I don't work on ACH systems, but as I understand. the bank uses an ACH gateway to the Federal Reserve. they would just have to pay the gateway. If they are sending transactions over the EFT network they will have to pay interchange and gateway fees.
Bank 1 Core -> Bank 1 gateway -> EFT network interchange -> EFT network interchange ->bank 2 gateway -> Bank 2 Core
The number of EFT interchanges depends on the routing of the transaction's account number (the first six of the card number). So the routing may be more or less networks depending. It is similar to how traffic is routed between Autonomous Systems on the Internet. the thing is, everytime the transactions hits one of those interchange switches, the bank gets charged a fee, which is usually a percentage of the transaction. Very small, but it adds up.
This is how the credit card companies make money even if you pay your bill on time, it's also why many merchants don't take American Express, they have really high interchange fees.
I work on EFT processor software. This is not even news, nearly all the major national and regional networks have support for A2A (account to account) transfers, the thing is most of the small banks don't support it because it is cheaper to send transfers through ACH. Besides, most banks still use batch processing in their core, so even if a real-time transfer comes in it will only memo until it is hard posted later. Im guessing this bank wanted to make news so they are trying something new. The banking industry is super competitive.
the card number couldnt be hashed because the merchant's EFt processor routes the transaction to the cardholder's bank by using the BIN number which is the first 6 (usually) digits of the card nymber. the rest of the track 2 data could not be hashed either since it is used to calculate your pin by your bank.
Even if it were made here, the next argument that will surface will be revealing the identity of the physicians who administer the drugs. Since these are controlled substances, a physician has to prescribe them. I SHIT YOU NOT! So the Missouri Department of Corrections has to pay doctors to be present at executions to load the drugs and push the buttons. As you can imagine, they keep the identities a secret.
There was a shortage o doctors for a while who wanted to do this and the state had to reach out and find some that would. At that time, the defendant was arguing that it was cruel and unusal to have a non-physician administer the drugs.
I agree. As someone who doesnt have the best vision and generally uses Ctrl-+ a few times in web browsers , I can assure, all those layers start to break and it looks terrible.
I've been a happy slashdot reader for 12 years, please don't make me somewhere else.
Thanks!
In still others, workers seemed flummoxed by procedures that accompanied the new equipment, especially for accepting ballots when the scanners did not function. At times the frustration boiled over, and there were shouting matches between voters and poll workers.
At least some of the problems are caused by incompetent election officials. Perhaps that could work on reading comprehension?
... it's not going to be much better. Mars does not have a spinning core so no radiation belts to deflect evil radiation on the surface either. Surface exposure would have to be limited.
So, this article is basically saying that if you receive credit card payments from PayPal and you aren't registered then you have to pay more? well, paypal has to pay more, but the savings will be passed on to you.
Is there any source of what transactional data is shared? As someone who works with electornic funds transfer software, I only ever see non-personablly identifiable info in transactions. I can't say I blame Mastercard either, fraud is a major problem in this world. so until I see some real evidence, I will just assume that the author here is some tin-foil hat wearing privacy nut.
but I will hapiily change my opinion if there are new facts....
I never even considered this possibility until right now. I mean killing someone for hacking? I would generally say no, but what if its an infrastructure sort of thing. Like they hacked into a hospital and fiddles with patient records and people died, or they hacked into ATC and caused plane crashes? Should they be tried for murder? If we are at war with that country should they just be attacked by drones and killed off like an enemy combatant?
I don't really like where this train of thought is heading, it's like the futuristic dystopia is almost here!
When I was in high school and did the LAN party scene we never connected our LANs to the internet. Usually the upper-middle class kids hosted, and they had the expensive "high-speed" internet. Which at that time (2000-2002) was ~2Mbps on cable. Most of the attendees still had dial-up. So connecting the network to the internet was a bad idea, since people quickly forgot the point of a LAN party...
So, I don't really use, or frequently recommend Norton or other assorted Symantec products. (except for Ghost).
However, Norton consumer products have greatly improved in the last few years. The interfaces have been improved and simplified, and the code has been cleaned up and more streamlined.
Problems still happen, but I recommend people use the basic version of the software, since it lacks the firewall. The firewall driver is almost always the cause of problems with security software causing computer problems. At least for what I see of it, which is a lot.
If you hate Norton and vow to never use their products again, I would suggest taking a look at the Norton Power Eraser.. It's a free on-demand anti-malware scanning and removal tool that's pretty useful.
I am not sure if you are joking or not, but they still make Ghost.
Although I use Ghost 8 frequently at my job for drive cloning, the latest version is Ghost 15, you can buy it at any reputable electronics/software retailer.
http://us.norton.com/ghost/
Newer versions of ghost can ghost drives to virtual disk image files, so they can be opened in virtualization software.
The staff absolutely will unbox equipment to answer questions like that, because there will also be other customers asking the same thing
You mean there will be other customers asking if a computer runs linux? I honestly think that number might not be that high.
If you walked into the BestBuy I worked at (yes, I work for Geeksquad, but before you start throwing flames I am Linux+ certified) and we didn't have a floor model open available for you to test on, a sales associate who has no idea what you are talking about would come find me and I would look it up for you.
However, I am told that my store is much nicer than most other BestBuys...
However, each disc is usually locked to a single model, and does some sort of check that prevents it from running on any other model even if it has all the necessary drivers.
You are correct! On HP and Toshiba models this is referred to as Tattooing. If you ever had your motherboard replaced with a different model, you would have to have your new board retattooed, however, both HP and Toshiba keep the DMI (tatooing) utilities locked up, so you may have trouble getting them if you aren't an authorized service provider.:)
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Um, seriously, what the hell!?
I mean, really. who in their right mind comes up with this shit. Can you imagine some well-paid guys sitting at a conference table saying, "Well, we're running out of people to sue. Oh, I got it, why don't we waste some more money and sue the company thats hosts all these projects, that'll shut them all down in one fell stroke. Genius, know we'll all get nice bonuses this year! haHA!"
What on earth are these people smoking? Obviously, they should be targeting Intel and AMD, if it weren't for their processors none of this would be happening. Or maybe take on the US government, for coming up with DARPAnet!
I agree with simulation games. Let me tell you about Microsoft Flight Simulator. what a great game, you'll learn all about flying, if you want, or you can just fly around and see landmarks. Hours of fun fun fun. Multiplayer is fun too.
Seriously, who needs broadband?
I maean thats like saying I should upgrade to a color tv from a black and white only.
Or that I should get touch-tone service instead of rotary?
I mean why?
Geez...
I dont think a UPS is going to have relays, it would probably use some sort of thyristor. (Solid state devices that can act like relays)
Simple over voltage protection would come in the form of a zener diode in parallel across the power rails. Or, perhaps an antifuse.
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I am unsure how an alternator would sync phase, but I don't know that much about car altenators. But if I wanted to hook an inverter to the mains I would use a simple system: for my inverter pulse the DC through some power transistors using a capacitor afterwards to smooth things out.
As far as syncing: the oscillator controlling my inverter would be ran off a phase-locked loop. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_locked_loop)
Continuously syncing phase with whats on the mains.
For islanding mode operation (shutting power off to the line when the line goes down. I have though about this for a long while. (I like thinking)If the line goes down its either because of a short or an open. A downed line or one shut off for maintenance Your inverter has to respond within 60ish ms to be legal to use as grid-tie IIRC. If there is a short your out flowing current is going to shoot way up and max out your inverter. If its an open the current will drop way down, not always to zero. So if you monitor the outgoing current and if there is a big change from the average current have it shut off outgoing power to the grid. This would take some trial-and error and research, however.
FYI, I am not an EE, but I am a CET!
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I don't work on ACH systems, but as I understand. the bank uses an ACH gateway to the Federal Reserve. they would just have to pay the gateway. If they are sending transactions over the EFT network they will have to pay interchange and gateway fees.
Bank 1 Core -> Bank 1 gateway -> EFT network interchange -> EFT network interchange ->bank 2 gateway -> Bank 2 Core
The number of EFT interchanges depends on the routing of the transaction's account number (the first six of the card number). So the routing may be more or less networks depending. It is similar to how traffic is routed between Autonomous Systems on the Internet. the thing is, everytime the transactions hits one of those interchange switches, the bank gets charged a fee, which is usually a percentage of the transaction. Very small, but it adds up.
This is how the credit card companies make money even if you pay your bill on time, it's also why many merchants don't take American Express, they have really high interchange fees.
I work on EFT processor software. This is not even news, nearly all the major national and regional networks have support for A2A (account to account) transfers, the thing is most of the small banks don't support it because it is cheaper to send transfers through ACH. Besides, most banks still use batch processing in their core, so even if a real-time transfer comes in it will only memo until it is hard posted later. Im guessing this bank wanted to make news so they are trying something new. The banking industry is super competitive.
the card number couldnt be hashed because the merchant's EFt processor routes the transaction to the cardholder's bank by using the BIN number which is the first 6 (usually) digits of the card nymber. the rest of the track 2 data could not be hashed either since it is used to calculate your pin by your bank.
You might be interested in reading:
ISO 8583
and also, How pin checking generally works
Even if it were made here, the next argument that will surface will be revealing the identity of the physicians who administer the drugs. Since these are controlled substances, a physician has to prescribe them. I SHIT YOU NOT! So the Missouri Department of Corrections has to pay doctors to be present at executions to load the drugs and push the buttons. As you can imagine, they keep the identities a secret.
There was a shortage o doctors for a while who wanted to do this and the state had to reach out and find some that would. At that time, the defendant was arguing that it was cruel and unusal to have a non-physician administer the drugs.
IANAL but my father is
I agree. As someone who doesnt have the best vision and generally uses Ctrl-+ a few times in web browsers , I can assure, all those layers start to break and it looks terrible. I've been a happy slashdot reader for 12 years, please don't make me somewhere else. Thanks!
Robot human collaboration? I think you meant human cyborg relations.
This article explains the problems better.
In still others, workers seemed flummoxed by procedures that accompanied the new equipment, especially for accepting ballots when the scanners did not function. At times the frustration boiled over, and there were shouting matches between voters and poll workers.
At least some of the problems are caused by incompetent election officials. Perhaps that could work on reading comprehension?
Also, how is this news?
... it's not going to be much better. Mars does not have a spinning core so no radiation belts to deflect evil radiation on the surface either. Surface exposure would have to be limited.
http://mars-one.com/en/faq-en/19-faq-health/185-will-the-astronauts-suffer-from-radiation
However, I would still go. I mean, if we can actually get people to Mars, we shoudl have no problem getting around the radiation problem.
They expel and charge kids with felonies for far less....
So, this article is basically saying that if you receive credit card payments from PayPal and you aren't registered then you have to pay more? well, paypal has to pay more, but the savings will be passed on to you. Is there any source of what transactional data is shared? As someone who works with electornic funds transfer software, I only ever see non-personablly identifiable info in transactions. I can't say I blame Mastercard either, fraud is a major problem in this world. so until I see some real evidence, I will just assume that the author here is some tin-foil hat wearing privacy nut. but I will hapiily change my opinion if there are new facts....
I never even considered this possibility until right now. I mean killing someone for hacking? I would generally say no, but what if its an infrastructure sort of thing. Like they hacked into a hospital and fiddles with patient records and people died, or they hacked into ATC and caused plane crashes? Should they be tried for murder? If we are at war with that country should they just be attacked by drones and killed off like an enemy combatant? I don't really like where this train of thought is heading, it's like the futuristic dystopia is almost here!
When I was in high school and did the LAN party scene we never connected our LANs to the internet. Usually the upper-middle class kids hosted, and they had the expensive "high-speed" internet. Which at that time (2000-2002) was ~2Mbps on cable. Most of the attendees still had dial-up. So connecting the network to the internet was a bad idea, since people quickly forgot the point of a LAN party...
So, I don't really use, or frequently recommend Norton or other assorted Symantec products. (except for Ghost).
However, Norton consumer products have greatly improved in the last few years. The interfaces have been improved and simplified, and the code has been cleaned up and more streamlined.
Problems still happen, but I recommend people use the basic version of the software, since it lacks the firewall. The firewall driver is almost always the cause of problems with security software causing computer problems. At least for what I see of it, which is a lot.
If you hate Norton and vow to never use their products again, I would suggest taking a look at the Norton Power Eraser.. It's a free on-demand anti-malware scanning and removal tool that's pretty useful.
I am not sure if you are joking or not, but they still make Ghost. Although I use Ghost 8 frequently at my job for drive cloning, the latest version is Ghost 15, you can buy it at any reputable electronics/software retailer. http://us.norton.com/ghost/ Newer versions of ghost can ghost drives to virtual disk image files, so they can be opened in virtualization software.
The staff absolutely will unbox equipment to answer questions like that, because there will also be other customers asking the same thing
You mean there will be other customers asking if a computer runs linux? I honestly think that number might not be that high.
If you walked into the BestBuy I worked at (yes, I work for Geeksquad, but before you start throwing flames I am Linux+ certified) and we didn't have a floor model open available for you to test on, a sales associate who has no idea what you are talking about would come find me and I would look it up for you.
However, I am told that my store is much nicer than most other BestBuys...
However, each disc is usually locked to a single model, and does some sort of check that prevents it from running on any other model even if it has all the necessary drivers.
:)
You are correct! On HP and Toshiba models this is referred to as Tattooing. If you ever had your motherboard replaced with a different model, you would have to have your new board retattooed, however, both HP and Toshiba keep the DMI (tatooing) utilities locked up, so you may have trouble getting them if you aren't an authorized service provider.
Beneath a Steel Sky was such a great game. Good plot and graphics!
Here's a video
Wiki article, I think.
Seriously, go play it!
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Um, seriously, what the hell!?
I mean, really. who in their right mind comes up with this shit. Can you imagine some well-paid guys sitting at a conference table saying, "Well, we're running out of people to sue. Oh, I got it, why don't we waste some more money and sue the company thats hosts all these projects, that'll shut them all down in one fell stroke. Genius, know we'll all get nice bonuses this year! haHA!"
What on earth are these people smoking? Obviously, they should be targeting Intel and AMD, if it weren't for their processors none of this would be happening. Or maybe take on the US government, for coming up with DARPAnet!
I agree with simulation games. Let me tell you about Microsoft Flight Simulator. what a great game, you'll learn all about flying, if you want, or you can just fly around and see landmarks. Hours of fun fun fun. Multiplayer is fun too.
Can you ship it to someone out of state and pick it up there?
I love Newegg, you may also want to look at pricewatch.com
it may not be all from one vendor, but you may find a vendor who has everything you need.
I must be lucky. I work at an family-owned single independent grocery store and when they told us three years ago we were going to get new POS systems, I thought for sure we would get Windows PC with some crappy software. Instead we got this: http://www-03.ibm.com/products/retail/products/pos/700/index.html Running this: http://www-03.ibm.com/products/retail/products/software/4690/index.html I couldn't believe it.
Seriously, who needs broadband? I maean thats like saying I should upgrade to a color tv from a black and white only. Or that I should get touch-tone service instead of rotary? I mean why? Geez...
I dont think a UPS is going to have relays, it would probably use some sort of thyristor. (Solid state devices that can act like relays)
Simple over voltage protection would come in the form of a zener diode in parallel across the power rails. Or, perhaps an antifuse.
I am unsure how an alternator would sync phase, but I don't know that much about car altenators. But if I wanted to hook an inverter to the mains I would use a simple system: for my inverter pulse the DC through some power transistors using a capacitor afterwards to smooth things out. As far as syncing: the oscillator controlling my inverter would be ran off a phase-locked loop. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_locked_loop) Continuously syncing phase with whats on the mains. For islanding mode operation (shutting power off to the line when the line goes down. I have though about this for a long while. (I like thinking)If the line goes down its either because of a short or an open. A downed line or one shut off for maintenance Your inverter has to respond within 60ish ms to be legal to use as grid-tie IIRC. If there is a short your out flowing current is going to shoot way up and max out your inverter. If its an open the current will drop way down, not always to zero. So if you monitor the outgoing current and if there is a big change from the average current have it shut off outgoing power to the grid. This would take some trial-and error and research, however. FYI, I am not an EE, but I am a CET!