Not to mention his unprofessional millennial speak "Very VIP, really VERY VIP". 1st rule of being a professional, you don't talk about your shit, especially when you're up to no good. He's a dumbass from the ground up.
Either that, or it wasn't him, but someone who wanted it to look like him...
And the reason for the Lib Dem destruction is in propping up a coalition government that nobody liked. The electorate punished them and not the larger partner of the coalition. Strange.
Not really that strange. As far as I can tell, they got delayed punishment for going into a coalition with the Conservatives in the first place, rather than aligning with Labour as most Lib Dem voters would have expected. The fury at that cannot be understated; I believe their membership dropped considerably immediately after that fateful decision. Their rout at the following general election was only to be expected. Clegg destroyed that party.
That may be true when you pay with your card in a shop, but a credit card also allows initiating a payment using only the card number, the expiry date and three numbers on the back. No such thing is possible with a debit card.
Errrr... I regularly use one of my debit cards to pay one particular utility bill across the internet, using only the card number, the expiry date, and the three numbers on the back. (And no, I'm not thrilled with that, however it's more-or-less necessary for reasons too tedious to go into.) However, it also sometimes asks for some letters from my Verified by Visa password but by no means always. Mind you, my credit cards also have Verified by Visa (or the Mastercard equivalent) passwords, so again, no different.
UK debit cards can also be used to make telephone purchases where no Verified by Visa password was, or indeed could be, taken, using just your card number, expiry date and three numbers on the back.
Therefore, from where I'm sitting, UK debit cards are just as (in)secure as UK credit cards.
From previous discussions I've seen on Slashdot, it does seem that the way debit cards operate in the USA is somewhat different to over here.
Debit cards are a million times safer than credit cards.
Interesting that parent was downmodded, even though it is more or less true. Credit cards use an inherently unsafe system secured only by the knowledge of a few numbers, whereas debit card transactions (EFTPOS) always require authorisation by the bank, entry of a PIN code that is verified remotely and nowadays almost always use a chip on the card (EMV). Moreover, a credit card charge is limited only by the maximum credit the card was issued for, while a debit card transaction is limited by the account balance.
Maybe where you're from, but here in the UK both my credit cards (along with both my debit cards) have chip and PIN which are verified online. It's standard here; there's no difference between the two.
Furthermore, under UK consumer credit law, if you buy something that's worth more than £100 using a credit card (even if you only pay 1p of that amount on the credit card), the credit card company becomes jointly liable with the supplier if something goes wrong; this can be invaluable if, for example, you buy flights or a new kitchen from a company that subsequently goes bust. (See here for examples.) UK debit cards DO NOT have this legal protection. Also, in the case of a fradulent transaction, I'd far rather it was taken from my credit card (where I can pay off the minimum and argue the fraud later), then clearing out my main bank account via my debit card. These reasons may be why the grandparent was modded down.
East of Wessex and north of Sussex but strangely not south Nossex since that anglo-saxon kingdom didn't last long enough to leave it's mark on history.
Indeed it didn't, and the clue as to why not is in the name...
Presumably, given your username, you already know this.
The fact that the NSA likely underwrote the entire "Free" Upgrade and designed the Telemetry system and "forced upgrade" concept is beside the point...;-)
When I read the article the other day about MS C++ compiler adding in telemetry info into programs compiled with it as a default option without any notice that it was doing it and having to explicitly turn it off, I was glad I hadn't continued getting new versions of VS.
Bloody hell, I'd not heard of that.
Seems that we're now only one step away from The Ken Thompson Hack, that's if we're not already secretly there already.
Obviously trickier with open source than closed, but given their resources and what they might intend to do, not impossible. After all, we've already seen a new init system on Linux made almost the de facto standard now, despite apparent mass hatred of it...
Have to agree with the person above me: the Backspace = Prev Page thing was a colossal pain in the arse... if for some reason you'd lost focus from a text entry box, you'd hit backspace and end up on the wrong page. There was no need to have Backspace do that; that's what Alt-Left (and Alt-Right for Next Page) are for.
What I don't understand is we had really good IM tools not that long ago (10 years ago?) that had features like voice chat, group IM, etc...
Yup. When they killed MSN Messenger it was a very sad day. I remember running that with a webcam back in the year 2000 over 56Kb dial-up, and although it's probably rose-tinted spectacles talking, it seemed to work better back then than the last version of Skype I managed to use before it finally became unusable on my hardware.
I don't understand why, with internet links being 100 times faster, and machines being 20 times faster, how Skype could be worse; hell, how it could even be worse than the video chat on the last version of MSN Messenger (by then called Windows Live Messenger) that existed.
Well actually I suppose I can. Although all WLM text chat went through Microsoft's servers, their video chat was peer-to-peer. Once the powers-that-be discovered that terrorists were apparently communicating by holding up bits of cardboard with messages written on them to each other (not a conspiracy theory, there was a news item on it at the time), peer-to-peer video chat was dead - hence the move to Skype, ALL of which goes through Microsoft's unhappy servers.
And now Yahoo is going the same way - the new version of the Android/iOS app has been widely derided, it's actually removed features (like only having three statuses now - not that even that many are useful as apparently everyone shows online to everyone else whether or not they actually are), and in my case the PC client no longer logs in. So everyone I know is running away from YIM as well. Which just leaves Hangouts... which sucks too, for multiple reasons given by others above.
We used to have a wonderful set of chat/IM tools... pretty much all of them dead. Online chat/IM has basically been ruined over the last 10-15 years, in my view cynically and deliberately. Someone on here once called it The Balkanisation of Chat and they weren't wrong.
In the UK we used to have a chap called Jeremy Beadle on TV playing pranks on people. At the end he'd turn up as a traffic warden, policeman, or whatever and take off his fake beard and the mark would find it hilarious.
Funnily enough, I had no trouble with differential equations at school, but then struggled slightly with partial fractions, and when we got to partial differential equations, that's when my brain exploded and my A-level maths went down the toilet.
We have something of a similar situation in the UK: Our age of consent is sixteen*...
*With a close-in-age-exception, and it becomes eighteen if there exists a relationship that gives one party a position of power over the other.
I'm not aware of any close-in-age exception under UK law. Just the hard limit of 16 with, as you say, that going up to 18 if there's a power relationship (e.g. teacher, carer, etc.) We all know that the police & CPS may choose to turn a blind-eye in the case of under-16 shenanigans if they're close in age, but I'm not aware of anything in writing. Care to elucidate?
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There's no need for un-soldering; I understand they will be coming out with a special dongle that will allow you to add more memory.
Let's hope their 16GB expansion pack doesn't wobble like the old ZX81 (Timex 1000) 16KB expansion pack did... :-)
Not to mention his unprofessional millennial speak "Very VIP, really VERY VIP". 1st rule of being a professional, you don't talk about your shit, especially when you're up to no good. He's a dumbass from the ground up.
Either that, or it wasn't him, but someone who wanted it to look like him...
And the reason for the Lib Dem destruction is in propping up a coalition government that nobody liked. The electorate punished them and not the larger partner of the coalition. Strange.
Not really that strange. As far as I can tell, they got delayed punishment for going into a coalition with the Conservatives in the first place, rather than aligning with Labour as most Lib Dem voters would have expected. The fury at that cannot be understated; I believe their membership dropped considerably immediately after that fateful decision. Their rout at the following general election was only to be expected. Clegg destroyed that party.
That may be true when you pay with your card in a shop, but a credit card also allows initiating a payment using only the card number, the expiry date and three numbers on the back. No such thing is possible with a debit card.
Errrr... I regularly use one of my debit cards to pay one particular utility bill across the internet, using only the card number, the expiry date, and the three numbers on the back. (And no, I'm not thrilled with that, however it's more-or-less necessary for reasons too tedious to go into.) However, it also sometimes asks for some letters from my Verified by Visa password but by no means always. Mind you, my credit cards also have Verified by Visa (or the Mastercard equivalent) passwords, so again, no different.
UK debit cards can also be used to make telephone purchases where no Verified by Visa password was, or indeed could be, taken, using just your card number, expiry date and three numbers on the back.
Therefore, from where I'm sitting, UK debit cards are just as (in)secure as UK credit cards.
From previous discussions I've seen on Slashdot, it does seem that the way debit cards operate in the USA is somewhat different to over here.
Debit cards are a million times safer than credit cards.
Interesting that parent was downmodded, even though it is more or less true. Credit cards use an inherently unsafe system secured only by the knowledge of a few numbers, whereas debit card transactions (EFTPOS) always require authorisation by the bank, entry of a PIN code that is verified remotely and nowadays almost always use a chip on the card (EMV). Moreover, a credit card charge is limited only by the maximum credit the card was issued for, while a debit card transaction is limited by the account balance.
Maybe where you're from, but here in the UK both my credit cards (along with both my debit cards) have chip and PIN which are verified online. It's standard here; there's no difference between the two.
Furthermore, under UK consumer credit law, if you buy something that's worth more than £100 using a credit card (even if you only pay 1p of that amount on the credit card), the credit card company becomes jointly liable with the supplier if something goes wrong; this can be invaluable if, for example, you buy flights or a new kitchen from a company that subsequently goes bust. (See here for examples.) UK debit cards DO NOT have this legal protection. Also, in the case of a fradulent transaction, I'd far rather it was taken from my credit card (where I can pay off the minimum and argue the fraud later), then clearing out my main bank account via my debit card. These reasons may be why the grandparent was modded down.
Avira != Avast
So, where is Essex?
East of Wessex and north of Sussex but strangely not south Nossex since that anglo-saxon kingdom didn't last long enough to leave it's mark on history.
Indeed it didn't, and the clue as to why not is in the name...
Presumably, given your username, you already know this.
Yes -- my initial reaction to this story was "Is that all?"
...for sure.
Ok, so which Formula 1 driver are you?
That all sounds very E. E. "Doc" Smith. :-)
The fact that the NSA likely underwrote the entire "Free" Upgrade and designed the Telemetry system and "forced upgrade" concept is beside the point... ;-)
Quite...
When I read the article the other day about MS C++ compiler adding in telemetry info into programs compiled with it as a default option without any notice that it was doing it and having to explicitly turn it off, I was glad I hadn't continued getting new versions of VS.
Bloody hell, I'd not heard of that.
Seems that we're now only one step away from The Ken Thompson Hack, that's if we're not already secretly there already.
I was... moderately hopeful that we were seeing a new Microsoft, embracing open source...
Remind me how that little saying goes? Ah yes...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
Obviously trickier with open source than closed, but given their resources and what they might intend to do, not impossible. After all, we've already seen a new init system on Linux made almost the de facto standard now, despite apparent mass hatred of it...
Given that the guy's surname is Minter, I'm kinda disappointed that the article title isn't "Attack of the Mutant Mega-Ships".
Reading the paper, it seems that they used the space that the last 24 processors would have taken to provide the 768KB of RAM:
Have to agree with the person above me: the Backspace = Prev Page thing was a colossal pain in the arse... if for some reason you'd lost focus from a text entry box, you'd hit backspace and end up on the wrong page. There was no need to have Backspace do that; that's what Alt-Left (and Alt-Right for Next Page) are for.
What I don't understand is we had really good IM tools not that long ago (10 years ago?) that had features like voice chat, group IM, etc...
Yup. When they killed MSN Messenger it was a very sad day. I remember running that with a webcam back in the year 2000 over 56Kb dial-up, and although it's probably rose-tinted spectacles talking, it seemed to work better back then than the last version of Skype I managed to use before it finally became unusable on my hardware.
I don't understand why, with internet links being 100 times faster, and machines being 20 times faster, how Skype could be worse; hell, how it could even be worse than the video chat on the last version of MSN Messenger (by then called Windows Live Messenger) that existed.
Well actually I suppose I can. Although all WLM text chat went through Microsoft's servers, their video chat was peer-to-peer. Once the powers-that-be discovered that terrorists were apparently communicating by holding up bits of cardboard with messages written on them to each other (not a conspiracy theory, there was a news item on it at the time), peer-to-peer video chat was dead - hence the move to Skype, ALL of which goes through Microsoft's unhappy servers.
And now Yahoo is going the same way - the new version of the Android/iOS app has been widely derided, it's actually removed features (like only having three statuses now - not that even that many are useful as apparently everyone shows online to everyone else whether or not they actually are), and in my case the PC client no longer logs in. So everyone I know is running away from YIM as well. Which just leaves Hangouts... which sucks too, for multiple reasons given by others above.
We used to have a wonderful set of chat/IM tools... pretty much all of them dead. Online chat/IM has basically been ruined over the last 10-15 years, in my view cynically and deliberately. Someone on here once called it The Balkanisation of Chat and they weren't wrong.
So sad.
Apparently British prisons, contrary to what you might expect, don't go in much for the whole shower rape thing like they do in America.
In the UK we used to have a chap called Jeremy Beadle on TV playing pranks on people. At the end he'd turn up as a traffic warden, policeman, or whatever and take off his fake beard and the mark would find it hilarious.
You've reminded me of Not The Nine O'Clock News' wonderful spoof of it, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out."
Funnily enough, I had no trouble with differential equations at school, but then struggled slightly with partial fractions, and when we got to partial differential equations, that's when my brain exploded and my A-level maths went down the toilet.
But thanks for the post anyway. :-)
It said 16' diameter, not 16"...
We have something of a similar situation in the UK: Our age of consent is sixteen*...
*With a close-in-age-exception, and it becomes eighteen if there exists a relationship that gives one party a position of power over the other.
I'm not aware of any close-in-age exception under UK law. Just the hard limit of 16 with, as you say, that going up to 18 if there's a power relationship (e.g. teacher, carer, etc.) We all know that the police & CPS may choose to turn a blind-eye in the case of under-16 shenanigans if they're close in age, but I'm not aware of anything in writing. Care to elucidate?
Now you just have to hope that the compiler hasn't got a backdoor generator built into it (the Ken Thompson hack)...
Agreed, and it also helps if you know that 2 + 7 = 9, not 8... ;-)