Or perhaps he keeps most of his cash in a higher yielding savings account,...
Ha! "Higher yielding" Good one.:-) The amount of interest one can earn is pretty minuscule - even one over-draft or maintenance fee could kill any earnings. It's not really worth the hassle to have to monitor and move money around like that.
Doesn't sound right to me. My bank constantly pesters me to "install the app" instead of using a browser. I don't see why I would need to check my bank balance while driving on the freeway, rather than just waiting till I get home. I understand that some people don't own a computer, use their mobile device for everything, and may find a banking app useful. But if they ask repeatedly, and I decline every time, then the pestering should stop.
More to the point, if you need to actually check your bank balance at all, you might be doing something wrong.
Like the TV commercial where a guy is looking at new flat screen TVs, checks his bank account with his mobile app, then buys the expensive TV. If you're running that close to the red, perhaps a new TV shouldn't be top on your to-do list.
"Any millennial joining the financial services industry, who expects a flawless user experience both at home and at work, is – I'm sure – surprised on their first day in the office when they get to their desk and are transported back in time by the technology they're expected to use."
Too fucking bad. Newer isn't always better or more reliable. People / companies paid money for stuff that works, and they don't mind if it keeps working.
She stresses that holding onto this reluctance will cause businesses to miss opportunities, limit innovation, and turn away talent by restraining their workflow.
Perhaps, or perhaps it'll just turn away those easily distracted by shiny new - squirrel !
Really. This racist and sexist comment is (Score:3, Insightful). Why is race and sex even mentioned here?
Actually, I'm also white, male and financially independent. I used the phrase "rich, white dude" to imply "out of touch with the reality of the masses" - as it seems to generally apply. Sorry for any confusion, though the chip on your shoulder seems a little too big...
Actually, I understand all your points. But in the US hospitals are required to treat everyone regardless of their ability to pay - which is a good thing - but some people w/o access to primary care often use the ER for all kinds of medical needs and unpaid bills get passed along as higher fees to those that can pay and/or have insurance (not paid by taxes, which would be spread across the entire population).
I don't have any sense of entitlement, but would like those that can pay and/or afford insurance to actually do so and support the, albeit imperfect, system rather than exacerbate the problem. Personally, I'd rather have a tax-supported, universal, perhaps single-payer, system like Medicare or Tricare available to everyone. It torques me off a little that my mother and stepfather are against the ACA and/or universal healthcare for everyone, while enjoying their Medicare and Tricare (respectively) - the ACA doesn't even apply to them.
You make good points, but my point that we don't really have free basic healthcare (presumably for everyone) in the US still stands.
"Because human beings are complex creatures plagued by cognitive biases, irrational thinking and emotional needs, the line between messaging with a friend and messaging with AI will be fine to nonexistent for some people."
And how does that make you feel to be because human beings are complex creatures plagued by cognitive biases, irrational thinking and emotional needs?
Being born special is a common trope in fantasy. Harry Potter, Neo, Anakin and then Luke...
True, but Harry stumbled along for a while while Hermione saved his ass more than a few times; Neo got many/most of his skills uploaded; Anakin and Luke got actual training - and Luke still got his hand chopped off. Being born special shouldn't mean you don't have to work to achieve. There is no meaning, no appreciation, without the struggle and desire to become more than you are. Having everything simply handed to you is a cop-out (and lazy story telling).
While watching it, I felt it paralleled a new hope a little too much. I guessed it was trying to keep the 'fans' happy.
It's a J.J. Abrams movie. Aren't *all* his films basically remakes of other, sometimes better, films redone for people with 10s attention spans and little aptitude for plot detail? Just asking.
Remember, people still use linear tape drives because speed is the least important factor in backup and archival storage.
Some people still use pen/pencil and paper and maybe stone tablets... Sometimes durability and longevity are the most important factors. Just sayin'. Although, to be fair, carving out my Twitter feed in marble is a huge PITA.
Uh, in the US? Since when? Unless you mean being poor/uninsured and having hospital ERs pass the cost along to others. Perhaps rich white dudes, like Zuckerberg, and I have different definitions of the word "free".
Non-digit unicode characters with a numeric value (½ and such) can now be used for that numeric value.
Whew! The lack of that has really hindered me in writing the - literally - tens to hundreds of thousands of lines of Perl 5 code I've written over the years. Now I can get to work! (Still doing everything one can do (perhaps differently) in Python, btw.)
Armed victims aren't stopping shootings or deterring them. Also you have a poor sense of how targets are being sought.
Yup. As I posted the other day about an FBI report titled, "A Study of Active Shooter Incidents in the United States Between 2000 and 2013" (links and more stats in post), out of 160 "active shootings" resulting in injuries to 1,043 victims, including 486 deaths,...
In 13 percent of the shooting situations, the shooter was successfully disarmed and restrained by unarmed civilians, and
In 3 percent of the incidents the shooter was confronted by armed civilians, of whom four were on-duty security guards and one person was just your average "good guy" who happened to be carrying a gun.
Admittedly, this seems to be just about "active shooter" incidents and I'm not sure how it relates to isolated firearm incidents. (So please don't flame me about that, I admit it as so.)
Personally, I only use IE at work to access internal sites that require it. When browsing the real Intertubes - either at work or home - I use Firefox with NoScript and several other Add-Ons that help keep me protected and private and in control of my browsing experience - or, at least, I believe relatively much more so than IE can.
You don't believe it? They also had a commercial where their CEO announced his social security number, and challenged anyone to try stealing his data
And LifeLock CEO Todd Davis (SSN on the freaking LifeLock ad graphic in the Wired article) had his identity stolen 13 times - for those that didn't know.
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Dear TSA: I can't wait to have you deny me, as an American citizen, my equal protection rights under the 14th amendment.
Bring it.
Test your rights now; refuse to take off your shoes for scanning. Let us know how far onto the plane you get.
We'll wait for your report.
... before using his debit card.
I forgot to add: Debit cards are evil. Use a credit card and pay it off every month.
Or perhaps he keeps most of his cash in a higher yielding savings account, ...
Ha! "Higher yielding" Good one. :-) The amount of interest one can earn is pretty minuscule - even one over-draft or maintenance fee could kill any earnings. It's not really worth the hassle to have to monitor and move money around like that.
Maybe they didn't quite understand what "99% uptime" meant.
Perhaps they mean their "503 Service Unavailable" page is up 99% of the time.
Sounds right.
Doesn't sound right to me. My bank constantly pesters me to "install the app" instead of using a browser. I don't see why I would need to check my bank balance while driving on the freeway, rather than just waiting till I get home. I understand that some people don't own a computer, use their mobile device for everything, and may find a banking app useful. But if they ask repeatedly, and I decline every time, then the pestering should stop.
More to the point, if you need to actually check your bank balance at all, you might be doing something wrong.
Like the TV commercial where a guy is looking at new flat screen TVs, checks his bank account with his mobile app, then buys the expensive TV. If you're running that close to the red, perhaps a new TV shouldn't be top on your to-do list.
Amen. I wish I had points to mod you up ...
"Any millennial joining the financial services industry, who expects a flawless user experience both at home and at work, is – I'm sure – surprised on their first day in the office when they get to their desk and are transported back in time by the technology they're expected to use."
Too fucking bad. Newer isn't always better or more reliable. People / companies paid money for stuff that works, and they don't mind if it keeps working.
She stresses that holding onto this reluctance will cause businesses to miss opportunities, limit innovation, and turn away talent by restraining their workflow.
Perhaps, or perhaps it'll just turn away those easily distracted by shiny new - squirrel !
Really. This racist and sexist comment is (Score:3, Insightful). Why is race and sex even mentioned here?
Actually, I'm also white, male and financially independent. I used the phrase "rich, white dude" to imply "out of touch with the reality of the masses" - as it seems to generally apply. Sorry for any confusion, though the chip on your shoulder seems a little too big...
Actually, I understand all your points. But in the US hospitals are required to treat everyone regardless of their ability to pay - which is a good thing - but some people w/o access to primary care often use the ER for all kinds of medical needs and unpaid bills get passed along as higher fees to those that can pay and/or have insurance (not paid by taxes, which would be spread across the entire population).
I don't have any sense of entitlement, but would like those that can pay and/or afford insurance to actually do so and support the, albeit imperfect, system rather than exacerbate the problem. Personally, I'd rather have a tax-supported, universal, perhaps single-payer, system like Medicare or Tricare available to everyone. It torques me off a little that my mother and stepfather are against the ACA and/or universal healthcare for everyone, while enjoying their Medicare and Tricare (respectively) - the ACA doesn't even apply to them.
You make good points, but my point that we don't really have free basic healthcare (presumably for everyone) in the US still stands.
"Because human beings are complex creatures plagued by cognitive biases, irrational thinking and emotional needs, the line between messaging with a friend and messaging with AI will be fine to nonexistent for some people."
And how does that make you feel to be because human beings are complex creatures plagued by cognitive biases, irrational thinking and emotional needs?
Being born special is a common trope in fantasy. Harry Potter, Neo, Anakin and then Luke...
True, but Harry stumbled along for a while while Hermione saved his ass more than a few times; Neo got many/most of his skills uploaded; Anakin and Luke got actual training - and Luke still got his hand chopped off. Being born special shouldn't mean you don't have to work to achieve. There is no meaning, no appreciation, without the struggle and desire to become more than you are. Having everything simply handed to you is a cop-out (and lazy story telling).
While watching it, I felt it paralleled a new hope a little too much. I guessed it was trying to keep the 'fans' happy.
It's a J.J. Abrams movie. Aren't *all* his films basically remakes of other, sometimes better, films redone for people with 10s attention spans and little aptitude for plot detail? Just asking.
Khaaaaaaaaan!
Remember, people still use linear tape drives because speed is the least important factor in backup and archival storage.
Some people still use pen/pencil and paper and maybe stone tablets ... Sometimes durability and longevity are the most important factors. Just sayin'. Although, to be fair, carving out my Twitter feed in marble is a huge PITA.
We have free basic healthcare.
Uh, in the US? Since when? Unless you mean being poor/uninsured and having hospital ERs pass the cost along to others. Perhaps rich white dudes, like Zuckerberg, and I have different definitions of the word "free".
...but that would require you to have some balls.
He does, but they're connected to the Internet.
One thing that caught my eye was this:
Non-digit unicode characters with a numeric value (½ and such) can now be used for that numeric value.
Whew! The lack of that has really hindered me in writing the - literally - tens to hundreds of thousands of lines of Perl 5 code I've written over the years. Now I can get to work! (Still doing everything one can do (perhaps differently) in Python, btw.)
Obligatory: Unscientific
I think "The Slants" is a brilliant name!!!
Ya, but it's a slippery slope ...
Guilty until proven innocent?
Both have a complete disregard for society, laws and other people however.
Sounds like a lot of CEOs, bankers, politicians ...
Maybe the solution is to NOT disarm the victims?
Armed victims aren't stopping shootings or deterring them. Also you have a poor sense of how targets are being sought.
Yup. As I posted the other day about an FBI report titled, "A Study of Active Shooter Incidents in the United States Between 2000 and 2013" (links and more stats in post), out of 160 "active shootings" resulting in injuries to 1,043 victims, including 486 deaths, ...
In 13 percent of the shooting situations, the shooter was successfully disarmed and restrained by unarmed civilians, and
In 3 percent of the incidents the shooter was confronted by armed civilians, of whom four were on-duty security guards and one person was just your average "good guy" who happened to be carrying a gun.
Admittedly, this seems to be just about "active shooter" incidents and I'm not sure how it relates to isolated firearm incidents. (So please don't flame me about that, I admit it as so.)
... allows them to extract the secret information sent between Alice and Bob.
See something, say something people ! - geesh.
Personally, I only use IE at work to access internal sites that require it. When browsing the real Intertubes - either at work or home - I use Firefox with NoScript and several other Add-Ons that help keep me protected and private and in control of my browsing experience - or, at least, I believe relatively much more so than IE can.
open-source projects rarely make changes to stuff that's working well
Please tell that to the Firefox development team.
You don't believe it? They also had a commercial where their CEO announced his social security number, and challenged anyone to try stealing his data
And LifeLock CEO Todd Davis (SSN on the freaking LifeLock ad graphic in the Wired article) had his identity stolen 13 times - for those that didn't know.