They have to pay a fee for every track they play, each time they play it, based on the number of listeners. At least that is true for my friend who works at a radio station.
Let's just switch to Ethernet and be done with it.
1Gb/s Ethernet = 128MB/s (1,024 megabits / 8 = 128 megabytes.) Most hard drives are hard up to push 60MB/s so that is plenty of speed + framing for most computers.
So let's just stick an Ethernet connection on the end of the drive, boot it from iSCSI, and be done with all these standards. If you still want an Internal drive, drop four Ethernet connectors onto the motherboard.
That goes for almost everything, imo. Anything I have that is USB should be RJ45. My Mouse, Keyboard, Thumbdrive, DVD Burner, you name it. My data wants to be free:)
>>Technology should not be an excuse for people to be stupid and negligent. Especially when it comes to guiding a few thousand pounds of steel in the presence of others.
Here in the USA, the problem is that the DOT gives anyone with an IQ over 50 a license. I see so many stupid, blind, arrogant people driving everyday. I know they are this because every day on my way to and from work I see many accidents. Up to 5 times a week, my trip to or from work takes double or triple the amount of time it should because of the number of accidents slowing traffic down.
Anything to speed up traffic would be welcomed. I think raising the speed limit from 55 to 60 in my area actually lowered the average rate of speed. When it was 55, there were less accidents causing slowdowns.
I think the real fix is for the DOT to not give out a license to absolutely everyone.
The problem is that any time they get a subpoena for a case, they have to make a backup of any relevant data and keep it. So even if they anonymize your data after 20 months, if there is a pending case your data could be kept elsewhere for a very long time.
What you need to do is buy my handy dandy white noise generator. It creates random searches on Google at a variable rate per second. It injects searches from a database of 40 million stored searches. This buries your real searches in a lot of fake ones, making it a needle in a hay stake.
This can be your for only.... wait, what is that? Oh no, it's the guys in black suites telling me asd=389
I am currently paying $40 x 2 for phones. I have no wired phone line. I have Cable Modem which is $39 for 3MB/s down. If I didn't have Cable with them also, add $10/mo.
So that is $119/mo for two cell lines and a cable modem, or $129 if I drop cable.
I can currently get unlimited Internet access through my Cell phone for an additional $29/mo by hooking the PC up to the USB cable and then that to my phone. But that gets about 115K/s
If I can get unlimited high speed Internet closer to the 1MB/s range through my two cell phones for $150/mo and drop cable, that might be worth it. But if we are talking about $150x2=$300/mo, then there is no way.
The downside is that I couldn't access my home PC from work if I did this. I'm not certain I'd give that capability up.
We have a firewall that blocks ALL Internet access to numerous machines. NT 4.0 days, we didn't see this. But as of XP and 2003, and SUS/automatic updates - we see these blocked machines attempt to hit Microsoft often.
Our antivirus does the same thing to ensure the license isn't expired. Adobe does this as well. So does Apple and many other products. Even our IBM servers do this.
I'd say Novell is the best at not doing this, imo.
>>The original C=64 could output to a TV, and most games for the platform anticipated this. They also were optimized for joystick or joystick+partial keyboard control. But unfortunately, few games for Windows anticipate reading input from two USB gamepads and displaying output on a standard-definition TV. Does Commodore plan to revive the development of TV-friendly computer games?
Of course, when your joystick has 4 directions and one fire button, it's just not the same as todays complex controller with side winding and 20 action buttons.
I voted for him both times. Of the two candidates, he was my preference. Doesn't mean I really like the guy. I just liked him better at the time than I did John Kerry, or Al Gore.
I actually support the war in Iraq, and support it to this day. Personally I think we should of never liberated Kuwait. Saddam Hussein was our puppet prior to that. ( http://www.physicsforums.com/archive/index.php/t-5 3783.html ) Had we left that alone, I think we'd of been much better off than we are today. We have a vast history of supporting groups to overthrow governments all over the world. We did so in Iraq, and Hussein took power. Then we sort of tried again, and he ended up killing those we half supported.
However we are where we are, and if it takes us 50 years to get that region stable, then so be it. It's been unstable for hundreds of years. 50 years is not a long time in the grand scheme of things. We stayed in many countries for many decades after WWII. We do what it takes to get the job done. We have made a commitment. We should stick with it.
That's my opinion. MOST of the country disagrees with me. That's fine. That doesn't change my opinion.
I've got some of those now. There is a common backplane. Everything is dropped onto it. I have a card on which I plug the memory into, so I can have 20 memory chips if I like. I have a card/cards where I put the processors. So I can pull that card out and upgrade to a newer processor, or change families.
The problem with these is cost and performance. These are specialized machines and are expensive. Since I am adding another layer to the hardware, there is a performance hit. This is a industrial solution, so neither of those are a concern for me. But it wouldn't fly in the general market.
Since it is an operating system, it has to boot somehow. Since it is an "Internet" OS, then by definition it has to boot from the Internet.
Boot from network (Internet) requires the local DHCP server to had out the boot info. So are we all going to have to get our ISP's to set us up to boot this OS? If we put a router in the way, that part of DHCP is lost. So our router has to hand out this boot information. I don't think that's an option on my DLink.
Reading TFA "In a way, XIOS is an abstraction layer that sits atop a true operating system like Linux, Mac OS X, or Windows, just as does Transmedia's Flash-based Glide Next media sharing environment."
So XIOS is NOT an operating system. It's an "environment" no different that Java JVM or Flash.
So the question is WTF is the point? I still have to run Windows if I want to use Word, Outlook, Excel, or XIOS. I can already install Linux and launch a full screen TS or Citrix desktop to give me Windows at a Linux thin terminal. Again, WTF is the point? It costs exactly the same. Provisioning 100 new DELL/HP PC's with or without XP PRO is the same cost. If I go with Linux and boot to TS/Citrix then it COSTS MORE. If I did the same thing to XIOS, then it would cost the same as just have Windows on the Desktop since I get no price break by getting Linux from my vendors.
What sounds good from a technical frame of view is often not good from a financial point of view.
I've been with TMobile for a year. As a company, I love them. The network isn't everywhere like AT&T. I don't have all the features of others. But they have perks that cost anywhere from $29-59US/mo on other networks that are available for all, if you know about them.
I'm not getting into the details as that would just get this area turned off, but my experience tells me this probably is blogspam.
SUMMARY Hardware virtualization software allows you to run multiple operating system instances simultaneously on a single computer. Microsoft has two software offerings, Virtual PC and Virtual Server, which provide this functionality. Third parties also have software on the market providing this functionality. This article addresses support provided by Microsoft for its software running in conjunction with non-Microsoft hardware virtualization software.
Microsoft does not test or support Microsoft software running in conjunction with non-Microsoft hardware virtualization software. For Microsoft customers who do not have a Premier-level support agreement, Microsoft will require the issue to be reproduced independently from the non-Microsoft hardware virtualization software. Where the issue is confirmed to be unrelated to the non-Microsoft hardware virtualization software, Microsoft will support its software in a manner that is consistent with support provided when that software is not running in conjunction with non-Microsoft hardware virtualization software.
For Microsoft customers who have a Premier-level support agreement, Microsoft will use commercially reasonable efforts to investigate potential issues with Microsoft software running in conjunction with non-Microsoft hardware virtualization software. As part of that investigation, Microsoft may require the issue to be reproduced independently from the non-Microsoft hardware virtualization software. Where issues are confirmed to be unrelated to the non-Microsoft hardware virtualization software, Microsoft will support its software in a manner that is consistent with support provided when that software is not running in conjunction with non-Microsoft hardware virtualization software. MORE INFORMATION Third-party software discussed in this article is produced by companies that are independent of Microsoft. Microsoft makes no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding the performance or reliability of third-party software. Third parties are responsible for the testing of their software running in conjunction with Microsoft software. Microsoft software may not work as intended in third-party virtualized hardware environments.
I dug around and found the 14 day trial. I played it and read all about it so I knew what I needed to do. At the end of the 14 day trial I was not impressed by the MMO aspect of it, but it is the genre I like so I decided to purchase an account. It's cheap, imo.
CCP's billing system was broken at the time. It was impossible for me to switch my trial to a paid account. CCP could not accept funds in any manor. This persisted for around 3 weeks that I know of. At that point I decided to go with CoV.
CoV got boring. It's been about 9 months. I headed back over to CCP to see about setting up my account. Once again I find that the billing system is broken and it's been weeks since anyone could renew or setup new accounts.
That says a lot. They are a private company. They really don't care. No public company would ever go so many weeks with no ability to collect revenue. They throw money towards hardware (SSD SANs) to try and solve problems which can really only be solved by hiring better programmers. You can actually "feel" the SQL queries running when you right click on areas such as the market.
>>The only reason I bought my wii is that I thought it would be much more fun to play than the other consoles.
Same reason I bought mine. I could have bought a PS3 weeks prior to getting the Wii. But I didn't want the PS3. I have had it with Sony. My camera was part of the class action lawsuit & was one of the failed ones. Our family has one of those root kit CD's:(. I have a previous PS and I never did enjoy the games on it with the exception of Monkey Island. I tried, but I just couldn't get into any of them like I could with PC games.
The Wii is fun. I have young kids. The games are more geared towards them. We all enjoy most of these games. I can rent them at the video rental store, so I don't have to pay $50 and then find out I don't like the game. I didn't like Happy Feet, for example.
I learned long ago that while graphics are nice, it is game play that is important. I just bought a 3 game cartridge for my GBA which has Millipede, Super Break Out, and Lunar Lander. These have to be the worst graphics ever - but I find these much more fun to play than Driver for GBA or many newer titles for GBA.
>>No, I hate being asked for ID when using my card. In fact, Visa and MC rules prohibit merchants from requiring you to show ID to accept a card. I go They can ask, but can't require it. They also cannot accept a card with "See ID" without making the cardholder sign it. See page 29 of the Visa merchant rules (PDF) [visa.com] and pg 48 of the MasterCard merchant rules (PDF) [mastercard.com].
>>I usually file a complaint here [mastercard.com] and check the "merchant required identification" box.
All I can say is WOW. I wouldn't have believed you if you didn't supply supporting documentation.
None of my credit cards are signed. A few say See ID. A merchant suggested that to me.
You know, I've only been asked by one business to sign it. That was Spencer's Gifts. No one else ever. Best Buy and Lowes always asks for my ID, 100% of the time. Other than that it's a crap shoot. Some of the people look at the back, don't see signature, and ask to see ID. Many others fake looking at the signature.
That being said, our merchant account had fraud protection up to a certain dollar amount. We pay a little bit more on the front end, so it's like insurance.
We've had shipments redirected back to us in transit several times when fraud was detected. We eat the cost of shipping and handling, but not the merchandise. Typically it's electronics goods such as DVDs and DVD players.
Unlikely to happen? I tested and it happened at 2 different ISPs. I saw it occur at a 3rd. It happened to us.
If you purchase a reseller account, many ISP's will let you setup new domains via scripts without any checks that you mention. It's all automated. There's no-one in the loop to question this.
Don't believe me? Get a trial account at a few ISPs. Setup one of your domain names at said ISPs and then try to send e-mail using the SMTP/webmail server at this ISP to your domain name. In other words, if you own domain.com then setup a new version of domain.com at this new ISP and see where the e-mail goes when you send it via their servers. It will likely go to their e-mail server, and not your/real/ e-mail server. The key is that you send the e-mail from the same server hosting your faked domain.
I was not speaking theory, I was speaking from experience in my initial post.
>>If you do not have your router set as your computer's DNS source, this would not effect you would it?
The stupid DLINK DI-514 router I have with the latest firmware quits serving DNS after about a day. So all my PC's run local copies of BIND and DNS is forced to use localhost. So I'm safe. But of course, if I don't keep patching BIND then I get other security issues.
This router also locks up after a week, requiring a cold boot. If I don't, it defaults to factory defaults and allows wide open Internet access. I don't immediately recognize this as my main PC is wired. Oddly, cold booting it gets the settings back.
Any decent routers out there? The one's I've had experience with all lock up for various reasons.
>>As if that's new....I wish I had a nickle for every time I sat there wondering what the hell Win2000 or XP was doing with all my CPU cycles and disk I/O when all I did was right-click on something in Explorer or try to copy a 2kB file.
It's your add-on's doing this, more than likely. If I were to guess, I'd say WinZip.
If you have WinZip, go into the options and turn off explorer extensions. Then try right clicking. This really kills you when right clicking on a file over a WAN link.
>>The newspapers also would like to restrict access to their "archives" (which they regard as a pay-to-see resource).
So what is stopping them from doing that now? Or are you suggesting that Google do the programming for them?
If I don't want Google to index my site, it's not hard for me to achieve this. I can #1) block their spider's by IP range, #2) block using http header inspection, #3) block based on referrer information when the link is clicked. #4) put REAL security on my site, not pseudo security.
Security at ISP's generally suck. We own multiple domains. We have multiple ISP's providing websites.
I took one of our domains and set it up at the other ISP, and visa versa.
When I sent an e-mail on domain1 to domain2, it didn't go to domain2. It went to the fake domain2 I setup with ISP hosting domain1.
This means their DNS that holds the zone data is also the same DNS server they use for lookups. Both ISP's had this problem.
This means that someone could setup a domain ebay.com, or usbank.com, or whatever - setup a catch all e-mail account. Any replies to these domains from people using that same server would go to my faked domain, not the real e-mail server.
I've actually caught someone doing this with an ISP we don't use. All e-mails to us from this ISP's users were going to a 3rd party. I don't think it was intentional, as all e-mail addresses were being rejected. But I am not 100% certain.
The fix is that these ISP's should use a DNS cache server with no local zone data. It should hit the root servers for lookup. It's a simple fix, but it cost a few bucks so many ISP's don't do this.
It's like the honor system at work on the copiers. Each page is $.05us for personal copies. You keep track of how many pages you copy and then pay accounting.
We have 6000 employees and 30 copiers in 15 locations in the US.
If the honor system we have is any indication of MP3 honor system, it'll flop. We don't need the record labels anymore. Let the artist sell them themselves. http://www.avenued.com/ is an example, though they have one single released through a label.
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It's a way for the UK to get some money back from the oil rich guys that don't know what to spend their money on, like Hugo Chávez.
They have to pay a fee for every track they play, each time they play it, based on the number of listeners. At least that is true for my friend who works at a radio station.
Let's just switch to Ethernet and be done with it.
:)
1Gb/s Ethernet = 128MB/s (1,024 megabits / 8 = 128 megabytes.) Most hard drives are hard up to push 60MB/s so that is plenty of speed + framing for most computers.
So let's just stick an Ethernet connection on the end of the drive, boot it from iSCSI, and be done with all these standards. If you still want an Internal drive, drop four Ethernet connectors onto the motherboard.
That goes for almost everything, imo. Anything I have that is USB should be RJ45. My Mouse, Keyboard, Thumbdrive, DVD Burner, you name it. My data wants to be free
>>Technology should not be an excuse for people to be stupid and negligent. Especially when it comes to guiding a few thousand pounds of steel in the presence of others.
Here in the USA, the problem is that the DOT gives anyone with an IQ over 50 a license. I see so many stupid, blind, arrogant people driving everyday. I know they are this because every day on my way to and from work I see many accidents. Up to 5 times a week, my trip to or from work takes double or triple the amount of time it should because of the number of accidents slowing traffic down.
Anything to speed up traffic would be welcomed. I think raising the speed limit from 55 to 60 in my area actually lowered the average rate of speed. When it was 55, there were less accidents causing slowdowns.
I think the real fix is for the DOT to not give out a license to absolutely everyone.
The problem is that any time they get a subpoena for a case, they have to make a backup of any relevant data and keep it. So even if they anonymize your data after 20 months, if there is a pending case your data could be kept elsewhere for a very long time.
What you need to do is buy my handy dandy white noise generator. It creates random searches on Google at a variable rate per second. It injects searches from a database of 40 million stored searches. This buries your real searches in a lot of fake ones, making it a needle in a hay stake.
This can be your for only.... wait, what is that? Oh no, it's the guys in black suites telling me asd=389
I am currently paying $40 x 2 for phones. I have no wired phone line. I have Cable Modem which is $39 for 3MB/s down. If I didn't have Cable with them also, add $10/mo.
So that is $119/mo for two cell lines and a cable modem, or $129 if I drop cable.
I can currently get unlimited Internet access through my Cell phone for an additional $29/mo by hooking the PC up to the USB cable and then that to my phone. But that gets about 115K/s
If I can get unlimited high speed Internet closer to the 1MB/s range through my two cell phones for $150/mo and drop cable, that might be worth it. But if we are talking about $150x2=$300/mo, then there is no way.
The downside is that I couldn't access my home PC from work if I did this. I'm not certain I'd give that capability up.
Wow. My old Sony produces TIF files. So what, who cares? Irfanview can do Batch Conversion/Rename and convert from RAW/JPG whatever to TIF.
r t=10
Did I mention it's no cost software?
The only thing that will kill of JPG is if someone comes along with a patent and tries to milk it to death.
http://www.google.com/patents?q=jpeg&lr=&sa=N&sta
We have a firewall that blocks ALL Internet access to numerous machines. NT 4.0 days, we didn't see this. But as of XP and 2003, and SUS/automatic updates - we see these blocked machines attempt to hit Microsoft often.
Our antivirus does the same thing to ensure the license isn't expired. Adobe does this as well. So does Apple and many other products. Even our IBM servers do this.
I'd say Novell is the best at not doing this, imo.
>>The original C=64 could output to a TV, and most games for the platform anticipated this. They also were optimized for joystick or joystick+partial keyboard control. But unfortunately, few games for Windows anticipate reading input from two USB gamepads and displaying output on a standard-definition TV. Does Commodore plan to revive the development of TV-friendly computer games?
- game-control.htm
My PC outputs fine to my 32" LCD TV. And my mouse sure works better than the 1350 http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/jmice.html .
Of course, when your joystick has 4 directions and one fire button, it's just not the same as todays complex controller with side winding and 20 action buttons.
But if all you want is to make ADWS and space to your non joystick enabled game, there are things such as this;
http://www.allworldsoft.com/software/14-077-total
I voted for him both times. Of the two candidates, he was my preference. Doesn't mean I really like the guy. I just liked him better at the time than I did John Kerry, or Al Gore.
5 3783.html ) Had we left that alone, I think we'd of been much better off than we are today. We have a vast history of supporting groups to overthrow governments all over the world. We did so in Iraq, and Hussein took power. Then we sort of tried again, and he ended up killing those we half supported.
I actually support the war in Iraq, and support it to this day. Personally I think we should of never liberated Kuwait. Saddam Hussein was our puppet prior to that. ( http://www.physicsforums.com/archive/index.php/t-
However we are where we are, and if it takes us 50 years to get that region stable, then so be it. It's been unstable for hundreds of years. 50 years is not a long time in the grand scheme of things. We stayed in many countries for many decades after WWII. We do what it takes to get the job done. We have made a commitment. We should stick with it.
That's my opinion. MOST of the country disagrees with me. That's fine. That doesn't change my opinion.
>>Is this the same as a bus-oriented system?
That's what I was thinking.
I've got some of those now. There is a common backplane. Everything is dropped onto it. I have a card on which I plug the memory into, so I can have 20 memory chips if I like. I have a card/cards where I put the processors. So I can pull that card out and upgrade to a newer processor, or change families.
The problem with these is cost and performance. These are specialized machines and are expensive. Since I am adding another layer to the hardware, there is a performance hit. This is a industrial solution, so neither of those are a concern for me. But it wouldn't fly in the general market.
Since it is an operating system, it has to boot somehow. Since it is an "Internet" OS, then by definition it has to boot from the Internet.
Boot from network (Internet) requires the local DHCP server to had out the boot info. So are we all going to have to get our ISP's to set us up to boot this OS? If we put a router in the way, that part of DHCP is lost. So our router has to hand out this boot information. I don't think that's an option on my DLink.
Reading TFA
"In a way, XIOS is an abstraction layer that sits atop a true operating system like Linux, Mac OS X, or Windows, just as does Transmedia's Flash-based Glide Next media sharing environment."
So XIOS is NOT an operating system. It's an "environment" no different that Java JVM or Flash.
So the question is WTF is the point? I still have to run Windows if I want to use Word, Outlook, Excel, or XIOS. I can already install Linux and launch a full screen TS or Citrix desktop to give me Windows at a Linux thin terminal. Again, WTF is the point? It costs exactly the same. Provisioning 100 new DELL/HP PC's with or without XP PRO is the same cost. If I go with Linux and boot to TS/Citrix then it COSTS MORE. If I did the same thing to XIOS, then it would cost the same as just have Windows on the Desktop since I get no price break by getting Linux from my vendors.
What sounds good from a technical frame of view is often not good from a financial point of view.
>>Republicans bring you smaller, less intrusive government.
One of the reason many of us Republicans don't like Bush, either. I was not pleased when he ended up being our candidate.
>>The planet's crusts used to lubricate with oil based lubricants until it got the memo to switch to water based lubricants.
Hmmm -- Interesting. I wonder if removing all the oil in the ground is leading to more and more violent earth quakes, versus many less violent ones?
>>This looks a lot like blogspam.
I've been with TMobile for a year. As a company, I love them. The network isn't everywhere like AT&T. I don't have all the features of others. But they have perks that cost anywhere from $29-59US/mo on other networks that are available for all, if you know about them.
I'm not getting into the details as that would just get this area turned off, but my experience tells me this probably is blogspam.
Microsoft makes you jump through hoops if you use VMWare and not VirtualServer;
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=897615
The article is below.
SUMMARY
Hardware virtualization software allows you to run multiple operating system instances simultaneously on a single computer. Microsoft has two software offerings, Virtual PC and Virtual Server, which provide this functionality. Third parties also have software on the market providing this functionality. This article addresses support provided by Microsoft for its software running in conjunction with non-Microsoft hardware virtualization software.
Microsoft does not test or support Microsoft software running in conjunction with non-Microsoft hardware virtualization software. For Microsoft customers who do not have a Premier-level support agreement, Microsoft will require the issue to be reproduced independently from the non-Microsoft hardware virtualization software. Where the issue is confirmed to be unrelated to the non-Microsoft hardware virtualization software, Microsoft will support its software in a manner that is consistent with support provided when that software is not running in conjunction with non-Microsoft hardware virtualization software.
For Microsoft customers who have a Premier-level support agreement, Microsoft will use commercially reasonable efforts to investigate potential issues with Microsoft software running in conjunction with non-Microsoft hardware virtualization software. As part of that investigation, Microsoft may require the issue to be reproduced independently from the non-Microsoft hardware virtualization software. Where issues are confirmed to be unrelated to the non-Microsoft hardware virtualization software, Microsoft will support its software in a manner that is consistent with support provided when that software is not running in conjunction with non-Microsoft hardware virtualization software.
MORE INFORMATION
Third-party software discussed in this article is produced by companies that are independent of Microsoft. Microsoft makes no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding the performance or reliability of third-party software. Third parties are responsible for the testing of their software running in conjunction with Microsoft software. Microsoft software may not work as intended in third-party virtualized hardware environments.
I dug around and found the 14 day trial. I played it and read all about it so I knew what I needed to do. At the end of the 14 day trial I was not impressed by the MMO aspect of it, but it is the genre I like so I decided to purchase an account. It's cheap, imo.
CCP's billing system was broken at the time. It was impossible for me to switch my trial to a paid account. CCP could not accept funds in any manor. This persisted for around 3 weeks that I know of. At that point I decided to go with CoV.
CoV got boring. It's been about 9 months. I headed back over to CCP to see about setting up my account. Once again I find that the billing system is broken and it's been weeks since anyone could renew or setup new accounts.
That says a lot. They are a private company. They really don't care. No public company would ever go so many weeks with no ability to collect revenue. They throw money towards hardware (SSD SANs) to try and solve problems which can really only be solved by hiring better programmers. You can actually "feel" the SQL queries running when you right click on areas such as the market.
>>The only reason I bought my wii is that I thought it would be much more fun to play than the other consoles.
:(. I have a previous PS and I never did enjoy the games on it with the exception of Monkey Island. I tried, but I just couldn't get into any of them like I could with PC games.
Same reason I bought mine. I could have bought a PS3 weeks prior to getting the Wii. But I didn't want the PS3. I have had it with Sony. My camera was part of the class action lawsuit & was one of the failed ones. Our family has one of those root kit CD's
The Wii is fun. I have young kids. The games are more geared towards them. We all enjoy most of these games. I can rent them at the video rental store, so I don't have to pay $50 and then find out I don't like the game. I didn't like Happy Feet, for example.
I learned long ago that while graphics are nice, it is game play that is important. I just bought a 3 game cartridge for my GBA which has Millipede, Super Break Out, and Lunar Lander. These have to be the worst graphics ever - but I find these much more fun to play than Driver for GBA or many newer titles for GBA.
>>No, I hate being asked for ID when using my card. In fact, Visa and MC rules prohibit merchants from requiring you to show ID to accept a card. I go They can ask, but can't require it. They also cannot accept a card with "See ID" without making the cardholder sign it. See page 29 of the Visa merchant rules (PDF) [visa.com] and pg 48 of the MasterCard merchant rules (PDF) [mastercard.com].
>>I usually file a complaint here [mastercard.com] and check the "merchant required identification" box.
All I can say is WOW. I wouldn't have believed you if you didn't supply supporting documentation.
None of my credit cards are signed. A few say See ID. A merchant suggested that to me.
You know, I've only been asked by one business to sign it. That was Spencer's Gifts. No one else ever. Best Buy and Lowes always asks for my ID, 100% of the time. Other than that it's a crap shoot. Some of the people look at the back, don't see signature, and ask to see ID. Many others fake looking at the signature.
That being said, our merchant account had fraud protection up to a certain dollar amount. We pay a little bit more on the front end, so it's like insurance.
We've had shipments redirected back to us in transit several times when fraud was detected. We eat the cost of shipping and handling, but not the merchandise. Typically it's electronics goods such as DVDs and DVD players.
Unlikely to happen? I tested and it happened at 2 different ISPs. I saw it occur at a 3rd. It happened to us.
/real/ e-mail server. The key is that you send the e-mail from the same server hosting your faked domain.
If you purchase a reseller account, many ISP's will let you setup new domains via scripts without any checks that you mention. It's all automated. There's no-one in the loop to question this.
Don't believe me? Get a trial account at a few ISPs. Setup one of your domain names at said ISPs and then try to send e-mail using the SMTP/webmail server at this ISP to your domain name. In other words, if you own domain.com then setup a new version of domain.com at this new ISP and see where the e-mail goes when you send it via their servers. It will likely go to their e-mail server, and not your
I was not speaking theory, I was speaking from experience in my initial post.
>>If you do not have your router set as your computer's DNS source, this would not effect you would it?
The stupid DLINK DI-514 router I have with the latest firmware quits serving DNS after about a day. So all my PC's run local copies of BIND and DNS is forced to use localhost. So I'm safe. But of course, if I don't keep patching BIND then I get other security issues.
This router also locks up after a week, requiring a cold boot. If I don't, it defaults to factory defaults and allows wide open Internet access. I don't immediately recognize this as my main PC is wired. Oddly, cold booting it gets the settings back.
Any decent routers out there? The one's I've had experience with all lock up for various reasons.
>>As if that's new....I wish I had a nickle for every time I sat there wondering what the hell Win2000 or XP was doing with all my CPU cycles and disk I/O when all I did was right-click on something in Explorer or try to copy a 2kB file.
It's your add-on's doing this, more than likely. If I were to guess, I'd say WinZip.
If you have WinZip, go into the options and turn off explorer extensions. Then try right clicking. This really kills you when right clicking on a file over a WAN link.
>>The newspapers also would like to restrict access to their "archives" (which they regard as a pay-to-see resource).
So what is stopping them from doing that now? Or are you suggesting that Google do the programming for them?
If I don't want Google to index my site, it's not hard for me to achieve this. I can #1) block their spider's by IP range, #2) block using http header inspection, #3) block based on referrer information when the link is clicked. #4) put REAL security on my site, not pseudo security.
Security at ISP's generally suck. We own multiple domains. We have multiple ISP's providing websites.
I took one of our domains and set it up at the other ISP, and visa versa.
When I sent an e-mail on domain1 to domain2, it didn't go to domain2. It went to the fake domain2 I setup with ISP hosting domain1.
This means their DNS that holds the zone data is also the same DNS server they use for lookups. Both ISP's had this problem.
This means that someone could setup a domain ebay.com, or usbank.com, or whatever - setup a catch all e-mail account. Any replies to these domains from people using that same server would go to my faked domain, not the real e-mail server.
I've actually caught someone doing this with an ISP we don't use. All e-mails to us from this ISP's users were going to a 3rd party. I don't think it was intentional, as all e-mail addresses were being rejected. But I am not 100% certain.
The fix is that these ISP's should use a DNS cache server with no local zone data. It should hit the root servers for lookup. It's a simple fix, but it cost a few bucks so many ISP's don't do this.
It's like the honor system at work on the copiers. Each page is $.05us for personal copies. You keep track of how many pages you copy and then pay accounting.
We have 6000 employees and 30 copiers in 15 locations in the US.
If the honor system we have is any indication of MP3 honor system, it'll flop. We don't need the record labels anymore. Let the artist sell them themselves. http://www.avenued.com/ is an example, though they have one single released through a label.