The problem with the claim Chip & Pin is more secure, is that the card processors (Visa, Mastercard) used it as a justification to shift liability from the Bank over to the Merchant.
With swiped transactions, when a customer disputes the transaction, the Merchant isn't automatically liable for the transation -- they only need to prove the customer actually made the purchase (e.g. producing the signed receipt). With Chip & Pin, the merchant is automatically assumed to be liable, according to the merchant agreement. There's very little a merchant can do to dispute the chargeback.
The thing about "security theater", is that it's not 100% useless - it provides a very real psychological deterrent to someone thinking about breaking in.
The whole point of most security systems -- even alarm systems -- is to pose a deterrent. Most break-ins are crimes of opportunity, not elaborate schemes planned over periods of months. Alarm systems are fairly inept nowadays: when you last heard your neighbour's alarm go off, did you drop in to investigate, or just presume it was broken again?
The effectiveness of the "security theatre" was demonstrated in a very personal way for me a few years ago. Some criminals went on a rampage looking for cash and valuables, and broke into every car on the street -- that didn't have a flashing red light. My sister's car, A Hyundai Excel, arguably one of the easiest cars to break into, was left untouched, because her aftermarket immobiliser happened to have a flashing red light on the dash. No alarm, no stickers, just a simple red light.
You can use Skype if you wish. Somehow I see alternatives gaining traction.
SIP protocol for VOIP supports video from several vendors for free.
I recently had a similar thought. I've been using Skype while living in Germany to keep in touch with my long-distance girlfriend for the last few months. I figured, let's give SIP a go, and give Skype the boot.
In summary: SIP is flaky as hell when both parties are behind NAT. Sometimes it works, but most of the time, it doesn't.
The big thing Skype has going for it is "it just works". No need to forward firewall ports, and no worries about whether it works when one party is behind a particular brand of router.
Needless to say, we've gone back to using Skype. Sorry SIP, I gave you a really good shot, but you just weren't reliable.
I find much in the popular media to be anti-chemical. Invariably, "Chemical" is used as a perjorative, almost always being prefixed with either toxic or hazardous.
Precisely. "Chemical" is the new "Nuclear". Nuclear appears to have lost its flair in the last couple of years, so the big media outlets and 24/7 TV channels need a new culprit to pounce on. Your average layman doesn't know what a "chemical" is, and they're everywhere (toxic or not). Easy target for the media to use for sensationalism.
Call me ignorant, but when are advertisements ever wanted
I understand that advertisements are a "necessary evil" in order to pay for development costs, etc, but I can't ever think of a situation when I've ever wanted to see advertising.
I don't know about you, but my smartphone has an SIP client, built right in. SIP-originated calls are virtually indistinguishable from GSM/3G calls, apart from the caller ID.
You would'nt recognise a troll when it sat on your face and farted, right?
On behalf of the Estate of JRR Tolkein I demand you Cease and Desist your use of the Tolkein Estate's Intellectual Property of the word "troll".
The Intellectual Property "troll" is patently integral to the Tolkein Estate's Intellectual Property known as "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, and therefore, remains the property of The Estate.
Don't get me wrong, I love LEDs. I think all equipment should be littered carelessly with LED indicators.
But I just can't stand either LED or CFL lighting. The light that either of these globes give off just isn't as nice and comforting as a good ol' incandescent globe. It's cold, harsh, and monochromatic.
I for one will be stockpiling incandescent globes if Australia ever legislates against them.
If this was really "Embrace & Extend", the Google addin would "embrace" the Ribbon (love it or hate it), and "extend" their addon buttons to another tab (like say, Acrobat does).
Instead, they choose to have an ugly old-style toolbar occupying more vertical screen real estate.
We all print to and scan from a multi-function scanner/printer/fax/copier.
I'm going to stab a guess here, but the German Foreign Office's printing requirements are likely vastly different to yours. For one, there's probably a special printer needed to print passports, that probably only one company in the world manufactures.
My business runs on Linux.
Running a small business on a platform is a very very different proposition to running a large business / government department on the same platform.
You're implying that anyone saying something positive about MS or their software must be doing so because they have a financial interest.
Which, in its essence, is the same argument Greenpeace uses to dismiss studies about Global Warming. Adverse finding ==> Must have been funded by the oil companies!
The responsibility absolutely is VMWare's. Large software companies generally have access to early releases of the Microsoft patches, specifically so they can perform whatever testing they need.
Sounds like in this case, VMWare didn't bother doing their testing (or that testing was too costly), and is now trying to blame Microsoft for their fuckup.
Unfortunately, I'm one of those "very few" sites who experiences slowdowns with IPv6 enabled. I don't know if it's just because I'm a retard or something, but I have not been able to find a DHCPv6 client for Linux that works reliably.
I've tried Wide-DHCPv6-Client, and Dibbler. Both seem to occasionally have a hissyfit and crash. When DHCPv6 crashes, you lose IPv6 connectivity -- so the browsers on your network think they still have connectivity and try-and-wait for ages until the connection times out. Restarting the client always fixes the issue.
I for one, consider IPv6 to still be an "experimental" technology. I certainly won't be deploying it out to my clients' sites any time soon.
Merchant accounts in Australia are actually pretty reasonably priced. The amount we pay sure buys us the peace of mind that a non-bank-pretending-to-be-a-bank can't just freeze our accounts and withhold our money.
PayPal's often looked down upon as being used by "unprofessional" vendors. By processing transactions directly, you're often also improving your company's image in your customer's minds.
Way back when I had a Voodoo II, the only thing I ever wanted was a second card to do SLI. Alas, by the time I could actually afford it, it was more cost effective to fork out for a whole new graphics card (I actually got a Matrox G400Max -- Dualhead ftw!).
If only I could run two copies of DosBox to somehow get SLI. I could finally achieve my old dream!
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I much preferred PowerPC to MIPS. Gotta respect any language that has an "eieio" operation.
The problem with the claim Chip & Pin is more secure, is that the card processors (Visa, Mastercard) used it as a justification to shift liability from the Bank over to the Merchant.
With swiped transactions, when a customer disputes the transaction, the Merchant isn't automatically liable for the transation -- they only need to prove the customer actually made the purchase (e.g. producing the signed receipt). With Chip & Pin, the merchant is automatically assumed to be liable, according to the merchant agreement. There's very little a merchant can do to dispute the chargeback.
The thing about "security theater", is that it's not 100% useless - it provides a very real psychological deterrent to someone thinking about breaking in.
The whole point of most security systems -- even alarm systems -- is to pose a deterrent. Most break-ins are crimes of opportunity, not elaborate schemes planned over periods of months. Alarm systems are fairly inept nowadays: when you last heard your neighbour's alarm go off, did you drop in to investigate, or just presume it was broken again?
The effectiveness of the "security theatre" was demonstrated in a very personal way for me a few years ago. Some criminals went on a rampage looking for cash and valuables, and broke into every car on the street -- that didn't have a flashing red light. My sister's car, A Hyundai Excel, arguably one of the easiest cars to break into, was left untouched, because her aftermarket immobiliser happened to have a flashing red light on the dash. No alarm, no stickers, just a simple red light.
They lost me at "Jolla’s foundation is on rpm based Mer Linux distribution".
Bring back the Debian, and I'll even invest in the company. Why, oh why, won't RPM just die?
You can use Skype if you wish. Somehow I see alternatives gaining traction.
SIP protocol for VOIP supports video from several vendors for free.
I recently had a similar thought. I've been using Skype while living in Germany to keep in touch with my long-distance girlfriend for the last few months. I figured, let's give SIP a go, and give Skype the boot.
In summary: SIP is flaky as hell when both parties are behind NAT. Sometimes it works, but most of the time, it doesn't.
The big thing Skype has going for it is "it just works". No need to forward firewall ports, and no worries about whether it works when one party is behind a particular brand of router.
Needless to say, we've gone back to using Skype. Sorry SIP, I gave you a really good shot, but you just weren't reliable.
I find much in the popular media to be anti-chemical. Invariably, "Chemical" is used as a perjorative, almost always being prefixed with either toxic or hazardous.
Precisely. "Chemical" is the new "Nuclear". Nuclear appears to have lost its flair in the last couple of years, so the big media outlets and 24/7 TV channels need a new culprit to pounce on. Your average layman doesn't know what a "chemical" is, and they're everywhere (toxic or not). Easy target for the media to use for sensationalism.
and displays unwanted advertisements
Call me ignorant, but when are advertisements ever wanted
I understand that advertisements are a "necessary evil" in order to pay for development costs, etc, but I can't ever think of a situation when I've ever wanted to see advertising.
Apart from perhaps the Superbowl.
that's 340282366920938463463374607431768211456.
that's 340 undecillion, 282 decillion, 366 nonillion, 920 octillion, 938 septillion, 463 sextillion, 463 quintillion, 374 quadrillion, 607 trillion, 431 billion, 768 million, 211 thousand and 456
that absolutely dwarfs the number of stars in the entire observable universe (one septillion is a high estimate.)
Can you please express that in multiples of US debt? That's what, around 10 times?
me and everyone else who bought a decent tablet intended to upgrade when 3.0 came out is now fsck'd.
Might I suggest upgrading your filesystem to ext3, then. Fsck'ing is far less painful!
In 2011, Duke Nukem Forever only supports eight-player multiplayer. EIGHT PLAYER multiplayer.
What does Gearbox think this is, the 90s?
Wonder if it works over IPX too, like the good ol' days. I miss Kali!
I don't know about you, but my smartphone has an SIP client, built right in. SIP-originated calls are virtually indistinguishable from GSM/3G calls, apart from the caller ID.
Apple had the courage to continue making significant incompatible changes to improve OSX, while Windows has been held back by compatibility concerns.
Have a dose of iOS 4.3, I hope you don't have a pre-3GS iPhone!
You would'nt recognise a troll when it sat on your face and farted, right?
On behalf of the Estate of JRR Tolkein I demand you Cease and Desist your use of the Tolkein Estate's Intellectual Property of the word "troll".
The Intellectual Property "troll" is patently integral to the Tolkein Estate's Intellectual Property known as "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, and therefore, remains the property of The Estate.
You have 30 days to comply.
Don't get me wrong, I love LEDs. I think all equipment should be littered carelessly with LED indicators.
But I just can't stand either LED or CFL lighting. The light that either of these globes give off just isn't as nice and comforting as a good ol' incandescent globe. It's cold, harsh, and monochromatic.
I for one will be stockpiling incandescent globes if Australia ever legislates against them.
If this was really "Embrace & Extend", the Google addin would "embrace" the Ribbon (love it or hate it), and "extend" their addon buttons to another tab (like say, Acrobat does).
Instead, they choose to have an ugly old-style toolbar occupying more vertical screen real estate.
We all print to and scan from a multi-function scanner/printer/fax/copier.
I'm going to stab a guess here, but the German Foreign Office's printing requirements are likely vastly different to yours. For one, there's probably a special printer needed to print passports, that probably only one company in the world manufactures.
My business runs on Linux.
Running a small business on a platform is a very very different proposition to running a large business / government department on the same platform.
You're implying that anyone saying something positive about MS or their software must be doing so because they have a financial interest.
Which, in its essence, is the same argument Greenpeace uses to dismiss studies about Global Warming. Adverse finding ==> Must have been funded by the oil companies!
I'd invest in penny stocks before I invested in this.
Have you considered investing in penny socks instead?
The responsibility absolutely is VMWare's. Large software companies generally have access to early releases of the Microsoft patches, specifically so they can perform whatever testing they need.
Sounds like in this case, VMWare didn't bother doing their testing (or that testing was too costly), and is now trying to blame Microsoft for their fuckup.
Unfortunately, I'm one of those "very few" sites who experiences slowdowns with IPv6 enabled. I don't know if it's just because I'm a retard or something, but I have not been able to find a DHCPv6 client for Linux that works reliably.
I've tried Wide-DHCPv6-Client, and Dibbler. Both seem to occasionally have a hissyfit and crash. When DHCPv6 crashes, you lose IPv6 connectivity -- so the browsers on your network think they still have connectivity and try-and-wait for ages until the connection times out. Restarting the client always fixes the issue.
I for one, consider IPv6 to still be an "experimental" technology. I certainly won't be deploying it out to my clients' sites any time soon.
I wonder how long before the viruses in the Virus Batteries "accidentally" combines with this programmable bacteria to form something to truly fear...
Hey, nobody said SkyNet had to be made from Silicon...
Merchant accounts in Australia are actually pretty reasonably priced. The amount we pay sure buys us the peace of mind that a non-bank-pretending-to-be-a-bank can't just freeze our accounts and withhold our money.
PayPal's often looked down upon as being used by "unprofessional" vendors. By processing transactions directly, you're often also improving your company's image in your customer's minds.
Way back when I had a Voodoo II, the only thing I ever wanted was a second card to do SLI. Alas, by the time I could actually afford it, it was more cost effective to fork out for a whole new graphics card (I actually got a Matrox G400Max -- Dualhead ftw!).
If only I could run two copies of DosBox to somehow get SLI. I could finally achieve my old dream!
I don't even know if I'm joking.
You missed a requirement: easy for the students to remove by hand
I presume he meant Norton was the virus. In which case, even Symantec can't remove it, let alone by hand.
Hopefully someone will crack that Ancient code any time now, and we can finally find Destiny!
Makes you wonder... Did the foldit guys borrow the idea off TV, or did the TV writers borrow it off them?