Interesting, the DID vs DOD information. Is email in this same boat? I've always wondered why phone spam couldn't be fixed with a hybrid of things that resemble DMARC for email, and Autonomous systems for networks.
The spammers will just use a network that doesn't have call verification setup.
Ideally, software will evolve to let us 100% ignore calls from networks that don't have call verification setup. Just like you can choose to only allow mail into your system that passes DMARC. It doesn't require everyone have DMARC setup for it to be useful. What makes you think this is has to be 100% participation to become effective? I don't you didn't come out and say that outright, but can see that is where you are going with that.
If you aren't familiar with DMARC, check it out. Pretty good stuff. It is basically the analogous setup for email. Raises the bar even though the spammers don't participate in it.
The other thing to mention is, if Amazon would stop ripping things down, we would be selling more and therefore making them more money.
One last parting thought
We used to have a considerable amount of orders going to customers in the US military. But, our On-Time Delivery performance metric on Amazon started to suffer. Any poor metrics can result in losing sales (due to buybox being unobtainable). The reason the On-Time Delivery metric suffered is because there isn't always a delivery confirmation scan for packages going to US bases overseas. And I don't blame them, there is probably a bit of a security issue with letting people pinpoint some base nicknames, plus it just isn't their priority to mark things as shipped. We had to disable shipping to the armed forces. We felt bad for turning our back on our countrymen and women, but Amazon left us no choice.
And think about all those sales, where Amazon could have profited 15% off of, but no longer can. That contributed to the data we see in the article today. It is money they left on the table. All they would need to do is change the metric to only consider the 50 US states for domestic shipments.
I purchased something from Amazon this week. The product listing stated it included adhesive from 3M. When I got the product, the adhesive was a cheap knockoff and in most places it said M3, instead of 3M.
This times 1000. All to often, people who I think are "good" people (you get the point) will surprise me with what amounts to theft or similar. For basically the same reasons you mention (they already have money, it grows on trees!).
Family members complained that my cousin was eligible for free coffee where we work, for himself, but not for family members. In the same conversation they said the coffee shop did not give him enough hours. This is average America folks. They can't possibly be bothered to connect the dots. If the coffee is being given away for free, what money are the owners of the shop supposed to use to pay the employees for "enough hours"?
I'm three weeks into using Robokiller. The thing that is nice about it is it doesn't seem to even ring when it detects a spammer. So far, three times in a row, I just get an alert that a fun audio recording is ready for me. So in this case you aren't wasting your time - the answer bot is wasting there time, while you are blissfully unaware until after the fact. You don't have to listen to the recording, but I do and then I share it with my siblings.
Dang, no edit. Forgot to mention you save that message and paste it every time. It is the truth. We don't need a 10 libraries downloaded for special effects. I'm not against smooth scrolling but who cares about transitions. They don't add much value.
I'm not too fond of any of them. How many people care if it's a.com or.org or.countrycode?
I think that number is low. Much lower than the companies who paid for the new TLDs were hoping. Looking at my wife, my siblings, my parents, etc browsing habits, I don't think they even know what website they are on half the time. They primarily reach a website from a social media post, or from a Google search. Heck, on my phone I am guilty of this. The last dozen searches for a recipe, I used a Google search and never paid attention to what URL I was visiting. Once I found the recipe that seemed good for my intentions (least leftover exotic ingredients), I just screenshot it and closed the browser.
I'm thinking the average person doesn't care, or notice.
Additional trivia, I posted about this once, on a blog, and a registrar replied and said such and such big name brands were using the new TLD's. So what? I searched those 3 brand names on Google and found that the 3 brands still used the.com as their website. Two of them simply redirected the new TLD to the.com, the third didn't even renew the new TLD. Obviously the registrar was blowing sunshine up my butt since they are in the business of convincing people to overpay for domain names. But still, if you find any blog articles from a few years ago about what new TLD's were picked up, I have found that if you go through the list, about 50% of them are no longer in use. All fluff. Again, see my first paragraph (not the parent, I already agree with you). Your average visitor, and therefore customer, doesn't give a shit. They arrive at websites from social media, or search engines. Not because they thought, "you know what let me just see if https://cars.research/ exists because I am in the market for a new car".
I would mod you up if I had the points. Not every game needs internet access, but the parent was also wrong to ignore the fact that some of the most popular games don't run without an internet connection. It probably won't be long before more singleplayer games need them. Even things like Destiny are kind of pushing it with their "shared-world-shooter" needing a constant internet connection, even if you only want to play along. And there are modes where you can be completely isolated from other humans, before someone says otherwise.
Not hard to imagine things continuing down that path. With developers (likely at the wishes of the publishers) assuring you that your single player game absolutely NEEDS the internet for this must-have feature that enhances the game. Again, there will still be other games out there but I think the parent was wrong for stating Slashdot users don't understand basic technology. When Destiny's servers are down, you can't even tweak keybindings which are local to your machine. No connection, no game.
Wow, that sure is garbage that they don't use email authentication. Stealing accounts is already a problem in that industry.
Related (since Steam recommends 2FA it came to me)... Epic needs to aim to increase their features to be on-par with Steam, before they shift their goals to Facebook/Google status.
Is 300 million a price anchored in reality? I have seen free modules and plugins for eCommerce sites to show recommendations in the cart. Is it the technology itself (the lines of code) that is with 300 million, or does Dynamic Yield have a trove of data, which is what is really being purchased here?
The Amazon Prime card is 5% back on Amazon, you should look into that.
I'm similar to you then, some cards with rotating categories.
- Sams Club Credit for 5% back on gas, almost everywhere (you don't need to get fuel from Sams)
- AMEX for 6% back at grocery stores. And 3% at some department stores.
- Amazon Prime for 5% at Amazon like mentioned above.
- About to round it off by getting citi double cash rewards for everything else, for 2% instead of the 1% by my existing cards.
I wish the X supported both. I had the iPhone 6 until this year. There are a number of times per week I have to type in my code because the face recognition won't work.
- Wearing sunglasses in the car
- Sitting in my car after I get home at night (too dark)
- Wearing my gamma rays and turtle beach while playing games
- other things I can't remember
With the phone being a completely touchscreen, I was hoping the X would allow my thumb at the bottom. Nope.
Yeah, Amazon loves analytics so rather than rely on javascript which may be blocked by a browser or browser extension, it appears they just put everything they need in the URL.
Note, the minimum needed for the catalog address above was https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072....
It appears you posted your order number in your link. I recognize the 130-XXXXXX-XXXXX format.
Kudos, I think, to Wegmans. They have milk and bread located in the front of the store. From the entrance, in ascending order you have milk and bread, self checkout, employee checkout.
I agree. With 6 users on our family plan constantly streaming music from devices for 15/month... I think we are getting 100 songs to the penny. And we are happy.
It is not a bad deal at all. Comes to less that 3 a month per person. Not only are there no ads, but the syncing between devices is great. I have a few playlists that I add some tracks to while at home or at work, and those playlists default to downloading on my portable devices, so that I won't have to stream every time I am in the car.
I'm estimating I listen to Spotify about 180 hours a month. Pretty good utility for 3 dollars a month, yet some luddite will call me stupid because Spotify could go away any moment and take the music with them. Implying these luddites don't spend at least 3 dollars a month on something that won't be around a month later (beer, movie tickets, hookers, food, etc).
Google Documents might not be for everyone, but it has been fine for our company of ~30. Great for collaboration, sharing settings easy to tweak for integration with other software (Trello is my go-to). I prefer Google Sheets over Excel, mainly because with the companies we work with, uploading data to cross-reference in Excel is going to be met with an immediate scientific notation explosion. Just leave my data alone until I format it!
If Microsoft is going to push you to go online-only, why not use Google Documents if you are able to instead? I think MS should be careful about this. Office 365 is inferior to the desktop versions. The "features" that people need (keeping them from using GD or Libre/OO) are often missing from the 365 version anyway. If you force people away from the desktop versions, they may just hire a proper program to build them applications instead of trying to run a company out of an excel sheet with macros.
This is pretty insightful and if I had mod points I would have bumped you to:5.
Globalization and the internet have made things more complicated, and convoluted than ever before. Obviously they have brought benefits. But like you said, it is no surprise that companies will take the path of least resistance rather than even attempt to navigate that mess.
If politicians have the same mentality as some of the people who replied to you, it is no wonder the needle isn't moving forward on tackling this. If you assume you can just caveman smack everything with a mallet, your results will not vary. And good luck getting the public to support anything. The average consumer thinks money grows on trees, or that they know better than FedEx/UPS when closely following their tracking (they expect tractor trailers to get off an exit and deliver, instead of going to a hub... how cost-effective).
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Interesting, the DID vs DOD information. Is email in this same boat? I've always wondered why phone spam couldn't be fixed with a hybrid of things that resemble DMARC for email, and Autonomous systems for networks.
The spammers will just use a network that doesn't have call verification setup.
Ideally, software will evolve to let us 100% ignore calls from networks that don't have call verification setup. Just like you can choose to only allow mail into your system that passes DMARC. It doesn't require everyone have DMARC setup for it to be useful. What makes you think this is has to be 100% participation to become effective? I don't you didn't come out and say that outright, but can see that is where you are going with that.
If you aren't familiar with DMARC, check it out. Pretty good stuff. It is basically the analogous setup for email. Raises the bar even though the spammers don't participate in it.
I forgot to login to post the above, whoops.
The other thing to mention is, if Amazon would stop ripping things down, we would be selling more and therefore making them more money.
One last parting thought We used to have a considerable amount of orders going to customers in the US military. But, our On-Time Delivery performance metric on Amazon started to suffer. Any poor metrics can result in losing sales (due to buybox being unobtainable). The reason the On-Time Delivery metric suffered is because there isn't always a delivery confirmation scan for packages going to US bases overseas. And I don't blame them, there is probably a bit of a security issue with letting people pinpoint some base nicknames, plus it just isn't their priority to mark things as shipped. We had to disable shipping to the armed forces. We felt bad for turning our back on our countrymen and women, but Amazon left us no choice.
And think about all those sales, where Amazon could have profited 15% off of, but no longer can. That contributed to the data we see in the article today. It is money they left on the table. All they would need to do is change the metric to only consider the 50 US states for domestic shipments.
Dang, can't edit. Forgot to mention it clearly came from China. You could tell by the language on the box.
I purchased something from Amazon this week. The product listing stated it included adhesive from 3M. When I got the product, the adhesive was a cheap knockoff and in most places it said M3, instead of 3M.
This times 1000. All to often, people who I think are "good" people (you get the point) will surprise me with what amounts to theft or similar. For basically the same reasons you mention (they already have money, it grows on trees!).
Family members complained that my cousin was eligible for free coffee where we work, for himself, but not for family members. In the same conversation they said the coffee shop did not give him enough hours. This is average America folks. They can't possibly be bothered to connect the dots. If the coffee is being given away for free, what money are the owners of the shop supposed to use to pay the employees for "enough hours"?
I'm three weeks into using Robokiller. The thing that is nice about it is it doesn't seem to even ring when it detects a spammer. So far, three times in a row, I just get an alert that a fun audio recording is ready for me. So in this case you aren't wasting your time - the answer bot is wasting there time, while you are blissfully unaware until after the fact. You don't have to listen to the recording, but I do and then I share it with my siblings.
Dang, no edit. Forgot to mention you save that message and paste it every time. It is the truth. We don't need a 10 libraries downloaded for special effects. I'm not against smooth scrolling but who cares about transitions. They don't add much value.
I have javascript on, but I still agree with you. I've used NoScript before, and it is crazy how much faster sites load
I'm not too fond of any of them. How many people care if it's a .com or .org or .countrycode?
I think that number is low. Much lower than the companies who paid for the new TLDs were hoping. Looking at my wife, my siblings, my parents, etc browsing habits, I don't think they even know what website they are on half the time. They primarily reach a website from a social media post, or from a Google search. Heck, on my phone I am guilty of this. The last dozen searches for a recipe, I used a Google search and never paid attention to what URL I was visiting. Once I found the recipe that seemed good for my intentions (least leftover exotic ingredients), I just screenshot it and closed the browser.
.com as their website. Two of them simply redirected the new TLD to the .com, the third didn't even renew the new TLD. Obviously the registrar was blowing sunshine up my butt since they are in the business of convincing people to overpay for domain names. But still, if you find any blog articles from a few years ago about what new TLD's were picked up, I have found that if you go through the list, about 50% of them are no longer in use. All fluff. Again, see my first paragraph (not the parent, I already agree with you). Your average visitor, and therefore customer, doesn't give a shit. They arrive at websites from social media, or search engines. Not because they thought, "you know what let me just see if https://cars.research/ exists because I am in the market for a new car".
I'm thinking the average person doesn't care, or notice.
Additional trivia, I posted about this once, on a blog, and a registrar replied and said such and such big name brands were using the new TLD's. So what? I searched those 3 brand names on Google and found that the 3 brands still used the
I would mod you up if I had the points. Not every game needs internet access, but the parent was also wrong to ignore the fact that some of the most popular games don't run without an internet connection. It probably won't be long before more singleplayer games need them. Even things like Destiny are kind of pushing it with their "shared-world-shooter" needing a constant internet connection, even if you only want to play along. And there are modes where you can be completely isolated from other humans, before someone says otherwise.
Not hard to imagine things continuing down that path. With developers (likely at the wishes of the publishers) assuring you that your single player game absolutely NEEDS the internet for this must-have feature that enhances the game. Again, there will still be other games out there but I think the parent was wrong for stating Slashdot users don't understand basic technology.
When Destiny's servers are down, you can't even tweak keybindings which are local to your machine. No connection, no game.
Wow, that sure is garbage that they don't use email authentication. Stealing accounts is already a problem in that industry.
Related (since Steam recommends 2FA it came to me)... Epic needs to aim to increase their features to be on-par with Steam, before they shift their goals to Facebook/Google status.
Same with Amazon, I saw Amazon referenced in the article once.
Those aren't all at Bank of America right?
Google's XMPP was dropping everyone here around then too. We haven't had a problem with XMPP in 2-3 years until today.
Is 300 million a price anchored in reality? I have seen free modules and plugins for eCommerce sites to show recommendations in the cart. Is it the technology itself (the lines of code) that is with 300 million, or does Dynamic Yield have a trove of data, which is what is really being purchased here?
The Amazon Prime card is 5% back on Amazon, you should look into that.
I'm similar to you then, some cards with rotating categories.
- Sams Club Credit for 5% back on gas, almost everywhere (you don't need to get fuel from Sams)
- AMEX for 6% back at grocery stores. And 3% at some department stores.
- Amazon Prime for 5% at Amazon like mentioned above.
- About to round it off by getting citi double cash rewards for everything else, for 2% instead of the 1% by my existing cards.
I wish the X supported both. I had the iPhone 6 until this year. There are a number of times per week I have to type in my code because the face recognition won't work.
- Wearing sunglasses in the car - Sitting in my car after I get home at night (too dark) - Wearing my gamma rays and turtle beach while playing games - other things I can't remember With the phone being a completely touchscreen, I was hoping the X would allow my thumb at the bottom. Nope.
Yeah, Amazon loves analytics so rather than rely on javascript which may be blocked by a browser or browser extension, it appears they just put everything they need in the URL.
Note, the minimum needed for the catalog address above was https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072....
It appears you posted your order number in your link. I recognize the 130-XXXXXX-XXXXX format.
Kudos, I think, to Wegmans. They have milk and bread located in the front of the store. From the entrance, in ascending order you have milk and bread, self checkout, employee checkout.
I agree. With 6 users on our family plan constantly streaming music from devices for 15/month... I think we are getting 100 songs to the penny. And we are happy.
It is not a bad deal at all. Comes to less that 3 a month per person. Not only are there no ads, but the syncing between devices is great. I have a few playlists that I add some tracks to while at home or at work, and those playlists default to downloading on my portable devices, so that I won't have to stream every time I am in the car.
I'm estimating I listen to Spotify about 180 hours a month. Pretty good utility for 3 dollars a month, yet some luddite will call me stupid because Spotify could go away any moment and take the music with them. Implying these luddites don't spend at least 3 dollars a month on something that won't be around a month later (beer, movie tickets, hookers, food, etc).
Google Documents might not be for everyone, but it has been fine for our company of ~30. Great for collaboration, sharing settings easy to tweak for integration with other software (Trello is my go-to).
I prefer Google Sheets over Excel, mainly because with the companies we work with, uploading data to cross-reference in Excel is going to be met with an immediate scientific notation explosion. Just leave my data alone until I format it!
If Microsoft is going to push you to go online-only, why not use Google Documents if you are able to instead? I think MS should be careful about this. Office 365 is inferior to the desktop versions. The "features" that people need (keeping them from using GD or Libre/OO) are often missing from the 365 version anyway. If you force people away from the desktop versions, they may just hire a proper program to build them applications instead of trying to run a company out of an excel sheet with macros.
Ah, much better link. And I see your reply to me above with that very link, thank you!
Are you feeling alright?
This is pretty insightful and if I had mod points I would have bumped you to :5.
Globalization and the internet have made things more complicated, and convoluted than ever before. Obviously they have brought benefits. But like you said, it is no surprise that companies will take the path of least resistance rather than even attempt to navigate that mess.
If politicians have the same mentality as some of the people who replied to you, it is no wonder the needle isn't moving forward on tackling this. If you assume you can just caveman smack everything with a mallet, your results will not vary. And good luck getting the public to support anything. The average consumer thinks money grows on trees, or that they know better than FedEx/UPS when closely following their tracking (they expect tractor trailers to get off an exit and deliver, instead of going to a hub... how cost-effective).