This sounds like just a way to stop people using credit cards to pay, since direct debiting your checking account waives the fee.
The article's screen-shot states:
The fee is waived for bill payments made... on accounts that are enrolled in AutoPay with any payment method (credit/debit/ACH card or electronic check). [emphasis mine]
So the fee has nothing to do with credit cards. Verizon wants you to use AutoPay.
The actual content, the talk itself, is in a little bitty two inch wide by two inch tall window that puts each sentence in a separate line; it's as unreadable is it can get.
With Android tablets though, because they come in such varieties and with such a selection of features you can have a much more personalised experience. Not to mention the fact that individual manufacturers can customise the interface, like HTC Sense and Samsung TouchWiz, to give you more opportunity to pick one that you like.
In five years, unsolicited advertisements may feel so personalized and relevant it may seem that spam is dead.
I don't care how personalized it is: it's still unsolicited and I don't want it in my in-box. Even if the mail is advertising something I'm interested in, unless I'm actually in the market to buy a new one (which is rare), I'll consider it spam.
Why aren't SSL certs only to encrypt the transmission so data can't be packet sniffed? Why must the cert also certify that foo.com's owners paid $X for a cert?
If I connect to mybank.com, can't I clearly tell from the URL that I'm going to where I think I'm going?
In contrast, when I ssh between computers, I don't need any certs for that. Assuming I typed the host's name correctly, I'm going to where I think I'm going. Right?
Sorry anyone gets cancer, but I wonder if he "found god" before he passed away. For his sake, I hope he made peace with god.
If you even bothered to read the summary, the answer was "no." And your hope isn't for his sake: it's really for yours -- the fact that somebody else believes in your fantasy serves only to bolster your belief.
Let's have some respect for the world's largest democracy, please.
They may be a democracy, but they're still fairly backward in several ways: far too religious, abortion of female fetuses and female "circumcision" (mutilation).
... lets not imagine that AT&T from the days before was cream and lollipops.
Perhaps not, but one thing that many forget is that there was a lot lost when we lost the old AT&T. AFAIK, back when AT&T was a monopoly, there was an understanding that, in return for being allowed to be a monopoly, they wouldn't enforce patents for their inventions.
Bell Labs was the premier research institution in the world having the slogan "a patent a day." We all know that things like C, Unix, and the transistor came from Bell Labs royalty-free.
Post-divestiture, the former understanding was also dissolved. Collateral damage is that, today, Bell Labs is a shadow of its former self and we're all losing out on the inventions and discoveries that would have come from them.
... Apple controls what apps are allowed. The apps are high quality.... I see the [sic] new apps each day for Android and most of it [sic] is pure trash. Honestly, how many bikini apps need to get released each day?
It's not that much better in Apple's app store. If you read the reviews for some apps, people complain about crashes, slowness, etc.
Also, while I don't know about bikini apps specifically, for any given type of app, there are sometimes hundreds in the app store. There are hundreds of tip calculators, RSS readers, and transportation apps just to name a few. While many may work, they're often poorly designed and/or have terrible UIs.
I really think Apple should be stricter. For example, I'd love to see Apple reduce the 5-star rating system to just 4 stars and de-list apps whose rating falls to and remains at 1 star for 30 days. That would force developers to make better apps and responsive to users culling the ton of crap apps from the store.
[C]utting them off won't change their mind... and probably putting their child at greater risk.
The Natural world is a harsh place. As callous as it may seem, I bet the death of their child will change their mind. But even if it doesn't, it means they're no longer passing along their genes. It's Natural Selection at work.
No, I really meant Fifth Amendment.
If there is other, possibly unrelated
evidence of a crime on the phone,
you'd be giving incriminating evidence against yourself.
I assume that if you password-protect your phone, you can refuse to give the password to the police since it might be a violation of your Fifth Amendment rights -- right?
But if the low-key experiment is successful, Google could follow Apple in becoming evil. 'It is our first foray into evil,' said Google's Asmodeus Dessicant.
You need more than a couple of percent [of alcohol], though, so a beer isn't going to help you much. A glass of port or something stronger, like swishing a shot of whiskey or vodka around in your mouth, will whisk a lot of the capsaicin away.
According to Alton Brown, you need pure ethyl alcohol.
The internet is supposed to be all about free expression, no?
Uhm, no. It was funded initially by DARPA for defense and research purposes for communication between universities and the military. Go read some actual history.
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The article's screen-shot states:
So the fee has nothing to do with credit cards. Verizon wants you to use AutoPay.
So hit the "full screen" button. Jeez.
For many people, more choice is a bad thing.
My annoyance threshold is infinitely high. And, as another person responded, I don't want ads -- I would at best want unbiased reviews.
I don't care how personalized it is: it's still unsolicited and I don't want it in my in-box. Even if the mail is advertising something I'm interested in, unless I'm actually in the market to buy a new one (which is rare), I'll consider it spam.
If I connect to mybank.com, can't I clearly tell from the URL that I'm going to where I think I'm going?
In contrast, when I ssh between computers, I don't need any certs for that. Assuming I typed the host's name correctly, I'm going to where I think I'm going. Right?
If you even bothered to read the summary, the answer was "no." And your hope isn't for his sake: it's really for yours -- the fact that somebody else believes in your fantasy serves only to bolster your belief.
Additionally, have a look at this.
They may be a democracy, but they're still fairly backward in several ways: far too religious, abortion of female fetuses and female "circumcision" (mutilation).
Perhaps not, but one thing that many forget is that there was a lot lost when we lost the old AT&T. AFAIK, back when AT&T was a monopoly, there was an understanding that, in return for being allowed to be a monopoly, they wouldn't enforce patents for their inventions.
Bell Labs was the premier research institution in the world having the slogan "a patent a day." We all know that things like C, Unix, and the transistor came from Bell Labs royalty-free.
Post-divestiture, the former understanding was also dissolved. Collateral damage is that, today, Bell Labs is a shadow of its former self and we're all losing out on the inventions and discoveries that would have come from them.
I don't understand why that's bad. I can do sudo bash too.
The problem with doing that is that a developer could publish an app, then a "fix" that does something nefarious.
I've never needed to log in as root: sudo works just fine.
It's not that much better in Apple's app store. If you read the reviews for some apps, people complain about crashes, slowness, etc.
Also, while I don't know about bikini apps specifically, for any given type of app, there are sometimes hundreds in the app store. There are hundreds of tip calculators, RSS readers, and transportation apps just to name a few. While many may work, they're often poorly designed and/or have terrible UIs.
I really think Apple should be stricter. For example, I'd love to see Apple reduce the 5-star rating system to just 4 stars and de-list apps whose rating falls to and remains at 1 star for 30 days. That would force developers to make better apps and responsive to users culling the ton of crap apps from the store.
The Natural world is a harsh place. As callous as it may seem, I bet the death of their child will change their mind. But even if it doesn't, it means they're no longer passing along their genes. It's Natural Selection at work.
You're replying to the wrong person.
I guess you've never been in the USA then. I've lived in several cities here and never had to pay for a library card.
They should have had a TARDIS materialize. That would have been awesome.
No, I really meant Fifth Amendment. If there is other, possibly unrelated evidence of a crime on the phone, you'd be giving incriminating evidence against yourself.
I assume that if you password-protect your phone, you can refuse to give the password to the police since it might be a violation of your Fifth Amendment rights -- right?
Best not touch anything in their store.
According to Alton Brown, you need pure ethyl alcohol.
At least for chimps: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/ape-genius.html
They've done some very clever tests, so yes.
Parrots (and even chimps) only mimic. They do not actively teach.
Uhm, no. It was funded initially by DARPA for defense and research purposes for communication between universities and the military. Go read some actual history.