I would think the CC companies would be all about loving this.. and the store owner will always have to take a hit.. here's the problem..
So you buy $100 on a credit card, the fee is lets say 3% so you get a $3 fee, so you process the card for $103.. which gets hit with a 3% fee.. which turns out to be a $3.09 fee to the store.. Not as bad as not getting any of it I suppose.. but the banks win.. the banks always win..
I tried you back in the early days and you crashed me one too many times.. since then the bad taste never left and I have avoided you. I never got on the bandwagon when it was neat to be a Java guru and now Ive come to realize you are simply a pain in my ass. Begone.. I break with thee, I break with thee..I break with thee.
Smart/Cell phones have become an addiction. Pure and simple. Just the thought of leaving it at home or maybe your plan expiring sends people into a DT OMG nothing else matters till I get this thing back frenzy. A couple years ago I was there. I recognized the signs of addiction. I made the choice to put it down and walk away. Yes I have a piece of crap that we take on trips and whatnot..but the vast majority of the time I live untethered. I have to admit the first couple weeks without it in my pocket was pretty difficult. But after a while the sense of being free from the nonstop barrage of texts and calls and not to mention the surveillance..just the freedom of not being tied to the damn thing was worth the pain of separation. But..but.. I can turn it off any time I need to... yea.. sure you can..sure you can. This story isn't about security.. it's about how can I keep my addiction.
Offtopic.. mod me to oblivion.. but has everyone else noticed all the new ads on slashdot since the buyout? In Opera, I even get a popup download warning from some push file ad something.. the load time has gotten spam-crazy-3rd party-riffic.. and yes.. I have all the requisite add-ons.. I just watch the status bar going nuts while the page loads..
I have good memories of movies 10-20 years ago.. the last movie I went to a theater to see was probably 3-4 years ago.. it was packed with insensitive chattering cell phone texting people who made the experience miserable. Sure you can call the usher or whoever and ask them to shut someone up but it seemed like there were more people texting and talking than were watching the movie.. so I decided to say screw the whole overpriced self-induced abuse mess. Screw movie theaters, Ill watch something on Netflix or Prime and save myself the harassment.
How about just allowing reviews of people you know or trust to be seen? Not that everyone and the kitchen sink cant review something.. but lets say you have a few friends and maybe you see a few people online who review things that you agree with a lot.. why not limit the reviews you see or maybe just have an option to see only those.. maybe even allow for a few levels of those people's friends.. instead of this everyone and their corporate brother laundry list of crap reviews which has basically rendered reviews imho to crap.
The problem with anonymity is that we have become addicted to digital..well..everything. Once you have the data in a digital format it is merely a matter of algorithms, storage, and computational power to pretty much wring whatever you want out of the data. I was a loud mouth Libertarian for quite a few years.. I ranted and threw in my 2 cents at a lot of places online.. then things like the att closet data capture and facebook image recognition started popping up and the writing on the digital wall was pretty much done. I expect nothing I do digitally not to be intercepted, databased, scanned, weighted saved for future use. Imho the only real option for any privacy is not to make it digital in any way including cell phones, land lines, or any other type mass communication.. but thats just me and my tinfoil hat..
First.. there is a person or group of people in accounts payables. Call until you can talk to the accounts payable supervisor, manager, director..whatever the title of the week is. Get on a first name basis. Work some humanity into the conversation and get to know this person..not just where the hell is my checks, but, Hi Theresa, how are you today? How was your vacation? If you can turn a personal corner with someone who has an inside track on where your check is you will be miles ahead of the game. I have done this many times and on occasion managed to get checks cut and mailed the same day..with the right person on my side.
The second option is simple. Fire the client. There comes a time when you have exhausted all your resources and every effort and attempt is a slammed door. Cut your losses and walk away. Write off the unpaid bills on your taxes and move on to the next big thing. Unless you are dealing in 6+ figures, the court and lawyers imho are simply not worth it, especially when duking it out with a corp that probably has a whole floor of lawyers sitting around waiting to chew up and spit out a small fry. If you cant get into the AP dept, they wont pay, just write it off, walk away, and learn to get what you need up front next time.
As plain and obvious it seems to us tech nerds.. some people will just never get some of the tricks the spammers use like forged from addresses and no, you're not infected, don't click that link to install superantispyware 2013. If possible, take the PC/Laptop for an evening to "speed things up" put good anti-malware and antivirus on it, maybe make a clean image and a non-admin account if you can and expect the calls for when he screws it up again if you are his dedicated tech nerd.
I have a really small biz and just use the Apps email as I like the web interface instead of the local pop client thing.. Even though thats all I use, it is critically important to my tiny web biz.. I really cant afford to wake up to no biz email which might not be whats happening today..but looks like the direction its headed. I guess I will be doing some MX updating and either use the roundcube/squirrel that my webhost provides or break out the local email client.. it was good while it lasted..
You bring up some very thought provoking and informative points. Kudos to you.
It would seem that the responsibility and punishments should fall on those responsible for breaking the law, not as merely chain of command cut off the leader's head for subordinates breaking of the law.
There seems to be a problem when someone who breaks a law goes to jail but when a group of people band together and someone breaks the law no one goes to jail. In the latter, you end up making decisions based on cost/benefit ratios. If you can make a billion dollars breaking the law and get fined 500M that is a damn good business decision. If you make a billion dollars and go to jail for 20 years..not so much.
Maybe we should hold corporate individuals personally liable for breaking laws, because, the corporate "person" can not pay the penalty of jail time. Not the shareholders, not people who are clueless, the individuals in the chain who knowingly, willfully, and methodically break laws knowing there will be no personal consequences.
The argument for patents is to promote and protect inventions and provide the consumer with better products, etc. The problem is the system has been subverted with corporate money and closed the door to most who are not at the top of the food chain. The benefit to a patent should be an exclusive first to market incentive. It would seem a 5 year period should do this. Afterwards, the patent should become public domain for others to build on. This nonsense of never-ending patents as well as allowing patents for idiocy like styles or other non-substantive things is more evidence of the corporate takeover of the patent system. Five years. Thats long enough to get ahead if your intent is to do something with a patent. That doesnt necessarily mean you even have a product in five years, it means you have had a five year head start on anyone using that idea.
But ya.. that and $5 might get me a cup of starbucks.
The consumer will pay the fines in higher prices. Take the boards and the CEOs responsible to jail if you want to make a dent in this, all the fines will do is tack on a fine tax to their products. Thanks.
If I understand this "security hole" correctly.. and they have already popped the data to let you know the email is taken.. isn't it pretty much close to nobrainer not to go ahead with that insert query? I may be a simple caveman.. but cmon.. even in my worst spaghetti code this is solidly on the durr side of Hurr-Durrrr
It would seem that patents are company-centric when they really should be consumer-centric. If we change to the consumer view paradigm, a lot of the idiocy of patents would disappear. There really should be just one question for a patent to be viable: How does your exclusive retention of this concept and the implementation of it benefit the consumer? What we have is the exact opposite. If we theoretically have laws and government to aid and support people, then the entire patent system and paradigm is 180 degrees off.
When patent trolls lay in wait for a successful business and then litigate them into submission, the system is broken. When companies amass patents simply for use as leverage and profit from other companies, the system is broken. When it is necessary to pay thousands of dollars to lawyers, researchers and fees thereby removing the system from the average garage inventor, the system is broken. And finally, when patents become so universal to every breath, every step, every device, and every thought we may have now or in the future, the freaking system is broken. In fact, it is hard to think of ways the system is actually not broken, come to think of it.
So bring me some water from asia and when I drink it Ive been there? I believe the test, if accurate, proves where the water is from.. not necessarily here you have been... just sayin...
Cars and Car Parts cross state lines. Anything that crosses state lines falls under the commerce clause Anything that falls under the commerce clause can be regulated Anything that can be regulated can be taxed and lobbied Anything that can be taxed an lobbied will be.
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Only those with dollars have justice.
I would think the CC companies would be all about loving this.. and the store owner will always have to take a hit.. here's the problem..
So you buy $100 on a credit card, the fee is lets say 3% so you get a $3 fee, so you process the card for $103.. which gets hit with a 3% fee.. which turns out to be a $3.09 fee to the store.. Not as bad as not getting any of it I suppose.. but the banks win.. the banks always win..
I tried you back in the early days and you crashed me one too many times.. since then the bad taste never left and I have avoided you. I never got on the bandwagon when it was neat to be a Java guru and now Ive come to realize you are simply a pain in my ass. Begone.. I break with thee, I break with thee..I break with thee.
Smart/Cell phones have become an addiction. Pure and simple. Just the thought of leaving it at home or maybe your plan expiring sends people into a DT OMG nothing else matters till I get this thing back frenzy. A couple years ago I was there. I recognized the signs of addiction. I made the choice to put it down and walk away. Yes I have a piece of crap that we take on trips and whatnot..but the vast majority of the time I live untethered. I have to admit the first couple weeks without it in my pocket was pretty difficult. But after a while the sense of being free from the nonstop barrage of texts and calls and not to mention the surveillance..just the freedom of not being tied to the damn thing was worth the pain of separation. But..but.. I can turn it off any time I need to... yea.. sure you can..sure you can. This story isn't about security.. it's about how can I keep my addiction.
And I was just re-reading the H-Dogs mad Midstate posts last night...
Offtopic.. mod me to oblivion.. but has everyone else noticed all the new ads on slashdot since the buyout? In Opera, I even get a popup download warning from some push file ad something.. the load time has gotten spam-crazy-3rd party-riffic.. and yes.. I have all the requisite add-ons.. I just watch the status bar going nuts while the page loads..
I have good memories of movies 10-20 years ago.. the last movie I went to a theater to see was probably 3-4 years ago.. it was packed with insensitive chattering cell phone texting people who made the experience miserable. Sure you can call the usher or whoever and ask them to shut someone up but it seemed like there were more people texting and talking than were watching the movie.. so I decided to say screw the whole overpriced self-induced abuse mess. Screw movie theaters, Ill watch something on Netflix or Prime and save myself the harassment.
How about just allowing reviews of people you know or trust to be seen? Not that everyone and the kitchen sink cant review something.. but lets say you have a few friends and maybe you see a few people online who review things that you agree with a lot.. why not limit the reviews you see or maybe just have an option to see only those.. maybe even allow for a few levels of those people's friends.. instead of this everyone and their corporate brother laundry list of crap reviews which has basically rendered reviews imho to crap.
Just a thought..
The problem with anonymity is that we have become addicted to digital..well..everything. Once you have the data in a digital format it is merely a matter of algorithms, storage, and computational power to pretty much wring whatever you want out of the data. I was a loud mouth Libertarian for quite a few years.. I ranted and threw in my 2 cents at a lot of places online.. then things like the att closet data capture and facebook image recognition started popping up and the writing on the digital wall was pretty much done. I expect nothing I do digitally not to be intercepted, databased, scanned, weighted saved for future use. Imho the only real option for any privacy is not to make it digital in any way including cell phones, land lines, or any other type mass communication.. but thats just me and my tinfoil hat..
First.. there is a person or group of people in accounts payables. Call until you can talk to the accounts payable supervisor, manager, director..whatever the title of the week is. Get on a first name basis. Work some humanity into the conversation and get to know this person..not just where the hell is my checks, but, Hi Theresa, how are you today? How was your vacation? If you can turn a personal corner with someone who has an inside track on where your check is you will be miles ahead of the game. I have done this many times and on occasion managed to get checks cut and mailed the same day..with the right person on my side.
The second option is simple. Fire the client. There comes a time when you have exhausted all your resources and every effort and attempt is a slammed door. Cut your losses and walk away. Write off the unpaid bills on your taxes and move on to the next big thing. Unless you are dealing in 6+ figures, the court and lawyers imho are simply not worth it, especially when duking it out with a corp that probably has a whole floor of lawyers sitting around waiting to chew up and spit out a small fry. If you cant get into the AP dept, they wont pay, just write it off, walk away, and learn to get what you need up front next time.
As plain and obvious it seems to us tech nerds.. some people will just never get some of the tricks the spammers use like forged from addresses and no, you're not infected, don't click that link to install superantispyware 2013. If possible, take the PC/Laptop for an evening to "speed things up" put good anti-malware and antivirus on it, maybe make a clean image and a non-admin account if you can and expect the calls for when he screws it up again if you are his dedicated tech nerd.
Two behemoths fighting it out to have more power and control. Just what everyone needs.
I have a really small biz and just use the Apps email as I like the web interface instead of the local pop client thing.. Even though thats all I use, it is critically important to my tiny web biz.. I really cant afford to wake up to no biz email which might not be whats happening today..but looks like the direction its headed. I guess I will be doing some MX updating and either use the roundcube/squirrel that my webhost provides or break out the local email client.. it was good while it lasted..
You bring up some very thought provoking and informative points. Kudos to you.
It would seem that the responsibility and punishments should fall on those responsible for breaking the law, not as merely chain of command cut off the leader's head for subordinates breaking of the law.
There seems to be a problem when someone who breaks a law goes to jail but when a group of people band together and someone breaks the law no one goes to jail. In the latter, you end up making decisions based on cost/benefit ratios. If you can make a billion dollars breaking the law and get fined 500M that is a damn good business decision. If you make a billion dollars and go to jail for 20 years..not so much.
Maybe we should hold corporate individuals personally liable for breaking laws, because, the corporate "person" can not pay the penalty of jail time. Not the shareholders, not people who are clueless, the individuals in the chain who knowingly, willfully, and methodically break laws knowing there will be no personal consequences.
The argument for patents is to promote and protect inventions and provide the consumer with better products, etc. The problem is the system has been subverted with corporate money and closed the door to most who are not at the top of the food chain. The benefit to a patent should be an exclusive first to market incentive. It would seem a 5 year period should do this. Afterwards, the patent should become public domain for others to build on. This nonsense of never-ending patents as well as allowing patents for idiocy like styles or other non-substantive things is more evidence of the corporate takeover of the patent system. Five years. Thats long enough to get ahead if your intent is to do something with a patent. That doesnt necessarily mean you even have a product in five years, it means you have had a five year head start on anyone using that idea.
But ya.. that and $5 might get me a cup of starbucks.
The consumer will pay the fines in higher prices. Take the boards and the CEOs responsible to jail if you want to make a dent in this, all the fines will do is tack on a fine tax to their products. Thanks.
The US can do whatever they feel like doing because Fuck You. rabble rabble terrorism..rabblerabble child porn rabblerabble security.
Get used to it... its gonna be a long and twisted road before this crap is over.
This article fails in English and fails in the content. Booya.
If I understand this "security hole" correctly.. and they have already popped the data to let you know the email is taken.. isn't it pretty much close to nobrainer not to go ahead with that insert query? I may be a simple caveman.. but cmon.. even in my worst spaghetti code this is solidly on the durr side of Hurr-Durrrr
It would seem that patents are company-centric when they really should be consumer-centric. If we change to the consumer view paradigm, a lot of the idiocy of patents would disappear. There really should be just one question for a patent to be viable: How does your exclusive retention of this concept and the implementation of it benefit the consumer? What we have is the exact opposite. If we theoretically have laws and government to aid and support people, then the entire patent system and paradigm is 180 degrees off.
When patent trolls lay in wait for a successful business and then litigate them into submission, the system is broken. When companies amass patents simply for use as leverage and profit from other companies, the system is broken. When it is necessary to pay thousands of dollars to lawyers, researchers and fees thereby removing the system from the average garage inventor, the system is broken. And finally, when patents become so universal to every breath, every step, every device, and every thought we may have now or in the future, the freaking system is broken. In fact, it is hard to think of ways the system is actually not broken, come to think of it.
sigh.. *where*..
So bring me some water from asia and when I drink it Ive been there? I believe the test, if accurate, proves where the water is from.. not necessarily here you have been... just sayin...
The IP is the car.. yes, someone owns the car or might be responsible for the car at a particular time, but they may or may not be driving it.
Here is why...
Cars and Car Parts cross state lines.
Anything that crosses state lines falls under the commerce clause
Anything that falls under the commerce clause can be regulated
Anything that can be regulated can be taxed and lobbied
Anything that can be taxed an lobbied will be.
The Aristocrats.