No phone subsidies.
No paying other carriers early termination fees
No data roaming agreements
No visual voice-mail and other "value added" services
No bloated management team endemic of large corporations
No huge debt incurred for acquiring wireless spectrum, upgrading infrastructure
MNVO's are not for everyone but for many people they are a great option for service.
I'm surprised that it's not the merchants that shall take full responsibility for fraud. That would raise the stakes on them to request photo ID or for online sales other means of supplementary identification.
When a charge-back is initiated because of a claim of fraud the payment-processor will hold payment to the merchant and ask them to provide documentation that the transaction is legitimate. On most businesses that would be a copy of the receipt with a matching signature but high risk business such as night-clubs they are (informally) asked to make photocopies of the credit card and drivers license for transactions over a certain amount. More often than not the payment-processor will find some "irregularity" and fault the merchant. If the processor finds the transaction is valid than it informs the CreditCard issuer and they will often write it off as cost of doing business. In conclusion with the pin and chip there will be little change for the merchant but I suspect it will become harder for consumer to initiate a fraud charge-back.
Add:
FlashControl (To disable automatic running of applets is a must with the constant 0-day exploits and the widespread use of tracking applets.)
Vanilla Cookie Manager (automatic clean up after gorging on cookies.)
Why isn't this headline, "Game Theory Called Into Question for Failing to Predict Observed Examples of Cooperation?"
To prove that Slashdoters act selfishly to draw interest to their submissions, just as Game theory predicts.
Which is obviously not how we measure effectiveness. There's a 2% chance *per year* that a couple that use condoms as their only birth control method will get pregnant and say they didn't mess it up. ("No, I swear, we put the condom on and pinched the air out of it but it didn't work.")
Studies have basically found that the "2% failure rate" may be artificially inflated by false reports of condom use, and most condom failures happen to a small group of people who are not using them correctly despite reporting "perfect" use.
Do not have a little "fun" before putting the condom on to get down to business, pre-cum can contain live-sperm. Do not use a oil based lubricant, it weakens latex. Do replace the condom or apply lubricant if things get dry, friction weakens latex. Do these things and you can have a lifetime of carefree recreational sex
Nope. I saw an 8K video at CES. It's jaw dropping, like looking out a window. It's clearly superior to 4K.
What you are seeing is the exceptional quality of a properly calibrated top of the line Tv. Provided that you are not sitting right in front of it you will not notice a difference from a top of the line 4K Tv and if you take a few steps even further back even a top of the line HD Tv will look just as good. I really love it when people compare old TFT LCD's to new higher quality IPS LCD displays and proclaim to be able to tell the huge difference retina makes. Hint it has little to do with resolution.
The problem then, is that the illness is rare enough that you could never make back $2.5 billion dollars selling three pills per year to patients, so no big pharma company would want to go thru all the red tape to get it approved by the FDA. As a result, there remains no effective FDA-approved treatment for CH.
Under U.S law rare diseases are designated as "orphan disease" and the FDA can give " orphan drug" status to drugs specifically targeting the rare disease. The law gives tax incentives, enhanced patent protection and even subsidizes clinical research. In the U.S there is more than 300 orphan designated drugs under clinical trial process. The problem with your LSD like chemical is that it is likely so similar that you are in dubious legal ground with regard to anti-drug legislation. That is not the fault of either the FDA or the pharmaceutical industry.
I think the missing key in current smart home options that most people can actually afford to purchase, is reliable voice control. I know Google's acquisition of Nest (and whatever Apple gets around to doing) will make a big difference here, but I can already say that I'd be a lot happier with my "smart" lighting if I had:
A: More money for more components such as light switches and socket replacements. B: Voice controls that were as responsive and reasonably reliable as the Amazon Echo, which gets it right a surprisingly large amount of the time.
Microsoft learned the hard way with the xbox 360 kinetic fiasco that nobody like yelling at their TV. I suspect google will quickly find out that nobody likes yelling at light switches either.
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
