I don't think the low level cashiers, etc. at major retailers really know much other than any training materials they received from corporate. But it is looking like a lot fewer than everyone thought will be ready in time.

Samsung Pay still provides a virtual card number, so there's some benefit to it. And it can be used now, unlike Apple/Android Pay (which may very well never have anywhere near 100% acceptance if most retailers choose to keep NFC support on their brand new terminals turned off).

But even in a small class of 20, if it takes a half hour per student, that's 10 hours for the professor.

Amazon MP3 has over 11 million songs.

Robb Topolski is urging people to opt-out in the InfoWorld summary.

"If people reject the settlement, they are freed from the restrictions of this settlement and can sue independently or join any other action," Topolski said in an email. "If enough people reject the settlement, it sends a strong message that the class of people that this settlement was intended to represent are dissatisfied."

I've always preferred "2 Bush 2 Furious" myself.

The use of encryption is already forbidden in China, and could potentially be suspicious enough to warrant further investigation. You'd have to use an encryption scheme that appears to send normal SMS messages.

In some cases, yes, but its current market value is not in any way proportional to its face value:

$500

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Inability to understand or accept belief systems other than one's own - check

Actually, it seems T-mobile is trying something new with their "Even More Plus" plans. I called them last week to see about changing up my plan, and the first thing the operator asked me was: "Which is more important to you? Do you want a free phone, or cheaper monthly payments?" I answered enthusiastically "cheaper monthly payments" since I've never been interested in getting a subsidized phone and then being under contract for 2 years to pay it off. These new plans are pretty cheap it seems, don't offer a free or subsidized phone, and don't put you under contract.

Which are mostly in place to make it more difficult for people to offer 3rd party generic cartridges.

To be honest, as an Xbox Live user, I have no problem with Microsoft's decision on this one. For me, people that are modding and hacking the games totally ruin the online experience and take the fun out of it for the rest of us, and I don't think it's at all unreasonable for Microsoft to assume that modded consoles are being used to cheat in this way. Furthermore, I'm actually glad to have a service that's pay to play because it provides that much more incentive for users not to cheat/harass or do other things that ruin the service for others.

It seems like anyone ought to be able to put up a web page that happens to link to any website. Google currently provides the courtesy of allowing people to de-list, but are they legally obligated to in some way? On my personal website am I not allowed to link to whatever website I want?