The gist of the article though is that as soon as you impose tighter controls/credit terms the scammer gets flustered and runs away.

I know a few companies who run on a credit of trust, if you are brand new, you get no credit, so you start with the most restrictive terms.

If you are a known, reliable client, you get the more lenient credit terms.

The scammers balk at the terms, the cheapskates who will nickel and dime you to death decide to leave early and the genuine stay behind to do business with you.

@scottalanmiller pfffft, why bother considering that? It's not like stuff ever breaks.
 
There may have been sarcasm in there somewhere.

@Carnival-Boy said:

I agree that the term "unlimited" is often abused though. I don't know if it's the same in the US, but we had a big problem over here with ISPs offering "unlimited" internet usage that was actually capped. I think the term was "Unlimited - subject to fair usage policy" where fair usage was an arbitrary figure set by the ISP.

Is that not protected by the Trades Description Act?

The Whole MDM concept isn't new to exchange (though it may be to office 365). ActiveSync for exchange has had most of these features. I think they are just promoting it hoping you will want more managment.

@mlnews said:

This one is pretty big...

Office 365 Drive Mapping for Enterprise Desktops

Office 365 Drive Mapping for Enterprise Desktops allows users to utilize folder redirection for SharePoint Online, and it is especially helpful for Windows 7 desktops or higher with no local storage being used in the process. With this tool, you can map drives directly to your Office 365 storage options, such as OneDrive for Business, which is based in SharePoint Online.

Oooh, this one is pretty cool. I will have to play with it in the future.

@scottalanmiller said:

Mac is not something you choose if you want to retain investments. Mac is an investment in keeping current with the Mac ecosystem. It's expensive, but it has its own value. But when you choose Mac, you choose an ecosystem where they, not you, determine not only the upgrade schedule and set of technologies to use but the entire ecosystem that you can use.

Yeah but they used to keep the Pro audio/video folks in mind with the Pro Lines. It looks like they are consumerizing the pro line more to get more volume in sales

I know Lavabit closed it's doors a year or so ago because they rather close than continue to give access to government subpoenas.

Downloading mine now.

I am a big believe in BASH. It's still my go to tool for most scripting in UNIX. It is everywhere, which makes a big difference. People used to use Perl because it was so ubiquitous. But on current systems it is Python that I see more commonly. Node.js, Ruby and Go are out there a lot too. The one thing that you can almost always count on is BASH. It's simple, it's standard and it is really fast to do simple things.

And a Keyboard with Macro keys for doing it.

I'll be grabbing CCleaner for my Transformer Prime when I get home.
That thing runs like a sleepy Hutt going up a greased hill.

@Chamele0n said:

@mlnews said:

is Google Wireless the next big step

Google has been providing WiFi to Silicon Valley for quite some time, I would think with their fiber rollout the next big step could be to use the fiber as a backbone and provide WiFi.

From the Article it's not going to be Wifi but, more like cellular with a new frequency spectrum. Which is odd to change it up either way, especially since their target is cell phone users.

Data prisoning is a big deal. You need companies with clear paths to data migration. Something very important to ask when getting into a situation where a vendor holds your critical data.

Sleeping with uppermanagement

A big company I worked at years ago, there was an employee sleeping with a under executive and basically got away with murder all the time, and this was against policy, and yet nobody ever did anything. This company is almost bankrupt today, I wonder why...

Yeah, those annoying slideshows are big cash grabs. Ten page visits for a tiny article with no content. They cost nothing to make and earn big bucks in ad revenue.