I am pretty shocked by the revelation that Target was clueless about the breach, makes me angry enough to not want to ever shop there. The 10% off that they offered and a free credit report doesn't seem like enough. It would be nice if they would submit to a third party security audit to verify that steps have been taken to rectify their security issues.
Funny question, Do you think that it could have been a criminal conspiracy to cover it up by Target?
I had my ATM card information stolen (apparently) and someone was using it as a debit card, charging gas all over LA before my bank froze the account; this was about a year ago btw. I only found out because they froze the account when I tried to use it, ironically it was at Target I think.
The bank gave me a pretty hard time, trying to get me to admit that I was driving around for hours in LA and buying gas on my debit card, really strange experience with them, I had never used my card that way before.
They reluctantly put the money that had been stolen back in my account and sent me a new card; I later had to document that I had not given my information to anyone and did not make the charges.
I have found out though that for a debit card when it is used with the PIN your liability, USA, is $500 but when used as a credit card it is $50. The bank technically didn't have to return the all the money. I have since stopped using my debit card as anything but a credit card.
Paul you should probably spend some money to update your web site. ; )
That comment being out of the way.
It had to have taken some time to transfer the data, it would seem like there would be plenty of time to catch what was going on.
All seems pretty negligent. Are the banks going to sue them, after all don't the banks become liable for Targets actions at the end of the day, correct?
Yeah sounds right for here as well, but there is a lot of competition and you probably get most jobs through word of mouth.
Have you heard of the Pareto Principle? Basically if we apply it to the Plummbers 20% are making 80% of the money or $60 dollars an hour. Good to be in that 20% but if your in that 80% not as good; your probably working a lot of construction jobs to feed your family.
Sadly I think you're right; A while back I asked my boss if I could work from home and her response was how would I be able to work on the program files at home without being able to go to the filing cabinet. It sounds like I am telling a joke, but I am not. I am a Senior Programmer with many years of experience; I guess she thought programmers work with files? I didn't try and argue with her, I just kind of giving up at that point trying to educate management.
We were eventually outsourced and I was actually grateful to leave and go to work somewhere else and get away from that craziness. I think buying the cheapest IT staff reinforces the mindset of IT being uneducated; basically hiring entry level people who are over their head.
The group I worked in was extremely high performance with high expectation of delivery; I know now that it's no longer that way in that company. The staff is angry but the CEO and CFO doesn't really care, they were able to cut the the overall budget by 30% I think. I also know though that individual groups have started their own stealth IT groups to get work done. It's all craziness.
I think there is a disconnect between price and quality.
When a CFO see's that he can pay and admin $24,000 vs $85,000 he thinks wow the we have been getting screwed!
I've never seen quality work out of $24,000 admins or hardly any work for that matter; seems to be a constant churning with these companies as well.
Really brings the whole quality of the industry down; The C's start to think that's just the way it is as well as the Mids, obviously not that way in reality.
You know if they had common sense they would write in these contracts that they will refund all the money paid for the contract plus a 25% restocking fee if they get fired before the end of the contract. If they refuse to those terms, that's really telling in the sense that they know that they will fail!
I am guessing most of the time they count on under bidding the contract and then charging add on's out the nose to their clients, seems like a total scam to me.
This is silly, doesn't it stand to reason that if you know what to look for then the time travelers will make sure not to reveal those things? Doesn't it make more sense to look for things that we don't know what we should be looking for?
Is this the most ridiculous thing you have ever heard of; this seems rather pointless.
Google is grasping for innovation, no one is asking for this feature and no one will use it, mark my words. Why not create theoretical users based upon real users using social networking. We'll take actual users out of the equation entirely, just create virtual users.
Google has apparently ran out of ideas. Come on guys take some risks, don't be idiots.
Jeffrey Brotman, who founded Costco, the second largest retailer in the US and the best to it's employees of any retailer (90% with full health insurance where the average is 60%).
Charles R Walgreen - Walgreens, no MBAs existed then but his education was all business school.
Warren Buffet - MS In Econ, but having studied both they're pretty similar and this is much more numbers based.
Bill Gross - PIMCO Investments, and arguably the best Bond trader in the world.
Charles Flint - Cofounder of IBM. No MBA's existed when he was alive, but his education was entirely business related.
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe - Current CEO of Nestle, one of the largest companies in the world.
Oh, do these not fit into your definition of a Rockstar COmpany? That's entirely a subjective term, but each of these is easily some of the most successful companies ever and a far cry more "rockstar" than anything today like Twitter or LinkedIn or even Facebook.
Not sure what your point is with this, seems to prove my point. I don't have a problem with business people I don't think any of these people are MBA's, except for Bill Gross, which is my point. An MBA doesn't make you a good entrepreneur; I am sure there are a lot of exceptions like Bill Gross but I suspect that people with that degree don't get as much mileage from it as they expect.
News flash: highly successful engineer who did not go to business school thinks business school is a waste.
Shocking update: highly successful businessperson who went to business school thinks engineers don't know what they're talking about.
This is pretty normal... the path you took to get where you are starts to look like the best or only path. There is room for all specialties and approaches when used in the right way and mixed with other viewpoints.
Name successful MBA's that have started Rockstar Companies, then people who have become successful trep's without MBA's. That's what I am saying.
I agree, the system is being gamed by saying that there is a labor shortage and the only way we can fill the need is by bringing labor from another country and by the way oddly enough we can pay them less. It's clear that the system is gamed, like you said, normally someone who is in short supply is paid more.
Do you smoke crack often?
The government is creating the problem but not in the way your implying. It's supporting the mythology of a labor shortage by turning a blind eye to practices that seem to show that there is an IT shortage when it's actually the opposite problem and the issue is that there is a shortage of labor at a low wage.
We can argue free market, but there is only a free market with government regulation. You can argue that's it's not true, but you can see historically that I'm right.
Are they trying to increase the cost I don't get it? In all seriousness they should just take 2/3's of the money they are spending now to their IT budget, yeah let's count 1 2/3's the cost they're not saving money, and have a big Bon fire. Then let everyone keep their jobs. Huge waste of time and money, I've never seen it work.
You're probably right. This is a sad day, I never thought I would see this happen. This is what happens when you lose vision. They're biggest assets is probably the patents. Sounds like someones going patent trolling.. They can probably sue they're way to riches.
It's an interesting idea that g-d would purposely try and fool his creations then send them to hell for believing in evolution. It's kind of like your wife making money by banging guys and swearing she's not a hooker then dressing as a nun during the day. Kind of thinking she's a whore....
Slashdot Mirror
NSA is too busy reading their ex emails...
Ha, Love it!
Got you beat I think....
Death of Donald P. Scott
Ha your HTML skills are fine. ;)
I am pretty shocked by the revelation that Target was clueless about the breach, makes me angry enough to not want to ever shop there. The 10% off that they offered and a free credit report doesn't seem like enough. It would be nice if they would submit to a third party security audit to verify that steps have been taken to rectify their security issues.
Funny question, Do you think that it could have been a criminal conspiracy to cover it up by Target?
I had my ATM card information stolen (apparently) and someone was using it as a debit card, charging gas all over LA before my bank froze the account; this was about a year ago btw. I only found out because they froze the account when I tried to use it, ironically it was at Target I think.
The bank gave me a pretty hard time, trying to get me to admit that I was driving around for hours in LA and buying gas on my debit card, really strange experience with them, I had never used my card that way before.
They reluctantly put the money that had been stolen back in my account and sent me a new card; I later had to document that I had not given my information to anyone and did not make the charges.
I have found out though that for a debit card when it is used with the PIN your liability, USA, is $500 but when used as a credit card it is $50. The bank technically didn't have to return the all the money. I have since stopped using my debit card as anything but a credit card.
Paul you should probably spend some money to update your web site. ; )
That comment being out of the way.
It had to have taken some time to transfer the data, it would seem like there would be plenty of time to catch what was going on.
All seems pretty negligent. Are the banks going to sue them, after all don't the banks become liable for Targets actions at the end of the day, correct?
Yeah sounds right for here as well, but there is a lot of competition and you probably get most jobs through word of mouth.
Have you heard of the Pareto Principle? Basically if we apply it to the Plummbers 20% are making 80% of the money or $60 dollars an hour. Good to be in that 20% but if your in that 80% not as good; your probably working a lot of construction jobs to feed your family.
Sadly I think you're right; A while back I asked my boss if I could work from home and her response was how would I be able to work on the program files at home without being able to go to the filing cabinet. It sounds like I am telling a joke, but I am not. I am a Senior Programmer with many years of experience; I guess she thought programmers work with files? I didn't try and argue with her, I just kind of giving up at that point trying to educate management.
We were eventually outsourced and I was actually grateful to leave and go to work somewhere else and get away from that craziness.
I think buying the cheapest IT staff reinforces the mindset of IT being uneducated; basically hiring entry level people who are over their head.
The group I worked in was extremely high performance with high expectation of delivery; I know now that it's no longer that way in that company. The staff is angry but the CEO and CFO doesn't really care, they were able to cut the the overall budget by 30% I think. I also know though that individual groups have started their own stealth IT groups to get work done. It's all craziness.
This seems like a huge opportunity for a company to actually deliver a product on time and within budget, or is this impossible!!!
I think there is a disconnect between price and quality.
When a CFO see's that he can pay and admin $24,000 vs $85,000 he thinks wow the we have been getting screwed!
I've never seen quality work out of $24,000 admins or hardly any work for that matter; seems to be a constant churning with these companies as well.
Really brings the whole quality of the industry down; The C's start to think that's just the way it is as well as the Mids, obviously not that way in reality.
You know if they had common sense they would write in these contracts that they will refund all the money paid for the contract plus a 25% restocking fee if they get fired before the end of the contract. If they refuse to those terms, that's really telling in the sense that they know that they will fail!
I am guessing most of the time they count on under bidding the contract and then charging add on's out the nose to their clients, seems like a total scam to me.
Honestly, Stephen, you're supposedly a great physicist, you should know better than to think that this sort of crap could ever work.
Hawking is a huge fake. I saw him surfing on an episode of the family guy!
This is silly, doesn't it stand to reason that if you know what to look for then the time travelers will make sure not to reveal those things? Doesn't it make more sense to look for things that we don't know what we should be looking for?
Ha, Love it!!!!!!
Is this the most ridiculous thing you have ever heard of; this seems rather pointless.
Google is grasping for innovation, no one is asking for this feature and no one will use it, mark my words. Why not create theoretical users based upon real users
using social networking. We'll take actual users out of the equation entirely, just create virtual users.
Google has apparently ran out of ideas. Come on guys take some risks, don't be idiots.
Jeffrey Brotman, who founded Costco, the second largest retailer in the US and the best to it's employees of any retailer (90% with full health insurance where the average is 60%).
Charles R Walgreen - Walgreens, no MBAs existed then but his education was all business school.
Warren Buffet - MS In Econ, but having studied both they're pretty similar and this is much more numbers based.
Bill Gross - PIMCO Investments, and arguably the best Bond trader in the world.
Charles Flint - Cofounder of IBM. No MBA's existed when he was alive, but his education was entirely business related.
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe - Current CEO of Nestle, one of the largest companies in the world.
Oh, do these not fit into your definition of a Rockstar COmpany? That's entirely a subjective term, but each of these is easily some of the most successful companies ever and a far cry more "rockstar" than anything today like Twitter or LinkedIn or even Facebook.
Not sure what your point is with this, seems to prove my point. I don't have a problem with business people I don't think any of these people are MBA's, except for Bill Gross, which is my point. An MBA doesn't make you a good entrepreneur; I am sure there are a lot of exceptions like Bill Gross but I suspect that people with that degree don't get as much mileage from it as they expect.
News flash: highly successful engineer who did not go to business school thinks business school is a waste.
Shocking update: highly successful businessperson who went to business school thinks engineers don't know what they're talking about.
This is pretty normal... the path you took to get where you are starts to look like the best or only path. There is room for all specialties and approaches when used in the right way and mixed with other viewpoints.
Name successful MBA's that have started Rockstar Companies, then people who have become successful trep's without MBA's. That's what I am saying.
Most non-STEM education beyond associate-level courses is bullshit.
I agree...mostly
WOW!!! I gotta hand it to you Tea-tards you can work American Health Care into every conversation.
OK let's try this...
Hickory Dickory Dock
Your mom sucked my Cock
The clock struck one
And all was done
Hickory Dickory Dock
Work this into the conversation.
Yeah you're right. Tough week. :(
My genitals are always HUGE when I'm driving my car.
Love this...the more we talk about Huge genitals the better!
I agree, the system is being gamed by saying that there is a labor shortage and the only way we can fill the need is by bringing labor from another country and by the way oddly enough we can pay them less. It's clear that the system is gamed, like you said, normally someone who is in short supply is paid more.
Do you smoke crack often?
The government is creating the problem but not in the way your implying. It's supporting the mythology of a labor shortage by turning a blind eye to practices that seem to show that there is an IT shortage when it's actually the opposite problem and the issue is that there is a shortage of labor at a low wage.
We can argue free market, but there is only a free market with government regulation. You can argue that's it's not true, but you can see historically that I'm right.
Could the justice department do any less? The fines are a joke.
Are they trying to increase the cost I don't get it? In all seriousness they should just take 2/3's of the money they are spending now to their IT budget, yeah let's count 1 2/3's the cost they're not saving money, and have a big Bon fire. Then let everyone keep their jobs. Huge waste of time and money, I've never seen it work.
You're probably right. This is a sad day, I never thought I would see this happen. This is what happens when you lose vision. They're biggest assets is probably the patents. Sounds like someones going patent trolling.. They can probably sue they're way to riches.
It's an interesting idea that g-d would purposely try and fool his creations then send them to hell for believing in evolution. It's kind of like your wife making money by banging guys and swearing she's not a hooker then dressing as a nun during the day. Kind of thinking she's a whore....