He never 'got a lawsuit.' Instead, he got some comments from the contact to whom he reported it that criticized his approach. It's not even clear just who this person was. It seems he had trouble locating a contact to report security issues to, so this may as well have just been a low level support rep who was in over his head and saying things he shouldn't have.
"The hardest part - responsible disclosure. Support guy honestly answered there’s absolutely no way to get in touch with technical department and he’s sorry I feel this way. Emailing InformationSecurityServices@starbucks.com on March 23 was futile (and it only was answered on Apr 29). After trying really hard to find anyone who cares, I managed to get this bug fixed in like 10 days.
Not only did he test it live, but he used the gift card to purchase items. Could have easily walked in and checked the balance without purchasing anything.
To be fair, his purchase was relatively inexpensive, did not significantly disrupt other customers or otherwise compromise the system, and served to test that the balance was actually available, not just displayed.
Just deduct the price of the sandwiches from the bounty reward?
When the profit margin is a cool $250 USD and everyone else competes in low price/volume but cant even reach apple's numbers, its not surprising at all. Same is true for the Macbook, they don't ship as much as Lenovo but they do have a margin that their customers are more than willing to pay.
Lenovo sells many laptops which cost much less than Thinkpads. Thinkpads tend to be the more expensive models. A quick search for "macbook" and "thinkpad" prices between $900 and $1300 for macbook and between $400 and $999 for thinkpad. Searching for a regular "Lenovo laptop" (excluding Thinkpads) I see prices as low as $190.
Not necessarily true -- maybe for the X1. However you can get a similarly specced T450s for less than a 13" MBP.
I just bought a new laptop and did comparisons between Dell, Lenovo, and MBP. I ended up with a Lenovo T450s (one SSD running Windows 8.1 and another m.2 SSD running Ubuntu).
"Under the National Labor Relations Act, enacted in 1935, private-sector employees have the right to engage in "concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection."
The language is somewhat antiquated, but according to Estlund, "it means that you and your co-workers get to talk together about things that matter to you at work.""
Yeah, but this doesn't prevent a lot of employers from attempting to ban discussion in their employee handbooks. And it's not widely known that such bans are illegal. It's so common it's included in a lot of boilerplate and is de facto accepted as the reality by many (if not most) people.
355ml glass bottle in mex costs 6 pesos, or 0.30usd, while the plastic bottle version at half a liter goes the same price. cans can go as much as 10 pesos in vending machines.
2L plastic is around 25 pesos or $1.50USD. I don't buy soda so my numbers may be off by 10%.
I run Yosemite Zone on a Lenovo W530 just fine, 13Gb RAM Allocated to OSten. Sure it's a little slow but it's usable. Still I agree, on slower hardware it's useless. I'm buying a Macbook Air 2011 next week since I need something faster and the Lenovo is a company machine.
Sure it's cheaper, but if you wait another month it will be even more cheap. The longer you can hold of spending, the more you get for your money. Contrast that to a sale. During the sale, things are cheap now with the expectation they'll be more expensive later. Holding on to your money is now costing you buying power.
It is a fallacy because most consumption can only be postponed for an indefinite amount of time. If I need a fridge because my old one is broken or I just moved house, then I need a fridge. I'm not going to go without for 6 months because I think fridges will be cheaper then. We all purchase phones, computers, cars and sofas knowing that, in x months time, it's likely that the same item will be cheaper or same price but with more features.
It is true that major investments like new factories might conceivably become cheaper but this also ignores opportunity cost - in the same way, with inflation, new factories are more likely to become more expensive, so it's logical to think that in inflationary times, the countryside will be dotted with idle factories built as a hedge. This doesn't happen because of a variety of factors, not the least of which is that people make investments because they expect to see a big margin difference between keeping the cash and having that investment make cash for them. You don't built a new factory because you think you'll make 3% more than bank interest, you do it because you think you'll make 20-50% return on the cash.
The deflationary spiral postponed purchases explanation is a bit like the efficient market hypotheses - plausible sounding but ultimately and empirically not true in practice.
By that logic why do people buy iPhones? They can wait another year and get the same model cheaper or get a much better one for the same price.
The iPhone 6 just had record sales so empirically there are other factors for consumer purchases that are stronger than the "waiting for items to be cheaper" factor.
Yeah, I think this is more because of Rockchip than because of Google. Rockchip manages to make a potent processor for very little, which is what is powering these. Google's volumes help as well but I would give more props to Rockchip
