It's not surprising someone other than MasterCard actually had a list of card numbers stolen. I have customers all the time tell me how they don't like what they feel are draconian measures to protect the credit card numbers people have in their own systems. What they fail to understand is that Visa and Mastercard require us to do this, and the protections we have are customer service.
But they still complain, because their customers and they themselves don't ever notice. Hell at one point I was told by a demanding customer to remove the protections because he said "I'll risk it." I was tempted to show him how insecure he was by remotely accessing his system, getting his list of customer phone numbers, and telling all his customers that he was careless with credit card numbers and their numbers could have easily been stolen from his system.
People are pretty careless about credit card security. It's usually in the name of convenience and visible customer service. Credit card security is invisible service. Being able to purchase something conveniently flies right in the face of having security which just might prevent you from selling something to someone, so some people don't care, as long as they are selling. Owners care once they find out that they'll be issued chargebacks, but individual salesreps will write down every credit card number on a piece of paper if it means making money for them personally.
Visa and Mastercard have the right idea, and in the press release I like how they said that they gave cardsystems a "limited amount of time" to basically get their act together so this doesn't happen again. Education and enforcement of regulations... nice to see an organization, especially one that is a corporation, actually give a damn.
1) Buy crap eating machine
2) Produce crappy electricity
3) Get people to buy your crappy electricity for their rented light bulbs
(sub-plan: rent out light bulbs)
4) PROFIT !!!!!111eleven
Bender: "Last time that magnetic psycho nearly cut my head off."
Fry: "Oh right, plus the magnet screws up you inhibition unit and makes you sing folk songs."'
Bender: "What! Who said anything about me secretly wanting to be a folk singer? How ridiculous!"
And, once we whip around a star, we can go back in time to save the whales and invent transparent aluminum (which, of course, my physics professor showed us was impossible to create).
I think that was what I was thinking about. Having not actually purchased the $1700 set from Amazon (c'mon... win that lottery), I would consider having 10 to 20 discs represent my entire Star Trek collection... just a thought
"I canna take any moor of this" - (in my best Scotty accent)
So, what am I going to have to pay Amazon to re-buy that $1700 Ultimate Star Trek collection, only now in Blu-Ray??
(And yes, I realize that Paramount is not Sony, so don't flame me on that. I am just saying that when the time comes, how pathetic will I have to be to re-buy that in Blu-Ray (possibly on many many less discs)
This sounds like a racket to me. Let's pay the people that produce our operating system a little bit more every year to make sure that it is safe to use. I know there will be a lot of comments saying that Microsoft should just do their job in the first place, and I agree. Why not make an operating system that is safe, and then keep it safe for free? Isn't that what the weekly updates are for? Sorry, I just don't understand... can we get Bill on RICO charges?
Now, if I could only get Opera to run on my Treo 650 without having to download the JRE... too bad Palm didn't include Java with my phone... one more thing I missed out on.
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Quantum cryptography is neat, to be sure, but what happens if the cat dies?
All these worlds
Are yours except
Europa
Attempt no
Landing there
Use them together
Use them in peace
It's not surprising someone other than MasterCard actually had a list of card numbers stolen. I have customers all the time tell me how they don't like what they feel are draconian measures to protect the credit card numbers people have in their own systems. What they fail to understand is that Visa and Mastercard require us to do this, and the protections we have are customer service.
But they still complain, because their customers and they themselves don't ever notice. Hell at one point I was told by a demanding customer to remove the protections because he said "I'll risk it." I was tempted to show him how insecure he was by remotely accessing his system, getting his list of customer phone numbers, and telling all his customers that he was careless with credit card numbers and their numbers could have easily been stolen from his system.
People are pretty careless about credit card security. It's usually in the name of convenience and visible customer service. Credit card security is invisible service. Being able to purchase something conveniently flies right in the face of having security which just might prevent you from selling something to someone, so some people don't care, as long as they are selling. Owners care once they find out that they'll be issued chargebacks, but individual salesreps will write down every credit card number on a piece of paper if it means making money for them personally.
Visa and Mastercard have the right idea, and in the press release I like how they said that they gave cardsystems a "limited amount of time" to basically get their act together so this doesn't happen again. Education and enforcement of regulations... nice to see an organization, especially one that is a corporation, actually give a damn.
welcome our new bacteria overlords!
Hail Bacteria!
Down with Styrofoam!
So, with 1000 open source programmes working at 1000 dummy stations, they should be able to produce Duke Nukem 3D?
I see BILLIONS in text message bills, at 10 cents a pop, he's gonna need a new job
will it run Linux?
HDTV resolves YOU lower
Video killed the radio ... um, Internet star!
// But I can use slashies!
/// Wait, this isn't Fark
/ Slashdot won't let me use the <strike> HTML tags?
1) Buy crap eating machine
2) Produce crappy electricity
3) Get people to buy your crappy electricity for their rented light bulbs
(sub-plan: rent out light bulbs)
4) PROFIT !!!!!111eleven
What level does your mage have to be to call down a lightning storm of that magnitude?
Bender: "Last time that magnetic psycho nearly cut my head off."
Fry: "Oh right, plus the magnet screws up you inhibition unit and makes you sing folk songs."'
Bender: "What! Who said anything about me secretly wanting to be a folk singer? How ridiculous!"
Cell Phones monitor you ...
...
... no
wait
Um, you monitor cell ph
I've got it: Cell Phone tells YOU when to ring!
And, once we whip around a star, we can go back in time to save the whales and invent transparent aluminum (which, of course, my physics professor showed us was impossible to create).
That second link: http://www.rebelscience.org/Crackpots/nasty.htm#Sp ace
reminds me of Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card.
Yeah, that's right, I read all 4 of the Ender books all the way through, pbbbt
I think that was what I was thinking about. Having not actually purchased the $1700 set from Amazon (c'mon ... win that lottery), I would consider having 10 to 20 discs represent my entire Star Trek collection ... just a thought
"I canna take any moor of this" - (in my best Scotty accent) So, what am I going to have to pay Amazon to re-buy that $1700 Ultimate Star Trek collection, only now in Blu-Ray?? (And yes, I realize that Paramount is not Sony, so don't flame me on that. I am just saying that when the time comes, how pathetic will I have to be to re-buy that in Blu-Ray (possibly on many many less discs)
This sounds like a racket to me. Let's pay the people that produce our operating system a little bit more every year to make sure that it is safe to use. I know there will be a lot of comments saying that Microsoft should just do their job in the first place, and I agree. Why not make an operating system that is safe, and then keep it safe for free? Isn't that what the weekly updates are for? Sorry, I just don't understand ... can we get Bill on RICO charges?
Now, if I could only get Opera to run on my Treo 650 without having to download the JRE ... too bad Palm didn't include Java with my phone ... one more thing I missed out on.