It seems to be new behavior introduced in iOS 12. I’ve observed this too, when doing a brief SIM swap. All it took was removing the SIM, and the phone automatically de-registered that number from iMessage.
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https://www.npr.org/2020/03/18/817934608/ceo-of-ventilator-m...
Other people on the comments have said similar things.
Back when I went there 20 years ago, they’d sell a reusable cup for around $40 that got you 50 cent sodas all academic year long (it was otherwise maybe $2.50-$3 for a soda). You were on your honor to show your reusable cup at the cashier to be charged for a soda. As with the paper cups, you’d get free refills once you paid for a drink with your meal.
Now they sell a prepaid RFID cup that has a certain number of fills programmed into it. If you use them all, you can add more to your cup account.
Because you still need a chip to authorize the fountain either way, the disposable cups are also chipped and programmed to allow two fills before deactivating.
It seems like a wasteful money grab at a place where it costs north of $50K/year to get in the door.
I did this with an old 5G video iPod and it was a 15 minute job. Worked better than new because there wasn’t the lag in switching songs from waiting for the HDD to spin up.
Their flat panel TV died a couple weeks ago and they put that TV in their living room as a stopgap.
The picture tube on that TV is still so good after all this time, they now don't want to bother buying a new TV.
I hope Berbix has a plan here for the fact that when sketchy companies use their service, it will make them look sketchy by association.
The consumer facing experience on this is not the best. Here I am filing a request to a third party processor for data that I never personally sent them. And in order to handle that, I have to send even more sensitive information to yet another third party processor. See the irony here?
Sift’s email said the ID data would be retained for no more than 14 days, while Berbix’ privacy policy says the retention period is the shorter of “until no longer needed” or for 3 years from my last interaction with your customer.
Who’s right here, and if your customer quotes end users a retention period that’s shorter than 3 years, how do you hold them to that?
https://www.airbnb.com/terms/payments_terms?hide_nav=true
Also there's a binding arbitration clause there too just for good measure.
On more than one occasion I've seen a blistering one star review, followed by a bunch of positive reviews that all came in within days. It was clearly a situation where someone at the company saw the low score, had an "uh-oh moment," and called in the cavalry to write positive reviews.
It had the effect of flooding it with 4 and 5 star reviews from people who hasn't been around long enough to see any downsides to their job.
Meanwhile, as the company began imploding, the folks jumping ship mostly didn't bother to write a 1 star review on the way out.
They implemented countermeasures on their devices to prevent the exact situation where the FBI would compel them to produce a signed, backdoored, firmware like they wanted Apple to do after San Bernadino.
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/05/insider-at...
Unless you have the device's passcode, you can't update the firmware that deals with passcode checking, unless you wipe the data.
So I threw $50 on my card, I get 10% off the coffee, and earn back a bit on the Starbucks reward points.
I filed the claim form, and when I got the check, the checkstub said it was from an unused Starbucks account balance.
If last year they had $155 million from abandoned accounts that they could legally just pocket, I wonder how much they also had to send over to various states' unclaimed property offices.
If you want to know how your genome differs versus what's called the "reference genome," then you'd need a whole-genome sequence. That process shards up your genome, sequences it, aligns the pieces back to the human reference, and then calculates a "consensus" that represents the software's best guess as to how your genome relates to the reference.
Then they could provide you with a diff of the consensus with respect to the reference, which would probably be distributed to you in a VCF file (variant call format).
This process is the one that costs more money versus 23andMe's $99.
Fitbit didn't acquire Pebble; they acquired some assets from Pebble.
The corporate entity Pebble still existed, with all the liabilities left on the balance sheet, and someone had to wind it down.
https://twitter.com/arno_app/status/1056943680249061383
https://twitter.com/dogslime/status/966026523579994114
https://twitter.com/caseyhelbling/status/1113486373191704576
https://twitter.com/FatBodyPolitics/status/95158147758154547...
edit: I guess the thread is referring to multiple fallbacks that aren't U2F, but even still, if you're relying solely on U2F it's good practice to have more than one key lest you lose it and get locked out.
If you have accepted location permissions for the Target app, the app will show the in-store price when it can tell you're in a store.
The only way of knowing this is that in smaller/lighter print under the price, it'll either say "Online" or whatever store location.
The most egregious example was an item I bought that cost 40% more in-store versus online, and you'd never know had you looked at the app.
Some random employee would get a call from someone claiming to be from the copier toner supplier, asking for the name of the person in charge of buying that stuff.
The pretext might be their files got mixed up and they want to straighten it out, or maybe they're a prospective supplier who wants to beat whatever price you're paying now.
Then they make a fake invoice with that name, mail it to the company's accounts payable desk, and hope it gets paid.
Officially you can't opt out of using the RG. This differs from, say, Verizon's FiOS, which allows customers to just plug their own router straight into the ONT if they don't want the phone company's router.
You can put the RG into a "passthrough" mode that gives a downstream client the public IP address, so a router thinks it's bridged, but under the hood the RG is still maintaining all the connections in its own NAT table.
You can't simply plug a router into the ONT and have it work off the bat, as the RG has necessary 802.1x certs burned into the firmware. What you can do is use the eap_proxy tool mentioned in this same thread. I ran it on an EdgeRouter, and it essentially MITM'd the 802.1x handshaking and delegated that to the AT&T-provided RG, then once the 802.1x was dealt with, the EdgeRouter could get an address via DHCP.
There's apparently nothing customer-specific about the 802.1x certs; there's a thread on DSLReports about people buying old AT&T RG's off eBay and rooting them to extract the certs to use on their own router.
At the end of the day AT&T still owns and manages the hardware at the customer's end of the fiber (at the ONT level), they just also enforce usage of the router plugged into it too.