Okay sure. But again, that's theft of the data. Are you saying that you're responsible if someone steals a knife from your kitchen and goes on a stabbing spree?
Java could have been fixed when they found out that their sandbox execution back in the early 2000's had so many holes that it made a sieve look like a glass. And by fix, I mean nuke it from orbit and rebuild it from the ground up instead of issuing bandage after bandage, on something they knew was already a mess.
I believe I read once that the chip & pin regime causes the burden of proof for fraud to fall on the account holder.
Perhaps in the states, but in Canada and the rest of the world, my cardholder agreement(TD Canada Trust, CIBC, and Presidents Choice) openly states that the burden of proof falls on bank. This is doubly true with the new cards that are backed by visa, not only are you not held accountable under the protection of the fraud agreement on the card with that, but you're also not held accountable by the bank at all.
Only of the last 18 years or so...and that's saying something. So in Canada we rolled out chip&pin over 5 years ago converting everything(it's been available a bit longer than that). CC companies in the US have been dragging their feet over it for the last 5 years.
Please stop contributing to this abuse of the word "benefactor." A benefactor is one who gives. A beneficiary is someone who gains.
That much is obvious, so again where is Target the benefactor in the said breech? Where did they *give* something that facilitated the theft of the data that contributed to fraud.
Well if you call it pretty good, I guess that's your taste. But it doesn't seem to jive with the droves of people cutting the cord from cable and satellite, or throwing it all including IPTV into the bin. Maybe Star Trek was right, and TV as a form of entertainment will die by the mid 21st century.
Negligence perhaps, but where's the conspiracy that applies to fraud? Are you saying that target is the benefactor of the said breech?
Really, the companies in the states are just starting to roll out chip&pin like the rest of the world, while not a perfect system by any stretch, it's a hell of a lot better than magstrip only. If you're going to go negligence, I'd start right at the top with the CC companies who've been dragging their feet for the last 5 years.
It's hard to root for them unless your only goal is the collapse of broadcast television.
Broadcasters seem to be doing a good enough job on their own with that, considering the amount of crap and Reality TV programming that they're running with these days. I had a fine chance to look at said broadcasters after a 8 year hiatus, and I'm pretty sure everything except for a couple of drama's, was reality tv, including on the specialty channels like discovery, mil-tv, and tlc.
It's really hard to screw up a transformer--the wall charger would just be a transformer and maybe a MOSFET-based rectifier or something else that can pass that much power.
Well I guess that solves it. After all, all you need to do is slap in MOSFET's that are below quality, or capacitors that are filled with gunk(instead of electrolyte), instead of solid state and watch it melt and ooze all over itself. Pretty good chance of either one happening, and it's a fairly good possibility with either knock-off components or recycled components being marked as new and put back into the supply chain. This issue has been haunting PSU's for computers for years now, especially mid-range and the very cheap jobs.
Thermal fuse--even a current fuse--is really a "this will never happen, but if anything does happen that creates any kind of bad situation, this will stop it. Whatever it is."
Well that's great, until you run into the "thermal fuse really isn't a fuse" or the "current fuse" is actually a chunk of metal that's simply bridging the two points. Again see the issues with PSU's.
That's kinda the point -- you can't BUY a PC these days that isn't serious overkill for email and surfing.
Really, we're at a software block. What exists out there now can be done by existing hardware, and there's nothing pushing it. For your email-surfing example, in the past CPU and GPU time was blocking the quality and did for quite awhile, especially decoding. Remember the days not too long ago where interlaced was the way to go? In gaming, it's the mass-drive towards consoles which are on a serious decline even with the new ones being pumped out. But people are finding that computer 2-4 years old will run everything that's out there either very well, or well enough.
You obviously haven't worked very much with people over the age of 60, particularly blue-collar folks who never really had to do much with computers at a job.
About 75% of the calls that I used to do before I got out of the "home" side of it was seniors over 65, and blue collar workers. Maybe, there's a fundamental difference between the understanding between Canada and the US, being that in Canada here we have a higher penetration of general technology, computers, internet, and use of said technologies in the workplace.
Lots of these people actually think their email account is tied to their computer. They think they would have to get a new computer to change email accounts.
I suppose that's possible. After all, people have long grown up with the address=home. In turn, computer = unique address, and they don't see a mechanism(to transfer-though not needed), for their new computer like they would with a house/apt/etc. Though I will say in the 18 years I've been working with computers I've never seen this.
It's just heaps more difficult to produce high quality booze or cigs.
It is? Why don't you come up to Canada and ask the natives how they're doing at it. Not only that two of the biggest things that they're involved with and in, is the legal manufacture of high-quality cig's, and the illegal distribution of them to the US.
The P&P Manual aka Policy and Procedures. Where the manual, isn't so much a book, but an entire encyclopedia. Ahh TPS, sitting at 14 volumes, each volume is 600+ pages.
They and their forebears are and were systematically punished for being born. You don't think they're owed something for being deliberately set back by our government repeatedly? Guess that's your own sense of entitlement talking.
And I guess I should demand the same thing for being a minority, and dragging my own ass out of the ground. Gee damned, where can I sign up for *free shit* because *insert relatives* was set back by the government of the day. Oh right...I can't.
I am aware of what they are good for. I wrote that they were rarely "needed"....
Hardly "rarely needed" and "within the current coldsnap" either, if you live somewhere, where the weather gets below -10C(14F), a block heater will help you immensely. Especially with the self-programmable timers, for a normal auto.
I also stated that you needed to have the "right" amount of antifreeze in your coolant....
No it's not the "right amount" it's the proper type, and the proper mixture, and corrosive state of the antifreeze, not to mention the right level. Which is double true for closed loop systems.
Uh what? The whole point behind a block heater is to reduce the initial startup cost for the car/truck. They guzzle heavily when under -6C(20f) until the intake manifold warms up, to lower the amount of time required to heat the cabin of the vehicle. And prevent damage to the engine itself, since the vast majority of vehicles don't pump oil before starting, increasing viscosity even a small amount reduces wear.
And the above has been known for decades. As a fun point, having too rich a mixture of antifreeze will corrode the aluminum, and eat the gaskets between various manifolds. Having it too weak, will lead to popped frost plugs(if you're lucky), and if you're unlucky broken heads, cracked blocks, or broken manifolds. I'll toss in one other thing, back when I was an apprentice in the 90's, a car came in that "wouldn't start" so said the customer. The antifreeze mixture had frozen(too old), and separated the intake manifold from the head. It had stripped all the bolts, warped the head, and broke the manifold. It was just shy of $4200 in repairs.
The people most opposed to gun control are the ones who are also most opposed to fixing the underlying problems, so what are we supposed to do?
Yeah hardly. You know that old adage, "you can lead a horse to water but you can't force them to swim." Right, it's the same thing with fixing those "underlying social problems." Especially in the highest crime areas where it's black youth, and the lack of a strong father figure which gives young boys no direction in life. The ones that climb above that are a small minority. Of course to fix the problem, you need to get the entire community itself to grow the fsk up.
And of course before someone thinks that I'm a blind racist or something, we see the same problem in Canada with natives. And funny enough, it's the same damned problem, with the same underlying social issues, contributing to the same circle. Funny that. This isn't rocket surgery, not by a long shot. And race baiters, and race enablers are the primary cause of this. Followed by the belief that "they're owed something."
Bullshit they don't. When I was out in Alberta the bylaw picked up two dozen dogs over the course of a month with frostbite on their paws(we were in the -0F to -20F range). In fact, dogs will bite off frostbite, right down to the bone. Some breeds are more resistant to frostbite however.
Usually temperatures rise in a snowstorm because of the cloud cover, and particularly in a northeaster which pulls both warmer air and moisture off the Atlantic. But a northeaster snowstorm with temperatures dropping close to 0F? Never seen such a thing in my lifetime.
You've never been to Canada then. Seeing a temperature of 0F, and getting 24"+ of snow is pretty damned common here.
Slashdot Mirror
Odd. /. at a url to bluesnews. Let's try that again.
Sorry, what atom cpu is being used in gaming for these boxes? Ah that's right, none.
Okay sure. But again, that's theft of the data. Are you saying that you're responsible if someone steals a knife from your kitchen and goes on a stabbing spree?
LED's are the new clock-on-everything. You know it's true.
Java could have been fixed when they found out that their sandbox execution back in the early 2000's had so many holes that it made a sieve look like a glass. And by fix, I mean nuke it from orbit and rebuild it from the ground up instead of issuing bandage after bandage, on something they knew was already a mess.
I believe I read once that the chip & pin regime causes the burden of proof for fraud to fall on the account holder.
Perhaps in the states, but in Canada and the rest of the world, my cardholder agreement(TD Canada Trust, CIBC, and Presidents Choice) openly states that the burden of proof falls on bank. This is doubly true with the new cards that are backed by visa, not only are you not held accountable under the protection of the fraud agreement on the card with that, but you're also not held accountable by the bank at all.
RFID and Chip & Pin are two different beasts. Chip & Pin is the same as smartcard chips, RFID hasn't really caught on in Canada either.
Only 5 years? Are you new to IT?
Only of the last 18 years or so...and that's saying something. So in Canada we rolled out chip&pin over 5 years ago converting everything(it's been available a bit longer than that). CC companies in the US have been dragging their feet over it for the last 5 years.
Please stop contributing to this abuse of the word "benefactor." A benefactor is one who gives. A beneficiary is someone who gains.
That much is obvious, so again where is Target the benefactor in the said breech? Where did they *give* something that facilitated the theft of the data that contributed to fraud.
Well if you call it pretty good, I guess that's your taste. But it doesn't seem to jive with the droves of people cutting the cord from cable and satellite, or throwing it all including IPTV into the bin. Maybe Star Trek was right, and TV as a form of entertainment will die by the mid 21st century.
Negligence perhaps, but where's the conspiracy that applies to fraud? Are you saying that target is the benefactor of the said breech?
Really, the companies in the states are just starting to roll out chip&pin like the rest of the world, while not a perfect system by any stretch, it's a hell of a lot better than magstrip only. If you're going to go negligence, I'd start right at the top with the CC companies who've been dragging their feet for the last 5 years.
It's hard to root for them unless your only goal is the collapse of broadcast television.
Broadcasters seem to be doing a good enough job on their own with that, considering the amount of crap and Reality TV programming that they're running with these days. I had a fine chance to look at said broadcasters after a 8 year hiatus, and I'm pretty sure everything except for a couple of drama's, was reality tv, including on the specialty channels like discovery, mil-tv, and tlc.
Real men play Jarts.
It's really hard to screw up a transformer--the wall charger would just be a transformer and maybe a MOSFET-based rectifier or something else that can pass that much power.
Well I guess that solves it. After all, all you need to do is slap in MOSFET's that are below quality, or capacitors that are filled with gunk(instead of electrolyte), instead of solid state and watch it melt and ooze all over itself. Pretty good chance of either one happening, and it's a fairly good possibility with either knock-off components or recycled components being marked as new and put back into the supply chain. This issue has been haunting PSU's for computers for years now, especially mid-range and the very cheap jobs.
Thermal fuse--even a current fuse--is really a "this will never happen, but if anything does happen that creates any kind of bad situation, this will stop it. Whatever it is."
Well that's great, until you run into the "thermal fuse really isn't a fuse" or the "current fuse" is actually a chunk of metal that's simply bridging the two points. Again see the issues with PSU's.
That's kinda the point -- you can't BUY a PC these days that isn't serious overkill for email and surfing.
Really, we're at a software block. What exists out there now can be done by existing hardware, and there's nothing pushing it. For your email-surfing example, in the past CPU and GPU time was blocking the quality and did for quite awhile, especially decoding. Remember the days not too long ago where interlaced was the way to go? In gaming, it's the mass-drive towards consoles which are on a serious decline even with the new ones being pumped out. But people are finding that computer 2-4 years old will run everything that's out there either very well, or well enough.
You obviously haven't worked very much with people over the age of 60, particularly blue-collar folks who never really had to do much with computers at a job.
About 75% of the calls that I used to do before I got out of the "home" side of it was seniors over 65, and blue collar workers. Maybe, there's a fundamental difference between the understanding between Canada and the US, being that in Canada here we have a higher penetration of general technology, computers, internet, and use of said technologies in the workplace.
Lots of these people actually think their email account is tied to their computer. They think they would have to get a new computer to change email accounts.
I suppose that's possible. After all, people have long grown up with the address=home. In turn, computer = unique address, and they don't see a mechanism(to transfer-though not needed), for their new computer like they would with a house/apt/etc. Though I will say in the 18 years I've been working with computers I've never seen this.
It's just heaps more difficult to produce high quality booze or cigs.
It is? Why don't you come up to Canada and ask the natives how they're doing at it. Not only that two of the biggest things that they're involved with and in, is the legal manufacture of high-quality cig's, and the illegal distribution of them to the US.
Care to elaborate?
The P&P Manual aka Policy and Procedures. Where the manual, isn't so much a book, but an entire encyclopedia. Ahh TPS, sitting at 14 volumes, each volume is 600+ pages.
They and their forebears are and were systematically punished for being born. You don't think they're owed something for being deliberately set back by our government repeatedly? Guess that's your own sense of entitlement talking.
And I guess I should demand the same thing for being a minority, and dragging my own ass out of the ground. Gee damned, where can I sign up for *free shit* because *insert relatives* was set back by the government of the day. Oh right...I can't.
What a sense of entitlement...
I am aware of what they are good for. I wrote that they were rarely "needed". ...
Hardly "rarely needed" and "within the current coldsnap" either, if you live somewhere, where the weather gets below -10C(14F), a block heater will help you immensely. Especially with the self-programmable timers, for a normal auto.
I also stated that you needed to have the "right" amount of antifreeze in your coolant. ...
No it's not the "right amount" it's the proper type, and the proper mixture, and corrosive state of the antifreeze, not to mention the right level. Which is double true for closed loop systems.
Uh what? The whole point behind a block heater is to reduce the initial startup cost for the car/truck. They guzzle heavily when under -6C(20f) until the intake manifold warms up, to lower the amount of time required to heat the cabin of the vehicle. And prevent damage to the engine itself, since the vast majority of vehicles don't pump oil before starting, increasing viscosity even a small amount reduces wear.
And the above has been known for decades. As a fun point, having too rich a mixture of antifreeze will corrode the aluminum, and eat the gaskets between various manifolds. Having it too weak, will lead to popped frost plugs(if you're lucky), and if you're unlucky broken heads, cracked blocks, or broken manifolds. I'll toss in one other thing, back when I was an apprentice in the 90's, a car came in that "wouldn't start" so said the customer. The antifreeze mixture had frozen(too old), and separated the intake manifold from the head. It had stripped all the bolts, warped the head, and broke the manifold. It was just shy of $4200 in repairs.
The people most opposed to gun control are the ones who are also most opposed to fixing the underlying problems, so what are we supposed to do?
Yeah hardly. You know that old adage, "you can lead a horse to water but you can't force them to swim." Right, it's the same thing with fixing those "underlying social problems." Especially in the highest crime areas where it's black youth, and the lack of a strong father figure which gives young boys no direction in life. The ones that climb above that are a small minority. Of course to fix the problem, you need to get the entire community itself to grow the fsk up.
And of course before someone thinks that I'm a blind racist or something, we see the same problem in Canada with natives. And funny enough, it's the same damned problem, with the same underlying social issues, contributing to the same circle. Funny that. This isn't rocket surgery, not by a long shot. And race baiters, and race enablers are the primary cause of this. Followed by the belief that "they're owed something."
Dogs don't get frostbite in their paws.
Bullshit they don't. When I was out in Alberta the bylaw picked up two dozen dogs over the course of a month with frostbite on their paws(we were in the -0F to -20F range). In fact, dogs will bite off frostbite, right down to the bone. Some breeds are more resistant to frostbite however.
Usually temperatures rise in a snowstorm because of the cloud cover, and particularly in a northeaster which pulls both warmer air and moisture off the Atlantic. But a northeaster snowstorm with temperatures dropping close to 0F? Never seen such a thing in my lifetime.
You've never been to Canada then. Seeing a temperature of 0F, and getting 24"+ of snow is pretty damned common here.