My wife and I both use it. It's not as fast as the wire, but it's convenient as hell. Personally, I wonder what took Apple so long - trying to come up with Bluetooth earbuds, or getting rid of the audio jack?
Knowledgeable hacker takes job at Arby's running a register or slicing meat. Hacker waits until he can get unsupervised physical access to store system (a Windows PC, presumably). Hacker arranges off-site access to system. Hacker quits job, accesses system remotely and has his way with them.
Why only one particular card issuer? Only a guess - the system should immediately encrypt the CC data and immediately delete the clear data. Only encrypted data should ever be used when communicating with card issuer. Perhaps this particular issuer's encryption didn't work and the system was configured to work with clear data for their CC's?
Sounds like misdialing IBM's server support number. If you dial with the 877 area code, you get IBM server support. If you dial with the 800 area code, you get something vastly more entertaining (if you have a credit card, it costs $4.99/minute).
I get the impression it's done server-side and pushed to the client. I also find this just a little terrifying.
Then again, if Google can do exactly the same thing to improve the accuracy of targeted advertising I suppose this is relatively innocuous. Still, can I meaningfully out out of should I just make sure GPG/PGP is installed and working correctly? After all, the OS itself does a couple dozen phone-homes, why should web services be any different?
The reasons people still eat meat in the developed world are habit, taste, and convenience, and none of these reasons are sufficient to justify killing an animal to satisfy some type of primal urge.
No, the reason the vast majority of humans still eat meat is because we're omnivores. Three or four billion years of evolution isn't going away because you and a few other fringe types can't figure out why humans have incisor and canine teeth. Unless you're a creationist, in which case we eat meat because that's how array (deity) wants it.
A/C has demonstrated a mastery of pseudoscience. If you continually insist on citing scientific facts, how can it ever succeed in its quest to transmute lead into gold?
It simply makes sense to assume that what we now call the Earth was subjected to intense heating by the impact which was violent enough to form the moon, tilt the planet's axis and accelerate planetary rotation so radically that despite billions of years of slowing it's still slightly over 365 times as fast as it was before the impact. It was one helluva bang. It makes sense to assume that nearly all (if not all) of the water now present on the Earth originated elsewhere.
I've often heard that colonists to the Moon or Mars could generate much of the energy and oxygen they need if they can find water present. How much water is still present in the interplanetary environment, and is it enough to consider using it to augment the fuel/oxygen supply on an interplanetary rocket?
Just to point out - there's a difference between theorizing something has or will occur and observing such an occurrence. Remember, even Albert Einstein didn't believe singularities existed despite the fact that his own Theory of Relativity predicted their existence.
His mistake was attempting to apply an ethical argument to a legal situation. Unfortunately while unethical, these are our laws. We shouldn't ignore them or complain about them, we should change them.
Since our current POTUS doesn't appear to have or care about ethics, this would seem unlikely to happen in the near future.
How do I effectively reflect that sentiment in a one-line signature? Replace the word "defeat" with "survive"?
MLK sought to effect social change. He opposed an attitude. I recommend using the method and techniques he advocated to oppose a single malign individual and his associates. Specifically, I would recommend avoiding violence in both action and word. Ignore A/C's - the 'coward' part of A/C tells us all we need to know about them. Speak and act with calm determination and unwavering dedication to the truth. Don't surrender to evil simply because it can be plainly seen all around us.
I would've expected to see intelligent commentary on how the observations were gathered and interpreted to increase our understanding of the cosmos. Now, it's all A/C's trolling, more than half with political agendas.
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D'ya suppose the current FCC will even care?
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My wife and I both use it. It's not as fast as the wire, but it's convenient as hell. Personally, I wonder what took Apple so long - trying to come up with Bluetooth earbuds, or getting rid of the audio jack?
Apple's not even "in the money" on this one - just an "also ran". By the way - how's that custom audio jack working out for you?
Load up your spank-bank from the internet like the rest of us! Yeesh, what'd we invent the internet for, anyway?
Why only one particular card issuer? Only a guess - the system should immediately encrypt the CC data and immediately delete the clear data. Only encrypted data should ever be used when communicating with card issuer. Perhaps this particular issuer's encryption didn't work and the system was configured to work with clear data for their CC's?
Just a guess...
Sounds like misdialing IBM's server support number. If you dial with the 877 area code, you get IBM server support. If you dial with the 800 area code, you get something vastly more entertaining (if you have a credit card, it costs $4.99/minute).
Then again, if Google can do exactly the same thing to improve the accuracy of targeted advertising I suppose this is relatively innocuous. Still, can I meaningfully out out of should I just make sure GPG/PGP is installed and working correctly? After all, the OS itself does a couple dozen phone-homes, why should web services be any different?
UEFI doesn't suffer the same addressing limitations BIOS does. Just put the vendor driver in the hardware firmware, perhaps on EEPROM.
No, the reason the vast majority of humans still eat meat is because we're omnivores. Three or four billion years of evolution isn't going away because you and a few other fringe types can't figure out why humans have incisor and canine teeth. Unless you're a creationist, in which case we eat meat because that's how array (deity) wants it.
Keep the POTUS from monetizing the White House, or the Ku Klux Klan from undoing over half a century of social progress?
A/C has demonstrated a mastery of pseudoscience. If you continually insist on citing scientific facts, how can it ever succeed in its quest to transmute lead into gold?
Don't let 'em get to you. After all, by responding to it you let it know that it got your attention. It doesn't deserve the cheap thrill.
I've often heard that colonists to the Moon or Mars could generate much of the energy and oxygen they need if they can find water present. How much water is still present in the interplanetary environment, and is it enough to consider using it to augment the fuel/oxygen supply on an interplanetary rocket?
Just to point out - there's a difference between theorizing something has or will occur and observing such an occurrence. Remember, even Albert Einstein didn't believe singularities existed despite the fact that his own Theory of Relativity predicted their existence.
Since our current POTUS doesn't appear to have or care about ethics, this would seem unlikely to happen in the near future.
They were only following orders.
I suppose now it will be alright for foreign governments to demand the same of US citizens traveling abroad?
Try to confine yourself to relevant, intelligent posts. Don't fall into the trap of lowering yourself to their level.
Not redundant, recursive.
Damned Android auto correct!
MLK sought to effect social change. He opposed an attitude. I recommend using the method and techniques he advocated to oppose a single malign individual and his associates. Specifically, I would recommend avoiding violence in both action and word. Ignore A/C's - the 'coward' part of A/C tells us all we need to know about them. Speak and act with calm determination and unwavering dedication to the truth. Don't surrender to evil simply because it can be plainly seen all around us.
How do I fit all of that into a sig line?
"Zathras can never have anything nice."
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