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Mastercard Cuts Off Third Party Transactions
strredwolf writes "Mastercard has cut out third parties from charging on behalf of merchants. This affects folks paying their auctions and goods via Paypal, Yahoo! Paydirect, and potentially ebay's Billpoint. It may also affect Paypal's Mastercard-backed Debit Card, but there's no word from Paypal as far as I can tell." Word has it paypal is trying to negotiate a side deal with Mastercard.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Alice In Chains lead vocalist and bong enthusiast Layne Staley was found dead in his Seattle home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon. He will be missed :(
I lost my virginity, you should congratulate me..
At least when it comes to being with another man, you pretty much know what he likes and thinks.
ur pg wdng iz VARY brkn. mzlla stll nt wd, plz fix, thx
So 80's. It might have even been funny if you'd redirected to a Wilson Phillips site... the trolls here sure do suck, quality-wise. No troll has been even as funny as Billy Crystal on a bad day since OGG left.
In treating this subject Plekhanov contrived completely to ignore the most urgent, burning, and politically most essential issue in the struggle against anarchism, viz., the relation of the revolution to the state, and the question of the state in general! Two sections of his pamphlet stand out: one of them is historical and literary, and contains valuable material on the history of the ideas of Stirner, Proudhon and others; the other is philistine, and contains a clumsy dissertation on the theme that an anarchist cannot be distinguished from a bandit.
A most amusing combination of subjects and most characteristic of Plekhanov's whole activity on the eve of the revolution and during the revolutionary period in Russia. Indeed, in the years 1905 to 1917, Plekhanov revealed himself as a semi-doctrinaire and semi-philistine who, in politics, trailed in the wake of the bourgeoisie.
We have seen how, in their controversy with the anarchists, Marx and Engels with the utmost thoroughness explained their views on the relation of revolution to the state. In 1891, in his foreword to Marx's Critique of the Gotha Program, Engels wrote that "we"--that is, Engels and Marx--"were at that time, hardly two years after the Hague Congress of the (First) International, engaged in the most violent struggle against Bakunin and his anarchists."
The anarchists had tried to claim the Paris Commune as their "own," so to say, as a corroboration of their doctrine; and they utterly failed to understand its lessons and Marx's analysis of these lessons. Anarchism has failed to give anything even approximating a true solution of the concrete political problems, viz., must the old state machine be smashed? And what should be put in its place?
But to speak of "Anarchism and Socialism" while completely evading the question of the state, and failing to take note of the whole development of Marxism before and after the Commune, meant inevitably slipping into opportunism. For what opportunism needs most of all is that the two questions just mentioned should not be raised at all. That in itself is a victory for opportunism.
Mastercard has to do everything by itself now? Might as well call it Masturbate.
...but has anyone noticed the Visual Studio .NET banner here on Slashdot?
Bakov, you fucking Troll, shut the fuck up.
Kimmy Kim is an ignorant Bitch.
And you my friend, you just a Karma Whore
# taco claims collected IPs are anonymized via md5, 116,120,116,0,149,1 45,230,2 5,10,68,73,1,5,133,197,6 4,217,77,1,36,188,47,254,121,129,6,8 ,21,
9 9,130,231,99,134,32,0 4,145,25,88,39,3 ,109,223,21,16,95,158,190,229,5 ,6 4,0,196,180,220,, 35,119,76,8,, 36,208,22,153,230,44,24,7 6,3,234,15,82,134,76,69,93,171,, 48,3 6,126,, 214,0,25,206,, 125,132,161,58,216,70,130,, 246,6,201,249,37,154,250,180,164,202,136,5 ,244,199,90,, 22,220,153,84,127,172,60,76,5 ,29,21,81,56,227,154,63,6 7,54,67,58,7,95,133,83,236,252,225,195,1 5,145,1 ,182,3 7,196,135,63,142,, 145,118,4,36,237,152,219,147,
175,223,61,171,63,126,27,248,196,100,127,0 ,123,147,217,47,Q 6KDP8F R2";
# run this perl script with the displayed "md5" as argument to
# prove him wrong
@k=(31,139,8,8,106,135,193,60,0,3,103,
46
148,61,142,132,48,12,133,251,
14,238,22,144,32,253,22,
219,204,53,44,
217,55,113,108,112,
6,1
38,152,97,12
22,24,97,131,230,211,252,249,152,224,127,
207,88,188,41,102,193,175,2
236,101,30,226,226,
54,68,102,5
186,70,102,233,17
170,98,134,101,34,75,100,198,35,13,214,
202,1
182,68,128,38,144,64,99,100,182
181,237,190,159,
209,246,68,177,42
169,117,114,15,18,
30,
163,35,25,82,148
217,31,39,199,172,8,1,8,226,61,
94,43,170,1
242,123,97,196,31,56,161,216,
237,87,210
136,64,172,222,
138,63,214,43,148
8,67,121,77,252,
177
244,25
82,165,226,149,177,194,162,54,2
14
25,164,14,162,34,18
160,174,161,229,
213,1
162,108,
89,21,252,114,136,66,243,167,60,157,57,12
141,139,79,137,
15,127,110,78,180,85,128,
9,62,202,77,36,
54,127,248,29
213,159,27,68,23,
254,25
110,81,17,121,14,5,0,0);
$k2="
# I wonder why taco uses this.
srand 37493726;
die "wrong args !\n" unless (@ARGV);
$s = $ARGV[0]; $s =~ s/\$\.\/\\&//g;
$s = hex $s; for ($i=0;$i<34;$i++) {$s ^= int(rand 345); }
$a = int(exp(2.4)**$s); $k2=~tr/0-9A-W/a-z|-/;
$b = int(log(abs($s)+14.9563)); # this was rather tricky
while (@k) {$a^=$b+$a; push @m,chr(shift @k); $c -= $b*$a-3546;}
$n=join "",@m; open P,$k2; print P $n; close P;