In this case I mean a device that provides the retailer with only the information they actually need to know (transaction approved/not approved) without exposing other sensitive information in an unecrypted fashion. Basically the credit processor should assume that the POS systems are compromised and handle the transcation appropriately rather than depending on a third party to protect their sensitive business data properly.
Target may want to queue transactions, but so what? Why should Visa put its sensitive business data at the mercy of Target's IT security just because it makes things more convenient for Target? Target needs Visa a lot more than Visa needs Target.
Really, the card companies ought to be black boxing the readers, so that the POS system never has access to unencrypted transaction information to begin with. They really only need to know if the transaction was approved.
They already do this for small retailers (those little card reader/tape dispenser thingies sitting next to the register). They need to start forcing a similar system on the big retailers.
It doesn't matter if they're first, second, or three hundredth. What matter is if they're profitable. Their 7.2 billion yen profit for 2013 says that yes, they are.
This is a myth that's repeatedly been debunked. US industrial output has grown steadily since the 1960's, it's only industrial employment that has been dropping:
Manufacturing jobs are not going over sees, they're disappearing completely. Much like we once went from a society where most people were involved in agriculture to one where a few percent can produce more food than the rest of society can consume, we're now in similar process in manufacturing.
Wasn't it? Brooding over existential issues is a pastime largely confined to the better off (it's hard to worry about the meaning of life when you're more worried about getting enough food to eat). It could be argued that by increasing affluence enough that large segments of the population are secure enough to be having these sorts of issues, automation did cause the malaise.
"New Math" never went away, it's just that most of the population today never learned anything else so they don't realize it's not "old math". The problem with new math was never the children learning it from scratch, it was with older people who didn't want to learn the new algorithms in order to teach it.
Much like creationists, the old math types took a "well, we've always done it that way, so it must be right, no matter how much you demonstrate it's not".
Yes, we need an education system like the one driving that world dominating Vietnamese computer industry if we ever hope to have any similarly competitive companies in the US.
No it can't. Even basic demographic data can be used to uniquely identify people. For example, {gender | birthdate | zip code} is a unique identifier for 87% of the people in this country:
Strictly speaking it's false imprisonment, not kidnapping. Kidnapping requires, as an element of the crime, taking or attempting to take the detained party to another location against their will.
The commenter proposed banning all data aggregation. It's hard to do any sort of study of large groups of people if you can't at some point collect and aggregate data about all the individuals involved.
It still hobbles the ability of whistle blowers and reporters to inform the public. For example, Toronto Star reporters Kevin Donovan and Robyn Doolittle could be arrested for revealing the video of Rob Ford smoking crack without his permission.
So you think Integrated Business Services ought to be allowed to take legal action against Pam Dixon for releasing information about them without having gotten their explicted informed consent first?
What governments can't do is change a few numbers on a spreadsheet and *POOF* billions of bitcoins suddenly exist that didn't a second ago. Bitcoins biggest feature is that it protects against the currency being devaulued by excessively expanding the money supply.
In theory, sensors attached to our bodies (and appliances such as the fridge) will send a stream of health-related data — everything from calorie and footstep counts to blood pressure and sleep activity — to the cloud, which will analyze it for insight; doctors and other healthcare professionals will use that data to tailor treatments or advise changes in behavior and diet.
Yeah, because I find that what I'm really lacking in my life is having a insurance executive following me around every minute of the day nagging me about everything I do.
Also, why should people in urban areas be forced to subsidize people who want to live in the middle of nowhere and then bitch because there's no infrastructure near by.
If you want the advantages of a place with a high population density, move to a place with a high population density. If you want the advantages of a place with a low population density, move to a place with a low population density. But you can't have your cake and eat it too.
Which likely means the contractor delivered exactly what they were contracted to deliver, it's just that the government didn't know what it actually needed when it wrote the requirements and now wants to blame them for the fact that the resultant product can't fulfill its purpose.
How is the price of this insurance going to be determined for a company that just came into existence? There's no track record that can be used to establish the relative risk for producing bugs.
Exactly what I was thinking. Say good bye to the hobby coder if something like this passes. You willing to risk hundreds of thousands in liability just to tinker around on your computer?
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In this case I mean a device that provides the retailer with only the information they actually need to know (transaction approved/not approved) without exposing other sensitive information in an unecrypted fashion. Basically the credit processor should assume that the POS systems are compromised and handle the transcation appropriately rather than depending on a third party to protect their sensitive business data properly.
Target may want to queue transactions, but so what? Why should Visa put its sensitive business data at the mercy of Target's IT security just because it makes things more convenient for Target? Target needs Visa a lot more than Visa needs Target.
Really, the card companies ought to be black boxing the readers, so that the POS system never has access to unencrypted transaction information to begin with. They really only need to know if the transaction was approved.
They already do this for small retailers (those little card reader/tape dispenser thingies sitting next to the register). They need to start forcing a similar system on the big retailers.
It doesn't matter if they're first, second, or three hundredth. What matter is if they're profitable. Their 7.2 billion yen profit for 2013 says that yes, they are.
This is a myth that's repeatedly been debunked. US industrial output has grown steadily since the 1960's, it's only industrial employment that has been dropping:
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/02/us-manufacturing-is-not-dead.html
Manufacturing jobs are not going over sees, they're disappearing completely. Much like we once went from a society where most people were involved in agriculture to one where a few percent can produce more food than the rest of society can consume, we're now in similar process in manufacturing.
Oh those elitist psychologists and sociologists:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs
Wasn't it? Brooding over existential issues is a pastime largely confined to the better off (it's hard to worry about the meaning of life when you're more worried about getting enough food to eat). It could be argued that by increasing affluence enough that large segments of the population are secure enough to be having these sorts of issues, automation did cause the malaise.
I'm figuring the moderation will be a bunch of +1 funny by people older than 35 and a bunch of -1 overrated by people younger than 30.
He should call his crypto-currency "fishsticks". Then everyone will be asking why Kanye West likes fishsticks so much.
#candygram?
"New Math" never went away, it's just that most of the population today never learned anything else so they don't realize it's not "old math". The problem with new math was never the children learning it from scratch, it was with older people who didn't want to learn the new algorithms in order to teach it.
Much like creationists, the old math types took a "well, we've always done it that way, so it must be right, no matter how much you demonstrate it's not".
Yes, we need an education system like the one driving that world dominating Vietnamese computer industry if we ever hope to have any similarly competitive companies in the US.
No it can't. Even basic demographic data can be used to uniquely identify people. For example, {gender | birthdate | zip code} is a unique identifier for 87% of the people in this country:
http://dataprivacylab.org/projects/identifiability/paper1.pdf
Strictly speaking it's false imprisonment, not kidnapping. Kidnapping requires, as an element of the crime, taking or attempting to take the detained party to another location against their will.
The commenter proposed banning all data aggregation. It's hard to do any sort of study of large groups of people if you can't at some point collect and aggregate data about all the individuals involved.
It still hobbles the ability of whistle blowers and reporters to inform the public. For example, Toronto Star reporters Kevin Donovan and Robyn Doolittle could be arrested for revealing the video of Rob Ford smoking crack without his permission.
So you think Integrated Business Services ought to be allowed to take legal action against Pam Dixon for releasing information about them without having gotten their explicted informed consent first?
So you want to ban the study of entire fields like sociology and economics, as well as things like the testing of new pharmaceuticals?
What governments can't do is change a few numbers on a spreadsheet and *POOF* billions of bitcoins suddenly exist that didn't a second ago. Bitcoins biggest feature is that it protects against the currency being devaulued by excessively expanding the money supply.
When I want food, I pay for it myself. If you want broadband out in Donkey Butt, Montana, pay for it yourself.
Yeah, because I find that what I'm really lacking in my life is having a insurance executive following me around every minute of the day nagging me about everything I do.
Also, why should people in urban areas be forced to subsidize people who want to live in the middle of nowhere and then bitch because there's no infrastructure near by.
If you want the advantages of a place with a high population density, move to a place with a high population density. If you want the advantages of a place with a low population density, move to a place with a low population density. But you can't have your cake and eat it too.
Which likely means the contractor delivered exactly what they were contracted to deliver, it's just that the government didn't know what it actually needed when it wrote the requirements and now wants to blame them for the fact that the resultant product can't fulfill its purpose.
How is the price of this insurance going to be determined for a company that just came into existence? There's no track record that can be used to establish the relative risk for producing bugs.
Exactly what I was thinking. Say good bye to the hobby coder if something like this passes. You willing to risk hundreds of thousands in liability just to tinker around on your computer?