4) Osama bin Laden is not a zombie and is back to finish what he started, and thinks that we should elect Nader.
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The thing that bugs me most about presidential candidates is that they always say "when I am president" and not "if I am elected president", even the ones who know they have no chance of winning (like Kucinich). I know their speech coaches or whoever tell them it makes them sound more assertive and confident and blah blah blah, but shut up already.
It also makes you wonder why some (Kerry) haven't at least introduced the legislation that will enact what he's proposing on the campaign trail.
Makes you wonder if it's the backend database where the problem was - prices of the products not matching the prices on the shelves. The clerk was there because they probably got more complaints at the self checkout lane (where you're paying much closer attention) than the normal lanes.
If that's the case, it doesn't matter if the checkout machine was running Windows, linux, OS/2, MSDOS, or a monkey with a green visor - you'll get the same errors (assuming it wasn't intentional).
They did right. When someone is calling to ask something, even as innocent as that, they should be suspicious of social engineering in advance of some sort of an attack.
NCR is starting to phase out OS/2. The computers that drive the ATMs continue to get newer, and ADA requirements are for them to talk - so Windows (with support for more sound cards and other hardware) is a natural way to go.
I'm not arguing that they'd be better off installing gentoo or red hat on those machines, I'm just saying that it's the way it is.
Is that due to it running Windows, a faulty back-end database (display one price on the shelves, scan something different), or "user error" (no offense)?
Upheaval is overstating the outcome of an ATM-bourne virus. So some ATM's go down - big deal. There are a lot of ATM's out there and not all run windows, and not all are on the same network
It would kind of suck for the ATM owner, bank, and network if this were to happen, but it wouldn't cause panic in the streets.
Any time I open a new account (either a loan or a deposit account), I need to produce ID and some form of proof of address (and there are secondary forms of ID which one can use to help prove that to the financial institution). This part of the Patriot Act was put in to stop money laundering for terrorists and drug traffickers, but it should have the helpful side effect of reducing identity theft by raising the bar and making it more difficult to open accounts under someone else's name.
Opening accounts for law-abiding citizens is no worse now than before this took effect. If you've opened any new accounts in the last 10 years, you'd know how much paperwork it involves (even for deposit accounts!) - the ID stuff doesn't add that much to it.
As far as tracking money, section 314(a) is the part that you're thinking of:)
One of the good things in the Patriot Act (man, I'll get slammed for this!) is the Customer Identification requirement for financial institutions - it should now take more than a name, address, and social security number to open an account.
I agree with your punishments, but I'd still say that life in prison would be about right for those who commit this type of fraud on more than one other person.
Those might help agencies develop better security and forensics, which leads to more criminals being caught. When people are actually getting caught, then the penalties are actually effective deterrents.
And law enforcement also needs to step it up and realize that this is a serious problem. Right now, many law enforcement officers don't view this as a problem - sure it sucks to have to clean up your credit record and the "credit card companies" lose some money, but no harm no foul.
Depends on which of the "shops" you use. If you go through their small business site, you can avoid at least some of the consumer preinstalled crap and it will automatically choose the XP Pro radio button for you.
The only newer Dell that I've worked on that wouldn't work is one that got fried by lightning last spring. That doesn't prove that they're making high quality machines anymore than your statement proves that they're not.
That's a little harsh sounding (sorry about that), but I've not seen any problems with them. And at least they don't plaster the new machines with stickers saying how great they are (HP/Compaq and eMachines do that - yuck!) - that alone should be worth a bit.
PHB: "What the f*** is a Wiki? We can't have something called that."
And that's the real reason that open source has a hard time moving into front line business applications. You can hide funny names on servers behind the scenes, but when you place it out in front of everyone you get responses like that.
If Wiki World means that everyone will be using wiki's for everything, well, maybe not.
Sure it does - add a couple of functions and they'll be good for spreadsheets. Add a couple more and you can use it to run your accounting system. Add some user interface parts, and it can fix your sink and vaccuum your livingroom! It's a Wiki World!
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4) Osama bin Laden is not a zombie and is back to finish what he started, and thinks that we should elect Nader.
It also makes you wonder why some (Kerry) haven't at least introduced the legislation that will enact what he's proposing on the campaign trail.
If that's the case, it doesn't matter if the checkout machine was running Windows, linux, OS/2, MSDOS, or a monkey with a green visor - you'll get the same errors (assuming it wasn't intentional).
They did right. When someone is calling to ask something, even as innocent as that, they should be suspicious of social engineering in advance of some sort of an attack.
ATM networks shouldn't be running TCP/IP. Shazam runs some IBM protocol that wouldn't propogate worms.
Lloyds TSB? I get some of their people signing up for online banking at our site from time to time.
I'm not arguing that they'd be better off installing gentoo or red hat on those machines, I'm just saying that it's the way it is.
Is that due to it running Windows, a faulty back-end database (display one price on the shelves, scan something different), or "user error" (no offense)?
It would kind of suck for the ATM owner, bank, and network if this were to happen, but it wouldn't cause panic in the streets.
That's not unusual for NCR machines. I think that their newer ATMs are running Windows now that OS/2 is not as fully supported as it used to be.
Opening accounts for law-abiding citizens is no worse now than before this took effect. If you've opened any new accounts in the last 10 years, you'd know how much paperwork it involves (even for deposit accounts!) - the ID stuff doesn't add that much to it.
As far as tracking money, section 314(a) is the part that you're thinking of :)
I agree with your punishments, but I'd still say that life in prison would be about right for those who commit this type of fraud on more than one other person.
Those might help agencies develop better security and forensics, which leads to more criminals being caught. When people are actually getting caught, then the penalties are actually effective deterrents.
And law enforcement also needs to step it up and realize that this is a serious problem. Right now, many law enforcement officers don't view this as a problem - sure it sucks to have to clean up your credit record and the "credit card companies" lose some money, but no harm no foul.
No problem. They've got them, but they've hidden them so that you have to work to find what you're looking for.
Bummer - that is a series of bad luck! Were you getting lower end equipment, or was it the high end stuff that was hassling you?
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Depends on which of the "shops" you use. If you go through their small business site, you can avoid at least some of the consumer preinstalled crap and it will automatically choose the XP Pro radio button for you.
That's a little harsh sounding (sorry about that), but I've not seen any problems with them. And at least they don't plaster the new machines with stickers saying how great they are (HP/Compaq and eMachines do that - yuck!) - that alone should be worth a bit.
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They're the government - they have no sense of humor. I think that they were serious about it.
They must have been pretty good to commit cybercrimes in the 30's and 40's!
Identity theft should be a capital offense. Life sentences should be the minimum punishment.
Well - that takes all of the fun out of complaining about the DHS.
It would be interesting if IBM were to dump Lotus Notes - being as they own the software and all.
And that's the real reason that open source has a hard time moving into front line business applications. You can hide funny names on servers behind the scenes, but when you place it out in front of everyone you get responses like that.
Sure it does - add a couple of functions and they'll be good for spreadsheets. Add a couple more and you can use it to run your accounting system. Add some user interface parts, and it can fix your sink and vaccuum your livingroom! It's a Wiki World!