Interesting calculation, but if you can snoop 10000 cards in a shop you must have certain abilities that can gain you much more elsewhere. Besides, following my previous comment, the input dev may support up to, say, 5 cards.
If you have more than that - send your maid for grocery shopping.
...Will it ask you which of the 4 cards in your wallet you want to pay with?...
Simple - the input dev detects all cards and asks which one to charge.
More important is not to mix it with the cards of the next customer.
Far more important is what all Platinum card owners are gonna do? They have to wave it into your face, right? I guess that alone may kill the whole long-range idea.
Any bright ideas how to give them a reason to show off the cards?
...They're gonna need to put in some confirmation thing in this...
Dunno how's it in states, but in Russia, France and more countries you have to type in your PIN in order to approve a payment. Long range RFID would be much easier because you won't need to get your card out of your wallet that's stuck somewhere in your pouch full of other stuff. Just type the PIN.
Supermarkets should greatly welcome this initiative because their lines will go much faster that way.
Yes, this might look like a dumb reason, but DEAR LORD, clearing a month of cache in IE may take several minutes. I just couldn't use that stupid software, go figure what other hidden flaws it's filled with.
It's irresponsible of you to trust the highly unreliable user agent instead of actually testing for supported features at the client (e.g. document.all, document.layers etc.). Believing in user agent is as naive as believing that the Viagra spam comes with genuine sender addresses.
Details: - We have a simple ASP application, JS - server and client (not that the client matters) - ASP pages call VB COM in COM+ that, in turn call SQL server and format the info out as HTML tables
I haven't seen more simple app than this one. It never fails on IIS 5 / Windows 2000.
On Windows 2003 we had a problem admitted and fixed by MS in SP1 Beta. Surprise: everything worked well with SP1 Beta!! Once we installed SP1 Release - every now and then the ASP stops responding. Not even the dumbest Response.Write("kuku"). HTML are served fine.
I can provide more details if needed. Thanks for looking.
We did actually. Did it all the way... to MS. They handle the case right now, and, frankly... they don't have a clue what went wrong with ASP engine! I bet they just can't handle the stream of support cases they got after 2003 SP1
Don't believe me, go ahead and check MS IIS newsgroup and you'll find tons of desperate programmers like those of my team that, since W2k3 SP1, do not care about pretty icons any longer. The only thing we long for is that our legacy ASP will continue working on IIS 6.0 as it did on IIS 5.x for years!!!
MS please don't blow it the next time.
Apache folks, keep your "told ya" for yourself, it ain't gonna help me now.
In Israel, workstations in all large corporate networks are very well protected.
It's much cheaper to find a dirty sysadmin that will push a small MSI to all AD clients then actually writing a full blown Trojan that should first of all plant itself on the target computer, taking the risk of being discovered by some techy user.
Just 2 samples: (1) I use wireless at my office, because I often have to pass both the keyboard and the mouse to one of my colleagues. I couldn't do it w/cords. (2) At home I have way too many devices connected so moving a regular mouse would involve a constant dragging of the cord through a forest of stuff like modem, external HD, 2 printers, Wacom digital pad etc. May be my desk is not especially organized, but it's better w/cordless set.
The major strength of VS.NET is in its integrated debugging tools (C++, SQL, ASP(X), JS etc.). Merely converting the bytecode does 10% of the work, debugging (w/other tools) will take the other 90%.
...On the other hand, you might have to pay for at least one license...
Nah, in companies (and I have one) it doesn't work that way. Imagine price quotes / requirement letters / specs etc. exchanged with (potential) clients and colleagues. It won't work with a single license. It's all or nothing.
While my QA dept. would be happy to have Linux off hand w/o ghosting, I still don't get the reason for doing it.
1. Resources: I gain nothing from running two rather heavy op. systems simultaneously. 2. Licensing: I still need a license for Windows. 3. Reliability: When something fails where should I seek for the reason: My software, Windows, Linux, Emulator or just the exclusive combination of all above?
From my experience, hacking attempts often end up with crashed OS. Double power supply and stable Internet won't help. Somebody is going to ping/reboot the system for 48 hours?
SYMPTOMS In rare conditions TeddyBear version 6.01 may choke babies and sometimes also their parents.
RESOLUTION To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for TeddyBear version 6.01. After applying the service pack TeddyBear may still shake the babies, but this is by design.
STATUS Microsoft confirmed that this is a problem.
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Besides, how messy is your wallet, anyway?
:-)
I wish I'd have something to mess up my wallet. I'm a lazy bum, that's all
4 digit pins means...
Interesting calculation, but if you can snoop 10000 cards in a shop you must have certain abilities that can gain you much more elsewhere. Besides, following my previous comment, the input dev may support up to, say, 5 cards.
If you have more than that - send your maid for grocery shopping.
...Will it ask you which of the 4 cards in your wallet you want to pay with? ...
Simple - the input dev detects all cards and asks which one to charge.
More important is not to mix it with the cards of the next customer.
Far more important is what all Platinum card owners are gonna do? They have to wave it into your face, right? I guess that alone may kill the whole long-range idea.
Any bright ideas how to give them a reason to show off the cards?
...They're gonna need to put in some confirmation thing in this...
Dunno how's it in states, but in Russia, France and more countries you have to type in your PIN in order to approve a payment.
Long range RFID would be much easier because you won't need to get your card out of your wallet that's stuck somewhere in your pouch full of other stuff. Just type the PIN.
Supermarkets should greatly welcome this initiative because their lines will go much faster that way.
Yes, this might look like a dumb reason, but DEAR LORD, clearing a month of cache in IE may take several minutes. I just couldn't use that stupid software, go figure what other hidden flaws it's filled with.
...Cyrillic has a, e, o, p, c, y, x, and s...
True, except the 's'. There is no such a thing in Cyrillic, unless you mean the Old Churh Slavonic
It's irresponsible of you to trust the highly unreliable user agent instead of actually testing for supported features at the client (e.g. document.all, document.layers etc.). Believing in user agent is as naive as believing that the Viagra spam comes with genuine sender addresses.
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From TFA: ...according to a new survey released Monday by Entertainment Media Research...
Details:
- We have a simple ASP application, JS - server and client (not that the client matters)
- ASP pages call VB COM in COM+ that, in turn call SQL server and format the info out as HTML tables
I haven't seen more simple app than this one.
It never fails on IIS 5 / Windows 2000.
On Windows 2003 we had a problem admitted and fixed by MS in SP1 Beta. Surprise: everything worked well with SP1 Beta!! Once we installed SP1 Release - every now and then the ASP stops responding. Not even the dumbest Response.Write("kuku"). HTML are served fine.
I can provide more details if needed. Thanks for looking.
We did actually. Did it all the way... to MS. They handle the case right now, and, frankly... they don't have a clue what went wrong with ASP engine! I bet they just can't handle the stream of support cases they got after 2003 SP1
...or stealing ideas, one could also argue...
One that would should see this first.
AFAIC, that's inspiration, not stealing.
but IIS 6.0 is a steaming pile of shit!
Don't believe me, go ahead and check MS IIS newsgroup and you'll find tons of desperate programmers like those of my team that, since W2k3 SP1, do not care about pretty icons any longer. The only thing we long for is that our legacy ASP will continue working on IIS 6.0 as it did on IIS 5.x for years!!!
MS please don't blow it the next time.
Apache folks, keep your "told ya" for yourself, it ain't gonna help me now.
But I guess the moderation of my post will depend on the opinion of the movie by the randomly selected dude with the mod points.
/. "dudes" are not that randomly selected due to its narrow segmentation and low tolerance of opinions that are out of its local consensus.
IMO,
In Israel, workstations in all large corporate networks are very well protected.
;-)
It's much cheaper to find a dirty sysadmin that will push a small MSI to all AD clients then actually writing a full blown Trojan that should first of all plant itself on the target computer, taking the risk of being discovered by some techy user.
So keep MS bashing for another article
Just 2 samples: (1) I use wireless at my office, because I often have to pass both the keyboard and the mouse to one of my colleagues. I couldn't do it w/cords. (2) At home I have way too many devices connected so moving a regular mouse would involve a constant dragging of the cord through a forest of stuff like modem, external HD, 2 printers, Wacom digital pad etc. May be my desk is not especially organized, but it's better w/cordless set.
The major strength of VS.NET is in its integrated debugging tools (C++, SQL, ASP(X), JS etc.). Merely converting the bytecode does 10% of the work, debugging (w/other tools) will take the other 90%.
...micro and soft becomes an expert in sexuality?
...On the other hand, you might have to pay for at least one license...
Nah, in companies (and I have one) it doesn't work that way. Imagine price quotes / requirement letters / specs etc. exchanged with (potential) clients and colleagues. It won't work with a single license. It's all or nothing.
Just get it straight and fast from Emule.
While my QA dept. would be happy to have Linux off hand w/o ghosting, I still don't get the reason for doing it.
1. Resources: I gain nothing from running two rather heavy op. systems simultaneously.
2. Licensing: I still need a license for Windows.
3. Reliability: When something fails where should I seek for the reason: My software, Windows, Linux, Emulator or just the exclusive combination of all above?
What the hell is it good for?
From my experience, hacking attempts often end up with crashed OS. Double power supply and stable Internet won't help. Somebody is going to ping/reboot the system for 48 hours?
Q123456
SYMPTOMS
In rare conditions TeddyBear version 6.01 may choke babies and sometimes also their parents.
RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for TeddyBear version 6.01. After applying the service pack TeddyBear may still shake the babies, but this is by design.
STATUS
Microsoft confirmed that this is a problem.
MORE INFORMATION
www.linux.com
I got MSI and pushed it over to all my AD clients
Yeah, but even greater idiocy would be relying on Windows Media, as a third-party application developer, from the first place.