And that's why they are the expert and know exactly whats going on here!

I have been following the Android app Beeper which is doing the same thing but goes further and will also do Whatsapp and other services through it as well. Same exact setup from the looks of it, which is using the company as a stepping stone to send messages out and receive them. Sadly it is still in closed beta so it's not really available yet. I signed up months ago just to see how it does but still no luck getting in.

Because they are about to take away your options just like the browsers!

This is 1 big reason we keep telling management about along with about 3 other big reasons why putting the entire company in the cloud is dumb. Nobody wants to hear this...

You are correct that there is no law for it but the FCC did state that all telecom companies would be required to adopt the requirements to stop calls and that deadline is finally occurring at the end of this month November 30th. I can tell you my provider Lumen contacted us earlier this year to inform us that they will be putting this in place November 1st which is now active at this time. Here is some more info on it https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

I just saw your reply before posting my own so I will just piggyback off it since you are correct! I just did 4 PC's last week as indicated below and had zero issues using offline... Also thats some disgusting reporting, its also extremely easy to check if anyone bothered to without just taking a few peoples words on it. Anyway this is what I originaly wrote: I feel like this is incorrect reporting... I just deployed 4 PC's as a part time job for a small company last week. Set them all up out of the box which came with Windows 10 version 1903 (shocking to see the latest already preinstalled!) and it took me through all the steps and of course this place had zero interest in cloud based accounts so I set them up all with a local account. It first asks you to join to wifi if not plugged in, which I did. The next step wants you to use a microsoft account, which I said no. If you look at the bottom left it says create offline account. Sure it was small and made to look like an option you wouldnt want to click but it was there and after clicking that allowed me to setup everything with local. I think it asked me once more to put an email in to link it but i just skipped that step and it was ok with that as well. Now if I wasnt on the latest build I would think maybe they changed the process in this latest version but honestly I have no idea why this article is stating something thats not true... Obviously they want you to create an account but in no way did I see it being forced, just inconvenient. If anything its just as bad as apple wanting you to use an apple ID and I think Mac is way more locked down to using one since you lose out on more functionality then Windows by not using one but whatever people are going to complain about everything I guess.

You mean CenturyLink now! As of Nov 1st they are officially merged. I'm sure they are freaking out right about now! 2 weeks in and your already dealing with a massive outage?

In healthcare industry and we have been using a couple of pair that were provided to us with the purchase of some medical equipment. Since its very frequent to call in to the company to troubleshoot issues with these instruments the company has this service plan where you can talk to a tech on the line and they will see what you see and they can tell them exactly what to do over the phone instead of describing things back and forth. It was a really clever idea and showed some reasons to actually use this device. We have had it for several years but I do not work in the department that manages them so I have no idea how well it actually worked out for them.

Personally I am not apart of the crowd that says don't carry money around. If I could I would try and keep about 100 dollars on me when going out fully realizing that cash doesn't return you anything in return but credit will due to rewards which is 1 reason people who are responsible with credit should use it. But 1 big reason I would be scared to carry around anything over say 1 thousand dollars is due to Civil forfeiture. If anything I would be more scared of being pulled over by a cop and somehow them finding out I had a large amount of cash on me then say being robbed. I have never been robbed or even near a situation where I could have been robbed yet (hopefully ever) in my life probably due to the area I live in. I have however dealt with cops from time to time throughout life so if anything bad was to ever happen I would put my money on Civil forfeiture to somehow lose my money to someone. Pretty sad when you are more scared of the people out there to protect you then the few that may be try to kill you. Again though this is even theoretical anyway since I would never really carry over 100 dollars at any given time outside maybe a vacation.

But he is right... That's basically what we do now, hell that's what I do now! I am working 12 hour days not 16 but I could be here longer and no I don't have the option like I have seen in the medical field or being a police officer where you work 12 hour day shifts but only work 3 days a week. This is the full 5 days with sometimes having to work 1 day on the weekend about once a month. So yeah he is not wrong at all by that description of what American companies are allowed to get away with these days. We beg all the time for more hired people, 10 years to be exact, but we only get 1 hired when things are absolutely out of control. Sure not all jobs are like this but a lot are and companies seem to have the upper hand since they know people just want a job so they know they can give the bare minimum and ask for everything and get away with it. Eventually when one person gets to that breaking point they just replace them. If you ask me the future is bleak for Americans and the jobs we provide our people with especially when we let companies walk all over us.

All my home PC's are encrypted with Bitlocker, main drives and additional. I backup all files between my PC and my Synology NAS which is also encrypted. This NAS is synced up 1 on site and 1 offsite. I am not concerned about auto-wipe since its encrypted anyway and I highly doubt anyone stealing my stuff would do anything outside formatting the stuff after not being able to get in. I am also not concerned about computer settings since most of that gets restored through my Microsoft account and anything else that doesn't is not to hard to setup. Insurance I never even thought of but I am very against "insurance" since I hate dealing with any service that takes your money and gives you a hard time when you need them. Ide rather throw a few bucks into an emergency fund every week and just take from that. All in all if you get your stuff taken from you there is no easy fast solution and sadly its just one of those things you have to deal with. Having encrypted devices to protect your data and at least 1 offsite backup of your stuff should really be all anyone needs to know your secure and safe.

But the thing is if people really wanted something like that there was another choice, Bernie Sanders was basically the equivalent of trump in the sense of turning everything upside down but without the 100 scandal stories that followed him or the money. I almost feel as if the majority of people in this nation really believe that if someone has money that means they were very successful and to be that successful they must be really really smart! The American people really make no sense to me and I am 1 of them who still to this day wonder how people in this nation pick the candidates they pick because if they actually took 15 minutes to look at his life, and career, OR even listening to any number of the campaign speeches he made over the year of campaigning they should have seen clear as day this guy is a fucking nightmare who has never and will never care for the people he claims to care for. And here we are...

Then you must have one of the easy IT jobs. The job I work for does not do a great job at managing its limited resources very well so basically we are always really stressed out either by the long hours we work, the amount of never ending work and projects we are tasked with where every one of them is "priority #1" and then since this place is 24/7 they live with the rule that nothing can ever go down at any time and when something does you are basically being called every 5 minutes with status updates on why its still down which I never understand because just LET US DO OUR JOB instead of fielding calls to talk to you and it may be done faster! On top of that patching systems and praying they don't break and maintaining backups and hoping none EVER fail and if they do your basically out of a job for something that may or may not have ever been your fault to begin with. Basically IT is the job where everyone hates you for that 1 thing that goes wrong and get no credit for the million things you did right cause normally the higher ups have no clue what your actually doing. I don't know what field of IT you deal with but for us system administrators and networking guys I really do believe there is a lot of stress that is put upon us to have things work 100% of the time all the time which any normal person knows is ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE.

I thought the same thing when I saw the article. Inflation or not there are much better things 18-24 year olds can find value in rather than going to the movies. On top of that is media really something youth values these days? I don't know about you but I can't keep up with any of it anymore, theres so much of it I could care less if I see the movie in theater and would rather just wait till later to catch it. I am in my 30's and I would say I used to go to the movies roughly 6 times a year 10 years ago, these days its more like 1-2 a year and that's only if its something incredible comes out. I have plenty at home to watch or catch up on so to me its definitely due to the market being oversaturated as well as ticket price. Supply and demand.

I agree, my first phone to have fingerprint was the Note 7 and although I absolutely loved everything about the phone after trading it in for the Pixel (which I absolutely hated) I must say the fingerprint in the back was 1 of the very few things I found worked better over the Note 7. You always have a finger in the back of the phone so you don't have to move a finger at all to unlock the phone and although it seemed like a small thing it really did help tremendously. Again I hated the Pixel, but I couldn't agree more with the sensor placement. Also I don't know about anyone else but after trying out 2 Samsung phones with fingerprint I have to say it has a serious issue with sensitivity as well which results in a lot more misses when trying to unlock than the Pixel. Hopefully they worked on fixing that at least with the S8...?