights because they can, and they've gotten the law on their side.
As speeds have increased, data caps have decreased. What good does gigabit do you on a 250GB/month data cap? You'll just blow your data cap streaming 4k.
It's so true about the power supplies! My friend got a new computer and gave me his 5-year-old one (cuz I fix them up for relatives), and it's an HP. It has a Core 2 E-something (2ghz low power chip), and the power supply was a really old style 250W Bestec. It makes this grinding thumping sound like old machinery used to, and has no no sata power cables, so they used sata adapters for the hard drive and burner. So there you have it - 5 years ago HP was selling 3-year-old tech with a power supply from the last century. Sure, it saves costs, but consumers eventually figure out you're selling crap. I put in a power supply that didn't sound like cows were being grinded up and a SSD and gave it to my parents, but seriously, when it comes to computers, you are so much better building your own. Even Apple only uses slightly better parts, not the best, and they totally gouge you on the price of those iMacs, my god.
Not to mention that if your PC was built in the last 7 years, you can probably just slide in a new $150 graphics card, and you'll be ahead of XB1/PS4 again.
Also, OUYA's failure doesn't translate to PC. The PC is an existing platform with a huge library and continued developer support. Did you notice how most big Xbox 360/PS3 publishers shunned PC in the early years, citing piracy concerns? We had the exact situation you're describing with indie titles and pretty much no AAA support for many years, and PC gaming just kept growing. I think the success of Steam single-handedly made all the big players turn their heads and realize they were missing out on huge profits by ignoring PC, and the piracy concerns were overblown. Now we see almost every big game get simultaneous Xbox/PS/PC release.
Reading the reviews from developers who bought and used Google Glass, most of them say the same thing - it's not ready. You need an Android phone, and it's sort of an awkward extension of the phone. There aren't any killer apps for it because the APIs are not ready (it's mostly just popping text messages on the glass). I don't have Google Glass, but that's what I gleamed from the descriptions. The major reasons to get it seem to be for:
1) developers to get a head start on developer (on the belief that it will hit it big on a future rev)
2) journalists so that they can write about it
3) people with $1500 burning a hole in their pocket
4) people who want to brag to their friends (or brag to anonymous people on the Internet because we all know what a great satisfaction that is)
$500 only? That's not even enough for 10% of the stipend given to a single women's advocacy intern, and GNOME needs to sponsor 17 of 'em. You need to dig deeper!
Years before they redesigned the part, they also sent key covers and service announcements to all the dealerships, although they made it seem like a minor thing, so the key cover distribution was sort of spotty. I'm sure this was the work of these two guys also. Uh-huh. And then you have to ask, how did these two guys know it was faulty and seriously so in the first place? Most likely, warranty repair reports. The key cover was the quick fix. When they got more reports, they redesigned it. Who handles the warranty and repair reporting? And when they get reports, I'm sure they try to test and repro - you wouldn't send out key covers to all dealerships w/o testing it at all, right? - who handles testing reported parts defects and the quick fixes (like key covers) to them? And when something spans this many departments, I do not see any way there are not at least some high level managers, possibly VPs or even higher, involved to direct the effort and approve the expenditures.
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Regarding keeping the code, you'd have to hide it really well such that only you can retrieve it. You should encrypt or otherwise scramble it for starters. It's not that hard. Criminals are usually caught because they're either stupid, or because easy money is addictive, so they keep doing it, and eventually, something happens outside their calculations (and they tend to get more careless over time too).
Too many potential points of failure - you could be quickly restrained or knocked out (like by a taser). They could cell jam you or otherwise intercept your data. Or they could have already hacked your phone in the time you picked up the bag and took it somewhere to check its contents. Better would be to set up some servers to send out the code at a certain time. If anything happens to you, then there's no one to disable that system.
I agree that the blackmailer, once the money is in hand, is incentivized to keep his/her end of the bargain. Sending out the code would just leave a potentially traceable digital trail and just having the code on-hand is incriminating evidence. And in this case, where Nokia keeps dishonestly quiet, all you have on your tail are a few police officers that can't even follow a bag.
Actually, paying the ransom was the best bet to protect the user. However, they also should have let everyone know they had been compromised, and that's the part where they put corporate greed before their customers.
Then get used to being extremely distrustful because I've never heard of anyone not start with C&D. I don't know why you'd equate that to knocking you down. It's more like telling to you stop versus saying, like, the more neutral why are you using our trademark?
Same here; I don't see it. I think Amazon tricked CNN into some free advertising.
I don't see why you wouldn't use paypal - you're just using them as the credit card processor. Your credit card company will cover any fraud anyway (use one with 0% liability). What sucks about Paypal is the high fees the seller gets hit with and trigger-happy merchant account freezing. As a buyer, it shouldn't matter to you, and you should always have $0 in your account.
That's why I always write-in myself for all positions.
Apple definitely started all this. They had two iPhone trademarks already and wanted to register iPhone for telecommunications but were told it was taken. Rather than retreat quietly, they brought a lawsuit to invalidate iFone's trademark.
For large dumb LED TVs, try Sears or Dell. I got a 60" Samsung for my parents last year for $800 on sale.
Traitor!
Nah, robots will do the calculations and realize it's a waste of resources. They'll just hack your brain through your robots grafts and turn you into their slave instead. Just make sure if suspicious people try to give you drugs for free that you take the blue pill cuz that'll make you happy.
It won't matter once the killer robots get to you.
Ratify Amendment #28 - Right to bear killer robots
Many to chose from, but the price is fixed, and licenses are fixed to an artificially low number. It's counter to all the principles of free market. However, it's not a monopoly. It's just really bad regulation.
Why don't you list the regulations and how they protect the consumer?
Insurance? Uber provides it, up to a $1 million I think.
Very limited number of licenses? This is to limit competition.
Fixed prices? Yup, again to limit competition.
The truth is, these regulations were written by the taxi companies to protect their business. Same with the dealership laws that prevent Tesla from selling direct.
Zediva tried something like this - they actually put physical dvds in a player and rented you output of the player exclusively. The studios got a judge to shut them down. As you say, it's price discrimination - studios want more money for streaming rights because they can, and they've gotten the law on their side.
As speeds have increased, data caps have decreased. What good does gigabit do you on a 250GB/month data cap? You'll just blow your data cap streaming 4k.
It's so true about the power supplies! My friend got a new computer and gave me his 5-year-old one (cuz I fix them up for relatives), and it's an HP. It has a Core 2 E-something (2ghz low power chip), and the power supply was a really old style 250W Bestec. It makes this grinding thumping sound like old machinery used to, and has no no sata power cables, so they used sata adapters for the hard drive and burner. So there you have it - 5 years ago HP was selling 3-year-old tech with a power supply from the last century. Sure, it saves costs, but consumers eventually figure out you're selling crap. I put in a power supply that didn't sound like cows were being grinded up and a SSD and gave it to my parents, but seriously, when it comes to computers, you are so much better building your own. Even Apple only uses slightly better parts, not the best, and they totally gouge you on the price of those iMacs, my god.
From ZDI advisory:
Vendor Contact Timeline:
10/11/2013 - Case disclosed to vendor
02/10/2014 - Vendor confirmed reproduction
04/09/2014 - Original predicted disclosure (180 days)
05/08/2014 - ZDI notified the vendor of the intent to publicly disclose
05/21/2014 - ZDI publicly disclosed
Took them 3 months to reproduce and then, even after confirmation, they just ignored ZDI!
Not to mention that if your PC was built in the last 7 years, you can probably just slide in a new $150 graphics card, and you'll be ahead of XB1/PS4 again.
Also, OUYA's failure doesn't translate to PC. The PC is an existing platform with a huge library and continued developer support. Did you notice how most big Xbox 360/PS3 publishers shunned PC in the early years, citing piracy concerns? We had the exact situation you're describing with indie titles and pretty much no AAA support for many years, and PC gaming just kept growing. I think the success of Steam single-handedly made all the big players turn their heads and realize they were missing out on huge profits by ignoring PC, and the piracy concerns were overblown. Now we see almost every big game get simultaneous Xbox/PS/PC release.
"... land missiles mostly operated by amateurs ..."
rofl, my driver's license doesn't make me pro?
Why would you want to do that? That's going to get him p0wned by the guy with metal helmet again.
Reading the reviews from developers who bought and used Google Glass, most of them say the same thing - it's not ready. You need an Android phone, and it's sort of an awkward extension of the phone. There aren't any killer apps for it because the APIs are not ready (it's mostly just popping text messages on the glass). I don't have Google Glass, but that's what I gleamed from the descriptions. The major reasons to get it seem to be for: 1) developers to get a head start on developer (on the belief that it will hit it big on a future rev) 2) journalists so that they can write about it 3) people with $1500 burning a hole in their pocket 4) people who want to brag to their friends (or brag to anonymous people on the Internet because we all know what a great satisfaction that is)
$500 only? That's not even enough for 10% of the stipend given to a single women's advocacy intern, and GNOME needs to sponsor 17 of 'em. You need to dig deeper!
Years before they redesigned the part, they also sent key covers and service announcements to all the dealerships, although they made it seem like a minor thing, so the key cover distribution was sort of spotty. I'm sure this was the work of these two guys also. Uh-huh. And then you have to ask, how did these two guys know it was faulty and seriously so in the first place? Most likely, warranty repair reports. The key cover was the quick fix. When they got more reports, they redesigned it. Who handles the warranty and repair reporting? And when they get reports, I'm sure they try to test and repro - you wouldn't send out key covers to all dealerships w/o testing it at all, right? - who handles testing reported parts defects and the quick fixes (like key covers) to them? And when something spans this many departments, I do not see any way there are not at least some high level managers, possibly VPs or even higher, involved to direct the effort and approve the expenditures.