Many of these viruses rely on the ability to act as a SMTP server on each infected machine, effectively bypassing any AV checks done on their users' MTA. To combat this I personally recommend redirecting tcp/25 (smtp and esmtp) and tcp/587 (mail submission) ports from you users/customer subnets at your border router to your MTA. That way you can force all SMTP traffic to be AV checked. Now this does prevent your users/customers from using an outside MTA. Most properly configured MTAs will reject these relay attempts anyways, unless of course the admin has configured SMTP-TLS or some other sort of SMTP authentication system. You must judge for yourself if you can redirect these ports. If your users are basic dialin customers then you can probably do it without any complaints. If you do this to DSL or cable customers then you may very well have some negative user feedback. Decide for yourself if this is something you can do. Nevertheless it is very effective at preventing these viruses from escaping your network. I also HIGHLY recommend redirecting all inbound SMTP traffic entering your network to your MTA. This prevents trojan SMTP relays on customer machines from relaying spam or viruses. Of course you must do this carefully and decide which subnets you can do this to. Give it a try if you think you can implement this without negative side effects.
There's only one plausible reason why the SCO execs are still running their mouths off. It can only be blamed on the free lunches they are receiving at all these anti-Linux functions they are speaking at. Stop the madness! Stop the free lunch insanity!
I have a Highpoint 404 card in one of my servers. Frankly I've had nothing but problems with their Linux support. Their drivers are a joke. The first version I used up until a couple weeks ago raised the CPU load by 1 as soon as you loaded it. Literally. I've had drive corruption problems more than once (including right this very minute). I am not using the stock RH kernels like they seem to think everyone does. I had to force the load of a the closest SMP kernel driver they had. It loads but with errors. The new version of that driver doesn't jack up my CPU load but it still corrupts my volume. I should have just used software RAID.
I also have a small 3Ware card in another computer. I have a 7000-2 in a desktop machine. I haven't had any problems with it. I prefer 3Ware cards frankly. I haven't tested their Linux support yet but I suspect it will be just fine.
The onboard Promise FastTrack133 card on my Asus A7V333 board sucks the big one. If I so much as have a drive connected to the RAID headers, the CPU load spikes once a minute regular as clockwork at roughly 30% above the current load. This makes things like MPEG playback, MP3 playing, and games stall for a second or two. You don't have have to have the drives formatted and mounted. They don't even have to be configured for use in the Promise BIOS controller. They just have to be connected. It's a joke.
Those are my experiences. You get what you pay for apparently.
If SPEWS lists you in one of their blocks, they aren't stating that you are a spammer. They are stating that spam is coming from a netblock and ultimately a provider. If you happen to be part of that netblock or provider then you may very well get listed. They aren't saying that you're a spammer or that spam is coming from you. It's coming from your netblock or your provider. I flat out reject mail from certain providers. Some of those providers are quite large like Broadwing and Ciberlynx. If you as a Internet user are STUPID enough to buy a service from one of those companies and not research a company you choose to do business with then you deserve exactly what you get.
If you coded a sendmail.cf from scratch then you are a damned fool. There's no other way to put it. YOU DO NOT CODE THE CF BY HAND. YOU DO NOT EVEN TOUCH THE CF! The Sendmail gurus have been saying this for years and there is NO excuse for not heeding their warnings. You use the M4 macros to build your CF. There is rarely, and I do mean rarely, any reason to directly edit the cf. You can do everything you need to do in the M4 macro file. Even the Sendmail gurus themselves don't touch the CF.
This is something that really pisses me off. People bitch and moan about Sendmail being so hard to configure when really they haven't done the tiniest bit of research or RTFM. If they had they would have known not to edit the CF. "Don't touch the CF" is the most common answer on comp.mail.sendmail. Yet these novices still feel knowledgeable enough to make claims about how hard it is to configure Sendmail. I swear the quality of sysadm nowadays is somewhere in the crapper. I've been using Sendmail since 8.8.7. I have never had an unusual configuration I couldn't quickly create with a minimal amount of online research. It's not rocket science folks.
This is something we anti-spam zealots have feared for some time. By outlawing certain types of spam we are in effect legalizing the other types of spam. For example if we say that all spam with adult content must have "ADV ADLT: " prepended to the Subject line then all spam with that mark can't be considered illegal spam, hence no lawsuit can be filed. The spam issue is a grand one. The ONLY people who can provide accurate and meaningful insight on the problem are the people who actually deal with it on a daily basis. If you don't know all the spammers tricks then you can't begin to dream of crafting a law that encompasses any and all of them. The NANAE regulars should have a enormous amount of input into any law that might get passed IMHO.
I think this is the best thing SCO could possibly do. An RIAA-style legal attack with SCO's utter lack of evidence should thoroughly trounce the little bitches. I say bring it. SCO, I use Linux! Sue me soon!
Hasn't anyone else noticed that this would violate the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996? For those that haven't heard of HIPAA, let me explain:
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) was signed into law on August 21, 1996. This law includes important new protections for millions of working Americans and their families who have preexisting medical conditions or might suffer discrimination in health coverage based on a factor that relates to an individual's health. HIPAA's provisions amend Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) as well as the Internal Revenue Code and the Public Health Service Act and place requirements on employer-sponsored group health plans, insurance companies and health maintenance organizations (HMOs). HIPAA includes changes that:
limit exclusions for preexisting conditions;
prohibit discrimination against employees and dependents based on their health status;
guarantee renewability and availability of health coverage to certain employers and individuals; and
protect many workers who lose health coverage by providing better access to individual health insurance coverage.
The dissemination of medical information without the explicit permission of subject. I don't have a problem with tracking information about how social services are used; that's expected of any service to maintain reliability. However providing medical information to law enforcement violates even the most basic principles of the doctor/patient privilege.
Put it this way, either you hire a bonded professional to fix it or you do it yourself and have your building condemned. Think I'm kidding you? Think again. Would your company rather spend a few grand on a professional or would they rather pay a few million (or more) in court costs and settlements when an employee is electricuted by accident? Present it to them in that manner and see what they say. Above all else even if they are stupid enough to do it on their own, without a professional, and against code DO NOT I repeat DO NOT get involved in it in any way, shape, or form. If you help them or do the work yourself you will be the one held accountable when disaster strikes. The company may have told you to do it but you didn't have to do it. Would you shoot someone if they told you to? Exactly my point.
I can't recall how many white-collar executive types in schools I've encountered that think Apple computers are worth a damn. The problem stems from the fact that few of these types of people actually have any actual teaching experience. There are fewer and fewer supers anymore that have actually been a teacher at some point in their career. I can think of more than one that my actual school district has had that had practically NO teaching experience. Instead they came from a business background. Lets face it; Macs still don't have a good foothold in the business world. The early business apps were not on Macs. Once business IT gets it in their minds that Macs aren't for business it's next impossible to change their ways. I've been a Mac guy for many years now and have now worked for 3 educational institutions. 1 school district (primarily the elementary school) and two state universities. Macs dominated the elementary school until I left. After I left the district hired a Novell person who of course switched everything to NT and Novell. Nevermind the fact that the elementary school was one of the first K-6 buildings with every classroom on the Internet. Nevermind the fact that the elementary school had over 175 applications running from a central Mac application server without a hitch and was maintained by a single person (the high school had 8, not counting Solitaire and Minesweeper). Nevermind the fact that those machines cost the district half the price of the PCs the new tech coordinator purchased the year after I left and has had a TOC (total cost of ownership) more than quadruple the TOC of the elementary school's Macs.
One thing that has always amazed me is how much the elementary school teachers have integrated their Macintosh computers into their curriculum. Those 1995 Apple Macs are still in use in their classrooms today and are still play a key role in the students' coursework. High school teachers in the same district that have had new computers every 2-3 years rarely touch their computers. Computers are what they tell their students to go use when they want to right a paper. Their computers play no role whatsoever in the classroom even when they have a much newer, much more powerful computer than their primary education counterparts. It baffles me sometimes. Strike that. It baffles me all the time. If the elementary school had only half the IT budget the high school gets, the elementary students would graduate from 6th grade with an even richer technology experience. Of course they would be sorely disappointed once they reached junior high at the other school. Still I think it would benefit them in the long run.
I can understand how an administrator can initially believe Macs are sub-par. What I don't understand is how a person like that who obviously doesn't have an open mind can stay in a key position such as that over an educational institution. Don't get me wrong. I do think PCs have an intrigal part of a child's education. I also think that Macs have just as equal a part in their education and I don't see how administrators in education can be so short-sighted that they can't see that.
You have to be careful on places like Pricewatch. I love Pricewatch and I use it all the time but you just have to learn to not always trust the lowest-priced seller. For example Computer Giants always has the lowest price on hard drives. They also have an unbelievable failure rate. Check out Computer Giants on resellerratings.com. I'm one of the people that gave a nasty review on them. The cheapest places aren't always the best. Pick a handful of good vendors and stick with them, even if they charge a couple bucks more. It's worth it in the long run. That's why I buy from newegg.com.
If you're seeing this post and wondering what the hell I'm talking about then you're browsing/. with your threshold set above the troll that I replied to. Here is the parent to this message that I was replying. He added the racist remarks which I and others caught and pointed out. Remember moderators, they slashdot folks recommend you surf at a lower threshold when you have mod points to prevent these problems from happening.
The parasite, a single-cell organism known as a protozoan, goes through different phases in both its mosquito and nigger hosts. Yet it has developed a very simple control system for governing at least part of this complex cycle. If this system could be disrupted, the sand coon's thousands of genes would lose their tightly choreographed coordination.
I went through all the pages linked to in this article and the racist remarks were NOT in any of the copies of the article but this one.
Mod this racist jerk down. Don't forget to add this jerk to your foe list so you don't have to read any more of his racist remarks.
How about artificial tissue-based heart valves? This topic is fresh on my mind because my grandfather had open-heart surgery to replace his aortic valve replaced a week ago. They elected to go with 1 of the 3 mechanical options instead of a tissue-based replacement. The available tissue replacements consisted of two options: pig or human. Pig heart valves have an average life of 7-9 years (in part due to the average lifetime of a pig). Human valves last much longer; however the human donors are usually elderly and their valves have already seen their fair share of mileage. Finding a young human donor isn't as common as finding an elderly human donor. Since heart disease runs in my family, I'm quite interested in any and all medical advancements in this arena. Genetically engineered hearts sounds quite promising.
This is somewhat OT for this article but in line with the comments that are being made. I recently had a lot of problems with my Highpoint 404 card in one of my 2.4 Linux server. Loading the driver instantly added 1.0 to my system load. I didn't even have a drive mounted yet that used that driver. After a couple weeks of use I'd come home to find the volume mounted but claiming to be empty. I'd umount the volume, unload the hpt374 driver, reload the driver, and remount the volume to make things right. This last time things didn't come back up correctly. Unloading the driver caused the load on my machine to breach 50. The volume couldn't be remounted because of superblock errors (or so it claimed). Reloading the driver made the machine act in a VERY funky way (cpu load very erratic). Finally I upgraded the driver and all seemed to fix itself. Even Linux can have driver woes.
I would REALLY like to see someone file a class-action suit against these clowns, charging them with extortion and fraud so that ALL Linux users can join in. Imagine a C-A suit with tens, perhaps hundreds, of individuals and companies on one side and wee little SCO on the other. That would truly be a sight to see and I for one would join in a heartbeat.
I do this. In fact this is highly recommended by a federal agency that I can't recall at the moment. Consumer something. I don't really care what people say about it invalidating your card. That's BS as far as I'm concerned (and yes I know what Visa and MC say and I don't care).
I had a funny experience with this once. I bought a whole cart-load of stuff at a local Wal-Mart a couple years ago. The checkout girl ran it all through and I then gave her my Visa Check Card (before they had the card readers for the customers installed). The girl ran it through the card reader and had me sign the receipt. Then she compared my signature to the one on the back of the card. Well, on the back of my card I wrote "SEE PHOTO ID" in big bold letters that covered the full strip. This girl was foreign, Chinese I believe. She told me in very broken English that the "signatures" didn't match. Well duh. I tried explaining it to her for a good 2-3 minutes. She got louder. I got louder. She just couldn't get it through her head what "SEE PHOTO ID" meant. Finally our arguement attracted a manager. He asked her what the problem was to which she replied what she'd been saying for 2-3 minutes: "They don't match." I told the guy that he had 5 seconds to complete the sale or I was finished with the store. Remember not that I had a heaping-full cart load of stuff (large Wal-Mart with a grocery store inside). He took the receipt from the girl, handed me my copy, and that was that.
I still think writing "SEE PHOTO ID" on the backs of my cards is the best thing to do. I have NEVER had a single person compare the signature to the signature I just wrote. If anyone ever had they would see that they DO NOT MATCH. Not even close. I write very quickly most of the time and my signature is usually illegible and never the same twice. I do have people look at my face after looking at my photo ID about 80% of the time though. I feel it is by far a better solution overall. The best solution would be to use a card that has your photo on the card itself.
...of mine told me about a local law agency that you could hire to contest negative marks on your credit rating in a court of law. The lawyer charged a flat $300 for his fee and had an incredible rate of success for getting large numbers of negative marks removed. The easiest part was when the entity that put a negative mark on your report didn't show up and defaulted. I'm not sure if he ever went ahead with it but it sounds mighty tempting. As for me my credit rating isn't good. I fell prey to the multitude of credit card offers I received in college and didn't know any better. I no longer have ANY credit card debt but it sure took a long way to dig myself out from under it. Even then I had to have some assistance in the form of a consolidation loan from a family member. Personally I'd rather go back to the days of having written references from businesses and individuals in good standing with the community to get approved for a loan. It all seems so much more honest than the current electronic method.
Frankly I'm quite worried about becoming a victim of identity theft. I use my Visa Check Card everywhere for online purchases, at gas stations, etc... I REALLY shouldn't since it takes $$ straight from my checking account. The good news is I have all the protection afforded every Visa card. The bad news is I'm out real $$ until the problem is resolved and my account credited.
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Many of these viruses rely on the ability to act as a SMTP server on each infected machine, effectively bypassing any AV checks done on their users' MTA. To combat this I personally recommend redirecting tcp/25 (smtp and esmtp) and tcp/587 (mail submission) ports from you users/customer subnets at your border router to your MTA. That way you can force all SMTP traffic to be AV checked. Now this does prevent your users/customers from using an outside MTA. Most properly configured MTAs will reject these relay attempts anyways, unless of course the admin has configured SMTP-TLS or some other sort of SMTP authentication system. You must judge for yourself if you can redirect these ports. If your users are basic dialin customers then you can probably do it without any complaints. If you do this to DSL or cable customers then you may very well have some negative user feedback. Decide for yourself if this is something you can do. Nevertheless it is very effective at preventing these viruses from escaping your network. I also HIGHLY recommend redirecting all inbound SMTP traffic entering your network to your MTA. This prevents trojan SMTP relays on customer machines from relaying spam or viruses. Of course you must do this carefully and decide which subnets you can do this to. Give it a try if you think you can implement this without negative side effects.
There's only one plausible reason why the SCO execs are still running their mouths off. It can only be blamed on the free lunches they are receiving at all these anti-Linux functions they are speaking at. Stop the madness! Stop the free lunch insanity!
I also have a small 3Ware card in another computer. I have a 7000-2 in a desktop machine. I haven't had any problems with it. I prefer 3Ware cards frankly. I haven't tested their Linux support yet but I suspect it will be just fine.
The onboard Promise FastTrack133 card on my Asus A7V333 board sucks the big one. If I so much as have a drive connected to the RAID headers, the CPU load spikes once a minute regular as clockwork at roughly 30% above the current load. This makes things like MPEG playback, MP3 playing, and games stall for a second or two. You don't have have to have the drives formatted and mounted. They don't even have to be configured for use in the Promise BIOS controller. They just have to be connected. It's a joke.
Those are my experiences. You get what you pay for apparently.
If SPEWS lists you in one of their blocks, they aren't stating that you are a spammer. They are stating that spam is coming from a netblock and ultimately a provider. If you happen to be part of that netblock or provider then you may very well get listed. They aren't saying that you're a spammer or that spam is coming from you. It's coming from your netblock or your provider. I flat out reject mail from certain providers. Some of those providers are quite large like Broadwing and Ciberlynx. If you as a Internet user are STUPID enough to buy a service from one of those companies and not research a company you choose to do business with then you deserve exactly what you get.
This is something that really pisses me off. People bitch and moan about Sendmail being so hard to configure when really they haven't done the tiniest bit of research or RTFM. If they had they would have known not to edit the CF. "Don't touch the CF" is the most common answer on comp.mail.sendmail. Yet these novices still feel knowledgeable enough to make claims about how hard it is to configure Sendmail. I swear the quality of sysadm nowadays is somewhere in the crapper. I've been using Sendmail since 8.8.7. I have never had an unusual configuration I couldn't quickly create with a minimal amount of online research. It's not rocket science folks.
This is something we anti-spam zealots have feared for some time. By outlawing certain types of spam we are in effect legalizing the other types of spam. For example if we say that all spam with adult content must have "ADV ADLT: " prepended to the Subject line then all spam with that mark can't be considered illegal spam, hence no lawsuit can be filed. The spam issue is a grand one. The ONLY people who can provide accurate and meaningful insight on the problem are the people who actually deal with it on a daily basis. If you don't know all the spammers tricks then you can't begin to dream of crafting a law that encompasses any and all of them. The NANAE regulars should have a enormous amount of input into any law that might get passed IMHO.
I think this is the best thing SCO could possibly do. An RIAA-style legal attack with SCO's utter lack of evidence should thoroughly trounce the little bitches. I say bring it. SCO, I use Linux! Sue me soon!
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) was signed into law on August 21, 1996. This law includes important new protections for millions of working Americans and their families who have preexisting medical conditions or might suffer discrimination in health coverage based on a factor that relates to an individual's health. HIPAA's provisions amend Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) as well as the Internal Revenue Code and the Public Health Service Act and place requirements on employer-sponsored group health plans, insurance companies and health maintenance organizations (HMOs). HIPAA includes changes that:
limit exclusions for preexisting conditions;
prohibit discrimination against employees and dependents based on their health status;
guarantee renewability and availability of health coverage to certain employers and individuals; and
protect many workers who lose health coverage by providing better access to individual health insurance coverage.
Here are some useful links:
HHS - Office for Civil Rights - HIPAA
What is HIPAA?
HIPAA.ORG
HIPAA - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
The dissemination of medical information without the explicit permission of subject. I don't have a problem with tracking information about how social services are used; that's expected of any service to maintain reliability. However providing medical information to law enforcement violates even the most basic principles of the doctor/patient privilege.
OMG, this is so absolutely hilarious! I just can't stand it it's so funny. HA HA HA! LMAO
Both. They have stated it verbally (slander) and they have written it as fact (libel).
Put it this way, either you hire a bonded professional to fix it or you do it yourself and have your building condemned. Think I'm kidding you? Think again. Would your company rather spend a few grand on a professional or would they rather pay a few million (or more) in court costs and settlements when an employee is electricuted by accident? Present it to them in that manner and see what they say. Above all else even if they are stupid enough to do it on their own, without a professional, and against code DO NOT I repeat DO NOT get involved in it in any way, shape, or form. If you help them or do the work yourself you will be the one held accountable when disaster strikes. The company may have told you to do it but you didn't have to do it. Would you shoot someone if they told you to? Exactly my point.
PS, sorry about the horrific grammar mistakes. I should proof read more of my posts. Then again my sig makes up for it.
One thing that has always amazed me is how much the elementary school teachers have integrated their Macintosh computers into their curriculum. Those 1995 Apple Macs are still in use in their classrooms today and are still play a key role in the students' coursework. High school teachers in the same district that have had new computers every 2-3 years rarely touch their computers. Computers are what they tell their students to go use when they want to right a paper. Their computers play no role whatsoever in the classroom even when they have a much newer, much more powerful computer than their primary education counterparts. It baffles me sometimes. Strike that. It baffles me all the time. If the elementary school had only half the IT budget the high school gets, the elementary students would graduate from 6th grade with an even richer technology experience. Of course they would be sorely disappointed once they reached junior high at the other school. Still I think it would benefit them in the long run.
I can understand how an administrator can initially believe Macs are sub-par. What I don't understand is how a person like that who obviously doesn't have an open mind can stay in a key position such as that over an educational institution. Don't get me wrong. I do think PCs have an intrigal part of a child's education. I also think that Macs have just as equal a part in their education and I don't see how administrators in education can be so short-sighted that they can't see that.
You have to be careful on places like Pricewatch. I love Pricewatch and I use it all the time but you just have to learn to not always trust the lowest-priced seller. For example Computer Giants always has the lowest price on hard drives. They also have an unbelievable failure rate. Check out Computer Giants on resellerratings.com. I'm one of the people that gave a nasty review on them. The cheapest places aren't always the best. Pick a handful of good vendors and stick with them, even if they charge a couple bucks more. It's worth it in the long run. That's why I buy from newegg.com.
If you're seeing this post and wondering what the hell I'm talking about then you're browsing /. with your threshold set above the troll that I replied to. Here is the parent to this message that I was replying. He added the racist remarks which I and others caught and pointed out. Remember moderators, they slashdot folks recommend you surf at a lower threshold when you have mod points to prevent these problems from happening.
I went through all the pages linked to in this article and the racist remarks were NOT in any of the copies of the article but this one.
Mod this racist jerk down. Don't forget to add this jerk to your foe list so you don't have to read any more of his racist remarks.
How about artificial tissue-based heart valves? This topic is fresh on my mind because my grandfather had open-heart surgery to replace his aortic valve replaced a week ago. They elected to go with 1 of the 3 mechanical options instead of a tissue-based replacement. The available tissue replacements consisted of two options: pig or human. Pig heart valves have an average life of 7-9 years (in part due to the average lifetime of a pig). Human valves last much longer; however the human donors are usually elderly and their valves have already seen their fair share of mileage. Finding a young human donor isn't as common as finding an elderly human donor. Since heart disease runs in my family, I'm quite interested in any and all medical advancements in this arena. Genetically engineered hearts sounds quite promising.
This is somewhat OT for this article but in line with the comments that are being made. I recently had a lot of problems with my Highpoint 404 card in one of my 2.4 Linux server. Loading the driver instantly added 1.0 to my system load. I didn't even have a drive mounted yet that used that driver. After a couple weeks of use I'd come home to find the volume mounted but claiming to be empty. I'd umount the volume, unload the hpt374 driver, reload the driver, and remount the volume to make things right. This last time things didn't come back up correctly. Unloading the driver caused the load on my machine to breach 50. The volume couldn't be remounted because of superblock errors (or so it claimed). Reloading the driver made the machine act in a VERY funky way (cpu load very erratic). Finally I upgraded the driver and all seemed to fix itself. Even Linux can have driver woes.
Ha ha! True! Yes both would be quite a sight. Why limit ourselves to just one? Why not both?
Whoops. I meant to say was "...tens, perhaps hundreds, of thousands of...". My bad. I'm in too big of a hurry today.
I would REALLY like to see someone file a class-action suit against these clowns, charging them with extortion and fraud so that ALL Linux users can join in. Imagine a C-A suit with tens, perhaps hundreds, of individuals and companies on one side and wee little SCO on the other. That would truly be a sight to see and I for one would join in a heartbeat.
So I take it that this body odor is found in all us intellectual muscular types... :-)
I had a funny experience with this once. I bought a whole cart-load of stuff at a local Wal-Mart a couple years ago. The checkout girl ran it all through and I then gave her my Visa Check Card (before they had the card readers for the customers installed). The girl ran it through the card reader and had me sign the receipt. Then she compared my signature to the one on the back of the card. Well, on the back of my card I wrote "SEE PHOTO ID" in big bold letters that covered the full strip. This girl was foreign, Chinese I believe. She told me in very broken English that the "signatures" didn't match. Well duh. I tried explaining it to her for a good 2-3 minutes. She got louder. I got louder. She just couldn't get it through her head what "SEE PHOTO ID" meant. Finally our arguement attracted a manager. He asked her what the problem was to which she replied what she'd been saying for 2-3 minutes: "They don't match." I told the guy that he had 5 seconds to complete the sale or I was finished with the store. Remember not that I had a heaping-full cart load of stuff (large Wal-Mart with a grocery store inside). He took the receipt from the girl, handed me my copy, and that was that.
I still think writing "SEE PHOTO ID" on the backs of my cards is the best thing to do. I have NEVER had a single person compare the signature to the signature I just wrote. If anyone ever had they would see that they DO NOT MATCH. Not even close. I write very quickly most of the time and my signature is usually illegible and never the same twice. I do have people look at my face after looking at my photo ID about 80% of the time though. I feel it is by far a better solution overall. The best solution would be to use a card that has your photo on the card itself.
Frankly I'm quite worried about becoming a victim of identity theft. I use my Visa Check Card everywhere for online purchases, at gas stations, etc... I REALLY shouldn't since it takes $$ straight from my checking account. The good news is I have all the protection afforded every Visa card. The bad news is I'm out real $$ until the problem is resolved and my account credited.
Makes me wonder if these folks are paying attention to SCO's execs....