Samsung Pay doesn't involve Samsung acting as a bank. They only act as an intermediary for storing "virtual payment cards" in the security module on your phone. There's some standard interface between Samsung's servers and the financial institutions to facilitate adding cards and sending transaction notifications to the phones. I though Apple Pay could work the same way. It wouldn't surprise me if Google Wallet requires the payment to actually go through them, since they want to put their noses in everything.

It happens on any platform where you download and install Firefox from Mozilla (including the portable installation for Linux). The Firefox packages from the Linux distros themselves hack this out, as well as changing a few other behaviours.

Over 99% of Amazon's products would be removed if your filtered out one country of origin.

I was just pointing out that fluffernutter's reasoning was flawed. Steam is not competing with the used market when it comes to Civ V, as it was always tied to Steam and it was never possible to sell used copies.

You could never get Civ V used. It was always tied to Steam. The boxed copy came with a code to activate it on Steam, and it wouldn't run until you signed in to Steam. The massive discounts on old Civ games usually happen when they release a new Civ game or expansion pack. They put all the old ones on special to try and generate interest in the new one.

Maybe not so much in the US, but often security guards are also a customer service position, providing directions, answering questions, etc.

Reverse takeovers aren't necessarily big company/small company. It's usually when you have one company flush with cash but with concerns about viability buying a company that has liquidity issues (i.e. risk of bankruptcy) but a viable business model, then the company that was purchased taking over the new company. The TPG/Soul Telecom reverse takeover is a pretty good example of a successful reverse takeover. The Atari/JTS reverse takeover is a great example of a disastrous one.

Because they have a representative set of cars for test drives that they then sell at a discount as "ex demo" vehicles. That way, the car you actually get is freshly delivered isn't one that a bunch of other people have already test driven.

So you went straight from, âWould you like to come visit and give us a chance to show you what America is actually like," to, "take the hint." Which is it supposed to be? You're not really as bad as the stories we hear and people should visit, or you really are and it's a hint that you don't want visitors?

I already have. It isn't silly prejudice. You really do your best to make visitors feel unwelcome on arrival.

I read that at least some of the attacks involved attacking wireless communication. You could avoid that by just wiring your SCADA system.

And that is the entire problem with all the LLVM based systems.

So you always use GCC rather than clang?

It's variously called "galapagosization", "Galapagos syndrome", "Galapagos-ka" in Japanese, or "island gigantism". The GP probably didn't read it properly.

How about an emulator for just about everything? And that project has special privileges and routinely exceeds resource limits that get other people banned. GitHub seems to like emulators.

My aunt and uncle got flights that went Sydney-Singapore-Vancouver (and the reverse).