Comment Re:On the heels of the recent eBay data breach... (Score 1) 76
Oh, and I pay PayPal and Amazon with my credit card, which makes that even less of a moot point anyway.
It exists. It's called a credit card
Ah, yes, a credit card, which I'll give to yet another vendor, which will then be responsible for securing my account data. That's certainly one idea, but I prefer to make my financial data readily available to as few vendors as possible. I much prefer to allow a trusted third party to take responsibility for assuring that my account data is protected— fewer potential points of risk, not more.
affect: to act on; produce an effect or change
effect: to produce as an effect; bring about; accomplish; make happen
If you had bothered to read the definitions you referenced before posting the links, you would have realized that as defined, the first is a verb; the second, a noun.
If you'd bothered to read the links the AC posted (or, y'know, cracked open a dictionary sometime), you'd know that you're actually wrong. To be more specific:
effect
verb (used with object)
to produce as an effect; bring about; accomplish; make happen
It would appear that reading really is fundamental.
It's all faux outrage for political expediency.
Absolutely. German politicos don't really care about this, because the existence of this particular type of spying is something they've always understood. For decades, all diplomats everywhere, if wise, have made the presumption that their unsecured lines are under surveillance by any number of different nations. The only reason they're pretending to care is because their naïve constituents apparently didn't know. They can't simply let the rabble go unanswered.
An example: The train you're on is running 30 minutes late, and you need a cab to get you to the day's last ferry, or you will have to wait until morning. That's when you'll really appreciate what a skilled cabdriver can do for you.
I fully understand what you mean by "skilled cabdriver." I have to walk/drive on the same roads as the aforementioned "skilled cabdrivers," and thus I direct you back to my previous post.
I have a perfect record getting people to the stations, sometimes needing to cut off a departing bus, or running up to a train to keep the doors from closing. An autonomous cab cannot do that (yet?).
God, I hope not. What the world really needs is less of that, not more.
I just went to ebay and logged in, and was surprised to see nothing regarding this on their main page.
“eBay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY) said beginning later today it will be asking eBay users to change their passwords...”
A tablet may not be the best place to run virtual machines or servers, and nothing else really requires more than 8GB of RAM.
Running Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom on less than 16GB can be painful.
[...]it should not automatically connect to an insecure network that it has never seen before.
Well, if that's what you meant, then you're in luck. As you originally wrote, "There needs to be an update to iOS and Android that gives users the option to disable this feature." That's not necessary, because there are (and have always been) a grand total of two toggles in the Wi-Fi settings on iOS: "On/Off" and " Ask to Join Networks
I would just shrug and go, "Huh. That was an expensive mistake... managers just don't understand workplace economics these days." Then walk out.
Firing an employee is the worst thing for a company. It removes the employee's expertise, disrupts current operations, then requires retraining of other employees to cope.
All of this presumes that the employee's position won't simply be eliminated. Considering that this happened during a conference call during which potentially hundreds of layoffs were announced, it's quite probable that the standard economic model doesn't necessarily apply.
Seriously, bearing in mind that there are non-fictional species on Earth that can effectively change their reproductive systems within their own lifetimes
You may want to look into what some animals on Earth are capable of.
And then he went on to give me examples of things about which I'd already written, as quoted. Of course, that I wrote about it seemed to imply that I already knew this.
With sex being a changeable characteristic, labels like "mother" and "father" get confusing....
...to your limited human understanding. Seriously, bearing in mind that there are non-fictional species on Earth that can effectively change their reproductive systems within their own lifetimes, that's hardly the most imaginative, alien concept ever to pass through the canon of the Doctor.
historically in much of the world cooking was done apart from living spaces - either outside or in an alcove or courtyard. So many of today's houses and apartments really are not that well thought out, if you stop to think about it.
Oh, yes, especially considering how often we cook by burning wood or charcoal inside our homes today. It's a wonder that no one has pointed out the danger of our anachronistic cooking methods before.
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
