Why do any of these companies store your CC information?
That's a damn good question. But if I read the article right, I think they're skimming this stuff at the POS terminal and capturing in in transit.
Personally, I've been running web sites for ~15 years that sell stuff online, and I never store any credit card data. Why should I? All it brings you is headaches.
Customers use the credit card gateway, make their purchase, and they're done. I store nothing but a name and address, maybe a phone number but I don't store any credit card info, period. I don't even store what kind of card it was. As a result, it's dead easy for me to pass the yearly PCI compliance test.
To be honest, I'm not sure why I'd want to store their CC details. In my application(s) there's really nothing in it for me, no benefit.
I don't understand how anyone can post stuff like this on every news story, day after day, without getting sanity-snapping bored....
Or are we simply long past the "sanity-snapping" part?
I prefer the "APP APP LUDDITE" goofball posts to the crap spewed by that festering anal sore "APK" and his pointless bullshit about his magical hosts file.
"Law-enforcement agencies will also be granted access to any user's messages without any judicial oversight."
So....pretty much like it is here, eh? Wow, the Russians are finally catching up to us in state-approved surveillance, who would have guessed we'd be the leader in this field?
Remember all the propaganda about "commies" and the "unfettered power of the police" they used to warn us about? Well, it turns out it was actually the US government that was running wild with virtually no constraints. The only constraint was "don't get caught", and even when they did get caught, nothing really happened.
And now the police feel free to shoot anyone, any time, on any pretext or none at all. The latest example of this is Philando Castile, who wasn't doing anything worthy of being shot. His only "crime" was going out in public and allowing himself to be seen by the police. They asked for his ID, and when he reached for it, they shot him to death in his car, still sitting in the driver's seat next to his girlfriend.
As Jesse Williams remarked, "In the interest of time, would ye noble patriots please provide a list of infractions punishable by spontaneous public execution?"
Don't you just wish you could tell drivers in the adjacent lane that you need to pull off at the next junction and to please form a suitable gap for you to merge into?
I just pull up alongside them, then I do a VERY erratic "swerve-back-and-forth" maneuver right next to them that makes it look like I've lost control of the car or that I'm having a seizure or something.
They usually slam on their brakes in response because they don't know *what* the fuck is wrong with me or what I'm going to do next, and I use that momentary confusion and reduction in speed to smoothly slide into the gap.:) heh heh
But seriously, I agree with most of what you said. An inter-car mesh of sensor data from multiple nearby vehicles would probably be pretty effective, and with more than a few vehicles in the mix it would be somewhat resistant to spoofing by a malicious or malfunctioning vehicle.
Oh.. you'd have a pretty hard time arguing I wasn't authorized to enter your home if you gave me a key. By virtue of giving me the key you've authorized me to enter your home.
First of all, no I wouldn't. Who said I "gave" you a key? Maybe you found it, maybe you stole it. Maybe someone I gave it to turned around and gave it to you. None of those scenarios gives you "authorization" to unlock my front door and enter my home.
Second, just having the key doesn't automatically grant you authorization, either. Maybe I gave it to you for use only in case of emergency (fire, flood, vacation emergencies, etc).
None of those give you carte blanche to necessarily be in my home either, unless the circumstances warrant. If it's for emergency access, for example, that doesn't give you the right to come over, watch TV and raid my refrigerator.
So no, just having a key doesn't mean you're automatically authorized to use it, even if I gave it to you.
Sharing a password is a federal crime for you or I. But a Secretary of State who willfully and wantonly shares state secrets, repeatedly... for money... that, that right there is just an Oopsie Booboo!. No "harm," no foul. No one goes to jail.
I know...the whole thing is a shameful fucking farce. No jail time, no fines, no censuring, no reprimand. What a sweet deal.
David Comey said she had no "bad intent" when she did it. I'll see how far that excuse gets me the next time I get caught speeding or shoplifting or robbing a mini-market. "But officer, I had no bad intent, so just tell me not to do it again."
Nothing is stopping you from buying an Android phone.
You're right, and I did.
And it comes with a new-fangled MicroSD slot so I can save as much stuff as I want and then swap cards from time to time without losing anything or having to transfer the stuff I want to keep. A 128GB microSD is only about $30 or so. A 256GB is about $80 or so. For me that would take a hell of a long time to fill up, but not for other people.
So yeah, for the the choice was obvious, plus having a replaceable battery is a nice feature. When it starts to get fuzzy, $25 gets me a new one and several more years of use.
Thank goodness they haven't sullied the iPhone with something so crude and pedestrian as a Micro SD Card slot. The beautiful sleekness of the Shiny(tm) is blissfully unmarred by something so ugly and practical.
If they built in a card slot then people would just plug in as much memory as they might want or need, and we can't have that, now can we?
The shameless attention-whore culture is being monetized.
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Why do any of these companies store your CC information?
That's a damn good question. But if I read the article right, I think they're skimming this stuff at the POS terminal and capturing in in transit.
Personally, I've been running web sites for ~15 years that sell stuff online, and I never store any credit card data. Why should I? All it brings you is headaches.
Customers use the credit card gateway, make their purchase, and they're done. I store nothing but a name and address, maybe a phone number but I don't store any credit card info, period. I don't even store what kind of card it was. As a result, it's dead easy for me to pass the yearly PCI compliance test.
To be honest, I'm not sure why I'd want to store their CC details. In my application(s) there's really nothing in it for me, no benefit.
It's time to go back to paying with cash for these kinds of purchases.
Cars, boats, homes, and anything over $100, sure, I'll use a credit or debit card. Under $100 it's going to be plain ol' cash.
$375 million a year??
For that much per year maybe they could create a browser that have memory leaks that render it unusable after a day or two.
"The UK government is on a mission to protect the young of the country from the dark recesses of the web."
No, they're not.
We'll tell you what's "okay" to see and what isn't. It's for your own good, Citizen, so shut up and thank us for telling you what to think.
I don't understand how anyone can post stuff like this on every news story, day after day, without getting sanity-snapping bored....
Or are we simply long past the "sanity-snapping" part?
I prefer the "APP APP LUDDITE" goofball posts to the crap spewed by that festering anal sore "APK" and his pointless bullshit about his magical hosts file.
but it's on the way here as well.
Ummm, hello? It's long past the point of being "on the way here", it's here. It's been here for quite some time.
"Law-enforcement agencies will also be granted access to any user's messages without any judicial oversight."
So....pretty much like it is here, eh? Wow, the Russians are finally catching up to us in state-approved surveillance, who would have guessed we'd be the leader in this field?
Remember all the propaganda about "commies" and the "unfettered power of the police" they used to warn us about? Well, it turns out it was actually the US government that was running wild with virtually no constraints. The only constraint was "don't get caught", and even when they did get caught, nothing really happened.
And now the police feel free to shoot anyone, any time, on any pretext or none at all. The latest example of this is Philando Castile, who wasn't doing anything worthy of being shot. His only "crime" was going out in public and allowing himself to be seen by the police. They asked for his ID, and when he reached for it, they shot him to death in his car, still sitting in the driver's seat next to his girlfriend.
As Jesse Williams remarked, "In the interest of time, would ye noble patriots please provide a list of infractions punishable by spontaneous public execution?"
Two craptastic dinosaurs merge to form a larger, even more craptastic dinosaur.
Stand back so ya don't git splattered by the "innovation".
Don't you just wish you could tell drivers in the adjacent lane that you need to pull off at the next junction and to please form a suitable gap for you to merge into?
I just pull up alongside them, then I do a VERY erratic "swerve-back-and-forth" maneuver right next to them that makes it look like I've lost control of the car or that I'm having a seizure or something.
They usually slam on their brakes in response because they don't know *what* the fuck is wrong with me or what I'm going to do next, and I use that momentary confusion and reduction in speed to smoothly slide into the gap. :) heh heh
But seriously, I agree with most of what you said. An inter-car mesh of sensor data from multiple nearby vehicles would probably be pretty effective, and with more than a few vehicles in the mix it would be somewhat resistant to spoofing by a malicious or malfunctioning vehicle.
Microsoft's motto should be, "Wait For Us, We're The Leader!"
Seriously, who didn't see this coming? Did any of you really think that she wouldn't get off scot-free?
Did any of you really think she was going to be sanctioned, censured, fined, or jailed? Or that she'd face any penalty at all?
Of course not, she's Hillary Fucking Clinton, and laws are only for those who don't have powerful connections and lots of money.
You know how I know you didn't RTFA?
Because you're being a humorless pedant?
Oh.. you'd have a pretty hard time arguing I wasn't authorized to enter your home if you gave me a key. By virtue of giving me the key you've authorized me to enter your home.
First of all, no I wouldn't. Who said I "gave" you a key? Maybe you found it, maybe you stole it. Maybe someone I gave it to turned around and gave it to you. None of those scenarios gives you "authorization" to unlock my front door and enter my home.
Second, just having the key doesn't automatically grant you authorization, either. Maybe I gave it to you for use only in case of emergency (fire, flood, vacation emergencies, etc).
None of those give you carte blanche to necessarily be in my home either, unless the circumstances warrant. If it's for emergency access, for example, that doesn't give you the right to come over, watch TV and raid my refrigerator.
So no, just having a key doesn't mean you're automatically authorized to use it, even if I gave it to you.
Couldn't one argue that authorization was granted by the database when a valid login/password pair was provided?
No, not any more than owning a key to my front door gives you "authorization" to use it to enter my home.
Sharing a password is a federal crime for you or I. But a Secretary of State who willfully and wantonly shares state secrets, repeatedly... for money... that, that right there is just an Oopsie Booboo!. No "harm," no foul. No one goes to jail.
I know...the whole thing is a shameful fucking farce. No jail time, no fines, no censuring, no reprimand. What a sweet deal.
David Comey said she had no "bad intent" when she did it. I'll see how far that excuse gets me the next time I get caught speeding or shoplifting or robbing a mini-market. "But officer, I had no bad intent, so just tell me not to do it again."
Who will they arrest first, me or my wife? After all, the account is in both of our names.
Will they flip a coin, or is it whoever answers the door first that gets charged and jailed?
Now that I think about it, her name is above mine on the bill, so I guess she's going to be the one taken to jail for this silly fucking thoughtcrime.
Sorry honey, but Netflix was pretty explicit about it when they said "never share your password". I'll miss you, sweetheart!
If you die of blood loss or being crushed into a pancake, then there is an irrefutable causal chain that a 2-year-old can follow.
If a 70-year-old-smoker dies of cancer..... there is nothing that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that smoking killed that person.
Don't get all "facty" on me, this is slashdot.
We can't have the users upgrade their own computer's RAM!
OMG, don't even say such a thing!
Now I must go purge myself of the Bad Thoughts(tm) by acquiring a new iPad, maybe two of them. Three of them should do it for sure, don't you think?
Nothing is stopping you from buying an Android phone.
You're right, and I did.
And it comes with a new-fangled MicroSD slot so I can save as much stuff as I want and then swap cards from time to time without losing anything or having to transfer the stuff I want to keep. A 128GB microSD is only about $30 or so. A 256GB is about $80 or so. For me that would take a hell of a long time to fill up, but not for other people.
So yeah, for the the choice was obvious, plus having a replaceable battery is a nice feature. When it starts to get fuzzy, $25 gets me a new one and several more years of use.
Thank goodness they haven't sullied the iPhone with something so crude and pedestrian as a Micro SD Card slot. The beautiful sleekness of the Shiny(tm) is blissfully unmarred by something so ugly and practical.
If they built in a card slot then people would just plug in as much memory as they might want or need, and we can't have that, now can we?
Nobody died of Tobacco. People died of health conditions which Tobacco might have had a role in.
Nobody died of cars. People died of health conditions which cars might have had a role in.
The shameless attention-whore culture is being monetized.
"Look at me me me me meeeeeeeeeeeeee, look at me!!"
(Congratulations User, you've just made 9 cents! Please continue attention-whoring to keep earning.)
"Look at meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!! Look at me dance, watch me eat breakfast, watch me break up with my boyfriend for the 27th time! Look at meeee!"
(Congratulations User, you've just made 11 cents! Please continue attention-whoring to keep earning.)
"House Democrats Frank Pallone, Gene Green and Diana DeGette sent the letter on June 30th, asking Holmes to explain what went wrong,"
What went wrong is they got caught. That's what "went wrong".
This was all just a "magic snake oil" scheme designed to suck in wealthy, gullible investors, nothing more, nothing less.
With an hand off system they may need lane level sensors at least in some areas.
I think this will be part of the answer.