Cities? Whole countries are doing it. Either by tax cuts or by tax raises. I wonder if there are countries who not do it. The city border is just a border like a county, state or country one.
I have about 50 albums on my phone to losten to. I can listen to sevetal 100000 more online.why would I need to buy a CD? Taking the same with me would be a burden.
The thing is that not everybody can be self employed. If everybody was, they would be worse of than where they are now. You would need to wait in line for a job at the factory for hourly contracts.
What if it where not a bumper sticker, but a metalic plate with the numbers on it. Perhaps that could also cut down the cost if you let slaves, er, prisoners make them.
The reason i do not use my real name is bevause of "Why should I have an excuse?" There is no reason that I should reason or defend why I do it.
Do the sites have a legal AND moral reaaon to do so, i might do it (e.g if I open a bank account). Ifyou make it "legal" by putting itin your policy (like Facebook) than fuck off and there is no reason I should explain myself.
Accountability is an important word. Without it, most of what happens is although not legal, allowed.
If I tell a toddler not to take a cookie and it does and then I do nothing, just repeat that he is not allowed to take another one, what will be the result? The resulkt is that I am frustrated and that is about it.
So they can easily say "Yeah, we did something illegal..." Followed by a ".. and what are yopu going to do about it?" Till now nothing has been done. Not really.
Compared to the toddler and his cookies, what we have done is punnish the dog for eating some crumbs that would not be there if no cookies would have been stolen.
I honestly can not blame them. Why should they do things correctly? This way works for them without any serious downside. And voting them away does not help as both parties don't do anything as we have seen in the last 20 and more years.
I thought it was a judge who did the subpoena and not HLS? If so do not get angry at HLS for asking it but at the judge for goving it, if you think they should not have done that.
I have been in situations where the police asked for data and I (and my cow orkers) refused to give it untill there was an order from a judge. The police is allowed to ask for it, yet we are not allowed to give it.
The thing is atht these where cases we had no real issue giving the information, but if the defence found out how they got their proof, the case could easily be trown out. And I am talking about cases like fraud, blackmail, childporn, theft. Not about grandma downloading a Metallica song. (That reference tells you how old I already am) because those where never in court., In fact I remeber reading a letter where the courts said not to bother them with such cases as it would be hogging to much time and would be seen as a contempt of the court if they continued. (Unfortunately I have not kept the letter). Yes, they would still help if there was some sort of financial gain. i.e. a copy of a CD? No problem. Selling that copy? You are going to court.
If the courts or a jury gave an OK to the sobpoena (and not rubberstamped it) I have no real issues. I must see what it is based on before any outrage.
It is not that they did it. It is that they first said they did not. The interesting thing will be how non-EU countries are going to deal with it. In the EU we now have the GDPR and clicking on a button or not clicking on something was ever a contract.
My guess is that the US will, as always, chhose the side of the people who voted for them. 1$=1vote.
Just some extra info about the "Dispute a charge" thing.
Credit Cards work like a franchise. That means very little people have a contract with e.g. Mastercard. They have one with their bank. So if a dispute comes in, it is the bank that will decide to take that cost on them or not.
So what hgappens if there is a dispute will depnd. 1) If it is a legimate dispute, the momey will be taken back from the vendor. 2) If it is actual fraud, it will be taken on Mastercar, who will take the losses. This is an extreme small amount comparted to all the transactions. You (or your bank) pay for that in insurance included in the anual fee. 3) If it is not a legimate dispute or a fraud, the bank will look at the transaction AND your account and will decide what to do. This obviously will differ from bank to bank and account to account.
If you pay the card every month 100%, you do not use the credit and they do not make any money. A bank will then also look at what other things you have with them. If you only have a card that you pay back 100%, they will likely decline the request. They will gain money if you leave.
If you have a loan, a card that is maxed out all the time and still pay on a monthly basas, they make a shitload of money and happily take that small loss to keep you as a cusomer.
Obviously with security that is available in the whole world, except in ther US, it becomes harder to deny the accidental porn site visit.
What happens more often is that people order a "free sample" or "extremely cheam sample" of some thing and do not read the fine print where it says that they get a subscription that they need to cancel in the next month, otherwise they will get billed.
Unfortunately that is not fraud. It is misleading often, but not fraud. Also: if you order something that is extremely cheap, be aware that you might be buying fake stuff. If all you lose is the money, it is not that bad. If it is stopped at the border and it has some issues with Trademarks, you might pay even more. Fake stuff is not good to buy.
What most people do not realize is that you should look at your credit card as cash together with an ID. Do you give those to a stranger in a dark alley who promisses you to come back with a cheap car audio system?
To summerize: in most cases it is that bank that will be taking the loss as they al;ready make a shitload of money from you. If you do it too often, they will drop you.
And no, it is not that expensive (at least outside of the US where there is a decent system, like PIN and 3Dsecure) to prove that you bought it.
One major leak is that many airline companies still do not implement 3D Secure and similar systems, becaus not all countries (Caugh*USA*Caugh) are ready yet to implement it.
And I would say that not only companies are amoral, most people are as well when it comes to money. I do not even 100% trust kids that run a lemonade stand.
Just because the single point od failure did not fail does not mean it can't. As long as you talk about a person and not a team, it is a single point of failure.
I want to be forgotten. I like to be invissible. I do not want anybody remember me when I am gone. Not with sadness. Not with happiness. Just nt at all.
And as often as history is re-written, I do not want to be part of it.
People generally are good. They also will trust others when they have met them. This is generally a good thing. Not trusting people would be bad for the species.
People are also very bad at risk assesment.
Combine these two and you get people who will give you their credit card information without even asking for it.
I know people who do not lock their phones, even though they have passwordless access to their emails that can be used to get access to their banking info.
They will also willingly share YOUR information, Just ask a friend for a thirds friend phonenumber and they have no problem giving it to you.
Living in Belgium what I think is hard for both the Dutch and the French speaking is to determine what to use for the gender, even if it is clear what the gender is. e.g. saying "The daughter of the father." In one it is "His daughter" and in the other it would become "Her daughter" (Zijn dochter, Sa fille) Both are logical and defendable and it is one of the few things I need to concentrate to get it correct.
That said, in Dutch you have 'de' and 'het' and even many Dutch. One is gende neutral and the other is male/female, but with things like "De jongen" (The boy). That is male. so 'De'. 'Het jongetje" (The small boy). Gender neutral, so 'het'. But if there are more than one, it become 'De' again. 'De jongetjes'.
The best sense of what I can make of it if I see a new word to determine if it is 'de' or 'het' is that it somehow sounds wrong one way and right the other way.
Oder a Micro SD card via Amazon and you will know how much shit it goed with. It is a micro SD card inside a SD card, inside a plastic shell thing that has a certain size because it needs to big enogh to be seen in a store. That is then put in a cardboard envelope the size of Canada.
It is deliverd at my door. As I was not home and it did not fit in the mailbox, they put a paper in my mailbox fore me to pick up the googd.
And all this for the size of a pinky nail. I am sure better and smaller solutions can be thought of.
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Cities? Whole countries are doing it. Either by tax cuts or by tax raises. I wonder if there are countries who not do it.
The city border is just a border like a county, state or country one.
I have about 50 albums on my phone to losten to. I can listen to sevetal 100000 more online.why would I need to buy a CD? Taking the same with me would be a burden.
The thing is that not everybody can be self employed. If everybody was, they would be worse of than where they are now. You would need to wait in line for a job at the factory for hourly contracts.
It would be a serious step back.
I would rather be dead.
Best done to their moms when they are pregnant.
What if it where not a bumper sticker, but a metalic plate with the numbers on it. Perhaps that could also cut down the cost if you let slaves, er, prisoners make them.
How do you know that?
Or they are sorry they need to inform people because of the GDPR.
I live in a GDPR country, so I know the answer to that question.
That point in the past ess when they started it. Seriously: look it up.
The reason i do not use my real name is bevause of "Why should I have an excuse?" There is no reason that I should reason or defend why I do it.
Do the sites have a legal AND moral reaaon to do so, i might do it (e.g if I open a bank account). Ifyou make it "legal" by putting itin your policy (like Facebook) than fuck off and there is no reason I should explain myself.
Accountability is an important word. Without it, most of what happens is although not legal, allowed.
If I tell a toddler not to take a cookie and it does and then I do nothing, just repeat that he is not allowed to take another one, what will be the result?
The resulkt is that I am frustrated and that is about it.
So they can easily say "Yeah, we did something illegal ..." Followed by a ".. and what are yopu going to do about it?" Till now nothing has been done. Not really.
Compared to the toddler and his cookies, what we have done is punnish the dog for eating some crumbs that would not be there if no cookies would have been stolen.
I honestly can not blame them. Why should they do things correctly? This way works for them without any serious downside. And voting them away does not help as both parties don't do anything as we have seen in the last 20 and more years.
Remember when we thought that Microsoft was the wprst company in the world? Withoiut changing anything they are not anymore.
I can easily name 5 comapnies that are worse:
Comcast, Google, Sony, Facebook and that pub on the corner where Dave works, because fuck you Dave!
I thought it was a judge who did the subpoena and not HLS? If so do not get angry at HLS for asking it but at the judge for goving it, if you think they should not have done that.
I have been in situations where the police asked for data and I (and my cow orkers) refused to give it untill there was an order from a judge. The police is allowed to ask for it, yet we are not allowed to give it.
The thing is atht these where cases we had no real issue giving the information, but if the defence found out how they got their proof, the case could easily be trown out.
And I am talking about cases like fraud, blackmail, childporn, theft. Not about grandma downloading a Metallica song. (That reference tells you how old I already am) because those where never in court., In fact I remeber reading a letter where the courts said not to bother them with such cases as it would be hogging to much time and would be seen as a contempt of the court if they continued. (Unfortunately I have not kept the letter). Yes, they would still help if there was some sort of financial gain. i.e. a copy of a CD? No problem. Selling that copy? You are going to court.
If the courts or a jury gave an OK to the sobpoena (and not rubberstamped it) I have no real issues. I must see what it is based on before any outrage.
It is not that they did it. It is that they first said they did not. The interesting thing will be how non-EU countries are going to deal with it.
In the EU we now have the GDPR and clicking on a button or not clicking on something was ever a contract.
My guess is that the US will, as always, chhose the side of the people who voted for them. 1$=1vote.
Just some extra info about the "Dispute a charge" thing.
Credit Cards work like a franchise. That means very little people have a contract with e.g. Mastercard. They have one with their bank.
So if a dispute comes in, it is the bank that will decide to take that cost on them or not.
So what hgappens if there is a dispute will depnd.
1) If it is a legimate dispute, the momey will be taken back from the vendor.
2) If it is actual fraud, it will be taken on Mastercar, who will take the losses. This is an extreme small amount comparted to all the transactions. You (or your bank) pay for that in insurance included in the anual fee.
3) If it is not a legimate dispute or a fraud, the bank will look at the transaction AND your account and will decide what to do. This obviously will differ from bank to bank and account to account.
If you pay the card every month 100%, you do not use the credit and they do not make any money. A bank will then also look at what other things you have with them. If you only have a card that you pay back 100%, they will likely decline the request. They will gain money if you leave.
If you have a loan, a card that is maxed out all the time and still pay on a monthly basas, they make a shitload of money and happily take that small loss to keep you as a cusomer.
Obviously with security that is available in the whole world, except in ther US, it becomes harder to deny the accidental porn site visit.
What happens more often is that people order a "free sample" or "extremely cheam sample" of some thing and do not read the fine print where it says that they get a subscription that they need to cancel in the next month, otherwise they will get billed.
Unfortunately that is not fraud. It is misleading often, but not fraud.
Also: if you order something that is extremely cheap, be aware that you might be buying fake stuff. If all you lose is the money, it is not that bad. If it is stopped at the border and it has some issues with Trademarks, you might pay even more. Fake stuff is not good to buy.
What most people do not realize is that you should look at your credit card as cash together with an ID. Do you give those to a stranger in a dark alley who promisses you to come back with a cheap car audio system?
To summerize: in most cases it is that bank that will be taking the loss as they al;ready make a shitload of money from you. If you do it too often, they will drop you.
And no, it is not that expensive (at least outside of the US where there is a decent system, like PIN and 3Dsecure) to prove that you bought it.
One major leak is that many airline companies still do not implement 3D Secure and similar systems, becaus not all countries (Caugh*USA*Caugh) are ready yet to implement it.
And I would say that not only companies are amoral, most people are as well when it comes to money. I do not even 100% trust kids that run a lemonade stand.
Just because the single point od failure did not fail does not mean it can't.
As long as you talk about a person and not a team, it is a single point of failure.
46 votes = $6.8 million. according to the post at the top.
I want to be forgotten. I like to be invissible. I do not want anybody remember me when I am gone. Not with sadness. Not with happiness. Just nt at all.
And as often as history is re-written, I do not want to be part of it.
They just hope you click OK once by accident and then you have sold your soul for eternity.
Privacy is like virginity. Once you have lost it, you can't get it back and the bad part is that others can take it without your consent.
People generally are good. They also will trust others when they have met them. This is generally a good thing. Not trusting people would be bad for the species.
People are also very bad at risk assesment.
Combine these two and you get people who will give you their credit card information without even asking for it.
I know people who do not lock their phones, even though they have passwordless access to their emails that can be used to get access to their banking info.
They will also willingly share YOUR information, Just ask a friend for a thirds friend phonenumber and they have no problem giving it to you.
Jane likes spotted dick. I like great tits.
Now that you know I do not have a dirty mind, can I interest you in some images of blue waffels?
Living in Belgium what I think is hard for both the Dutch and the French speaking is to determine what to use for the gender, even if it is clear what the gender is. e.g. saying "The daughter of the father." In one it is "His daughter" and in the other it would become "Her daughter" (Zijn dochter, Sa fille)
Both are logical and defendable and it is one of the few things I need to concentrate to get it correct.
That said, in Dutch you have 'de' and 'het' and even many Dutch. One is gende neutral and the other is male/female, but with things like "De jongen" (The boy). That is male. so 'De'. 'Het jongetje" (The small boy). Gender neutral, so 'het'. But if there are more than one, it become 'De' again. 'De jongetjes'.
The best sense of what I can make of it if I see a new word to determine if it is 'de' or 'het' is that it somehow sounds wrong one way and right the other way.
I have no problem with sarcasm. It just never happens here on Slashdot.
Oder a Micro SD card via Amazon and you will know how much shit it goed with. It is a micro SD card inside a SD card, inside a plastic shell thing that has a certain size because it needs to big enogh to be seen in a store. That is then put in a cardboard envelope the size of Canada.
It is deliverd at my door. As I was not home and it did not fit in the mailbox, they put a paper in my mailbox fore me to pick up the googd.
And all this for the size of a pinky nail. I am sure better and smaller solutions can be thought of.