They may also know what BINs they are looking for. The first six digits of your credit card number are the Bank Identification Number, which identify the issuing bank and (often) the type of card.
Some card generating products, such as Creditmaster, have a database of BINs as well as an implementation of the Luhn algorithm. Thus you can (say) ask for a random Bank of America Visa Platinum, rather than just a random 16-digit number that passes the Luhn check.
Of course, you need the expiry date on the card too before you can actually do anything, so all these flashy generators are not as much use as fraudsters would like:-/
If you want a Luhn-valid number that is not in use, you could try 1000 0000 0000 0008:-)
The problem is, that sort of thing only works with customers who have some awareness of security. This group of people are not likely to fall victim to a phishing scam anyway.
The target audience for phishers is more likely to either not notice, or to think "Hmm, the bank must have changed its security system. I'll just do what this link says and my money will be safer than ever!".
Ok, IANA statistician, but I have studied stats a bit.
Anyway, I thought the basic assumption underlying all random sampling is that the sample is, well, random. If you break that by saying you're gonna poll x people in this demographic and y people in that demographic then you cut the base out of your theory and all the mathematics collapses.
I've never understoof WASD... I mean, why cramp up your hand by shoving it all the way over the left side of the keyboard? I prefer TDGH --- that way, there are plenty of other keys in easy reach of my fingers...
Ahh, what would slashdot be without people competing to be more-elitist-than-thou?
Yeah, I was listening to [band name] back when all they had was their grandfather's guitar and some rocks to bang together. They were good then. Shame they sold out. Now I only listen to dreadlocked accountants playing ultra-Nu-experimental hip-hop blues. You philistines just don't realise how utterly crap the stuff you enjoy really is.
And if I want something with some basic formatting, I use... HTML.
Y'know? You get headings, you get paragraphs, you get lists, you get tables, you can add images.
If you're a Wizard you can do fancier stuff, but it's remarkably easy to produce simple formatted documents without doing anything fancy, without having to worry about WYSYWIG, and using your favourite editor.
Did you RTFA? We know it's old news --- the article mentions this itself, providing the same link you give.
The news here is that, on Thursday,
...the FCC responded by opening a formal review of the EAS, beginning a public comment period on how the network might be improved. One of the issues the FCC is probing is the security of the system.
Where did the word 'irony' come from in the first place? <shrug>
This process is not new. And yet, we have all these words.
I mean, it's not like god came down from heaven 2000 years ago and gave us all the words in existence, and we have been gradually depleting our store ever since...
I wouldn't use a PDF where HTML would do... But PDFs certainly have their place. They're cross-platform, widely supported, and can be generated with freely-available tools (for example, I used LaTeX to write my thesis.. dvipdf makes it readable anywhere).
Or would you rather we all "standardised" on Microsoft Word?
You should be able to pick up Thief 2 in one of the bargain labels cheaply. It has its flaws, but it's well worth what you'd pay for it today.
Some of the missions --- steal a certain amount of stuff _without_ killing anyone; sneak through the streets to your home; follow someone through the streets without being seen.
The game lets you adjust the difficulty on a mission-by-mission basis; the higher difficulty levels are usually characterised by requirements that you steal more and kill / KO _less_.
And it's got a plot too! (although the plot is on rails)
In one of the early missions in DX, you have to assault Castle Clinton with Anna Navarre. Now, at the end of the mission, when you see Sam Carter (the quartermaster), you can get a different speech and different goodies, depending on whether you go in all guns blazing or whether you sneak in and avoid killing people.
So... I sneak in the back way. But I still want to get all the loot, so I head round to the front as well. Then, using my crossbow, I tranq everyone.
I think the Unatco agents might've killed one or two, but I DIDN'T KILL ANYONE.
Unfortunately, when I go back, I still give Sam Carter the speech about how cool it was to charge in there and kill everyone...
Yeah, my uni teaches Java to first years. Java is a nice language (and the uni programmers put together a library to hide most of the exception handling)... but your first program looks like this:
public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("Hello world!"); }
We were basically taught to type "public static void main string args" as an invocation that we would (hopefully) come to understand more in later weeks...
I have a Philips Expanium 431, which is an MP3-CD player that plays 8cm CDs. The player itself is about 9cm diameter and about two centimetres thick.
The downsides to the smaller CDs are less space (200MB) and reduced battery life (but it came with rechargables that you can charge in the unit). The upsides should be obvious:-) I see it as a comprimise between the solid state players (which are more portable, more expensive per megabyte, and need a computer to change the playlist) and the iPods, which are just more expensive (cheapest iPod was over NZ$600 last time I looked. This cost me NZ$200 (around US$120-130, I guess)).
And I go jogging with it and it has never skipped:-)
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DN3D was "many years ago"?
Oh, man...
They may also know what BINs they are looking for. The first six digits of your credit card number are the Bank Identification Number, which identify the issuing bank and (often) the type of card.
Some card generating products, such as Creditmaster, have a database of BINs as well as an implementation of the Luhn algorithm. Thus you can (say) ask for a random Bank of America Visa Platinum, rather than just a random 16-digit number that passes the Luhn check.
Of course, you need the expiry date on the card too before you can actually do anything, so all these flashy generators are not as much use as fraudsters would like :-/
If you want a Luhn-valid number that is not in use, you could try 1000 0000 0000 0008 :-)
The problem is, that sort of thing only works with customers who have some awareness of security. This group of people are not likely to fall victim to a phishing scam anyway.
The target audience for phishers is more likely to either not notice, or to think "Hmm, the bank must have changed its security system. I'll just do what this link says and my money will be safer than ever!".
Ok, IANA statistician, but I have studied stats a bit.
Anyway, I thought the basic assumption underlying all random sampling is that the sample is, well, random. If you break that by saying you're gonna poll x people in this demographic and y people in that demographic then you cut the base out of your theory and all the mathematics collapses.
Or am I wrong about that?
I've never understoof WASD... I mean, why cramp up your hand by shoving it all the way over the left side of the keyboard? I prefer TDGH --- that way, there are plenty of other keys in easy reach of my fingers...
Hmm, I notice that "worldwide" means "North America, South America and Europe" ... :-/
Yeah ... You could try adding "root with no password" to the search string.
Ahh, what would slashdot be without people competing to be more-elitist-than-thou?
Yeah, I was listening to [band name] back when all they had was their grandfather's guitar and some rocks to bang together. They were good then. Shame they sold out. Now I only listen to dreadlocked accountants playing ultra-Nu-experimental hip-hop blues. You philistines just don't realise how utterly crap the stuff you enjoy really is.
But it could also be WAY too fricken big for us to be detectable...
(try crunching some numbers WRT the invention of radio transmitters, the speed of light, and the distance to nearby stars)
Remember --- one virus, two virii, three viriii, four viriv ...
Latin is easy!
I too use LaTeX for serious documents.
And if I want something with some basic formatting, I use ... HTML.
Y'know? You get headings, you get paragraphs, you get lists, you get tables, you can add images.
If you're a Wizard you can do fancier stuff, but it's remarkably easy to produce simple formatted documents without doing anything fancy, without having to worry about WYSYWIG, and using your favourite editor.
Did you RTFA? We know it's old news --- the article mentions this itself, providing the same link you give.
The news here is that, on Thursday,
Yeah, and they let Bjarne Stroustrup in on the joke back when he was starting out...
Where did the word 'irony' come from in the first place? <shrug>
This process is not new. And yet, we have all these words.
I mean, it's not like god came down from heaven 2000 years ago and gave us all the words in existence, and we have been gradually depleting our store ever since...
I wouldn't use a PDF where HTML would do ... But PDFs certainly have their place. They're cross-platform, widely supported, and can be generated with freely-available tools (for example, I used LaTeX to write my thesis.. dvipdf makes it readable anywhere).
Or would you rather we all "standardised" on Microsoft Word?
It still gets me that something like Duke 3d is considered an "old game" ... :-/
Give the Thief games a go!
You should be able to pick up Thief 2 in one of the bargain labels cheaply. It has its flaws, but it's well worth what you'd pay for it today.
Some of the missions --- steal a certain amount of stuff _without_ killing anyone; sneak through the streets to your home; follow someone through the streets without being seen.
The game lets you adjust the difficulty on a mission-by-mission basis; the higher difficulty levels are usually characterised by requirements that you steal more and kill / KO _less_.
And it's got a plot too! (although the plot is on rails)
In one of the early missions in DX, you have to assault Castle Clinton with Anna Navarre. Now, at the end of the mission, when you see Sam Carter (the quartermaster), you can get a different speech and different goodies, depending on whether you go in all guns blazing or whether you sneak in and avoid killing people.
So ... I sneak in the back way. But I still want to get all the loot, so I head round to the front as well. Then, using my crossbow, I tranq everyone.
I think the Unatco agents might've killed one or two, but I DIDN'T KILL ANYONE.
Unfortunately, when I go back, I still give Sam Carter the speech about how cool it was to charge in there and kill everyone ...
Oh well. I guess it's true when they say that death is like sleep. In Deus Ex, this is backward; sleep is like death.
Yeah, my uni teaches Java to first years. Java is a nice language (and the uni programmers put together a library to hide most of the exception handling) ... but your first program looks like this:
We were basically taught to type "public static void main string args" as an invocation that we would (hopefully) come to understand more in later weeks...
I have a Philips Expanium 431, which is an MP3-CD player that plays 8cm CDs. The player itself is about 9cm diameter and about two centimetres thick.
The downsides to the smaller CDs are less space (200MB) and reduced battery life (but it came with rechargables that you can charge in the unit). The upsides should be obvious :-) I see it as a comprimise between the solid state players (which are more portable, more expensive per megabyte, and need a computer to change the playlist) and the iPods, which are just more expensive (cheapest iPod was over NZ$600 last time I looked. This cost me NZ$200 (around US$120-130, I guess)).
And I go jogging with it and it has never skipped :-)
Ten pages of no results, no less :-)
Well, there are Discworld games already ...
Yeah, ditto.
Have a look at the source:
What's wrong with just making frigging links ???
Reminds me of the case a while ago of AOL and the customer from Scunthorpe ...
(and that was 8 years ago, so the problem is not a new one)