The time for profiling has come. Let's face it, this attack has all the markings of another horrible, malicious attack by those damned radical Baptist terrorists.
My local paper has news stories about three different shootings in my area that happened yesterday. Eh. Shit happens. People are crazy. No way to prevent all of it.
It's really a dumb, expensive fad. Paying with a phone will never make it big for many reasons. One of the biggest is that the merchant doesn't want to give up an extra 1% or whatever Apple/Google end up charging so that some customers can play a little bit more with their phones. It doesn't solve any problems.
Mag swipe readers are being phased out. Credit card companies are shifting liability for fraudulent purchases onto businesses that still rely on mag strips.
Not true. Liability has always been with the business. The credit card companies want to make some more $$ from the transaction fees and from selling new hardware.
I still can't believe people use these things. I suppose that Candy Crush and Tinder are more important than a modern interface to most people. Very surprising to me. I'm going to stick with my Windows Phone, thanks!
Wow, Linux on the desktop is so advanced! Now, it has a feature that was only available in Windows 20 years ago! Wow! Maybe in another 20 years, desktop Linux will have some more neat new features! Does audio consistently work in Linux yet?
I don't know about Europe, but in the US, Internet connections are crap. Utterly unreliable and slow. There's no way in hell vehicles will be using the Internet for mission-critical stuff. No way. We have no infrastructure to support it, and as long as the government is bribed to not regulate it, we never will.
The only thing that's going to bring the US out of it's 3rd world status is for the FCC to regulate Internet connections like they do POTS now. Otherwise, forget trying to do any business that requires a reliable Internet connection.
What do you mean "of course it is happening". Do you have any proof? I'm looking at 30+ Windows 7 boxes, and they all look like this: http://postimg.org/image/6aykz...
I really have to say that the Slashdot users that made this community so great have either left, or have all gotten lobotomies. This stupid fake story is just that: a stupid fake story. If even a percentage of Windows 7 machines across the planet were automatically wiping themselves, there'd be a bit of news about it other than some anonymous Internet comments. Businesses and government agencies everywhere would be dead in their tracks. This is really a load of shit, and I'm disappointed that so few intelligent Slashdot users are left or care enough to moderate any more.
And nope, no domain. No Windows 7 Ultimate. I think that you're probably lying, because there's no way that Microsoft would wipe out the OS's on millions of customers machines without asking them. They're not that stupid.
There's no reason for MS to do this. It makes no sense. What you're describing is kind of insane, actually. I've got Windows Update running on 30+ machines, and they're all still Windows 7. Sounds like you need some training on how to click your mouse.
I tend to agree. I know of zero people that it's happened to, or any of the Windows 7 boxes that I manage. Everybody who's saying that it happened to them is AC. I smell something fishy...
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The time for profiling has come. Let's face it, this attack has all the markings of another horrible, malicious attack by those damned radical Baptist terrorists.
Yup You're right.
My local paper has news stories about three different shootings in my area that happened yesterday. Eh. Shit happens. People are crazy. No way to prevent all of it.
Previously (and currently with chips) the network ends up taking the hit and chalking it up to the fraud percentage.
That's not correct. The network has never eaten fraud. It always goes back to the merchant, and has for at least several decades.
Picking and choosing who you will let give you money for products and services is possibly the stupidest thing I will read this week.
It's called "integrity". I wouldn't be surprised if you and many other Americans couldn't recognize it.
It's really a dumb, expensive fad. Paying with a phone will never make it big for many reasons. One of the biggest is that the merchant doesn't want to give up an extra 1% or whatever Apple/Google end up charging so that some customers can play a little bit more with their phones. It doesn't solve any problems.
Mag swipe readers are being phased out. Credit card companies are shifting liability for fraudulent purchases onto businesses that still rely on mag strips.
Not true. Liability has always been with the business. The credit card companies want to make some more $$ from the transaction fees and from selling new hardware.
Oh, my god, kid. Please take a basic economics class.
I still can't believe people use these things. I suppose that Candy Crush and Tinder are more important than a modern interface to most people. Very surprising to me. I'm going to stick with my Windows Phone, thanks!
Wow, Linux on the desktop is so advanced! Now, it has a feature that was only available in Windows 20 years ago! Wow! Maybe in another 20 years, desktop Linux will have some more neat new features! Does audio consistently work in Linux yet?
I don't know about Europe, but in the US, Internet connections are crap. Utterly unreliable and slow. There's no way in hell vehicles will be using the Internet for mission-critical stuff. No way. We have no infrastructure to support it, and as long as the government is bribed to not regulate it, we never will.
The only thing that's going to bring the US out of it's 3rd world status is for the FCC to regulate Internet connections like they do POTS now. Otherwise, forget trying to do any business that requires a reliable Internet connection.
Lots of AC's trolling today (or just one unemployed basement dweller).
http://postimg.org/image/6aykz...
You missed the point - in either case, the user has to go in and intentionally tell Windows Update to not install Windows 10.
Bullshit: http://postimg.org/image/6aykz...
The popups are there, sure, but you still have to tell it to go ahead and update. Windows 7 machines are NOT updating on their own.
What do you mean "of course it is happening". Do you have any proof? I'm looking at 30+ Windows 7 boxes, and they all look like this: http://postimg.org/image/6aykz...
Sorry, but you're full of shit.
... says the AC.
I really have to say that the Slashdot users that made this community so great have either left, or have all gotten lobotomies. This stupid fake story is just that: a stupid fake story. If even a percentage of Windows 7 machines across the planet were automatically wiping themselves, there'd be a bit of news about it other than some anonymous Internet comments. Businesses and government agencies everywhere would be dead in their tracks. This is really a load of shit, and I'm disappointed that so few intelligent Slashdot users are left or care enough to moderate any more.
What's bullshit? You can choose to install the update or not.
And nope, no domain. No Windows 7 Ultimate. I think that you're probably lying, because there's no way that Microsoft would wipe out the OS's on millions of customers machines without asking them. They're not that stupid.
There's no reason for MS to do this. It makes no sense. What you're describing is kind of insane, actually. I've got Windows Update running on 30+ machines, and they're all still Windows 7. Sounds like you need some training on how to click your mouse.
I tend to agree. I know of zero people that it's happened to, or any of the Windows 7 boxes that I manage. Everybody who's saying that it happened to them is AC. I smell something fishy...
users are stupid and incompetent
Donald Trump is the Republican Party' nominee. Most people are stupid and incompetent.
I'm guessing you have a non-genuine version of Windows?
Sure it did...
I've got 30+ Windows 7 machines, and I've never seen it in Windows Update as an update. Maybe just for pirated versions of Windows 7?