You may not be paranoid, but are spending money on insurance you already have.
Federal law requires that card companies hold you liable for no more than $50 in fraudulent charges... and most gold & platinum cards offer zero fraud liability.
The "SEE ID" thing is retarded and merchants can and should refuse it.
75% of your credit rating is based on prompt payment of revolving charges.
You'll be penalized if you pay late, are using > 50% of available credit or open a large number of accounts within a short period of time.
If you proven yourself capable of having a few credit cards and using them as "Net 30" revolving accounts without carrying a balance, you are probaly a credit risk.
You could move to India and program computers for $2000/yr and live happily, but you don't.
Are you evil?
The price you charge is whatever the market will bare. If you sell something like banannas, your profit is low. If you sell software, it should be high.
Look for the book "Bowling Alone"... it statisticly analyzes the current erosion or evolution of our society.
Or drive through a new development. You'll also notice at many places that homes are angled in such a way that the front windows face the gap between the two homes across the street. People want the illusion of living out in the country somewhere.
The problem is that the people-at-large are disinterested in public life & politics in general... look at the new trends in middle-class houses -- there is no side windows! Everyone wants to live in a personal castle.
People send checks to be members in interest groups like the Sierra Club, EFF, and AAA. But that check is the sum total of their participation.
The only people interested in politics are people with something to sell or something to keep.
If you cannot afford to buy the expensive field equipment you need, just use paper forms. Go to Costco or Sam's Club and by a compact fax machine and bag for $40.
I missed the articles about installing Tivoli Framework and DB2 though!
Other than the warm fuzzy satisfaction that some will get because a commercial company ported their product, this is worse than even the most content-free Ask Slashdot articles.
The inflation and "stagflation" of the 1970's was largely caused by tight regulation of petroleum distribution at the time. The arabs cut oil supplies, the Federal government (ie not the bank) responed with a disasterous rationing policy to insulate farmers from supply shortages.
The impact of the 1930 depression was increased greaty because of a LACK of action by the Federal Reserve system. Due partly to the intervention of President Taft, the Federal Reserve failed to make adequate supplies of cash and credit available to keep the banks open.
In the cases the depression and dot-com boom, I think that market regulatory policy has more to do with these things than monetary policy? Do you suppose that 90% margin ratios in the 1920's and institutionalized pump and dump schemes and graft had something to do with these things?
While free americans are responsible for their actions, free markets with cenralized monetary policy are responsible for their easy access to capital. Without capital, there is no prosperity. (Prosperity as modern economies define it.)
To have the properties that you desire, money would need to consist of an object that was scarce, divisible, portable and durable AND slowing increasing in availability.
The only reason that gold was a tenable currency for hundreds of years of continuous economic expansion was the increases in availability.
The Federal Reserve Bank is not a government institution -- it is a bank whose head officers are appointed by the US government.
We've had almost 70 years of prosperity due in a large part to the efforts and policies of the federal reserve system.
Plenty of wackjobs yearn for the days of the gold standard or banknotes (Bank of America or Fleet Dollars anyone?) These people fail to note the lack of currency stability that existed before the Fed system. No Fed or other central bank, no 15 or 30 year mortgages (5 year mortgages were the norm until the late 20's), no consumer credit, no innovation on the scale that we have experienced in the last 70 years.
The real goal of this scheme is to pave the way for national ID cards, a concept that the securicrats in Washington have been slobbering over for years.
If every company and individual who sends postal mail needs an unique code, it doesn't take much to "embrace and extend" that concept to personal identification.
Just as Social Security numbers were linked to your payroll, tax & credit records, your mail id will be linked to your person or place of business.
I think they found that text communication was more efficient, as it makes it much easier to filter out chatter, and had ICQ-style announcements when other units came within range.
Text messages also lead to shorter burst transmissions that are more difficult to locate by the bad guys.
I think that level of processing is not available to any developer... think of the havoc that would occue when some idiot used a ringtone installation to overwrite your phonebook with an overseas sex number.
That being said, if there is a way to do it, you'd want to look for documentation here:
Slashdot Mirror
Believe it or not, my employer looked into doing just that to allow employees to check email from home!
That's real clever and all, but in many situations you are probaly commiting a felony by using that number fraudulently.
Your best bet to you use your real number or do business someone who doesn't need it.
You may not be paranoid, but are spending money on insurance you already have.
Federal law requires that card companies hold you liable for no more than $50 in fraudulent charges... and most gold & platinum cards offer zero fraud liability.
The "SEE ID" thing is retarded and merchants can and should refuse it.
Wrong!
75% of your credit rating is based on prompt payment of revolving charges.
You'll be penalized if you pay late, are using > 50% of available credit or open a large number of accounts within a short period of time.
If you proven yourself capable of having a few credit cards and using them as "Net 30" revolving accounts without carrying a balance, you are probaly a credit risk.
That's outrageous! Did you sue or seek compensation for the taxes that you'll have to pay on the sold stock?
You could move to India and program computers for $2000/yr and live happily, but you don't.
Are you evil?
The price you charge is whatever the market will bare. If you sell something like banannas, your profit is low. If you sell software, it should be high.
I understand that hacking tools don't kill people, people kill people... But what about the children?
Both words are correct. If you are going to be a grammar Nazi, please be right.
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http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=disint
They need to look at their forms and the fax system.
Improving the fax backend would be infinitely cheaper and more reliable in the end than moving the problem to the field.
Look for the book "Bowling Alone"... it statisticly analyzes the current erosion or evolution of our society.
Or drive through a new development. You'll also notice at many places that homes are angled in such a way that the front windows face the gap between the two homes across the street. People want the illusion of living out in the country somewhere.
The problem is that the people-at-large are disinterested in public life & politics in general... look at the new trends in middle-class houses -- there is no side windows! Everyone wants to live in a personal castle.
People send checks to be members in interest groups like the Sierra Club, EFF, and AAA. But that check is the sum total of their participation.
The only people interested in politics are people with something to sell or something to keep.
If you cannot afford to buy the expensive field equipment you need, just use paper forms. Go to Costco or Sam's Club and by a compact fax machine and bag for $40.
I missed the articles about installing Tivoli Framework and DB2 though!
Other than the warm fuzzy satisfaction that some will get because a commercial company ported their product, this is worse than even the most content-free Ask Slashdot articles.
The inflation and "stagflation" of the 1970's was largely caused by tight regulation of petroleum distribution at the time. The arabs cut oil supplies, the Federal government (ie not the bank) responed with a disasterous rationing policy to insulate farmers from supply shortages.
The impact of the 1930 depression was increased greaty because of a LACK of action by the Federal Reserve system. Due partly to the intervention of President Taft, the Federal Reserve failed to make adequate supplies of cash and credit available to keep the banks open.
In the cases the depression and dot-com boom, I think that market regulatory policy has more to do with these things than monetary policy? Do you suppose that 90% margin ratios in the 1920's and institutionalized pump and dump schemes and graft had something to do with these things?
While free americans are responsible for their actions, free markets with cenralized monetary policy are responsible for their easy access to capital. Without capital, there is no prosperity. (Prosperity as modern economies define it.)
To have the properties that you desire, money would need to consist of an object that was scarce, divisible, portable and durable AND slowing increasing in availability.
The only reason that gold was a tenable currency for hundreds of years of continuous economic expansion was the increases in availability.
The Federal Reserve Bank is not a government institution -- it is a bank whose head officers are appointed by the US government.
We've had almost 70 years of prosperity due in a large part to the efforts and policies of the federal reserve system.
Plenty of wackjobs yearn for the days of the gold standard or banknotes (Bank of America or Fleet Dollars anyone?) These people fail to note the lack of currency stability that existed before the Fed system. No Fed or other central bank, no 15 or 30 year mortgages (5 year mortgages were the norm until the late 20's), no consumer credit, no innovation on the scale that we have experienced in the last 70 years.
I have no idea whatsoever what the backend is, but the client was running on NT 4 on a hardened notebookpc, sitting on a cavalry sergeant's lap.
Maybe it was a more limited trial than I had percieved.
The real goal of this scheme is to pave the way for national ID cards, a concept that the securicrats in Washington have been slobbering over for years.
If every company and individual who sends postal mail needs an unique code, it doesn't take much to "embrace and extend" that concept to personal identification.
Just as Social Security numbers were linked to your payroll, tax & credit records, your mail id will be linked to your person or place of business.
I setup AS/400 web solutions for my clients. They are ultimately secure because no hacker would know what to do if he broke into the system.
Ford used to send out the "Ford Simulator" on floppy disk back in the 80's. You could "test drive" various models, and get product information.
At least when WiFi vendors use linux, they are theoretically contributing their modifications to the public good.
If this works great, than WiFi vendors don't owe the community a cent.
Open up a phony hotmail account from a lab workstation in school.
I call bullshit -- if you were smart enough to find exploits, you'd be smart enough to figure that out.
I think they found that text communication was more efficient, as it makes it much easier to filter out chatter, and had ICQ-style announcements when other units came within range.
Text messages also lead to shorter burst transmissions that are more difficult to locate by the bad guys.
Actually, armored cavalry and selected mechanized infantry units have exchanged their radios for NT 4.0 based chat applications.
I think that level of processing is not available to any developer... think of the havoc that would occue when some idiot used a ringtone installation to overwrite your phonebook with an overseas sex number.
That being said, if there is a way to do it, you'd want to look for documentation here:
http://java.sun.com/j2me/docs/
and here:
http://java.sun.com/api/index.html#j2me