when it might be a replay attack using a stored PIN value obtained on a previous encounter with my card
Except your card is no longer present for that replay attack to work. It is my understanding that there is some sort of handshake between the card company and the chip to authenticate. There isn't a simple mag stripe account number that they can save and replay with your PIN.
nor allow the finance companies to shift liability to users when this useless extra ceremony is performed.
This is the root of the problem. Consumers have become too accustomed to the ease of reversing fraudulent charges, based on the ease of signature forgery. Losing a PIN implies some carelessness on the part of the consumer, so they end up accepting more liability.
I'd like to see a system where the banks issue two types of card accounts. One with a chip only and one with a chip and pin. The fees charged against each type of card to cover fraud losses would be spread among the holders of each type. Let the free market decide.
getting businesses to buy all the hardware and software needed to do it
The chip hardware is here already. Adding a PIN just uses the (included) keyboard and some more software (which has a development cost but zero marginal cost to distribute).
just a phone QR code paper printout stuck at counter
I don't understand how this works. The shop has the QR code. The customer scans it with his phone. 'Beep', the payment has been made. What stops someone from writing a 'Beep' app?
The records can be in a filing cabinet at the court
So the people who can afford it can pay a few clerks to go to the court once a week and compile a list of court decisions for their own 'private' database. For sale to whomever has the funds. This is how things were done for decades before the Internet.
You now can go on line and request credit, employment and criminal records from these databases. Reports will cost you, sometimes $50 or so. Often, the top page says click here to view Joe Blow's criminal history. Then they hit you up for funds. And it ends up being Mr Blow's driving record.
OK. We'll go over the important points on the phone.
Then, shower and shave. Meet at the plant at 4:00 AM to prepare our presentation. Wear or bring a nice suit.
Breakfast meeting at 6:00 AM with the rest of the team to fill them in on the material.
We go before the board of directors at 8:00 AM. (You did remember that suit?)
They also want some input on employee retention. A few cuts will have to be made.
I can do OK on 5 hours of sleep. How about you on none?
It's an exchange. So it's not just the Bitcoin blockchain that needs to be tracked, it's the other funds moving in and out. Possibly like this:
1. Set up an exchange account with a false identity.
2. Hack into other wallets and transfer Bitcoin to your account (tracked in the blockchain).
3. Exchange 'your' BTC for Shekels and withdraw (tracked by other logs).
It's this last transaction that could have been lost.
Actually not strange at all. When negotiating a position, one makes an assertion about what a 'fair' price should be. Even if in the end, one has to split the difference with the counter party. And sometimes, such negotiations start off as an adversarial elationship. That's Trump's style. Trump is now negotiating on behalf of the postal service. He made an assertion about the equity of the current pricing structure. Its up to Amazon* to make a counter offer.
*Actually, practically every organization using the USPS need to speak up. Because this isn't about renegotiating Amazon's price. It will affect every large distributor.
This is pretty much how all national postal services work. They calculate a uniform price list for delivery based on package size and/or weight. And then charge that uniformly for all deliveries, no matter what the actual effort expended is. It's not so much cheap pricing (although UK mail is subsidized across the board) as it is uniform pricing.
The USPS is actually subsidizing delivery to rural locations. They'd be much more profitable (or lose less) if they didn't have to haul mail and packages out to locations in the boondocks.
Now, I'm not familiar with the details of UK law. But on this side of the pond, that sort of court decision creates a public record. Are the UK courts now saying that this guy can order Google to remove a pointer to the record, but one can still go down to the courthouse and locate the original record in a filing cabinet somewhere?
Now we get HD vinyl... another format in an attempt to spur sales of the requisite players.
No. TFS says they can still be played on old turntables. It seems that what they are doing is taking the digital audio, computing the shape of the groove and passing that on to a numerically controlled laser cutter. The end result is a record track much the same as (and compatible with) older LPs. But they have removed the limitations of the analog master cutting techniques.
What did people do 500 years ago? Lie in bed, staring at the ceiling after dusk and perhaps that one (expensive by that era's standards) candle ran down? Hang around the village nightclub until closing time?
They went to bed. And went to sleep. Because there was no alternative. And no way to accomplish the day's tasks late at night when it was pitch dark. Also, work back in those days tended to be more physical and exhausting. Meaning that when dusk came, people were ready and willing to sleep. This might be a part of the problem in modern times. People are budgeting their energy expenditure during the day in order to stretch their day longer and later. And one side effect of this budgeting is not getting proper exercise. And dying as a result.
everyone feels perfectly content to belittle minorities
But how does that exclude substantial numbers of people from minority backgrounds from taking part? We aren't going to legislate society into some shape that makes everyone comfortable. The world doesn't work like that. Nobody knows what you are on Slashdot. So if someone uses a racist slur, how can you assume that it is aimed at excluding you? If someone uses the 'N' word here, you can fight back. Because you are white, but don't like their attitude. Or you are black and feel personally offended. And don't like their attitude. Either way, the most valid argument is that it is insensitive. Not that you are personally injured and somehow excluded.
Maybe not now that you are an adult. But remember when you were a teenager and people told you that you needed to learn to adjust your sleep cycle to the realities of the educational and working world? And how you all cried and moaned about how that was not possible? If it really isn't possible, genetics dealt you a shitty hand. Enjoy your sundowner syndrome, dementia, early onset Alzheimer's and death. But wouldn't it really suck if this behavior was in fact learned and you could have done something about it?
Don't come crying to me in a few years if your Obama-care only funds a shithole nursing home when you need to be spoon fed and have diapers changed by attendants.
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when it might be a replay attack using a stored PIN value obtained on a previous encounter with my card
Except your card is no longer present for that replay attack to work. It is my understanding that there is some sort of handshake between the card company and the chip to authenticate. There isn't a simple mag stripe account number that they can save and replay with your PIN.
nor allow the finance companies to shift liability to users when this useless extra ceremony is performed.
This is the root of the problem. Consumers have become too accustomed to the ease of reversing fraudulent charges, based on the ease of signature forgery. Losing a PIN implies some carelessness on the part of the consumer, so they end up accepting more liability.
I'd like to see a system where the banks issue two types of card accounts. One with a chip only and one with a chip and pin. The fees charged against each type of card to cover fraud losses would be spread among the holders of each type. Let the free market decide.
getting businesses to buy all the hardware and software needed to do it
The chip hardware is here already. Adding a PIN just uses the (included) keyboard and some more software (which has a development cost but zero marginal cost to distribute).
just a phone QR code paper printout stuck at counter
I don't understand how this works. The shop has the QR code. The customer scans it with his phone. 'Beep', the payment has been made. What stops someone from writing a 'Beep' app?
direct link to your bank account
Credit card. Issued by an entirely different bank.
But yeah. Why no PIN? Merchants around the rest of the world love PINs. Less deniability over credit charges.
We can resume at noon.
You missed the BOD meeting at 8:00AM. You don't work here anymore.
It's Charlie McCarthy.
But these aren't in a Moscow hotel room.
The records can be in a filing cabinet at the court
So the people who can afford it can pay a few clerks to go to the court once a week and compile a list of court decisions for their own 'private' database. For sale to whomever has the funds. This is how things were done for decades before the Internet.
You now can go on line and request credit, employment and criminal records from these databases. Reports will cost you, sometimes $50 or so. Often, the top page says click here to view Joe Blow's criminal history. Then they hit you up for funds. And it ends up being Mr Blow's driving record.
we'll give you a call at 2 A.M.
OK. We'll go over the important points on the phone.
Then, shower and shave. Meet at the plant at 4:00 AM to prepare our presentation. Wear or bring a nice suit.
Breakfast meeting at 6:00 AM with the rest of the team to fill them in on the material.
We go before the board of directors at 8:00 AM. (You did remember that suit?)
They also want some input on employee retention. A few cuts will have to be made.
I can do OK on 5 hours of sleep. How about you on none?
It's an exchange. So it's not just the Bitcoin blockchain that needs to be tracked, it's the other funds moving in and out. Possibly like this:
1. Set up an exchange account with a false identity.
2. Hack into other wallets and transfer Bitcoin to your account (tracked in the blockchain).
3. Exchange 'your' BTC for Shekels and withdraw (tracked by other logs).
It's this last transaction that could have been lost.
Actually not strange at all. When negotiating a position, one makes an assertion about what a 'fair' price should be. Even if in the end, one has to split the difference with the counter party. And sometimes, such negotiations start off as an adversarial elationship. That's Trump's style. Trump is now negotiating on behalf of the postal service. He made an assertion about the equity of the current pricing structure. Its up to Amazon* to make a counter offer.
*Actually, practically every organization using the USPS need to speak up. Because this isn't about renegotiating Amazon's price. It will affect every large distributor.
This is pretty much how all national postal services work. They calculate a uniform price list for delivery based on package size and/or weight. And then charge that uniformly for all deliveries, no matter what the actual effort expended is. It's not so much cheap pricing (although UK mail is subsidized across the board) as it is uniform pricing.
The USPS is actually subsidizing delivery to rural locations. They'd be much more profitable (or lose less) if they didn't have to haul mail and packages out to locations in the boondocks.
Now, I'm not familiar with the details of UK law. But on this side of the pond, that sort of court decision creates a public record. Are the UK courts now saying that this guy can order Google to remove a pointer to the record, but one can still go down to the courthouse and locate the original record in a filing cabinet somewhere?
Now we get HD vinyl... another format in an attempt to spur sales of the requisite players.
No. TFS says they can still be played on old turntables. It seems that what they are doing is taking the digital audio, computing the shape of the groove and passing that on to a numerically controlled laser cutter. The end result is a record track much the same as (and compatible with) older LPs. But they have removed the limitations of the analog master cutting techniques.
Fanny pack. You have to not mind looking like a dork. The upside is that you don't get a kink in your spine from sitting on a fat wallet.
Would you rather party all night
What did people do 500 years ago? Lie in bed, staring at the ceiling after dusk and perhaps that one (expensive by that era's standards) candle ran down? Hang around the village nightclub until closing time?
They went to bed. And went to sleep. Because there was no alternative. And no way to accomplish the day's tasks late at night when it was pitch dark. Also, work back in those days tended to be more physical and exhausting. Meaning that when dusk came, people were ready and willing to sleep. This might be a part of the problem in modern times. People are budgeting their energy expenditure during the day in order to stretch their day longer and later. And one side effect of this budgeting is not getting proper exercise. And dying as a result.
Hitler
You mean the 'don't wake me up with some bullshit about needing Panzer divisions at Normandy' Hitler?
everyone feels perfectly content to belittle minorities
But how does that exclude substantial numbers of people from minority backgrounds from taking part? We aren't going to legislate society into some shape that makes everyone comfortable. The world doesn't work like that. Nobody knows what you are on Slashdot. So if someone uses a racist slur, how can you assume that it is aimed at excluding you? If someone uses the 'N' word here, you can fight back. Because you are white, but don't like their attitude. Or you are black and feel personally offended. And don't like their attitude. Either way, the most valid argument is that it is insensitive. Not that you are personally injured and somehow excluded.
Nobody knows if you are a dog on the Internet.
late-to-bed tax
We don't have to go that far. Just make sure that all electronic devices display this after 11:00 PM.
If you are an Owl, you cannot do that.
Late-night partiers and gamers claim disability status in 3...2...1...
because there is nothing wrong with being an Owl
TFA says that there is.
and there is no way to change it anyways
Maybe not now that you are an adult. But remember when you were a teenager and people told you that you needed to learn to adjust your sleep cycle to the realities of the educational and working world? And how you all cried and moaned about how that was not possible? If it really isn't possible, genetics dealt you a shitty hand. Enjoy your sundowner syndrome, dementia, early onset Alzheimer's and death. But wouldn't it really suck if this behavior was in fact learned and you could have done something about it?
Don't come crying to me in a few years if your Obama-care only funds a shithole nursing home when you need to be spoon fed and have diapers changed by attendants.
Or a laptop (even plugged in).
Don't install malware
You insensitive clod! I run Windows.
Bring on the 33-bit apps!