Bravo.
Credit card fraud is not the same as identity theft. If your credit card gets skimmed, you are not going to be liable for the fraudulent charges. The only "cost" to you is going to be having to call the card company and maybe having to wait a couple days for a new card.
The card issuers (issuing banks) are the people who bear the most cost for fraud and theoretically the group which should be most concerned.
Sports betting is not a "sucker game" if what you mean by that it is not beatable. Betting on sports at 11-10 odds (Bet $110 to win $100) as is normal for most sports bets involving a point spread requires the bettor to win 52.5% of his / her bets to make money. While most people do not, the game is beatable. Doing so online involves risks like the government seizing your payouts and other stuff that raises that hurdle.
Poker is another game that is also played online that is very beatable by skilled players.
Despite the near monthly occurrences of these incidents, the fact is that they have very little material impact to the companies who perpetrate them. If consumers, rather than venting on message boards, would in some numbers actually act in such a way that really affects these organizations (like moving their accounts to another bank) you would see more attention. In fact, so few do that there is very little economic disincentive to take any real action by the banks. Send out a contrite press release and be done with it.
We saw this week that very little seems to have changed in the security culture at TJX after their breach. Why should it? Their revenue has increased since the incident happened.
People, if you are on Facebook, there is a simple fact you should understand. They may be providing you a service, but they are out to make money and justify their $BN valuation. You are the *product* not the customer. Mark et al are trying to get paid and they could care less about your privacy or what you think. If the violation of privacy was not so obvious in this case to the average FB user, to the point that they would have less product to sell if they kept it up unchanged, they would have done nothing.
Assuming you have a SIM card from that carrier, you just put it in the phone. I haven't used a phone I've got from my carrier in years, and they're happy to keep taking my money.
There are is so much very lightly used PBX equipment floating around due to business closings etc. You can get a nice Lucent or NEC system for pennies on the dollar for what you would pay new.
If OEMs are willing to sell DVD players for cost + $1 and retailers are willing to sell this hardware at $0.50 above cost, think about what this means for labor costs to build and sell these goods.
And people wonder why their jobs pay a lot less than they used to...
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Bravo. Credit card fraud is not the same as identity theft. If your credit card gets skimmed, you are not going to be liable for the fraudulent charges. The only "cost" to you is going to be having to call the card company and maybe having to wait a couple days for a new card. The card issuers (issuing banks) are the people who bear the most cost for fraud and theoretically the group which should be most concerned.
Sports betting is not a "sucker game" if what you mean by that it is not beatable. Betting on sports at 11-10 odds (Bet $110 to win $100) as is normal for most sports bets involving a point spread requires the bettor to win 52.5% of his / her bets to make money. While most people do not, the game is beatable. Doing so online involves risks like the government seizing your payouts and other stuff that raises that hurdle. Poker is another game that is also played online that is very beatable by skilled players.
Only a billion downloads. What a disaster.
Despite the near monthly occurrences of these incidents, the fact is that they have very little material impact to the companies who perpetrate them. If consumers, rather than venting on message boards, would in some numbers actually act in such a way that really affects these organizations (like moving their accounts to another bank) you would see more attention. In fact, so few do that there is very little economic disincentive to take any real action by the banks. Send out a contrite press release and be done with it. We saw this week that very little seems to have changed in the security culture at TJX after their breach. Why should it? Their revenue has increased since the incident happened.
People, if you are on Facebook, there is a simple fact you should understand. They may be providing you a service, but they are out to make money and justify their $BN valuation. You are the *product* not the customer. Mark et al are trying to get paid and they could care less about your privacy or what you think. If the violation of privacy was not so obvious in this case to the average FB user, to the point that they would have less product to sell if they kept it up unchanged, they would have done nothing.
Assuming you have a SIM card from that carrier, you just put it in the phone. I haven't used a phone I've got from my carrier in years, and they're happy to keep taking my money.
There are is so much very lightly used PBX equipment floating around due to business closings etc. You can get a nice Lucent or NEC system for pennies on the dollar for what you would pay new.
And people wonder why their jobs pay a lot less than they used to ...