Except Drug Dealers don't keep Bank Accounts. Its a cash and you are carrying business.
This requires you to give Square Your debit card info, and makes your recipient give you THEIR bank details. Seriously, the NSA couldn't have dreamed up a move invasive scheme. What could possibly go wrong with that?
Left unsaid in the linked article, (and also the Square website) is how square is going to monetize this, other than by *cough* losing one out of a hundred payments. They claim the service is free. FAQ Here to both parties. So, how do they finance that, other than getting a piece of the debit card fee? (Senders have to use a Debit card).
One wonders just how much the debit card fee is jacked up to allow Square to assume the risk for this type of service, and handle the deluge of complaints and lost payments claims. And how many will be suckered into handing over their bank info to a 419 email purportedly from Square.
World Plus Dog is rushing to mobile payments, but I'm not so sure this is well thought out.
Boston Marathon proved the meta data collection was a total failure, the tapping of international phone calls, international emails, text messages all failed. And when the Russians hand over information on the older brother, they send an FBI agent to talk to him, and that's All they did.
Yet you throw that fact out there and it will be used to justify more surveillance.
but after Al Qaeda showed everyone how infiltration can really be done,
Except that isn't true.
Every one of the 9/11 terrorists fit a profile that should have sounded alarm bells at the border. Finding guys like that is easy if you are looking and it doesn't require reading every grandmothers email, or recording every phone call or feeling every crotch.
Russian operatives were far more successful, some escaping detection for multiple decades.
The real revelation was how much of it was going on domestically, before 9/11 the NSA was basically barred from operating domestically, with the interpretation of a few provisions in the Patriot Act they went from almost no domestic footprint to dragneting most domestic communications.
Exactly.
And that happened in an eye blink, while even everyone was outraged over 9/11 and wondering how these guys escaped detection. Not something that springs up overnight. They just made legal what they were doing all along.
The surveillance was ramped up so fast that even the NSA didn't have the power to handle it all initially. Their focus was on recording it all so they could sift it later to find the guilty, not to prevent an attack. But you know they had been planning something like this for quite a while, and doing it on a smaller scale, and 9/11 gave them the cover they needed to expand to a level they kept largely hidden, even though many suspected it.
The question is now if we will ever grow the balls to jump out of this boiling pot, even as the heat is turned up, to the point where we become a total police state, listening to every word we speak or type.
Saying something "creates jobs" is nothing more than a prettier version of the broken window fallacy.
Bullshit. Unless you can go out and make the case that the Irish Government is sneaking around breaking people's iPhones so that Apple have to make more, and hire more people to sell them in Ireland, all you have proven is that you are some sort of whackjob Luddite.
Broken Windows is purposely destroying something to keep someone employed. Creating jobs, for expanding services, support, and new product development is going to happen somewhere, with or without Ireland. So Ireland wants it to be in Ireland. Nothing is being destroyed, by either Apple or Ireland.
(Well Blackberry has fallen on hard times, but only by the choices made by millions).
If you don't know your fallacies, don't spout them.
The money brought in by that level of employment may be worth more than some minor tax they might earn if Ireland changed the tax loophole.
Because Apple need do nothing more than change a couple lines their US tax return to cut that revenue stream out from under Ireland. So you can bet there will be some small increase in taxes but that increase will be very small as long as there is a large employment component in Ireland.
Considering a lot of these guys commit suicide after they're done, what makes you think that their victims being armed or not is a particularly big concern?
You are wrong on your facts. Plus, it doesn't do a terrorist any good to be gunned down the instant they brandish a weapon. Unless they can actually inflict significant death and destruction, they accomplish nothing. Trading the life of one school kid for their own before being gunned down by passers by isn't really on their agenda.
and you never know if the SPAM are actually a broadcast messages with certain keywords carrying the instructions for their coordinated attacks. May be the typos contains letters to form hidden words too?
Or, maybe its shows a new vector for an anti-NSA attack by the Iranians. The perpetrators send small parts of a virus in individual spams, and wait till the NSA computers puts them all together to form a logic bomb or something.
Hmmm, if they were to do that, the next Honest American President would have to award them the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
For Apollo 13, Ron Howard shot four hours of footage in free-fall, 25 seconds at a time, for the space sequences. That was on a budget of only $52 million. It can be done.
You and 37 other posters need to learn to read a thread before rushing in to post redundant information.
And you also need to dig back and look at all the nit picking criticisms of Apollo 13 from the same technical purists that are gutting this film. All that comet footage did was soak up the budget, it didn't actually help in avoiding criticism.
f you can't do science, then you'd damn well better not attempt science fiction.
Well, that just about wipes out all the authors recognized as masters of science fiction doesn't it? Good thing no one put you in charge of these decisions.
And when visiting any tech store, like AT&T or Best Buy, or whatever, I'm always looking for the sales associate who is an Asian Chick, because she is FAR more likely know her shit than anyone else, and far less likely to push some petty preference on me.
I know, I'm a bad person, racist and sexist, and Technophilic to boot. Still I'm human and can't turn that behavior off. I don't go shopping to serve as training fodder for new hires. When I can't avoid it, I try to be helpful and patient, and non stress inducing, but I actively avoid incompetence. Sorry.
There is nothing about this proposed technology designed to make your life easier. Its not there for you. Its there for the stores. It won't reduce your prices. It will not save you money.
Frankly, I'd rather remain an ass then become a koolaid drinking idiot like you.
Why? because i bring up a very real circumstance of why some people are fat?
Yup, pretty much for that reason alone.
Do you not understand that grocery shopping and grocery stores are a volume business, and it doesn't make a bit of difference to anyone if an advertisement appears incorrectly? How is that different than what we have today, where all advertising is hit or miss?
Would you like to propose a solution where your health information is shared with grocery stores just to make their in-isle advertising more appropriate and better targeted?
No? I thought not. So why bring up health information which you would never agree to share, and neither would your sister?
That works for small purchases, but the delays requesting clerk resets just because you re-positioned a can of beans in the bagging area isn't worth the time saving for big buys.
Pick the middle aged lady as your checkout line, and ignore any minor difference in line length.
Smart shoppers learn that the semi cute checkers are new hires. The haggered looking middle aged women are long time employees and know every price/number in the book and never have to look up anything when the bar code sticker falls off the Mellon.
If she calls everyone in line "Hun", chances are you are in the right line.
Yes, load up the cart, and distribute it. Tampons in the Tea, Tea in the Chips. Wear horse head masks or Santa Beards.
When store managers see this kind of shenanigans, they will rush this technology out of their store. The grocery business works on paper thin margins, and huge volume. (Its probably one of the most efficient large scale industries we have managed to build.) Anything that increases cost without an larger increase in revenue till end up in the scrap heap of history in short order.
Besides, when Amazon delivers groceries, how is this going to make shopping any less annoying?
Well are you running an administration service on an open Internet facing port?
Your router won't get a chance to read the user agent string if you don't allowed an inward connection. Then all you have to worry about is your insiders.
Neither of those statements need be wrong. They are not mutually exclusive.
Further they dropped Biology Online as a partner.
So both children wewe sent to their rooms. Perfect . I don't see any remaining problem here except your stubborn insistence that SA should let a scorned women use their platform as a forum for a mud slinging brawl.
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Drug Deal!
Except Drug Dealers don't keep Bank Accounts. Its a cash and you are carrying business.
This requires you to give Square Your debit card info, and makes your recipient give you THEIR bank details.
Seriously, the NSA couldn't have dreamed up a move invasive scheme. What could possibly go wrong with that?
Left unsaid in the linked article, (and also the Square website) is how square is going to monetize this, other than by
*cough* losing one out of a hundred payments. They claim the service is free. FAQ Here to both parties. So, how do they finance that, other than getting a piece of the debit card fee? (Senders have to use a Debit card).
One wonders just how much the debit card fee is jacked up to allow Square to assume the risk for this type of service, and handle the deluge of complaints and lost payments claims. And how many will be suckered into handing over their bank info to a 419 email purportedly from Square.
World Plus Dog is rushing to mobile payments, but I'm not so sure this is well thought out.
Everything you've said is spot on.
Boston Marathon proved the meta data collection was a total failure, the tapping of international phone calls, international emails, text messages all failed. And when the Russians hand over information on the older brother, they send an FBI agent to talk to him, and that's All they did.
Yet you throw that fact out there and it will be used to justify more surveillance.
Well, I couldn't make any claims about the ones not yet discovered, could I?
but after Al Qaeda showed everyone how infiltration can really be done,
Except that isn't true.
Every one of the 9/11 terrorists fit a profile that should have sounded alarm bells at the border.
Finding guys like that is easy if you are looking and it doesn't require reading every grandmothers email, or recording
every phone call or feeling every crotch.
Russian operatives were far more successful, some escaping detection for multiple decades.
The real revelation was how much of it was going on domestically, before 9/11 the NSA was basically barred from operating domestically, with the interpretation of a few provisions in the Patriot Act they went from almost no domestic footprint to dragneting most domestic communications.
Exactly.
And that happened in an eye blink, while even everyone was outraged over 9/11 and wondering how these guys escaped detection. Not something that springs up overnight. They just made legal what they were doing all along.
The surveillance was ramped up so fast that even the NSA didn't have the power to handle it all initially. Their focus was on recording it all so they could sift it later to find the guilty, not to prevent an attack. But you know they had been planning something like this for quite a while, and doing it on a smaller scale, and 9/11 gave them the cover they needed to expand to a level they kept largely hidden, even though many suspected it.
The question is now if we will ever grow the balls to jump out of this boiling pot, even as the heat is turned up, to the point where we become a total police state, listening to every word we speak or type.
Saying something "creates jobs" is nothing more than a prettier version of the broken window fallacy.
Bullshit.
Unless you can go out and make the case that the Irish Government is sneaking around breaking people's iPhones
so that Apple have to make more, and hire more people to sell them in Ireland, all you have proven is that
you are some sort of whackjob Luddite.
Broken Windows is purposely destroying something to keep someone employed.
Creating jobs, for expanding services, support, and new product development is going to happen somewhere,
with or without Ireland. So Ireland wants it to be in Ireland. Nothing is being destroyed, by either Apple or Ireland.
(Well Blackberry has fallen on hard times, but only by the choices made by millions).
If you don't know your fallacies, don't spout them.
There are more than a few jobs. By last year 2,800 staff in Cork alone.
The money brought in by that level of employment may be worth more than some minor tax they might earn if
Ireland changed the tax loophole.
Because Apple need do nothing more than change a couple lines their US tax return to cut that revenue stream
out from under Ireland. So you can bet there will be some small increase in taxes but that increase will be very
small as long as there is a large employment component in Ireland.
How exactly is closing this loophole "job killing"?
Sometimes reading past the title of the post is helpful. The GP answered your question before you asked it.
Yep, because the "the deadliest non-school shooting rampage in American history" didn't occur in Texas.
Considering a lot of these guys commit suicide after they're done, what makes you think that their victims being armed or not is a particularly big concern?
You are wrong on your facts.
Plus, it doesn't do a terrorist any good to be gunned down the instant they brandish a weapon.
Unless they can actually inflict significant death and destruction, they accomplish nothing.
Trading the life of one school kid for their own before being gunned down by passers by isn't really on their agenda.
and you never know if the SPAM are actually a broadcast messages with certain keywords carrying the instructions for their coordinated attacks. May be the typos contains letters to form hidden words too?
Or, maybe its shows a new vector for an anti-NSA attack by the Iranians. The perpetrators send small parts of a virus in individual spams, and wait till the NSA computers puts them all together to form a logic bomb or something.
Hmmm, if they were to do that, the next Honest American President would have to award them the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Already posted 400 times. Read the thread before jumping in.
And remember there was a hue and cry about inaccuracies in Apollo 13 as well.
For Apollo 13, Ron Howard shot four hours of footage in free-fall, 25 seconds at a time, for the space sequences. That was on a budget of only $52 million. It can be done.
You and 37 other posters need to learn to read a thread before rushing in to post redundant information.
And you also need to dig back and look at all the nit picking criticisms of Apollo 13 from the same technical purists that are gutting this film.
All that comet footage did was soak up the budget, it didn't actually help in avoiding criticism.
f you can't do science, then you'd damn well better not attempt science fiction.
Well, that just about wipes out all the authors recognized as masters of science fiction doesn't it?
Good thing no one put you in charge of these decisions.
The uncanny valley has to do with robots. The term was coined by the robotics professor Masahiro Mori.
It has nothing to do with film or the attempt at realism therein.
And when visiting any tech store, like AT&T or Best Buy, or whatever, I'm always looking for the
sales associate who is an Asian Chick, because she is FAR more likely know her shit than anyone else, and
far less likely to push some petty preference on me.
I know, I'm a bad person, racist and sexist, and Technophilic to boot. Still I'm human and can't turn that behavior off.
I don't go shopping to serve as training fodder for new hires. When I can't avoid it, I try to be helpful and patient, and non stress inducing, but I actively avoid incompetence. Sorry.
There is nothing about this proposed technology designed to make your life easier.
Its not there for you. Its there for the stores.
It won't reduce your prices.
It will not save you money.
Frankly, I'd rather remain an ass then become a koolaid drinking idiot like you.
Why? because i bring up a very real circumstance of why some people are fat?
Yup, pretty much for that reason alone.
Do you not understand that grocery shopping and grocery stores are a volume business, and
it doesn't make a bit of difference to anyone if an advertisement appears incorrectly?
How is that different than what we have today, where all advertising is hit or miss?
Would you like to propose a solution where your health information is shared with grocery stores just
to make their in-isle advertising more appropriate and better targeted?
No?
I thought not. So why bring up health information which you would never agree to share,
and neither would your sister?
That works for small purchases, but the delays requesting clerk resets just because you re-positioned
a can of beans in the bagging area isn't worth the time saving for big buys.
Pick the middle aged lady as your checkout line, and ignore any minor difference in line length.
Smart shoppers learn that the semi cute checkers are new hires. The haggered looking
middle aged women are long time employees and know every price/number in the book and never
have to look up anything when the bar code sticker falls off the Mellon.
If she calls everyone in line "Hun", chances are you are in the right line.
Yes, load up the cart, and distribute it. Tampons in the Tea, Tea in the Chips.
Wear horse head masks or Santa Beards.
When store managers see this kind of shenanigans, they will rush this technology out of their store.
The grocery business works on paper thin margins, and huge volume. (Its probably one of the most
efficient large scale industries we have managed to build.) Anything that increases cost without an
larger increase in revenue till end up in the scrap heap of history in short order.
Besides, when Amazon delivers groceries, how is this going to make shopping any less
annoying?
Have you ever been near a film shoot?
The number of people needed, and the time involved for a typical 15 seconds of video won't be possible in space for another hundred years.
In the mean time, why can't people simply enjoy a film, without trying to pick apart ever millisecond?
What makes the same people eat up LOTR or the Hobbit with total suspension of disbelief, but grouse incessantly about flowing hair?
It just goes to show: It doesn't always pay to contract everything out to the private sector...
Nor does it pay to code it till it's designed, and debug it till it's tested.
Hey, I make a living on cleaning up people's ass backwards code pal!
Relax, you are in a growth industry, in a booming business cycle.
Thank you Captain Obvious.
Shall I hire Violins for your soliloquy, Chelsea?
Well are you running an administration service on an open Internet facing port?
Your router won't get a chance to read the user agent string if you don't allowed an inward connection.
Then all you have to worry about is your insiders.
Neither of those statements need be wrong. They are not mutually exclusive.
Further they dropped Biology Online as a partner.
So both children wewe sent to their rooms. Perfect . I don't see any remaining problem here except your stubborn insistence that SA should let a scorned women use their platform as a forum for a mud slinging brawl.