The real problem is that these are not "tough questions" at all. The DHS should have included every single bit of this information when they served the request.
Every law enforcement agency in this country thinks "because I said so" is good enough.
Won't the technology developed by this program be useful for breaking Captchas? If we can teach computers to decipher them, their usefulness as a human-only readable key is lost.
My wife's CC was recently skimmed. They made face-to-face transactions totalling $5100. In these cases, according to the bank, they make a card with their own information on the front and our information on the magnetic strip. In this case, an ID check would have shown that the card was being used by the apparently correct owner.
We need to implement PINs and smart chips on our CCs to eliminate these types of fraud.
Interestingly enough, we (the US) has not signed the entire Geneva convention. We do abide by most of it, but compbat troops are trained to follow the Law of Armed Conflict. This is a US Dept of Defense product that may contain some of the same considerations as the Geneva Convention, but is not exactly the same.
FWIW
And average is not median. If one or two highly paid guys respond and include their M$ stock options, it can skew the average way up. Without the median (and standard deviation), this number doesn't mean a whole lot.
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The real problem is that these are not "tough questions" at all. The DHS should have included every single bit of this information when they served the request. Every law enforcement agency in this country thinks "because I said so" is good enough.
Won't the technology developed by this program be useful for breaking Captchas? If we can teach computers to decipher them, their usefulness as a human-only readable key is lost.
My wife's CC was recently skimmed. They made face-to-face transactions totalling $5100. In these cases, according to the bank, they make a card with their own information on the front and our information on the magnetic strip. In this case, an ID check would have shown that the card was being used by the apparently correct owner. We need to implement PINs and smart chips on our CCs to eliminate these types of fraud.
Such a test is called a shibboleth http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=shibbolet h
Interestingly enough, we (the US) has not signed the entire Geneva convention. We do abide by most of it, but compbat troops are trained to follow the Law of Armed Conflict. This is a US Dept of Defense product that may contain some of the same considerations as the Geneva Convention, but is not exactly the same. FWIW
Clay tablets and papyrus scrolls last even longer than that, bringing us our first beer recipe!
And average is not median. If one or two highly paid guys respond and include their M$ stock options, it can skew the average way up. Without the median (and standard deviation), this number doesn't mean a whole lot.