So Caribbean hotel, adult streaming site and Apple can be compared as on the same tech competency level for online payment without blinking. Okay, didn't expect that one today.
I don't, but if I had no other choice and needed to sign up to such a site I'd consider making one (or trying a real one with sensitive info redacted and see if that passes), along with other anonymity precautions.
The law is IMO the least of your concerns here (you are not stealing or causing harm to anyone, so very little incentive for someone to look into it), the fallout when your real ID leaks like what happened here would be a much bigger concern especially for LGBT performers in certain regions.
Regarding credit cards, using a prepaid one or a service such a Privacy.com is enough so no fakery needed there.
Credit cards: prepaid can be detected and blocked, same as the privacy.com ones - especially when the credit card is being used to validate something. Look at any major fraud prevention software, these things are trivial.
In the real world, if you want to make money, you need to show and prove ID with matching banking details. Any inconsistencies and you don't get paid. This isn't something you can outsmart. People smarter than you and I have been thinking very long and hard about these points, much more so than the two minutes you took to think up your post. The idea is like those videos of 'primitive underground dwellings with a swimming hole on top'. Cute, creative, but terribly impractical and useless in any real world situation.
Yes that is correct. I am thankful I have other means of income meaning I don't need to model for a cam site.
> Creating a fake ID = super illegal.
Agreed. But if I'm at the desperate stage where I have no choice but to sign up to a cam site, I would prefer taking that risk than having such PII leak many years in the future and affect my career prospects (the article mentions some of the data being up to 20 years old - most of these people now have no doubt left the scene but their new life can now be screwed up by this data leaking). Neither is a good solution, but IMO the risks of the latter outweigh those of the former.
Regarding prepaid cards, yes I know they can be detected and blocked, but is there any incentive to do so? It makes sense for a performer to want to protect their privacy, so I don't see why the site would block these cards?
It's actually not always illegal to create or possess a fake ID. It depends on the state and what you do with it. Some states it's illegal always. In California though as an example here's the law:
> 470b. Every person who displays or causes or permits to be displayed or has in his or her possession any driver’s license or identification card of the type enumerated in Section 470a with the intent that the driver’s license or identification card be used to facilitate the commission of any forgery, is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year, or by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170.
You have to have the intent to commit a forgery. This is defined elsewhere but means to use the id to commit fraud.
So you have a novelty id that says your name is Mickey Mouse and you are 100 years old. You show it to your friends. Or maybe you get one as a gag gift for a friend. Not illegal in California. Using a fake id to misrepresent your age for legal purposes such as buying alcohol, tobacco, firearms, voting, acting in porn? Very illegal.
I played the original to death "back in the day" so I'm really sad to hear that they went down this route. Probably also explains why nobody talks about Angry Birds anymore.
I beg to differ. I am not aware of any DLCs. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is free to play. There are cosmetics like gun skins you can purchase, but nothing gives you competitive advantage in the game.
Good point. I guess it's the exception though. Interesting that it probably had similar user numbers for the first few years as Angry Birds but just had a lot deeper and more "creator"-type gameplay.
Most of them dont care where the energy comes from. All they care is to keep the stream of tourists. I know, I live in a skiing country which is about to face the end of this era. Nobody from the tourism industry is willing to accept the facts, all they do is pretend it can be handled with artificial snow.
"Most of them", you've done a global survey then, have you? Ski resorts here in Colorado very much care and advertise about their renewable energy usage.
Renewable energy is not an infinite resource. It will take eons for us to exhaust the sun's energy with solar panels. But long before that time we will have exhausted our supply of ground minerals that make these panels. You can also only have so many hydra dam installations.
So even if they where using 100% renewable energy. They are 'stealing' that clean energy away from others. So grey energy will still be used to fulfill that demand.
Honestly I think the bugs _helped_ Minecraft—bugs in the terrain generation made for interesting scenery that was popular to share, and bugs in the multiplayer code helped build the community as people shared how to get things like minecart tracks to work.
> They did not have any disadvantages besides the high price
iPhones couldn't run Flash (which powered all of the interactive content on the internet at the time), couldn't send MMS (which was the way everyone shared photos at the time) or run apps (which was how feature phones added functionality at the time).
"Why on Earth would anyone want one of those!?" was a pretty common reaction, yet they still sold like hotcakes. In the case of Flash and MMS, the whole mobile internet changed to suit the iPhone. In the case of apps, Steve Jobs finally relented, leading to the single biggest software marketplace in the world.
That reaction really only came from makers of competing phones. (RIM execs famously refused to believe the battery life was possible, Balmer threw very unconvincing dismissals.)
The only commonwealthidespread complaint was about the lack of 3G and copy/paste.
However, the overwhelming response to the iPhone was extremely positive. Even from non Apple sources.
RIM didn’t think the iPhone was possible when it was first released. Google instantly changed the direction of their Android project when the iPhone was released.
"Too expensive" is a perfectly fine thing to think about a product like that, and is very far away from thinking nobody wants it.
Qwerty keyboards were always a niche, and "nice, but I don't need one" is reasonably classified as an underestimate of the product but it's still approval.
I still want a slide out keyboard like my Nokia N900 had... and if you don't think $1000 is overpriced for an I-Phone, you probably haven't tried a $300 phone that has very similar capabilities...
It really wasn't that popular initially, at least nowhere near what it is today. There were only 1.5 million sales in 2007, and about 12 million in 2008. For comparison, there were over 210 million sold in 2018.
Actually, the first one wasn't in that much demand, because it had laughably slow processor and cell standard support even by 2007 standards (no UMTS, which was already available on cell networks back then, just not with an iPhone). Apple fanboys stood in line for it and since Apple wasn't able to even produce enough for them, it seemed like "everyone wanted one".
The iPhone 3G changed this fundamentally; you didn't have to be a die-hard Apple fanboy to justify wanting one of those, because it was the only phone on the market that actually gave you sufficiently usable mobile access to "the real Internet".
I certainly didn't stand in line. The iPhone seemed primitive and lacking to me at the time. And I wasn't alone in spending lots of money on alternative phones.
The original iPhone sold for $600 and a 2 year AT&T contract.
The iPhone had a ton of pricing headway to make itself more attractive.
Tesla is almost the exact opposite.
Now, this isn’t an argument against Tesla or its stock price (that’s a different argument altogether). This is an argument against the idea That Tesla and the iPhone are in any way comparable.
The iPhone hit in a market where competitors have mutually agreed to hide away from regulator attention as long as possible.
That is most certainly not the state of the car industry.
And you can see how "old industry" will play with old wet cell batteries and newer batteries in data center spaces (newer batteries are considerably safer in reality with each cell monitored, with the battery wall automatically removing problematic cells, and requiring less than a fifth of the space of wet cells). However wet cell manufacturers have been really good at manipulating and adding regulations that make newer batteries untenable to have since regulations are purposely broad enough that each inspector you bring in will cited the same regulation as having a different meaning.
On top of that: no (physical) keyboard, no GPS, no 3G support.
They were almost the textbook definition of a disruptive product (worse on traditional metrics by which products compete, but better on some key factors that have customer value)...
When my daughter was in high school she was doing an IT subject, for fun I told her to try using "synergy" in one of her assignments. She got an A, its a magic word.
