OctoMonkey

frustyak said:

If I know it's coming to Apple TV+, why on earth would I spend the extra $$ to watch it in the theater?

For the theater experience.  I go whenever there is a good movie out...  which is rare these days with movies pushing DEI and woke-ism down the throat of the moviegoer.

sflagel said:

I don't know why but movies produced by streaming companies just don’t have “it”. And that is especially visible in movies that were produced by studios after the studio became part of a streaming service. 

I would also include television shows.  To my tastes, they are pretty much all bad.

welshdog said:

Companies will NEVER maintain robust security until there are real monetary and incarceration risks for security failures. Just look at what happened with National Public Data. Few corporations, even really big ones, take the security of our data seriously. I think Apple does, more than most, but obviously they seem to stand alone on this issue.

Until some jagoff VP in charge of customer data gets put in jail for making an irresponsible security decision, this kind of thing won't stop. Fine companies a significant percentage of their annual revenue for losing our data, and then we'll see how seriously they take it. Also, 100% ban anyone but the government from using our SSNs and issue all new SSNs to reestablish the validity of our numbers. Severe penalties for not purging all our numbers from their systems and long term archives.

Agreed!  Yesterday our (juvenile) son received a piece piece of mail indicating his data had been exposed in a data breach.  Grrrrr!!!

The government needs to actually do something about this!  Pass laws requiring this data to not be stored on servers which are connected to the internet...  hold companies financially responsible for data breaches (not just offering a year of data monitoring), big fines! payable directly to the individual whose data was compromised, not the government...  hold the executives financially responsible...  hold the board of directors financially responsible.  Something!  But this needs to stop!

As for SSNs, I agree 100%!

daven said:

I agree that having everyone on the same billing cycle isn’t a good idea. You end up with a boom of calls early in the month and not much the rest of the month which is a staffing nightmare. I am not a fan of Chase based on past experiences. Oh well, we will see.

The best solution, IMHO, is to offer the cardholder a choice of payment dates.  Every card I have allows this and it is quite nice.  The current feast or famine approach is foolhardy.

We use Chase for our daily banking needs and are quite pleased.  No cost checking and (though rarely used) it is very nice having a private banker to assist you when needed.  I do not care for their deprecating safe deposit boxes, but it seems most banks (at least in my area) have already done away with them.  Time to look into a good home safe.

My memory of the last time Apple did this was that it caused real issues with folks who did not accept the new terms.  You could not log out of your account without accepting the terms, and you were perpetually hit with must agree to keep using the function type errors.  It was a crazed vicious cycle!

Personally, I have zero desire to have any cloud integration in my computers, tablets, phones.  Certainly others differ, but I find it more an annoyance than anything...  two factor authentication increasing that annoyance by a factor of 10.