Where does this idiotic 'if you owe money on something you don't own it' come from?
Car loan: you don't hold title, nor do you have pink slip until it's paid off. It's not your car. Home loan: Title is in escrow until paid off. You don't actually own the home till it's paid off. Rent to own places: again, you don't own it till it's paid off.
There are several cases where possession != ownership.
*however* In all those cases if the (thing) has (bork bork bork) and it's after any warranty period then it's on you to fix too. Classic case: Car has 5yr/100,000mi Warranty, but Joe Sixpack has shit credit and took a 72 month loan. That last year of the loan the car is out of warranty and still not legally Joe's car yet.
I get that this is a non-issue to many, and I actually agree with Apple insofar as they sold the device to the carrier etc. with an explicit one year warranty.I just also see how people feel there is a jarring disconnect between contract time and warranty time, and wanted to feed some thoughts to that end.
I like the idea of vendors competing based on warranty (and yes you'd start seeing the same item at different price points based on the warranty).
Actually since information is a reduction of entropy the math says that a CPU consuming 1500W and doing useful work produces (a miniscule amount) less heat than the direct conversion of the energy from electrons to heat.
Of course that is just pedantry because the real world value of the delta is below the noise threshold of any instrumentation a/.er would likely have access to.
Look at the flip side of that: Joe Sixpack buys an iPhone from ATT and it comes locked into a 2 year contract (because it's subsidized). Joe didn't buy the phone from Apple, and true to some people who call the Internet "the google" and similar things, thinks of his phone as his "ATT iPhone" not "Apple iPhone".
Now the phone takes a shit at day 366, there are still 364 days remaining in his contract, but the phone is out of warranty. Joe is now officially screwed and either must: A) buy a retail phone B) break his contract and start a new one with a subsidised phone C) get a replacement phone, but tack on an additional 2 years on his existing contract (not sure if ATT offers this, but they used to)
It is not unreasonable for Joe to expect the warranty of the phone to equal the duration of the service contract. Whether or not that's Apple's issue is between Apple and ATT. I would be inclined to require the contract provider to be the one required to warranty the devices under the contract and to deal with the OEM/ODM on the customers behalf if the device was still within manufacturer warranty.
it's super-easy even for certified idiots. Nothing is easier than following guide
You, AC, have not met some of the idiots I've had to deal with... Those for whom when the home button on their iPhone doesn't work (because the phone is actually off due to battery depletion and didn't turn on automagically upon charging) assume it's broken and either: a) take it to the apple store because it's broken b) press harder, now it is broken... see 'a'.
Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot.
IDK about the Unicode issue, but my mail client defaults to text only email. When I get html formatted emails I have two options that I can set as default for untrusted senders: render the incoming stream as text. strip the HTML and attempt to render the text. I opted for the latter, and it does present me with outright blank emails when the email is not even HTML but actually JS based content delivery in your in-box... which allows them to change the email contents after you've read it.
Trusted senders can be whitelisted to present as sent.
The client has a hook exposed for a pre-processor of incoming emails... Maybe I can write a rendering engine to render to PDF...
You are issued a public credential (your SSN) and a private validation token (PIN). PIN can be changed and is offered as a secure authenticated lookup service from the Social Security Administration.
Still not perfect, sure, but a hell of a lot better.
Isn't Pirates of the Caribbean a Disney title? I mean they already like pirates, so...
Seriously though, I already pay explicitly for one streaming service (Netflix) and implicitly for a second (Amazon Prime, but streaming is secondary reason for account ownership). I'll not pay for a third, and will elect to visit whatever the replacement for TPB is instead and stream from there.
The value add Netflix brings is that they aggregate several publisher's works into one dead simple interface. I'm confident that if tomorrow Netflix disappeared and was replaced by a separate service for each publisher (what Disney's basically doing) two things would happen: 1) Piracy would skyrocket 2) *someone* would make a front-end that re-aggregated all the services into a unified UI and would be attacked by the media cartel instantly.
Why? It *is* a national identifier. It needs to stop being used as an authenticator. SSN and Name first, Name last, Name middle should be interchangeable from a data and security standpoint.
The problem is that SSNs have been used as authenticators for the name and that's not what they were designed for.
The president would be powerless if the laws were precise.
"The War Powers Resolution requires the President to notify Congress within 48 hours of committing armed forces to military action and forbids armed forces from remaining for more than 60 days, with a further 30-day withdrawal period" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Powers_Resolution
Of course once stuck-in it's going to be a bitch for congress to just up and leave... so, yeah, POTUS isn't and never will be "powerless".
Hmm..so, if someone commits burglary, and steals $10,000 or so dollars and gets away with it. And...over the next 20 years, they never do anything else wrong, gets a job, contributes to society and then they are caught, we should just let them go, because they have been good all this time?
Actually, yes. That's why there is a statute of limitations on *most* crimes. If you messed up long ago, but kept your nose clean since then, then you can breathe easy as you're off the hook after n years where n is (usually) < 10.
Now, there are other crimes (e.g. murder, illegal residency in country) that have no limit. The former because it's heinous, the latter because it is a perpetual crime. In fact you could say the statute of limitations on being an illegal alien is 0 because once you've established legal residency you're clear for your past status (yes, there are rare cases where you have to leave first, then come back in).
I would then come back with: You're on company equipment and on a company network. Of course it's monitored. The fact that your data is not inspectable is what raised the flag on the automated system.
Devil's advocate: Cell phones are not allowed as they can be used to exfiltrate data.
Now of course in an environment that strict I would generally presume two things: 1) In the controlled environment there is a *hard* firewall with default deny to protect the systems. 2) There are other systems (possibly in a different physical location) that can access the internet at large and are available on break times.
That depends: Is it on a designated/designatable break? Then no, you're not on your company's dime. Are you an exempt employee and are you achieving what you were tasked to do? Then no, you're not on your company's dime. Are you hourly and not on break, or exempt and it's interfering with your ability to complete your task? Then *yes* it is on your company's dime.
My company has a "guest" WiFi and a company WiFi. I *assume* both are monitored, and I *assume* that I have no privacy on either. In the case of the guest WiFi I view it no different than the WiFi at a starbucks. I'll use it, but only through a VPN using a pre-shared key and strong encryption. My company WiFi I won't use at all, other than to connect with my company provided computer.
But this is worse! It's tantamount to suing the dealership where you bought your car after a recall notice by the manufacturer. The fact that the (likely) tiny manufacturer isn't even named in the suit smacks of a money grab, pure and simple. I'm willing to bet money that Amazon's lawyers knew this type of thing was going to happen the moment they issued the recall, and have been preparing for it.
OR if they don't (and can't get his domain back) does he have a case for a *huge* payout? (Basically all his lost income from day of seizure to some time in the future adjusted for inflation)
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Where does this idiotic 'if you owe money on something you don't own it' come from?
Car loan: you don't hold title, nor do you have pink slip until it's paid off. It's not your car.
Home loan: Title is in escrow until paid off. You don't actually own the home till it's paid off.
Rent to own places: again, you don't own it till it's paid off.
There are several cases where possession != ownership.
*however*
In all those cases if the (thing) has (bork bork bork) and it's after any warranty period then it's on you to fix too.
Classic case: Car has 5yr/100,000mi Warranty, but Joe Sixpack has shit credit and took a 72 month loan. That last year of the loan the car is out of warranty and still not legally Joe's car yet.
I get that this is a non-issue to many, and I actually agree with Apple insofar as they sold the device to the carrier etc. with an explicit one year warranty.I just also see how people feel there is a jarring disconnect between contract time and warranty time, and wanted to feed some thoughts to that end.
I like the idea of vendors competing based on warranty (and yes you'd start seeing the same item at different price points based on the warranty).
Actually since information is a reduction of entropy the math says that a CPU consuming 1500W and doing useful work produces (a miniscule amount) less heat than the direct conversion of the energy from electrons to heat.
Of course that is just pedantry because the real world value of the delta is below the noise threshold of any instrumentation a /.er would likely have access to.
Look at the flip side of that:
Joe Sixpack buys an iPhone from ATT and it comes locked into a 2 year contract (because it's subsidized). Joe didn't buy the phone from Apple, and true to some people who call the Internet "the google" and similar things, thinks of his phone as his "ATT iPhone" not "Apple iPhone".
Now the phone takes a shit at day 366, there are still 364 days remaining in his contract, but the phone is out of warranty. Joe is now officially screwed and either must:
A) buy a retail phone
B) break his contract and start a new one with a subsidised phone
C) get a replacement phone, but tack on an additional 2 years on his existing contract (not sure if ATT offers this, but they used to)
It is not unreasonable for Joe to expect the warranty of the phone to equal the duration of the service contract. Whether or not that's Apple's issue is between Apple and ATT. I would be inclined to require the contract provider to be the one required to warranty the devices under the contract and to deal with the OEM/ODM on the customers behalf if the device was still within manufacturer warranty.
it's super-easy even for certified idiots. Nothing is easier than following guide
You, AC, have not met some of the idiots I've had to deal with...
Those for whom when the home button on their iPhone doesn't work (because the phone is actually off due to battery depletion and didn't turn on automagically upon charging) assume it's broken and either:
a) take it to the apple store because it's broken
b) press harder, now it is broken... see 'a'.
Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot.
That's more Marketing than sales...
Related beasts to be sure.
IDK about the Unicode issue, but my mail client defaults to text only email.
When I get html formatted emails I have two options that I can set as default for untrusted senders:
render the incoming stream as text.
strip the HTML and attempt to render the text.
I opted for the latter, and it does present me with outright blank emails when the email is not even HTML but actually JS based content delivery in your in-box... which allows them to change the email contents after you've read it.
Trusted senders can be whitelisted to present as sent.
The client has a hook exposed for a pre-processor of incoming emails...
Maybe I can write a rendering engine to render to PDF...
A SSN-PIN.
You are issued a public credential (your SSN) and a private validation token (PIN). PIN can be changed and is offered as a secure authenticated lookup service from the Social Security Administration.
Still not perfect, sure, but a hell of a lot better.
Isn't Pirates of the Caribbean a Disney title?
I mean they already like pirates, so...
Seriously though, I already pay explicitly for one streaming service (Netflix) and implicitly for a second (Amazon Prime, but streaming is secondary reason for account ownership). I'll not pay for a third, and will elect to visit whatever the replacement for TPB is instead and stream from there.
The value add Netflix brings is that they aggregate several publisher's works into one dead simple interface. I'm confident that if tomorrow Netflix disappeared and was replaced by a separate service for each publisher (what Disney's basically doing) two things would happen:
1) Piracy would skyrocket
2) *someone* would make a front-end that re-aggregated all the services into a unified UI and would be attacked by the media cartel instantly.
Why?
It *is* a national identifier. It needs to stop being used as an authenticator.
SSN and Name first, Name last, Name middle should be interchangeable from a data and security standpoint.
The problem is that SSNs have been used as authenticators for the name and that's not what they were designed for.
It's the same as communism:
We are all equal, it's just that some are more equal than others.
who said internet facing? ;)
The president would be powerless if the laws were precise.
"The War Powers Resolution requires the President to notify Congress within 48 hours of committing armed forces to military action and forbids armed forces from remaining for more than 60 days, with a further 30-day withdrawal period"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Powers_Resolution
Of course once stuck-in it's going to be a bitch for congress to just up and leave... so, yeah, POTUS isn't and never will be "powerless".
Hmm..so, if someone commits burglary, and steals $10,000 or so dollars and gets away with it. And...over the next 20 years, they never do anything else wrong, gets a job, contributes to society and then they are caught, we should just let them go, because they have been good all this time?
Actually, yes. That's why there is a statute of limitations on *most* crimes. If you messed up long ago, but kept your nose clean since then, then you can breathe easy as you're off the hook after n years where n is (usually) < 10.
Now, there are other crimes (e.g. murder, illegal residency in country) that have no limit. The former because it's heinous, the latter because it is a perpetual crime. In fact you could say the statute of limitations on being an illegal alien is 0 because once you've established legal residency you're clear for your past status (yes, there are rare cases where you have to leave first, then come back in).
I would then come back with:
You're on company equipment and on a company network. Of course it's monitored. The fact that your data is not inspectable is what raised the flag on the automated system.
Devil's advocate:
Cell phones are not allowed as they can be used to exfiltrate data.
Now of course in an environment that strict I would generally presume two things:
1) In the controlled environment there is a *hard* firewall with default deny to protect the systems.
2) There are other systems (possibly in a different physical location) that can access the internet at large and are available on break times.
That depends:
Is it on a designated/designatable break? Then no, you're not on your company's dime.
Are you an exempt employee and are you achieving what you were tasked to do? Then no, you're not on your company's dime.
Are you hourly and not on break, or exempt and it's interfering with your ability to complete your task? Then *yes* it is on your company's dime.
I post to /. on my company machine.
I don't connect to FB or my google account, however.
Reasonable use doesn't mean private use ;)
My company has a "guest" WiFi and a company WiFi. I *assume* both are monitored, and I *assume* that I have no privacy on either.
In the case of the guest WiFi I view it no different than the WiFi at a starbucks. I'll use it, but only through a VPN using a pre-shared key and strong encryption. My company WiFi I won't use at all, other than to connect with my company provided computer.
I use telnet extensively in my internal network.
Dead simple interface, capable of moving complex data as JSON or MIME64 strings.
Not most restaurant cards, which is what this is about.
But this is worse!
It's tantamount to suing the dealership where you bought your car after a recall notice by the manufacturer.
The fact that the (likely) tiny manufacturer isn't even named in the suit smacks of a money grab, pure and simple. I'm willing to bet money that Amazon's lawyers knew this type of thing was going to happen the moment they issued the recall, and have been preparing for it.
Yeah, realized after I hit post that I was failing the whole grammar thing.
Then Stupidity and bad style maybe should be...
Wait! most politicians are criminals anyway and are just protected.
OR if they don't (and can't get his domain back) does he have a case for a *huge* payout? (Basically all his lost income from day of seizure to some time in the future adjusted for inflation)