Why is there an API for sending a text message from a web page? Why does this need to exist at all?
You'd think someone at Apple, when they came up for this idea for this, would be shot down by someone else saying "Sorry dude, this is a feature that can be abused."
It wasn't shot down when mailto: was included in the HTML spec. As long as the API doesn't allow you to actually send it without further consent, how is it any different than every other app's "Send to Facebook|Twitter|Email|Whatever" functionality?
It will be a cold day in hell before I trust Samsung with sensitive financial data. Samsung has a cavalier attitude toward customers, never hesitating to screw them royally. Thanks but, no, thanks, Samsung.
Don't worry, Microsoft has a solution for that: with Windows 10, they simply don't offer descriptions. They've also started bundling feature updates and security updates into single patches.
Are linux distributions any better? I can't seem to remember if I got a detailed report of what is fixed or will be changed when I last did an apt-get upgrade.
Should I care what's being updated on my OS? Yeah. Do I? No, not really. I usually have more important things to do then to read multiple change log for the one or two things buried that might have an effect on me.
My money is on he finally got a clue of the upcoming train wreck that will be the GOP and decided he didn't want to be one of the engineers driving the engine.
Come on. You know that's not going to happen. The cop is going to shoot you regardless if he sees you fiddling with something or not. He only will say he saw you fiddling after the fact to justify it.
How does what Coke invests in "health research" compare to other major corporations? How much does Apple sponsor research into RF radiation concerns? How much does Dell or HP contribute to carpel tunnel or repetitive stress injury treatment? Does McDonalds or Taco Bell or as a apples-to-apples comparison, PepsiCo sponsor research?
The song has not reached the age to be public domain yet.
Maybe, maybe not. Depends when it was first published by the writer, if there was a copyright notice, and if the copyright was renewed after it's initial 28 year term. If it was published before 1923, or without a notice after 1923, or the original copyright was never renewed if it had a notice after 1923, then it would be in the public domain now.
The only way it would be still protected under a yet unknown copyright is if it was published between 1923 and 1935, had a notice, and it was renewed. THAT copyright won't expire until 95 years after the publishing date which would put the expiration between 2018 and 2035. But with all the research that has gone on with this copyright and nothing being found, the odds of it not being in the public domain are extremely remote.
The 55 mph federal speed limit is a perfect example. It may seem reasonable to people who live in hilly places that get bad weather, but if you live in Nevada, say, or Nebraska it's just a dumb idea.
It national speed limit was originally drafted to save fuel during the 1973 oil crisis. It really didn't have anything to do with driver safety or road conditions.
No, because the Republicans will then demand billions spent to protect (as well as further develop) their investments. Everyone will be on the hook while they get subsidies on their purchases that should have never been purchased.
Some people do not know the actual brand of their toaster. they call it "toaster" rather than the "Skynet 9000 turbo bread bronzer".
I don't know the brand of my toaster, but then again the manufacturer didn't pay me $400m to advertise it for them. If they did, I'd use the product name in every sentence I spoke and I'd have it tattooed prominently on my body. Now perhaps $400m is a lot more significant to me then it is to the NFL, but it's not like this is some 10 second read on Fargo's sports talk show either where if they screw it up, it's not like anyone noticed or cared.
If ALL the work that you need performed is folding/stuffing envelops that a single person can satisfy, then sure, that makes sense. But I'll go out on a limb and say that the state and/or federal government has enough things that they could pay minimum wages for that can't easily be performed by a machine or automated. Eventually you'll still come to a point where there's more work that can be done but you still don't have enough labor. So you're still going to have to turn to automation to free up labor for the tasks that can't be automated.
Example: Save $12k on an envelope stuffing machine (and more on maintaining it). Have people 'earn' their checks stuffing envelopes for the state/fed.
Or, you could pay those people that same $12k doing a task that isn't completely menial. Let the machine do the menial task that is highly repetitive. They're good at doing that type of thing extremely fast and in much higher volumes than an entire legion of minimum wage workers if the need be.
The 18-20 year old developers who are entering the real world out of high school and college weren't even born when MS-DOS was around prior to Windows 95. Even if you add on an extra decade and include any developer under the age of 30 probably doesn't remember DOS much if at all, let alone buffer overrun hacks on mom and dad's PC.
However, it's another thing entirely for a health insurance company to require their use (or face a massive premium hike, etc).
They don't give you a massive premium hike if you don't use one. They give a massive hike to everyone and then give (potentially) a discount for those that use one.
Auto insurance does it for the safe driving discount. Credit card companies did it for paying with credit cards over cash. Merchants were once prohibited by merchant agreement (if not state law) for charging a surcharge if you paid by credit card. They could however offer a cash discount. So just raise the prices by 3% to cover the merchant fees and you circumvent the whole no-surcharge policy. (Yes, I'm aware this provision no longer applies in merchant agreements.)
I'm not talking about the situation now. I was talking about the situation then, before Google grabbed SoftCard, back before Softcard wasn't Softcard, it was still Isis, and it was still a joint venture between Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile.
So it would make sense for European companies to adopt rules and practices that are similar to the leaders on that chart, say the United States? I wonder what the rules are in the US for compensating employees' time traveling to workplaces that are not the regular place of business...
The carriers weren't preventing the application data access, nor were they preventing it from being installed. They ordered Google to block the app from installing based on the devices build properties for "security reasons" since it had to use the secure element for storing card info.
It's not that we don't want contactless terminals, it's that EVERYONE wants a cut of the action and wants to cut out the competition. Google wants people to use their service using Android phones. Apple wants people to use Apple Pay with iPhones. Samsung wants people to use Samsung Pay. Carriers want you to use ISIS/Softcard and not any of those. Merchants don't want you to use any of them because they have their own service, CurrentC, that can do nothing but never actually launch.
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It wasn't shot down when mailto: was included in the HTML spec. As long as the API doesn't allow you to actually send it without further consent, how is it any different than every other app's "Send to Facebook|Twitter|Email|Whatever" functionality?
For pin-based debit transactions, you're correct. For EMV-based "pin-and-chip" transactions, it would.
FTFY
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Are linux distributions any better? I can't seem to remember if I got a detailed report of what is fixed or will be changed when I last did an apt-get upgrade.
Should I care what's being updated on my OS? Yeah. Do I? No, not really. I usually have more important things to do then to read multiple change log for the one or two things buried that might have an effect on me.
If they do shut down the government, does that count as doing something? Or even more not doing something? It's so confusing.
My money is on he finally got a clue of the upcoming train wreck that will be the GOP and decided he didn't want to be one of the engineers driving the engine.
Come on. You know that's not going to happen. The cop is going to shoot you regardless if he sees you fiddling with something or not. He only will say he saw you fiddling after the fact to justify it.
How does what Coke invests in "health research" compare to other major corporations? How much does Apple sponsor research into RF radiation concerns? How much does Dell or HP contribute to carpel tunnel or repetitive stress injury treatment? Does McDonalds or Taco Bell or as a apples-to-apples comparison, PepsiCo sponsor research?
Maybe, maybe not. Depends when it was first published by the writer, if there was a copyright notice, and if the copyright was renewed after it's initial 28 year term. If it was published before 1923, or without a notice after 1923, or the original copyright was never renewed if it had a notice after 1923, then it would be in the public domain now.
The only way it would be still protected under a yet unknown copyright is if it was published between 1923 and 1935, had a notice, and it was renewed. THAT copyright won't expire until 95 years after the publishing date which would put the expiration between 2018 and 2035. But with all the research that has gone on with this copyright and nothing being found, the odds of it not being in the public domain are extremely remote.
Keep trying. $120m/$28,010m = ~.00428 = .428%. Need to move that decimal place over one more position.
It national speed limit was originally drafted to save fuel during the 1973 oil crisis. It really didn't have anything to do with driver safety or road conditions.
Ask Target's CIO Beth Jacob and CEO Gregg Steinhafel how secure their jobs were after Target had their breach.
No, because the Republicans will then demand billions spent to protect (as well as further develop) their investments. Everyone will be on the hook while they get subsidies on their purchases that should have never been purchased.
See reference: New Orleans
I don't know the brand of my toaster, but then again the manufacturer didn't pay me $400m to advertise it for them. If they did, I'd use the product name in every sentence I spoke and I'd have it tattooed prominently on my body. Now perhaps $400m is a lot more significant to me then it is to the NFL, but it's not like this is some 10 second read on Fargo's sports talk show either where if they screw it up, it's not like anyone noticed or cared.
If ALL the work that you need performed is folding/stuffing envelops that a single person can satisfy, then sure, that makes sense. But I'll go out on a limb and say that the state and/or federal government has enough things that they could pay minimum wages for that can't easily be performed by a machine or automated. Eventually you'll still come to a point where there's more work that can be done but you still don't have enough labor. So you're still going to have to turn to automation to free up labor for the tasks that can't be automated.
They were deemed malicious to Google's bottom line.
Or, you could pay those people that same $12k doing a task that isn't completely menial. Let the machine do the menial task that is highly repetitive. They're good at doing that type of thing extremely fast and in much higher volumes than an entire legion of minimum wage workers if the need be.
The 18-20 year old developers who are entering the real world out of high school and college weren't even born when MS-DOS was around prior to Windows 95. Even if you add on an extra decade and include any developer under the age of 30 probably doesn't remember DOS much if at all, let alone buffer overrun hacks on mom and dad's PC.
They're also available for your pet in case they are feeling depressed and self conscious after being neutered.
They don't give you a massive premium hike if you don't use one. They give a massive hike to everyone and then give (potentially) a discount for those that use one.
Auto insurance does it for the safe driving discount. Credit card companies did it for paying with credit cards over cash. Merchants were once prohibited by merchant agreement (if not state law) for charging a surcharge if you paid by credit card. They could however offer a cash discount. So just raise the prices by 3% to cover the merchant fees and you circumvent the whole no-surcharge policy. (Yes, I'm aware this provision no longer applies in merchant agreements.)
I'm not talking about the situation now. I was talking about the situation then, before Google grabbed SoftCard, back before Softcard wasn't Softcard, it was still Isis, and it was still a joint venture between Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile.
So it would make sense for European companies to adopt rules and practices that are similar to the leaders on that chart, say the United States? I wonder what the rules are in the US for compensating employees' time traveling to workplaces that are not the regular place of business...
The carriers weren't preventing the application data access, nor were they preventing it from being installed. They ordered Google to block the app from installing based on the devices build properties for "security reasons" since it had to use the secure element for storing card info.
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It's not that we don't want contactless terminals, it's that EVERYONE wants a cut of the action and wants to cut out the competition. Google wants people to use their service using Android phones. Apple wants people to use Apple Pay with iPhones. Samsung wants people to use Samsung Pay. Carriers want you to use ISIS/Softcard and not any of those. Merchants don't want you to use any of them because they have their own service, CurrentC, that can do nothing but never actually launch.