Credit card signatures are intended to be verified on the spot. That's why the back of the card says it isn't valid until signed. The cashier was originally supposed to compare the signature on the card to the signature made at point of sale to verify the CC holder's identity. https://consumerist.com/2014/07/19/10-answers-to-credit-card...
Of course this doesn't happen, and for good reason too since the signature made on a resistive touchscreen ends up looking nothing like that on the credit card.
I'm curious though, how does that apply to other people using your card?
For example, my wife wants to use my CC so we asked our CC company what we need to do to add her, to make her a valid signature.
The answer? Nothing. I can have anyone I want use my card. They sign it with anything they want. It's up to me down the road to claim fraudulent charges, and if I do, the person who signed is the one committing fraud.
This was two cards, both Visa cards offered from different companies.
Wouldn't that be at odds with what you've mentioned here?
Merchants shouldn't be accepting other people using your card, no matter their claimed relationship to you.
If you want your wife to be able to use it, you get her added as an Authorized User and she gets a new card with the same number but her name and her signature.
> If you want your wife to be able to use it, you get her added as an Authorized User and she gets a new card with the same number but her name and her signature.
Yea.. but who do we get her added with? Because, as i said, we tried that. We called to get her added, see what we need, etc.
They said nothing. They literally said anyone can use my card, and it's assumed fine until i dispute it later.
So we literally tried to get her added, but couldn't - they said it's not needed, and that was that. This happened for both cards, lol.
Also none of my cards are signed because when I do sign them, the ink rubs off after a few days!
So I assume the whole signature system is purely ceremonial at this point. Or at the least it's a way to say a human was present with a physical card.
I was told that if that was once the case, it is the case no longer- really the signature is only to verify that someone was there to have made the purchase, to decrease the store's liability if it is a fraudulent charge.
This is why the charge to the card goes through before you have to sign anything. Even on pos systems where you sign on the screen, I get the text message notifying me that my card was charged even before I start to sign on the screen.
This is a somewhat strange story re: "the flu" and I'm guessing that's why it's been downvoted.
The flu is a virus and antibiotics have no effect on it. There is a yearly vaccine for the flu and the CDC recommends all adults take it, although it usually only protects about 40-70% of the time due to the large number of flu strains in circulation. The flu is a deadly disease and even a person in good health (taking vitamins, etc) in the prime of their life can be killed by it, which is why vaccination is recommended.
If your browser has the password saved then you can extract it now and save it to a more secure place, like a password manager. Presumably you could then use it to update your Yahoo! account email to a current, working address.
I think this will have a lot of difficulty remaining faithful to spirit of the original book series.
The original Foundation Trilogy stories take place across quite a few time periods. This would require a different cast for each story within the books. The stories are also focused on dialogue and characterization plays a minor role. Even the space battles are barely described at all, as the main focus of the book is on the broad plot lines created by the concept of psychohistory. There are few female characters and I don't recall any sex in the original series at all (though there was some in the weaker 4th and 5th novels written decades later).
If they are going to try to make this into a typical HBO show I'd expect the main focus to be on the Mule plotline from book 2, the second foundation plotline from book 3, and then the Trevize plot from books 4 and 5 which seems most amenable to TV adaptation.
Windows Phone does this - when paired with a list of specified Bluetooth devices (such as a car GPS or stereo), it can switch to a DND mode automatically with an optional auto-reply.
Motorola seems to have recently rolled out a similar feature across it's entire Moto G/E/X product line - Drive Mode for their Moto Assist product.
But unless these kind of features become opt-out, I suspect it won't help that much. Right now you have to actively seek them out and turn them on, which many people aren't going to do.
The 3DS downclocks the ARM CPU and disables its second core when playing a NDS game. As a side effect, battery life is better when playing DS games on a 3DS than when playing native 3DS games on the same 3DS.
The 3DS processor is capable of emulating 8-bit systems, as it has virtual console NES and GB/GBC games. SEGA also ported some Genesis games to run on the 3DS, but I think they had to re-write parts in native ARM code as straight emulation wasn't fast enough (Google "Sega M2 GigaDrive" for a great series of interviews about this).
You are not even "technically" correct and I have to say it's really annoying seeing this come up again and again in every HN thread where someone uses the word. Even setting aside that, yes, usage dictates meaning in English, the OED has included the definition against which you rail for 350 years.
You're wrong. And you're the worst kind of wrong: pedantically wrong. Please stop.
It used to mean that. A long, long time ago. Not for several centuries.
Now, don’t get me wrong, the etymology of words is intensely interesting. It always makes me happy to learn how words were originally used and how that meaning changed – but all that doesn’t help you decide what a word actually means right now.
The fact that people still argue argue about the only-several-centuries-old newfangled meaning of this word signifies to me that I probably shouldn't use it in my writing. If I use it to mean "reduce by one tenth" most of my readers will be confused; if I use it to mean "destroy," a vocal minority will be annoyed.
Argue against using the word. Don’t dare argue that it has a different meaning than it actually has.
Also, I think I will increase my use of decimate. If it pisses off those annoying pedants (who are perfectly aware of what is being communicated and won’t be the slightest bit confused) I will be happy. I successfully communicated and pissed off people I don’t like. Yay!
Since ActiveSync is a patented and licensed technology, no major manufacturer is going to make a device that falsely claims to support remote wiping but actually ignores the command.
Remote wipe is usually implemented by simply re-setting the hardware encryption key, so there's no easy way to have remote wipe destroy only the corporate data.
Of course this doesn't happen, and for good reason too since the signature made on a resistive touchscreen ends up looking nothing like that on the credit card.