I smoked for about 15 years. I attempted to quit a fee times and would even make it a few months but I enjoyed the act. About 5 years ago, I committed to switching to a vaporizer. Now I barely use it. I started with a low dose of nicotine and quickly switched to 0mg. I don't even take my vaporizer on trips or to bars any more. I occasionally puff on it while working on a particularly difficult task or when stressed but it lives in my office at home.
My daughter will be born tomorrow and she'll never know her dad as a smoker. (Or her mom but that's not my story.) Vaporizer FTW!
Not the old kind with AOHell but one linked to actual accounts. Banks used to offer them but they never caught on. I use privacy.com and they let you setup " merchant" cards for recurring payments and "burner" cards for one time purchases. I've seen denials on burner cards and then contacted the original vendor about it and helped them track down a data breach. Been using it for over a year now and I'm very happy with the offering.
I've been a happy Hulu customer for a while, until very recently. The new app is so bad, I'm suspending my account indefinitely. The catalog has gotten smaller, the UX has gotten worse and all the new features can't be accessed through the old one (I have an APK backup and stopped updating from my Android devices because it's so bad). With all the new contenders in the space, I don't imagine Hulu is a good long term investment.
The horrible UX provided by AMP is the number one reason I started looking at other browsers on mobile. I believe they made changes to make it less horrible but I never once landed on an AMP page and thought, "What a great layout! I'm glad the removed all the visual cues from the site I was trying to visit!" I moved over to Brave. It has some rough edges but it renders things correctly and I don't feel like someone's trying to force their bad personal design decisions on me.
Hi. Welcome to the internet. If you look around, you'll find plenty of headlines to browse. What's that? Articles? I'm sure we have a few of those around somewhere... Perhaps you can explain what you're trying to do and I can find a solution for you that doesn't require wasting so much time understanding the details.:)
I hate change as much if not more than most (I've stopped doing business with companies because of bad website or EULA modifications and we won't start on systemd... SLACKWARE FOR LIFE!) but I actually did look at the article. This is a Good Thing (tm). It's rare that software changes in a way that makes sense for existing users (I'm looking at you, Atlassian!) as well as new users but this seems to be that. For the life of me, I can't think of a reason I'd need an office suite on a computer (I wrote code and poke systems. vim works fine) but I'd almost be willing to download (not install or use) the next version, just to show my support for such thoughtful development. Kudos to them!
Pick your poison. Trust your bank or trust a private business. Banks can be "too big to fail" but companies go bankrupt all the time. Who do you think has more incentive to do a better job?
I have no affiliation to privacy.com other than being a user.
I've been using privacy.com to generate randomized credit card numbers for a while now. It's the same type of thing we had in the 90s with certain credit card companies but better. I have static cards with monthly limits for recurring charges, static cards with max per transaction limits for online merchants I frequent and one time use burner cards for just about everything else. I can see all declined transactions per card, which lets me track it down to a merchant. It's the same thing I do for email (per account email addresses for spam tracking) but better because I don't have to manage it myself.
This is really smart. Sure, you can not have Word and or have more docs but the detection of a real environment will just change. Kudos to the dev for thinking about this, even if it is virii.
I recently moved from San Jose to Austin. What you get for your dollar is a lot less in San Jose but far better than the rest of the bay area. There are a couple Google his stops, so you can avoid the commute. The further south in SJ you are, the better (to a point). When I was working at Google, I rode the bus from Silver Creek or the light rails station on Santa Theresa. (I moved a few times.) If you're set on the bay area and don't want to spend all your money on rent, San Jose is a good place.
There wasn't a single viable candidate. I didn't vote because there was no point. Forcing people to vote is akin to forcing people to toss a coin. You'll get a result and but it won't mean anything. I've always felt that if you can't take the time to educate yourself about politics, you should abstain from voting because you'll be hurting more than helping.
Maybe we'll see a really good president in my lifetime but not if everyone votes.
As someone who has multiple Nexus devices in his possession and has upgraded more than one of them to Lollipop, I can say that I rolled back because of UX problems. Some of the "optimizations" made in Lollipop are contrary to what you'd expect. Additionally, some of the new security features break existing functionality. I'm all for security (I tried four different ROMs on a device I got yesterday until I found one with working device encryption) but one should be able to relax security if they so choose.
Go test drive Lollipop in a VM. Some people love it, some don't. I won't be upgrading anything I own back to Lollipop until there are ways to work around some of the new features.
Hate: * Two finger/double scroll for notifications bar * Complicated prioritized volume setttings (I believe they removed a volume override intent for this, which I use) * Tabs and recent apps part of the same "recent apps" overlay (can be disabled via a chrome setting, thankfully) * Removing long press on app bar buttons (changed to a small hot area of text under the icon, which I didn't know about until someone told me)
Meh: * Pinning * Volume and brightness sliders in the notification bar * Material Design * Change to battery metrics display
Love: * Heads up notifications instead of stealing the entire display for things like the phone UI (CM11 does this too)
As you can see, there's really no compelling reason to upgrade and some really annoying new features (as well as some rather critical open bugs) that will keep _me_ away from Lollipop.
I promise to bring my guns, radios and backup. The only things the cops have that I don't is a jacket (assuming they mean bullet proof vests). Then again, I'll actually show up.
Which is not at all. I logged in to post this, just to show my support for the Fuck Beta crowd. I've been here a looong time and want to stay but if you gum it up, I won't. Slashdot is an historical land mark, as far as the net is concerned. It was one of the first DDOS mechanisms we all knew and we want to preserve it as a beacon to what once was. When it goes away (or turns into just another cookie cutter news outlet), so does a piece of our youth. Don't kill it for us.
Hopefully their research concluded that they should validate email addresses. I have about a dozen Skype accounts (though I never use the service) because of fraudulent account sign ups. The simple act of validating email addresses prior to issuing an account would fix this. Hell, even a product targeted at the lowest common denominator (Facebook) has managed to figure that out.
"Similarly, you should not be concerned merely because your neighbors are a member of any national gun advocacy organization. The actual threat â" just to cite the best known org â" that the National Rifle Association (NRA) and its kin present to you and your children is political."
Are you kidding? While I think this has little to do with the discussion, your statement is completely idiotic. The United States was attacked on 9/11. Texas is a small (albeit larger than most) part of the whole. We all got hit.
I went to donate and saw that. I'm actually very unhappy about it but I won't be able to donate because they only accept payment via systems I don't trust. If there a direct payment option, I'd have opened my wallet immediately but I refuse to do business with PayPal and just don't trust Amazon. Call me paranoid but it is what it is.
Many things on/. are worthy of debate and lead to much trolling. This isn't. This is a Good Thing. I'm throwing in a couple bucks and anyone old enough to remember what a phone call and how pagers work should too.
I almost feel sorry for them discovering this just after they discontinued Microsoft Messenger and moved people on to Skype. To be fair I expect this hole existed when they brought Skype.
I’m not so sure about that, y’know. It would likely have been discovered by now.
I expect it’s a side effect of the migration of MSN users to Skype as it likely requires changes to both Skype and its backend.
It's not new. I have an email address that people assume doesn't exist and rt they sign up for things all the time. About two years ago, I received a password reset mail from Skype. When I went to reset it (as I do with every random account people sign up for with my email), they gave me the option to reset about a half dozen accounts. I now maintain a list of burner Skype accounts that had previously used my address.
Fun fact: you are limited to 4 successful resets, per email address, per day.
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I smoked for about 15 years. I attempted to quit a fee times and would even make it a few months but I enjoyed the act. About 5 years ago, I committed to switching to a vaporizer. Now I barely use it. I started with a low dose of nicotine and quickly switched to 0mg. I don't even take my vaporizer on trips or to bars any more. I occasionally puff on it while working on a particularly difficult task or when stressed but it lives in my office at home.
My daughter will be born tomorrow and she'll never know her dad as a smoker. (Or her mom but that's not my story.) Vaporizer FTW!
Not the old kind with AOHell but one linked to actual accounts. Banks used to offer them but they never caught on. I use privacy.com and they let you setup " merchant" cards for recurring payments and "burner" cards for one time purchases. I've seen denials on burner cards and then contacted the original vendor about it and helped them track down a data breach. Been using it for over a year now and I'm very happy with the offering.
I've been a happy Hulu customer for a while, until very recently. The new app is so bad, I'm suspending my account indefinitely. The catalog has gotten smaller, the UX has gotten worse and all the new features can't be accessed through the old one (I have an APK backup and stopped updating from my Android devices because it's so bad). With all the new contenders in the space, I don't imagine Hulu is a good long term investment.
The horrible UX provided by AMP is the number one reason I started looking at other browsers on mobile. I believe they made changes to make it less horrible but I never once landed on an AMP page and thought, "What a great layout! I'm glad the removed all the visual cues from the site I was trying to visit!" I moved over to Brave. It has some rough edges but it renders things correctly and I don't feel like someone's trying to force their bad personal design decisions on me.
I changed search to use DDG and changed browsers to Brave as a direct result of AMP.
Did any of you actually read TFA?
Hi. Welcome to the internet. If you look around, you'll find plenty of headlines to browse. What's that? Articles? I'm sure we have a few of those around somewhere... Perhaps you can explain what you're trying to do and I can find a solution for you that doesn't require wasting so much time understanding the details. :)
I hate change as much if not more than most (I've stopped doing business with companies because of bad website or EULA modifications and we won't start on systemd... SLACKWARE FOR LIFE!) but I actually did look at the article. This is a Good Thing (tm). It's rare that software changes in a way that makes sense for existing users (I'm looking at you, Atlassian!) as well as new users but this seems to be that. For the life of me, I can't think of a reason I'd need an office suite on a computer (I wrote code and poke systems. vim works fine) but I'd almost be willing to download (not install or use) the next version, just to show my support for such thoughtful development. Kudos to them!
Your answer is confusing, even though the result is correct.
It's actually not correct but that's because I'm not new here. The spelling was intentional.
Pick your poison. Trust your bank or trust a private business. Banks can be "too big to fail" but companies go bankrupt all the time. Who do you think has more incentive to do a better job?
I have no affiliation to privacy.com other than being a user.
I've been using privacy.com to generate randomized credit card numbers for a while now. It's the same type of thing we had in the 90s with certain credit card companies but better. I have static cards with monthly limits for recurring charges, static cards with max per transaction limits for online merchants I frequent and one time use burner cards for just about everything else. I can see all declined transactions per card, which lets me track it down to a merchant. It's the same thing I do for email (per account email addresses for spam tracking) but better because I don't have to manage it myself.
This is really smart. Sure, you can not have Word and or have more docs but the detection of a real environment will just change. Kudos to the dev for thinking about this, even if it is virii.
Wickr: https://www.wickr.com/personal
+1
I recently moved from San Jose to Austin. What you get for your dollar is a lot less in San Jose but far better than the rest of the bay area. There are a couple Google his stops, so you can avoid the commute. The further south in SJ you are, the better (to a point). When I was working at Google, I rode the bus from Silver Creek or the light rails station on Santa Theresa. (I moved a few times.) If you're set on the bay area and don't want to spend all your money on rent, San Jose is a good place.
And now I sound like the idiot... I read 2014 and interpreted 2012.
There wasn't a single viable candidate. I didn't vote because there was no point. Forcing people to vote is akin to forcing people to toss a coin. You'll get a result and but it won't mean anything. I've always felt that if you can't take the time to educate yourself about politics, you should abstain from voting because you'll be hurting more than helping.
Maybe we'll see a really good president in my lifetime but not if everyone votes.
As someone who has multiple Nexus devices in his possession and has upgraded more than one of them to Lollipop, I can say that I rolled back because of UX problems. Some of the "optimizations" made in Lollipop are contrary to what you'd expect. Additionally, some of the new security features break existing functionality. I'm all for security (I tried four different ROMs on a device I got yesterday until I found one with working device encryption) but one should be able to relax security if they so choose.
Go test drive Lollipop in a VM. Some people love it, some don't. I won't be upgrading anything I own back to Lollipop until there are ways to work around some of the new features.
Hate:
* Two finger/double scroll for notifications bar
* Complicated prioritized volume setttings (I believe they removed a volume override intent for this, which I use)
* Tabs and recent apps part of the same "recent apps" overlay (can be disabled via a chrome setting, thankfully)
* Removing long press on app bar buttons (changed to a small hot area of text under the icon, which I didn't know about until someone told me)
Meh:
* Pinning
* Volume and brightness sliders in the notification bar
* Material Design
* Change to battery metrics display
Love:
* Heads up notifications instead of stealing the entire display for things like the phone UI (CM11 does this too)
As you can see, there's really no compelling reason to upgrade and some really annoying new features (as well as some rather critical open bugs) that will keep _me_ away from Lollipop.
I promise to bring my guns, radios and backup. The only things the cops have that I don't is a jacket (assuming they mean bullet proof vests). Then again, I'll actually show up.
Which is not at all. I logged in to post this, just to show my support for the Fuck Beta crowd. I've been here a looong time and want to stay but if you gum it up, I won't. Slashdot is an historical land mark, as far as the net is concerned. It was one of the first DDOS mechanisms we all knew and we want to preserve it as a beacon to what once was. When it goes away (or turns into just another cookie cutter news outlet), so does a piece of our youth. Don't kill it for us.
Hopefully their research concluded that they should validate email addresses. I have about a dozen Skype accounts (though I never use the service) because of fraudulent account sign ups. The simple act of validating email addresses prior to issuing an account would fix this. Hell, even a product targeted at the lowest common denominator (Facebook) has managed to figure that out.
"Similarly, you should not be concerned merely because your neighbors are a member of any national gun advocacy organization. The actual threat â" just to cite the best known org â" that the National Rifle Association (NRA) and its kin present to you and your children is political."
Are you kidding? While I think this has little to do with the discussion, your statement is completely idiotic. The United States was attacked on 9/11. Texas is a small (albeit larger than most) part of the whole. We all got hit.
+1
Correction: I'm mailing a check. Pain in the ass but at least I'm reducing the number of untrusted hands involved in my transaction.
I went to donate and saw that. I'm actually very unhappy about it but I won't be able to donate because they only accept payment via systems I don't trust. If there a direct payment option, I'd have opened my wallet immediately but I refuse to do business with PayPal and just don't trust Amazon. Call me paranoid but it is what it is.
Many things on /. are worthy of debate and lead to much trolling. This isn't. This is a Good Thing. I'm throwing in a couple bucks and anyone old enough to remember what a phone call and how pagers work should too.
I almost feel sorry for them discovering this just after they discontinued Microsoft Messenger and moved people on to Skype. To be fair I expect this hole existed when they brought Skype.
I’m not so sure about that, y’know. It would likely have been discovered by now.
I expect it’s a side effect of the migration of MSN users to Skype as it likely requires changes to both Skype and its backend.
It's not new. I have an email address that people assume doesn't exist and rt they sign up for things all the time. About two years ago, I received a password reset mail from Skype. When I went to reset it (as I do with every random account people sign up for with my email), they gave me the option to reset about a half dozen accounts. I now maintain a list of burner Skype accounts that had previously used my address.
Fun fact: you are limited to 4 successful resets, per email address, per day.