The reason I pre order all games is due to the pre order DLC and bonuses, which I then promptly sell on eBay omn launch day for $10 or $15, making the game cost less. Hell, sometimes the sale of the pre order bonuses covers the entire cost of the game.
I don't know why so many commentors are under the impression that PUBLISHERS get money from pre orders... They don't. The publisher doesn't get paid until you pick up the game on launch day. Until that time, Walmart or EB or whoever you ptreordered from is just holding the money.
Think about it, if it worked the way you'd day, then cancelling a pre order or switching it to another game would not be possible. But it is, with every retailer I know of anyway.
Hell, Amazon doesn't even charge your credit card at all until the game ships.
Why is it a bad thing for me to not know who other people are planning to vote for? Shouldn't I be making up my own mind on election day, not just "going with the flow"?
Why is it a bad thing that politicians don't know how their latest soundbytes are playing with the public? Shoudn't they just be being themselves and representing their platform?
I can't wait for accurate polling to die. All it has done over the past 50-60 years is ruin the democratic process.
Actually, you're dead wrong, except for the fact that Blackberry is probably way too late for this to make a difference.
Blackberry should have released an Android phone YEARS ago instead of dumping tons of money into BBOS 10. If they would have instead spent that money on Android by adding working full device crypto and out of the box BES support, they would have dominated the enterprise market and also been able to move into consumer by touting the privacy features.
Instead, they wasted all their time and resources writing this other OS that no one wants to write apps for and implementing an Android emulator on top of it because it is the only way to get anything decent. It was a horrible, stupid move from beginning to end.
And before you say "hindsight is 20/20", I have been saying Blackberry should move to Android since 2011.
Sounds logical - however, your logic is pointless because you are dealing with lawyers, not engineers.
As someone who has recently purchased and moved to a new home, as well as shifted banks and investment firms at the same time, I can tell you, good old fax machine and pen-and-ink signature is not going anywhere for a long time. At least not until there is some way that people can digitally sign documents that is accepted by everyone.
Personally I think that this is a space that national postal services should be looking to as a revenue source. Who better to provide authenticated digital certificates to the public, and to run digital document signing services, than them.
I have played every Bethesda game since Morrowind via a console, and I loved every one of them. Not everyone cares about mods, I like to enjoy the games as Bethesda intended them.
QED play what you enjoy and don't make assumptions on what other people may or may not enjoy based on your own enjoyment.
"fragile full-disk encryption up to Android v4.4 (KitKat)."
"Twenty-six second-hand Android phones running versions 2.3 to 4.3 of the operating system, sold by five handset makers, were tested."
This paper did not look at Android 4.4 or above, IE, the only versions of Android that actually properly supported and advertised full disk encryption in the first place. Full disk encryption on any device prior to 4.4 was basically something the manufacturer cooked up.
If this paper shows anything to me, it is not so much about Android, it is more about how we have to force carriers to stop requiring this goddamn nonsense useless "carrier certification" so that Google can push device manufacturers to allow more direct and timely software updates.
The only result of laws like this is the off-shoring of jobs related to the creation of computer security tools.
This is why I had to laugh at the slant of the summary for the Kaspersky article yesterday, claming that it was negative that the product came from Russia. In actual fact, the fact that the product is not made in the US protects it from crap like this.
You are making the false assumption that the car is not also an automated vehicle. Within the next 10 years, all highway travel is likely to be automated. There is no reason a human needs to be sitting behind the wheel of a car for hours up9n hours in any circumstance.
It doesn't have to be this way and it has little to do with standards. Netflix streaming today still works fine on devices that are first generation from many years ago. This is despite all of the new functions and features they have come out with since then - heck they even changed their whole DRM scheme for many players.
The main difference is YouTube has little incentive to keep supporting these old devices since they don't generate much, of any, ad revenue (heck they might not even support ads), whereas Netflix needs to support their subscribers as long as possible.
Standards don't do anything to help with this problem it has more to do with an advertising driven business model.
This whole article is dumbn. At 21K a job, the program is doing SPECTACULAR seeing how threse jobs likely pay at least 75K, they will pay more in taxes than the damn job costs IN THE FIRST YEAR ALONE.
This is true. What is needed is more investment in solar capacity in the south, and investment in the power grid in the north (and nationally). There is no reason the North should not be buying a majority of it's power cheaper from the south, where it is plentiful.
WAC are actually not required anymore, although it is still avalable.
CRA My Account is accessible now via a system called "Secure Key Concierge", where the CRA redirects your login to your bank. As long as you have an account with one of the "Big 6", you can log into your online banking, after which the CRA federates with the bank and checks that your SIN and DOB at the bank is the same as the SIN and DOB you entered at the site, and if so they let you in.
IMO it is a much more convenient way to authenticate in a way that covers likely 90%+ of the Canadian population.
Forget the auto-complete nonsense. The question that should be being asked is why an un-encrypted email containing " Passport numbers, dates of birth, and other personal information of the heads of state attending a G-20 summit in Brisbane, Australia" would be being sent to ANYONE. I can't even send an unencrypted email at work containing MY OWN social security number.
In an era where I can purchase trans-atlantic wifi for $15, it seems archaic to me that we still rely on hardened "black boxes" for data retrieval. Why is audio from the flight deck not REQUIRED to be streamed real-time to satellites in orbit for commercial airliners? Yes yes, it won't be 100% reliable blah blah. So what? No one is advocating REMOVING the black box.. there is no reason you can't have both.
Then roll your own OpenID provider. This is what standards are for.
Don't bash federated login just because you don't trust Google.. you don't HAVE to trust them, that is the whole point.
The problem is not Google/Facebook/Yahoo/Twitter, the problem is The Guardian/Techcrunch/JoeBLow.com and every other website out there that forces you to make YET ANOTHER account with YET ANOTHER password because they do not support any federated login standards at all.
If more sites allowed federated login instead of rolling their own half-assed authentication regiemes then this wouldn't be a problem in the first place.
The idea that I am more secure cooking up a "safe password" for JoeBlowsRandomWordpressInstance.com instead of logging in securely using Google or Facebook is farcical.
As someone who is an SPG member and generally keeps tabs on what new promotions Starwood runs, this is anything but news. Starwood has over the past year or two, as a general strategy, struck up this kind of relationsip with a ton of companies.
- Starwood partners with Caesars Entertainment, where your SPG profile and your Total Rewards profiles can be linked. This means that loyalty shown at Caesars casinos can help you at Starwood hotels, and vice-versa
- Starwood also partners with Delta, where your SPG profile and your Skymiles profile can be linked, in a simmilar capacity - you can earn both skymiles and SPG points for Detla flights and for hotel stays.
- Now, they are doing the same with Uber... same story as above.
Obviously these companies are going to share customer data. However, if you think Starwood has the infrastructure built, capacity or talent to data mine Uber for what restaurants you go to and target hotel promotions, I think you have a bit higher expectations of them than I do. The much more immediate use of these types of partnerships is to encourage cross-brand loyalty for both companies.
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The reason I pre order all games is due to the pre order DLC and bonuses, which I then promptly sell on eBay omn launch day for $10 or $15, making the game cost less. Hell, sometimes the sale of the pre order bonuses covers the entire cost of the game.
I don't know why so many commentors are under the impression that PUBLISHERS get money from pre orders... They don't. The publisher doesn't get paid until you pick up the game on launch day. Until that time, Walmart or EB or whoever you ptreordered from is just holding the money.
Think about it, if it worked the way you'd day, then cancelling a pre order or switching it to another game would not be possible. But it is, with every retailer I know of anyway.
Hell, Amazon doesn't even charge your credit card at all until the game ships.
Why is it a bad thing for me to not know who other people are planning to vote for? Shouldn't I be making up my own mind on election day, not just "going with the flow"?
Why is it a bad thing that politicians don't know how their latest soundbytes are playing with the public? Shoudn't they just be being themselves and representing their platform?
I can't wait for accurate polling to die. All it has done over the past 50-60 years is ruin the democratic process.
Again, the robo calls are not for ads or spam. They are so Paypal can do collections calls in an automated way.
Why is it every single post on the front page right now is talking about ads when that is not what this is about at all?
RTFA.
The robo-calls were not for advertisements, they were for collections.
IE - you would get a robo-call saying your bank account was overdrawn and you owe Paypal $5000.
The only difference between what Paypal wants to do and what all other collection agencies do is if a human is on the other end of the phone.
Actually, you're dead wrong, except for the fact that Blackberry is probably way too late for this to make a difference.
Blackberry should have released an Android phone YEARS ago instead of dumping tons of money into BBOS 10. If they would have instead spent that money on Android by adding working full device crypto and out of the box BES support, they would have dominated the enterprise market and also been able to move into consumer by touting the privacy features.
Instead, they wasted all their time and resources writing this other OS that no one wants to write apps for and implementing an Android emulator on top of it because it is the only way to get anything decent. It was a horrible, stupid move from beginning to end.
And before you say "hindsight is 20/20", I have been saying Blackberry should move to Android since 2011.
Sounds logical - however, your logic is pointless because you are dealing with lawyers, not engineers.
As someone who has recently purchased and moved to a new home, as well as shifted banks and investment firms at the same time, I can tell you, good old fax machine and pen-and-ink signature is not going anywhere for a long time. At least not until there is some way that people can digitally sign documents that is accepted by everyone.
Personally I think that this is a space that national postal services should be looking to as a revenue source. Who better to provide authenticated digital certificates to the public, and to run digital document signing services, than them.
I have played every Bethesda game since Morrowind via a console, and I loved every one of them. Not everyone cares about mods, I like to enjoy the games as Bethesda intended them.
QED play what you enjoy and don't make assumptions on what other people may or may not enjoy based on your own enjoyment.
Anyone have an adblock signature to get rid of this annoying "video bytes" section that appeared today?
"fragile full-disk encryption up to Android v4.4 (KitKat)."
"Twenty-six second-hand Android phones running versions 2.3 to 4.3 of the operating system, sold by five handset makers, were tested."
This paper did not look at Android 4.4 or above, IE, the only versions of Android that actually properly supported and advertised full disk encryption in the first place. Full disk encryption on any device prior to 4.4 was basically something the manufacturer cooked up.
If this paper shows anything to me, it is not so much about Android, it is more about how we have to force carriers to stop requiring this goddamn nonsense useless "carrier certification" so that Google can push device manufacturers to allow more direct and timely software updates.
Learn Python, Flask, ReactJS, Bootstrap.
Once you learn these, you'll never go back to the "old way" of doing things again.
It's a law against export, not possession.
The only result of laws like this is the off-shoring of jobs related to the creation of computer security tools.
This is why I had to laugh at the slant of the summary for the Kaspersky article yesterday, claming that it was negative that the product came from Russia. In actual fact, the fact that the product is not made in the US protects it from crap like this.
You are making the false assumption that the car is not also an automated vehicle. Within the next 10 years, all highway travel is likely to be automated. There is no reason a human needs to be sitting behind the wheel of a car for hours up9n hours in any circumstance.
... instead of the shitty ad-filled blog
http://googleonlinesecurity.bl...
It doesn't have to be this way and it has little to do with standards. Netflix streaming today still works fine on devices that are first generation from many years ago. This is despite all of the new functions and features they have come out with since then - heck they even changed their whole DRM scheme for many players.
The main difference is YouTube has little incentive to keep supporting these old devices since they don't generate much, of any, ad revenue (heck they might not even support ads), whereas Netflix needs to support their subscribers as long as possible.
Standards don't do anything to help with this problem it has more to do with an advertising driven business model.
This whole article is dumbn. At 21K a job, the program is doing SPECTACULAR seeing how threse jobs likely pay at least 75K, they will pay more in taxes than the damn job costs IN THE FIRST YEAR ALONE.
This is true. What is needed is more investment in solar capacity in the south, and investment in the power grid in the north (and nationally). There is no reason the North should not be buying a majority of it's power cheaper from the south, where it is plentiful.
WAC are actually not required anymore, although it is still avalable.
CRA My Account is accessible now via a system called "Secure Key Concierge", where the CRA redirects your login to your bank. As long as you have an account with one of the "Big 6", you can log into your online banking, after which the CRA federates with the bank and checks that your SIN and DOB at the bank is the same as the SIN and DOB you entered at the site, and if so they let you in.
IMO it is a much more convenient way to authenticate in a way that covers likely 90%+ of the Canadian population.
Forget the auto-complete nonsense. The question that should be being asked is why an un-encrypted email containing " Passport numbers, dates of birth, and other personal information of the heads of state attending a G-20 summit in Brisbane, Australia" would be being sent to ANYONE. I can't even send an unencrypted email at work containing MY OWN social security number.
In an era where I can purchase trans-atlantic wifi for $15, it seems archaic to me that we still rely on hardened "black boxes" for data retrieval. Why is audio from the flight deck not REQUIRED to be streamed real-time to satellites in orbit for commercial airliners? Yes yes, it won't be 100% reliable blah blah. So what? No one is advocating REMOVING the black box.. there is no reason you can't have both.
Then roll your own OpenID provider. This is what standards are for.
Don't bash federated login just because you don't trust Google.. you don't HAVE to trust them, that is the whole point.
The problem is not Google/Facebook/Yahoo/Twitter, the problem is The Guardian/Techcrunch/JoeBLow.com and every other website out there that forces you to make YET ANOTHER account with YET ANOTHER password because they do not support any federated login standards at all.
If more sites allowed federated login instead of rolling their own half-assed authentication regiemes then this wouldn't be a problem in the first place.
The idea that I am more secure cooking up a "safe password" for JoeBlowsRandomWordpressInstance.com instead of logging in securely using Google or Facebook is farcical.
As someone who is an SPG member and generally keeps tabs on what new promotions Starwood runs, this is anything but news. Starwood has over the past year or two, as a general strategy, struck up this kind of relationsip with a ton of companies.
- Starwood partners with Caesars Entertainment, where your SPG profile and your Total Rewards profiles can be linked. This means that loyalty shown at Caesars casinos can help you at Starwood hotels, and vice-versa
- Starwood also partners with Delta, where your SPG profile and your Skymiles profile can be linked, in a simmilar capacity - you can earn both skymiles and SPG points for Detla flights and for hotel stays.
- Now, they are doing the same with Uber... same story as above.
Obviously these companies are going to share customer data. However, if you think Starwood has the infrastructure built, capacity or talent to data mine Uber for what restaurants you go to and target hotel promotions, I think you have a bit higher expectations of them than I do. The much more immediate use of these types of partnerships is to encourage cross-brand loyalty for both companies.
If you think yours is not, you are living in a reality distortion bubble.
Do you have any links to how to do #1? I have never heard of this before.