maybe you'd want his programmers not to have desks but just a sheet of plywood on some sawhorses since that'd be cheaper? stools instead of ergonomic chairs?
Don't ever get a job with Amazon, then. All their IT get desks made out of doors and 4x4's. It's a tradition, don't-forget-our-roots, remember we're "frugal" thing.
Personally, I have a pretty basic IKEA desk with adjustable legs that let me set the desk up higher than most cubicles allowing me to set my chair up higher or stand without adjusting it. Don't bash the minimalist desk.:-P
I so wish for mod points. Western Union/Moneygram are the "Banks" for people without the ability to now meet new Federal Standards for State Issued ID. The paperwork required today in many states just to get a new "Secure ID" are ridiculously bad if you've done anything other than be born in the last 60 or so years, gotten married, receive physical bills & bank statements, and had those items delivered to your physical address (which assumes you can receive mail at your physical address).
So it isn't just "illegal" immigrants using these services, anymore. It's a large segment of the lower end of society that is being forced to utilize these services so they can pay utility bills with cash, money orders, and move money about to relatives. You're actually causing severe harm getting rid of the cash-based services.
Off topic: Lucky me, I've bypassed the "chain of name changes" requirement by having a Passport. My adoption papers don't even exist anymore thanks to a house fire and an flooded court house basement. I'd be so screwed if it weren't for the fact my employer required me to get a passport 3 years ago.
Are you in the US? Because I think we're talking Chip & Pin here, and we Americans decided that was just stupid. Mostly because Europe could never come up with something so innovative.</sarcasm>
Allegedly, it's even more complicated than that. It's in the Data Detector, which several apps will use on inactive text fields and other strings. You can actually send an iMessage from an iOS device to someone and it will crash the Messages app on OS X. Furthermore, you will be unable to re-open messages until you eliminate the message from your history database at the command line. (It's a sqlite database...I think.)
Next, I managed to open a crash report from Mail in Console.app and said string crashed Console and then crashed the crash reporter. It was pretty wicked.
Flatline is used commonly in business speak to refer to a market that no longer sees growth. It isn't misleading, you're just using a different context.
However, the connotation you've brought from the medical field is purposely intended. Under the current Commandments of United States Capitalism, failure to grow over last year is a precursor to a long drawn out death spiral that will cost investors a lot. Whether this should be the way of things or not, is beyond the scope of whether or not this term is valid.
TL;DR: This is an actual term in finance and business.
One of the reasons I don't buy concessions is because if I do, I'll want a drink. If I drink something, I'll have to use the restroom during the movie.
I there were an intermission, I would buy those overpriced snacks.
No. He clearly stated that he saw this, "at first glance," as something that Pulseaudio had been doing all along. The patch made a function not only return a different error code, but an error code that was never possible before the patch. The change was not documented, at all.
The submitter really set him up, though. If you look further up in the thread, the "rollback" was a simple one line change from ret = -ENOENT; to ret = -ENVAL;. I'm fairly certain that it was just overlooked in the code review for the entire patch.
What got him was that instead of going back and saying, "Huh. Why did we change this error code? Oh my, ENOENT was never even possible before this. This'll break all sorts of crap!" he blamed Pulseaudio. That's a serious no-no that's been covered several times in the history of the kernel.
That was my reading exactly. As a programmer, I've had to condition my responses to bug reports to move from, "What?! It's totally your fault!" to, "Let me investigate this on my end." It became fairly obvious from the get go that the patch made some changes that were overlooked in the patch. The patch commit message failed to give any reason or justification for the change (which was a 1 line change, possibly in a sea of other changes). Furthermore, the automated testing application that the patch submitter was using had a bug in it.
It's likely the testing apparatus said, "OMG! THIS ERROR VALUE IS WRONG!" Then, the submitter corrected it to fit the bad test. Honestly, while Rafael signed off on it, it would appear the submitter set him up the bomb, so to speak. Who would make a change like that without further investigation and then submit it is a serious question. I would hope the patch submitter is placed under some additional scrutiny.
All in all, Rafael took it in stride in his response. He also explained further, but appears to have capitulated that his initial reaction was wrong and that he should have fixed first, asked "Why are you using that, anyway?" later. Also, he should have never stated that, "So, on a first glance, this doesn't sound like a regression, but, instead, it looks that pulseaudio/tumbleweed has some serious bugs and/or regressions." It's quite obvious that changing not only what error code is returned but returning one that was literally impossible without telling anyone is a Bad Thing(TM).
As for Linus's style of management, I don't know. I mean, Rafael was way, way, way out of line with that statement I quoted. He really failed to grasp the situation, even after it was clearly spelled out for him.
All in all, I think he's learned his lesson and will be better for it. He seems to have taken it well enough, at least publicly.:-)
However, I think an injunction is a bit on the incompetent side. While you may lose some "otherwise cheap" customers, I don't think it validates blocking the Tab for import. Besides, at this point, the Tab is too old to really matter and will likely be replaced very soon. The judge should've merely awarded damages and moved on.
The whole thing is noise at this point. Damage has been done, an injunction doesn't change anything, and it's over. All that remains is recompense for past transgressions. Hence, I feel the judge is suffering a pretty extreme loss of perspective.
Then again, IANAL and case law is always dangerous territory where you must always think of how a decision will set a precedence. Regardless, it's felt more like she was extremely wishy-washy during the case and finally flipped a coin and just so happened to get the right answer.
Where the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is concerned, I'm on Apple's side, at least in technical interpretation of the law. The way the case law for design patents and the "tests" a court applies work, a lot of what most people call common sense is thrown out the window, legally. It's less about if Joe Blow Customer can differentiate the two and more about if I throw these two items into a market are people going to buy the cheaper one because they're "about the same thing anyway".
Everyone knows an iPad form a Galaxy Tab. The issue is, are people going to buy the Tab because it's cheaper and pretty much has the same design points that made them want an iPad to begin with. Thus, you throw out logos, branding, and other things that people say "make a difference".
Apple has played this case underhanded in other courts. I honestly think that they should lose based on the modification of evidence and unusual leveraging in other cases, but that's just wishful thinking. The fact is, despite Apple's idiotic attempt to stack the deck, they should get this anyway. The Galaxy Tab, especially the way they "skinned" the Android installation, is fairly obviously on the wrong side. I suspect even if the casing were neon lime green, they could be considered infringing. This is a lot more than "rectangles with rounded corners." That design element is merely a single straw on the camel's back. In my opinion, the 10.1 N should've never passed muster in Germany.
I hate Apple, own a Galaxy Nexus, will probably buy a Nexus 7 (or whatever they call it today), and run Arch Linux at home on 2 desktops and a laptop. I do hobby development for Android. I still have to hand this one to Apple.
The other, utterly incomprehensible option, is Occam's Razor - that the judge made a correct interpretation of the law?
I would've thought the part where I indicated that I'm on the side of "incompetency is far too easily mistaken for malice" would be synonymous with your use of Occam's Razor.:-)
We're on the same side here, I was just pointing out that I can understand why someone would "politicize" this sort of decision.
The tendency has been for appointees to keep a very open ear to the person that did the appointing. There is definitely a donation trail from Apple to Obama, and it is extremely likely some of those donations purchased Obama "mentioning" his preferred ruling to Mrs. Koh.
This is, of course, purely conspiracy theorizing and unlikely. Personally, I've found myself repeating the phrase, "incompetency is far too easily mistaken for malice," in conversations about this topic around the water cooler.
I guess I'm just saying that while unlikely, it's probably more of a 70 percent probability unlikely. It's much more possible this election cycle considering how much money is being sunk into the elections due to the Citizens United decision. There's so much money in this election anything is possible. Hence, everything is suspect where politicians are involved.
Can someone explain just how BB's do "push" better? Especially where concerned with Exchange ActiveSync.
I've had my Nexus S 4G, HTC Evo 4G, and Galaxy Nexus hooked up with ActiveSync for Exchange and it works. I've never had an issue with it. Also, I can log in via my employer's Outlook Web interface and wipe the phone if necessary.
I'm not trolling or anything, I just always see people say "BB does push email better than any one out there!" I've yet to see a feature that wasn't implemented there.
I know Android and Apple iOS implement ActiveSync based security policies. You can remote wipe, enforce password requirements, and enforce encryption, including rejecting adding a device if it doesn't support the encryption you want. Are there other management options that you can include with BES?
I know that ActiveSync can use SSL and you can even require client certificates. Does BES do something more secure?
I can imagine that if you use something other than Exchange, then BES may provide a way to get email onto handsets in a more secure and controlled fashion than IMAP with TLS. So for shops that use something else (Are you hiring?) I'm sure BES is vital. However, is that it's only saving grace?
Then again, most of the comparisons in this comment are about things other than push email and more about device security and management...so yeah, what's so awesome about BES's email?
I own Psychonauts already as part of picking up Stacking, haven't played it yet.
I have Amnesia, it's pretty awesome, though I don't play it much at all. (I suck at survival horror. It's enough trying to get through a horror movie much less something requiring active participation. So I'm about 20 minutes into the game after a few months. Lol.)
I played the Bastion demo on XBox and it was awesome sauce.
I've been eyeing Swords & Sorcery for a while. It alone is worth picking up the bundle.:-)
I've got a pretty lean, mean Arch build running as my dual-head desktop. My spare laptop is about to get some Debian love, just because I'm curious about it. I've tried Unity and I'm not too thrilled. Mind you, I run Gnome 3 and while I don't necessarily like it, I don't mind it. I used the Compiz plugin combined with a hot zone in the corner of the screen to zoom out all the windows and tile them. It was the only part of using a OS X I ever liked. So Gnome 3's approach wasn't at all that jarring. The only part of Gnome3 I hate was Also I used Gnome Do a lot.
That's probably why I found Unity so horrifying. All of that customization that was available with compiz was gone. The OS X/Launcher/Etc. dock I hated was in my face, not able to be moved away from the left side. The "unified menu bar" was horrible and always seemed miles away on my larger dual desktop screens. Sloppy focus was permanently and forever broken. Finally, my primary mode of window management was totally busted. I was used to either slide, spot, click, done. Also, I'd mapped a lot of chords to navigate the same view by keyboard.
Mind you, I'll always be thankful to Ubuntu for getting me started with Linux. Well, actually that goes to Fedora. Ubuntu just made it much more bearable while I got past my "WHY DOESN'T ANYTHING JUST WORK" stage. However, the level of customization in Unity (and now, in Gnome, though extensions are trying to make up for it) have really burned me. I'm not quite looking at KDE, but I might start poking around XFCE. I've installed it before on super low-end laptops, so we'll see what happens. However, it will certainly be an Arch or Debian based distribution underneath it. I have little to no interest in ever giving Ubuntu anymore support.
Background: A year ago while rummaging through our now combined DVD collection I turned to my partner and said, "What's Logan's Run?" He shook his head and made the whole, "Shoot me now," motion with his hand.
I just turned to my partner and said, "Logan's run was a book!?"
He's hitting his head on the desk now. Hooray for generation gaps!
Co-worker: Didn't Obama pass some law getting rid of my payroll tax?
Me: Uh...Congress passes laws.
Co-worker: No they don't. The president passes laws. Congress just votes on which ones they suggest to the President.
Me: I think you're confusing veto powers. Those can be overridden, you know. Though, in the current climate, it really would never happen. However, Obama can't pass a law that Congress didn't vote through.
Co-worker: Yes he can!
Me: I'm sure the Supreme Court would beg to differ.
Co-worker: They just raise a big fuss when the President passes a law the Constitutional [sic] says he can't pass.
Me: And you have a degree?
Co-worker: Yeah, in Business!
I'd say something along the lines of "God help us all". However, I stopped believing in God a long time ago. This is mostly because of conversations like this.
Who says you have the training and knowledge to make the decision if you need a test or not? Medical school is not 4 years of cocaine and whores, regardless of what Hollywood claims.
I had several Professors who used the Course Page features, such as Forums, File Management, the ability to allow students the ability to upload files, and email in the Banner portals rather than use BlackBoard. That speaks volumes to me.
My partner's card got skimmed by a rig on a Bank of America ATM. I've been to ATM's before and noticed skimmers. I've seen handheld skimmers and attachments for portable terminals when I interned with fraud investigations at a major card processor. It happens more than you think, since the information is easily used to commit fraud with card not present transactions.
In my entire life, I've been in exactly one restaurant with portable readers. They are extremely rare in the United States. This is mostly because every time the regulators try to up the security enforcement, the processors complain about the cost and turn around and tell merchants that everyone must buy new terminals. The merchants pitch such a hissy fit, nothing ever gets done.
Unfortunately, the "terminal replacement" problem is so wide spread, it's impossible to vote with your wallet. Fortunately, big players like Visa and Master Card have gotten fed up with the merchants and have simply said, "Buy a new EMV contact and contactless (NFC, mobile wallets, etc.) terminal between 2013 and 2015. As of 2015, if a fraudulent transaction occurs that could've been prevented by EMV, then you are liable for it.
The net effect will be similar to the UK where suddenly everyone has chipped cards and/or NFC wallets and merchants won't accept anything else. It's very sad that it's taken this long and the advent of NFC to get anything done.
Also, for reference: Here's a local news report of the bust here in Atlanta.
I just looked into this. I did not know about the liability shift in EMV preventable fraud come 2015. I almost cried tears of joy. You have given me a glimmer of hope for the world. (Though it might be a bit cruel to the merchants, I have little sympathy. The U.S. has been way behind the curve on this simply because the merchants would pitch a hissy fit about buying new terminals every time.)
As was said before, yet you trust the waitress to wander off into another room for several minutes with your card? Do you even know what a skimmer is? Do you realize you've likely given your card AND pin to several of them already at your local ATM? This is no less secure and far more convenient and cheaper for the merchants. Electronic banking is fundamentally broken, this isn't making it worse.
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maybe you'd want his programmers not to have desks but just a sheet of plywood on some sawhorses since that'd be cheaper? stools instead of ergonomic chairs?
Don't ever get a job with Amazon, then. All their IT get desks made out of doors and 4x4's. It's a tradition, don't-forget-our-roots, remember we're "frugal" thing.
Personally, I have a pretty basic IKEA desk with adjustable legs that let me set the desk up higher than most cubicles allowing me to set my chair up higher or stand without adjusting it. Don't bash the minimalist desk. :-P
I feel like this is a sort of oblique reference to The Girl From Monday. Either that or you're serious, which is disturbing.
I so wish for mod points. Western Union/Moneygram are the "Banks" for people without the ability to now meet new Federal Standards for State Issued ID. The paperwork required today in many states just to get a new "Secure ID" are ridiculously bad if you've done anything other than be born in the last 60 or so years, gotten married, receive physical bills & bank statements, and had those items delivered to your physical address (which assumes you can receive mail at your physical address).
So it isn't just "illegal" immigrants using these services, anymore. It's a large segment of the lower end of society that is being forced to utilize these services so they can pay utility bills with cash, money orders, and move money about to relatives. You're actually causing severe harm getting rid of the cash-based services.
Off topic: Lucky me, I've bypassed the "chain of name changes" requirement by having a Passport. My adoption papers don't even exist anymore thanks to a house fire and an flooded court house basement. I'd be so screwed if it weren't for the fact my employer required me to get a passport 3 years ago.
Are you in the US? Because I think we're talking Chip & Pin here, and we Americans decided that was just stupid. Mostly because Europe could never come up with something so innovative.</sarcasm>
Allegedly, it's even more complicated than that. It's in the Data Detector, which several apps will use on inactive text fields and other strings. You can actually send an iMessage from an iOS device to someone and it will crash the Messages app on OS X. Furthermore, you will be unable to re-open messages until you eliminate the message from your history database at the command line. (It's a sqlite database...I think.) Next, I managed to open a crash report from Mail in Console.app and said string crashed Console and then crashed the crash reporter. It was pretty wicked.
Flatline is used commonly in business speak to refer to a market that no longer sees growth. It isn't misleading, you're just using a different context.
However, the connotation you've brought from the medical field is purposely intended. Under the current Commandments of United States Capitalism, failure to grow over last year is a precursor to a long drawn out death spiral that will cost investors a lot. Whether this should be the way of things or not, is beyond the scope of whether or not this term is valid.
TL;DR: This is an actual term in finance and business.
Yes please.
One of the reasons I don't buy concessions is because if I do, I'll want a drink. If I drink something, I'll have to use the restroom during the movie.
I there were an intermission, I would buy those overpriced snacks.
Herp derp. Rafael had a post earlier in the thread and I got mixed up. Thanks for the correction.
s/had been doing all along/had been doing wrong all along/
Sorry.
No. He clearly stated that he saw this, "at first glance," as something that Pulseaudio had been doing all along. The patch made a function not only return a different error code, but an error code that was never possible before the patch. The change was not documented, at all.
The submitter really set him up, though. If you look further up in the thread, the "rollback" was a simple one line change from ret = -ENOENT; to ret = -ENVAL;. I'm fairly certain that it was just overlooked in the code review for the entire patch.
What got him was that instead of going back and saying, "Huh. Why did we change this error code? Oh my, ENOENT was never even possible before this. This'll break all sorts of crap!" he blamed Pulseaudio. That's a serious no-no that's been covered several times in the history of the kernel.
That was my reading exactly. As a programmer, I've had to condition my responses to bug reports to move from, "What?! It's totally your fault!" to, "Let me investigate this on my end." It became fairly obvious from the get go that the patch made some changes that were overlooked in the patch. The patch commit message failed to give any reason or justification for the change (which was a 1 line change, possibly in a sea of other changes). Furthermore, the automated testing application that the patch submitter was using had a bug in it.
It's likely the testing apparatus said, "OMG! THIS ERROR VALUE IS WRONG!" Then, the submitter corrected it to fit the bad test. Honestly, while Rafael signed off on it, it would appear the submitter set him up the bomb, so to speak. Who would make a change like that without further investigation and then submit it is a serious question. I would hope the patch submitter is placed under some additional scrutiny.
All in all, Rafael took it in stride in his response. He also explained further, but appears to have capitulated that his initial reaction was wrong and that he should have fixed first, asked "Why are you using that, anyway?" later. Also, he should have never stated that, "So, on a first glance, this doesn't sound like a regression, but, instead, it looks that pulseaudio/tumbleweed has some serious bugs and/or regressions." It's quite obvious that changing not only what error code is returned but returning one that was literally impossible without telling anyone is a Bad Thing(TM).
As for Linus's style of management, I don't know. I mean, Rafael was way, way, way out of line with that statement I quoted. He really failed to grasp the situation, even after it was clearly spelled out for him.
All in all, I think he's learned his lesson and will be better for it. He seems to have taken it well enough, at least publicly. :-)
Blarg, hit reply too soon. :-)
However, I think an injunction is a bit on the incompetent side. While you may lose some "otherwise cheap" customers, I don't think it validates blocking the Tab for import. Besides, at this point, the Tab is too old to really matter and will likely be replaced very soon. The judge should've merely awarded damages and moved on.
The whole thing is noise at this point. Damage has been done, an injunction doesn't change anything, and it's over. All that remains is recompense for past transgressions. Hence, I feel the judge is suffering a pretty extreme loss of perspective.
Then again, IANAL and case law is always dangerous territory where you must always think of how a decision will set a precedence. Regardless, it's felt more like she was extremely wishy-washy during the case and finally flipped a coin and just so happened to get the right answer.
I can see where you would get that. :-)
Where the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is concerned, I'm on Apple's side, at least in technical interpretation of the law. The way the case law for design patents and the "tests" a court applies work, a lot of what most people call common sense is thrown out the window, legally. It's less about if Joe Blow Customer can differentiate the two and more about if I throw these two items into a market are people going to buy the cheaper one because they're "about the same thing anyway".
Everyone knows an iPad form a Galaxy Tab. The issue is, are people going to buy the Tab because it's cheaper and pretty much has the same design points that made them want an iPad to begin with. Thus, you throw out logos, branding, and other things that people say "make a difference".
Apple has played this case underhanded in other courts. I honestly think that they should lose based on the modification of evidence and unusual leveraging in other cases, but that's just wishful thinking. The fact is, despite Apple's idiotic attempt to stack the deck, they should get this anyway. The Galaxy Tab, especially the way they "skinned" the Android installation, is fairly obviously on the wrong side. I suspect even if the casing were neon lime green, they could be considered infringing. This is a lot more than "rectangles with rounded corners." That design element is merely a single straw on the camel's back. In my opinion, the 10.1 N should've never passed muster in Germany.
I hate Apple, own a Galaxy Nexus, will probably buy a Nexus 7 (or whatever they call it today), and run Arch Linux at home on 2 desktops and a laptop. I do hobby development for Android. I still have to hand this one to Apple.
The other, utterly incomprehensible option, is Occam's Razor - that the judge made a correct interpretation of the law?
I would've thought the part where I indicated that I'm on the side of "incompetency is far too easily mistaken for malice" would be synonymous with your use of Occam's Razor. :-)
We're on the same side here, I was just pointing out that I can understand why someone would "politicize" this sort of decision.
So fucking what? Why are you politicizing this?
The tendency has been for appointees to keep a very open ear to the person that did the appointing. There is definitely a donation trail from Apple to Obama, and it is extremely likely some of those donations purchased Obama "mentioning" his preferred ruling to Mrs. Koh.
This is, of course, purely conspiracy theorizing and unlikely. Personally, I've found myself repeating the phrase, "incompetency is far too easily mistaken for malice," in conversations about this topic around the water cooler.
I guess I'm just saying that while unlikely, it's probably more of a 70 percent probability unlikely. It's much more possible this election cycle considering how much money is being sunk into the elections due to the Citizens United decision. There's so much money in this election anything is possible. Hence, everything is suspect where politicians are involved.
Can someone explain just how BB's do "push" better? Especially where concerned with Exchange ActiveSync.
I've had my Nexus S 4G, HTC Evo 4G, and Galaxy Nexus hooked up with ActiveSync for Exchange and it works. I've never had an issue with it. Also, I can log in via my employer's Outlook Web interface and wipe the phone if necessary.
I'm not trolling or anything, I just always see people say "BB does push email better than any one out there!" I've yet to see a feature that wasn't implemented there.
I know Android and Apple iOS implement ActiveSync based security policies. You can remote wipe, enforce password requirements, and enforce encryption, including rejecting adding a device if it doesn't support the encryption you want. Are there other management options that you can include with BES?
I know that ActiveSync can use SSL and you can even require client certificates. Does BES do something more secure?
I can imagine that if you use something other than Exchange, then BES may provide a way to get email onto handsets in a more secure and controlled fashion than IMAP with TLS. So for shops that use something else (Are you hiring?) I'm sure BES is vital. However, is that it's only saving grace?
Then again, most of the comparisons in this comment are about things other than push email and more about device security and management...so yeah, what's so awesome about BES's email?
I own Psychonauts already as part of picking up Stacking, haven't played it yet. I have Amnesia, it's pretty awesome, though I don't play it much at all. (I suck at survival horror. It's enough trying to get through a horror movie much less something requiring active participation. So I'm about 20 minutes into the game after a few months. Lol.) I played the Bastion demo on XBox and it was awesome sauce. I've been eyeing Swords & Sorcery for a while. It alone is worth picking up the bundle. :-)
I've got a pretty lean, mean Arch build running as my dual-head desktop. My spare laptop is about to get some Debian love, just because I'm curious about it. I've tried Unity and I'm not too thrilled. Mind you, I run Gnome 3 and while I don't necessarily like it, I don't mind it. I used the Compiz plugin combined with a hot zone in the corner of the screen to zoom out all the windows and tile them. It was the only part of using a OS X I ever liked. So Gnome 3's approach wasn't at all that jarring. The only part of Gnome3 I hate was Also I used Gnome Do a lot.
That's probably why I found Unity so horrifying. All of that customization that was available with compiz was gone. The OS X/Launcher/Etc. dock I hated was in my face, not able to be moved away from the left side. The "unified menu bar" was horrible and always seemed miles away on my larger dual desktop screens. Sloppy focus was permanently and forever broken. Finally, my primary mode of window management was totally busted. I was used to either slide, spot, click, done. Also, I'd mapped a lot of chords to navigate the same view by keyboard.
Mind you, I'll always be thankful to Ubuntu for getting me started with Linux. Well, actually that goes to Fedora. Ubuntu just made it much more bearable while I got past my "WHY DOESN'T ANYTHING JUST WORK" stage. However, the level of customization in Unity (and now, in Gnome, though extensions are trying to make up for it) have really burned me. I'm not quite looking at KDE, but I might start poking around XFCE. I've installed it before on super low-end laptops, so we'll see what happens. However, it will certainly be an Arch or Debian based distribution underneath it. I have little to no interest in ever giving Ubuntu anymore support.
Background: A year ago while rummaging through our now combined DVD collection I turned to my partner and said, "What's Logan's Run?" He shook his head and made the whole, "Shoot me now," motion with his hand.
I just turned to my partner and said, "Logan's run was a book!?"
He's hitting his head on the desk now. Hooray for generation gaps!
You have no idea.
Co-worker: Didn't Obama pass some law getting rid of my payroll tax?
Me: Uh...Congress passes laws.
Co-worker: No they don't. The president passes laws. Congress just votes on which ones they suggest to the President.
Me: I think you're confusing veto powers. Those can be overridden, you know. Though, in the current climate, it really would never happen. However, Obama can't pass a law that Congress didn't vote through.
Co-worker: Yes he can!
Me: I'm sure the Supreme Court would beg to differ.
Co-worker: They just raise a big fuss when the President passes a law the Constitutional [sic] says he can't pass.
Me: And you have a degree?
Co-worker: Yeah, in Business!
I'd say something along the lines of "God help us all". However, I stopped believing in God a long time ago. This is mostly because of conversations like this.
Who says you have the training and knowledge to make the decision if you need a test or not? Medical school is not 4 years of cocaine and whores, regardless of what Hollywood claims.
I had several Professors who used the Course Page features, such as Forums, File Management, the ability to allow students the ability to upload files, and email in the Banner portals rather than use BlackBoard. That speaks volumes to me.
My partner's card got skimmed by a rig on a Bank of America ATM. I've been to ATM's before and noticed skimmers. I've seen handheld skimmers and attachments for portable terminals when I interned with fraud investigations at a major card processor. It happens more than you think, since the information is easily used to commit fraud with card not present transactions.
In my entire life, I've been in exactly one restaurant with portable readers. They are extremely rare in the United States. This is mostly because every time the regulators try to up the security enforcement, the processors complain about the cost and turn around and tell merchants that everyone must buy new terminals. The merchants pitch such a hissy fit, nothing ever gets done.
Unfortunately, the "terminal replacement" problem is so wide spread, it's impossible to vote with your wallet. Fortunately, big players like Visa and Master Card have gotten fed up with the merchants and have simply said, "Buy a new EMV contact and contactless (NFC, mobile wallets, etc.) terminal between 2013 and 2015. As of 2015, if a fraudulent transaction occurs that could've been prevented by EMV, then you are liable for it.
The net effect will be similar to the UK where suddenly everyone has chipped cards and/or NFC wallets and merchants won't accept anything else. It's very sad that it's taken this long and the advent of NFC to get anything done.
Also, for reference: Here's a local news report of the bust here in Atlanta.
I just looked into this. I did not know about the liability shift in EMV preventable fraud come 2015. I almost cried tears of joy. You have given me a glimmer of hope for the world. (Though it might be a bit cruel to the merchants, I have little sympathy. The U.S. has been way behind the curve on this simply because the merchants would pitch a hissy fit about buying new terminals every time.)
As was said before, yet you trust the waitress to wander off into another room for several minutes with your card? Do you even know what a skimmer is? Do you realize you've likely given your card AND pin to several of them already at your local ATM? This is no less secure and far more convenient and cheaper for the merchants. Electronic banking is fundamentally broken, this isn't making it worse.