I think it is just $15 a month unless you have some form of checking that I'm not aware of. It's still awesome though.

I use USAA exclusively for all of our banking and I can't imagine ever going somewhere else. I don't even know if they even have branches. Great customer service. I can deposit checks by scanning them and I can take money out of any ATM and get paid back up to $15. I never use Debit for all of the reasons most here…

Because no matter the job you have, you must maintain some semblance of humanity or at the very least cannot jettison it unless you are a sociopath. You can say all you want that to hell with trying to be human, you have a responsibility to your profession, but most people cannot remove themselves completely from the…

You're funny. I suppose you think cars cause car accidents too.

Another phrase might be time burglars.

Sorry, I meant airwaves, not air. But air is considered public for the purposes of breathing, but not for the purposes of operating regulated objects like aircraft, ballooncraft, etc.

" IMO the fact that you are accessing something that was at least ATTEMPTED to be made secret will hold up in court."

That's fair, and I will look, but the cases that have made it to court have addressed the issue of "unsecured" multiple times. Perhaps I'm making too many assumptions, but given the tone and wording of those decisions, I saw nothing in those cases that would lead any reasonable person to conclude that not…

Thanks....

Trespassing laws do not apply to unsecured networks. Precedence has held that networks are "secured" through encryption and password protection (like keys). Using a network that is discoverable (even if difficult) but not secured will not result in arrest nor will it result in either conviction or civil torts. Of…

Argh! This is the one thing I hate hate hate about my kindle fire. I use Fitocracy regularly, but can't get anything in Google Play on my fire. FU walled gardens...

Valid points, all. Good back and forth, thanks!

Sandra Bernhard from Hudson Hawk? You weren't born until 1980 or so, were you? Hudson Hawk was about the last thing she was known for.

Sure, but they responded to the threat by buying instead of copying. $1B isn't just chump change, even to Facebook. If you can out-compete a competitor, why spend 10x the amount just to remove them? That isn't being a good steward of shareholder money. They recognized that they'd spend 100M dollars and still…

You're still using lol? lol

No, because EXECUTION is far more important than the idea and it is infinitely harder to copy. This is part of the reason patents and IP suck, because they prevent those who can execute better from doing so. The market should not reward the idea, it should reward (and does reward in non-IP industries) the execution.

I think we've all seen enough patents granted in the last decade that redefine the word "vague" to know what is going on here without additional research.

Ah, now I understand better. It wouldn't surprise me if expectations bias was at play with the scab refs (you expect them to be worse, so any mistakes are magnified a hundredfold), so I can definitely believe you have a point. But given that, I have no ideas about how to improve things either.

You're right, of course. The issue isn't impact to quality, although if this became a systemic problem, it could impact quality over a longer period of time.

I am genuinely confused by this view, mainly because I really don't see the alternatives. Starting over with different refs (scabs or otherwise) is not an alternative, it's a desperate hope supported by no evidence whatsoever. Saying it can't get worse is not evidence.