You don't understand their business. If they lock a number of accounts then only unlock the accounts where someone made a big stink they still have huge extra income to add to their bottom line. If they don't lock too many accounts they can discredit their victims as crooks who were asking for it.
This extra income is what pays for management bonuses at paypal and may be what is keeping the whole company afloat.
Paypal very clearly in the second paragraph stated
Courage to Resist organization claimed that their resistance to follow our policy is because PayPal sought to withdraw funds from their checking account. To be clear: PayPal cannot take such action without the authorization of an account holder, nor does it ever take such unauthorized actions.
They terms or service are so huge no-one would notice that just signing up allows paypal to make up numbers and withdraw them from customers bank accounts.
If you deal with paypal you will get robbed, it's just a matter of time.
I understand PayPal blocks accounts for all kinds of questionable reasons which aren't political. "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
They block accounts for one reason; they want to keep the cash in the account. It's not stupidity, it's ( technically legal ) theft.
You explicitly authorize Paypal to make withdrawals in certain situations when you open the account. Funding your account from your bank on your orders, getting money from your bank to cover payments they're making on your orders, and covering chargebacks of money you collected through them, are authorized.
You do not authorize them to do it capriciously. That is what they were being accused of by people who either did not understand the terms of service or chose to slander the company.
Paypal do attempt to withdraw large sums of money from linked credit cards and bank accounts. The amounts they attempt to withdraw are greatly in excess of the disputed amount. I know because they tried, and failed, to pull that on me. In the end they sent a debt collection agency after me who were actually far more reasonable than paypal themselves. The agency accepted they didn't have any case and backed down after I talked to them.
The dispute was due to someone claiming I never sent them goods I sold them on ebay. I had signed proof of delivery but that wasn't enough for paypal.
Morals of the story: Don't deal with paypal. If you ever do close the paypal account, and any linked credit cards and bank accounts right away. Don't sell on ebay unless you have plenty of time, need the money, and won't get too upset if you get robbed. Don't buy on ebay unless you have plenty of time, and don't really care if you lose the money and the goods. Debt collection agencies can be reasonable if you show them proof that they won't win a court case.
I think the word I'm looking for is insidious. Or perhaps monopolistic?!?
I think the word is 'thevies'. Just because it's technically legal for paypal to pull this scam over and over again doesn't make it anything more than common robbery.
I won't deal with any ebay sale that insists on paypal.
Come on now. You heard the warnings, everyone heard the warnings. Paypal pulls stuff like this often, and it's been going on for decades.
There is one simple rule to not getting ripped off by paypal, never have anything to do with paypal. They are the virtual street thugs of the money transfer business.
It is all nice and dandy to "bring it back to store" if you live in NY or LA, but what shall we do in some other countries, where they will show the finger/door, instead taking our phone? World is a lot larger than your back yard. Why do you think Nokia sold 1200 in millions every month of last year?
While you are in the store why not swap the phone for something that actually works? Like maybe a pre-windows nokia or an iphone.
You forgot to mention the amazingly bad battery life on smart phones. I see iphone nerds charging their phones at work every single day. My dumb phone does 2 weeks on standby or 1 week with a few hours of calls and a few text messages.
Nothing beats so-called dumb phones for the simple task of making phone calls. Smart phones are actually worse at the core thing they are designed to do, they drop more calls, they have worse battery life, they are not as easy to hold. Dumb phones that just work is a market that Nokia utterly dominates.
Nokia has clearly been smoking crack to want to stop focusing on the one thing they do better than everyone else. They are going to become a third class company in the shiny-things category.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops also have pretty good movie reviews where they cut directly to the chase as it were. Like their review of Black Swan:
"Darren Aronofsky's nightmarish, morally muddled drama plays on the extremes of sexual repression and debauched license and, whether read as insisting on the necessity of indiscriminate experience or as a cautionary tale, presents its heroine's experimentation with voyeuristic excess. Strong sexual content, including graphic lesbian and nonmarital heterosexual activity, as well as masturbation, drug use, a few instances of profanity, much rough and some crude language and numerous sexual references. O -- morally offensive.."
Makes me actually want to watch it.
That reads like it was some kind of porno, which it totally wasn't. The Catholic's who wrote that would no doubt be happier seeing small boys dancing instead.
YET being the operative word. I'd like to get ipv6 going. It's been on my radar for years, and developing the associated skills and knowledge makes a lot of sense for me, if only to maintain my status quo of knowing how to admin a network. However, IPv6 is currently pretty messy to get involved with. You either need an ISP that supports it, or to start begging asshat elitists for IPv6 accounts, setting up tunnels and bridges etc. I don't even think the (major) hosting company I'm using provides IPv6 yet, so it'd have to be tunnelled/bridged/etc. there too. I think I'll just wait 'til the higher-tier services figure out their end.
Getting IPv6 isn't that hard. Tunnel brokers are mostly easy to get on with, it's totally unfair to call them 'asshat elitists'. The obvious problem is everyone is waiting until everyone else does their bit. Few people are just getting on with it. Yes the whole idea of tunneling 6 over 4 sucks but it's only meant to be a temporary thing.
Bing's search results are generally obtuse, mostly irrelevant and of exceedingly poor quality. Even Yahoo produces more cogent, relevant results. What a pathetic joke Microsoft and its "search engine" have become.
You say that and I partly agree, but it can't be easy to index that quantity of web content and produce meaningful results. The fact that Microsoft can even begain to try, even with some cheating, is impressive.
I've been expecting something new from Yahoo for a few years now. I thought they might be working on something great. Maybe I'm wrong and they really can't keep up with google.
It makes no difference either way. Bing is a search engine. I don't care if all it did was run your query over to Google and search on it and return the results with its own front.
Welcome to the internet, whiners. Anyone ever use aggregate search engines before? Chill out.
Or you could enter the same query in google and get a faster result. Either way you get the same result.
Apparently Google's accusations are viewed by some as a backhanded compliment.
It is a complement in a way. If you accuse someone of cheating you are also admiting that you noticed them, they are relevant, and they are annoying you.
Sadly the core of the story that bing is using dodgy tactics to catch up with technically better competition is just business as usual.
I used to like NetBeans at least as much as Eclipse, but with Oracle in charge, I'm not sure I can trust the future of anything from them that's free.
I would not trust them with the non-free stuff either. I have a bunch of Sun servers running Solaris 10. They work great but I'm not counting on ever buying new ones or using Solaris 11 should it ever turn up. Oracle are gutting sun, wrecking everything it was good at. By the time they finish they will realize they have nothing of value left because they destroyed it all. Sun customers now have the choice between expensive pain with oracle or cheap freedom with open source.
So there would be no surprise to me if a lot of machine run without virus/internet security because those machine become a real hog/snail/whatever.... so users cant be bothered!
I know that problem. People that turn off security updates because they are too important to be bothered with reboots should be kicked somewhere it hurts.
"Truly secure" in an absolute sense is rarely if ever attained by anyone, and almost never necessary. What you really need to achieve is "unprofitable to compromise". It's security in a relative sense and much more realistic.
"Truely Secure" is attained by me. I have a windows 2000 server that all the crackers in China and Russia working together could not get into unless they physically took the hardware apart. I simply unplugged the network port.
The real issue: software industry releases insecure products and blames ordinary users for not being IT security experts which is what it takes to be truly secure.
Microsoft released the insecure product involved. They didn't ask for or get the approval of the whole software industry before doing so.
I use telnet constantly. Port 110 to check for a broken email header, Port 25 to check for SMTP auth errors, Port 3200 to check for the present of a NetGen DSS unit, etc, etc... I love telnet. Simple 3-way handshake and boom, datastream.
But you don't use it to telnet to port 23 and login to a system with a username and password. That appears to be what this story is about.
Yes the telnet binary is still very useful just not for carrying passwords though public networks.
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You don't understand their business. If they lock a number of accounts then only unlock the accounts where someone made a big stink they still have huge extra income to add to their bottom line. If they don't lock too many accounts they can discredit their victims as crooks who were asking for it.
This extra income is what pays for management bonuses at paypal and may be what is keeping the whole company afloat.
Paypal very clearly in the second paragraph stated
Courage to Resist organization claimed that their resistance to follow our policy is because PayPal sought to withdraw funds from their checking account. To be clear: PayPal cannot take such action without the authorization of an account holder, nor does it ever take such unauthorized actions.
They terms or service are so huge no-one would notice that just signing up allows paypal to make up numbers and withdraw them from customers bank accounts.
If you deal with paypal you will get robbed, it's just a matter of time.
I understand PayPal blocks accounts for all kinds of questionable reasons which aren't political. "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
They block accounts for one reason; they want to keep the cash in the account. It's not stupidity, it's ( technically legal ) theft.
You explicitly authorize Paypal to make withdrawals in certain situations when you open the account. Funding your account from your bank on your orders, getting money from your bank to cover payments they're making on your orders, and covering chargebacks of money you collected through them, are authorized.
You do not authorize them to do it capriciously. That is what they were being accused of by people who either did not understand the terms of service or chose to slander the company.
Paypal do attempt to withdraw large sums of money from linked credit cards and bank accounts. The amounts they attempt to withdraw are greatly in excess of the disputed amount. I know because they tried, and failed, to pull that on me. In the end they sent a debt collection agency after me who were actually far more reasonable than paypal themselves. The agency accepted they didn't have any case and backed down after I talked to them.
The dispute was due to someone claiming I never sent them goods I sold them on ebay. I had signed proof of delivery but that wasn't enough for paypal.
Morals of the story:
Don't deal with paypal. If you ever do close the paypal account, and any linked credit cards and bank accounts right away.
Don't sell on ebay unless you have plenty of time, need the money, and won't get too upset if you get robbed.
Don't buy on ebay unless you have plenty of time, and don't really care if you lose the money and the goods.
Debt collection agencies can be reasonable if you show them proof that they won't win a court case.
I think the word I'm looking for is insidious. Or perhaps monopolistic?!?
I think the word is 'thevies'. Just because it's technically legal for paypal to pull this scam over and over again doesn't make it anything more than common robbery.
I won't deal with any ebay sale that insists on paypal.
Come on now. You heard the warnings, everyone heard the warnings. Paypal pulls stuff like this often, and it's been going on for decades.
There is one simple rule to not getting ripped off by paypal, never have anything to do with paypal. They are the virtual street thugs of the money transfer business.
It is all nice and dandy to "bring it back to store" if you live in NY or LA, but what shall we do in some other countries, where they will show the finger/door, instead taking our phone?
World is a lot larger than your back yard. Why do you think Nokia sold 1200 in millions every month of last year?
While you are in the store why not swap the phone for something that actually works? Like maybe a pre-windows nokia or an iphone.
And so begins the long drawn out death of Nokia.
Such a terrible shame.
It eats some of the speed advantages but whole disk encryption works for me. It's still way faster than a magnetic disk.
Agree.
You forgot to mention the amazingly bad battery life on smart phones. I see iphone nerds charging their phones at work every single day. My dumb phone does 2 weeks on standby or 1 week with a few hours of calls and a few text messages.
Nothing beats so-called dumb phones for the simple task of making phone calls. Smart phones are actually worse at the core thing they are designed to do, they drop more calls, they have worse battery life, they are not as easy to hold. Dumb phones that just work is a market that Nokia utterly dominates.
Nokia has clearly been smoking crack to want to stop focusing on the one thing they do better than everyone else. They are going to become a third class company in the shiny-things category.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops also have pretty good movie reviews where they cut directly to the chase as it were. Like their review of Black Swan :
"Darren Aronofsky's nightmarish, morally muddled drama plays on the extremes of sexual repression and debauched license and, whether read as insisting on the necessity of indiscriminate experience or as a cautionary tale, presents its heroine's experimentation with voyeuristic excess. Strong sexual content, including graphic lesbian and nonmarital heterosexual activity, as well as masturbation, drug use, a few instances of profanity, much rough and some crude language and numerous sexual references. O -- morally offensive.."
Makes me actually want to watch it.
That reads like it was some kind of porno, which it totally wasn't. The Catholic's who wrote that would no doubt be happier seeing small boys dancing instead.
I thought it was a pretty good film.
Because it's kind of hard for a phone to molest a kid.
Coming soon - A vatican approved app for that.
Yeah, but, is the purpose of Christianity to keep a large faith going? After all, I'm talking principle here rather than practicality.
The vatican has covered up countless cases of child sex abuse by its priests. Christianity is about money and power, not principle.
Disabling auto-mount is pointless, you will eventually mount that USB device - why else would you plug it in ?
Quite often I want to put a new filesystem on the device, do a dd backup of it, or blank it with shred. Automount is annoying in those cases.
I thought they were just patent trolls.
They sold servers and software for years before becoming patent trolls. They were once an IT company and some of their stuff is still around.
YET being the operative word. I'd like to get ipv6 going. It's been on my radar for years, and developing the associated skills and knowledge makes a lot of sense for me, if only to maintain my status quo of knowing how to admin a network. However, IPv6 is currently pretty messy to get involved with. You either need an ISP that supports it, or to start begging asshat elitists for IPv6 accounts, setting up tunnels and bridges etc. I don't even think the (major) hosting company I'm using provides IPv6 yet, so it'd have to be tunnelled/bridged/etc. there too. I think I'll just wait 'til the higher-tier services figure out their end.
Getting IPv6 isn't that hard. Tunnel brokers are mostly easy to get on with, it's totally unfair to call them 'asshat elitists'. The obvious problem is everyone is waiting until everyone else does their bit. Few people are just getting on with it. Yes the whole idea of tunneling 6 over 4 sucks but it's only meant to be a temporary thing.
Bing's search results are generally obtuse, mostly irrelevant and of exceedingly poor quality. Even Yahoo produces more cogent, relevant results. What a pathetic joke Microsoft and its "search engine" have become.
You say that and I partly agree, but it can't be easy to index that quantity of web content and produce meaningful results. The fact that Microsoft can even begain to try, even with some cheating, is impressive.
I've been expecting something new from Yahoo for a few years now. I thought they might be working on something great. Maybe I'm wrong and they really can't keep up with google.
It makes no difference either way. Bing is a search engine. I don't care if all it did was run your query over to Google and search on it and return the results with its own front.
Welcome to the internet, whiners. Anyone ever use aggregate search engines before? Chill out.
Or you could enter the same query in google and get a faster result. Either way you get the same result.
Apparently Google's accusations are viewed by some as a backhanded compliment.
It is a complement in a way. If you accuse someone of cheating you are also admiting that you noticed them, they are relevant, and they are annoying you.
Sadly the core of the story that bing is using dodgy tactics to catch up with technically better competition is just business as usual.
I used to like NetBeans at least as much as Eclipse, but with Oracle in charge, I'm not sure I can trust the future of anything from them that's free.
I would not trust them with the non-free stuff either. I have a bunch of Sun servers running Solaris 10. They work great but I'm not counting on ever buying new ones or using Solaris 11 should it ever turn up. Oracle are gutting sun, wrecking everything it was good at. By the time they finish they will realize they have nothing of value left because they destroyed it all. Sun customers now have the choice between expensive pain with oracle or cheap freedom with open source.
So there would be no surprise to me if a lot of machine run without virus/internet security because those machine become a real hog/snail/whatever .... so users cant be bothered!
I know that problem. People that turn off security updates because they are too important to be bothered with reboots should be kicked somewhere it hurts.
"Truly secure" in an absolute sense is rarely if ever attained by anyone, and almost never necessary. What you really need to achieve is "unprofitable to compromise". It's security in a relative sense and much more realistic.
"Truely Secure" is attained by me. I have a windows 2000 server that all the crackers in China and Russia working together could not get into unless they physically took the hardware apart. I simply unplugged the network port.
The real issue: software industry releases insecure products and blames ordinary users for not being IT security experts which is what it takes to be truly secure.
Microsoft released the insecure product involved. They didn't ask for or get the approval of the whole software industry before doing so.
I use telnet constantly. Port 110 to check for a broken email header, Port 25 to check for SMTP auth errors, Port 3200 to check for the present of a NetGen DSS unit, etc, etc... I love telnet. Simple 3-way handshake and boom, datastream.
But you don't use it to telnet to port 23 and login to a system with a username and password. That appears to be what this story is about.
Yes the telnet binary is still very useful just not for carrying passwords though public networks.