You may want to consider a pinch of research before saying that aren't held to ANY federal regulations. They may not be covered under FDIC as a bank, but they are held liable to other federal regulations. I dug this up although cannot verify it by any reputable means: "While Paypal is not a bank and thus can't be regulated by the FDIC, it is regulated by the Federal Reserve under Regulation E and by each state government as a money transfer provider."
"While Paypal is not a bank and thus can't be regulated by the FDIC, it is regulated by the Federal Reserve under Regulation E and by each state government as a money transfer provider."
So do you want to try to be a dick again? Or are you going to actually post something constructive on this topic?
and what exactly are they going to bust you of if you're doing things that are completely legal? The best they can do is use it as a tip to create a new law which then will become illegal.
I don't like the wire taps and Patriot Act either.. but let's get a grip on some sanity here. There are greater things to fear than the government collecting the information we FREELY PROVIDE. Did you read the report last week about this becoming the biggest threat for identify theft? You think some Joe is going to write a huge data mining bot to harvest and correlate information on thousands of people to steal their identities? Or would it be organized crime and corporations that do this sort of thing?
You're putting too much effort into hating the government without much logical thought on the matter. If you care so much.. stop posting personal information on websites! Then this entire topic goes away. That's all the more they are adding to this data minin operation that has everyone in an uproar. Why the fuss over something you are WILLINGLY GIVING TO THEM?
But the problem with your argument is that with the laws you don't like and your rampant distaste for the government, you STILL get to know how the information is being used.. in persuit of busting people that break the laws. We know what those laws are. You should already be avoiding them.
With a company.. you have absolutely no clue or control over what they do or how they want to perceive your actions. Take the RIAA for example. If they found you had a single MP3 on your computer they're likely to call you a terrorist.
Believe me.. I fear the government too and think this Patriot Act crap and wire tapping is going on way too long and way too far of a breach of our Constitutional protections from this sort of behavior. But I'm still going to persist that you should fear the companies even more. Because they have far less controls on them then the government does.
You should have the same level of trust for the companies that are quietly selling your company to anyone that is willing to pay the price.
At least with the government, they are looking for illegal activity (currently). The commerical world could give a rip what you do, or how their actions harm you. It's all about making money.
Every visit a site to buy something, tell them to not bug you, and the next day your new email address is thrashed with SPAM? Happens all the time to me. I create a new email address for each vendor and have the email pulled into a special account I use for buying stuff online. It's too painful to check every account so I use this one account to know when something is up with an order. It sucks to see how so many companies actively violate their own privacy policies sometimes within minutes, and especially when they provide you the falicy of protection from such abuse with a meaningless check box that has the words "Exclude from third parties..." yadda yadda yadda.. BULLSHIT!
But yah.. let's keep up the group hate for the government since it is the only thing to focus our hate on these days.
WTF? Why did he pick my post out of any to be a jerk to? I'm legit. This MSN worm sucks. Thankfully I don't use MSN anything cuz I hate how Windblows always reconfigures everything to push me to it.
It is a scientific fact that ice is less dense than water due to the hydrogen bonds and shape of the molecule. This is why ice floats on water. I'm agreeing with you by the way. My evaporation comment was a joke.. and to point out a potential flaw in the test.
It never occurred to me that the density of water in liquid or ice form would be enougn to show a difference in the ocean levels. I have always assumed there is so much more ice above the water level that the oceans would certainly rise if the polar caps were to melt completely.
Hmm.. I wonder. Does this mean that faster global warming could have prevented the Katrina issues? I mean... if we melt off the caps and the ocean levels drop.. the flooding in New Orleans may have never happened!:-)
Wow.. good to hear you can be open to disagreeing with my point but understanding that a differing opinion does make me wrong, off topic, or a troll. This is actually what I expect to find on/.
If you have to sign documents then it is not "Open". It might be available, but not Open. In technology Open means that it is made freely available for all to see. Such as ISO. Any standard that is published with ISO is concerned Open. Unless anyone can take the Windows source freely, it is not Open.
I've always been concerned that the IM clients we use would be a threat some day. I didn't have any reason other than lots of people use them all of the time and by their very nature they allow people to reach out and touch you RIGHT NOW.
I'm not surprised that MSN got hit first (or at least in a major way). M$ tries hard to do just a bit more than the basic solution because it's easy to do so. They have a lot of great COM and.NET capability already deployed on the Windows machines. So it's very easy to get lots of cool extras with little effort. Kind of a bummer someone is exploiting it. It's my guess MSN was hit first because of the number of subscribers. I'd suspect something like Trillian or GAIM to have more security holes.
Amusing. I must be too close to the truth and everyone knows it. Why else would a mod mark me down as a troll? The only reason is the default settings on SlashDot will filter out my post so other people can't read it.
How in the world was I marked down? I'm dead serious and it's the truth! If you feel that we have unlimited real time spy satellites you're wrong and it's because Hollywood and TV are teaching you that we have capabilities that we do not have!
Just because you mods don't like a post, doesn't mean it's off topic or flame bait. Sheesh.. I expected more intelligence from the SlashDot community.
Al Gore played absolutely no role whatsoever in creating what people knew as "The Internet" when he made his completely BS comment. He knew exactly what he was trying to make people think.. and most people who knew exactly what the Internet was and how it came into being called him on it, and he lost miserably.
If you want to say Mr. Gore played a significant role in the creation of what we know today as TCP/IP. Fine.. but that ain't the Internet. That's not what it was when he did his thing. That's not what the Internet was when I started using it in 1991, and that most certainly not what the Internet was when he tried convincing the voters he played a major role in the creation of the biggest commercial boon this country has ever seen.
If you disagree... fine. But you are not going to convince me or the majority of people that called him out for the BS he spewed that he played any sliver of a role in the creation of what everyone knew as "The Internet" when he tried taking credit for it.
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Sell them to the French as frog legs?
This guy must be brilliant. How long have we been begging them to simply their bloated quirky wares?
You may want to consider a pinch of research before saying that aren't held to ANY federal regulations. They may not be covered under FDIC as a bank, but they are held liable to other federal regulations. I dug this up although cannot verify it by any reputable means:
"While Paypal is not a bank and thus can't be regulated by the FDIC, it is regulated by the Federal Reserve under Regulation E and by each state government as a money transfer provider."
They have not used any tactics on me.
"While Paypal is not a bank and thus can't be regulated by the FDIC, it is regulated by the Federal Reserve under Regulation E and by each state government as a money transfer provider."
So do you want to try to be a dick again? Or are you going to actually post something constructive on this topic?
"Paypal is trying to be a bank without having ANY of the federal regulations set forth to banks."
Are you sure about this statement? I believe they are regulated as a bank just like a brick and mortar bank.
You're generally right.. but there are a lot of people that will watching anything. It's like they are movie lemmings.
Why don't they make products worth watching. Most of the junk Hollywood makes isn't even worth my time even if it were free.
Yet another industry that failed to adapt to new technologies that's going to fight until their death.
and what exactly are they going to bust you of if you're doing things that are completely legal? The best they can do is use it as a tip to create a new law which then will become illegal.
I don't like the wire taps and Patriot Act either.. but let's get a grip on some sanity here. There are greater things to fear than the government collecting the information we FREELY PROVIDE. Did you read the report last week about this becoming the biggest threat for identify theft? You think some Joe is going to write a huge data mining bot to harvest and correlate information on thousands of people to steal their identities? Or would it be organized crime and corporations that do this sort of thing?
You're putting too much effort into hating the government without much logical thought on the matter. If you care so much.. stop posting personal information on websites! Then this entire topic goes away. That's all the more they are adding to this data minin operation that has everyone in an uproar. Why the fuss over something you are WILLINGLY GIVING TO THEM?
But the problem with your argument is that with the laws you don't like and your rampant distaste for the government, you STILL get to know how the information is being used.. in persuit of busting people that break the laws. We know what those laws are. You should already be avoiding them.
With a company.. you have absolutely no clue or control over what they do or how they want to perceive your actions. Take the RIAA for example. If they found you had a single MP3 on your computer they're likely to call you a terrorist.
Believe me.. I fear the government too and think this Patriot Act crap and wire tapping is going on way too long and way too far of a breach of our Constitutional protections from this sort of behavior. But I'm still going to persist that you should fear the companies even more. Because they have far less controls on them then the government does.
You should have the same level of trust for the companies that are quietly selling your company to anyone that is willing to pay the price.
.. BULLSHIT!
At least with the government, they are looking for illegal activity (currently). The commerical world could give a rip what you do, or how their actions harm you. It's all about making money.
Every visit a site to buy something, tell them to not bug you, and the next day your new email address is thrashed with SPAM? Happens all the time to me. I create a new email address for each vendor and have the email pulled into a special account I use for buying stuff online. It's too painful to check every account so I use this one account to know when something is up with an order. It sucks to see how so many companies actively violate their own privacy policies sometimes within minutes, and especially when they provide you the falicy of protection from such abuse with a meaningless check box that has the words "Exclude from third parties..." yadda yadda yadda
But yah.. let's keep up the group hate for the government since it is the only thing to focus our hate on these days.
I agree with your sig by the way. COMPLETELY.
WTF? Why did he pick my post out of any to be a jerk to? I'm legit. This MSN worm sucks. Thankfully I don't use MSN anything cuz I hate how Windblows always reconfigures everything to push me to it.
Evaporation?
:-)
It is a scientific fact that ice is less dense than water due to the hydrogen bonds and shape of the molecule. This is why ice floats on water. I'm agreeing with you by the way. My evaporation comment was a joke.. and to point out a potential flaw in the test.
It never occurred to me that the density of water in liquid or ice form would be enougn to show a difference in the ocean levels. I have always assumed there is so much more ice above the water level that the oceans would certainly rise if the polar caps were to melt completely.
Hmm.. I wonder. Does this mean that faster global warming could have prevented the Katrina issues? I mean... if we melt off the caps and the ocean levels drop.. the flooding in New Orleans may have never happened!
I can use ISO 9660 completely for free. It is an Open standard and I do not have to pay to use it. Can't you use ISO 9660 just as freely as I can?
Having a membership fee to support the organization is a bit different than M$'s lawyer's determining you aren't a hostile threat to them.
Wow.. good to hear you can be open to disagreeing with my point but understanding that a differing opinion does make me wrong, off topic, or a troll. This is actually what I expect to find on /.
WTF? Are you trolling?
There's a lot of stuff that BEA Systems produces that has been made open source and is extremely successful as open source.
No doubt. Especially GPL 3. I wouldn't dare call that Open Source.
If you have to sign documents then it is not "Open". It might be available, but not Open. In technology Open means that it is made freely available for all to see. Such as ISO. Any standard that is published with ISO is concerned Open. Unless anyone can take the Windows source freely, it is not Open.
"I'm calling you a judgemental moron."
There are a lot of them on the Net these days in every aspect conceivable. It sucks, don't it? So many people that are deliberately ignorant.
I've always been concerned that the IM clients we use would be a threat some day. I didn't have any reason other than lots of people use them all of the time and by their very nature they allow people to reach out and touch you RIGHT NOW.
.NET capability already deployed on the Windows machines. So it's very easy to get lots of cool extras with little effort. Kind of a bummer someone is exploiting it. It's my guess MSN was hit first because of the number of subscribers. I'd suspect something like Trillian or GAIM to have more security holes.
I'm not surprised that MSN got hit first (or at least in a major way). M$ tries hard to do just a bit more than the basic solution because it's easy to do so. They have a lot of great COM and
Amusing. I must be too close to the truth and everyone knows it. Why else would a mod mark me down as a troll? The only reason is the default settings on SlashDot will filter out my post so other people can't read it.
How pathetic. I thought SlashDoters were smart.
How in the world was I marked down? I'm dead serious and it's the truth! If you feel that we have unlimited real time spy satellites you're wrong and it's because Hollywood and TV are teaching you that we have capabilities that we do not have!
Just because you mods don't like a post, doesn't mean it's off topic or flame bait. Sheesh.. I expected more intelligence from the SlashDot community.
Al Gore played absolutely no role whatsoever in creating what people knew as "The Internet" when he made his completely BS comment. He knew exactly what he was trying to make people think.. and most people who knew exactly what the Internet was and how it came into being called him on it, and he lost miserably.
If you want to say Mr. Gore played a significant role in the creation of what we know today as TCP/IP. Fine.. but that ain't the Internet. That's not what it was when he did his thing. That's not what the Internet was when I started using it in 1991, and that most certainly not what the Internet was when he tried convincing the voters he played a major role in the creation of the biggest commercial boon this country has ever seen.
If you disagree... fine. But you are not going to convince me or the majority of people that called him out for the BS he spewed that he played any sliver of a role in the creation of what everyone knew as "The Internet" when he tried taking credit for it.
Whatever you want to believe.