Yes but the system operates the way it does for the convenience of the banks... in return for that convenience they have to cover some bogus transactions out of their pockets... they're obviously still making money.
Some bogus transactions, obviously not the ones that they have no control over, but could be prevented by the customer paying attention. You keep trying to make this about something other than phishing. This isn't about checks being easy to forge, or banks not doing enough to verify that it's actually you calling them, it's people who, despite all the warnings, still give out their banking info at shady websites. That's not the bank's fault.
While we've always had voter fraud, electronic voting allows the potential for fraud to grow to crazy new heights. In 2004, one precinct here in Ohio had 4000 more votes for Bush than there were people in the precinct (which was only a couple hundred). If you can find the voting totals for Franklin County (it used to be online, don't know if it still is), you'll see some rather impossible numbers. All your dead voters in Chicago couldn't mess up things up as bad as they were in Ohio in 2004.
A *Freely Licensed* (copy the crap out of it *if* you want, contribute *if* you want, not like GPL)
The GPL doesn't prevent or require you to copy or contribute. The GPL requires you to distribute the code with any modifications you make. If you're going to bitch about the GPL, at least bitch about things that are actually true about it.
You give your account information to anyone you write a check to. Phishing is bad and obviously it is stupid to fall for it, but how do you combat a dishonest employee at a company that you have to mail a check to?
That's not phishing. In that case, you would sue the company that can't make sure its employees are honest.
Unless you want a system where it's physically impossible for a dishonest employee to misuse your information, which I don't we can do. When you give someone a check or credit card, you are basically giving them access to your account, because how else would they be able to withdraw money? They need to have information that they can give a bank or credit card company that will allow them to get money, and that requires giving them enough information that they could forge another transaction and get more money. Changing that would require changing how our whole financial system works. Good luck with that.
1. No fecking media support! I get XMMS inform me on first attempt at playing an MP3 that it won't because of licensing conflict. Wtf? Codecs for avi's and DVDs were a simular story; all had to be downloaded via yum (bloody excellent tool!). Seriously; not good, but fixed in the end.
You could try using a distro that comes with media support if that's really that big of a deal. Mepis, Linspire, and PCLinuxOS come with it, amoung others.
2. Why the hell do I have to install a new kernel? Why? I've never had to on Windows - why is Linux different? Is it so buggy? I installed with a factory version something ending 054. Now I have something ending 122 I believe. I did it ok, but that's not the point I'm making; were there really 68 cock-ups so great in the kernel build from release-time until that now they had to re-release 68 times? I'm guessing probablly not, but still.
I use Ubuntu on my main computer. The one time it needed to install a new kernel, it just showed up in my auto-updater thingy, I clicked ok, and then it did it and asked me to restart ( no harder than a Windows update). If it bothers you, or if you want to recommend Linux to someone who couldn't install a kernel the way you did on Fedora, then go with something like Ubuntu or Mepis.
3. Point 2 also breaks my nvidia drivers. I don't want to re-compile new drivers everytime there's a new 'patch'. For the love of god, why?!
You have to compile drivers? On Ubuntu I downloaded a little utility called "EasyUbuntu", which has little checkboxes for nVidia & ATI drivers, as well as Flash, mp3, etc, and then you just click ok and they're installed. On Mepis, they come installed.
5. Lack of decent file-browser. The best I've come across is Nautilus in a mode that resembles Windows Explorer. It'll do for now, but as far as I'm aware, offers no context-sensitive menus for applications (like the Winamp "Play in Winamp" right-click menu on folders.
There are lots of things the bank could do besides using a PIN. They could come up with a secure system that was easy to use and facilitated business. The problem is that they don't care to do so.
What is this "secure system" you envision? If you give a customer enough information to access their account online, then they have enough information to give phishers so they can access their account too. What specifically do you think the banks can do?
Therefore, the responsibility for paying for the fraud needs to be on them. They are the ones who control the system and have the power to choose to change it, not their customers.
The customers need to not give their account info to other people. The bank can't stop them, so the responsibility lies with the customers.
Given a few large lawsuits, banks will probably have to sign up for fraud insurance. But if their insurers set their rates based on an assesors' estimate of their security, it'll be in their best interests to improve security to get the cheapest policy possible.
I think you're not understanding the concept of phishing. Phishing is where scammers pretend to be a bank or whatever so someone will give them their bank account information. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the bank's security. It doesn't involve the bank's website, the bank's databases, or anything else the bank can control. It involves a fake email and a fake website and a confused person. In fact, I'm sure if a bank totally stopped doing online transactions altogether they'd still have a few customers fall victim to phishing. There just isn't much banks can do to stop it.
It's unfortunate, but unless the phishers can be found (which is pretty much never) the customer has to be the one to bear responsibility. They need to keep track of who they give their information to, and while they don't deserve to lose all their money, others who didn't make the mistake shouldn't have to take responsibility for it. It sucks, but that's life.
In some ways region encoding might encourage piracy. If I really want a copy of Super Neko Densetsu but I can't just import and play it, then I'll be hacking my Wii to play import games, when otherwise I wouldn't bother opening it. And now, it probably will play burned games. And there's Super Mario Galaxy up on that pirate site...
250 Dollars.. Only one controller. Shit I can't play games with my son for less than $310 dollars. I wanted one bad. I've been following it for months. But now I am out. $250 with two controllers? Sure. Maybe, if I could have got it past my wife. $310? She'll never OK it. I'm out Nintendo. Got it? You failed.
I guess the whole game industry failed you then. Sorry dude, sucks to be poor.
If you're relatively new to Linux and want to spend as little time figuring it out as possible, I'd recommend you try Mepis or Freespire. They come with all the multimedia stuff set up (mp3, flash, etc) and they're designed to be a little more like Windows than Ubuntu, and tend to have better wireless support. If your laptop is really, really old (I've gotten Mepis to run pretty good with 192 megs of ram, Freespire takes more) Xubuntu can work down to about 64 megs of ram (use the alternate install cd, the regular one has a live cd that uses a lot of ram). If you install Xubuntu, get EasyUbuntu to take care of your media needs, and then go through the Ubuntu wiki to get wireless up and going. Good luck.:)
What the hell are you installing? Seriously, what obscure programs do you want that take HOURS or DAYS to find and install? In Ubuntu, open Synaptic, click search, type "system monitor" or whatever (although there's already one installed...) and there's your options. Right-click one, select install, then click Apply. Wait about two minutes, depending on size and connection speed, and then it's in your Applications or K Menu.
One of the reasons I switched to Ubuntu over Windows is because installing programs is much easier in Ubuntu. In Windows I have to search all over the net for an.exe, hope it's not spyware, hope it's the right thing, then wait for it to download, then install. In Ubuntu, all the programs I could have are listed in Synaptic, a click away from being in my K or App Menu. I don't understand why it's not working for you, I really don't.
At most you're saying that Ubuntu isn't ready for the desktop. Different distros have different package managers, different speeds, different laptop support, etc. Also, some of your complaints are a little surprising, for example I've never had to explicitly mount anything and I've been using Ubuntu for over a year. Maybe you have a hardware conflict?
Gramma could use it if all she's gonna do is type letters, surf the web, shop on amazon, and send/receive email. but when 13 year old jessica wants to play her music and do crap with myspace, she's SOL.
What's wrong with myspace and music on Linux? My best friend pretty much lives on myspace, and she uses Linux.
Why do you need to mention you are a girl? If you need attention you might aswell add links to some of your pictures.
I'll remember to refer to myself as a "fanperson" from now on. Wouldn't want people to catch onto my big secret now.
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Well, I fucked that post up. Remind me to use that damned preview button.
You obviously aren't reading console sites if you aren't aware of the massive backlashing going on all over the Net at this very moment. Almost everyone was expecting a price in the 150 to 200 dollar range
I thought we were expecting $200 to $250? With a pack-in game $250's plenty reasonable. I want a Wii for $5, too, but I'm not all huffy that they actually want to make money.
The next gen race is between Nintendo and Sony. Both will certainly sellout through the holidays, but this pricing blunder and the huge negative reaction from Nintendo fans is a serious problem for the Wii.
Hahahaha! The Wii is half the price of the PS3. Any lower and I'm not sure if people would consider it a contender. The Wii is not the one that is overpriced.
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I thought we were expecting $200 to $250? With a pack-in game $250's plenty reasonable. I want a Wii for $5, too, but I'm not all huffy that they actually want to make money.
The next gen race is between Nintendo and Sony. Both will certainly sellout through the holidays, but this pricing blunder and the huge negative reaction from Nintendo fans is a serious problem for the Wii.
Hahahaha! The Wii is half the price of the PS3. Any lower and I'm not sure if people would consider it a contender. The Wii is not the one that is overpriced.
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Considering the Wii 1. has no hard drive, 2. has no headset, 3. has no HD video cables, and 4. may or may not ship with a wireless wii-mote. I'd say the Core version could be VERY appealing to would be Wii buyers.
I thought the wiimote was only going to be wireless (except for some early demos). Would be rather awkward with a wire, but I could be wrong.
Anyways, I don't think those things matter to most Wii buyers. The Wii is pushed at casual gamers, and those who like to play silly fun multiplayer games (warioware vs. halo), and those who don't have HDTV. The graphics fiends have already declared the Wii underpowered and have dismissed it, but the Wii is being marketed to people, like me, who have a regular old TV and can't see the difference between DOA4 on 360 and DOA2 on XBox. The Wii has games grandma might like, but Halo fanboy isn't going to touch. They're really going for two different markets here, so I don't see a lot of otherwise Wii buyers going for a 360 because they dropped the price down $50.
Um, no. I'm not really looking to piss off Nintendo users.
I was teasing. Sorry if I didn't use the right emoticons or something.:-0
Well think of it this way: its totally optional. I kind of picture this functionality as being vaguely Mac OS X/Dashboard-like in execution. That would be alright, a little customizeable 'desktop' that maybe you look at when you turn it on, before the game loads or whatever. But your point is well-taken; there will be N fans who are not pleased that N is even spending any time at all on these frills.
It's not that big of a deal to me. It was just, since you asked...
However. I never, EVER want to hear from the Nintendo fanboys about how their favourite console eschews all the 'useless bells and whistles' to focus with laserlike intensity on pure gameplay.
Obviously not. They are as eager to pack on the feature-creep as Sony and MS.
Well, this Nintendo fangirl is grumbling. Happy now?
Ok, I'm not terribly upset about it, but these things seem kinda useless to me. I (and probably many people who are buying Wiis instead the higher-end consoles) have a cheap TV so I doubt I'll be able to see the internet in any functional form on it. Plus, lack of keyboard can't be fun. Weather Channel? Don't most people get that with cable anyways? Photo display? Whatever, I have a computer. I hope some people enjoy these features, but I think Nintendo should have spent their time doing somethign else.
But very few people seem to want a Wii as their only console. $250 vs. $0 is a lot.
But do people want only a PS3 or only a 360? I love the Dead or Alive series, and I love the Final Fantasy series. So I want both a PS3 and a 360 (barring any exclusivity changes). Unfortunately for me, there's no way I can afford a $400 or $600 console, so I'm not getting either until a price drop. I can, however, afford a $250 console, so I will likely be getting a Wii. That will give me a lot of gaming fun until the 360 and PS3 have dropped down to something reasonable. I have no idea why you're trying to argue that getting a PS3 is the affordable option.
Well, okay. Less than a Wii and any other device with HDTV output. The 360 is the cheapest device that boasts that.
Uh, yeah. The PS3 is cheaper than the Wii PLUS something expensive. My Toyota is cheaper than a Wii plus a BMW. Most people don't have HDTV, so why would most people buy a Wii and something with HDTV output. What you're saying is "I want my shiney sparkles" which is perfectly fine, but say that, don't say "my shiney sparkles are cheaper" because they're not.
Wii Sports is not a sports game like Madden. Nintendo's sports games tend to be crazy fun w/ friends, but less than stellar single player. Having a second controller is a really good idea for Wii Sports. If it comes with two, you can always invite over a friend or hand it off to a family member and you'd probably have a great time. Unless you're really, really not into multiplayer games, in which case you'd be better off waiting for FFXIII and getting a PS3.
Then why not ask to borrow a classmate's notes? Not all my professors made notes available at all on the web, so that's what I did when I missed a lecture.
But if there is a recording, why not take advantage of it?
People should not be used as test subjects against their will. If they do enough tests on volunteers and determine it is safe and does what they want it to do, then they can use it, but people are not guinea pigs.
But as he said once it creates the dump it will reboot. It will not stay on that screen.
Sometimes it does. I think there's an setting somewhere that keeps it up. Last week one of my coworkers came into find her computer on blue screen, and back when I ran XP I got a BSOD once or twice and had to do a hard restart.
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While we've always had voter fraud, electronic voting allows the potential for fraud to grow to crazy new heights. In 2004, one precinct here in Ohio had 4000 more votes for Bush than there were people in the precinct (which was only a couple hundred). If you can find the voting totals for Franklin County (it used to be online, don't know if it still is), you'll see some rather impossible numbers. All your dead voters in Chicago couldn't mess up things up as bad as they were in Ohio in 2004.
Unless you want a system where it's physically impossible for a dishonest employee to misuse your information, which I don't we can do. When you give someone a check or credit card, you are basically giving them access to your account, because how else would they be able to withdraw money? They need to have information that they can give a bank or credit card company that will allow them to get money, and that requires giving them enough information that they could forge another transaction and get more money. Changing that would require changing how our whole financial system works. Good luck with that.
I use Ubuntu on my main computer. The one time it needed to install a new kernel, it just showed up in my auto-updater thingy, I clicked ok, and then it did it and asked me to restart ( no harder than a Windows update). If it bothers you, or if you want to recommend Linux to someone who couldn't install a kernel the way you did on Fedora, then go with something like Ubuntu or Mepis.
You have to compile drivers? On Ubuntu I downloaded a little utility called "EasyUbuntu", which has little checkboxes for nVidia & ATI drivers, as well as Flash, mp3, etc, and then you just click ok and they're installed. On Mepis, they come installed.
Use Konqueror. It does.
The customers need to not give their account info to other people. The bank can't stop them, so the responsibility lies with the customers.
It's unfortunate, but unless the phishers can be found (which is pretty much never) the customer has to be the one to bear responsibility. They need to keep track of who they give their information to, and while they don't deserve to lose all their money, others who didn't make the mistake shouldn't have to take responsibility for it. It sucks, but that's life.
In some ways region encoding might encourage piracy. If I really want a copy of Super Neko Densetsu but I can't just import and play it, then I'll be hacking my Wii to play import games, when otherwise I wouldn't bother opening it. And now, it probably will play burned games. And there's Super Mario Galaxy up on that pirate site...
If you're relatively new to Linux and want to spend as little time figuring it out as possible, I'd recommend you try Mepis or Freespire. They come with all the multimedia stuff set up (mp3, flash, etc) and they're designed to be a little more like Windows than Ubuntu, and tend to have better wireless support. If your laptop is really, really old (I've gotten Mepis to run pretty good with 192 megs of ram, Freespire takes more) Xubuntu can work down to about 64 megs of ram (use the alternate install cd, the regular one has a live cd that uses a lot of ram). If you install Xubuntu, get EasyUbuntu to take care of your media needs, and then go through the Ubuntu wiki to get wireless up and going. Good luck. :)
What the hell are you installing? Seriously, what obscure programs do you want that take HOURS or DAYS to find and install? In Ubuntu, open Synaptic, click search, type "system monitor" or whatever (although there's already one installed...) and there's your options. Right-click one, select install, then click Apply. Wait about two minutes, depending on size and connection speed, and then it's in your Applications or K Menu.
.exe, hope it's not spyware, hope it's the right thing, then wait for it to download, then install. In Ubuntu, all the programs I could have are listed in Synaptic, a click away from being in my K or App Menu. I don't understand why it's not working for you, I really don't.
One of the reasons I switched to Ubuntu over Windows is because installing programs is much easier in Ubuntu. In Windows I have to search all over the net for an
What's wrong with myspace and music on Linux? My best friend pretty much lives on myspace, and she uses Linux.
Thank you.
I thought we were expecting $200 to $250? With a pack-in game $250's plenty reasonable. I want a Wii for $5, too, but I'm not all huffy that they actually want to make money.
Hahahaha! The Wii is half the price of the PS3. Any lower and I'm not sure if people would consider it a contender. The Wii is not the one that is overpriced.
Anyways, I don't think those things matter to most Wii buyers. The Wii is pushed at casual gamers, and those who like to play silly fun multiplayer games (warioware vs. halo), and those who don't have HDTV. The graphics fiends have already declared the Wii underpowered and have dismissed it, but the Wii is being marketed to people, like me, who have a regular old TV and can't see the difference between DOA4 on 360 and DOA2 on XBox. The Wii has games grandma might like, but Halo fanboy isn't going to touch. They're really going for two different markets here, so I don't see a lot of otherwise Wii buyers going for a 360 because they dropped the price down $50.
It's not that big of a deal to me. It was just, since you asked...
Ok, I'm not terribly upset about it, but these things seem kinda useless to me. I (and probably many people who are buying Wiis instead the higher-end consoles) have a cheap TV so I doubt I'll be able to see the internet in any functional form on it. Plus, lack of keyboard can't be fun. Weather Channel? Don't most people get that with cable anyways? Photo display? Whatever, I have a computer. I hope some people enjoy these features, but I think Nintendo should have spent their time doing somethign else.
Uh, yeah. The PS3 is cheaper than the Wii PLUS something expensive. My Toyota is cheaper than a Wii plus a BMW. Most people don't have HDTV, so why would most people buy a Wii and something with HDTV output. What you're saying is "I want my shiney sparkles" which is perfectly fine, but say that, don't say "my shiney sparkles are cheaper" because they're not.
Wii Sports is not a sports game like Madden. Nintendo's sports games tend to be crazy fun w/ friends, but less than stellar single player. Having a second controller is a really good idea for Wii Sports. If it comes with two, you can always invite over a friend or hand it off to a family member and you'd probably have a great time. Unless you're really, really not into multiplayer games, in which case you'd be better off waiting for FFXIII and getting a PS3.
People should not be used as test subjects against their will. If they do enough tests on volunteers and determine it is safe and does what they want it to do, then they can use it, but people are not guinea pigs.
On non-volunteer civilains? That would be the problem.
But as he said once it creates the dump it will reboot. It will not stay on that screen. Sometimes it does. I think there's an setting somewhere that keeps it up. Last week one of my coworkers came into find her computer on blue screen, and back when I ran XP I got a BSOD once or twice and had to do a hard restart.