Comment Ports? (Score 1) 91
What ports does this new model have compared to the original? Joystick, serial, cartridge port, cassette, user port etc?
What ports does this new model have compared to the original? Joystick, serial, cartridge port, cassette, user port etc?
Yeah, all the Aussie banks suck. That's the nature of a cartel, and the recent royal commission seems to have had zero effect, despite that royal commission finding that yes, they are all pricks.
We're on Slashdot, so we are both probably aware of how easily SMS authentication can also be spoofed. I don't have this option, because even though I live in a 50 year old suburb in Australia's capital, I don't have a reliable mobile signal at my desk. Unfortunately, Telstra don't seem to be scared of the TIO, even though I have a lovely paper trail from Telstra admitting that their coverage map is incorrect, the phone doesn't work, and it has got worse since the shutdown of 3G.
The best solution I can think of for all of this is to simply mandate that a business must have a physical presence in order to do business.* If the bank wants your money, they must have a branch within some number of km of your residence. Ditto the phone company. I can hear the howls of anguish from our rural communities, but it's not like the status quo is any better for them. The obvious next step, of course, would be to nationalise a couple of banks and telcos.... just like the Commonwealth and Telstra used to be.
* I would love to see this applied to online busniesses as well. No more "selfie holding a government ID" sent to some insecure server overseas. If Facebook, Google, Coinbase etc want to do business in Australia, they should have a real office where customers can go and talk to a human to get their issues resolved. Locked out of your Facebook or GMail account? Go to their office and fix it. Hell, while I am dreaming of utopia, we should also make it a crime for the physical office to try and brush off customers by saying "why don't you use our app" instead of actually doing their job and helping. But now I'm just ranting, and I need to go and chase some kids off my lawn so I can yell at the clouds
A choke knob is an excellent anti-theft measure.
These days, so is a manual transmission.
I would never buy Tesla because of controls (and the fact that it cannot be easily disconnected).
+1. I'm interested in an EV but I want a real dashboard and controls. Tesla isn't even on my list.
Wut? I'm with CBA, and I don't use the app. NetBank works with a regular web browser. EFTPOS cards and credit cards work at ATMs and other payment terminals. I've received no indication that an app will be required.
I hope you're right. I received an email (a real one, not a phishing attempt) from CBA on Wed 25th of June saying that "Every time you log on to NetBank, you’ll be prompted to open your CommBank app to confirm the logon attempt." Maybe they are A/B testing it only on certain customers? Maybe you are a more valued customer than I am? The CBA already knows I despise them and are probably cranky that AFCA has sided with me in a couple of disputes that have cost the CBA some money
Either way, it might be worth checking your email. I just logged into Netbank to see if there was a notification in there, but there wasn't. I find that it's pretty normal for CBA to be bad at messaging though, the sneaky buggers didn't give me any notification about my recent credit card fee increase either.
That sucks. But I'm not surprised, Australian businesses love forcing you to download an app. The Commonwealth bank is the latest. A few weeks from now, I won't be able to access my own money if my phone has a flat battery. Time to get a new bank, and time to go and troll some car salesmen about why I won't be buying one of their vehicles.
Imaging if you had to take your phone to a shop to refill it to work rather than just plugging in.
That's a good analogy.
Do you feel guilty at all about the homeless that are swept into furnaces these days to power your voracious electricity demands?
Isn't it lucky that nobody has ever died in order for a nation to procure oil.
Has anybody else (who uses YouTube a good bit) never knowingly seen an AI generated video on YouTube? I ask because I hear all these accounts of AI generated slop ruining YouTube, meanwhile I don't think I've ever seen a single video that came off as being AI generated.
It's probably just my usage patterns but I'm genuinely curious in regards to how big a problem this really is as if it really is a big enough one it will eventually show up for me too.
I'm pretty sure the cartoons aimed at toddlers are AI. Most of them are nursery rhymes, read by a computerised voice, with a tune that is like, but different from the original. The AI voice borks the cadence of the words enough that the audio won't be picked up for copyright violation. The animation is 1990s-level junk - I'm not an expert in AI prompts but it looks like what I'd expect if you used something "hickory dickory dock." If you let a few videos play in a row they get weirder, not traditional nursery rhymes at all.
And no, we don't leave a toddler watching youtube unattended. I hope other parents don't either
Realistically, a whole lot of people will tolerate a bunch of advertising if it's a trade for viewing the desired content free. YouTube is living proof.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but this is why I no longer click on youtube links. It's just not worth the ads and loading time. If the person posting a youtube link is polite enough to include the title of the video and the runtime, I'll make an exception, but in my experience this is vanishingly rare.
That's why I don't got to the cinema now. Wait for it to come on streaming, then grab a decent copy off The Pirate Bay so I can watch it without the ads.
I've become super sensitive to ads. Can't stand them. Blocked everywhere.
Attention is a finite resource. We the consumers need to start treating it as such and stop letting advertisers steal it for free.
No business has 100% uptime. Today it's cashless systems, tomorrow it's a power outage preventing you opening your register. Close up shop and open again tomorrow. If you can't survive the day without business then you were going to go bankrupt shortly anyway, and your customers will live without a sandwich.
Why would I try to buy a sandwich from the closed shop ever again? I would go to the same shop that was open today, and sold me a sandwich without any hassle.
Now, a small business might be able to go back to pen and paper recording transactions, but that can be too hard - I've seen people break out the calculator just to calculate change, so basic math skills are lacking to the point I don't think many could work without a calculator.
It's hard, it's inefficient, and when the power/network comes back it's a lot of hassle to reconcile the books. But compare this to another business that just throws their hands in the air and shuts down if there's a network outage. Which business is more likely to survive?
Yes. People are too fucking paranoid.
I could not care less if my entirely daily purchase history were published on the internet. It's just not that fucking interesting.
TODAY's LOG:
Gordon Food Service: $75 (Strombolis and ice cream)
Full Throttle go carting: $19.36 (pizza)
Full Throttle go carting: $134 (3 races for 2 people)
7-11: $3.40 (two sodas)
Just wait until your health insurance mines that data, decides that your sodas from 7-11 put you in a "high-risk" category and increases your premiums or simply denies coverage.
As for why..,,it's very helpful when you don't have your wallet, for whatever reason. Also helpful if you only have one card in your wallet, and it doesn't work for whatever reason, but you have ten cards on your phone.
Cash is helpful for when you don't have your phone.
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