Context. One group uses TDS to describe what they see as irrational and deliberate refusal of and opposition to the most recent presidential election results, based on any of several factors and beliefs, based on the perceived and claimed the moral turpitude of the winner, among other things. Another group uses it to describe those who turn a blind eye to the claimed failures and crimes of that election winner. Some use it as commentary on the actions of all others.
I use it exclusively in one of those ways, mostly because I find myself being judged as approving of one or the other view, completely, and in so doing failed morally according to one or the other movement. Lest we forget, federal elections in the US are mostly winner-take-all, and so you choose between the available options, or write in a candidate of your own choosing with literally (literally) no hope of your or their success. Because of this, reasonable people can vote for a less than desirable candidate rather than the even less-desirable candidate, accepting the defects they will tolerate in preference to those they will not.
But the losers recently have taken on the tactic of declaring their opposition invalid, unworthy, undeserving of leadership. This is a tactic that will tear our country apart and force significant conflicts, but that's the intent. Lamenting it isn't going to help. Opposing and defeating it may.
Soft of, and I've read those novels also. There's a nasty coincidence between her expression of Objectivism and Socialist theology, but another topic, another time...
No, the idea that the Internet make 'easy' what is better left to be 'difficult' is the lament of the powerful. They loathe their opposition, of course, and often consider much if the opposition to be inadequate, uneducated, common, and beneath respect or inclusion. There is no particular political movement more or less guilty of this I suspect, though it's an argument intended to divide 'us'.
And we forget, before the Internet, that information was well controlled, but not necessarily of better quality nor more trustworthy, The Pentagon Papers were the Wikileaks of their day. And this is an issue not just for news, but look at the courts. SO many 'public records' that are only now really accessible, and yes they engage in both suppression and rent-seeking by assessing fees, requiring you be qualified by trade or association, blah blah.
This is the last thing the Internet needs. The argument is the same as locking the dumpsters to keep the divers and scavengers out - it's annoying for the expected users, it won't actually keep the unwanted out, and one mistake forgetting to set the lock opens up the floodgates. It doesn't take mere hours to compromise a major site's databases, it takes much work in advance to find the ways. That the data is moved in figurative moments isn't the point, unless you think real time monitoring is good enough to catch bit transfers and block them, which clearly didn't happen at Yahoo!, Equifax (or whoever they are all the same to me). and others. But it's a fabulous topic, one that belongs here. Plainly.
The unidicted felon ghoul, remember? Though to be fair they did crush the unabashed socialist candidate, the one who could not take the oath of office without violating his well known personal beliefs... THAT would have been a fabulous choice, right?
That's about as backwards as it can get. Private property is the foundation of individual liberty, for if there is no such thing as private property, you can't even stand up in safety and be left alone.
My facts? The weapon being used in Venezuela to kill so many is Socialism. Guns are a tool to the Socialist, for their exclusive use, because everything else is illegitimate to the Socialist.
"It doesnt matter how obviously wrong the left is on the matter of the nazis... "
This is not a matter of the Left being 'wrong'. This is another deliberate misuse of words, and plain lying, to avoid responsibility for past crimes, cast the unfavorable light of their own actions on their opposition, and redefine the Left as good. All lies, all false, all the time.
It is a common political tactic to preemptively accuse your opposition of that bad act which you, yourself, have done, is doing, and will do in the future.
And, lest we overlook this, the words 'monitoring', 'efficient', 'good', 'positive', 'negative', 'natural', 'undesirable', and 'beneficial' mean different things to different people.
"In view of the civilian usage of GPS, jamming of this sort is dangerous, disruptive and irresponsible,"
War is "dangerous, disruptive and irresponsible (to many)". Losing GPS isn't the worst thing that would happen to the civilian population in actual war.
Selectrics use a 5-bit word to select characters, all mechanical of course, though the printers and electronic models (MT/ST, MC/ST, Memory 50/100, for instance) used reed switch mechanisms (transmit blocks) and multiple switches for functions to be electrified, and worked fine.
You can still find printer ribbons, and re-ink those available for a while. I just got a box of Hollerith cards from a friend, IBM-style,. and probably should send them somewhere to be useful.
Mag tape is a bit harder to get,. but there is a rumor that a manufacture is starting up, and while this is an audio tape project, they may be able to make data quality tape. But that will be a problem. Tape is possibly the most fragile medium, and hardest to produce.
That's how it works for many processors in the US.
If a merchant employs EMV terminals they are expected to require customers to dip the card. If the card fails, there is a fallback process. If the merchant doesn't follow that process, they may be held liable for fraudulent transactions due to that failure.
Fraudsters do try to game the system by convincing cashiers etc to violate that process, in a variety of ways. My debit card was compromised almost 18 months ago at a grocery store, and due to it being keyed in. This should never, ever happen. Defective cards that can't be swiped should be refused, and this was a chip card, a double failure. I never did get a satisfactory explanation, which is really annoying, but I also was not held responsible for the purchase, since my card was used an at an impossibly distant store moments before this fraudulent transaction, and my bank covered it. It was shortly after that used at a grocery store in Italy, fraud also. Great stuff.
Both were failures of process because EMV cards should be dipped. The Italian incident doubly so because it was corporate policy to refuse failed cards.
"It's happened to people I know, they put a $5 tip but the server didn't think that was enough, so they wrote in a 1 in front to make it $15. The customers only found out 2 weeks later when they looked at their credit card statement."
This is more often done by the restaurant owner or management, and is a form of fraud with it's own descriptive terminology. Getting caught is an excellent way to be denied payment processing services, which is hard for a restaurant to deal with in the US. Most fail. If an owner denies participation in this fraud, they will be expected to bring charges against staff, and if the business processes are such that proving that is difficult, most payment processors walk away and everyone loses.
Business owners, factoring and inflation fraud are bad practices, and hurt your employees and customers, if you care... Find another way to cheat, huh? Or go into a business you can succeed at.
"Chip&pin is final - transactions can't be changed, "
That's not how it works, or at the gas pump you would have to decide in advance how much to purchase.
In reality, when you present your card to your server, in a restaurant, they take it back and their POS system request an approval for the amount of the bill plus an additional percentage, which isn't necessarily standardized. The server returns with receipts, you fill in the desired tip if you care to, the total if you bother, and sign. This signature is useful if there is a dispute over the tip etc, but isn't mandated.
Usually your tip doesn't exceed that additional amount the approval was requested for, however even if it is, most processors will permit a charge in excess of the approved amount. This may not be permitted for certain merchants or industries, merchants based on past performance, for instance those who incur higher than usual disputes involving excess charges. industries based on business practices, for instance, Amazon rarely needs to charge you more than calculated at checkout.
Gas stations regularly request approval for what they expect to be a maximum purchase, which is somewhat dependent on average or prevailing prices, and can range from $50 to $100 today. If gas prices go over $5 per gallon, this can rise to $150 per purchase. These approvals can sometimes cause problems for purchasers, of course.
But the "transactions can't be changed" claim isn't accurate in many, possibly most, cases.
Signature has not been required for card-present transactions in the US by American Express since April 13, 2018. This is actually a global policy change for Amex.
Merchant can, if they wish, require a signature, and some industries tend to. And there may be applicable laws in the US that require a signature for a variety of reasons, though I don't know them well enough to quote or reference here.
I see many chip (EMV) transactions processed without even a PIN, in the US, a process that uses both fraud analysis, risk shifting, and customer identification to permit many large merchants to dispense with PIN for mostly small transactions. The immense inconvenience of having to enter a PIN for a substantial purchase doesn't seem to be a factor causing unacceptable friction, and fraud is changing in response to the chip introduction in the US, but not necessarily diminishing.
Yes, yes, yes. In fact I do have asthma. In fact I do understand. You can think in 6 numb as a hake, sure, but no, I do understand. But I've had asthma pretty much since I was born, some time ago, and living downwind of Midwest coal fired power plants didn't help it at all either.
I get it all. What's the bee under your bonnet about, that I haven't fallen down and worshipped you?
Only four calls? I've been getting 6+ a day for a week and a half. And I've gotten 3-4 live calls, so but one spewing the script despite me telling them I've voted already...
Two questions. How would carriers identify political callers? And how do you handle changing ANI?
UV-protective sunglasses have been a thing since global cooling was a thing, the 70s. Wearing clothes out in the sun since before that. It's not new, and that was half my point. The UV scare is about 30 years late.
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Context. One group uses TDS to describe what they see as irrational and deliberate refusal of and opposition to the most recent presidential election results, based on any of several factors and beliefs, based on the perceived and claimed the moral turpitude of the winner, among other things. Another group uses it to describe those who turn a blind eye to the claimed failures and crimes of that election winner. Some use it as commentary on the actions of all others.
I use it exclusively in one of those ways, mostly because I find myself being judged as approving of one or the other view, completely, and in so doing failed morally according to one or the other movement. Lest we forget, federal elections in the US are mostly winner-take-all, and so you choose between the available options, or write in a candidate of your own choosing with literally (literally) no hope of your or their success. Because of this, reasonable people can vote for a less than desirable candidate rather than the even less-desirable candidate, accepting the defects they will tolerate in preference to those they will not.
But the losers recently have taken on the tactic of declaring their opposition invalid, unworthy, undeserving of leadership. This is a tactic that will tear our country apart and force significant conflicts, but that's the intent. Lamenting it isn't going to help. Opposing and defeating it may.
But that's not a 'parallel Internet'. It's a VAN, or whatever other acronym you like for a private network. Like, for instance, 'network'.
Not parallel anything. And it doesn't matter a bit in the context of this discussion.
Soft of, and I've read those novels also. There's a nasty coincidence between her expression of Objectivism and Socialist theology, but another topic, another time...
No, the idea that the Internet make 'easy' what is better left to be 'difficult' is the lament of the powerful. They loathe their opposition, of course, and often consider much if the opposition to be inadequate, uneducated, common, and beneath respect or inclusion. There is no particular political movement more or less guilty of this I suspect, though it's an argument intended to divide 'us'.
And we forget, before the Internet, that information was well controlled, but not necessarily of better quality nor more trustworthy, The Pentagon Papers were the Wikileaks of their day. And this is an issue not just for news, but look at the courts. SO many 'public records' that are only now really accessible, and yes they engage in both suppression and rent-seeking by assessing fees, requiring you be qualified by trade or association, blah blah.
This is the last thing the Internet needs. The argument is the same as locking the dumpsters to keep the divers and scavengers out - it's annoying for the expected users, it won't actually keep the unwanted out, and one mistake forgetting to set the lock opens up the floodgates. It doesn't take mere hours to compromise a major site's databases, it takes much work in advance to find the ways. That the data is moved in figurative moments isn't the point, unless you think real time monitoring is good enough to catch bit transfers and block them, which clearly didn't happen at Yahoo!, Equifax (or whoever they are all the same to me). and others. But it's a fabulous topic, one that belongs here. Plainly.
The unidicted felon ghoul, remember? Though to be fair they did crush the unabashed socialist candidate, the one who could not take the oath of office without violating his well known personal beliefs... THAT would have been a fabulous choice, right?
The TDS is so deep.
That's about as backwards as it can get. Private property is the foundation of individual liberty, for if there is no such thing as private property, you can't even stand up in safety and be left alone.
My facts? The weapon being used in Venezuela to kill so many is Socialism. Guns are a tool to the Socialist, for their exclusive use, because everything else is illegitimate to the Socialist.
"It doesnt matter how obviously wrong the left is on the matter of the nazis... "
This is not a matter of the Left being 'wrong'. This is another deliberate misuse of words, and plain lying, to avoid responsibility for past crimes, cast the unfavorable light of their own actions on their opposition, and redefine the Left as good. All lies, all false, all the time.
It is a common political tactic to preemptively accuse your opposition of that bad act which you, yourself, have done, is doing, and will do in the future.
And I think, upon minimal research, your number is low.
And who who do you think develops the weapons that are killing so many people in Venezuela?
And, lest we overlook this, the words 'monitoring', 'efficient', 'good', 'positive', 'negative', 'natural', 'undesirable', and 'beneficial' mean different things to different people.
In Venezuela, the third box of liberty was misused. Now all that is left is the fifth box.
That's how fast it happens. One minute you're complaining about something, anything, everything. Before you know it, complaining is a crime.
Exactly.
"In view of the civilian usage of GPS, jamming of this sort is dangerous, disruptive and irresponsible,"
War is "dangerous, disruptive and irresponsible (to many)". Losing GPS isn't the worst thing that would happen to the civilian population in actual war.
Selectrics use a 5-bit word to select characters, all mechanical of course, though the printers and electronic models (MT/ST, MC/ST, Memory 50/100, for instance) used reed switch mechanisms (transmit blocks) and multiple switches for functions to be electrified, and worked fine.
You can still find printer ribbons, and re-ink those available for a while. I just got a box of Hollerith cards from a friend, IBM-style,. and probably should send them somewhere to be useful.
Mag tape is a bit harder to get,. but there is a rumor that a manufacture is starting up, and while this is an audio tape project, they may be able to make data quality tape. But that will be a problem. Tape is possibly the most fragile medium, and hardest to produce.
That's how it works for many processors in the US.
If a merchant employs EMV terminals they are expected to require customers to dip the card. If the card fails, there is a fallback process. If the merchant doesn't follow that process, they may be held liable for fraudulent transactions due to that failure.
Fraudsters do try to game the system by convincing cashiers etc to violate that process, in a variety of ways. My debit card was compromised almost 18 months ago at a grocery store, and due to it being keyed in. This should never, ever happen. Defective cards that can't be swiped should be refused, and this was a chip card, a double failure. I never did get a satisfactory explanation, which is really annoying, but I also was not held responsible for the purchase, since my card was used an at an impossibly distant store moments before this fraudulent transaction, and my bank covered it. It was shortly after that used at a grocery store in Italy, fraud also. Great stuff.
Both were failures of process because EMV cards should be dipped. The Italian incident doubly so because it was corporate policy to refuse failed cards.
"It's happened to people I know, they put a $5 tip but the server didn't think that was enough, so they wrote in a 1 in front to make it $15. The customers only found out 2 weeks later when they looked at their credit card statement."
This is more often done by the restaurant owner or management, and is a form of fraud with it's own descriptive terminology. Getting caught is an excellent way to be denied payment processing services, which is hard for a restaurant to deal with in the US. Most fail. If an owner denies participation in this fraud, they will be expected to bring charges against staff, and if the business processes are such that proving that is difficult, most payment processors walk away and everyone loses.
Business owners, factoring and inflation fraud are bad practices, and hurt your employees and customers, if you care... Find another way to cheat, huh? Or go into a business you can succeed at.
"Chip&pin is final - transactions can't be changed, "
That's not how it works, or at the gas pump you would have to decide in advance how much to purchase.
In reality, when you present your card to your server, in a restaurant, they take it back and their POS system request an approval for the amount of the bill plus an additional percentage, which isn't necessarily standardized. The server returns with receipts, you fill in the desired tip if you care to, the total if you bother, and sign. This signature is useful if there is a dispute over the tip etc, but isn't mandated.
Usually your tip doesn't exceed that additional amount the approval was requested for, however even if it is, most processors will permit a charge in excess of the approved amount. This may not be permitted for certain merchants or industries, merchants based on past performance, for instance those who incur higher than usual disputes involving excess charges. industries based on business practices, for instance, Amazon rarely needs to charge you more than calculated at checkout.
Gas stations regularly request approval for what they expect to be a maximum purchase, which is somewhat dependent on average or prevailing prices, and can range from $50 to $100 today. If gas prices go over $5 per gallon, this can rise to $150 per purchase. These approvals can sometimes cause problems for purchasers, of course.
But the "transactions can't be changed" claim isn't accurate in many, possibly most, cases.
'fine'?
Explain, please.
Signature has not been required for card-present transactions in the US by American Express since April 13, 2018. This is actually a global policy change for Amex.
Merchant can, if they wish, require a signature, and some industries tend to. And there may be applicable laws in the US that require a signature for a variety of reasons, though I don't know them well enough to quote or reference here.
I see many chip (EMV) transactions processed without even a PIN, in the US, a process that uses both fraud analysis, risk shifting, and customer identification to permit many large merchants to dispense with PIN for mostly small transactions. The immense inconvenience of having to enter a PIN for a substantial purchase doesn't seem to be a factor causing unacceptable friction, and fraud is changing in response to the chip introduction in the US, but not necessarily diminishing.
The problem with fast trading is that a bird 1100 km up will never be faster than a fiber 30km long on the ground.
That is not a selling point. Ever.
Yes, yes, yes. In fact I do have asthma. In fact I do understand. You can think in 6 numb as a hake, sure, but no, I do understand. But I've had asthma pretty much since I was born, some time ago, and living downwind of Midwest coal fired power plants didn't help it at all either.
I get it all. What's the bee under your bonnet about, that I haven't fallen down and worshipped you?
When did you receive yours? I would be waiting until December sometime if I ordered today...
Only four calls? I've been getting 6+ a day for a week and a half. And I've gotten 3-4 live calls, so but one spewing the script despite me telling them I've voted already...
Two questions. How would carriers identify political callers? And how do you handle changing ANI?
Oh and I'm only forced to guard against excess UV exposure if i really want to be outside in the sun. And sometimes I do...
UV-protective sunglasses have been a thing since global cooling was a thing, the 70s. Wearing clothes out in the sun since before that. It's not new, and that was half my point. The UV scare is about 30 years late.