demonstrate technical prowess = be able to regurgitate your last Data Structures and Algorithms college course. This is how they get away with their blatant ageism, ask questions only young, recent grads would know. Why don't they just require candidates to list five mumble rap artists or Instagram influencers?
You can claim anything with a survey these days. This one says 40% of couples meet online, and 60% of same-sex couples. And that is from 2017. Anecdotally I think you are out of touch, probably because you've been out of the dating game for a decade. Less than 10%? No way. Everyone has migrated to dating apps.
I can't think of a single subscription service that does not auto-renew. Can you? Companies consider that a "feature" because it provides uninterrupted service.
Is your beef with them because they didn't email you to let you know they were going to bill you for renewal?
Do what I do. Never trust a company. Whenever you sign up for a recurring service or a free trial, add an event to your personal calendar that reminds you to cancel. Or use a gift card with a limited balance.
Got an email reminder from Jetbrains yesterday about my IntelliJ licence renewal —
"This is a friendly reminder that we are going to charge your MasterCard [last four digits] on October 16, 2019, for the next year of your subscription".
Reminder 3 months out from renewal (& IIRC nearer the time too). Nice to see a company with belief enough in their product that they expect you to renew on that basis rather than through forgetfulness.
I think I wasn't clear enough that this is an annual subscription of significant cost ($300). With that in mind I would absolutely expect them to email in advance reminding me of the charge (other similar services do). I agree that for something that is monthly, I wouldn't expect an email every month.
Adding dates to the calendar and using giftcard/credit card are both good suggestions for the future.
Here’s the way around it as someone who has subscribed:
Cancel right after signing up for annual. Day it will terminate or day prior, can’t remember which, you’ll receive a “hey, don’t let your access expire” email and then you can either sign back up again or let it lapse.
In New Zealand we have debit cards, so they act just like a normal credit card, except it needs to have money in the account for the transaction to work. So you tie it to an account that you put money into, instead of say, your every-day spending account which could contain a lot more money.
I have an annual Adobe Cloud membership and receive a renewal warning one month in advance, with the option to cancel.
Your renewal notice
Your annual membership will renew automatically on 07-July-2019 (PT). The terms are outlined below.
To manage your subscription or access your invoices, login to your account & click ‘Manage plan’. Or login to adobe.com and navigate through your Account Management page: Manage your account > My plans > Manage plan.
If you have further questions, please contact Customer Support to speak with an Adobe representative.
Thank you,
Credit cards in the US have sane policies. There's a grace period following renewal during which, if you cancel, the annual fee is refunded. Also, if you cancel at any other point, you get your prorated annual fee back.
Cool fan but it says "not heatsink compatible", so if you are like me and attached the heatsinks that came free with your Pi case, you will be out of luck.
This review is very disappointing. He's simply parroting all the marketing hype from the manufacturer and adding very little original thought. He doesn't even have a 4k monitor to test the Pi 4. That's one of the biggest new features and he just glosses over it.
Custom ROMs are rarely developed for Samsung devices these days because Samsung locks the bootloader and makes everything extremely difficult. Buy a device that is more developer-friendly like a Nexus, Pixel or OnePlus and you'll see a much larger selection of custom ROMs.
If the US started doing this (scanning phones for islamic terrorism files) to foreigners at the border, would you care? If it was just a scan and no data was harvested?
I believe strongly in the right to privacy, but I have to admit, I do not want anyone coming into my country who has beheading videos on their phone. Unless they are a journalist or something, obviously.
Actually yes I would. What we see now as abhorrent may and will change in the future. The images you are describing obviously make my stomach churn, but how long will it be until they are scanning to deny access to anyone they want to. For example...."Oh it looks like that is a Jewish ceremony." Once this door opens, it can be used for so many other evil things.
> How many ordinary people would be more likely to carry out attacks or harbour resentment towards the USA because of policies like these?
Someone who hoards beheading videos is not ordinary and it's perfectly in line with the international norms to be able to exclude undesirable people from entering into a country. E.g. Canada won't let people who have past criminal convictions enter, like a DUI.
Then keeping privacy in mind, I should be able to scroll around my gallery and play a few sound files to convince the authorities. Another option would be to ask for the source code and an hour to compile it, then run the app, provided an audit has shown no malicious functionalities.
You may not know this, but the Constitution guarantees the same rights to foreigners on US soil as it does to US citizens. (This is a pretty basic part of civic education, but civic education in the US these days is terrible.)
So, no, I would not be OK with the government violating the Constitution.
It’s also been hypothesized that the “border” could be expanded to include many more. International airports are arguably ports of entry. Native American territories and embassies + consulates are considered foreign soil.
This is true, and an arbitrary stance like certain videos on your phone prevent entry into the US isn't appropriate. But at the same time, any country reserves the right to deny entry based on reasonable criteria. It's just a question of what those criteria are, and how much access the state should have to search someone upon entering.
If the US government started doing this, there definitely will be lawsuit and most probably the government will be defeated in the court. But in China, things do not work this way. The supreme court of China must follow the demand of the communist party, see: https://www.ft.com/content/60dddd46-dc74-11e6-9d7c-be108f1c1...
It's just pathetic to see this kind of whataboutism keeps coming up on this website. The US and China have very different political systems, the former is democratic republic, the later is authoritarian. It is not a close comparison.
What I don't understand is why they leave the app installed on the person's phone after the scan if it does not do any further scanning in the background.
