How the heck do they get away with having retrievable credit card details in their db? Once the CC# is in the database it shouldn't be retrievable.
How many places out there don't actually follow this simple rule?
Where I work we were worried that the banks may turn off our credit card processing facilities if we don't get PCI compliant. And that is maybe 1/40 of the customer base.
I am really puzzled - how does Vodafone get away with this in the first place? No audits?
Easy solution. Work at a company and... have a backup of their security policy ready. Think of it as a template.
When you leave that company do a replace on the company name and make it the official policy of the new company.
In case you get an audit match the auditors requirements with your security policy and enhance it where it lacks using the format of the template you brought along.
During the time of the audit have signs up in the office, revoke the CEO's and any other big shots/pain in the ass user's special privileges like having no password complexity, automatic timeout, etc.
When the auditors leave relax and congratulate yourself on how you played your part in the whole accreditation/compliance/certification placebo crap.
On the other hand if you really dislike a user point out a random clause in the policy and have them fired for violating it.
First thought: electronic immobilizers - why bother? Isn't the way to steal cars these days with a laptop to reprogram all the systems so that the actual think actually drives? How difficult would it be to bypass the immobilizer? Seems to me that they could spend the $14m on installing CCTV or having more police on the street.
ahem... This is the Anti-Libertarian discussion forum, right?
These games seem like fun. Not knowing anything about Pokemon - which one should I get? Diamond or Pearl? None of the reviews seem to mention what the difference is. I thought Wikipedia would have some info but same deal here. Could someone point me at some info about the difference between Diamond and Pearl?
Those vegans will probably say "so what"? Why do 'those' meat eaters think that we are missing out on something? There is a widevarietyoffoodavailable. Seriously. We are fine. We eat heaps. We have banquets. We stuff ourselves. And most of us are really really healthy as a result of not eating animal products. Vegan lions on Futurama don't prove the contrary by the way.
I guess in the spirit of the grandparents comment, the current form of capitalism neets to be tweaked a little to make it even more ideal for humans. Get rid of the last traces of democracy and create a total dictatorship, economically and politically. 95% of the people do not care and are happy to follow. The other 5% will dedicate their lives to the opposition and fight the system. Add to that a technologically advanced and strong military/police, combine that with fearmongering through corporate media - voila 95% are happy by default, the other 5% dream of martyrism and soon-to-come change and live in their own bitter happiness.
The Article has been pulled. Whether that adds to the credibility of the info or not should all be clear later today when the Japan press conference is over or after the press conference in the US tomorrow.
OSX is a vendor lock-in solution, and not many people on Slashdot like that. So what?
OSX is substantially slower on most benchmarks than Linux and Windows, but as everyone switching to OSX will buy a new shiny Dual Core Apple will get a super fast processoer, it is most likely still faster than anything they have ever experienced.
OSX isn't a serious solution. -1 Flamebait.
Look, Apple is not the solution to win it all, but right now it has the most momentum and if it was a Slashdot user, I reckon its Karma would still be positive:)
No charges - see here. And if you watch the footage and consider the circumstances, it bedazzles me how it can be blown out of proportion that much. They are three young adults who have been living together for 70 days, 24 hours a day. The girl and the 2 guys were very comfortable with each other and slept in the same bed, with her being topless and all of them hugging. There was some sort of sexual tension between them, so this did not come out of nowhere. The girl even said "Are you going to turkeyslap me now?" so she saw it coming. In the end she did tell them to stop and so they did.
It is a TV show and there is a lot of bullshit and manipulation through the way it is broadcast. However, these people do live their lives in there and form relationships that are probably stronger than one can imagine watching 10 minute blurbs of footage each day.
The politicians are just proving that it is not the TV show, but rather themselves who deserve the title Big Brother!
It is truly amazing. People complain about the US media and "Americans" all the time. When you look at all the crap the mainstream media and politicians spew out Down-under I am amazed the general concensus on Oz is still a positive one.
Not sure what system you are on, but for osx there is Locomotive. You will get a magnitude of libraries (I guess the DB2 stuff won't be in there just yet) plus a nice gui to start/stop webservers for your Rails projects. Not sure if you were after Rails or plain Ruby, but anyway.
On the IDE front you could check out RadRails. Again, this focuses on Rails instead of "just" Ruby.
However, I do believe that Ruby is one of those languages that you can learn by just using it from command line. You do not need an IDE or huge framework to do fun stuff. You can at least get a feel for how Ruby does stuff to put you off it or to keep investigating.
It's not a war, it's a market. Markets change. That's a good thing. Right now most people are happy with google. If something better comes along, I am sure nobody would stop embracing it just because they love Google so much. For shareholders and Google's owners it's probably different, as they want to keep on top and gain maximum market share to increase profits (or whatever). But as a consumer I couldn't care less if the best search engine is called google yahoo or msn. If a search engine searches well, I'll use it. If it doesn't - well, game over.
It's not a real laptop stand that you can carry around. I was hoping to find something kinda stylish that goes with the laptop. Three chunks of wood screwed into a desk is good for the guy, but has limited use for anyone else looking for a cheap and cool laptop stand.
I just tried it with a potatoe peel. Nothing.;)
As it said.. IE. Secunia does test these things on other browsers and as they have shown in the past they are likely to come up with cross-browser exploits in the future.
Comes with the culture. Japanese hardly get angry - being confused is already quite a strong word in their culture.
In addition, the article does not mention confusion, but rather the customers being upset and complaining.
Sorry, if the slashdot blurb makes such a big point of this confusion vs anger thing, I had to set this straight, before the readers get confused themselves.
So, yes, three-gorges is a beautiful place, but if this allows that many people to afford heat in the winter, or lights under which to read, so be it.
Absolutely correct. But never forget, what America has done in the past is good (Hoover Dam anyone?), if another nation out of similar reasons wants to do the same, it is bad.
Have you noticed how concerned all the first world super powers become when someone says that 1 billion Chinese will eventually want to drive a car? Or need a fridge? While fuel-guzzling SUVs with super power air condition are purchased for junior to complete the American dream of three cars for every family?
Not to worry though, if the "west" gets too concerned about environmental issues in the three gorges region, they might just claim that it was built with the pure intention to hide weapons of mass destruction in it. Outcome obvious.
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How the heck do they get away with having retrievable credit card details in their db? Once the CC# is in the database it shouldn't be retrievable.
How many places out there don't actually follow this simple rule?
Where I work we were worried that the banks may turn off our credit card processing facilities if we don't get PCI compliant. And that is maybe 1/40 of the customer base.
I am really puzzled - how does Vodafone get away with this in the first place? No audits?
That's what they invented Dvorak for....
Interesting. That file is gone and so is Google's cached version. Just how much info was in that PDF?!
Easy solution. Work at a company and ... have a backup of their security policy ready. Think of it as a template.
When you leave that company do a replace on the company name and make it the official policy of the new company.
In case you get an audit match the auditors requirements with your security policy and enhance it where it lacks using the format of the template you brought along.
During the time of the audit have signs up in the office, revoke the CEO's and any other big shots/pain in the ass user's special privileges like having no password complexity, automatic timeout, etc.
When the auditors leave relax and congratulate yourself on how you played your part in the whole accreditation/compliance/certification placebo crap.
On the other hand if you really dislike a user point out a random clause in the policy and have them fired for violating it.
Fear not: http://www.vendian.org/mncharity/cosmicview/ has an online version of the book!
Well..as always: Blame Canada! :)
First thought: electronic immobilizers - why bother? Isn't the way to steal cars these days with a laptop to reprogram all the systems so that the actual think actually drives? How difficult would it be to bypass the immobilizer? Seems to me that they could spend the $14m on installing CCTV or having more police on the street.
ahem... This is the Anti-Libertarian discussion forum, right?
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Insensitive_cl od
These games seem like fun. Not knowing anything about Pokemon - which one should I get? Diamond or Pearl? None of the reviews seem to mention what the difference is. I thought Wikipedia would have some info but same deal here. Could someone point me at some info about the difference between Diamond and Pearl?
Well the next logical step is to ban deaf people from crossing the road. You hear me?
Downloadable content aye? Probably related to this announcement :) Get your original downloads at any trustworthy nntp provider.
Those vegans will probably say "so what"? Why do 'those' meat eaters think that we are missing out on something? There is a wide variety of food available. Seriously. We are fine. We eat heaps. We have banquets. We stuff ourselves. And most of us are really really healthy as a result of not eating animal products. Vegan lions on Futurama don't prove the contrary by the way.
I guess in the spirit of the grandparents comment, the current form of capitalism neets to be tweaked a little to make it even more ideal for humans. Get rid of the last traces of democracy and create a total dictatorship, economically and politically. 95% of the people do not care and are happy to follow. The other 5% will dedicate their lives to the opposition and fight the system. Add to that a technologically advanced and strong military/police, combine that with fearmongering through corporate media - voila 95% are happy by default, the other 5% dream of martyrism and soon-to-come change and live in their own bitter happiness.
The Article has been pulled. Whether that adds to the credibility of the info or not should all be clear later today when the Japan press conference is over or after the press conference in the US tomorrow.
Man, I ran it on my Macbook Pro and shit it got hot....
Let's rewrite this:
:)
OSX is a vendor lock-in solution, and not many people on Slashdot like that. So what?
OSX is substantially slower on most benchmarks than Linux and Windows, but as everyone switching to OSX will buy a new shiny Dual Core Apple will get a super fast processoer, it is most likely still faster than anything they have ever experienced.
OSX isn't a serious solution. -1 Flamebait.
Look, Apple is not the solution to win it all, but right now it has the most momentum and if it was a Slashdot user, I reckon its Karma would still be positive
No charges - see here. And if you watch the footage and consider the circumstances, it bedazzles me how it can be blown out of proportion that much. They are three young adults who have been living together for 70 days, 24 hours a day. The girl and the 2 guys were very comfortable with each other and slept in the same bed, with her being topless and all of them hugging. There was some sort of sexual tension between them, so this did not come out of nowhere. The girl even said "Are you going to turkeyslap me now?" so she saw it coming. In the end she did tell them to stop and so they did.
It is a TV show and there is a lot of bullshit and manipulation through the way it is broadcast. However, these people do live their lives in there and form relationships that are probably stronger than one can imagine watching 10 minute blurbs of footage each day.
The politicians are just proving that it is not the TV show, but rather themselves who deserve the title Big Brother!
It is truly amazing. People complain about the US media and "Americans" all the time. When you look at all the crap the mainstream media and politicians spew out Down-under I am amazed the general concensus on Oz is still a positive one.
Not sure what system you are on, but for osx there is Locomotive. You will get a magnitude of libraries (I guess the DB2 stuff won't be in there just yet) plus a nice gui to start/stop webservers for your Rails projects. Not sure if you were after Rails or plain Ruby, but anyway.
On the IDE front you could check out RadRails. Again, this focuses on Rails instead of "just" Ruby.
However, I do believe that Ruby is one of those languages that you can learn by just using it from command line. You do not need an IDE or huge framework to do fun stuff. You can at least get a feel for how Ruby does stuff to put you off it or to keep investigating.
It's not a war, it's a market. Markets change. That's a good thing. Right now most people are happy with google. If something better comes along, I am sure nobody would stop embracing it just because they love Google so much. For shareholders and Google's owners it's probably different, as they want to keep on top and gain maximum market share to increase profits (or whatever). But as a consumer I couldn't care less if the best search engine is called google yahoo or msn. If a search engine searches well, I'll use it. If it doesn't - well, game over.
It is kind of hard to find on the linked page, but this is Windows only.
It's not a real laptop stand that you can carry around. I was hoping to find something kinda stylish that goes with the laptop. Three chunks of wood screwed into a desk is good for the guy, but has limited use for anyone else looking for a cheap and cool laptop stand.
Pointless story, pointless comment.
I just tried it with a potatoe peel. Nothing. ;)
As it said.. IE. Secunia does test these things on other browsers and as they have shown in the past they are likely to come up with cross-browser exploits in the future.
Comes with the culture. Japanese hardly get angry - being confused is already quite a strong word in their culture. In addition, the article does not mention confusion, but rather the customers being upset and complaining. Sorry, if the slashdot blurb makes such a big point of this confusion vs anger thing, I had to set this straight, before the readers get confused themselves.
Have you noticed how concerned all the first world super powers become when someone says that 1 billion Chinese will eventually want to drive a car? Or need a fridge? While fuel-guzzling SUVs with super power air condition are purchased for junior to complete the American dream of three cars for every family?
Not to worry though, if the "west" gets too concerned about environmental issues in the three gorges region, they might just claim that it was built with the pure intention to hide weapons of mass destruction in it. Outcome obvious.
grrr....