We don't know if the Google car could have avoided it. I was in a similar situation one time, and happened to catch a glance of the idiot in my rear view. I cut out ahead of the adjacent lane into the empty crosswalk. The idiot screeched to a stop in what was previously my lane.
This is the difference between a good driver and a shitty one.
The shitty driver accepts that his responsibility ends with "legally at fault".
The good driver knows that legalities don't stop bones from breaking, and pays attention to avoid even those situations where s/he would not be "at fault".
This right here is at the core of almost all problems in the world: the inability of people to differentiate between the actions of an individual and a group, or projecting the individual actions into a collective mindset.
It's probably worth noting that these need to be manually downloaded and installed external to BB's app world - unlike the examples that have turned up for iOS in the appstore and in the market for android. If this was seen in the wild, that means users had to go out of their way to install it, and approve the permissions it requested.
Most importantly: Under BES you can lock down the devices to completely prevent installation of external/unapproved apps.
Not only has Mekong’s account base tripled through the use of fingerprint technology since its launch in June,
Without any actual numbers (say, for example, the number of accounts they had before introducing this), this is fairly meaningless. If you have 3 customers it's easy to triple them; if you have 3 million, not so easy.
but the deposit balance per debit card account is two times higher than a regular account.
This seems completely irrelevant; in the very best case it sounds like selection bias. The people using this technology will be more like to be tech enthusiasts. While I don't know the demographics of Vietnam, I know that in the States that kind of audience will typically have higher income levels.
But even that's a tenuous guess - my point was that the phrasing of the statement strongly implies that deposit balances are directly connected to card type (fingerprint vs pin); but there's nothing in TFA that supports that.
This underground economy consists of dealers who create and sell the use of thousands of fake social accounts, and abusers who buy follows or likes from these fake accounts to boost their perceived popularity, sell advertising based on their now large social audience or conduct other malicious activity."
We could probably go with something like this:
This underground economy consists of dealers who create and sell the use of thousands of fake social accounts, and suckers who buy follows or likes from these fake accounts to boost their perceived popularity while under the misguided impression that these numbers convince people to purchase their product
One "like" from a "friend" is worth a hundred thousand likes from random strangers (even if they're real people). And one detailed comment about a product from an actual trusted friend is worth more than a hundred thousand likes from friends.
I've never heard of anyone having more than one card from the same issuer before. Usually, a bank won't offer you a second card if you already have one with them. Why do you have multiple cards from the same bank?
1) If your answer is "your valid use case is wrong, you need to re-think how you're doing things", you're doing it wrong and need to re-think how you're doing things. 2) Multiple cards from the same bank can occur pretty easily. Nearly all airline cards are issued by the major banks (Chase, Citi, etc) - even though the branding may be Southwest Air, the actual issuer is Chase. So if you have an airline/hotel/retail-branded card and a card from a major bank, chances are good that they'll be from the same issuer.
They say tea contains caffeine and yet I can drink one before bed and not feel any effects of insomnia. The reverse is true if i drink coffee. Are there different types of caffeine or is there a lower concentration in tea?
Depends on the tea. Some can have higher concentrations, some lower - in the same way that concentration in coffee will vary based on the bean, how it's ground, etc.
Personally - after chugging far too many 2 liter bottles of 'dew in my youth - I find that none of the above particularly effects me. I can drink tea/coffee/jolt/whatever and go to sleep afterwards.
Can the WiFi handle calls from GSM handsets as-is? No.
Does your WiFi router improve your cell phone reception? No.
The whole point again is to eliminate ALL load off the towers when someone is at home, so you need far fewer towers and everyone gets better service to boot.
Yes, exactly this. T-mobile bills it as "wifi calling", and is somewhat commonly known as "UMA". Other providers might have different names. The number of phones that support it is growing, though in the US the number of carriers who support it is not.
I have an email in to Tim Cook and Apple PR, and want to give them a chance to respond (and make changes)
If you read his original account, it's littered with this kind of thing:
.... and Gawker’s Scott Kidder then got on the phone with contacts at Google and Twitter trying to help me put the brakes on. A friend at Twitter helped expedite the request to suspend the account, which stopped the tweeting
It really must be nice to have these kind of contacts when this kind of situation occurs.
To each his own. I've been happy with Firefox and use it and Chrome at about 80/20. Use what you like and move on. At the end of the day, it's just a web browser.
Secondary point: Usage metrics are unreliable at best - just last week I saw one that said FF usage was gaining over everything else.
This seems like it could be of interest to people that are designing and building datacenter infrastructure. I remember when topics like this were a lot more common on Slashdot. As the readership has become less skilled, content like this has become less frequent.
Yeah, but such content would originate from people and places that had actual background and experience doing it - and wouldn't have the feel of regurgitated PR.
You can keep posting it, but unfortunately I think most of the slashdot audience has no interest in content that actually originates from slashdot. If these were actual in-depth analyses and not just lightweight sponsored PR fluff - you'd possibly get more interest. For the most part, though, it feels like a strained and artificial attempt at pushing advertisements as tech content.
I understand there needs to be a monetization strategy, but you don't want to pick one that's likely to drive away the people you're trying to sell to.
OT? Possibly, though I'd argue that I'm on-topic of the larger issue when it comes to these posts.
Blackberry OS 10 is beautiful. However there were other problems.....
So what does any of this have to do with BB10? None of the current BB models are running BB 10 (including Bold and Torch) - it hasn't been released yet.
As others have pointed out, this doesn't affect BES - they're as secure as ever in the enterprise.
Thing is, they've always given this level of access to governments (or we reasonably assume this is the case, anyway) for their BIS service The difference is officials in India needed to save face and made a big deal out of this - even though they're getting only what they were told they could get from the start, and certainly no more than any other government.
A netbook is a laptop whose display is too small and of too low a resolution to do anything but the simplest tasks on, whose keyboard is too compact and cramped to comfortably type more than a few paragraphs on and whose hardware is so lacking in performance that few applications run sufficiently fast on it. Gaming is pretty much impossible due to the low graphics performance. There are only two advantages over a full-blown laptop: portability (smaller size, lighter weight) and battery time.
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So did the PS3, until they killed the Linux use of it. Now it is only Sony blackbox hardware. I'll never buy from Sony again!
You forgot to dramatically wipe away a single tear.
We don't know if the Google car could have avoided it. I was in a similar situation one time, and happened to catch a glance of the idiot in my rear view. I cut out ahead of the adjacent lane into the empty crosswalk. The idiot screeched to a stop in what was previously my lane.
This is the difference between a good driver and a shitty one.
The shitty driver accepts that his responsibility ends with "legally at fault".
The good driver knows that legalities don't stop bones from breaking, and pays attention to avoid even those situations where s/he would not be "at fault".
How Many of You Actually Use Math?
Last I added it up, three of me.
This right here is at the core of almost all problems in the world: the inability of people to differentiate between the actions of an individual and a group, or projecting the individual actions into a collective mindset.
Yeah, totally sucks how everybody does that.
It's probably worth noting that these need to be manually downloaded and installed external to BB's app world - unlike the examples that have turned up for iOS in the appstore and in the market for android. If this was seen in the wild, that means users had to go out of their way to install it, and approve the permissions it requested.
Most importantly: Under BES you can lock down the devices to completely prevent installation of external/unapproved apps.
This seems a silly topic. We've recently seen what a bad thunderstorm can do. Of course a Cat 5 is a risk, don't ask stupid questions.
That would've been funnier if you'd said "Wired write Mat Herman".
Not only has Mekong’s account base tripled through the use of fingerprint technology since its launch in June,
Without any actual numbers (say, for example, the number of accounts they had before introducing this), this is fairly meaningless. If you have 3 customers it's easy to triple them; if you have 3 million, not so easy.
but the deposit balance per debit card account is two times higher than a regular account.
This seems completely irrelevant; in the very best case it sounds like selection bias. The people using this technology will be more like to be tech enthusiasts. While I don't know the demographics of Vietnam, I know that in the States that kind of audience will typically have higher income levels.
But even that's a tenuous guess - my point was that the phrasing of the statement strongly implies that deposit balances are directly connected to card type (fingerprint vs pin); but there's nothing in TFA that supports that.
I would have phrased this differently:
This underground economy consists of dealers who create and sell the use of thousands of fake social accounts, and abusers who buy follows or likes from these fake accounts to boost their perceived popularity, sell advertising based on their now large social audience or conduct other malicious activity."
We could probably go with something like this:
This underground economy consists of dealers who create and sell the use of thousands of fake social accounts, and suckers who buy follows or likes from these fake accounts to boost their perceived popularity while under the misguided impression that these numbers convince people to purchase their product
One "like" from a "friend" is worth a hundred thousand likes from random strangers (even if they're real people). And one detailed comment about a product from an actual trusted friend is worth more than a hundred thousand likes from friends.
I've never heard of anyone having more than one card from the same issuer before. Usually, a bank won't offer you a second card if you already have one with them. Why do you have multiple cards from the same bank?
1) If your answer is "your valid use case is wrong, you need to re-think how you're doing things", you're doing it wrong and need to re-think how you're doing things.
2) Multiple cards from the same bank can occur pretty easily. Nearly all airline cards are issued by the major banks (Chase, Citi, etc) - even though the branding may be Southwest Air, the actual issuer is Chase. So if you have an airline/hotel/retail-branded card and a card from a major bank, chances are good that they'll be from the same issuer.
They say tea contains caffeine and yet I can drink one before bed and not feel any effects of insomnia. The reverse is true if i drink coffee. Are there different types of caffeine or is there a lower concentration in tea?
Depends on the tea. Some can have higher concentrations, some lower - in the same way that concentration in coffee will vary based on the bean, how it's ground, etc.
Personally - after chugging far too many 2 liter bottles of 'dew in my youth - I find that none of the above particularly effects me. I can drink tea/coffee/jolt/whatever and go to sleep afterwards.
Maybe I should switch to cocaine.
And we could call it "WiFi"! That sounds catchy.
Ha Ha.
Can the WiFi handle calls from GSM handsets as-is? No.
Does your WiFi router improve your cell phone reception? No.
The whole point again is to eliminate ALL load off the towers when someone is at home, so you need far fewer towers and everyone gets better service to boot.
Yes, exactly this. T-mobile bills it as "wifi calling", and is somewhat commonly known as "UMA". Other providers might have different names. The number of phones that support it is growing, though in the US the number of carriers who support it is not.
Why not a tower (microcell) in EVERY home, provided by the carrier... along with fiber to the home.
And we could call it "WiFi"! That sounds catchy.
I was pleasantly surprised when my wife watched with me, even more so when she actually got into it.
Also whoever nodded you offtopic was likely sitting home alone with a cat and abag of cheetos during the landing.
I have an email in to Tim Cook and Apple PR, and want to give them a chance to respond (and make changes)
If you read his original account, it's littered with this kind of thing:
.... and Gawker’s Scott Kidder then got on the phone with contacts at Google and Twitter trying to help me put the brakes on. A friend at Twitter helped expedite the request to suspend the account, which stopped the tweeting
It really must be nice to have these kind of contacts when this kind of situation occurs.
This is why I hate it when "security questions" are obvious things that anyone who knows me even slightly can figure out easily.
You mean you actually use those specific values for those questions?
"What was your first pet's name?"
> "The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.
Better title: "I don't like forced upgrades".
To each his own. I've been happy with Firefox and use it and Chrome at about 80/20. Use what you like and move on. At the end of the day, it's just a web browser.
Secondary point: Usage metrics are unreliable at best - just last week I saw one that said FF usage was gaining over everything else.
The place is filled with computer techinicians/reparimans that firmly believe they can teach a thing or two to EVERYONE else.
And most of them can. Don't discount others' experience just because they're assholes about how they share it.
I miss the days when trending twitter comments weren't considered "news" by mainstream outlets.
I think we're both out of luck.
This seems like it could be of interest to people that are designing and building datacenter infrastructure. I remember when topics like this were a lot more common on Slashdot. As the readership has become less skilled, content like this has become less frequent.
Yeah, but such content would originate from people and places that had actual background and experience doing it - and wouldn't have the feel of regurgitated PR.
It's not the subject matter that's the problem.
You can keep posting it, but unfortunately I think most of the slashdot audience has no interest in content that actually originates from slashdot. If these were actual in-depth analyses and not just lightweight sponsored PR fluff - you'd possibly get more interest. For the most part, though, it feels like a strained and artificial attempt at pushing advertisements as tech content.
I understand there needs to be a monetization strategy, but you don't want to pick one that's likely to drive away the people you're trying to sell to.
OT? Possibly, though I'd argue that I'm on-topic of the larger issue when it comes to these posts.
Blackberry OS 10 is beautiful. However there were other problems. ....
So what does any of this have to do with BB10? None of the current BB models are running BB 10 (including Bold and Torch) - it hasn't been released yet.
And RIM needs a rapid change in direction.
Agreed.
Hell, jumping on windows phone 8 is a better plan than clinging to blackberry 10
Wait, what? It's a completely new OS for phones, and that's not a change in direction?
As others have pointed out, this doesn't affect BES - they're as secure as ever in the enterprise.
Thing is, they've always given this level of access to governments (or we reasonably assume this is the case, anyway) for their BIS service The difference is officials in India needed to save face and made a big deal out of this - even though they're getting only what they were told they could get from the start, and certainly no more than any other government.
A netbook is a laptop whose display is too small and of too low a resolution to do anything but the simplest tasks on, whose keyboard is too compact and cramped to comfortably type more than a few paragraphs on and whose hardware is so lacking in performance that few applications run sufficiently fast on it. Gaming is pretty much impossible due to the low graphics performance. There are only two advantages over a full-blown laptop: portability (smaller size, lighter weight) and battery time.
netbooks are great for playing nethack.
Coincidence? I think not.