When I was in Japan I saw 5 guys "operating" a wheel-barrow in a train station.
1 person to direct peadestrians out of the way. 1 person to direct the wheel-barrow. 1 person to actually push the wheel-barrow. 1 person to walk 10 feet behind the wheel-barrow. and 1 person to stand at a distance of 15 feet and supervise.
My point is that the current credit card authentication system is so insecure that it doesn't really matter what the physical card is made of. The only thing that keeps massive fraud from occurring is the paper trail. It is easier to trace the money and prosecute that it is to secure the system. Securing the system would inconvenience the user and that is something that visa would never want. It is much easier to prosecute.
That being said we may see this attitude change in the future as online credit card databases allow fraud on a much larger scale.
For the record I can get a large number of credit cards (probably yours too) fairly easily:
Receipts carelessly tossed in a garbage can outside of certain stores (yes, many of them do print your full name, card number and exp. Date)
Hacking insecure online servers (many have 1000s of cards in plain text or weakly encrypted)
Grab your mail
Look in your recycling box
Look at your card over your shoulder
Hidden cameras, crooked cashiers/waiters etc
Set up a fake online store selling a few products very cheaply.
Set up a cheap porn site. (ala the Eros Island scam)
This new technology will not arrive in Europe before 2006 at least.
Japan now and in europe in 2006 -- early extrapolations of this trend indicate that this technology will splash into the north american market as early as 2032.
I'm using a system setup this way right now. In < 15 minutes I had a fully working debian system - and I mean *fully* working. All my hardware worked etc.
Perhaps I'm missing something here but how does this differ from a story with the headline:
Liquor Store Robbers Face Possible Jail Term
Yes you are missing something.
It is common place for robbers to be sent to jail. However, this is new. Australian teens facing jail for mp3s related crimes is ground breaking.
Your missing something else. You fail to take into account the spirit of the law. In most countries, when a law is applied, not only is the letter of the law considered but the spirit as well. Was it this law's intention to target and prosecute small infractions (such as teens trading mp3s or people recording radio shows and sharing them with friends)?
Additionally, there is the matter of public policy. In many cases public policy out weighs the techinical implications of the law. Generally it is against public policy to enforce a law that would deem a large percentage of the population criminals.
You must realise that the law is not a set of rules that can be executed like a computer program. The law is open to interpertation by reasonable minds. Simply applied to the letter, the law (in any country), would land most of us in jail.
This kind of petty (it's just a name), inmature (flooding people's e-mail), public arguing is one of the reasons Linux isn't getting the acceptance it should.
Why do people feel the need to drag Linux into every OSS related spectacle?
This issue has absolutely nothing to do with Linux. Stop trying to drag every OSS project under one big Linux umbrella.
(P.S. For everyone reading please don't reply regarding the acceptance of Linux and Mod this obvoius troll down.)
I have to agree with the above comments. I'm not impressed at all. 11 requests/sec is *nothing* to brag about.
Currently *one* of our servers is serving up 114 request / sec (and these are dynamic page requests -- all requiring extensive DB interaction). The entire system is serving well over 3,000 requests / sec.
We achieved this level of performance by using the right tools for the job, always. (OT Rant:) **and by hacking**. hacking hardware and software. Where have all the good hackers gone, anyway?
Today I see more and more people willing to shell out $$$ to companies for expensive *solutions*. arrgh. (/OT Rant)
For the record - our setup: 22 cheap lite weight servers managed by LVS + Heartbeat + Mon. 5 MySQL DB servers (using replication) and C / PHP / JAVA. (all extensively hacked)
A geek who who awoke from a 15 year comma would probably be put in a lab and studied.
"Dr. you say this geek has no knowledge of 'Slashdot'? Truely amazing..."
They would probably put throw him into a basement in the depths of IBM to write legacy code for 15 year old applications. Unaware of recent advents such as 'the web', 'slashdot' and 'massive internet pr0n archives' he would be the most productive geek ever.
Gillette is a big company. Their product line isn't limited to razors.
Gillette's main product lines are:
Gillette Mach3
Gillette for Women Venus
Gillette Series
Right Guard
Duracell CopperTop (yes the batteries)
Oral-B
Braun Appliances
So you can see why Gillette could use so many RDIF tags.
(Off-topic: I found it interesting that when I dropped my Mach 3 in favor of a Braun electrice shaver I wasn't actually giving up Gillette.)
If the station was built on the moon we wouldn't be able to take advantage of the L1 point.
(Btw the L1 point is the point at which the force of the earth's gravity equals the force of the moon's)
Every cargo shuttle and transport going to the station would have to expend extra energy to over come the moons gravity on the return trip. Therefore it would also have to carry more fuel throughout the entire trip. Making the costs of the whole thing go up and the efficiency go down.
By building at the L1 point the return trip would be fully aided by the gravity of earth requiring almost no additional energy.
What if they sold low-end real cellphones, unbundled from any plan or network, for, say, $40. Then various companies could sell phone cards for these cellphones at 5 or 10 cents per minute. This would cover most of the needs of people who would consider disposable cellphones without the "disposable" gimmick.
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You think its bad in the usa.
When I was in Japan I saw 5 guys "operating" a wheel-barrow in a train station.
1 person to direct peadestrians out of the way.
1 person to direct the wheel-barrow.
1 person to actually push the wheel-barrow.
1 person to walk 10 feet behind the wheel-barrow.
and 1 person to stand at a distance of 15 feet and supervise.
To top if off the wheel-barrow was empty.
Why doesn't MercExchange just sell the patents on ebay?
That's how I get rid of worthless crap I don't want.
My point is that the current credit card authentication system is so insecure that it doesn't really matter what the physical card is made of. The only thing that keeps massive fraud from occurring is the paper trail. It is easier to trace the money and prosecute that it is to secure the system. Securing the system would inconvenience the user and that is something that visa would never want. It is much easier to prosecute.
That being said we may see this attitude change in the future as online credit card databases allow fraud on a much larger scale.
For the record I can get a large number of credit cards (probably yours too) fairly easily:
Receipts carelessly tossed in a garbage can outside of certain stores (yes, many of them do print your full name, card number and exp. Date)
Hacking insecure online servers (many have 1000s of cards in plain text or weakly encrypted)
Grab your mail
Look in your recycling box
Look at your card over your shoulder
Hidden cameras, crooked cashiers/waiters etc
Set up a fake online store selling a few products very cheaply.
Set up a cheap porn site. (ala the Eros Island scam)
etc
to charge them, it's very much a physical action.
Physical, hardly.
Have you ever purchased anything online?
All I need is your number, name and expiry and I can charge your account all I want.
Credit card accounts are inherently very insecure. Prosecution is the only thing stopping (even more) massive fraud.
This new technology will not arrive in Europe before 2006 at least.
Japan now and in europe in 2006 -- early extrapolations of this trend indicate that this technology will splash into the north american market as early as 2032.
Lets keep our fingers crossed.
Sweet, apple started making PCs!
Can I get OSX for x86 now?!? please?
Now, lets make fun of you for making fun of someone else and screwing it up! <STYLE=SIMPSONS.NELSON>HA HA</STYLE>
Not so comical anymore, eh!
Seriously, Knoppix seems to have everything but a ``push me to repartition the hard drive and install automagically'' button.
Wait, yes it does...
You can use knoppix as an gui installer.
Find out how HERE
I'm using a system setup this way right now.
In < 15 minutes I had a fully working debian system - and I mean *fully* working. All my hardware worked etc.
Perhaps I'm missing something here but how does this differ from a story with the headline:
Liquor Store Robbers Face Possible Jail Term
Yes you are missing something.
It is common place for robbers to be sent to jail. However, this is new. Australian teens facing jail for mp3s related crimes is ground breaking.
Your missing something else. You fail to take into account the spirit of the law. In most countries, when a law is applied, not only is the letter of the law considered but the spirit as well. Was it this law's intention to target and prosecute small infractions (such as teens trading mp3s or people recording radio shows and sharing them with friends)?
Additionally, there is the matter of public policy. In many cases public policy out weighs the techinical implications of the law. Generally it is against public policy to enforce a law that would deem a large percentage of the population criminals.
You must realise that the law is not a set of rules that can be executed like a computer program. The law is open to interpertation by reasonable minds. Simply applied to the letter, the law (in any country), would land most of us in jail.
This kind of petty (it's just a name), inmature (flooding people's e-mail), public arguing is one of the reasons Linux isn't getting the acceptance it should.
Why do people feel the need to drag Linux into every OSS related spectacle?
This issue has absolutely nothing to do with Linux. Stop trying to drag every OSS project under one big Linux umbrella.
(P.S. For everyone reading please don't reply regarding the acceptance of Linux and Mod this obvoius troll down.)
That's a big savings.
Not for grandma.
I run a pretty popular site that pumps out about 250,000 ... Did I mention that the two webservers also toss 1 million images a day too?
Care to post a link? I'm in the mood for a little pr0n action right now.
** The pr0n industry, always on the cutting edge **
I have to agree with the above comments. I'm not impressed at all. 11 requests/sec is *nothing* to brag about.
Currently *one* of our servers is serving up 114 request / sec (and these are dynamic page requests -- all requiring extensive DB interaction). The entire system is serving well over 3,000 requests / sec.
We achieved this level of performance by using the right tools for the job, always. (OT Rant:) **and by hacking**. hacking hardware and software. Where have all the good hackers gone, anyway?
Today I see more and more people willing to shell out $$$ to companies for expensive *solutions*. arrgh.
(/OT Rant)
For the record - our setup:
22 cheap lite weight servers managed by LVS + Heartbeat + Mon. 5 MySQL DB servers (using replication) and C / PHP / JAVA. (all extensively hacked)
Wait a minute aren't *they* suing Google?
It should be a "Legal Attack Fund".
We should sue them for false representation!
Other uses are in the server room. Obviously, TCO is a big concern, and the electrical bill is a very very large part of the TCO.
Ummm... yeaahh.. no
This cpu only saves power when there is no processing to be done.
If you have an expensive server sitting in a expensive room with an unused CPU you have made some pretty bad TCO choices already.
A geek who who awoke from a 15 year comma would probably be put in a lab and studied.
"Dr. you say this geek has no knowledge of 'Slashdot'? Truely amazing..."
They would probably put throw him into a basement in the depths of IBM to write legacy code for 15 year old applications. Unaware of recent advents such as 'the web', 'slashdot' and 'massive internet pr0n archives' he would be the most productive geek ever.
Cell phone companies already have a large number of experienced exployees that have been meeting th ese necessary goals for years.
Yes, but Microsoft has 40.8 Billion Dollars.
Gillette is a big company. Their product line isn't limited to razors.
Gillette's main product lines are:
Gillette Mach3
Gillette for Women Venus
Gillette Series
Right Guard
Duracell CopperTop (yes the batteries)
Oral-B
Braun Appliances
So you can see why Gillette could use so many RDIF tags.
(Off-topic: I found it interesting that when I dropped my Mach 3 in favor of a Braun electrice shaver I wasn't actually giving up Gillette.)
If the station was built on the moon we wouldn't be able to take advantage of the L1 point.
(Btw the L1 point is the point at which the force of the earth's gravity equals the force of the moon's)
Every cargo shuttle and transport going to the station would have to expend extra energy to over come the moons gravity on the return trip. Therefore it would also have to carry more fuel throughout the entire trip. Making the costs of the whole thing go up and the efficiency go down.
By building at the L1 point the return trip would be fully aided by the gravity of earth requiring almost no additional energy.
But, may I ask the question that seems to be on alot of peoples minds?
How much did it cost?
In a 2+ million dollar system software cost is a very small percentage of the total cost.
However, in reality, a lot companies have $10,000 or even $5,000 DB servers.
When you factor the cost of Windows into these systems the difference in Price/Performance is much greater than 6 percent.
So It may infact, be possible to overclock the UNIVERSE!!!
mmmmmm
If you have to resort to saying "well, it's better than Windows", you've got problems.
Dudes, calm down. I think he is being sarcastic (i.e. everything is better than Windows[tm] ). Atleast thats how I took it.
So lets all keep our finger off the trigger (read keyboard) for sec while we digests.
That goes for double mods.
No, that doesn't prove that google was manipulated.
... no big deal.
The term "Webcam32 Crack" is such an obscure search term that there is no authoritative page. Google returned the most relevant information.
If you search for crap google will return crap
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What if they sold low-end real cellphones, unbundled from any plan or network, for, say, $40. Then various companies could sell phone cards for these cellphones at 5 or 10 cents per minute. This would cover most of the needs of people who would consider disposable cellphones without the "disposable" gimmick.
Yeah, and what if monkeys flew out of my butt?
(Sorry I had to say it)
"Just more proof that Slashdot doesn't really check their sources. :-)"
...
Who told that they were supposed?
I thought it was implied that Slashdot editors don't check their sources.
P.S.
If you are not sure about the validity of a topic simply read the comments (somebody will figure it out for you)