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Actually, I worked in quite a nice part of town. Soccer moms and 60+'ers were the most common theifs of gas. Do you realise how much one of those SUVs and big ass Oldsmobiles can hold?
And we didn't assume everyone was a theif. No one did anything with the numbers. They just stayed on a sheet on a clipboard. Would you rather we just handed someone a sheet with the last 100 customer's license plates because they wanted it? The numbers were crossed off after the customer paid, and it would take a lot of effort to go back and associate each plate with a credit card.
People complain about this little stuff and then get mad when cities insist on stations requiring all customersto prepay because of all the police reports. Make up your mind people.
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I'll give you that, but it doesn't change the fact that it is a public identification.
I just called to see what it was. I figured anyone posting an 800# on Slashdot had a joke behind it.
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tell my why not recording this data is harmful or necessary
$2.35 per gallon
I have worked in a gas station before. People steal lots of gas every day in this country. That costs you and I every time we fill up. License plates are also used to identify people useing stolen credit cards and forged checks.
your comings and goings should NOT be public record.
Your coming and goings in and out of my establishment should be my business. But as I have stated, feel free to go to another gas station (where they will do the same thing). Don't use a credit card. Fill up portable tanks and carry them to your car.
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I am just as much in my rights to have a reasonable expectation that the information will not be recorded and linked to my CC # (which was the original point of this discussion) for malicious use.
Absolutely. It is, however, a giant leap to assume that a clerk writing your license plate number will link that to your credit card.
Even in the event that a gas station would want to keep records about your activities as a customer, you do have a choice, stop going to that gas station. Or, pay cash.
If the clerk does it on his own, and you can prove that, then sue him and his employer.
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Sorry for assuming anger, just my perception of the post. Would contend, however, that they do not have a right to not only record, but keep that recording, of public information?
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Sorry for assuming anger, just my perception of the post.
Would contend, however, that they do not have a right to not only record, but keep that recording, of public information?
Why do you know the number to a sex line off the top of your head.
Oh, this is Slashdot. Never mind.
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In this society, we use various forms of identification for various reasons. Go ahead and get mad at a gas station clerk if you want. If they arn't writing it down then your plate is on tape. Privacy is one thing, but your licence plate is there to PUBLICLY IDENTIFY you. That is its purpose. The poor guy would lose his job if you drove away without paying for your gas, not to mention that everyone would have to pay more for theirs.
A driver's license it there to privatly identify to those you show it to, a choice you make.
Your social security number should not be used for identification except to services (taxes, social security) that require it.
If you are mad that too much information is available to someone just by your license plate, fight to change what information is linked to it, don't get pissed at some schmuck for writing down a number that is plastered on both ends of the outside of your car!
Even better - A Loser Dies system. Unless you are absolutely sure that you will win, no one will dare bring suit. Make it a Loser & His Lawyer Dies system and eliminate most lawyer's desire to even attempt to try poor cases.
I had similar problems when I [b]upgraded[/b] from.9 to 1.0. The crashing went away when I did an uninstall followed by a clean install as instructed by the Firefox site (I don't remember where, google it). It seems that the 1.0 would not overwrite some beta files. Acrobat still sucks to load though.
I believe that the falling of the tree creates vibrations in the air which would be perceived as sound were someone present to interpret them with their aural organs.
That said, the real question is:
If a tree falls and lands on a mime, does anyone care?
You know, he could just type IDDQD and IDCHOPPERS in the beginning and take all the baddies out with a chainsaw, ala Ash (Evil Dead, ED2, Army of Darkness).
Speaking of which, Ash rocks and could kick the crap out of the Rock any day with his mighty BOOMSTICK!!!
If that really were the author posting that comment, she's either an idiot or LinuxWorld are an untrustworthy news source.
So no, it's not her.
I don't follow.
The story is false but printed as true, so she IS and idiot and LinuxWorld IS an untrustworthy news source, regardless if she is the one who make that post.
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And we didn't assume everyone was a theif. No one did anything with the numbers. They just stayed on a sheet on a clipboard. Would you rather we just handed someone a sheet with the last 100 customer's license plates because they wanted it? The numbers were crossed off after the customer paid, and it would take a lot of effort to go back and associate each plate with a credit card.
People complain about this little stuff and then get mad when cities insist on stations requiring all customersto prepay because of all the police reports. Make up your mind people.
I'll give you that, but it doesn't change the fact that it is a public identification.
I just called to see what it was. I figured anyone posting an 800# on Slashdot had a joke behind it.
tell my why not recording this data is harmful or necessary
$2.35 per gallon
I have worked in a gas station before. People steal lots of gas every day in this country. That costs you and I every time we fill up. License plates are also used to identify people useing stolen credit cards and forged checks.
your comings and goings should NOT be public record. Your coming and goings in and out of my establishment should be my business. But as I have stated, feel free to go to another gas station (where they will do the same thing). Don't use a credit card. Fill up portable tanks and carry them to your car.
I am just as much in my rights to have a reasonable expectation that the information will not be recorded and linked to my CC # (which was the original point of this discussion) for malicious use.
Absolutely. It is, however, a giant leap to assume that a clerk writing your license plate number will link that to your credit card.
Even in the event that a gas station would want to keep records about your activities as a customer, you do have a choice, stop going to that gas station. Or, pay cash.
If the clerk does it on his own, and you can prove that, then sue him and his employer.
Sorry for assuming anger, just my perception of the post. Would contend, however, that they do not have a right to not only record, but keep that recording, of public information?
Sorry for assuming anger, just my perception of the post. Would contend, however, that they do not have a right to not only record, but keep that recording, of public information?
Why do you know the number to a sex line off the top of your head.
Oh, this is Slashdot. Never mind.
In this society, we use various forms of identification for various reasons. Go ahead and get mad at a gas station clerk if you want. If they arn't writing it down then your plate is on tape. Privacy is one thing, but your licence plate is there to PUBLICLY IDENTIFY you. That is its purpose. The poor guy would lose his job if you drove away without paying for your gas, not to mention that everyone would have to pay more for theirs.
A driver's license it there to privatly identify to those you show it to, a choice you make.
Your social security number should not be used for identification except to services (taxes, social security) that require it.
If you are mad that too much information is available to someone just by your license plate, fight to change what information is linked to it, don't get pissed at some schmuck for writing down a number that is plastered on both ends of the outside of your car!
They state Sempron, because that is the chip replacing XP.
Two Words:
Google Translate.
Is that Insightful as modded or Funny? Break it on purpose because if we do it on accident they will think we did it on purpose?
Futurama was (almost) Right!
Even better - A Loser Dies system. Unless you are absolutely sure that you will win, no one will dare bring suit. Make it a Loser & His Lawyer Dies system and eliminate most lawyer's desire to even attempt to try poor cases.
I'm afraid to ask, but what constitutes a donkey's secondary and tertiary sexual organs?
Where where you when you were supposed to be learning about sarcasm?
I had similar problems when I [b]upgraded[/b] from .9 to 1.0. The crashing went away when I did an uninstall followed by a clean install as instructed by the Firefox site (I don't remember where, google it). It seems that the 1.0 would not overwrite some beta files. Acrobat still sucks to load though.
I agree that TFA is poorly worded while describing how it works, but at least their package manifest correctly identifies the technology.
How about circumvention of the whole bank robbery. Just make some money.
You know, he could just type IDDQD and IDCHOPPERS in the beginning and take all the baddies out with a chainsaw, ala Ash (Evil Dead, ED2, Army of Darkness). Speaking of which, Ash rocks and could kick the crap out of the Rock any day with his mighty BOOMSTICK!!!
The story is false but printed as true, so she IS and idiot and LinuxWorld IS an untrustworthy news source, regardless if she is the one who make that post.
I'm calling prior art.
Bulva?