For some reason, many of the vendors all but insist I provide them my mobile phone number. I always refuse because I know that once I give out the phone number, my phone will start ringing with telemarketing calls. They vendors say they want the mobile phone number for back-up identification purposes, but I just do not believe them.
... Software doesn't work like this. Microsoft might spend a lot of money to develop the first unit of a new program, but every unit after that is virtually free to produce....
That's the same reason that big pharma uses to overcharge its customers. It is nothing new, nor did Mr Gates have some magical revelation. He is just now noticing what the pharma industry (and others) have known for decades.
The Big Bang Theory took a nosedive in quality around season 5, and has been gliding in for a landing ever since. The cast did not seem to have their hearts in the characters they portrayed, and the Sheldon character has become most annoying. The show should have ended four seasons or so ago...
...Headlines from Def Con, a hacking conference held this month in Las Vegas, might have left some thinking...
... but all the articles I read on the topic left me with the impression that it was a duplicate copy of the election system, not the real, live election system itself.
One small step at a time. First only ads for other Netflix shows between episodes for a "segment" of the Netflix audience. Then all of the Netflix audience. Then showing ads for other Netflix shows at appropriate places within an episode. Then an "occasional" ad for non-Netflix content, but for something that the viewer will be interested in. Pretty soon, it takes 30 minutes to view a 22minutes episode of Netflix content.
Maybe, maybe not. I wonder about the effects upon a warmer ocean and the weather. Oversimplification, I'm sure, but mother nature can be nasty when provoked.
...For verification that the user is who they say they are and they're authorized to make changes to the account....
Why does the app have access to the SSN? Why not, e.g., hash what the customer enters and compare the hashes? Why not, e.g., send the entered SSN off to a different server that does not have internet access and is more secure?
If you're going to put up a web-facing app, you should give that app access only to the data it needs. Why is a subscriber's SSN required for the app in question here?
I'm concerned about reducing the amount of screen it uses when it is visible. I like having the toolbar visible because to hide and unhide the toolbar adds clicks to the use of the toolbar. Such a poor design. As I said, so poor that it prompted me to look at LibreOffice as an alternative. I moved to Libreoffice and have not looked back.
...When you have your JV team on the part consumers care most about...
As opposed to having the top-notch UI team at Microsoft that came up the screen-hogging ribbon toolbar? It was the awful UI of Microsoft Office that drove me to try, and stay with, LibreOffice.
...A more important question is why do you need a search engine in an email client and how to disable it....
I frequently need to look up things that are in email messages. Having the search engine ability in an email client allows me to highlight the text i want to look up, and then select "search" from the resulting context menu. That's much easier and afster than having to copy and paste the text into a browser to use the search engine there.
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Who in the world took him seriously?
that ads lead to sales. Now they are saying that they do not know this to be true?
Yet another programming language that promises to do it all.
...incorporate ordinary objects into the Internet of Things...
Will there be enough room in the cloud for all the data that is being sucked up by the IoT devices?
Perhaps the answer is already right in front of you, and you don't see it.
For some reason, many of the vendors all but insist I provide them my mobile phone number. I always refuse because I know that once I give out the phone number, my phone will start ringing with telemarketing calls. They vendors say they want the mobile phone number for back-up identification purposes, but I just do not believe them.
That's the same reason that big pharma uses to overcharge its customers. It is nothing new, nor did Mr Gates have some magical revelation. He is just now noticing what the pharma industry (and others) have known for decades.
The Big Bang Theory took a nosedive in quality around season 5, and has been gliding in for a landing ever since. The cast did not seem to have their hearts in the characters they portrayed, and the Sheldon character has become most annoying. The show should have ended four seasons or so ago...
...Headlines from Def Con, a hacking conference held this month in Las Vegas, might have left some thinking ...
... but all the articles I read on the topic left me with the impression that it was a duplicate copy of the election system, not the real, live election system itself.
I mean, really???
... to fall back on when you want to get up close to papyrus.. https://www.amazon.com/Million...
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And so it begins...
Maybe, maybe not. I wonder about the effects upon a warmer ocean and the weather. Oversimplification, I'm sure, but mother nature can be nasty when provoked.
... warming of the oceans....
If so, then they can hardly be called "private."
...Because it's not your "social security password" so why would you salt and hash like a password? ...
I never said it was a password. .
...That's the thinking (or lack thereof) behind it I assume....,
You shouldn't dis someone when you make incorrect assumptions.
...For verification that the user is who they say they are and they're authorized to make changes to the account. ...
Why does the app have access to the SSN? Why not, e.g., hash what the customer enters and compare the hashes? Why not, e.g., send the entered SSN off to a different server that does not have internet access and is more secure?
... So people without logins can be validated. ...
So, convenience instead of security. I would have thought Comcast knew better.
If you're going to put up a web-facing app, you should give that app access only to the data it needs. Why is a subscriber's SSN required for the app in question here?
I'm concerned about reducing the amount of screen it uses when it is visible. I like having the toolbar visible because to hide and unhide the toolbar adds clicks to the use of the toolbar. Such a poor design. As I said, so poor that it prompted me to look at LibreOffice as an alternative. I moved to Libreoffice and have not looked back.
...When you have your JV team on the part consumers care most about...
As opposed to having the top-notch UI team at Microsoft that came up the screen-hogging ribbon toolbar? It was the awful UI of Microsoft Office that drove me to try, and stay with, LibreOffice.
... oh so creepy.
...A more important question is why do you need a search engine in an email client and how to disable it....
I frequently need to look up things that are in email messages. Having the search engine ability in an email client allows me to highlight the text i want to look up, and then select "search" from the resulting context menu. That's much easier and afster than having to copy and paste the text into a browser to use the search engine there.
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That statement is a total non-sequitur for me. Indeed, not having humans involved means that data can be slurped up all the more quickly.
How can one swap google for bing as the Thunderbird search engine? The plug-in that had done that no longer works.