In pre-paid phones what is pre-paid for is the service: the minutes, data, etc..
Just as printer manufacturers can sell printers at a discount knowing that there is a high likelihood (but no contract) that you will buy ink from them, phone companies can discount a locked phone, knowing that there is a high likelihood that you will buy more minutes from them.
Exactly. I never understood why they bother to lock the phones in the first place. If you have a 2 year contract, they have your money already for that long. Locking the phone doesn't gain them anything.
What about pre-paid plans where there is no contract?
The whole point of the parade was to demonstrate that they had the weapons, though. Why hold the parade just to show off obvious fakes?
You ignore the target of the message. They were not trying to show the US that they had missiles, they were trying to show their own population that they had missiles.
TFA mentions at least one challenge. Kit in automobiles have to be built for extreme conditions (temperature range, vibrations, chemicals, dust, etc).
Hyperbole. The engine management and other systems vital to operation of the car have to meet such specifications, but infotainment systems can be mounted in the passenger compartment side of the firewall and so don't need to withstand such environmental conditions.
On the other hand, the manufacturers have a vested interest in making systems non-upgradeable by any means other than buying a new car.
My credit card used to be compromised about once a year, until I stopped using a gas station near my house that (like many gas stations of the same major brand) has old pumps that are not resistant to installation of card skimmers. Since I stopped using that gas station, I have not had any problems.
Except the policy doesn't technically discriminate on the basis of sex. A woman that does not bear a child only gets 8 weeks, just like a man. The additional 8 weeks is for recovery from pregnancy.
Unless Yahoo can show that 8 weeks recovery time is normal, then this is discrimination. Making up a bogus rule that has a discriminatory effect does not get you a pass on discrimination laws.
That would be about the time that LinkedIn started making the search features LESS effective. For example, in the past, I could review lists of new LinkedIn members that worked for the same companies as I did, at the times that I was there, When I had determined that I did not know them, it would not show me those names again.
The classmates search is completely useless to me. I can no loger add search terms to the search to narrow down the results (I used to be able to do this). All I can do is get the same list of classmates that I have seen before. Since I left university decades ago, I don't have many existing connections to classmates, so a graph search for related classmates is little use to me. I want to search by looking for common courses or interests at the time I was there. Probably, for people only a few years out of college (the Facebook generation), this isn't a problem, since the connections were established while at college.
So, perhaps the infrastructure is better, but from this user's perspective, the site has got worse.
Either MyPillow.com was stupid, or the money was insignificant to them, else why pay $125k up front in order to get a supplier to deliver when they had already failed to deliver on time?
Because AMEX issues both Credit cards and Charge cards these days (and GGP was wrong to assert that AMEX issues charge cards when it issues both). You clearly have one of the former.
The Amex charge was refunded to the employee. Nowhere does it say in the article that he was charged a second time (since the second time, an actual invoice was sent to the company).
Apparently you suck at reading the second page of articles:
Furlong's card was subsequently re-charged for the $125,000 but this time American Express refused to credit his account, saying that Salesforce.com had provided "authorization for the charge and a signed contract and order form stating that no cancellations or refunds would be allowed," according to his suit.
Without the CVV (verification code) you cannot do anything usefull...
Tell that to the criminals who were spending money in gas stations and restaurants in central California using a clone of my wife's card a couple of years ago.
He never said that rounded corners were distinctive. He said that they were a part of a distinctive design, which gets at a fundamental principle of design patents that you seem to not understand. Design patents work by specifying a number of claims for a particular design, which are taken as a whole when determining if infringement occurred. There is no design patent just for rounded corners. Don't believe me? Prove me wrong. What you'll find is that rounded corners are always just one claim among many in the design patents in which they're mentioned, and so they are never considered in a vacuum when determining whether a product infringes on the design patent.
Try buying ASIC place and route software. Typical license prices are in the range of $500K to $1M per seat (when bought in small numbers) for a 3-year license. However, this software is normally sold under a floating license model, so the customer can upgrade the machine on which it runs to newer hardware and software without any extra cost.
Mkay...just a quick google
Here's a bug from 2008 in which an upgrade toasted some Perl stuff. Oddly enough, it seems to show up in a 2012 post as well
Hah, hah, very funny. Did you not notice that both the examples you cite were distro upgrades. That's like saying: "I upgraded from Vista to WIndows 7 and xyz broke". It was not "I ran a routine update on my system and something broke."
The original poster has not stated that he knows how his account was hijacked.
His first priority should be to understand the how the hijack happened and take measures to makes usre that it won't happen again. Regaining control of the accoount again is not sufficient.
I know that you can run Linux VMs under Hyper-V, but why would you? Windows VMs run well under KVM and perform well with the Virtio drivers from Redhat.
Since the majority of servers are running various forms of Linux these days, I have yet to understand the market segment for Hyper-V outside Microsoft-only organizations.
You need to dump your CC company and get a new one.
My CC has been compromised several times, once for over $3k (plus foreign transaction fees). Every time, my CC company has cancelled every penny of the charges.
I think the source of the compromise was a local gas station that has old pumps that I believe are vulnerable to skimmer installation. Haven't had a problem since I stopped using that gas station.
Recently I came across a Siebel/Oracle CRM (Customer relations management) system that required IE7 or IE8. Who has these versions? On Win 7, Microsoft has pushed out IE9 as a default update.
So here is a company requiring its customers to use an old version of IE that few people will actually have. While it wasn't the largest company in the USA, it is in the S&P 500 list.
I tested using FF with the User Agent plugin, but the website uses ActiveX, so it definitely required IE.
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In pre-paid phones what is pre-paid for is the service: the minutes, data, etc..
Just as printer manufacturers can sell printers at a discount knowing that there is a high likelihood (but no contract) that you will buy ink from them, phone companies can discount a locked phone, knowing that there is a high likelihood that you will buy more minutes from them.
What about pre-paid plans where there is no contract?
Reading comprehension fail. The person who died was the owner of the segway company, one Jimi Heselden, not Dean Kamen.
Which country is that?
You ignore the target of the message. They were not trying to show the US that they had missiles, they were trying to show their own population that they had missiles.
Hyperbole. The engine management and other systems vital to operation of the car have to meet such specifications, but infotainment systems can be mounted in the passenger compartment side of the firewall and so don't need to withstand such environmental conditions.
On the other hand, the manufacturers have a vested interest in making systems non-upgradeable by any means other than buying a new car.
My credit card used to be compromised about once a year, until I stopped using a gas station near my house that (like many gas stations of the same major brand) has old pumps that are not resistant to installation of card skimmers. Since I stopped using that gas station, I have not had any problems.
You don't have the numbers memorized? Wow. You must not make many puchases on-line.
Unless Yahoo can show that 8 weeks recovery time is normal, then this is discrimination. Making up a bogus rule that has a discriminatory effect does not get you a pass on discrimination laws.
Modifying your analogy a little:
You took your car to a repair shop. The repair shop used your car as a taxi for a day (using your gas and adding miles to your car).
That would be about the time that LinkedIn started making the search features LESS effective. For example, in the past, I could review lists of new LinkedIn members that worked for the same companies as I did, at the times that I was there, When I had determined that I did not know them, it would not show me those names again.
The classmates search is completely useless to me. I can no loger add search terms to the search to narrow down the results (I used to be able to do this). All I can do is get the same list of classmates that I have seen before. Since I left university decades ago, I don't have many existing connections to classmates, so a graph search for related classmates is little use to me. I want to search by looking for common courses or interests at the time I was there. Probably, for people only a few years out of college (the Facebook generation), this isn't a problem, since the connections were established while at college.
So, perhaps the infrastructure is better, but from this user's perspective, the site has got worse.
I tried that a couple of years ago, but I could not figure out how to send an ESC key -- which makes using vim pretty much impossible.
Either MyPillow.com was stupid, or the money was insignificant to them, else why pay $125k up front in order to get a supplier to deliver when they had already failed to deliver on time?
Because AMEX issues both Credit cards and Charge cards these days (and GGP was wrong to assert that AMEX issues charge cards when it issues both). You clearly have one of the former.
Apparently you suck at reading the second page of articles:
Tell that to the criminals who were spending money in gas stations and restaurants in central California using a clone of my wife's card a couple of years ago.
Challenge accepted: . Design Patent 504,889 -- which lists Steve Jobs and Apple design guru Jonathan Ive, among others, as the "inventors" -- is a claim for a rectangular electronic device with rounded corners. Thatâ(TM)s right, Apple is claiming control over rectangles. The full claim is only 2 lines long, and amazingly broad -- Apple is claiming all devices with the basic shape shown here.
Try buying ASIC place and route software. Typical license prices are in the range of $500K to $1M per seat (when bought in small numbers) for a 3-year license. However, this software is normally sold under a floating license model, so the customer can upgrade the machine on which it runs to newer hardware and software without any extra cost.
Hah, hah, very funny. Did you not notice that both the examples you cite were distro upgrades. That's like saying: "I upgraded from Vista to WIndows 7 and xyz broke". It was not "I ran a routine update on my system and something broke."
The original poster has not stated that he knows how his account was hijacked.
His first priority should be to understand the how the hijack happened and take measures to makes usre that it won't happen again. Regaining control of the accoount again is not sufficient.
I know that you can run Linux VMs under Hyper-V, but why would you? Windows VMs run well under KVM and perform well with the Virtio drivers from Redhat.
Since the majority of servers are running various forms of Linux these days, I have yet to understand the market segment for Hyper-V outside Microsoft-only organizations.
You need to dump your CC company and get a new one.
My CC has been compromised several times, once for over $3k (plus foreign transaction fees). Every time, my CC company has cancelled every penny of the charges.
I think the source of the compromise was a local gas station that has old pumps that I believe are vulnerable to skimmer installation. Haven't had a problem since I stopped using that gas station.
Recently I came across a Siebel/Oracle CRM (Customer relations management) system that required IE7 or IE8. Who has these versions? On Win 7, Microsoft has pushed out IE9 as a default update.
So here is a company requiring its customers to use an old version of IE that few people will actually have. While it wasn't the largest company in the USA, it is in the S&P 500 list.
I tested using FF with the User Agent plugin, but the website uses ActiveX, so it definitely required IE.
And this kind of application is just what is needed to bring the issue to the attention of the public at large.