Yeah, it's too bad, there is a first-time Uber promo code that is worth about $20 that you can google for, but the app won't accept it now that you've already registered. They probably remember a hashed version of your phone number, credit card number, and the id of your phone.
There is probably still the $50 promo code from Lyft, but unlike Uber's promo code, the Lyft promo code can only be used $5 at a time (in other words, you have to use it 10 times if you want to use it all). The Uber code, on the other hand, could have been used all at once, or until the money ran out.
Look at sperm/egg donors, adoption, even pet lovers- doesn't even have to be the same species:)
First off, having a pet vs. having a kid is not the same thing. Not at all.
Semantics aside, one can provide the exact same love and joy for a child, regardless of genetics. Look at sperm/egg donors, adoption, even pet lovers- doesn't even have to be the same species:)
Semantics aside, one can have sex with any other human being on the planet. And yet somehow, we still make the distinction between consensual sex and rape.
In all seriousness though, removing the part about the CIA and the FSB, the top ski resorts in France do have giant advertisement billboards on top of mountains in the middle of nowhere (reminding that a particular cell phone network still works there).
And this is in no small part due to the fact that some CEOs will see some of these billboards and that some of those CEOs control companies with 10,000+ employees (all possibly requiring a company cell phone).
If chip and pin is slow in the US it's probably more to do with people being unfamiliar with the process, inconsistencies between different stores / banks, or people forgetting their pin etc.
Yes, it's some of that, but not only that.
I have experience using both kinds of cards, both in the US and in Europe, and in the US, the process of using a chipped US card with a pin is definitely a lot slower than using a US magnetic-only debit card with a pin. For one thing, the system won't even let you enter your pin for a chipped card in the US until the connection has already been made, so there is no kind of caching that is even allowed.
And I guarantee you that if you ever come to the US and tried an American chipped card yourself with a pin, you would notice the difference in speed yourself. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind about that. The only part that I'm fuzzy about is the European system these days, because it's been a few years since I've used it.
While Val Thorens is not the most expensive ski resort in Europe, it still ranks pretty high up there because of its altitude. If you're going to have the benefit of not needing artificial snow when other ski resorts do, then many of your customers during the late season are going to be top government officials and CEOs, and cell phone networks (not to mention the NSA and the Russian FSB) will do everything in their power to make sure those types of people have the illusion of perfect coverage and perfect service wherever they are.
Well, I was at a restaurant at a ski station really high in the mountains, the prices were really expensive, and the handheld POS device didn't have a connection.
And yes, I do realize that many ski resorts in Europe have ok cell phone coverage, I remember seeing the billboards of cell phone companies advertising that fact on top of the mountain itself, but I don't remember seeing those billboards at all the ski resorts I've visited and like I said, at least one restaurant at the top of a telepherique didn't seem to have coverage and yet the European chipped cards still worked.
But then again, it's been a few years since that happened, so maybe the security of chipped cards in Europe has been upgraded since then. I don't know.
Basically, if the ArsTechnica article is right, CBC used a bad method to jump into a conclusion and premeditated an article about it for some reason. That reason could be pure incompetence or perhaps something worse, but it certainly damaged the fast food chain reputation for no good reason.
Yes, but isn't the main culprit the actual laboratory, so shouldn't the laboratory be the one that is liable assuming the CBC does a full and complete retraction? After all, it's not like the CBC has any expertise in this particular field and they did rely on the claimed expertise of another organization.
For instance, let's say there is another doping scandal in the Tour de France, should the CBC avoid publishing anything about such a scandal if only one laboratory was used to test the blood samples (even if the blood samples were tested multiple times by that lab)? That is kind of setting the bar high if you ask me.
That being said, I can see the CBC being liable if it continues to stand by its original story despite possible evidence to the contrary.
B) The people who did the testing itself and the analysis of the tests were incompetent.
That's not exactly what they claim.
They claim that the people who did the testing itself and the analysis of the tests are competent, but that they're competent in a different type of DNA testing entirely.
Or they would need to do a ddos attack on the relevant phone lines or networks, or cut an underwater fiber cable to a bunch of islands, or blow something up, or wait for a semi-predictable natural disaster to occur, or even find ways to affect the power grid because many handheld POS systems in Europe are portable and battery powered.
The chip does NOTHING in the USA except make the whole process take longer.
I agree with you, but just to clarify.
It's not the chip that makes the process take longer, it's the US regulation that comes with the US chip that makes the process take longer. And the American regulation requires that the chipped card checks the bank balance and do all the handshakes between multiple networks in real time before it allows the transaction to take place, hence the extra delay.
As opposed to Europe, where the European chipped card could work in a place with no phone reception and no network access, the balance would be kept on the card, and the balance would later be reconciled in a central ledger at the end of the day, or at the end of the week (I'm not sure which). But this of course made the card super fast to use.
In other words, let's say you have one thousand dollars in your checking account. In the US, a cloned card could effectively steal that $1,000 from you. But in Europe, let's say you have 1,000 Euros in your bank account, you make 1,000 clones, and you ask 1,000 criminals to all use the card at the same time by sending them the pin via text messages all at once, then it would mean that the bank could potentially lose 1,000,000 Euros by the time it adds up all the transactions of 1,000 Euros when it finally reconciles everything.
Of course, I'm skipping over some technical details, but that's basically the gist of it. Also, I should mention that it's much easier to crack one card in a couple of weeks and clone it 1,000 times than having to crack 1,000 separate cards to clone them once. And also, some chipped cards are allowed to be used without the pin, because not everything on a chipped card is encrypted, and that's ok for some businesses because they'll limit the amount of the transaction when the pin is not used, and also they can take other security measures, like video recording the person, or video recording the car of the person who used it, or something else entirely. And in the end, no system is perfect, and that's ok. A security system just needs to be difficult enough for criminals to crack and low reward enough to make the risk too high for most criminals to want to take.
Does anyone here use Wunderlist? It's time to stop now, try to delete your data on the app, and replace it with pornographic and nonsensical to-dos.
If the Microsoft acquisition of SwiftKey was any indication, Microsoft will randomly pop items onto your to-do list from other users to-do lists. And it will take some of your to-dos and randomly insert them into other people's lists. That's the beauty of Microsoft cloud technology. It's like a giant salad bowl up there where all your confidential data goes to get mixed up with other people's confidential data.
Well, then if some movies are to be believed, there is also the Yakuza, the Mafia, or the CIA. Those guys will accidentally transfer a very large amount to your bank account for blackmailing purposes or to launder money from stolen accounts, and then they'll be coming knocking on your door to kindly babysit your kids or your mom while you withdraw their money from your bank account.
Im in vegas, You wont believe how many times old people, and not to sound racist but asians also, stopping in the MIDDLE of intersections, for seemingly no reason,
If you're in Las Vegas, I can believe it.
Tourists take pictures and tourists get lost. Not to mention, some will talk on their phone while driving.
Me, I'm waiting for the nanny-supervised driving system.
My car already won't show me my texts unless I'm at 0 mph. It's only a matter of time before my car figures out that I drive like a douche and forces me to pull over and calls a taxi for me.
Yes, the original title of the article "Update: FDA says St. Jude Medical knew about Device Flaws 2 Years Before Muddy Waters Report" definitely wouldn't garner as many responses.
For one thing, we'll need at least 100 responses to clarify the fact that the security flaws are not what caused the death of the patient. And then we'll need another 200 responses to figure out what flaw actually killed that patient in question. Plus we can add another 50 responses that criticize Slashdot or the editor for trying to manipulate us.
Now imagine if the Slashdot editor had included all that information in the title and in the summary (as clearly as possible), we wouldn't have a puzzle to tinker with, and the post wouldn't get more than 40 responses total.
A roleplaying woman (or man) can just say a safe word and the roleplay ends.
On the other end, regarding their public exposure and your interpretation of their "creed", there is no amount of safe words that will end the condemnation, the slut-shaming, and the attempted reprisals, from the likes of you.
I say "their public exposure", because it becomes pretty obvious that Larry Garfield wasn't the only one exposed. Any girlfriends or women he publicly dated would get the "gor" label as well. And because of this incident, a number of previous lovers did feel the need to out themselves as feminists and roleplaying women to defend him and his livelihood.
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Unless that is, someone else hacked his email to confess on his behalf. And then, the entire story makes more sense.
Uber's CEO was replaced a couple of weeks ago. This is old news.
This particular incident was actually in 2015.
Yeah, it's too bad, there is a first-time Uber promo code that is worth about $20 that you can google for, but the app won't accept it now that you've already registered. They probably remember a hashed version of your phone number, credit card number, and the id of your phone.
There is probably still the $50 promo code from Lyft, but unlike Uber's promo code, the Lyft promo code can only be used $5 at a time (in other words, you have to use it 10 times if you want to use it all). The Uber code, on the other hand, could have been used all at once, or until the money ran out.
In other news, Indian janitor mysteriously stops showing up for work at a Singaporean fertility clinic.
Look at sperm/egg donors, adoption, even pet lovers- doesn't even have to be the same species :)
First off, having a pet vs. having a kid is not the same thing. Not at all.
Semantics aside, one can provide the exact same love and joy for a child, regardless of genetics. Look at sperm/egg donors, adoption, even pet lovers- doesn't even have to be the same species :)
Semantics aside, one can have sex with any other human being on the planet. And yet somehow, we still make the distinction between consensual sex and rape.
That would be a reasonable assumption. I wouldn't count on it... Overdraft fees are the bread and butter of banks ;-)
Yes, but in some European countries, like in France for instance, those kinds of fees are heavily regulated by the government.
In all seriousness though, removing the part about the CIA and the FSB, the top ski resorts in France do have giant advertisement billboards on top of mountains in the middle of nowhere (reminding that a particular cell phone network still works there).
And this is in no small part due to the fact that some CEOs will see some of these billboards and that some of those CEOs control companies with 10,000+ employees (all possibly requiring a company cell phone).
If chip and pin is slow in the US it's probably more to do with people being unfamiliar with the process, inconsistencies between different stores / banks, or people forgetting their pin etc.
Yes, it's some of that, but not only that.
I have experience using both kinds of cards, both in the US and in Europe, and in the US, the process of using a chipped US card with a pin is definitely a lot slower than using a US magnetic-only debit card with a pin. For one thing, the system won't even let you enter your pin for a chipped card in the US until the connection has already been made, so there is no kind of caching that is even allowed.
And I guarantee you that if you ever come to the US and tried an American chipped card yourself with a pin, you would notice the difference in speed yourself. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind about that. The only part that I'm fuzzy about is the European system these days, because it's been a few years since I've used it.
While Val Thorens is not the most expensive ski resort in Europe, it still ranks pretty high up there because of its altitude. If you're going to have the benefit of not needing artificial snow when other ski resorts do, then many of your customers during the late season are going to be top government officials and CEOs, and cell phone networks (not to mention the NSA and the Russian FSB) will do everything in their power to make sure those types of people have the illusion of perfect coverage and perfect service wherever they are.
Well, I was at a restaurant at a ski station really high in the mountains, the prices were really expensive, and the handheld POS device didn't have a connection.
And yes, I do realize that many ski resorts in Europe have ok cell phone coverage, I remember seeing the billboards of cell phone companies advertising that fact on top of the mountain itself, but I don't remember seeing those billboards at all the ski resorts I've visited and like I said, at least one restaurant at the top of a telepherique didn't seem to have coverage and yet the European chipped cards still worked.
But then again, it's been a few years since that happened, so maybe the security of chipped cards in Europe has been upgraded since then. I don't know.
Basically, if the ArsTechnica article is right, CBC used a bad method to jump into a conclusion and premeditated an article about it for some reason. That reason could be pure incompetence or perhaps something worse, but it certainly damaged the fast food chain reputation for no good reason.
Yes, but isn't the main culprit the actual laboratory, so shouldn't the laboratory be the one that is liable assuming the CBC does a full and complete retraction? After all, it's not like the CBC has any expertise in this particular field and they did rely on the claimed expertise of another organization.
For instance, let's say there is another doping scandal in the Tour de France, should the CBC avoid publishing anything about such a scandal if only one laboratory was used to test the blood samples (even if the blood samples were tested multiple times by that lab)? That is kind of setting the bar high if you ask me.
That being said, I can see the CBC being liable if it continues to stand by its original story despite possible evidence to the contrary.
B) The people who did the testing itself and the analysis of the tests were incompetent.
That's not exactly what they claim.
They claim that the people who did the testing itself and the analysis of the tests are competent, but that they're competent in a different type of DNA testing entirely.
Or they would need to do a ddos attack on the relevant phone lines or networks, or cut an underwater fiber cable to a bunch of islands, or blow something up, or wait for a semi-predictable natural disaster to occur, or even find ways to affect the power grid because many handheld POS systems in Europe are portable and battery powered.
The chip does NOTHING in the USA except make the whole process take longer.
I agree with you, but just to clarify.
It's not the chip that makes the process take longer, it's the US regulation that comes with the US chip that makes the process take longer. And the American regulation requires that the chipped card checks the bank balance and do all the handshakes between multiple networks in real time before it allows the transaction to take place, hence the extra delay.
As opposed to Europe, where the European chipped card could work in a place with no phone reception and no network access, the balance would be kept on the card, and the balance would later be reconciled in a central ledger at the end of the day, or at the end of the week (I'm not sure which). But this of course made the card super fast to use.
In other words, let's say you have one thousand dollars in your checking account. In the US, a cloned card could effectively steal that $1,000 from you. But in Europe, let's say you have 1,000 Euros in your bank account, you make 1,000 clones, and you ask 1,000 criminals to all use the card at the same time by sending them the pin via text messages all at once, then it would mean that the bank could potentially lose 1,000,000 Euros by the time it adds up all the transactions of 1,000 Euros when it finally reconciles everything.
Of course, I'm skipping over some technical details, but that's basically the gist of it. Also, I should mention that it's much easier to crack one card in a couple of weeks and clone it 1,000 times than having to crack 1,000 separate cards to clone them once. And also, some chipped cards are allowed to be used without the pin, because not everything on a chipped card is encrypted, and that's ok for some businesses because they'll limit the amount of the transaction when the pin is not used, and also they can take other security measures, like video recording the person, or video recording the car of the person who used it, or something else entirely. And in the end, no system is perfect, and that's ok. A security system just needs to be difficult enough for criminals to crack and low reward enough to make the risk too high for most criminals to want to take.
Technically, you're actually both wrong. The chip has both an encrypted part and a public part.
Does anyone here use Wunderlist? It's time to stop now, try to delete your data on the app, and replace it with pornographic and nonsensical to-dos.
If the Microsoft acquisition of SwiftKey was any indication, Microsoft will randomly pop items onto your to-do list from other users to-do lists. And it will take some of your to-dos and randomly insert them into other people's lists. That's the beauty of Microsoft cloud technology. It's like a giant salad bowl up there where all your confidential data goes to get mixed up with other people's confidential data.
Well, then if some movies are to be believed, there is also the Yakuza, the Mafia, or the CIA. Those guys will accidentally transfer a very large amount to your bank account for blackmailing purposes or to launder money from stolen accounts, and then they'll be coming knocking on your door to kindly babysit your kids or your mom while you withdraw their money from your bank account.
So just because your GF lets you photo her boobs, that doesn't give you the right to share the photo with others.
The same goes for your wife.
Your wife or ex-wife is not allowed to post naked pictures of your GF on Facebook.
Now it's trivial for me to send money to anyone I know from my phone or tablet using my bank's web site or app, with no fees.
Nice try Nigerian Prince,
If I sell you something, or if I'm doing a small transaction, I'll use Square or Venmo.
You're not getting my banking information. Only trusted family members get that. And for utilities and bills, I'll use my bank's Bill Pay feature.
That's gonna jack up the prices by 15%.
If tipping is done like in the Lyft app, then you're tipping after you've already left the car so there is actually less pressure to tip.
Im in vegas, You wont believe how many times old people, and not to sound racist but asians also, stopping in the MIDDLE of intersections, for seemingly no reason,
If you're in Las Vegas, I can believe it.
Tourists take pictures and tourists get lost. Not to mention, some will talk on their phone while driving.
Me, I'm waiting for the nanny-supervised driving system.
My car already won't show me my texts unless I'm at 0 mph. It's only a matter of time before my car figures out that I drive like a douche and forces me to pull over and calls a taxi for me.
Vaping people don't smell like coffee, the ones I know smell like strawberry bubble gum and other chemicals.
Yes, the original title of the article "Update: FDA says St. Jude Medical knew about Device Flaws 2 Years Before Muddy Waters Report" definitely wouldn't garner as many responses.
For one thing, we'll need at least 100 responses to clarify the fact that the security flaws are not what caused the death of the patient. And then we'll need another 200 responses to figure out what flaw actually killed that patient in question. Plus we can add another 50 responses that criticize Slashdot or the editor for trying to manipulate us.
Now imagine if the Slashdot editor had included all that information in the title and in the summary (as clearly as possible), we wouldn't have a puzzle to tinker with, and the post wouldn't get more than 40 responses total.
Larry Garfield follows a misogynistic creed
No, he doesn't, but you do.
A roleplaying woman (or man) can just say a safe word and the roleplay ends.
On the other end, regarding their public exposure and your interpretation of their "creed", there is no amount of safe words that will end the condemnation, the slut-shaming, and the attempted reprisals, from the likes of you.
I say "their public exposure", because it becomes pretty obvious that Larry Garfield wasn't the only one exposed. Any girlfriends or women he publicly dated would get the "gor" label as well. And because of this incident, a number of previous lovers did feel the need to out themselves as feminists and roleplaying women to defend him and his livelihood.