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Unlocking The Power Of the Magstripe
Acidus writes "While researching for an embedded systems project (a magstripe enabled Coke machine), I was shocked by the lack of magstripe information: Programs/code that would run on a modern OS were all but nonexistant, articles that were 6-10 years old, etc. Further research proved hard, because I had become google's authoritative source. So Stripe Snoop was born, and is now at 1.5 . Stripe Snoop is a suite of research tools that captures, modifies, validates, generates, analyzes, and shares magstripe data, with an ever-growing database of card formats. Decoding everything from driver's licenses to banking cards, its features can analyze non-standard cards, such as NYC's Metrocard."
proof that editors don't even read the links, much less read the mails sent to them to the 'future' before post goes live?
why can't they recruit some people, like a 1000 or so from the slashdot readers who are active(write texts that get modded up from being really informative or insightful and who write lots of them) and before any story gets live some ~20-40 of the 1000 checkers would have to mark the story as valid? the checkers could also get a head start and comment _in_ the story itself the obvious understanding mistakes people _always_ have about the stories(would reduce the amount of misinformative posts dramatically if some of the obvious if you would rtfa things were stated in the writeup itself - like in the new "2tb memory card" story, it should be obvious and stated that the format just happens to support up to 2tb and not actually hold that much yet).
and while technically this isn't the place for such discussion - on slashdot comments on stories are the only things that get actually read by anyone.
and the karma system is broken because excellent is so easy to gain that anyone gets it even if you're writing total bullshit that's both uninsightful and misinformative.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
proof that editors don't even read the links, much less read the mails sent to them to the 'future' before post goes live?
Who realy cares. If it does not work or a link is dead move along. Same with dupes, yes it happens but does it really matter?
Bad boys rape our young girls but Violet gives willingly.
OK, now you're just trolling. Yes I am aware of the different meaning that English speakers have for the word fag, than American speakers.