So go to the bank and have them print you some temporary checks. There might be a fee, but it beats IRS penalties.
Then next time, learn to adult and get some checks, stamps, and envelopes. Not a lot of pity here or from the IRS for someone who is so irresponsible that they aren't prepared for alternative ways to get through life when their precious technology fails.
- PITA drive, parking - Dirty theater with crap all over the floor and seats - Being surrounded by inconsiderate complete strangers who talk through the movie - Distractions from all the flowing smartphones from people texting during the movie - The "privilege" of buying bad food that costs 10X what it should - Not being able to drink alcohol (yes, I know SOME theaters allow this, but not many) - Not being able to pause the movie to use the bathroom
A better move would be to simply make the keyboard repairable/replaceable like other laptop manufacturers do. Instead, it's made part of the main chassis along with a glued-in battery which amounts to $260+ in parts alone, let alone an insane amount of labor, just to replace one of the 2 most-damaged parts of the laptop (the other being the screen, which they make cost 5X what it should in order to extort money from users that way too).
No matter how crumb-resistant or liquid-resistant you try to make the keyboard, it's still going to need to get replaced often.
Newer phones are getting increasingly over-priced while removing features and making anti-consumer design changes. Meanwhile, manufacturers are trying more and more underhanded tactics to try and encourage/force users to upgrade sooner than they want/need to.
Seriously? I use this all the time. This REALLY pisses me off. Sure, someone will quickly make an add-on, but basic core functionality shouldn't depend on a pile of third-party add-ons.
If Apple truly wanted to "change the world for the better" then they wouldn't be focusing on a business model revolving around pushing non-upgradeable, non-repairable, non-recyclable computers and electronic devices with built-in planned obsolescence, along with technological and marketing pressure to "encourage" users to throw them away and replace them every two years. Along with a cult-like marketing campaign that carefully grooms their userbase into treating their products like fashion-statement status-symbols versus actually useful tools/devices, ensuring they can get away with pricing them 2X more than they should be and users not caring that they're getting fucked up the ass sideways with an unlubed iPod Hifi every time they buy something Apple.
They don't care about the world. They don't care about their slave/child labor forces. They don't care about the environment, their userbase, or anything except extorting as much money from their gullible consumer sheep as they can.
Too bad for Salon I already subscribed to a new blocklist on my hardware firewall and now block all cryptocurrency mining JS. Although I feel bad for the general public... not everyone is an IT admin.
Considering blocking salon.com at the firewall, though, because fuck you.
I just bought a new phone and had to order a Canadian model so that not only would it be carrier-unlocked, but also bootloader unlocked. Since I still have that crazy idea that when I buy a phone, that I own the phone and the carrier shouldn't be able to dictate what I can and can't install on it, copy off from it for backups to keep my data safe, etc.Or dictate when I need to buy a new phone because they've arbitrarily decided to stop providing OS updates for it, leaving me unsafe and left behind.
Yes it's 1 (soon, 2) models "behind" from the latest and greatest but it's 2 models NEWER than my current phone, because I'm not a sucker who falls for marketing pressure trying to convince me I need a new phone every year when I clearly do not.
If computer manufacturers pulled the same shit on computers, people would've been up in arms. Though we're watching Apple and now Microsoft try and take advantage of how users are being fucked and desensitized by consumer-hostile cell carrier practices, and infect PCs with the same anti-consumer practices inch by inch. Don't you dare tell me what OS I can and can't run on the hardware I bought, or what apps I can or can't use, or what data of MINE I'm allowed to copy and back up.
(cue all the trolls who jump in and claim that rooting is no longer necessary and serves no purpose. Don't bother, you're wrong.)
I considered building a VR rig but no way in hell when GTX1080s are over $1200. Makes me wish I had snatched a bunch late last year when I could get them on sale for $400
I wouldn't assume conspiracy. Elon is the sort who'd just let the feed roll. He's been quite open about how "space is hard" and honest and forthcoming when things go wrong. Whatever took out the video feed was accidental.
Seriously. I miss the days when an external antenna connector was standard. I loved plugging in my +7db gain antenna mounted on my car and going from 1 bar to 5. It was often the difference between being able to use the phone and not.
Considering there's still several 30-60 min driving stretches around where I live where there's virtually no cell reception, and such things would be still quite useful in 2018. Probably going to need to invest in a re-radiating booster but that's not as efficient, elegant or inexpensive. And it's not going to get any better as we push towards cell technologies that use higher frequencies without the range or penetration as what we have now (let alone 15y ago) and require even MORE towers when issues prevent enough towers going up for even ubiquitous 2G coverage.
So what do you use? Chrome, which is turning into the IE6 of the web now pushing all this proprietary Chrome-only markup, and arrogantly spawns a dozen or more background task on your computer bringing it to its knees?
I'm seeing lots of Chrome die-hards give it the boot and go to Firefox as a result. And the new Firefox 57 is faster than Chrome, so there's an added bonus.
Firefox has its faults, but if you're insulting it and using Chrome instead then you're just being a huge hypocrite. Chrome gets more press and is pushed on people via sneaky trojan bundling deals that got Microsoft in trouble when they pulled that same shit, but that doesn't make it the better browser.
Eons ago, during a period where I was on the market, I tried making an eHarmony account. They rejected/banned me right off the bat without explaining why. Something about the answers I gave during the lengthy profile creation process caused them to give up on me with no explanation, and no recourse. Just basically, "we can't help you, go away".
Match.com was useless since both parties had to be paying members in order to send/receive messages. A rather broken and pointless model as it leads to an EXTREMELY limited pool. So I didn't bother.
OKCupid was and remains free. Met my current partner there and we've been together 5+ years now.
The "cloud" was always a joke/scam. Just a euphemism for storing stuff on other peoples' servers... something people were doing long before the cutesy word was invented, except now apparently it's morally acceptable to rape^H^H^H^Hmine your data for any informational revenue the place hosting it can find. Then kick you to the curb whenever they feel like it later on down the road after you've reworked your life to be dependent on their services.
Not to mention that being dependent on the "cloud" for more and more of your data is utterly incompatible with the increasing dependence on data-limited cell plans. And the FCC wants to consider cellular service equivalent to residential broadband.
I'd say the FCC, cell carriers and everyone else can take the "cloud" and shove it up their asses but that doesn't sound painful enough.
Because people apparently are too stupid to handle "windows" and can't handle seeing more than one app at once?
R.I.P. productivity. At least for businesses. There's a reason I kicked Windows off my workstations at home 15+ years ago and have been running FreeBSD (yes) and Linux ever since.
I miss the days when the list had a ton of FreeBSD systems. To this day, it remains my preferred OS. Two little software compatibility issues prevent me from running it as my desktop OS anymore although I did for many years. It still has a home on several servers here in my house where it has distinct advantages over Linux.
The Mac Mini died for us when they removed the ability to expand the RAM and the Kensington lock port, making them utterly unsuitable for deployment in labs and classrooms. With the MacBook, one might have (falsely) tried to argue that such moves were "necessary" (nope) to make it thinner (even though nobody wanted it thinner) but with the Mac Mini, the thing is the same damn size. This proved that the move to eliminate expandable memory served no other purpose than to screw over users and ensure they have to buy a whole new computer when all they need is more RAM. It's abhorrent, because the Mac Mini originally was ridiculously easy to add RAM to (removing the 2.5" HDDs, on the other hand, while possible is kind of a PITA).
But as other have stated, Apple has stopped caring about making real computers for a while now anyway. The Macs are on a trajectory to become just like iPhones and iPads: overpriced, impractical fashion/status statements with a forced 1-2 year replacement cycle.
Perhaps technically, but in the countless years I've done it on all my cards, I've never had a problem anywhere. Including the USPS.
Would be nice to see the USA crawl its way a bit out of the stone ages of credit card processing compared with the rest of the world. We shop in Canada a ton and their chip systems validate cards in 1-2 seconds, their portable wireless devices at restaurants are high-tech and slick, and PINs offer far more security than a signature. At this point, needing to use a signature is a shopping/dining speedbump akin to writing a physical check... justifiably seen as archaic and idiotic given modern knowledge and technologies. I find myself apologizing to the Canadians for it more than they apologize in general.
Took us forever to get chips while the rest of the world left us in the dust, and we're still stuck using stupid signatures. We had plenty of shame and were the laughing stock of the world well before Trump became the pinnacle of national embarrassment, but still.
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So go to the bank and have them print you some temporary checks. There might be a fee, but it beats IRS penalties.
Then next time, learn to adult and get some checks, stamps, and envelopes. Not a lot of pity here or from the IRS for someone who is so irresponsible that they aren't prepared for alternative ways to get through life when their precious technology fails.
Well it's clear what they're charged with "protecting" now.
(Corporate) Economic Protection Agency
Still not sure how much I'd pay for:
- PITA drive, parking
- Dirty theater with crap all over the floor and seats
- Being surrounded by inconsiderate complete strangers who talk through the movie
- Distractions from all the flowing smartphones from people texting during the movie
- The "privilege" of buying bad food that costs 10X what it should
- Not being able to drink alcohol (yes, I know SOME theaters allow this, but not many)
- Not being able to pause the movie to use the bathroom
A better move would be to simply make the keyboard repairable/replaceable like other laptop manufacturers do. Instead, it's made part of the main chassis along with a glued-in battery which amounts to $260+ in parts alone, let alone an insane amount of labor, just to replace one of the 2 most-damaged parts of the laptop (the other being the screen, which they make cost 5X what it should in order to extort money from users that way too).
No matter how crumb-resistant or liquid-resistant you try to make the keyboard, it's still going to need to get replaced often.
Newer phones are getting increasingly over-priced while removing features and making anti-consumer design changes. Meanwhile, manufacturers are trying more and more underhanded tactics to try and encourage/force users to upgrade sooner than they want/need to.
So yes, fuck you right back, Apple and Samsung.
Seriously? I use this all the time. This REALLY pisses me off. Sure, someone will quickly make an add-on, but basic core functionality shouldn't depend on a pile of third-party add-ons.
If Apple truly wanted to "change the world for the better" then they wouldn't be focusing on a business model revolving around pushing non-upgradeable, non-repairable, non-recyclable computers and electronic devices with built-in planned obsolescence, along with technological and marketing pressure to "encourage" users to throw them away and replace them every two years. Along with a cult-like marketing campaign that carefully grooms their userbase into treating their products like fashion-statement status-symbols versus actually useful tools/devices, ensuring they can get away with pricing them 2X more than they should be and users not caring that they're getting fucked up the ass sideways with an unlubed iPod Hifi every time they buy something Apple.
They don't care about the world. They don't care about their slave/child labor forces. They don't care about the environment, their userbase, or anything except extorting as much money from their gullible consumer sheep as they can.
Too bad for Salon I already subscribed to a new blocklist on my hardware firewall and now block all cryptocurrency mining JS. Although I feel bad for the general public... not everyone is an IT admin.
Considering blocking salon.com at the firewall, though, because fuck you.
I just bought a new phone and had to order a Canadian model so that not only would it be carrier-unlocked, but also bootloader unlocked. Since I still have that crazy idea that when I buy a phone, that I own the phone and the carrier shouldn't be able to dictate what I can and can't install on it, copy off from it for backups to keep my data safe, etc.Or dictate when I need to buy a new phone because they've arbitrarily decided to stop providing OS updates for it, leaving me unsafe and left behind.
Yes it's 1 (soon, 2) models "behind" from the latest and greatest but it's 2 models NEWER than my current phone, because I'm not a sucker who falls for marketing pressure trying to convince me I need a new phone every year when I clearly do not.
If computer manufacturers pulled the same shit on computers, people would've been up in arms. Though we're watching Apple and now Microsoft try and take advantage of how users are being fucked and desensitized by consumer-hostile cell carrier practices, and infect PCs with the same anti-consumer practices inch by inch. Don't you dare tell me what OS I can and can't run on the hardware I bought, or what apps I can or can't use, or what data of MINE I'm allowed to copy and back up.
(cue all the trolls who jump in and claim that rooting is no longer necessary and serves no purpose. Don't bother, you're wrong.)
I considered building a VR rig but no way in hell when GTX1080s are over $1200. Makes me wish I had snatched a bunch late last year when I could get them on sale for $400
I wouldn't assume conspiracy. Elon is the sort who'd just let the feed roll. He's been quite open about how "space is hard" and honest and forthcoming when things go wrong. Whatever took out the video feed was accidental.
Seriously. I miss the days when an external antenna connector was standard. I loved plugging in my +7db gain antenna mounted on my car and going from 1 bar to 5. It was often the difference between being able to use the phone and not.
Considering there's still several 30-60 min driving stretches around where I live where there's virtually no cell reception, and such things would be still quite useful in 2018. Probably going to need to invest in a re-radiating booster but that's not as efficient, elegant or inexpensive. And it's not going to get any better as we push towards cell technologies that use higher frequencies without the range or penetration as what we have now (let alone 15y ago) and require even MORE towers when issues prevent enough towers going up for even ubiquitous 2G coverage.
I can't wait until someone figures out the signal and invents an Alexa-jammer/DOS emitter device/app.
So what do you use? Chrome, which is turning into the IE6 of the web now pushing all this proprietary Chrome-only markup, and arrogantly spawns a dozen or more background task on your computer bringing it to its knees?
I'm seeing lots of Chrome die-hards give it the boot and go to Firefox as a result. And the new Firefox 57 is faster than Chrome, so there's an added bonus.
Firefox has its faults, but if you're insulting it and using Chrome instead then you're just being a huge hypocrite. Chrome gets more press and is pushed on people via sneaky trojan bundling deals that got Microsoft in trouble when they pulled that same shit, but that doesn't make it the better browser.
Eons ago, during a period where I was on the market, I tried making an eHarmony account. They rejected/banned me right off the bat without explaining why. Something about the answers I gave during the lengthy profile creation process caused them to give up on me with no explanation, and no recourse. Just basically, "we can't help you, go away".
Match.com was useless since both parties had to be paying members in order to send/receive messages. A rather broken and pointless model as it leads to an EXTREMELY limited pool. So I didn't bother.
OKCupid was and remains free. Met my current partner there and we've been together 5+ years now.
...die by the "cloud".
The "cloud" was always a joke/scam. Just a euphemism for storing stuff on other peoples' servers... something people were doing long before the cutesy word was invented, except now apparently it's morally acceptable to rape^H^H^H^Hmine your data for any informational revenue the place hosting it can find. Then kick you to the curb whenever they feel like it later on down the road after you've reworked your life to be dependent on their services.
Not to mention that being dependent on the "cloud" for more and more of your data is utterly incompatible with the increasing dependence on data-limited cell plans. And the FCC wants to consider cellular service equivalent to residential broadband.
I'd say the FCC, cell carriers and everyone else can take the "cloud" and shove it up their asses but that doesn't sound painful enough.
I'm a home-owner in my 40s, with multiple servers and network switches in our home, but nice troll-fail.
Because people apparently are too stupid to handle "windows" and can't handle seeing more than one app at once?
R.I.P. productivity. At least for businesses. There's a reason I kicked Windows off my workstations at home 15+ years ago and have been running FreeBSD (yes) and Linux ever since.
I miss the days when the list had a ton of FreeBSD systems. To this day, it remains my preferred OS. Two little software compatibility issues prevent me from running it as my desktop OS anymore although I did for many years. It still has a home on several servers here in my house where it has distinct advantages over Linux.
Can I pay to not have videos auto-play ever time I want to READ an article?
Why would I or anyone else want to buy this one-trick-pony device versus DirecTV Now running on a Roku?
A junk phone that is pretty much completely unrepairable? iFixit score of 1: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardow...
Locked bootloader, no headphone jack, no MicroSD slot, zero repairability... the Essential Phone is lacking a ton of "essential" things.
Lower the price all you want, I'm not buying this piece of shit.
The Mac Mini died for us when they removed the ability to expand the RAM and the Kensington lock port, making them utterly unsuitable for deployment in labs and classrooms. With the MacBook, one might have (falsely) tried to argue that such moves were "necessary" (nope) to make it thinner (even though nobody wanted it thinner) but with the Mac Mini, the thing is the same damn size. This proved that the move to eliminate expandable memory served no other purpose than to screw over users and ensure they have to buy a whole new computer when all they need is more RAM. It's abhorrent, because the Mac Mini originally was ridiculously easy to add RAM to (removing the 2.5" HDDs, on the other hand, while possible is kind of a PITA).
But as other have stated, Apple has stopped caring about making real computers for a while now anyway. The Macs are on a trajectory to become just like iPhones and iPads: overpriced, impractical fashion/status statements with a forced 1-2 year replacement cycle.
Well, admittedly: don't use your $2K laptop as a food placemat. It's not that hard to NOT FUCKING EAT OVER YOUR COMPUTER.
Perhaps technically, but in the countless years I've done it on all my cards, I've never had a problem anywhere. Including the USPS.
Would be nice to see the USA crawl its way a bit out of the stone ages of credit card processing compared with the rest of the world. We shop in Canada a ton and their chip systems validate cards in 1-2 seconds, their portable wireless devices at restaurants are high-tech and slick, and PINs offer far more security than a signature. At this point, needing to use a signature is a shopping/dining speedbump akin to writing a physical check... justifiably seen as archaic and idiotic given modern knowledge and technologies. I find myself apologizing to the Canadians for it more than they apologize in general.
Took us forever to get chips while the rest of the world left us in the dust, and we're still stuck using stupid signatures. We had plenty of shame and were the laughing stock of the world well before Trump became the pinnacle of national embarrassment, but still.