That's interesting... however, the whole concept is that someone is taking information from you illegally anyway, so if they violate that law, what's to say that they aren't going to violate the FSA rules as well? If you just murdered someone and are fleeing from the cops, are you going to obey the speed limit?
When I'm making a reservation for a hotel room and I'm reading off my credit card info, I imagine the person on the phone with me could be writing it down on a piece of paper at the same time they're entering it into the computer.
is if all this information is supposedly on the keycard, and unencrypted, that means you could get the room code information straight and break in to the room. It seems like if they should encrypt anything it would be that. Let alone not putting your CC info on the card to begin with.
I'm also not entirely sure why a hotel employee would take home used keycards (if this were actually true) for that information when it's all right there in the computer anyway. It is a retail transaction after all, they can take your credit card info at any time. They don't need keycards for that.
Exactly. What amazes me is that the history of music has shown that people will pay for it. There is a certain amount of disposable income available by the general public that they spend on music. How that music is distributed is ultimately irrelevant. Who cares if you have to buy a CD or download a song. If the RIAA would just realize that there is a better way to get music to the consumer, they will find out that they can extract money from the listener in much faster ways with greater profits and quantity. I am utterly confused as to why they continue to play this game.
I actually signed up for oddpost's free 30 day trial back in the day and played around with it. I must say that it was by far the best web based email client out there. I can't recall ever using a web based application anywhere near as dynamic as oddpost, to this day. However, at the time, they wanted you to pay for a subscription if you wanted to keep it beyond 30 days, so I stuck with my free yahoo mail which was also integrated with my.yahoo portal. I've weathered every different email trend and have faithfully stuck with my yahoo account through and through. I must say that incorporating oddpost's technology is a great move (if executed properly) and I'm pretty jazzed about the prospect.
It's the Apple Newton all over again. Pioneers in new (converged) technologies don't typically succeed until there's a killer app. It seems like in this case, the app itself has been killed. But the promise here is that some day in the future we'll have converged connectivity in our devices. Envision a bluetooth cell phone that can communicate with your car stereo and play your music through your phone. That's just a small example of an application, but this is where it needs to go.
My company just recently fired someone over a similar incident. There was a terrible flame war going on between two employees. It was considerbaly worse and more insulting than this tame example. However, the interesting part is that the person who got fired was let go, not because of the flame war, but because of information that was revealed in the thread that led to the conclusion that he wasn't doing his job.
China's new cities are being built on land that was largely unused. Yes, there are existing cities, but the problem NY has is that all of its infrastructures already exist. They would have to raze the city and rebuild if from scratch. China for the most part does not have that problem.
This is fascinating to read about. I often lament the state of most older cities today because their infrastructure is so old and decrepit its populus suffers from being behind the times in technology and other areas. San Francisco actually has very poor broadband internet access options, for example. I would always dream about living in a futuristic Jetsons-esque city one day, but I don't believe that will ever happen because cities like New York are far too massive and old to get reinvented. The costs alone limit this possibility. The opportunities at China's door today are boundless. Leave it to forward thinking communists to teach the west about enlightened progress.
The author doesn't mention how they got his credit card info. I wonder if he even knows. I would imagine that since the crooks had one of this credit card checks they probably stole his mail. If so, I wonder if they hang around his house and maybe that's why he recognized one of them.
Looks like he's got mail fraud on top of identity theft.
Actually, if you read any other articles on this, you will learn that the 60 million is a one time license fee MS paid. Meaning, this is not a recurring license and MS is done with it. I, frankly, do not understsand why Burst settled for so little, given the gravity of the potential crimes.
Well, I would ask first what an "unbiased" source is, since everyone has an opinion on media sources. But anyway, here's a salon.com article.
http://dir.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/12/04/v oter_file/index.html
granted, it was written by Greg Palast, who is a staunch anti-Bush journalist. However, facts are facts, regardless of whom they implicate.
There is plenty of information out there about this subject.
Does anyone else realize that this is the same company that essentially handed over the 2000 election to George W. Bush? They are the ones who were hired by the florida voting commission to compare the data on federal criminals in the US with those in FL so that the FL federal criminals couldn't vote. Only they botched (on purpose?) it up completely and had a 5% accuracy rate resulting in thousands of voters (mostly black) getting turned away at the polls. Coincidentally (yeah, right) they were awarded a 60 million dollar data sorting job in Iraq once the war started. Funny, if they failed so miserably in FL why would you reward them with a bid in Iraq? This company is a joke.
Microsoft builds OSes and have made security a top priority now, given how bad a job they have done at it. So a way that they want to protect their software from pirates is by forcing legitimate users to jump hurdles to access this security. One would think that the richest software company in the world could figure out a way to actually make the process EASIER for the legitimate users and more difficult for the pirates.
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That's interesting... however, the whole concept is that someone is taking information from you illegally anyway, so if they violate that law, what's to say that they aren't going to violate the FSA rules as well? If you just murdered someone and are fleeing from the cops, are you going to obey the speed limit? When I'm making a reservation for a hotel room and I'm reading off my credit card info, I imagine the person on the phone with me could be writing it down on a piece of paper at the same time they're entering it into the computer.
is if all this information is supposedly on the keycard, and unencrypted, that means you could get the room code information straight and break in to the room. It seems like if they should encrypt anything it would be that. Let alone not putting your CC info on the card to begin with.
I'm also not entirely sure why a hotel employee would take home used keycards (if this were actually true) for that information when it's all right there in the computer anyway. It is a retail transaction after all, they can take your credit card info at any time. They don't need keycards for that.
Exactly. What amazes me is that the history of music has shown that people will pay for it. There is a certain amount of disposable income available by the general public that they spend on music. How that music is distributed is ultimately irrelevant. Who cares if you have to buy a CD or download a song. If the RIAA would just realize that there is a better way to get music to the consumer, they will find out that they can extract money from the listener in much faster ways with greater profits and quantity. I am utterly confused as to why they continue to play this game.
I actually signed up for oddpost's free 30 day trial back in the day and played around with it. I must say that it was by far the best web based email client out there. I can't recall ever using a web based application anywhere near as dynamic as oddpost, to this day. However, at the time, they wanted you to pay for a subscription if you wanted to keep it beyond 30 days, so I stuck with my free yahoo mail which was also integrated with my.yahoo portal. I've weathered every different email trend and have faithfully stuck with my yahoo account through and through. I must say that incorporating oddpost's technology is a great move (if executed properly) and I'm pretty jazzed about the prospect.
It's the Apple Newton all over again. Pioneers in new (converged) technologies don't typically succeed until there's a killer app. It seems like in this case, the app itself has been killed. But the promise here is that some day in the future we'll have converged connectivity in our devices. Envision a bluetooth cell phone that can communicate with your car stereo and play your music through your phone. That's just a small example of an application, but this is where it needs to go.
I thought this was going to be an article on Mad Cow disease.
My company just recently fired someone over a similar incident. There was a terrible flame war going on between two employees. It was considerbaly worse and more insulting than this tame example. However, the interesting part is that the person who got fired was let go, not because of the flame war, but because of information that was revealed in the thread that led to the conclusion that he wasn't doing his job.
because it puts a smile on my face just thinking about someone focusing on christian music going bankrupt.
China's new cities are being built on land that was largely unused. Yes, there are existing cities, but the problem NY has is that all of its infrastructures already exist. They would have to raze the city and rebuild if from scratch. China for the most part does not have that problem.
This is fascinating to read about. I often lament the state of most older cities today because their infrastructure is so old and decrepit its populus suffers from being behind the times in technology and other areas. San Francisco actually has very poor broadband internet access options, for example. I would always dream about living in a futuristic Jetsons-esque city one day, but I don't believe that will ever happen because cities like New York are far too massive and old to get reinvented. The costs alone limit this possibility. The opportunities at China's door today are boundless. Leave it to forward thinking communists to teach the west about enlightened progress.
"Ask us what our operation code name is, is our operation code name"
The author doesn't mention how they got his credit card info. I wonder if he even knows. I would imagine that since the crooks had one of this credit card checks they probably stole his mail. If so, I wonder if they hang around his house and maybe that's why he recognized one of them. Looks like he's got mail fraud on top of identity theft.
Actually, if you read any other articles on this, you will learn that the 60 million is a one time license fee MS paid. Meaning, this is not a recurring license and MS is done with it. I, frankly, do not understsand why Burst settled for so little, given the gravity of the potential crimes.
Well, I would ask first what an "unbiased" source is, since everyone has an opinion on media sources. But anyway, here's a salon.com article. http://dir.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/12/04/v oter_file/index.html
granted, it was written by Greg Palast, who is a staunch anti-Bush journalist. However, facts are facts, regardless of whom they implicate.
There is plenty of information out there about this subject.
Does anyone else realize that this is the same company that essentially handed over the 2000 election to George W. Bush? They are the ones who were hired by the florida voting commission to compare the data on federal criminals in the US with those in FL so that the FL federal criminals couldn't vote. Only they botched (on purpose?) it up completely and had a 5% accuracy rate resulting in thousands of voters (mostly black) getting turned away at the polls. Coincidentally (yeah, right) they were awarded a 60 million dollar data sorting job in Iraq once the war started. Funny, if they failed so miserably in FL why would you reward them with a bid in Iraq? This company is a joke.
Microsoft builds OSes and have made security a top priority now, given how bad a job they have done at it. So a way that they want to protect their software from pirates is by forcing legitimate users to jump hurdles to access this security. One would think that the richest software company in the world could figure out a way to actually make the process EASIER for the legitimate users and more difficult for the pirates.