As I understand it, the smartcard based "chip" solutions are substantially more secure as they cannot simply be cloned -- The smartcard is basically a mini CPU itself and can handle basic C/R and onboard encryption.
In other words, replay attacks are no longer possible, nor can a transaction be completed off-line, the CC company sends a challenge to the card, the card encrypts it and replies, the CC company can then either verify the card is legit or not.
That being said, with numbers being accepted at most merchants (without the smartcard), it's mostly pointless -- Only once the smartcard is mandatory will the system be any more secure, but at least a merchant can choose to not be a victim of fraud from cards where the bank chooses to use a smartcard.
Of course, with most credit cards not having smartcards, it's perhaps a moot point.
My understanding is that a debit (PIN) transaction typically results in a per-transaction fee, where as a credit (pinless) transaction typically results in a percentage fee.
That being said, whenever I look up the fees, it still looks like PIN transactions are cheaper most of the time, unless merchants are getting substantially lower rates (approaching 0%)
Assuming that's pence (apologies if I'm not up on my units in the UK), that's not a useful number -- You need the p/kWh or p/joule or something that indicates the amount of something (be it volume, energy, or whatever else) consumed
I'm sure Microsoft would never think to check that ads.microsoft.com was reachable, and that ads were being served before allowing an advertising based copy of Windows to run.
It would have saved him from going through every device in device manager to find the conflict.
It might not solve the conflict, but it would save his ranting about the inefficiency of listing resources used under devices, rather then listing devices by resources used.
"Anyone who backed them" may not be as easy as it looks. If Microsoft "bought" software licenses from SCO, that may not qualify as "backing" SCO from a legal standpoint.
As long as any product (other then FUD) was transferred, it would be very difficult to prove anything.
Yes, I *have* gone through every single hardware device in the superbly ineffecient way of doing it through Hardware Manager to look for an IRQ conflict, only to find out that my sound and graphics card were conflicting
I guess Device Manager --> View --> Resources by Connection and then looking under "Interrupt request" would have been too much trouble?
2-weeks of D-Link's time, vs 10 seconds to find some random NTP server and use it?
Why should they bother?
If nothing else, they should cname ntp.dlink.com to pool.ntp.org (which still gives them control to redirect if needed, but otherwise should be stable)
All apps have a control that will stop them from popping up. If it's not accessible in the GUI options, it might be in an INI file or a registry entry like you say.
If not, check under Control Panel --> Add/Remove Programs. You'll find that by removing offensive software from your system, your computing experience will be a lot more pleasurable.
It's called ROI. Pretty much business 101, if it costs you more to invest in a business venture then the anticipated return, you don't do it.
If it will cost you $500,000 to put in a new elevator to carry people over 200 pounds, and you only anticipate $100,000 worth of sales from those same folks, it's economically sound to not cater to those individuals.
If it will cost you an extra $5000 in man hours to support IE3 on a new version of a website, you look at recent trends and figure out how long it will take your IE3 users to make you $5000 in profit.
> I would rather have a 20 gig high speed drive over a 100 gig slow as hell current drive any day.
Um, a 100G drive will be FASTER than the 20gb equivalent in the same range due to higher data density. A bigger drive (bytes wise) is almost always faster than a smaller one, yet you're implying you expect them to be able to make the disk faster by giving you less space? How/why would that work exactly?
You misunderstand -- He's not suggesting the 20gig drive would be faster, just that given the options, he would take a faster 20gig drive over a slower 100gig drive.
Any specific issues? -- I've purchased a few cheapos and deployed them at various client sites (plus one here at my house) over the years, never had any issues. The one at my house is on a 30' USB cable too.
The only issue I've run into is that if you move the unit to a new USB port, it causes problems. Luckily I keep it wired to a desktop, or to a specific USB port on my laptop's docking station.
However, I have received poorly formatted DMCA requests from one lawfirm several times over the space of 9+ months, all of which were missing information (one time the email template had a spot for the offending URL but it was blank), so I can presume that they're not changing lawfirms as soon as one lawfirm shits their pants.
The term of the contract isn't important, if a company isn't living up to their contractual terms (or is behaving illegal), that's generally sufficient to terminate the contract.
*shrugs*
(And yes, I am a small webhost, and yes all of these complaints were legitimate in that they were referencing copyrighted materials)
It doesn't wander randomly, it attempts to follow walls to surround the room until it locks in. It's simple, but effective.
The roomba doesn't wait until it's down to it's last few minutes of charge, it has more then enough time to circle rooms within it's specifications at least a couple times looking.
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As I understand it, the smartcard based "chip" solutions are substantially more secure as they cannot simply be cloned -- The smartcard is basically a mini CPU itself and can handle basic C/R and onboard encryption.
In other words, replay attacks are no longer possible, nor can a transaction be completed off-line, the CC company sends a challenge to the card, the card encrypts it and replies, the CC company can then either verify the card is legit or not.
That being said, with numbers being accepted at most merchants (without the smartcard), it's mostly pointless -- Only once the smartcard is mandatory will the system be any more secure, but at least a merchant can choose to not be a victim of fraud from cards where the bank chooses to use a smartcard.
Of course, with most credit cards not having smartcards, it's perhaps a moot point.
My understanding is that a debit (PIN) transaction typically results in a per-transaction fee, where as a credit (pinless) transaction typically results in a percentage fee.
That being said, whenever I look up the fees, it still looks like PIN transactions are cheaper most of the time, unless merchants are getting substantially lower rates (approaching 0%)
IIRC there is a way around this -- Filling wishlists requests perhaps?
If there wasn't, why would a phisher want your Amazon password in the first place?
9.21p? 2.36p?
Assuming that's pence (apologies if I'm not up on my units in the UK), that's not a useful number -- You need the p/kWh or p/joule or something that indicates the amount of something (be it volume, energy, or whatever else) consumed
I'm sure Microsoft would never think to check that ads.microsoft.com was reachable, and that ads were being served before allowing an advertising based copy of Windows to run.
Gaim might be more useful...
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/faq.php#q1
It would have saved him from going through every device in device manager to find the conflict.
It might not solve the conflict, but it would save his ranting about the inefficiency of listing resources used under devices, rather then listing devices by resources used.
"Anyone who backed them" may not be as easy as it looks. If Microsoft "bought" software licenses from SCO, that may not qualify as "backing" SCO from a legal standpoint.
As long as any product (other then FUD) was transferred, it would be very difficult to prove anything.
Maybe you should try this instead?
You can drop the "games" part of the URL and it will work just fine...
Yes, I *have* gone through every single hardware device in the superbly ineffecient way of doing it through Hardware Manager to look for an IRQ conflict, only to find out that my sound and graphics card were conflicting
I guess Device Manager --> View --> Resources by Connection and then looking under "Interrupt request" would have been too much trouble?
It depends, did D-Link list an IP or hostname? It's potentially an important distinction.
2-weeks of D-Link's time, vs 10 seconds to find some random NTP server and use it?
Why should they bother?
If nothing else, they should cname ntp.dlink.com to pool.ntp.org (which still gives them control to redirect if needed, but otherwise should be stable)
Only if it's donated to charity in the end...
All apps have a control that will stop them from popping up. If it's not accessible in the GUI options, it might be in an INI file or a registry entry like you say.
If not, check under Control Panel --> Add/Remove Programs. You'll find that by removing offensive software from your system, your computing experience will be a lot more pleasurable.
It's called ROI. Pretty much business 101, if it costs you more to invest in a business venture then the anticipated return, you don't do it.
If it will cost you $500,000 to put in a new elevator to carry people over 200 pounds, and you only anticipate $100,000 worth of sales from those same folks, it's economically sound to not cater to those individuals.
If it will cost you an extra $5000 in man hours to support IE3 on a new version of a website, you look at recent trends and figure out how long it will take your IE3 users to make you $5000 in profit.
> I would rather have a 20 gig high speed drive over a 100 gig slow as hell current drive any day.
Um, a 100G drive will be FASTER than the 20gb equivalent in the same range due to higher data density. A bigger drive (bytes wise) is almost always faster than a smaller one, yet you're implying you expect them to be able to make the disk faster by giving you less space? How/why would that work exactly?
You misunderstand -- He's not suggesting the 20gig drive would be faster, just that given the options, he would take a faster 20gig drive over a slower 100gig drive.
No, it's PC gear, not designed for the fruity amongst us.
Forging can be entertaining, and killing them is simply fun, so it all works out in the end.
It runs in my family, and my optometrist warned me to be careful reading and with computers or I might go blind.
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And you're wasting it on
Give them time... They don't block donation accounts until they have a larger chunk of funds.
And you call yourself a nerd?
Any specific issues? -- I've purchased a few cheapos and deployed them at various client sites (plus one here at my house) over the years, never had any issues. The one at my house is on a 30' USB cable too.
The only issue I've run into is that if you move the unit to a new USB port, it causes problems. Luckily I keep it wired to a desktop, or to a specific USB port on my laptop's docking station.
I don't know, no.
However, I have received poorly formatted DMCA requests from one lawfirm several times over the space of 9+ months, all of which were missing information (one time the email template had a spot for the offending URL but it was blank), so I can presume that they're not changing lawfirms as soon as one lawfirm shits their pants.
The term of the contract isn't important, if a company isn't living up to their contractual terms (or is behaving illegal), that's generally sufficient to terminate the contract.
*shrugs*
(And yes, I am a small webhost, and yes all of these complaints were legitimate in that they were referencing copyrighted materials)
However, if you pay someone to do a job, they do it poorly, then you hire them again, you can no longer claim ignorance about how they operate.
It doesn't wander randomly, it attempts to follow walls to surround the room until it locks in. It's simple, but effective.
The roomba doesn't wait until it's down to it's last few minutes of charge, it has more then enough time to circle rooms within it's specifications at least a couple times looking.