Same here, on occasion, but I've found they typically make you whole when you get a dud.
Good example:
I bought two collapsible milk crates. They loaded all my groceries into them in the store.
When I got home and lifted the first crate out of the car, it had too much weight inside, the bottom fell out and two bottles of wine shattered.
I told them the story when returning the crate two weeks later, they waved me off when I said I had a pic, told me it wasn’t necessary, and refunded the wine without being prompted.
Trying to get wine refunded with most other retailer would probably require talking to a manager and making a scene.
When I worked for MSN/Hotmail around 2000-2003, there were dozens of helpdesk folks who had access to an admin panel to easily view any email and could view/edit PII for anyone with very little (if not zero) accounting or auditing. It was protected by plaintext auth and open to the internet.
One employee told me that he caught his wife cheating by reading her mail.
Another used it to recover their own stolen EQ account worth thousands.
I personally used this access to help a friend recover a hacked/stolen Hotmail account. I told them the email address, what had happened to it, and they forwarded me a screenshot of their Passport.NET PII details for them to use the self-service password reset.
AvE tore one of their machines down awhile back[0]. It's so over engineered, I was wondering how they'd ever make money back with their business model.
Previous gen Xbox dev kits generally had double the RAM and came with a Visual Studio license. They were very expensive. Now you can pay $19 to unlock a retail Xbox One to run any code you like with a 1GB RAM limit.
If you're that paranoid, you might want to also keep in mind that it would be far more reliable to shoulder surf via video surveillance. As a bonus, it even works with radios disabled.
Source Depot. Forked years ago with tons of added features. Various Halo titles also used it and had easy to use integrations with most of the art and design pipeline tools.
I tried to flag a taxi in downtown Shanghai for 45 minutes and finally gave into the broken English speaking motorcycle taxi who had been circling the block every five minutes.
Riding bitch through Hangpu to Pudong with a laptop in one arm while lane splitting with aggressive (and otherwise bad drivers) all around was a rather exciting experience.
Even with a skilled pilot, the adrenaline rush was similar to my first time tandem skydiving.
Yep! Plenty of pedestrians with strollers/dogs/bikes/etc, vehicles stopping in moving lanes for pickups or dropoffs, a mixture of stop signs and traffic lights, one-ways, two lanes, four lanes, divided roads, and the cherry on top: a two lane roundabout, which endlessly baffles drivers here.
I'm not sure there's a better spot in Austin to test autonomous cars.
That said, they aren't perfect.
1. They wait just long enough at stop signs when it is their turn, which confuses other drivers.
2. They drive well under the limit, causing small jams at peak congestion.
Just bought my first house a couple months ago. Despite picking a lender that seemed to have their ducks in a row, I wound up 'at the table' from 9AM to 6:45PM. Everybody involved was surprised it actually got done. Fundamentally broken is an understatement.
Remove the extra step going from Phone to Chromecast (plenty of phones have HDMI OR the Chromecast can run an SSH client) and this a great solution with minimal latency. Anything remotely comparable in the 80s/90s would have been totally out of reach on a student budget.