The rest of the world uses NFC chip + PIN, so skimming will not get you a perfect duplicate (though could allow some "card not present" charges). The US is slow to chips, so obviously slow to chip+ PIN as well.
And the ATM withdrawal will fail and lock the card and the account. Bob in Toledo, who has never left OH, is suddenly withdrawing daily limit in Ukraine? That'll lock the card down. Bob gets a new card in the mail in 2 days, and Ivan the Russian hacker gets nothing.
With the wide-spread hacks into large retailers, the transactions are looked at with a microscope. Purchases under $10 have an 80% chance of locking out my card, and in places the card company knows I am (small transactions to "test" stolen cards are common). They don't wait for you to hit your limit anymore. Lock first, ask questions later.
In Europe, where the chip cards have been around for a while, you don't give away your card. You keep it in your hand to pay. You handed your card to a stranger who went into the back room with it. And you don't see any problem with that?
No, the limit for "card use after reported stolen" is $50/$0. But unauthorized card use with card in hand was unlimited liability for the cardholder. Live in a dorm? Got your details stolen by a roommate and they bought stuff and shipped it to your address? You didn't report it stolen, and you didn't keep it safe. Your fault. Also it was literally shipped to you so they begin an investigation into you for fraud. I've seen it happen.
Your negligence, real or asserted, removes all limits. You are free to sue if you think their assessment was unfair, but you'll never win.
NFC has no limit. NFC without PIN is limited to $80 for me. So the gas pump authorizing more than that requires NFC plus PIN. NFC is contactless chip. The limit for my NFC is the chip limit (the card limit).
Every gas pump here lets you hold onto the card with two fingers the whole time. Only ATMs "eat" the card completely. Everyone else leaves the card sticking out.
A fraudulent charge isn't a "chargeback". A chargeback is when the merchant lies about sending the item, demands full payment for nothing sent, and whinges for decades about chargebacks ending their fullproof plan for profit. An unauthorized charge is *never* a chargeback, even if the merchant still loses money on the deal.
Funny when Americans think that wirelessly powered computers used for strong crypto embedded in plastic cards are "just plastic cards".
It's not the ancient plastic cards that are technology, it's the computer embedded into them, and the crypto, NFC, wireless power and other things used around them that make them technology. Is it just because the US is the last in the world to start supporting this that it's "backwards"?
The HOA existed before him. The choice now is, do you want a good person running it, or a bad person. Since all the good people get run off, that only leaves bad people. HOAs sometimes are "good". Shared spaces, parking, gardens, may be jointly held. Someone has to manage those. HOAs aren't all about letting you pick between the two approved colors to paint your house.
Multiple tools is sometimes the best thing. A spreadsheet for the numbers, a GIS program (including free Google Earth tools) for visualizations, and a Gantt charting program for timelines and dependencies.
I'm spending a lot of time looking at traffic around me, and at upcoming signals which I assure you are not at infinity...
Nope. Those are at infinity. Infinity is about 30 feet. The binocular separation is about a tenth of a degree. So, even sitting at a light, first in line, the lights on the other side of the intersection are effectively infinity. The dash is not infinity. The car in front in traffic is not infinity. But in a car, almost everything except the dash is at infinity. Adding more to the dash, taking away from the trend to infinity, would decrease safety.
I'm surprised Google left the link to the full image in the HTML source, allowing this workaround to exist in the first place.
Then you are the dumbest fucking person on the planet. Google didn't want it. Google didn't care. Google took out the button because of a lawsuit. If the lawsuit people don't like it, they can sue The Internet. I'm not surprised they left it easy. Google doesn't want to lock it down. Why would you think Google would lock it down well?
UBI doesn't end jobs. People generally still choose to work. UBI just eliminates the need to have a job to eat. Give the people their bread and circuses. Right now, we are closing on circuses without the bread, and people are getting restless.
Looks like the answer will be UBI, or an armed revolution by the underclass. The powered elite are gauging how long they can put off the revolution, and how little of a UBI would provide bread and circuses, and not looking at how to solve the underlying equity that's been the downfall of almost every civilization that's ever existed. Maybe this time they'll put it off longer, but they can never stop it, without addressing the actual issues.
So, someone with a Razr should sue Supercell for not making Clash of Clans compatible with a 2004 non-smart phone? How do you determine what must be supported by whom? Does this mean that Halo for PS4 is on the way? Or is this just for Android/Apple?
And what about Windows Mobile. Is this to the point of forcing everything onto Window's platform? If so, this isn't an Apple/Android thing, but a massive handout to MS.
No, hardwoods are being cut down for hard wood, and soft wood is planted as replacement (where trees are counted). If soft trees were worthless (They are used mainly for paper products), then they'd replace with hardwoods, even if they take longer to have value, they mature into more than $0 value.
Right now, the economics demand cutting down all hardwood trees, and replacing them with soft wood trees. If soft wood trees are worthless, the economics would then allow more hardwoods to be planted. That would reduce the demand on all the hardwoods, as replacements would be available. Hardwood is not currently sustainable. The English moors? Rolling hills of grass? It was all forest once. Cut down for bows and boats. And never replaced. The same is happening everywhere, and the "plat a tree" initiatives almost never replace like for like.
A drop in demand for soft would allow for replacement with hard, and would start to bring some sustainability to hardwood.
Much of the land can't be used for much else. So plant hardwoods, and give them longer to grow, which would slow the deforestation, where hardwoods are cut down for wood, and replaced with soft woods, which grow faster. Very little deforestation is done for farmland anymore (Mainly South America at this point).
So yes, less demand on soft woods would lower the total deforestation, and lead to more trees in the world.
US officially operates under a One China policy, where Beijing is recognized, but Taiwan isn't. And China considers Taiwan to be an autonomous region, like Hong Kong and Macau. And Foxconn is operating in China, so are subject to the laws and practices of China. One should assume that Foxconn is a Chinese company.
Though, I have no idea why Huawei is targeted. They have no official ties to the China government, and, unlike Cisco, have never put in a backdoor for government control. I'd be much more worried about American companies. The government has requested backdoors publicly, and privately, and there have been some confirmed and found. It does not matter that they are intended for US operatives only, once they are in, they can be compromised by others.
I guess it's just plain racism. China bad. America good.
Didn't notice that the last time I was near one. Though when in Idaho, a dairy farm can be smelled for miles. But outside the US, I've been on dairy farms, and smelled nothing. So it may be local regulations.
Newsprint world wide takes about 1 Billion trees per year. That would greatly improve sustainability of the environment to reduce paper demands. Though newsprint is low quality, so a good place to put recycled paper, and is made from fast growing crap trees, rather than the slower growing hardwoods. So deforestation may not be as greatly affected as one would hope. Unless the replanted forests are planted with hardwoods, as they'll have longer to grow.
Yeah, like Fiat? Who left the US market and re-entered by buying Chrysler, because that's cheaper than setting up new?
The only modern make on your list is Hyundai, entered the US market in 1987. Though you should have included Kia, who entered more recently, selling more than 1M cars a year before it was worth even attempting to enter the US. And Toyota, VW, Mercedes, Mitsubishi, Honda and others make or recently made cars in North America. So they got around protection by making cars in the US, as the explicit protectionism intended. Toyota and others entered US manufacturing to make pickups to avoid a 25% chicken tax.
Yes there are Ferrari and others that are unusual, but almost all of them have sold globally before recent tariffs (like the 1963 Chicken Tax). And many who were in the US left, as barriers were erected. Citroen left, and has considered re-entering, but has been unable to do so.
It doesn't help that the US waits for the EU and others to set safety standards, then makes new standards for US only that are incompatible with anywhere else, so no "world car" is possible. At best, a car can be made to require only low cost and low effort changes. If the US worked hard to unify safety standards with the others (EU, Japan, and Australia, off which most others use or are based on), then the price of cars would drop, and safety would increase. But profits are more important than safety. So protection we have.
Comcast petitions to exist. All corporations exist at the pleasure of the government.
Comcast requests use of government easements for their use.
Comcast provides a service that has been deemed a "utility" and is regulated as such.
Comcast demands more of the government than the government demands of it. But when conditions are applied, they are free to close shop and move elsewhere. They refuse. They want to take and take, but never give.
The US market is explicitly protectionist. Once one Chinese maker spends the billions to enter the US market, the rest will follow, whether separately or as sub-brands of the first. Though the names of the Chinese makers are generally horrible. No cowboy wants to drive around the ranch in a "Chery" or SAIC. They'd do better buying the Datsun brand from Nissan, or buying up a disused American make, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... a make clearly owned by a single person, that could be bought by a Chinese company and resurrected.
The Chinese understand the products well, but not the marketing it would take to make them work in the US.
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The rest of the world uses NFC chip + PIN, so skimming will not get you a perfect duplicate (though could allow some "card not present" charges). The US is slow to chips, so obviously slow to chip+ PIN as well.
And the ATM withdrawal will fail and lock the card and the account. Bob in Toledo, who has never left OH, is suddenly withdrawing daily limit in Ukraine? That'll lock the card down. Bob gets a new card in the mail in 2 days, and Ivan the Russian hacker gets nothing.
With the wide-spread hacks into large retailers, the transactions are looked at with a microscope. Purchases under $10 have an 80% chance of locking out my card, and in places the card company knows I am (small transactions to "test" stolen cards are common). They don't wait for you to hit your limit anymore. Lock first, ask questions later.
In Europe, where the chip cards have been around for a while, you don't give away your card. You keep it in your hand to pay. You handed your card to a stranger who went into the back room with it. And you don't see any problem with that?
No, the limit for "card use after reported stolen" is $50/$0. But unauthorized card use with card in hand was unlimited liability for the cardholder. Live in a dorm? Got your details stolen by a roommate and they bought stuff and shipped it to your address? You didn't report it stolen, and you didn't keep it safe. Your fault. Also it was literally shipped to you so they begin an investigation into you for fraud. I've seen it happen.
Your negligence, real or asserted, removes all limits. You are free to sue if you think their assessment was unfair, but you'll never win.
NFC has no limit. NFC without PIN is limited to $80 for me. So the gas pump authorizing more than that requires NFC plus PIN. NFC is contactless chip. The limit for my NFC is the chip limit (the card limit).
Every gas pump here lets you hold onto the card with two fingers the whole time. Only ATMs "eat" the card completely. Everyone else leaves the card sticking out.
A fraudulent charge isn't a "chargeback". A chargeback is when the merchant lies about sending the item, demands full payment for nothing sent, and whinges for decades about chargebacks ending their fullproof plan for profit. An unauthorized charge is *never* a chargeback, even if the merchant still loses money on the deal.
I don't see how. I bought a game online, and my transaction was refused and the card deactivated. And that's usual behavior for me.
Funny when Americans think that wirelessly powered computers used for strong crypto embedded in plastic cards are "just plastic cards".
It's not the ancient plastic cards that are technology, it's the computer embedded into them, and the crypto, NFC, wireless power and other things used around them that make them technology. Is it just because the US is the last in the world to start supporting this that it's "backwards"?
The HOA existed before him. The choice now is, do you want a good person running it, or a bad person. Since all the good people get run off, that only leaves bad people. HOAs sometimes are "good". Shared spaces, parking, gardens, may be jointly held. Someone has to manage those. HOAs aren't all about letting you pick between the two approved colors to paint your house.
Multiple tools is sometimes the best thing. A spreadsheet for the numbers, a GIS program (including free Google Earth tools) for visualizations, and a Gantt charting program for timelines and dependencies.
There is no all-in-one for the requirements.
I'm spending a lot of time looking at traffic around me, and at upcoming signals which I assure you are not at infinity...
Nope. Those are at infinity. Infinity is about 30 feet. The binocular separation is about a tenth of a degree. So, even sitting at a light, first in line, the lights on the other side of the intersection are effectively infinity. The dash is not infinity. The car in front in traffic is not infinity. But in a car, almost everything except the dash is at infinity. Adding more to the dash, taking away from the trend to infinity, would decrease safety.
I'm surprised Google left the link to the full image in the HTML source, allowing this workaround to exist in the first place.
Then you are the dumbest fucking person on the planet. Google didn't want it. Google didn't care. Google took out the button because of a lawsuit. If the lawsuit people don't like it, they can sue The Internet. I'm not surprised they left it easy. Google doesn't want to lock it down. Why would you think Google would lock it down well?
UBI doesn't end jobs. People generally still choose to work. UBI just eliminates the need to have a job to eat. Give the people their bread and circuses. Right now, we are closing on circuses without the bread, and people are getting restless.
Looks like the answer will be UBI, or an armed revolution by the underclass. The powered elite are gauging how long they can put off the revolution, and how little of a UBI would provide bread and circuses, and not looking at how to solve the underlying equity that's been the downfall of almost every civilization that's ever existed. Maybe this time they'll put it off longer, but they can never stop it, without addressing the actual issues.
So, someone with a Razr should sue Supercell for not making Clash of Clans compatible with a 2004 non-smart phone? How do you determine what must be supported by whom? Does this mean that Halo for PS4 is on the way? Or is this just for Android/Apple?
And what about Windows Mobile. Is this to the point of forcing everything onto Window's platform? If so, this isn't an Apple/Android thing, but a massive handout to MS.
No, hardwoods are being cut down for hard wood, and soft wood is planted as replacement (where trees are counted). If soft trees were worthless (They are used mainly for paper products), then they'd replace with hardwoods, even if they take longer to have value, they mature into more than $0 value.
Right now, the economics demand cutting down all hardwood trees, and replacing them with soft wood trees. If soft wood trees are worthless, the economics would then allow more hardwoods to be planted. That would reduce the demand on all the hardwoods, as replacements would be available. Hardwood is not currently sustainable. The English moors? Rolling hills of grass? It was all forest once. Cut down for bows and boats. And never replaced. The same is happening everywhere, and the "plat a tree" initiatives almost never replace like for like.
A drop in demand for soft would allow for replacement with hard, and would start to bring some sustainability to hardwood.
So Huawei was cheaper. So they must be evil. Your logic leap seems devoid of logic.
Much of the land can't be used for much else. So plant hardwoods, and give them longer to grow, which would slow the deforestation, where hardwoods are cut down for wood, and replaced with soft woods, which grow faster. Very little deforestation is done for farmland anymore (Mainly South America at this point).
So yes, less demand on soft woods would lower the total deforestation, and lead to more trees in the world.
US officially operates under a One China policy, where Beijing is recognized, but Taiwan isn't. And China considers Taiwan to be an autonomous region, like Hong Kong and Macau. And Foxconn is operating in China, so are subject to the laws and practices of China. One should assume that Foxconn is a Chinese company.
Though, I have no idea why Huawei is targeted. They have no official ties to the China government, and, unlike Cisco, have never put in a backdoor for government control. I'd be much more worried about American companies. The government has requested backdoors publicly, and privately, and there have been some confirmed and found. It does not matter that they are intended for US operatives only, once they are in, they can be compromised by others.
I guess it's just plain racism. China bad. America good.
Didn't notice that the last time I was near one. Though when in Idaho, a dairy farm can be smelled for miles. But outside the US, I've been on dairy farms, and smelled nothing. So it may be local regulations.
Newsprint world wide takes about 1 Billion trees per year. That would greatly improve sustainability of the environment to reduce paper demands. Though newsprint is low quality, so a good place to put recycled paper, and is made from fast growing crap trees, rather than the slower growing hardwoods. So deforestation may not be as greatly affected as one would hope. Unless the replanted forests are planted with hardwoods, as they'll have longer to grow.
Yeah, like Fiat? Who left the US market and re-entered by buying Chrysler, because that's cheaper than setting up new?
The only modern make on your list is Hyundai, entered the US market in 1987. Though you should have included Kia, who entered more recently, selling more than 1M cars a year before it was worth even attempting to enter the US. And Toyota, VW, Mercedes, Mitsubishi, Honda and others make or recently made cars in North America. So they got around protection by making cars in the US, as the explicit protectionism intended. Toyota and others entered US manufacturing to make pickups to avoid a 25% chicken tax.
Yes there are Ferrari and others that are unusual, but almost all of them have sold globally before recent tariffs (like the 1963 Chicken Tax). And many who were in the US left, as barriers were erected. Citroen left, and has considered re-entering, but has been unable to do so.
It doesn't help that the US waits for the EU and others to set safety standards, then makes new standards for US only that are incompatible with anywhere else, so no "world car" is possible. At best, a car can be made to require only low cost and low effort changes. If the US worked hard to unify safety standards with the others (EU, Japan, and Australia, off which most others use or are based on), then the price of cars would drop, and safety would increase. But profits are more important than safety. So protection we have.
Comcast petitions to exist. All corporations exist at the pleasure of the government.
Comcast requests use of government easements for their use.
Comcast provides a service that has been deemed a "utility" and is regulated as such.
Comcast demands more of the government than the government demands of it. But when conditions are applied, they are free to close shop and move elsewhere. They refuse. They want to take and take, but never give.
The US market is explicitly protectionist. Once one Chinese maker spends the billions to enter the US market, the rest will follow, whether separately or as sub-brands of the first. Though the names of the Chinese makers are generally horrible. No cowboy wants to drive around the ranch in a "Chery" or SAIC. They'd do better buying the Datsun brand from Nissan, or buying up a disused American make, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... a make clearly owned by a single person, that could be bought by a Chinese company and resurrected.
The Chinese understand the products well, but not the marketing it would take to make them work in the US.