I think the problem is, if you buy crypto on credit, it's basically a cash advance. You're buying another currency. Even if that weren't the case, its overly easy to buy crypto on credit and sell it for cash seconds later. It would be so easy to max out a credit card and run off with the cash, which I'm guessing is their main motivation.
The line "97% of all bitcoins are held by 4% of addresses," is completely uninformed. A great deal of that 97% is bitcoins held on exchanges. For better or worse, a good amount of people store their coins in the custody of exchanges. On the blockchain, they appear to belong to one person because the exchange pools them all together, but they no more belong to a single person than deposits are owned by a bank.
I won't buy DRM shows at any price. I want to manage my shows in the player of my choice and I don't want to worry about losing access. I've been burned on this before when I bought a show to watch at the airport and lost access to it when I left the country. At 1.99 a pop I'd pay for a few worthwhile things, and 99 cents I'd be willing to buy a lot. But with DRM? Not a penny.
There's a reason you never hear about the pre-paid plans though, it's because they all cost more than the post-paid ones.
Not true, they are often cheaper because there's no cost added to pay for your phone subsidy. They aren't advertised because they can't hit you with $1000 of unexpected roaming charges when you leave the country and forget to turn off roaming, because they can't charge you more money than you already pre-paid. They also can't cram a bunch of surcharges onto your bill.
Far too many people in the US do not know how their phones work, so let me explain a little. CDMA phones do not usually have sim cards, and are tied to a specific carrier. GSM phones use sim card slots. In theory, switching phones is as simple and moving the SIM card to another phone. Basically, your 'service' is tied to the sim card, so you can switch service providers by inserting a sim card from another service provider into your phone. In practice, in the US, if you buy phones from a carrier directly, they usually lock the phone to that carrier. It can be unlocked again, which used to be legal to do youself. Sometimes the carrier will do it for you for free, but they have a number of restrictions on doing it.
If you want to use a GSM phone in the US, you are limited to T-Mobile and AT&T, or a few minor prepaid carriers like Straight Talk. Just search for GSM carriers. Most of them will let you order just a sim card from them online, and you can bring your own phone. If you want a phone that will work easily with other GSM carriers inside and outside the US, search online for Quad Band Unlocked Phones. Amazon has a ton.
If you just use texting, T-Mobile prepaid has $30 month unlimited texting and internet, but only 100 minutes. Or there's a $30 1500 minutes/texts plan. Or you can just do 10 cents a minute.
If that was the case, they'd be better off copying the data and putting it back before it was noticed as missing.
If someone just wanted the data, they put themselves in more jeopardy by making it obvious something was taken. Now they have to worry about security camera review, fingerprinting, etc.
I have on more than one occasion used a "illegitimate" key rather than hunt down the real key. I've purchased enough software to fill 3 boxes, but sometimes its faster to find a key or crack on the internet than try to hunt down the legitimate key. Hey, I'm unorganized, I admit it. I even try to keep a text file with legitimate keys on my computers, but even those seem to be misplaced over time.
If I had purchased this software legitimately, and used the wrong key, I wonder what my recourses would be if it deleted my files.
Too bad for you, you could save some money and help your grocer better serve you while giving up no personal data at all.
No personal data eh? Don't you remember the firefighter that went to jail for arson because his son bought fire starters with his club card? All your purchase and payment history is recorded. If you want to give fake information, you better remember to never use a credit/debit card with your club card either.
I used to work at an ISP, and I can tell you with confidence that the average Windows admin doesn't know his box has been breached until the system either goes down or he gets notified of a huge bandwidth bill.
The problem with this is that they could place sensors along the road and eventually track everyone everywhere. You might think that people would be complaining if they did this, but if it was done in the name of stopping terrorists or criminals, how many people are going to complain enough to stop it?
I had a friend that had a degree in physics, and I tried to explain to him why the speed of light had to be relative. He couldn't comprehend what I was trying to explain and just discounted it. I guess that's why he was working at Pizza Hut.
I wonder if they are trying to get this in place, so that down the road, they can uniquely identify each CD using some sort of digital watermark, and track where a burned copy originally came from.
>It can only store a single ASCII character per purchased account?
Yep, but I'm still willing to give it a try. If I see you online, my name will be 'A'.
>> I'd be curious to know if the service contract mentions anything about modifying your system to increase bandwidth.
>I don't think the FBI would show up unless they had a somewhat valid case. The ATF, maybe, but not the FBI.
Nah, Buckeye probably just had to pass a few bucks to their congressmen.
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I think the problem is, if you buy crypto on credit, it's basically a cash advance. You're buying another currency. Even if that weren't the case, its overly easy to buy crypto on credit and sell it for cash seconds later. It would be so easy to max out a credit card and run off with the cash, which I'm guessing is their main motivation.
The line "97% of all bitcoins are held by 4% of addresses," is completely uninformed. A great deal of that 97% is bitcoins held on exchanges. For better or worse, a good amount of people store their coins in the custody of exchanges. On the blockchain, they appear to belong to one person because the exchange pools them all together, but they no more belong to a single person than deposits are owned by a bank.
I'd say at best, they are in the same database and marked with some special restriction flags.
I won't buy DRM shows at any price. I want to manage my shows in the player of my choice and I don't want to worry about losing access. I've been burned on this before when I bought a show to watch at the airport and lost access to it when I left the country. At 1.99 a pop I'd pay for a few worthwhile things, and 99 cents I'd be willing to buy a lot. But with DRM? Not a penny.
There's a reason you never hear about the pre-paid plans though, it's because they all cost more than the post-paid ones.
Not true, they are often cheaper because there's no cost added to pay for your phone subsidy. They aren't advertised because they can't hit you with $1000 of unexpected roaming charges when you leave the country and forget to turn off roaming, because they can't charge you more money than you already pre-paid. They also can't cram a bunch of surcharges onto your bill.
Far too many people in the US do not know how their phones work, so let me explain a little. CDMA phones do not usually have sim cards, and are tied to a specific carrier. GSM phones use sim card slots. In theory, switching phones is as simple and moving the SIM card to another phone. Basically, your 'service' is tied to the sim card, so you can switch service providers by inserting a sim card from another service provider into your phone. In practice, in the US, if you buy phones from a carrier directly, they usually lock the phone to that carrier. It can be unlocked again, which used to be legal to do youself. Sometimes the carrier will do it for you for free, but they have a number of restrictions on doing it. If you want to use a GSM phone in the US, you are limited to T-Mobile and AT&T, or a few minor prepaid carriers like Straight Talk. Just search for GSM carriers. Most of them will let you order just a sim card from them online, and you can bring your own phone. If you want a phone that will work easily with other GSM carriers inside and outside the US, search online for Quad Band Unlocked Phones. Amazon has a ton. If you just use texting, T-Mobile prepaid has $30 month unlimited texting and internet, but only 100 minutes. Or there's a $30 1500 minutes/texts plan. Or you can just do 10 cents a minute.
If that was the case, they'd be better off copying the data and putting it back before it was noticed as missing.
If someone just wanted the data, they put themselves in more jeopardy by making it obvious something was taken. Now they have to worry about security camera review, fingerprinting, etc.
It's YOUR idea, YOU try it! :)
I have on more than one occasion used a "illegitimate" key rather than hunt down the real key. I've purchased enough software to fill 3 boxes, but sometimes its faster to find a key or crack on the internet than try to hunt down the legitimate key. Hey, I'm unorganized, I admit it. I even try to keep a text file with legitimate keys on my computers, but even those seem to be misplaced over time.
If I had purchased this software legitimately, and used the wrong key, I wonder what my recourses would be if it deleted my files.
If anyone knew, they would probably be working rather than reading slashdot.
I used to work at an ISP, and I can tell you with confidence that the average Windows admin doesn't know his box has been breached until the system either goes down or he gets notified of a huge bandwidth bill.
The problem with this is that they could place sensors along the road and eventually track everyone everywhere. You might think that people would be complaining if they did this, but if it was done in the name of stopping terrorists or criminals, how many people are going to complain enough to stop it?
I had a friend that had a degree in physics, and I tried to explain to him why the speed of light had to be relative. He couldn't comprehend what I was trying to explain and just discounted it. I guess that's why he was working at Pizza Hut.
I wonder if they are trying to get this in place, so that down the road, they can uniquely identify each CD using some sort of digital watermark, and track where a burned copy originally came from.
>It can only store a single ASCII character per purchased account? Yep, but I'm still willing to give it a try. If I see you online, my name will be 'A'.
>> I'd be curious to know if the service contract mentions anything about modifying your system to increase bandwidth. >I don't think the FBI would show up unless they had a somewhat valid case. The ATF, maybe, but not the FBI. Nah, Buckeye probably just had to pass a few bucks to their congressmen.
I would love to see this cable company raided for fraud because some of their users aren't getting advertised download speeds.