What other industry is there that abuses their customers like this? I feel like I'm being accused of criminal activity from the first second I install a MS product now.
Of course, all that is needed to fix this is for tickets to be tied to the credit card. You buy the ticket with the card, you confirm it's your card when you get there.
Unfortunately, there is no way that I can bring my web-browser-based one-time-only credit card number to the venue when I display my tickets.
So long as the government stays out of the market, no group of companies can force a customer to pay more for a product than it is worth--nor can a group of companies that arbitrarily jack up their prices prevent worthy competitors from winning over their customers.
A couple of times in my life, I've participated in radio surveys. They sent me a green booklet, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2, with dates and times in (I think) 15-minute increments. I was expected to write down, for any time period, what (if any) radio station I listened to during that time -- at a minimum, either the call sign or station number, but there was room for both plus a description.
"At 8pm I watched Deal or No Deal on TV. At 9pm, I downloaded and watched The Simpsons on my computer. At 9:30pm, I watched Batman on my iPod."
Would this setup not solve the issue of watching shows on non-televisions?
If the card has a "See ID" in place of a signature... http://www.usa.visa.com/img/other/card_see_id.gif
1. Request a signature. Ask the cardholder to sign the card and provide current government identification, such as a driver's license or passport (if local law permits).
2. Check the signature. Be sure that the signature on the card matches the one on the transaction receipt and the additional identification.
Now, I'm not going to claim that ALL stores WILL do this. Just that VISA is not obligated to honor a request for payment made with a card that is not signed, and the merchant might not be willing to take the risk.
Watch Spaceballs. Look for the climax when the villain (whose name I forget) has a picture of the princess with her old nose. Then tell me the DVD appears on the TV screen exactly as it should.
The picture at http://www.widescreen.org/widescreen_matted.shtml demonstrates exactly what is wrong with my copy of Spaceballs (which is on the "defective" list). The picture is the width of the blue box and the height of the red box, with black bars at the top and bottom.
I honestly don't understand the cinematography, but calling the DVD "widescreen" was definitely misleading at a minimum.
If A XOR B = C , then A XOR C = B and B XOR C = A.
So if MYPASSWD XOR SECRET = ENCRYPTEDCODE, and I know both MYPASSWD and ENCRYPTEDCODE, then I can find SECRET.
I don't know if all of the drives have the same SECRET or not, but, having determined what SECRET is on my drive, I can give the drive to you, or I can try my SECRET on another drive and see if it works.
I have a book, entitled Applying RCS and SCCS, published by O'Reilly, dated 1995. I'm not sure how long I've owned it, but it's collected at least two years' of dust on my shelf.
How many times do I have to repeat myself. Some evidence is required!
You can say it as many times as you want. That doesn't make it true.
The only public evidence against Padilla is an unclassified declaration by Defense Department official Michael Mobbs, who alleged that Padilla traveled last year to Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan, where he allegedly met with al Qaeda's former chief of operations, Abu Zubaydah, who was captured in Pakistan earlier this year.
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Unfortunately, those two don't count. Here's a link for Padilla [chargepadilla.org]. Padilla is an enemy combatant [cnn.com] and loses certain rights. Here's an explanation [216.239.57.100] of how it applies to Padilla.
But isn't that exactly the point? By declaring him an "enemy combatant," he loses, among other things, the right to see the evidence used to make this declaration.
Even after the government backsaway from Ashcroft's statements about Padilla, and Rumsfeld admits that there are no plans to try him, a citizen sits in a military prison without a trial, without charges, and without a lawyer. Big Brother says he's a bad man, and the sheep are expected to thank them.
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What other industry is there that abuses their customers like this? I feel like I'm being accused of criminal activity from the first second I install a MS product now.
Membership-discount stores like BJs and Costco.
Of course, all that is needed to fix this is for tickets to be tied to the credit card. You buy the ticket with the card, you confirm it's your card when you get there.
Unfortunately, there is no way that I can bring my web-browser-based one-time-only credit card number to the venue when I display my tickets.
I really don't care if some company is harmed by an entity that is honestly helping those in need.
Does that mean you're OK with doctors shooting people in the street? After all, they save so many other lives.
Laws are not designed to protect the "greater good."
So long as the government stays out of the market, no group of companies can force a customer to pay more for a product than it is worth--nor can a group of companies that arbitrarily jack up their prices prevent worthy competitors from winning over their customers.
Somebody hasn't been to a gas station lately.
Who says you can't put personal projects on your cv?
--hymie!
The United States Government.
A couple of times in my life, I've participated in radio surveys. They sent me a green booklet, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2, with dates and times in (I think) 15-minute increments. I was expected to write down, for any time period, what (if any) radio station I listened to during that time -- at a minimum, either the call sign or station number, but there was room for both plus a description.
"At 8pm I watched Deal or No Deal on TV. At 9pm, I downloaded and watched The Simpsons on my computer. At 9:30pm, I watched Batman on my iPod."
Would this setup not solve the issue of watching shows on non-televisions?
--hymie!
In many US cities, it is illegal to re-fill a parking meter. That would seem to limit the appeal of this feature.
Here, read it from the horse's mouth.
http://www.usa.visa.com/business/accepting_visa/o
About three paragraphs from the bottom, it says:
Now, I'm not going to claim that ALL stores WILL do this. Just that VISA is not obligated to honor a request for payment made with a card that is not signed, and the merchant might not be willing to take the risk.
Watch Spaceballs. Look for the climax when the villain (whose name I forget) has a picture of the princess with her old nose. Then tell me the DVD appears on the TV screen exactly as it should.
The picture at http://www.widescreen.org/widescreen_matted.shtml demonstrates exactly what is wrong with my copy of Spaceballs (which is on the "defective" list). The picture is the width of the blue box and the height of the red box, with black bars at the top and bottom.
I honestly don't understand the cinematography, but calling the DVD "widescreen" was definitely misleading at a minimum.
Um...
If A XOR B = C , then A XOR C = B and B XOR C = A.
So if MYPASSWD XOR SECRET = ENCRYPTEDCODE, and I know both MYPASSWD and ENCRYPTEDCODE, then I can find SECRET.
I don't know if all of the drives have the same SECRET or not, but, having determined what SECRET is on my drive, I can give the drive to you, or I can try my SECRET on another drive and see if it works.
--hymie!
I have a book, entitled Applying RCS and SCCS , published by O'Reilly, dated 1995. I'm not sure how long I've owned it, but it's collected at least two years' of dust on my shelf.
You can say it as many times as you want. That doesn't make it true.
But isn't that exactly the point? By declaring him an "enemy combatant," he loses, among other things, the right to see the evidence used to make this declaration.
Even after the government backs away from Ashcroft's statements about Padilla, and Rumsfeld admits that there are no plans to try him, a citizen sits in a military prison without a trial, without charges, and without a lawyer. Big Brother says he's a bad man, and the sheep are expected to thank them.