If you're on the site from Comcast San Francisco at 10:00, then an hour later someone claiming to be you tries to initiate a transaction while in Russia, that's suspicious.
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The system works pretty well.
The system works well enough for you guys.
First, the bank or processor checks only the location of the transaction
I doubt that. It's difficult to get gps readings indoors or underground where the transaction might take place.
From TFA: "[Pay Pal's] general counsel, Louise Pentland, wrote in a blog post last week that its customers can choose not to receive autodialed or prerecorded message calls by contacting customer support."
This is evil. The last time I tried contacting Pay Pal's customer support. I waited three hours on the line. And I wasn't even calling them as a consumer, I was calling them as a business that made them a lots of money. I can only imagine what's the actual wait time for an actual consumer of little value to them that wants to be taken off their robocall list.
It's only what consumers have been asking for since the release of Android...
Blackberry-like keyboards on Android phones have been around for quite a while.
Motorola has a few. They're mostly geared toward business users, but a consumer can still find them if he looks for them.
Since this DOES happen, what's the fix?
We fire the guy for speaking his mind. We replace him with a female scientist.
And we pretend that this very kind of problem doesn't happen in any of the female-dominated professions.
What you're implying may have been true 10 to 15 years ago, but things have changed. The video game industry knows the female market for games is a growth market.
The only successful game developers and game designers I personally know are women. The one successful male game developer I know got out of the video gaming industry 10 years ago. I personally know many other male game developers as well, but those are just cogs in a machine and they're not successful by any definition of the term.
Well, this is one of those things where copyright law doesn't necessarily behave the way people think it should.
Why not? The blogger just needs to send github a DMCA counter-notice, and that's that. This is a very clear case of Fair Use. The company can try to sue in US court, but it would just lose and amplify the Streisand effect.
Also, I'm not sure why the name of the CEO of Flash networks is edited out of the DMCA notice, but his name is Liam Galin according to their web site. Here is his linkedin. This guy is obviously an idiot where it comes to the internet and public relations. If he becomes unemployed one day, it would be foolish to hire someone like that for anything internet-related or public relations related.
If you'd like to complain to the company itself. Here are the company's physical addresses and contact information in the US, Israel, Europe, and Singapore.
I have a G2. I love the way it feels in my hand (although it's super fragile and will chip easily). I love the button in the back (I never have to guess where it is, even when I'm setting the volume from my pocket). And I love the knock-knock feature (although, that only works about 70% of the time).
And I love the guest feature that's better than anything Samsung, Apple, or Google has. It basically logs you in as a guest depending on the unlock pattern you give it. And if you leave most of the apps available to the guest, the guest has actually no idea he/she is in guest mode.
That being said, I concur with the bugs of the lollipop update. I wish I hadn't updated it. The battery drains more quickly now. Sometimes the phone freezes (especially in areas where cell/wifi connectivity is intermittent). I know the phone is old, but it never used to do that before. The carriers are right to wait until these little things get worked out.
So for example, does news corp or the wallstreet journal ALWAYS lie? Obviously not.
No one said that they always lied.
No one even said that they lied, only that they were not credible.
For instance, if I said that the advice of financial advisers was not credible because it was no better than a bunch of monkeys randomly throwing darts at a list of mutual funds. It wouldn't necessarily mean that those financial advisers purposefully lied with their advice.
For instance, it could mean that they have a bias of some kind, known or unknown. It could mean that they prefer to choose funds that sound cool and trendy, so that themselves sound cool and trendy when speaking to clients. It could mean that the person who hired them or the person who owned their company had a bias of their own and selected financial advisers that followed the same financial schools of thoughts that he did. It could mean a number of other things too.
A swiping keyboard requires capacitive touch. Capacitive touch requires more energy than just a hardware keyboard. There are Android phones without touch capabilities and only hardware keyboards, especially in developing countries, but I do not think that's what you want. Also, those phones do get security updates, but they will never go above Android 2.3x because they only have a single core processor.
An FM radio requires a wired earbuds/headset to act as an FM antenna. Phones in developing countries have that functionality enabled as well, since data connections can be very expensive otherwise. Camera, don't aim higher than 2MP or 3MP, if you want something better, you'll need to carry an extra standalone camera with you (or actually buy a better phone). Podcast playback implies longer battery usage. You'll be able to do it, but you shouldn't do it if you really want to conserve battery power.
You'll also need to keep your data turned off, buy yourself an extended battery with good reviews, and live near a cell phone tower if you want to get yourself closer to your goal of multiple days without a single charge. By the way 5 days may be pushing it, if your battery is the size of a briefcase, like in the olden days of early cell phones, then may be you have a shot at lasting 5 days, but then you'll have to carry a very heavy briefcase everywhere you go. Also, I mentioned that you needed to be near a cell tower, because if you live near a cell tower, your phone doesn't keep retrying the connection every few seconds, your phone wastes less battery energy, and your phone actually irradiates you less.
Most don't survive the mind-numbing crunch times of working 80 hours a week for months.
Many game companies don't treat their workers very well, but your company sounds even worse than usual.
It sounds like the newcomers are the frogs that leapt out, however misguided and ignorant they were, and you're the frog that stayed in to slowly being cooked alive.
I would venture to guess that the new workers who left got other gaming testing jobs at other game companies, or got other software testings jobs, and are now healthier and happier for having left your company when they did.
Not to be a downer, but when I was a Teaching Assistant for a Computer Science class, the students that told me they wanted to do computer science because they loved computers games were usually the first ones to drop out.
Not that Computer Science equals programming. It certainly does not. Computer Science is generally more focused on the science part anyway, not on the programming itself. So I'm not saying that people who love computer games don't become great game programmers themselves. I'm just saying that based on my own biased and subjective experience, I've come to find that gamers didn't make great Computer Science students at all.
Want body cam footage? Or a mug shot? Or an arrest history? Get a subpoena, and it better be relevant.
No, don't make it that complicated.
At the very least, allow me (or my lawyer, or my surviving family members) to request footage where I am the one being video-recorded. This should actually be easy to initially automate as well (if the officer actually took down my details, or my license plate number, to run a check on it). The time of the lookup should give us the identity of the police officer (or possibly partnering police officer) who did the lookup. From there allow me to make a follow-up request in case the body-cam footage points to other officers coming on the scene with their own body-cams or dash-cams, or in case I believe some other footage is missing.
After all, this is the primary reason we want the police to wear body-cams. Do not believe the false dichotomy played up by the police PR spinning machine. The police actually loves receiving requests from third parties for Terabytes/Petabytes of information. This is a form of project of scope-creep that can only slow down the wide-scale adoption of mandatory body-cams in the US and/or possibly cripple the initial intent of those body-cams by allowing the police officer/department to become the editors of those videos themselves.
Yes, appealing to the school board is another thing entirely.
Ideally, that student should try to resolve this disagreement privately and through the back channels first. If you ask to be put on the school board agenda right away, you may back the Principal into a corner and if you win like that, you may even make him lose face.
It's better you ask a school board parent (or a normal parent) to appeal to the Principal privately first. Use the least amount of force necessary to reverse the decision, and no more. The Principal may still lose face privately, but at least, his loss of face will have been kept to a minimum.
Threats of lawsuits are mostly idle. Call his bluff and see what happens when the ACLU gets involved and crowfunding his defense sends the principal looking for a new job..
Don't call his bluff.
A principal has all kinds of power over your life as a student. Litigation takes time. And a principal can easily destroy your chances of getting into college or tarnish your record (before litigation can straighten everything out)
Get a school board parent on your side, preferably someone with a law degree, or married to someone with a law degree. Or barring that, find a regular parent at your school with a law degree. The principal won't refuse to talk to a parent, especially someone who appears neutral and who appears to know what he's talking about.
If the principal still doesn't want to listen to reason, I suppose the student could file an injunction to prevent retaliatory actions against him by the Principal, but that should really be his last resort. These types of misunderstandings usually work themselves out by getting enough parents on your side, without ever needing to go to court.
The article labels them "anti-terrorism experts" but the mere fact that they even considered this long enough for there to have been a written record belies that title and proves instead that they are "anti-terrorism idiots".
Or they could just be sci-fi wannabe writers themselves.
Not everyone can write a good sci-fi conspiracy theory, but many people still try anyway.
"Protozoa are small, and bacteria are small, but viruses are smaller than the both put together."
