Comment Re:Charging cars nobody owns or wants to buy. (Score 1) 247
Comment Re:Dispute? (Score 1) 89
Then you have none of the information required to shut down the account and requesting a new card just shifts the charges to the new card.
Ask me how I know. Ended up putting a merchant block on Microsoft on the card.
Comment AZ rollout is paused in many countries (Score 4, Informative) 327
The coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford has now been suspended in a number of countries across Europe and Asia, following reports of blood clots in some vaccinated people.
Many other nations, however, have defended their use of the shot and said they will continue their respective inoculation campaigns.
Thailand on Friday became the first Asian country to halt the use of the jab over safety concerns, shortly after Denmark announced a two-week pause to its nationwide rollout after reports of blood clots and one death.
In a setback to Europe’s ailing vaccination campaign, seven other countries have also suspended the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca shot: Norway, Iceland, Bulgaria, Luxembourg, Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia.
Austria and Italy, meanwhile, have said that they will stop using certain batches of the vaccine as a precautionary measure.
Comment Those numbers are terrible. (Score 1) 47
Comment I work in mobile activations (Score 1) 53
Phone fraud is huge in the US and there are gangs that use stolen credit cards, and homeless/druggie credit and SSNs to steal thousands of phones every week and resell or ship them overseas.
I've tracked a single person fraudulently buy 20 iPhones in 18 days through stores in NY, Pennsylvania, NJ, and Maryland. We caught and blocked his purchases and additional 8 times. Different addresses, emails, SSN, etc. that he tried to rotate through but we were eventually able to start identifying him and blocking him. Unfortunately it is difficult to get the police involved.
If the phones are unlocked they are immediately resold in the US. If they are locked they have to ship them overseas and their profit is much lower. All of this fraud is reflected in your store costs, Verizon costs, insurance rates, etc. It all comes out of our pockets in the end.
Comment Re: I'm on the fence about this one... (Score 1) 1022
You will still need:
Housing programs for kids whose parents waste their UBI
Food programs for kids whose parents waste their UBI
School programs for kids whose parents waste their UBI
Medical programs for kids whose parents waste their UBI
Housing programs for adults who waste their UBI
Food programs for adults who waste their UBI
School programs for adults who waste their UBI
Medical programs for adults who waste their UBI
Drug treatment programs, etc.
Comment Differentiate yourself (Score 1) 186
I read once that if you take the top 1% of software developers in China that is more than all of the developers in the US. You have to go up to 3% in India. What that means is that it is difficult to compete on pure skills. Where we can compete with somebody in India, Colombia, Croatia, etc. is that we are often in the office and can collaborate in person.
Just my $0.02
Comment Re:For the price of ONE MONTH of cable (Score 2) 283
Comment Re: NetBSD and OpenBSD "Not Affected" (Score 1) 81
Oh yeah? And what about your cozy little problem with Linux compatibility you Mormons!
Mormons are fully Linux compatible. Some of them even use BSD.
Comment Re: Old money dies in the bitcoin world (Score 1) 218
Comment Re:Intellectual Reserve v. Utah Lighthouse Ministr (Score 2) 143
How to Start an Urban Legend: the Reporting of Intellectual Reserve, Inc. v. Utah Lighthouse Ministry, Inc.