Are there any tech sites athat aren't so USA focused? Slashdot has become really dull lately.
Could it be because its an invasive species there, and anyone in Europe taken into the woods by their parents as a kid will have been warned of the death cap mushroom, along with belladonna, cuckoo pint, and so on?
As my cousin found out one night in Calgary, AB. When a couple of women got him drunk, took him outside where their boyfriends beat him down and forced his PIN number out of him... The bank used the fact that he gave them his pin as enough reason not to reimburse the losses.
Personally I think thats why they are doing it, likewise if a keylogger gets your PW/PIN and get into your banking you might be left footing the bill.
Most all resellers have a markup of ~3% just to accommodate credit card company fees. Those who pay with cash, are essentially ripped off. Those who use credit cards at least supposedly get the security/extra warranty/insurance/other services they provide.
One must keep a good eye on everything the financial institutions are doing,as every change is in their self-interest.
This is made worse by many banks issuing devices that can check a pin and can tell you if it is right or wrong. It even works with cards from other banks - I've tried it. This means you haven't even got the option of giving a false number. Granted three wrong numbers locks out the card, but if this were a Muslim gang you'd probably get the option of losing a tooth for the first wrong number, a finger for the second, and your head for the third.
Europeans are much more shifty people who steal.... It's unfortunate that the upstanding people of America couldn't insulate themselves from this foreign pollution.
Spoken like a true Native American. Unfortunately you are centuries too late.
The problem with blanket surveillance is it encourages a wide range of people to look for ways round it - which later can be used by "the usual suspects" to cover up their drug trafficking, terrorism, and pedophile rape gangs. We would be much better off just monitoring the undesirables
I have never undsterstood why healthy people use the lift for going up or down a few floors. In very tall buildings, it makes sense, but even in a typical 3-5 storey building, the majority of people seem to use the lift, even though it is usually slower and the stairs give you a light exercise for free.
I usually use the stairs unless carrying things - and it amazes me when the lift has to stop twice for someone to get on at one floor and off at the next - when they aren't carrying anything! Once someone who had worked for the company for six months was surprised when following me to a meeting and said "I didn't know there were stairs here"; he had been walking to the centre of the building, going down one floor in the lift, and walking back again to go to a meeting room almost directly below where his desk was.
Please aim to be a little bit less corrupt than usual today.
followed by:
How about reviewing that planning application on merit today?
Try to cut down on small back-handers between meetings with rich industrialists
I get most of my news from the state funded TV network's news section of their web site. The abount I pay for this in taxes comes down to approximately $ 0.5 per day.
Dev: Well, we've found a rather nasty exploit in Product X.
Sales: Great! We've got 50 mil in support contracts ending in two weeks. Sit on it until then.
Dev:...
And get the developers to put another obscure hole in that we can release to the wild in 12 months time...
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Are there any tech sites athat aren't so USA focused? Slashdot has become really dull lately.
Could it be because its an invasive species there, and anyone in Europe taken into the woods by their parents as a kid will have been warned of the death cap mushroom, along with belladonna, cuckoo pint, and so on?
As my cousin found out one night in Calgary, AB. When a couple of women got him drunk, took him outside where their boyfriends beat him down and forced his PIN number out of him... The bank used the fact that he gave them his pin as enough reason not to reimburse the losses.
Personally I think thats why they are doing it, likewise if a keylogger gets your PW/PIN and get into your banking you might be left footing the bill.
Most all resellers have a markup of ~3% just to accommodate credit card company fees. Those who pay with cash, are essentially ripped off. Those who use credit cards at least supposedly get the security/extra warranty/insurance/other services they provide.
One must keep a good eye on everything the financial institutions are doing,as every change is in their self-interest.
This is made worse by many banks issuing devices that can check a pin and can tell you if it is right or wrong. It even works with cards from other banks - I've tried it. This means you haven't even got the option of giving a false number. Granted three wrong numbers locks out the card, but if this were a Muslim gang you'd probably get the option of losing a tooth for the first wrong number, a finger for the second, and your head for the third.
Europeans are much more shifty people who steal .... It's unfortunate that the upstanding people of America couldn't insulate themselves from this foreign pollution.
Spoken like a true Native American. Unfortunately you are centuries too late.
The problem with blanket surveillance is it encourages a wide range of people to look for ways round it - which later can be used by "the usual suspects" to cover up their drug trafficking, terrorism, and pedophile rape gangs. We would be much better off just monitoring the undesirables
In essence, its not even a trojan horse but an app that does hidden, malicious things.
Im pretty sure you just gave us the textbook definition of what a trojan is.
Perhaps he was expecting a condom
Selling hardware, semi conductors - moving from proprietary OSs to linux. Are they just going to be another consultancy group?
racked up bills of $38 million for a water data system
for that amount of money they could have secured a water supply for a small town, or provided flood defenses along half a mile of a river.
Words can't describe it. You must try it yourself.
I see what you mean - everything compressed into the screen with a big space to the right. That's ... much worse
Just because the title has "Resurrected" in it doesn't mean that Jesus is reading this thread.
Please do not commit a Windows 8 .... err..... I mean suicied!
FUCK BETA!
I haven't got beta yet - is it really that bad!
I have never undsterstood why healthy people use the lift for going up or down a few floors. In very tall buildings, it makes sense, but even in a typical 3-5 storey building, the majority of people seem to use the lift, even though it is usually slower and the stairs give you a light exercise for free.
I usually use the stairs unless carrying things - and it amazes me when the lift has to stop twice for someone to get on at one floor and off at the next - when they aren't carrying anything! Once someone who had worked for the company for six months was surprised when following me to a meeting and said "I didn't know there were stairs here"; he had been walking to the centre of the building, going down one floor in the lift, and walking back again to go to a meeting room almost directly below where his desk was.
Please aim to be a little bit less corrupt than usual today.
followed by:
How about reviewing that planning application on merit today?
Try to cut down on small back-handers between meetings with rich industrialists
I get most of my news from the state funded TV network's news section of their web site. The abount I pay for this in taxes comes down to approximately $ 0.5 per day.
Same here; BBC news and BBC website!
Wikileaks.
Free to you but, Julian Assange is paying for it big time.
I looked forward to the day Fast Food won't server you because your too fat!
Or they bring you a portion of fries instead of a salad because you look anorexic.
Now for the big problem: HP or Dell.
There's always Oracle hardware.... OK this is self-confessed flamebate!
Dev: Well, we've found a rather nasty exploit in Product X. Sales: Great! We've got 50 mil in support contracts ending in two weeks. Sit on it until then. Dev: ...
And get the developers to put another obscure hole in that we can release to the wild in 12 months time...
Pakistan and India had equal opportunities to develop after partition. They both took different directions.
Now one has its flag on the moon and the other has a moon on its flag.
I've been on Slashdot long enough to know that unless Linus accepted the CEO spot, whoever got it was going to get a lot of hate here.
If Linus did become CEO of Microsoft I suspect you would see more hate than ever before!
(C) He thinks that being made CEO is a punishment for some mistake he's made in his current job.
Or maybe a past life
Nobody will ever suspect a drag racing millionaire playboy
Is that you Justin Beiber?
maybe a house in austin will be affordable again
Compared to most of America, in fact the Western world, its pretty affordable anyway.
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Also check out the proof reading project where material for Project Gutenberg is produced, http://www.pgdp.net/
Unfortunately this is no longer a growing domain. The length of copyright extends before anything can become "out of copyright".
It goes into the ground when fired from above, into space when fired from below,
Will someone think of ET?
EU Commission: Corruption Across EU Costs €120 Billion
Swiss banking commission: Corruption Across EU Earns us interest on €100 Billion