"I absolutely agree. They have THE WORST programmers/statisticians working on this. "
Idiot. I work in this industry. The fraud and authorization teams have our BEST programmers, analysts, and engineers, the most resources, and perform brilliantly. They are one of the most important KEYS to our success. And they are under constant scrutiny internally.
0. Ditto that, merchants expect an authorization response between 20-100 ms. Doing effective fraud detection is an interesting proposition. You can justify slower responses for some fraction of transactions if you are enhancing the testing of them for fraud, though for big retailers be ready to justify the delays if they get noticed.
1. New cards are not a very good solution for fraud, since a cardholder can be a victim of 3-6 breaches a year. Sooner or later you run out of account numbers. And you're doing fraud detection anyways, so just included parameters from the breach, and watch the attempts bounce off your system. Plus, cardholders like me resent having to change so many bill pay systems when they change my debit or credit cards. Very disruptive. Some systems permit the previous (assumed compromised) card to stay active, for instance for subscriptions. Yes, AOL took advantage of this to the point that they were indistinguishable from fraudulent activity for a while. There are others. The dispute process usually nails these miscreants.
2. Contrary to popular myth, card issuers do have a stake in fraud prevention. The inevitable disputes cost money to process, cardholder satisfaction falls and other issuers will happily use surveys to find out you're slipping in satisfaction and dive in. It's competitive. Fraud is a potential detractor.
I used to live where tap water was excellent. One place, the water supply was naturally substantially better than any government standard, by a wide margin, the municipal water utility owned outright the ponds used as source. The other place, I was drinking water from the same aquifer as one of the most famous brands of bottled water in the US. A third, from a lake that, while used by motorboats and camps, was the very same aquifer as that famous bottled water brand. Indistinguishable from the bottled stuff.
Boy, do I miss it. When we go back on vacation, I revel in tap water.
Actually, it is, unless you assign an airframe to a specific pilot, which can be done, but limits your operational readiness.
Think it through. Messing around the bottom of an installed ejection seat is so dangerous the technicians doing so usually have absolute authority over the aircraft when doing so. NOBODY touches that aircraft when Egress is working.
And the resulting debris from the retaliation would render LEO useless.
Move to the next orbital band, same problem eventually. The real problem with space warfare is the debris. Policing the battlefield is surprising important on Earth. In space, much, much more difficult, with even more disastrous consequences.
"there are Presidents who know how to inspire the economy. I suspect Bernie Sanders would be one of them."
Wow. His proposals all seem so reasonable unless you consider they rely upon, indeed are, straw man arguments, based on flawed economics, and possibly violate our Constitution.
"I mean do you actually think Hillary Clinton or any of the clown car posse of Republicans would do a better job?"
That's not the question for me. I'm afraid of the job Bernie would do. Doing it better is even more dangerous to me. Literally.
"Has the second amendment helped US citizens regain their "lost" freedom ?"
It certainly hasn't caused an accelerated loss of freedoms. Trust me, if the Second Amendment were compromised or limited further, the government would not be less able to take American's freedoms from them.
"there is no legitimate use for multiple names tied to a single number"
They are called 'aliases'. I have three IRL, all caused by misspellings in the past.
One on a store credit app, somehow they could not get my five-letter last name correct. Ignats.
One on a debt collection report for a university in a state I had never set foot in. When I asked for my academic records and diploma in exchange for a $200 bookstore bill, they relented and only called me every three years.
One on a mortgage app, which to this day persists despite being changed. They sold my data before the loan was even approved.
Oh, and I use both my full first name and the contracted version that you can figure out. Maybe a fourth alias?
There are lots of reasons to have more than one name recorded for your social security number and not all of them are within your power to even correct. Data has a life of its own./
I bought this book, 'Internet CD' in 1994. Had Slackware 0.something on it. Having just done battle with a SCO 3.x box trying to install a new printer, this was a revelation.
What a fabulous book. Vivian Veou, you wrote a great little book, thanks!
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"Seriously, command line days are great for reminiscing but nobody, but nobody could ever stay productive and employed in this day and age hammering away at a keyboard. "
I personally know several sysadmins who do stay productive and employed. And I know of several employers who won;t take me on because my command-line abilities have atrophied such I would need a year or more to catch up to minimal efficiency. There are times the command line is much more useful than most any GUI available. If I found myself having to be a sysadmin, I would be recovering my lost skills with sed, awk, grep, regular expressions, and probably giving in and readopting vim and emacs. I still cling to joe with wordstar bindings, god help me.
"Get over it. I did."
Sounds like you found another line of work. Good for you.
"Err, why do you think that Uber is superior? Surge pricing during a Tube strike is a real bitch"
Ah, so Uber functioning despite a Tube strike is a real bitch?
Only now, as a cyclist in London, you're having a lot of trouble with cars? Consider taking the Tube? Yeah, I know why not. Try being a cyclist in Manhattan.
Islam relies upon the revelation received by Muhammed around 610 and 632. Islam can be considered established around 622, when Muhammed emigrated to Medina, where he was accepted and his teachings adopted.
From then on, Islam has conducted a continuous campaign of political, social, and military dominance, with the stated goal of total dominance and control worldwide.
You doubt this? Read the Qu'ran, or any respected commentary on it.
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"I absolutely agree. They have THE WORST programmers/statisticians working on this. "
Idiot. I work in this industry. The fraud and authorization teams have our BEST programmers, analysts, and engineers, the most resources, and perform brilliantly. They are one of the most important KEYS to our success. And they are under constant scrutiny internally.
Pretend you know anything about this.
0. Ditto that, merchants expect an authorization response between 20-100 ms. Doing effective fraud detection is an interesting proposition. You can justify slower responses for some fraction of transactions if you are enhancing the testing of them for fraud, though for big retailers be ready to justify the delays if they get noticed.
1. New cards are not a very good solution for fraud, since a cardholder can be a victim of 3-6 breaches a year. Sooner or later you run out of account numbers. And you're doing fraud detection anyways, so just included parameters from the breach, and watch the attempts bounce off your system. Plus, cardholders like me resent having to change so many bill pay systems when they change my debit or credit cards. Very disruptive. Some systems permit the previous (assumed compromised) card to stay active, for instance for subscriptions. Yes, AOL took advantage of this to the point that they were indistinguishable from fraudulent activity for a while. There are others. The dispute process usually nails these miscreants.
2. Contrary to popular myth, card issuers do have a stake in fraud prevention. The inevitable disputes cost money to process, cardholder satisfaction falls and other issuers will happily use surveys to find out you're slipping in satisfaction and dive in. It's competitive. Fraud is a potential detractor.
I used to live where tap water was excellent. One place, the water supply was naturally substantially better than any government standard, by a wide margin, the municipal water utility owned outright the ponds used as source. The other place, I was drinking water from the same aquifer as one of the most famous brands of bottled water in the US. A third, from a lake that, while used by motorboats and camps, was the very same aquifer as that famous bottled water brand. Indistinguishable from the bottled stuff.
Boy, do I miss it. When we go back on vacation, I revel in tap water.
And so we are left with the reality that we should be drinking mostly water.
Which pisses me off. I want flavor.
Despite the advertising, Britta is not good enough to make my tap water in any way palatable enough to compete with bottled water.
Or RO water. We have an RO system, just as good as bottled water, so it suffices, and I use very little bottled water.
ps - If you do not know what RO is, you're unable to fully participate in this conversation. Read and learn.
Actually, it is, unless you assign an airframe to a specific pilot, which can be done, but limits your operational readiness.
Think it through. Messing around the bottom of an installed ejection seat is so dangerous the technicians doing so usually have absolute authority over the aircraft when doing so. NOBODY touches that aircraft when Egress is working.
And the resulting debris from the retaliation would render LEO useless.
Move to the next orbital band, same problem eventually. The real problem with space warfare is the debris. Policing the battlefield is surprising important on Earth. In space, much, much more difficult, with even more disastrous consequences.
"Bernie is sounding better all the time."
Bernie is promising to use government to change the economy, etc.
How is this different than the current crop of politicians?
We've tried this for a while. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is indistinguishable from insanity.
You all keep using that word.
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
And, BTW, the The Video Privacy Protection Act should be either interpreted or applied to email, cell phone records, etc.
We solved most of these 'technological' a long time ago. Just need to remind our government of it.
"there are Presidents who know how to inspire the economy. I suspect Bernie Sanders would be one of them."
Wow. His proposals all seem so reasonable unless you consider they rely upon, indeed are, straw man arguments, based on flawed economics, and possibly violate our Constitution.
"I mean do you actually think Hillary Clinton or any of the clown car posse of Republicans would do a better job?"
That's not the question for me. I'm afraid of the job Bernie would do. Doing it better is even more dangerous to me. Literally.
"Has the second amendment helped US citizens regain their "lost" freedom ?"
It certainly hasn't caused an accelerated loss of freedoms. Trust me, if the Second Amendment were compromised or limited further, the government would not be less able to take American's freedoms from them.
That is a good as it will get. SSA can't prevent those errors or criminal acts.
My sister and I have SSNs that are one digit apart; sequential; lsd.
This causes problems. We cannot ever have accounts at the same damned bank, nor the same sort of credit at the same issuer.
And no, this should not be a problem. Data is data.
"there is no legitimate use for multiple names tied to a single number"
They are called 'aliases'. I have three IRL, all caused by misspellings in the past.
One on a store credit app, somehow they could not get my five-letter last name correct. Ignats.
One on a debt collection report for a university in a state I had never set foot in. When I asked for my academic records and diploma in exchange for a $200 bookstore bill, they relented and only called me every three years.
One on a mortgage app, which to this day persists despite being changed. They sold my data before the loan was even approved.
Oh, and I use both my full first name and the contracted version that you can figure out. Maybe a fourth alias?
There are lots of reasons to have more than one name recorded for your social security number and not all of them are within your power to even correct. Data has a life of its own./
So it's getting serious.
When the ISPs start outright killing your streaming service because it isn't *theirs*, then it's on. Bigtime. Blood in the streets,
Yeah, but your GUI lets you *see* those terminal sessions rather than toggling through screen to see which script finished first.
I bought this book, 'Internet CD' in 1994. Had Slackware 0.something on it. Having just done battle with a SCO 3.x box trying to install a new printer, this was a revelation.
What a fabulous book. Vivian Veou, you wrote a great little book, thanks!
"Seriously, command line days are great for reminiscing but nobody, but nobody could ever stay productive and employed in this day and age hammering away at a keyboard. "
I personally know several sysadmins who do stay productive and employed. And I know of several employers who won;t take me on because my command-line abilities have atrophied such I would need a year or more to catch up to minimal efficiency. There are times the command line is much more useful than most any GUI available. If I found myself having to be a sysadmin, I would be recovering my lost skills with sed, awk, grep, regular expressions, and probably giving in and readopting vim and emacs. I still cling to joe with wordstar bindings, god help me.
"Get over it. I did."
Sounds like you found another line of work. Good for you.
My M8 is running Android 5.0.1, not the latest, but not what it was born with (4.4.2).
Lots of phones get updates, but lots of lower performance phones do not, for obvious reasons. And unpopular phones ditto.
The carriers do abandon phones regularly, but not universally.
"Err, why do you think that Uber is superior? Surge pricing during a Tube strike is a real bitch"
Ah, so Uber functioning despite a Tube strike is a real bitch?
Only now, as a cyclist in London, you're having a lot of trouble with cars? Consider taking the Tube? Yeah, I know why not. Try being a cyclist in Manhattan.
Yeah, fuck the gubment and all their silly rules.
That I can support.
Islam relies upon the revelation received by Muhammed around 610 and 632. Islam can be considered established around 622, when Muhammed emigrated to Medina, where he was accepted and his teachings adopted.
From then on, Islam has conducted a continuous campaign of political, social, and military dominance, with the stated goal of total dominance and control worldwide.
You doubt this? Read the Qu'ran, or any respected commentary on it.
Sending them back to their nation of origin would work fine, and requires no killing.
Of course, they are leaving their nations of origin largely because of killing there, But that is the problem that should have been solved.
Use this one instead.