Sure, perception of convenience might be better there. Still, the basic dynamic is that card users don't care enough to stop using their cards and there is some mix of factors keeping the card companies from doing anything about it; I expect that their ability to avoid much of the cost of fraud and reticence about the costs of switching to a new system are high up on that list.
It seems highly unlikely that they are crazy enough to mandate that drivers install the software, so arguing for opt in is sort of like yelling at the sun to rise in the morning.
So the terrorists are sophisticated enough to setup a massive attack plan, but they forget to check to see if the government has emergency powers that would completely foil the attack?
When it comes to people with that much malevolent intent, it seems smarter to focus on enumerating the people, not enumerating the ways that they might attack.
The problem is that SSNs are used as authenticators.
Which I guess reduces to the system not really having any single point of strong authentication built into the creation of new accounts with the SSN mostly being used to reduce name collisions.
The basic reason is that people are happy to use their unsecured cards and the credit card companies at least think that they benefit more from convenient transactions than they lose from fraud (it is likely true, they mostly push the costs of fraud onto retailers).
And by 'happy', I don't quite mean happy, I just mean that people continue to use their unsecured cards.
Virgin Mobile is also offering an Android phone from LG for $150.
I expect most of the prepaid carriers will have at least a small selection of cheap Android phones by the end of the year. Hopefully the price erosion for unlimited voice service continues (presently $50 across quite a few carriers, at $30, I expect a lot of people start to pay more attention to how much they are spending on devices).
To not support the video game lock in, you probably have to give up having video games. This is achievable.
For the cell phones, you can just buy a carrier-locked phone from a carrier that actually sells cheap phones without a contract. There are quite a few cell companies in the U.S. offering quite reasonable contract free services these days, and the argument that a $40 phone is an onerous condition for switching a service that probably costs $200 a year (and might cost $600) is a little silly.
I'm a bit surprised, you usually remember to confine your whining to smart phones, where the discounted phone+contract is still a better option that trying to bring your own phone.
Of course any realization of it would have to account for bad actors, it just has the advantage of punishing bad actors for actual bad actions rather than punishing uninvolved third parties for having a name.
Also, lenders would be able to anticipate fraudulent letters when designing their identity verification, so it should be fairly straightforward for them to demonstrate that a letter is fraudulent.
I think they do (at least informally) estimate the risks and benefits of each job that they do, I also think that one of the keys is that they are really bad at it.
Still, it shouldn't result in a hassle for me when Lowe's issues a credit card to someone else.
People that have never been caught cheating should be able to (fully!) repudiate an account by sending a simple form letter to the party that issued the credit. Once someone has been caught cheating, they should still be able to repudiate an account, but it should take more than a letter saying it they are not the party that opened the account.
That this would require issuers of credit to take reasonable steps to confirm the identity of potential borrowers really doesn't bother me one bit.
Especially when you consider the scientific legacy of the thing (that is, the science produced using Hubble is far more interesting than the dead instruments).
Nah, that makes it clear they appropriately sized their product for the market. Very few of the sort of people that would bother buying something like this weigh much more than 120 kilos, or even 100.
Still, you do have to admit that creating and releasing a huge amount of software under a different license is a good way to avoid the GPL3. So obviously avoiding GPL3 is a primary motivation behind Android.
There are plenty of stocks paying a 3% or greater dividend. The 3% is a direct relationship between the actual performance of the company and the stock price.
It would depend on the context and extent of the activity.
But that is a separate issue; in my view, the town officials should not be spending time establishing rules that attempt to govern the behavior of employees while they are not at work. Even so, in your scenario, the employee should be dealt with for any documented failure to do their job, not for some specific action that the city council listed as verboten (I do see the gray area here, and the tension between not having lots of specific rules and establishing a reasonable/appropriate work environment, but I'd rather see messy arguments in cases where discretion doesn't work out (discretion in the sense that the boss is expected to work things out and takes responsibility for a decision to fire someone when it doesn't)).
No, I don't live there. And I can't say I would like to live in a place where the public image of the town was enforced by bureaucratic mandate (the rule would be adopted by the city council, but other parts of the city government would be the ones that enforced it).
If I paid taxes in that town, I would be sort of pissed off that the town officials were spending time on something like this, so I wouldn't call it perfectly reasonable.
I would say they don't count because they aren't modular systems due to launch mass restrictions, they are modular because that is the sensible way to get good geographic coverage.
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Sure, perception of convenience might be better there. Still, the basic dynamic is that card users don't care enough to stop using their cards and there is some mix of factors keeping the card companies from doing anything about it; I expect that their ability to avoid much of the cost of fraud and reticence about the costs of switching to a new system are high up on that list.
It seems highly unlikely that they are crazy enough to mandate that drivers install the software, so arguing for opt in is sort of like yelling at the sun to rise in the morning.
So the terrorists are sophisticated enough to setup a massive attack plan, but they forget to check to see if the government has emergency powers that would completely foil the attack?
When it comes to people with that much malevolent intent, it seems smarter to focus on enumerating the people, not enumerating the ways that they might attack.
The problem is that SSNs are used as authenticators.
Which I guess reduces to the system not really having any single point of strong authentication built into the creation of new accounts with the SSN mostly being used to reduce name collisions.
The basic reason is that people are happy to use their unsecured cards and the credit card companies at least think that they benefit more from convenient transactions than they lose from fraud (it is likely true, they mostly push the costs of fraud onto retailers).
And by 'happy', I don't quite mean happy, I just mean that people continue to use their unsecured cards.
Your name, date of birth and address are not private. Your mother's maiden name is not private. Your SSN is perhaps semi-private.
So the reason someone has access to that information is that it is stored in many databases, rather than being private.
Virgin Mobile is also offering an Android phone from LG for $150.
I expect most of the prepaid carriers will have at least a small selection of cheap Android phones by the end of the year. Hopefully the price erosion for unlimited voice service continues (presently $50 across quite a few carriers, at $30, I expect a lot of people start to pay more attention to how much they are spending on devices).
Wah wah wah wah.
To not support the video game lock in, you probably have to give up having video games. This is achievable.
For the cell phones, you can just buy a carrier-locked phone from a carrier that actually sells cheap phones without a contract. There are quite a few cell companies in the U.S. offering quite reasonable contract free services these days, and the argument that a $40 phone is an onerous condition for switching a service that probably costs $200 a year (and might cost $600) is a little silly.
I'm a bit surprised, you usually remember to confine your whining to smart phones, where the discounted phone+contract is still a better option that trying to bring your own phone.
Both the article and Slashdot summary do a good job of calling it fraud instead of theft. So a step in the right direction.
Of course any realization of it would have to account for bad actors, it just has the advantage of punishing bad actors for actual bad actions rather than punishing uninvolved third parties for having a name.
Also, lenders would be able to anticipate fraudulent letters when designing their identity verification, so it should be fairly straightforward for them to demonstrate that a letter is fraudulent.
I think they do (at least informally) estimate the risks and benefits of each job that they do, I also think that one of the keys is that they are really bad at it.
Still, it shouldn't result in a hassle for me when Lowe's issues a credit card to someone else.
People that have never been caught cheating should be able to (fully!) repudiate an account by sending a simple form letter to the party that issued the credit. Once someone has been caught cheating, they should still be able to repudiate an account, but it should take more than a letter saying it they are not the party that opened the account.
That this would require issuers of credit to take reasonable steps to confirm the identity of potential borrowers really doesn't bother me one bit.
The Archos 70 only has 256 MB of ram, but it sells for about $275 and has been on the market for a few months.
So far Archos has been doing a decent job releasing new firmware builds (I have an Archos 32).
That's some expensive sentimentality.
Especially when you consider the scientific legacy of the thing (that is, the science produced using Hubble is far more interesting than the dead instruments).
6 feet is somewhat unusual, it is approximately a full standard deviation above the average.
Nah, that makes it clear they appropriately sized their product for the market. Very few of the sort of people that would bother buying something like this weigh much more than 120 kilos, or even 100.
Still, you do have to admit that creating and releasing a huge amount of software under a different license is a good way to avoid the GPL3. So obviously avoiding GPL3 is a primary motivation behind Android.
There are plenty of stocks paying a 3% or greater dividend. The 3% is a direct relationship between the actual performance of the company and the stock price.
It's just English. "Banking malware" is shorthand.
It would depend on the context and extent of the activity.
But that is a separate issue; in my view, the town officials should not be spending time establishing rules that attempt to govern the behavior of employees while they are not at work. Even so, in your scenario, the employee should be dealt with for any documented failure to do their job, not for some specific action that the city council listed as verboten (I do see the gray area here, and the tension between not having lots of specific rules and establishing a reasonable/appropriate work environment, but I'd rather see messy arguments in cases where discretion doesn't work out (discretion in the sense that the boss is expected to work things out and takes responsibility for a decision to fire someone when it doesn't)).
The 1920s Doble steam car at least approached practicality:
http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/at-the-garage/steam-cars/1925-doble-series-e-steam-car/
(but maybe that 1500 mile range comes with a 30 mph average speed...)
No, I don't live there. And I can't say I would like to live in a place where the public image of the town was enforced by bureaucratic mandate (the rule would be adopted by the city council, but other parts of the city government would be the ones that enforced it).
The time the city council is spending considering the proposal probably takes away from other town business...
If I paid taxes in that town, I would be sort of pissed off that the town officials were spending time on something like this, so I wouldn't call it perfectly reasonable.
I would say they don't count because they aren't modular systems due to launch mass restrictions, they are modular because that is the sensible way to get good geographic coverage.