The legitimate readers have to erase their keys when someone tries to access the hardware. If someone puts legitimate chips in dodgy readers they still have to: a) convince a bank to load keys to it (you have to do this in person, not electronically), b) use some merchant's credentials to log on. Then when the customer complains their money was stolen, the bank will know which terminal it was and which merchant's credentials were used, and they can proceed from there.
Small bookshops run on really low budgets. Where I live, hiring a debit-card processing terminal is about US$10 per week, or buying it outright from US$500 depending on brand.
This didn't convince my favourite bookshop to get one, especially since there were 2 ATMs nearby anyway.
Many retailers refuse to accept credit cards because the CC companies charge the retailer exorbitant fees (Visa is the lowest and that's still 2% of each transaction), whereas debit has a fixed fee (20c for telecommunications costs, no bank charges).
$30 for several hours of wireless internet? Not cheap? Last time I visited a web page for 10 minutes on my cell phone it cost me $11. And here you are getting internet access for proper computers for a fraction of the price. I guess it serves me right for living in a country with an unregulated monopolistic telecommunications provider:(
It's beyond me how they can't hire a programmer who knows how to make the text that the poster types, appear without being mangled! (newlines inserted, newlines deleted, lines of the new post interpreted as quoted text from the old...
Also it's annoying to see a reply listed in the tree view as the parent of the post that it's replying to, or a reply listed as a child of a previous reply to the same parent.
Not to mention the un-intuitive user interface which encourages posting without quoting the parent.
This is actually a joint venture between NASA and Mossad. Once the boundary has been mapped, they will build a large concrete fence on it. This will keep Earth safe from aliens and cosmic rays.
Right, so this is really nothing to do with ActiveX (which is just a dynamic shared library with certain standard functions), and all about the user's securiy settings. Next...
People with digital cameras? This is the difference between storing 300 photos, and storing 400 photos (which is a limit you come up against if you're on a trip in a foreign country with no data processing facilities available)
Definitely not a hoax. There was a prominent website (www.6200.com or something, I can't quite remember) that had a clock on its front page and the clock said "January 1, 100" instead of 2000. Now, a clock on a website isn't exactly earth-shattering but a time error like that in the wrong place (eg. a shuttle launch sequence) could have had dire consequences.
.NET is Java rebundled with a few tweaks and twiddles. (Remember that the US court said that MS couldn't improve Java without Sun's consent, and Sun didn't give consent, so MS made their own version).
...they enable tag/update/diff/etc. by date on a branch, add a special tag like HEAD but for a given branch, and keep track of when branches have merged so that you can actually keep 2 slightly different versions in sync.
It's Blast Field Gun. Probably the article just made something up (there's no indication that the movie will call it Bio Force Gun either), so let's not jump to conclusions.
Mozilla is even worse for that. It steals focus even when it is minimised! If you click a link / enter an URL, then minimise, it will then maximise AND take focus once the page loads.
The article didn't say whether the number had an integral 13th root or not (While reading it, I was thinking he would give the result to 3d.p., or something, which seems like quite an amazing feat to do in 11.8 seconds).
It would be a better challenge if the computer came up with a random base (3 - 30, say), and a fairly random large number (that had an integral root in that base), and then they timed the guy over say 10 of these challenges.
Yeah, and then you get 10 minutes of play and it freezes because someone's BNC connector is dodgy, so you reorganize some of the cabling... repeat ad nauseum
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The legitimate readers have to erase their keys when someone tries to access the hardware. If someone puts legitimate chips in dodgy readers they still have to: a) convince a bank to load keys to it (you have to do this in person, not electronically), b) use some merchant's credentials to log on. Then when the customer complains their money was stolen, the bank will know which terminal it was and which merchant's credentials were used, and they can proceed from there.
Small bookshops run on really low budgets. Where I live, hiring a debit-card processing terminal is about US$10 per week, or buying it outright from US$500 depending on brand.
This didn't convince my favourite bookshop to get one, especially since there were 2 ATMs nearby anyway.
Many retailers refuse to accept credit cards because the CC companies charge the retailer exorbitant fees (Visa is the lowest and that's still 2% of each transaction), whereas debit has a fixed fee (20c for telecommunications costs, no bank charges).
Chip cards cannot be read by an illegitimate reader, because the reader will not have the correct encryption keys loaded to talk to the card.
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The illegitimate reader would have to convince a bank host system to send it some keys, and that would leave a 'paper trail'
$30 for several hours of wireless internet? Not cheap? :(
Last time I visited a web page for 10 minutes on my cell phone it cost me $11. And here you are getting internet access for proper computers for a fraction of the price.
I guess it serves me right for living in a country with an unregulated monopolistic telecommunications provider
And on that note I'm going to invite former CEO Dick Brown to BITE ME as well
Sounds more like you bite brown dick.
These four letters seem to come up quite often when dealing with German companies, what do they mean?
Google search didn't help me a lot because it just comes up with lots of company names.
Major flaw - you can't post from the old interface (and yet another un-intuitive user interface message)
Google groups, fine? What planet are you on.
It's beyond me how they can't hire a programmer who knows how to make the text that the poster types, appear without being mangled! (newlines inserted, newlines deleted, lines of the new post interpreted as quoted text from the old...
Also it's annoying to see a reply listed in the tree view as the parent of the post that it's replying to, or a reply listed as a child of a previous reply to the same parent.
Not to mention the un-intuitive user interface which encourages posting without quoting the parent.
This is actually a joint venture between NASA and Mossad. Once the boundary has been mapped, they will build a large concrete fence on it. This will keep Earth safe from aliens and cosmic rays.
Right, so this is really nothing to do with ActiveX (which is just a dynamic shared library with certain standard functions), and all about the user's securiy settings. Next ...
You can make a .so file that formats the harddrive if the user installs it (if the user's security access is high enough). Let's ban them!
It's a discarded tinfoil hat
DeCSS was written for unlawful use. The author made up some rhetoric about legal use so that he wouldn't have to go to jail for it.
People with digital cameras? This is the difference between storing 300 photos, and storing 400 photos (which is a limit you come up against if you're on a trip in a foreign country with no data processing facilities available)
Definitely not a hoax. There was a prominent website (www.6200.com or something, I can't quite remember) that had a clock on its front page and the clock said "January 1, 100" instead of 2000.
Now, a clock on a website isn't exactly earth-shattering but a time error like that in the wrong place (eg. a shuttle launch sequence) could have had dire consequences.
It's sent back "reams" of data... how many Libraries of Congress is that?
.NET is Java rebundled with a few tweaks and twiddles. (Remember that the US court said that MS couldn't improve Java without Sun's consent, and Sun didn't give consent, so MS made their own version).
...they enable tag/update/diff/etc. by date on a branch, add a special tag like HEAD but for a given branch, and keep track of when branches have merged so that you can actually keep 2 slightly different versions in sync.
It's Blast Field Gun. Probably the article just made something up (there's no indication that the movie will call it Bio Force Gun either), so let's not jump to conclusions.
They're going to remake it, changing all the guns to cell-phones.
Mozilla is even worse for that. It steals focus even when it is minimised!
If you click a link / enter an URL, then minimise, it will then maximise AND take focus once the page loads.
The article didn't say whether the number had an integral 13th root or not (While reading it, I was thinking he would give the result to 3d.p., or something, which seems like quite an amazing feat to do in 11.8 seconds).
It would be a better challenge if the computer came up with a random base (3 - 30, say), and a fairly random large number (that had an integral root in that base), and then they timed the guy over say 10 of these challenges.
That's what, $1 per person on the planet?
You'll need some better figures than that (Not that I have any either, mind you).
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Most heterosexual people find pictures of men porking women nauseating, too.
(Not to say that there's anything wrong with loving porn -- just that it is a minority of the population).
Yeah, and then you get 10 minutes of play and it freezes because someone's BNC connector is dodgy, so you reorganize some of the cabling... repeat ad nauseum