Jessica Antle, a MasterCard spokeswoman, said that CardSystems had never demonstrated compliance with MasterCard's standards. "They were in violation of our rules," she said.
Asked about compliance with Visa's standards, a Visa spokeswoman, Rosetta Jones, said, "This particular processor was not following Visa's security requirements when we found out there was a potential data compromise."
Question:
Why is CardSystems Solutions still a processor for Visa and MasterCard?
If you're fed up with doing menial, unsatisfying work, then start your own business or find a job elsewhere that you like better. That's capitalism.
Shit! I didn't know it was that easy. Tomorrow I will change jobs because there is always a better job somewhere.
Capitalism is not a zero-sum game. Capitalism is like a pie. You can always make a bigger pie and feed more people from that pie. Making a bigger pie doesn't mean someone else has to make a smaller pie
True. But nowadays the pie (GDP) is getting bigger, but the gains are only going to the top 1%. In fact, sometimes the pie gets bigger but those with the smallest piece end up getting even less.
Do you really want me to list all the billions in AID we give the rest of the world?
AFAIK, we are dead last in humanitarian aid as a % of GDP (but #1 in total dollars spent) among industrialized countries.
OT: I also believe in the abolishment of income taxes (fairtax.org).
I also have one of those, but it is labeled as a PC-Chips M830LR.
As far as being great boards, I'd have to disagree. Boards aren't supposed to have "kinks" in them. And most likely, you probably killed the warranty on your board by using the soldering technique. Although, that doesn't really matter.
AFAIK, no one at ECS/PC-Chips will even acknowlege that there is anything wrong with that model, much less let you RMA it for a working replacement. I'd say that bad products and shitty customer service aren't exactly what most people are looking for in a motherboard.
That is the reason why I could never be in the military. I couldn't just take orders from a commander when it came to decisions of life or death of other people.
For instance, if I was in Iraq right now, I'd prefer death to shooting anyone there. If Iraq invaded us, then it would probably be a different story.
However, it does seem to me that the only practical purpose of the whole bnetd thing was to allow people to play pirated copies of Blizzard games online.
Whether or not that is true, it is inconsequential. The point here is that if you want play your game, should you be able to play it on any server you choose. The rights of those who which to use bnetd instead of battle.net, for whatever reason, trump the "right" of Blizzard to maximum profit.
Notice that I said a GPL violation is, morally speaking, a greater offense than violating copyrights on proprietary code. Do notice that I said that both were an offense, just that one was greater.
This would be consistent with stealing from the poor v. stealing from the rich. Obviously, both are wrong (in most cases), but I think more people would agree that if one had to steal, one should steal from the rich rather than the poor. Such is the same with software -- steal from MS, rather than from GNU, Linux, BSD, etc.
I don't see how this is not an "information wants to be free" issue. In this case, free software was incorporated into a proprietary program, thereby "imprisioning" the free software. Most people can see this is a greater offense than taking proprietary code and releasing it to the public as free. I'm sure you can see the distinction, but decided to ignore it as to troll.
Everytime I hear someone say "compiling packages by hand" I think of some guy looking up assembly equivalents of the code in question, then optimizing the assembly in his head, and finally doing an opcode translation.:-)
I wonder how long it would take to do a stage 1 install of Gentoo that way? Any takers?
What Taco Bell do you go to? The one that I frequent often gives me TOO MUCH sauce. I get 3 tacos (1 of which, I want to put sauce on) and I get upwards of 25 packets.
One theory is that if you could go back in time, you can change the future, but it would be in a different universe.
Taken in conjunction with the many-worlds interpretation, if you go back in time and kill your father, you will still exist but the future would be different because you are now in a parallel universe where you did kill your father. The many-words interpretation is quite mind boggling when considered, but apparently it makes the math work out perfectly. The philosophical implications are staggering, though as it basically eliminates free will as anything can happen at any time anywhere.
The GPL is both the greatest strength and weakness of Linux. It facilitates sharing of code, but also allows for forks galore. Other free licenses suffer from this as well.
Is it really cool to make your own distro just because you don't like the way one developer does something?
This goes along with the forking thing. If some developer mentions that a for-loop structure would be easier read, another could get totally pissed off because he only uses while-loops for "philosophical reasons" and decides to start his own distro. I can see it now:
While Linux While Linux is a fork of Debian with all for and do-while loops taken out and rewritten as while loops. For and do-while loops are teh suxorz!!!
I would never blindly click on an exe I got from any file sharing program, but your average luser probably would, so there is perhaps some "merit" upon a closer look.
Most torrent sites are run as a forum with user posts that make their way to the tracker. When someone notices that they are downloading an.exe when they wanted an.avi or.mpg, they'll think twice before opening it.
Even then, WTF are they going attach their spy/adware to? If they are attaching to copyrighted files, they've become infringers, and once the spyware installs, it should be easy to where it is calling home and who installed it.
The common process is to "recommit with instructions", which means that the committee goes back to conference with specific instructions on how to proceed from the respective house.
Of course, if no compromise can be reached, any house can simply vote against the committee report which kills the entire bill.
I have a feeling it won't be a polite knock at the door, but a full-fleged assault carried out by the likes of the ATF, CIA, FBI, and quite possibly the National Guard.
More likely, you'll hear them break down the door. Make sure you have a handkerchief close so you don't breathe in the tear gas.
Apparently, since Bush is threatening to veto (although he has never used his veto to date) this legislation unless they put the provision in question back in the bill, they will do exactly that in conference committee.
A poster on the Daily Kos made mention about it, but I can't find a direct link.
While the banknotes in which you place such faith have intrinsic value because of... umm....
Bank notes have NO intrinsic value, only extrinsic value (you may be confusing terms). I could care less if I'm trading in gold, silver, or a fiat currency, so long as I can exchange it for something I want. And no, I don't place any faith in US Dollars, since our currency will tank in the next few years due to massive deficit spending, but I digress.
I don't really understand what you're advocating in the rest of your post. My point is that even if all transactions are someday made with virtual/electronic currencies, the currency will get you a good or service that is provided in the real world.
As far as people buying and selling virtual goods/services, I guess they can do what they like. I, for one, won't be taking part because I reserve my money earned in the real world to buy things that exist in the real world.
For your sake, I hope you're just joking. If that isn't the case, I'll explain it to you.
When I pay my bills online, I am paying for a good or service that exists in the real world. While I do not get paid in physical bills, the number which represents how much money I can spend on physical goods increases.
In the bank/credit card case, the number is a representation. In the case of so-called "virtual items" there is no tie-in with the real world. The bit sequence is all that actually exists.
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From TFA:
Jessica Antle, a MasterCard spokeswoman, said that CardSystems had never demonstrated compliance with MasterCard's standards. "They were in violation of our rules," she said.
Asked about compliance with Visa's standards, a Visa spokeswoman, Rosetta Jones, said, "This particular processor was not following Visa's security requirements when we found out there was a potential data compromise."
Question:
Why is CardSystems Solutions still a processor for Visa and MasterCard?
If you're fed up with doing menial, unsatisfying work, then start your own business or find a job elsewhere that you like better. That's capitalism.
Shit! I didn't know it was that easy. Tomorrow I will change jobs because there is always a better job somewhere.
Capitalism is not a zero-sum game. Capitalism is like a pie. You can always make a bigger pie and feed more people from that pie. Making a bigger pie doesn't mean someone else has to make a smaller pie
True. But nowadays the pie (GDP) is getting bigger, but the gains are only going to the top 1%. In fact, sometimes the pie gets bigger but those with the smallest piece end up getting even less.
Do you really want me to list all the billions in AID we give the rest of the world?
AFAIK, we are dead last in humanitarian aid as a % of GDP (but #1 in total dollars spent) among industrialized countries.
OT: I also believe in the abolishment of income taxes (fairtax.org).
Its the high failure rate.
Google for the K7S5A and learn about all the great problems they have.
I also have one of those, but it is labeled as a PC-Chips M830LR.
As far as being great boards, I'd have to disagree. Boards aren't supposed to have "kinks" in them. And most likely, you probably killed the warranty on your board by using the soldering technique. Although, that doesn't really matter.
AFAIK, no one at ECS/PC-Chips will even acknowlege that there is anything wrong with that model, much less let you RMA it for a working replacement. I'd say that bad products and shitty customer service aren't exactly what most people are looking for in a motherboard.
That is the reason why I could never be in the military. I couldn't just take orders from a commander when it came to decisions of life or death of other people.
For instance, if I was in Iraq right now, I'd prefer death to shooting anyone there. If Iraq invaded us, then it would probably be a different story.
However, it does seem to me that the only practical purpose of the whole bnetd thing was to allow people to play pirated copies of Blizzard games online.
Whether or not that is true, it is inconsequential. The point here is that if you want play your game, should you be able to play it on any server you choose. The rights of those who which to use bnetd instead of battle.net, for whatever reason, trump the "right" of Blizzard to maximum profit.
I'm making the assumption that some clever hacker will get the latest Mac OS running on stock hardware. P2P will do the rest.
If this isn't the case, then I would agree with your statement.
Notice that I said a GPL violation is, morally speaking, a greater offense than violating copyrights on proprietary code. Do notice that I said that both were an offense, just that one was greater.
This would be consistent with stealing from the poor v. stealing from the rich. Obviously, both are wrong (in most cases), but I think more people would agree that if one had to steal, one should steal from the rich rather than the poor. Such is the same with software -- steal from MS, rather than from GNU, Linux, BSD, etc.
I'm not convinced that everybody wants to pay a $150-300 license fee per CPU to run on all their 'desktop' systems.
Point taken, but how many people in muliple computer homes paid Bill for seperate licenses on all the computers?
I don't see how this is not an "information wants to be free" issue. In this case, free software was incorporated into a proprietary program, thereby "imprisioning" the free software. Most people can see this is a greater offense than taking proprietary code and releasing it to the public as free. I'm sure you can see the distinction, but decided to ignore it as to troll.
You, sir, are a better man than I.
so if you're into compiling your packages by hand
:-)
Everytime I hear someone say "compiling packages by hand" I think of some guy looking up assembly equivalents of the code in question, then optimizing the assembly in his head, and finally doing an opcode translation.
I wonder how long it would take to do a stage 1 install of Gentoo that way? Any takers?
What Taco Bell do you go to? The one that I frequent often gives me TOO MUCH sauce. I get 3 tacos (1 of which, I want to put sauce on) and I get upwards of 25 packets.
One theory is that if you could go back in time, you can change the future, but it would be in a different universe.
Taken in conjunction with the many-worlds interpretation, if you go back in time and kill your father, you will still exist but the future would be different because you are now in a parallel universe where you did kill your father. The many-words interpretation is quite mind boggling when considered, but apparently it makes the math work out perfectly. The philosophical implications are staggering, though as it basically eliminates free will as anything can happen at any time anywhere.
The GPL is both the greatest strength and weakness of Linux. It facilitates sharing of code, but also allows for forks galore. Other free licenses suffer from this as well.
Is it really cool to make your own distro just because you don't like the way one developer does something?
This goes along with the forking thing. If some developer mentions that a for-loop structure would be easier read, another could get totally pissed off because he only uses while-loops for "philosophical reasons" and decides to start his own distro. I can see it now:
While Linux
While Linux is a fork of Debian with all for and do-while loops taken out and rewritten as while loops. For and do-while loops are teh suxorz!!!
I would never blindly click on an exe I got from any file sharing program, but your average luser probably would, so there is perhaps some "merit" upon a closer look.
I don't see how this will work.
.exe when they wanted an .avi or .mpg, they'll think twice before opening it.
Most torrent sites are run as a forum with user posts that make their way to the tracker. When someone notices that they are downloading an
Even then, WTF are they going attach their spy/adware to? If they are attaching to copyrighted files, they've become infringers, and once the spyware installs, it should be easy to where it is calling home and who installed it.
The common process is to "recommit with instructions", which means that the committee goes back to conference with specific instructions on how to proceed from the respective house.
Of course, if no compromise can be reached, any house can simply vote against the committee report which kills the entire bill.
Oddly, Dem. Whip Steny Hoyer is the sponsor of that bill.
Why is it that we only see bi-partisian cooperation on the bad bills?
I have a feeling it won't be a polite knock at the door, but a full-fleged assault carried out by the likes of the ATF, CIA, FBI, and quite possibly the National Guard.
More likely, you'll hear them break down the door. Make sure you have a handkerchief close so you don't breathe in the tear gas.
Apparently, since Bush is threatening to veto (although he has never used his veto to date) this legislation unless they put the provision in question back in the bill, they will do exactly that in conference committee.
A poster on the Daily Kos made mention about it, but I can't find a direct link.
I get your arguement, I just don't see the point in shelling out money to get +10 against Orcs.
While the banknotes in which you place such faith have intrinsic value because of ... umm....
Bank notes have NO intrinsic value, only extrinsic value (you may be confusing terms). I could care less if I'm trading in gold, silver, or a fiat currency, so long as I can exchange it for something I want. And no, I don't place any faith in US Dollars, since our currency will tank in the next few years due to massive deficit spending, but I digress.
I don't really understand what you're advocating in the rest of your post. My point is that even if all transactions are someday made with virtual/electronic currencies, the currency will get you a good or service that is provided in the real world.
As far as people buying and selling virtual goods/services, I guess they can do what they like. I, for one, won't be taking part because I reserve my money earned in the real world to buy things that exist in the real world.
For your sake, I hope you're just joking. If that isn't the case, I'll explain it to you.
When I pay my bills online, I am paying for a good or service that exists in the real world. While I do not get paid in physical bills, the number which represents how much money I can spend on physical goods increases.
In the bank/credit card case, the number is a representation. In the case of so-called "virtual items" there is no tie-in with the real world. The bit sequence is all that actually exists.