What’s that do to your credit history? Can’t imagine it’s good.

Cheap shortwave radio? As long as you two stay relatively near each other...

Depends on how long they’re traveling and how bad of a tech habit they have. I went six months with an ultrabook, a smartphone, a point ‘n’ shoot and associated cables.

There once was a poster called TheOtherHalf
Who, when replied to, would just point and laugh
One day the Moon posted
“Watch this,” TOH boasted
And proceeded to earn the Moon’s wrath

Careful! If they think you know too much they’ll stick you in the cooler!

So instead of reaching adulthood and leaving the draconian safety of the vault to find your father, you run away from home and spend the rest of the game trying to reunite with the father you left behind? That’s... *sniff* that’s beautiful!
No, but seriously, genius addict baby in power armor for the win!

Or my original response was to a commenter whose post was almost entirely composed of “I just wish these kind of people would have security called on them to be dragged out of the store and unceremoniously thrown on the street.”

Dude who actually had each and every single one of these things happen to me in a single case while dealing with Apple here. And no, I did not rage out in the middle of the store like an asshole. I sucked it up, read a book while I waited, and then took the solution when it came (the replacement for my out-of-warranty…

Honestly man, it’s not my job to be your conscious. I don’t really care what your opinion of me is, and that’s coming from a place where it’s not right to judge a stranger based on your tiny little perception of them. I’m not saying her behavior is warranted, I’m also not calling a perfect stranger names like bitch…

Ha, yeah, I’m sure you’ve never lost your shit on someone who didn’t deserve it.

Any reason except water damage or dropping the phone, or anything that might suggest that one of these two things has happened.

You don’t have a clue what she dealt with up to that point. Maybe she spent an hour searching the website for the carefully screened off information about how to get a human to talk to you about your problem. Maybe she finally tracked down the information and called in, spent half an hour on hold, and finally got a…

The math on that’s a little sneaky too - say your flight gets delayed between one to two hours - according to the chart you’re owed 200% of your ticket cost... up to $650. Now I just bought a cross country ticket two months in advance, about as cheap as I could get it for $450. Doing the math, that means they pay the…

I get follow up requests.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *gasp* *wheeze* Who knew this war on drugs would have such negative repercussions?
But seriously though - “Hey, highly in-demand mostly disillusioned skilled labor, we want to offer you next to nothing to come work for Big Brother to help him stay on top - but you’ve got to play by our…

Gotcha - I think that makes a lot of sense, but also the end goal here is to make partner at a firm; you want to stick it out and build that internal connection so that yours is the name in the hat when the time comes.

Ah, fair, I think I see where you’re coming from. And I would agree, it takes years to master something. But I think we both work in different industries and different tiers in the corporate ladder. Perhaps management has more of a slow arc? I find as someone who is managed instead of someone who is managing that I’m…

I feel like I must be misunderstanding you - are you saying you expect a company to give you two years to figure out the job they hired you for? Because I feel like a more realistic expectation is that you get six months max before your boss starts having serious conversations with HR behind closed doors.

I saw a presentation on vulnerabilities for NFC cards several years back at a hacking conference, and I think several of the concerns the presenter raised at the time still remain true today: