It shouldn't take upwards of a minute to process the transaction where before it took seconds.
The most I've seen is about 10 seconds of processing. The difference is you can't swipe your card and put it back in your wallet while the cashier is still ringing up the order - you have to leave the card in for the authorization phase.
If you put your card in at the beginning of the sale and then it when the total is submitted you have to wait another 10 seconds it can seem like a long time. It's definitely less convenience.
Why do people call it that? It is merely an app-driven unlicensed taxi service.
Well, in most places to call yourself a taxi service you need a license. And most people don't do taxi-service in their spare time like many Uber drivers do.
"Ride-sharing" isn't quite right, but it's probably called that for political reasons.
Good to see the NSA point their guns in the right direction, no?
So they're probably not.
Bill Binnie is saying that it was an NSA agent who hacked the DNC because he was personally pissed off that SoS Clinton was using Gamma intel in unclassified memos and never had to be accountable for that.
Anyway, Snowden said that XKeyscore can already tell exactly who hacked the DNC, so the NSA already knows (assuming he's right - he says he's done that kind of tracing himself).
Putin is probably laughing at the D's and R's tripping all over themselves to point fingers outward. If you have to vote, at least punch the L lever this round (even if they're not L's).
It doesn't mean that. It means that Tesla can be profitable with this technology now. Would you rather they wait five years to earn those profits so the batteries can be smaller?
They can use the profits from this generation to ensure the next. That's how and why capitalism works.
Bernie got roughly 43 percent [realclearpolitics.com] of the popular vote.
That's only the primary count. If you include the caucus votes, he got about 49% of the popular vote.
Now, we know the DNC was in the bag for Hillary and pushing the media to cover her favorable. It's generally considered that good press is worth about 5% in the polls.
The Superdelegates were for Hillary, but we probably would have had a situation where Bernie got the popular majority but Hillary got the nomination, if the DNC had played neutral.
In fact, Getty not only stole these, by falsely asserting ownership rights, it's as if they took the car from my analogy, and drove it for Uber.
No, because if it's a car, she is deprived of the use of that car while Getty is driving for Uber.
It's as if she had a Tesla with a magic 'clone' button, and Getty pressed the button and started driving the new clone for Uber. Except she had drawn a picture of a unicorn on her Tesla, so Getty's new Tesla is also decorated with a unicorn, and now she's throwing a hissy fit about it looking like hers, even though she still has her original Tesla.
It's hard to make an IP analogy that doesn't seem completely absurd. Funny 'bout that.
Birds regulate their use of airspace quite well. There are rarely any crashes, excepting human error. Aerobots should emulate birds rather than try for some sort of central control - imperfect attempts at control only produce chaos.
None of those problems were too big to handle for governments if they were allowed to work on it, and realistically they do work on it because they funded all the basic science that has made these things possible.
You actually don't know how small a percentage of basic science is done by government funding, do you?
Government sends Michelle Obama to tell all the kids, "let's get fit!".
The private markets create Pokemon Go and actually get all the kids outdoors. Profit is how a money-based system sends information signals to tell the innovators they are doing a good job. That's real regulation.
False. What telecoms â" correctly â" object to, are efforts by local governments to compete with them. Private businesses, individuals, or non-profits are fine...
No, they use the regulators to "deny" pole access to startups that could fleetly compete.
Yes, you "can" get pole access, but it'll cost you a quarter million dollars in legal fees. That ensures that the big boys can play but not anything like the ISP in TFS or anybody who could really compete on cost structure.
I wouldn't be surprised if the new routers have remote troubleshooting features that will make tech support easier/cheaper. Hence the surcharge....
Of course they're better for Verizon. Verizon enures the benefits, so Verizon should foot the bill.
ob. car analogy: I had a mechanic put a $6 "scanner" charge on his bill. I asked him about it and he said he had to pay for his new scanner somehow (after I had already told him the code from my $60 reader so it wasn't even necessary). He agreed to waive it "just once" so I never went back. Thank goodness there's no Public Mechanics Commission that granted him a monopoly on fixing cars in this town.
Service providers need tools to do their job well. There is always a time to get better tools. That's the responsibility of the service provider and is built into the price of the service. My goodness, if I showed up at a client site and billed them $20 to use my laptop to diagnose their network they'd tell me where to stick it and I'd deserve it.
I'm not exactly sure why Facebook owns both WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger
Why they want to own both markets or why their code bases didn't immediately converge? Both seem like rhetorical questions.
It seems very likely that, over time, both will share a core messaging base. If they have different skins on them at that point, it will be for market segmentation purposes.
The Signal protocol is currently limited to three devices. That doesn't suit the Messenger model well. Messenger's e2e is limited to one device right now. That's obviously a problem still, but might keep some people from jumping to Wire.
The double ratchet is a good idea, but until these things get federated, the market is going to remain a mess. Corporate silos aren't good for the Internet's security.
It's the 2016 update to the language of the 1996 Telecommunications Act. And this will be another federal payment to the same fraudsters that already made hundreds of billions on that scam without anyone of consequence noticing.
The people of consequence noticed, and they're back for more. The revolving door of corporate welfare and lobbying are well-understood and when the politicians get to run out in front of the parade, it's a win-win as far as they're concerned.
Because the people who have been kept from learning critical thinking in the schools will eat it up, and most of the rest of them will vote for either Clinton or Trump, so no change is guaranteed.
The People are getting what they want. Democracy, idiocracy, take your pick.
This is precisely why Bitcoin has always been a scam. If you weren't in on the ground floor you get screwed.
Not getting the maximum profit is not the same as getting screwed. Same as any company where the early investors reap the maximum profits but the companies still trade on the exchange with robust health.
There will be another halving in a few years - you could get in now and be in that advantaged position then.
Be more worried about privacy problems with bitcoin than that you weren't an early investor.
Right, and also you can be hard-nosed about references. If your boss is an asshole, you're not going to get a positive reference anyway. Companies have almost all stopped doing "bad references" and will merely acknowledge your era of employment. If you're truly "moving on" and will get a good reference from the boss or co-workers, then by all means preserve the value of that asset. Otherwise, if they're being abusive, tell 'em where to plant their lips. They might even reconsider how they're treating the other employees (though probably not) if your sudden exodus makes their life hell.
Reading between the lines, it sounds like Mozilla was afraid that Yahoo! would be bought by Microsoft and they wanted an out in that case. It's not a good strategy to send your users to your competitor.
I'm trying to recall if the "you should be using Chrome instead" notifications started before or after Mozilla switched away from Google.
Yet let a few thousand people have their data swiped through a government breach and people go apoplectic.
Based on the evidence it appears government is doing substantially better than private industry in protecting our data.
I might need a new debit card. What a pain. If you have government clearance, thanks to the OPM breach, the Chinese have all of your biometric data. Game over.
The Wendy's breach can be fixed with a bunch of new cards. The government breach cannot be fixed.
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... we were boycotting TPLink for its snubbing of the open source community. Now it'll be the easiest target for OpenWRT.
Maybe they can sell the company to competent management and we can buy from them..
It shouldn't take upwards of a minute to process the transaction where before it took seconds.
The most I've seen is about 10 seconds of processing. The difference is you can't swipe your card and put it back in your wallet while the cashier is still ringing up the order - you have to leave the card in for the authorization phase.
If you put your card in at the beginning of the sale and then it when the total is submitted you have to wait another 10 seconds it can seem like a long time. It's definitely less convenience.
Why do people call it that? It is merely an app-driven unlicensed taxi service.
Well, in most places to call yourself a taxi service you need a license. And most people don't do taxi-service in their spare time like many Uber drivers do.
"Ride-sharing" isn't quite right, but it's probably called that for political reasons.
Good to see the NSA point their guns in the right direction, no?
So they're probably not.
Bill Binnie is saying that it was an NSA agent who hacked the DNC because he was personally pissed off that SoS Clinton was using Gamma intel in unclassified memos and never had to be accountable for that.
Anyway, Snowden said that XKeyscore can already tell exactly who hacked the DNC, so the NSA already knows (assuming he's right - he says he's done that kind of tracing himself).
Putin is probably laughing at the D's and R's tripping all over themselves to point fingers outward. If you have to vote, at least punch the L lever this round (even if they're not L's).
It doesn't mean that. It means that Tesla can be profitable with this technology now. Would you rather they wait five years to earn those profits so the batteries can be smaller?
They can use the profits from this generation to ensure the next. That's how and why capitalism works.
Bernie got roughly 43 percent [realclearpolitics.com] of the popular vote.
That's only the primary count. If you include the caucus votes, he got about 49% of the popular vote.
Now, we know the DNC was in the bag for Hillary and pushing the media to cover her favorable. It's generally considered that good press is worth about 5% in the polls.
The Superdelegates were for Hillary, but we probably would have had a situation where Bernie got the popular majority but Hillary got the nomination, if the DNC had played neutral.
In fact, Getty not only stole these, by falsely asserting ownership rights, it's as if they took the car from my analogy, and drove it for Uber.
No, because if it's a car, she is deprived of the use of that car while Getty is driving for Uber.
It's as if she had a Tesla with a magic 'clone' button, and Getty pressed the button and started driving the new clone for Uber. Except she had drawn a picture of a unicorn on her Tesla, so Getty's new Tesla is also decorated with a unicorn, and now she's throwing a hissy fit about it looking like hers, even though she still has her original Tesla.
It's hard to make an IP analogy that doesn't seem completely absurd. Funny 'bout that.
Just post something so obviously wrong about a tech product and the nerds will come rolling in with tons of ad impressions.
Birds regulate their use of airspace quite well. There are rarely any crashes, excepting human error. Aerobots should emulate birds rather than try for some sort of central control - imperfect attempts at control only produce chaos.
Currently you can carjack delivery vans in front of your house if you just want "free shit" and have no moral virtues. What's holding you back?
So which is it? Do they first pasteurize the milk
Yes, that's why they're talking about bacteria left from pasteurization.
None of those problems were too big to handle for governments if they were allowed to work on it, and realistically they do work on it because they funded all the basic science that has made these things possible.
You actually don't know how small a percentage of basic science is done by government funding, do you?
Government sends Michelle Obama to tell all the kids, "let's get fit!".
The private markets create Pokemon Go and actually get all the kids outdoors. Profit is how a money-based system sends information signals to tell the innovators they are doing a good job. That's real regulation.
False. What telecoms â" correctly â" object to, are efforts by local governments to compete with them. Private businesses, individuals, or non-profits are fine...
No, they use the regulators to "deny" pole access to startups that could fleetly compete.
Yes, you "can" get pole access, but it'll cost you a quarter million dollars in legal fees. That ensures that the big boys can play but not anything like the ISP in TFS or anybody who could really compete on cost structure.
I wouldn't be surprised if the new routers have remote troubleshooting features that will make tech support easier/cheaper. Hence the surcharge....
Of course they're better for Verizon. Verizon enures the benefits, so Verizon should foot the bill.
ob. car analogy: I had a mechanic put a $6 "scanner" charge on his bill. I asked him about it and he said he had to pay for his new scanner somehow (after I had already told him the code from my $60 reader so it wasn't even necessary). He agreed to waive it "just once" so I never went back. Thank goodness there's no Public Mechanics Commission that granted him a monopoly on fixing cars in this town.
Service providers need tools to do their job well. There is always a time to get better tools. That's the responsibility of the service provider and is built into the price of the service. My goodness, if I showed up at a client site and billed them $20 to use my laptop to diagnose their network they'd tell me where to stick it and I'd deserve it.
I'm not exactly sure why Facebook owns both WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger
Why they want to own both markets or why their code bases didn't immediately converge? Both seem like rhetorical questions.
It seems very likely that, over time, both will share a core messaging base. If they have different skins on them at that point, it will be for market segmentation purposes.
The Signal protocol is currently limited to three devices. That doesn't suit the Messenger model well. Messenger's e2e is limited to one device right now. That's obviously a problem still, but might keep some people from jumping to Wire.
The double ratchet is a good idea, but until these things get federated, the market is going to remain a mess. Corporate silos aren't good for the Internet's security.
Does this mean that South Koreans don't have the benefit of GPS navigators?
Meanwhile my cable bill is $220. per month.
Wow, that's like a very expensive vacation more per year than I'm paying.
Is it sports packages? I hear people will pay a ton for their favorites.
Urgh. Sometimes governments really get stupid when it comes to translating common sense to any concept that happens to be "...on a computer."
Actually, they are floating plans to ban cash too. Bitcoin is just online cash, so the impetus to ban both would be largely the same.
And, yes, this means they want complete control of every aspect of every piece of commerce that happens among their subjects.
It's the 2016 update to the language of the 1996 Telecommunications Act. And this will be another federal payment to the same fraudsters that already made hundreds of billions on that scam without anyone of consequence noticing.
The people of consequence noticed, and they're back for more. The revolving door of corporate welfare and lobbying are well-understood and when the politicians get to run out in front of the parade, it's a win-win as far as they're concerned.
Because the people who have been kept from learning critical thinking in the schools will eat it up, and most of the rest of them will vote for either Clinton or Trump, so no change is guaranteed.
The People are getting what they want. Democracy, idiocracy, take your pick.
Or just bet on the candidate with CIA ties. It's been sure money since '80.
This is precisely why Bitcoin has always been a scam. If you weren't in on the ground floor you get screwed.
Not getting the maximum profit is not the same as getting screwed. Same as any company where the early investors reap the maximum profits but the companies still trade on the exchange with robust health.
There will be another halving in a few years - you could get in now and be in that advantaged position then.
Be more worried about privacy problems with bitcoin than that you weren't an early investor.
anyone who either uses Tor or operates an exit node is opening themselves to crazy risks.
Using Tor and operating an exit node are completely separate risk profiles.
Especially the exit node operators.
Not if they're libraries. Encourage your local librarians to support freedom of inquiry by joining the Library Freedom Project.
I've been to a few of their symposia and each time the room was completely packed with librarians who had often traveled a great distance to be there.
Right, and also you can be hard-nosed about references. If your boss is an asshole, you're not going to get a positive reference anyway. Companies have almost all stopped doing "bad references" and will merely acknowledge your era of employment. If you're truly "moving on" and will get a good reference from the boss or co-workers, then by all means preserve the value of that asset. Otherwise, if they're being abusive, tell 'em where to plant their lips. They might even reconsider how they're treating the other employees (though probably not) if your sudden exodus makes their life hell.
Reading between the lines, it sounds like Mozilla was afraid that Yahoo! would be bought by Microsoft and they wanted an out in that case. It's not a good strategy to send your users to your competitor.
I'm trying to recall if the "you should be using Chrome instead" notifications started before or after Mozilla switched away from Google.
Yet let a few thousand people have their data swiped through a government breach and people go apoplectic.
Based on the evidence it appears government is doing substantially better than private industry in protecting our data.
I might need a new debit card. What a pain. If you have government clearance, thanks to the OPM breach, the Chinese have all of your biometric data. Game over.
The Wendy's breach can be fixed with a bunch of new cards. The government breach cannot be fixed.
That is why people were apoplectic.