Unlocking The Power Of the Magstripe

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Unlocking The Power Of the Magstripe

Posted by timothy on Sunday August 8, 2004 @11:11PM from the slurp dept.

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."

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moo by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-08 23:14 · Score: -1, Offtopic

sounds good
first post! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-08 23:14 · Score: -1, Offtopic

First post! *dances*
gotcha by Anonymous+Chemist · 2004-08-08 23:14 · Score: -1, Offtopic

1st post i think?? got bit twice by the 30 sec rule
Magstripe pwn34ge!!! by Zorilla · 2004-08-08 23:15 · Score: -1, Offtopic

j00000 got pwnz3rd, now your driver's license marks you as a registered sex offender!

Fun.

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Join the Crusade!!!! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-08 23:28 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I sent this to their webmaster:

I find it somewhat humorous that on this page:
http://www.holyobserver.com/detail.php?isu=v01i04& art=mac

the photo you use is that of a Macintosh iBook, on a page about a Man Happier About Switch to Mac than Conversion to Christianity. While I don't want to get into a pissing contest about which laptop is better, it's mildly humorous to find a Mac labeled wrong, even if it is subtle.

Respectfully,
Andy Ringsmuth

I'll try and keep an eye on it and see if they decide to change the photo.....
morons now distributing newclear power with by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-08 23:33 · Score: -1, Offtopic

extreme {f}uncshun (formerly available only to religious fanatics, & hindue goo-goo tr(d)olls).

as always, the kode is free. how you use it, is what we're all depending on.

no smoke, mirrors, censorship....

consult with/trust in yOUR creators.... more power than we can even imagine, just in the eye of a needle. see you there?
Re:El-Off-Topic-Postino: 'Nonexistant' by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-08 23:39 · Score: -1, Offtopic

LOL, look at your name. You misspelled 'Perfect'!

NOOB! Before you flame someone, learn to spell!
Re:epos by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-08 23:41 · Score: -1, Offtopic

i was going post as AC but i dont want people not taking this seriously.

With a Slashdot ID close to the 7xx.xxx serie, you might as well post as AC...
Can this be solved? Any SMART person out there? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-08 23:42 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Here's a problem that's really been bugging me!

Three men go to a hotel and each one of them pays 10 dollars for the room (total 30 dollars). The hotel owner however thinks that he asked too much and asks a boy to return 5 dollars to these men. Boy is thinking that 5 dollars is hard to divide to three men and decides to keep himself 2 dollars. Now, do your math - the men have paid 9 dollars each (totaling 27) and the boy has 2 dollars - 27+2 = 29 dollars!! Where the heck did that 1 dollar vanish??? Can anyone answer???
1. Re:Can this be solved? Any SMART person out there? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-08 23:47 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Hehe, this is OT but if I had mod points, you'd get one. You actually got me thinking for a minute...
2. Re:Can this be solved? Any SMART person out there? by wingphil · 2004-08-08 23:55 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Nothing vanished. The men paid 9 dollars each = 27 dollars. Two dollars went to the boy and 25 dollars went on the rooms. 25 + 2 = 27 total. :P
3. Re:Can this be solved? Any SMART person out there? by JWSmythe · 2004-08-08 23:59 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Silly games. Don't tell me you balance your checkbook with that brain. Men Hotel Boy 30 0 0 0 30 0 0 25 5 3 25 2 Men Hotel Boy 30 0 0 > Three men go to a hotel .. room (total 30 dollars) 0 30 0 > asks a boy to return 5 dollars to these men 0 25 5 > keep himself 2 dollars 3 25 2 > 27+2 = 29 Wrong. Don't think so hard. It's $-27 + $25 + $2, not $30 - $27 - $2.
  
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4. Re:Can this be solved? Any SMART person out there? by nz_mincemeat · 2004-08-09 00:14 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Anybody with a basic grasp of accounting would have the right understanding in order to debug this problem. (See a parent post)
  
  For once the bean counters win :p
5. Re:Can this be solved? Any SMART person out there? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-09 01:14 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  I'm sorry, but you *are* kidding, right? I mean, you don't really think this problem is/was difficult, do you? They give $30 total, $5 of which the hotel owner tells the boy to return. The boy keeps $2 and gives back $3. Therefore, $30 given by men=$25 actually paid by men + $5 returned by owner ($2 of which was kept by boy, and $3 of which was returned to men). Come on, I'd expect better from a Slashdotter, but then I usually expect more from people than they're typically able to deliver.
6. Re:Can this be solved? Any SMART person out there? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-09 10:46 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  I've learned people's IQs seem to be about inversely proportional to what they claim them to be.
  Presumably they all take the same online IQ tests.
  Perhaps they should try these.
  http://www.eskimo.com/~miyaguch/hard_iq.ht ml
  
  Maybe they could try this one without looking at the answers. It has no time limit and the questions repeat so if you try to brute force it, it'll take far far longer than if you figure out the general principle. Plus, you're more likely to slip up through brute force.
  http://www.eskimo.com/~miyaguch/ultra.html
A new research project by gowen · 2004-08-08 23:53 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Before releasing details of your hack to your adoring /. public, how about researching how to use lighting when taking photographs so that the subject is better illuminated than the curtains in the background...

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bum rape by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-08 23:58 · Score: -1, Offtopic

rape a hobo today
Re:Good link checking, well done the mods... by gl4ss · 2004-08-09 00:48 · Score: 0, Offtopic

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.

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Re:Good link checking, well done the mods... by nolife · 2004-08-09 01:22 · Score: 0, Offtopic

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?

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Re:hotels by Giggle+Stick · 2004-08-09 01:37 · Score: 0, Offtopic

... i'm typing this one handed while rolling a fag in my left hand.
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.