well, i just got off of the phone with tmobile. customer care has no idea that this article even exists. in fact, call them up and ask if they know what slashdot is. go ahead, try. it's funny!
anyways, the only people who might possibly be able to help are customer relations, who don't even have e-mail or a phone number. who would have figured you couldn't call your phone company?
everyone i spoke to doesn't even want to admit it could have happened. when i mentioned slashdot and security focus, they said that i couldn't believe it just because i heard it online. when i asked them if they saw it on cnn, if they would believe it, everyone said yes. my reply was that i consider slashdot more reputable than cnn.
anyways, i'm going to be writing these guys a letter. i'm really unhappy. i've been with tmobile for 3 months and the first time i hear about it is from slashdot. not that i'm suprised. just sort of annoyed that it's true.
as a lot of people have pointed out, a reason paypal might want to do this is because of the extremely high rate of disputed charges with porn due to one member of the family ordering something, then claiming it was a fraudulent charge when their significant other finds out about it.
does anyone have any rough idea as to how often this is actually happening. isn't it possible that internet credit card fraud is much less of a problem than we've thought?
cop walks up. asks you for your name. you are required to give him your name. you do not. he arrests you and says "you have the right to remain silent"
before they arrest you, you have to give your name. after they arrest you, you can stay silent as the grave.
nothing necessarily wrong with a monopoly. it's the artificial ones that are bad, particularly when the company holding the monopoly uses it's power to manipulate the free market.
if you're the first company in an industry, or are in one that simply has no other companies that wish to do business in that industry, you've got a monopoly, and it's legal. doesn't mean you're anticompetitive.
so, if they start putting the warning on the discs when they start playing like on the old school vhs, and someone uses deCSS to decrypt the fbi warning, will they go to jail? or can someone sue the feds for putting notifications like this behind such *strong* encryption?
laptop manufacturers could standardize on batteries now, it's just not in the best interests of the business. what a third party could do is to fashion a battery case for each type of manufacturer that can be refilled with a standard size fuel cell (a la cell phone batteries that actually contain standard size alkalines).
seems to me that if you set the permissions on a file to be world-readable, you're giving the (hang on here, this is a big jump in logic) world permission to read it.
since i'm not going to be able to use my purchased dvd to create a copy for my own personal use, i guess i'll have to head online to find a copy that someone else has already cracked, since it only takes one crack to solve everyone's problems.
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well, i just got off of the phone with tmobile. customer care has no idea that this article even exists. in fact, call them up and ask if they know what slashdot is. go ahead, try. it's funny!
anyways, the only people who might possibly be able to help are customer relations, who don't even have e-mail or a phone number. who would have figured you couldn't call your phone company?
everyone i spoke to doesn't even want to admit it could have happened. when i mentioned slashdot and security focus, they said that i couldn't believe it just because i heard it online. when i asked them if they saw it on cnn, if they would believe it, everyone said yes. my reply was that i consider slashdot more reputable than cnn.
anyways, i'm going to be writing these guys a letter. i'm really unhappy. i've been with tmobile for 3 months and the first time i hear about it is from slashdot. not that i'm suprised. just sort of annoyed that it's true.
as a lot of people have pointed out, a reason paypal might want to do this is because of the extremely high rate of disputed charges with porn due to one member of the family ordering something, then claiming it was a fraudulent charge when their significant other finds out about it.
does anyone have any rough idea as to how often this is actually happening. isn't it possible that internet credit card fraud is much less of a problem than we've thought?
i'm down with the computer on my lap bluetoothing with the cell phone in my pocket to give me internet access.
i'm my own hotspot!
will this usher in a new trend of "war-walking"?
okay, hypothetical here
cop walks up. asks you for your name. you are required to give him your name. you do not. he arrests you and says "you have the right to remain silent"
before they arrest you, you have to give your name. after they arrest you, you can stay silent as the grave.
nothing necessarily wrong with a monopoly. it's the artificial ones that are bad, particularly when the company holding the monopoly uses it's power to manipulate the free market.
if you're the first company in an industry, or are in one that simply has no other companies that wish to do business in that industry, you've got a monopoly, and it's legal. doesn't mean you're anticompetitive.
because it's a pain to have to climb into the trunk to change songs when you're doing 85.
sweet.
so, if they start putting the warning on the discs when they start playing like on the old school vhs, and someone uses deCSS to decrypt the fbi warning, will they go to jail? or can someone sue the feds for putting notifications like this behind such *strong* encryption?
for the first few paragraphs, Robert Scoble is referred to as [RB].
maybe if his word processor had access to the right metadata, he wouldn't have had that problem.
php is way better.
laptop manufacturers could standardize on batteries now, it's just not in the best interests of the business. what a third party could do is to fashion a battery case for each type of manufacturer that can be refilled with a standard size fuel cell (a la cell phone batteries that actually contain standard size alkalines).
seems to me that if you set the permissions on a file to be world-readable, you're giving the (hang on here, this is a big jump in logic) world permission to read it.
since i'm not going to be able to use my purchased dvd to create a copy for my own personal use, i guess i'll have to head online to find a copy that someone else has already cracked, since it only takes one crack to solve everyone's problems.
valenti and them folk are sure clever, figuring out how to stop people from doing what they don't want.