So many places have an electronic pad that you sign with a stylus. That low res image less than 72 dpi is the defense against fraud? I have signed in Tamil many times and no one seemed to be bothered.
No, the signature was needed because that allows the credit card company to charge 2% commission from the merchant. The alternative to signature was to use a pin pad. If you use pin at the point of sale, the money comes directly from your checking account, there is no "risk" and it is no longer an unsecured credit given by the credit card company to the merchant. Point of sale terminals, pin and the ATM networks charge only a maximum of 25 cents per transaction.
It was a great marketing coup by Mastercard and Visa to create the "debit" cards, make it work in their network, and muddle the lines and demand 2% commission from the merchants. The consumers never cared about the difference. Eventually all the merchants complied and since all of them do it they were able to pass on the cost to us. So we pay 2% more on every purchase.
Unless a big player like Google or Apple come up with in independent payment network, competing with MC and Visa there is no relief for us. They all come up with ideas and fight with each other instead of Visa/MC. There is a demand for a payment method with low transaction charges for people who dont carry a balance, who have protection of 50$ limit on liability. Till something gains traction, there is nothing to challenge the duopoly.
To a goblin, the rightful and true master of any object is the maker, not the purchaser. All goblin-made objects are, in goblin eyes, rightfully theirs
"But if it was bought —
then they would consider it rented by the one who had paid the money. They have, however, great difficulty with the idea of goblin-made objects passing from wizard to wizard. You saw Griphook's face when the tiara passed under his eyes. He disapproves. I believe he thinks, as do the fiercest of his kind, that it ought to have been returned to the goblins once the original purchaser died. They consider our habit of keeping goblin-made objects, passing them from wizard to wizard without further payment, little more than theft.
Caliph Omar secured his place in history by ordering the Library of Alexandria to be burned, "It is says what's in Q`ran it is unnecessary. Burn it. If it does not say what's in Q`ran it is heresy. Burn it." The books and scrolls supplied hot water to the public baths for six months.
So is it possible Google is shooting to secure a place in history?
You will go inside ti build a habitat and suddenly villi of exogorth droops down and tries to digest you.
Unless you have a space ship that can fly faster than the neural transmission speed of an exogorth, dont even try this.
I would not put it past Indian or Chinese companies. But I have greater regard for Japanese and American companies. Used to trust Germans too, till Volkswagan diesel emissions.
I saw a documentary that showed fires, fire engines, crab shacks, highways and even cars, all under water, all operating seemingly normally. They kept interviewing this citizen named Mr Robert Pants, also known as Spongebob.
You dont need physical access. Just within wifi range. But still it is the router that sends back a predictable packet and allows the hacker to guess the decryption key. How can the client machine stop the router from retransmitting the key?
May be it can start a fresh handshake everytime anyone reports lost packet and requests a retransmission. Assume all retransmission requests are hostile intrusion. Not sure I get it fully even now.
Not remotely exploitable. So it is not going to infect like the heartbleed or shellshock
Need to build a device with the special software and come within range of a router to sniff the keys. Then can eaves drop on communication between router and client.
It will take a day at least to build it and then one has to come physically close.
Vulnerable places will be coffee shops, malls, airports etc. Stores that use wi-fi between cash registers and router would be the primary target. BTW Target had security cameras and cash registers talking to the same router using same passwords. If I remember it correctly.
Cord cutting is not the reason, it is merely the symptom.
The cable companies are regulated utilities, granted monopoly in the areas they operation. They pushed through rate increase after rate increase, bundled useless channels, had abysmal customer service and all the arrogant entitlement attitude that comes with being a monopoly.
All their infrastructure has already been paid for thanks to friendly regulators and relentless rate increases. They could have dropped their prices and made it impossible for the wireless companies to compete. They could have improved customer service. But no. They believed they are entitled to cash delivered to their coffers in fire hoses. They believed they had the customers by their balls and wanted to how hard the customers will scream and how hard they can squeeze.
They can still fight back. Their infrastructure has been paid for, and it has much larger bandwidths than cell towers. They can compete if they wanted to compete.
The first step in any scientific thesis is the literature survey, as every PhD student knows. Not paying attention work already done will lead to reinventing the wheel and secondary papers confirming the path breaking original paper. Your paper will be counted as a mere citation and the paper will end up as the leaf node in the citation tree. So pay attention it first.
I remember a neurosurgeon who had a similar experience, of all places, in a London underground train station.
From what I recall, he was intensely thinking about a particular surgical technique, and trying to exactly remember and reconstruct different parts of the brain. At some point he suddenly felt himself "expand" and fill the entire station and all people and everything in it and found himself at some extrodinary level of peacefulness and calmness. It vanished pretty quickly.
His theory was that the brain has a very intense sens of the extent of the body. You are able to walk around in darkness, blind people know where most of their limbs are, etc etc. At some level of concentration or drug inducement or apoxia or something one could lose that center of the brain. He thinks if that center shuts down, it takes with it the anxiety centers and fear centers too. That is what, he thinks, the Yogis call "being one with the universe", The words and phrases they use, "rest the brain", "make it think about nothing", "hold no thought" makes him think it is related to shutting down these centers of perception.
Does the dongle let you charge the phone while using the headphones? some kind of pass through T connection?
I just saw my nephew addicted to watching video on 5 inch iphone. The phone runs down to 5% charge. Now he can't use both head phones and the charger at the same time. Charges for a few minutes, gets very edgy and nervous, connects his headphones for a few minutes, keeps switching between charger and the headphones.
In some sense it is a welcome thing, forces him to break staring at that little screen for hours on end. Even with this forced break, he is going to end up with severe myopia, -15 diopters before he turns 15.
Coming back to Google Dongle, does this have this severe myopia prevention feature by not allowing charging and listening at the same time?
Just remove the distinction between capital gain, gift, earned income, carried interest, interest and dividends. Poor wage slaves have no way to change the name of their income. Rich people funnel their income through various shell entities and they can magically change the name of the dollars they are getting. They pay low rate, you pay high income rates.
Why should the income earned through blood and sweat of millions of Americans be taxed at high rates, while money making money be taxed at low rates?
In every change, some people will lose and some will gain.
The people who are going to lose, will know they are going to lose and fight very hard. People who will gain, don't know whether they will gain, at what time or by hoe much. So they discount the future and do not support the changes that might benefit them.
In this specific example the fossil fuel industry is well entrenched and they know how to fight and they fight hard.
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In what way smart watches for adults less of a nightmare?
Anyone reading that quote would know instantly it was JKR.
No, the signature was needed because that allows the credit card company to charge 2% commission from the merchant. The alternative to signature was to use a pin pad. If you use pin at the point of sale, the money comes directly from your checking account, there is no "risk" and it is no longer an unsecured credit given by the credit card company to the merchant. Point of sale terminals, pin and the ATM networks charge only a maximum of 25 cents per transaction.
It was a great marketing coup by Mastercard and Visa to create the "debit" cards, make it work in their network, and muddle the lines and demand 2% commission from the merchants. The consumers never cared about the difference. Eventually all the merchants complied and since all of them do it they were able to pass on the cost to us. So we pay 2% more on every purchase.
Unless a big player like Google or Apple come up with in independent payment network, competing with MC and Visa there is no relief for us. They all come up with ideas and fight with each other instead of Visa/MC. There is a demand for a payment method with low transaction charges for people who dont carry a balance, who have protection of 50$ limit on liability. Till something gains traction, there is nothing to challenge the duopoly.
To a goblin, the rightful and true master of any object is the maker, not the purchaser. All goblin-made objects are, in goblin eyes, rightfully theirs
"But if it was bought —
then they would consider it rented by the one who had paid the money. They have, however, great difficulty with the idea of goblin-made objects passing from wizard to wizard. You saw Griphook's face when the tiara passed under his eyes. He disapproves. I believe he thinks, as do the fiercest of his kind, that it ought to have been returned to the goblins once the original purchaser died. They consider our habit of keeping goblin-made objects, passing them from wizard to wizard without further payment, little more than theft.
So is it possible Google is shooting to secure a place in history?
You will go inside ti build a habitat and suddenly villi of exogorth droops down and tries to digest you. Unless you have a space ship that can fly faster than the neural transmission speed of an exogorth, dont even try this.
I would not put it past Indian or Chinese companies. But I have greater regard for Japanese and American companies. Used to trust Germans too, till Volkswagan diesel emissions.
But if I play in a game and my rivals can buy their way into superior position, I would stop playing.
Once all the rubes leave, where are they going to find unlevel playing field to help these paying dudes?
I saw a documentary that showed fires, fire engines, crab shacks, highways and even cars, all under water, all operating seemingly normally. They kept interviewing this citizen named Mr Robert Pants, also known as Spongebob.
Darwin is an unmerciful god of cleaning out the gene pool. Let us not question His Wisdom nor His Methods.
Who it shared this knowledge with so far?
Why go public now?
May be it can start a fresh handshake everytime anyone reports lost packet and requests a retransmission. Assume all retransmission requests are hostile intrusion. Not sure I get it fully even now.
That is for evil. Not for this don't be evil. I am so confused.
From what I understand, the attack is on the router, forcing it to re use known keys for encryption. How do the client devices fix this issue?
Need to build a device with the special software and come within range of a router to sniff the keys. Then can eaves drop on communication between router and client.
It will take a day at least to build it and then one has to come physically close.
Vulnerable places will be coffee shops, malls, airports etc. Stores that use wi-fi between cash registers and router would be the primary target. BTW Target had security cameras and cash registers talking to the same router using same passwords. If I remember it correctly.
The cable companies are regulated utilities, granted monopoly in the areas they operation. They pushed through rate increase after rate increase, bundled useless channels, had abysmal customer service and all the arrogant entitlement attitude that comes with being a monopoly.
All their infrastructure has already been paid for thanks to friendly regulators and relentless rate increases. They could have dropped their prices and made it impossible for the wireless companies to compete. They could have improved customer service. But no. They believed they are entitled to cash delivered to their coffers in fire hoses. They believed they had the customers by their balls and wanted to how hard the customers will scream and how hard they can squeeze.
They can still fight back. Their infrastructure has been paid for, and it has much larger bandwidths than cell towers. They can compete if they wanted to compete.
But they don't want to compete. Looks like.
...why train them to pick cigarette butts? Why can't you train them to poop on the smokers?
The first step in any scientific thesis is the literature survey, as every PhD student knows. Not paying attention work already done will lead to reinventing the wheel and secondary papers confirming the path breaking original paper. Your paper will be counted as a mere citation and the paper will end up as the leaf node in the citation tree. So pay attention it first.
I guess that they better get this one out on the market before the come out with their next battery based on cesium, holmium and platinum ;)
No,. the next battery is going to use unobtainium.
From what I recall, he was intensely thinking about a particular surgical technique, and trying to exactly remember and reconstruct different parts of the brain. At some point he suddenly felt himself "expand" and fill the entire station and all people and everything in it and found himself at some extrodinary level of peacefulness and calmness. It vanished pretty quickly.
His theory was that the brain has a very intense sens of the extent of the body. You are able to walk around in darkness, blind people know where most of their limbs are, etc etc. At some level of concentration or drug inducement or apoxia or something one could lose that center of the brain. He thinks if that center shuts down, it takes with it the anxiety centers and fear centers too. That is what, he thinks, the Yogis call "being one with the universe", The words and phrases they use, "rest the brain", "make it think about nothing", "hold no thought" makes him think it is related to shutting down these centers of perception.
I just saw my nephew addicted to watching video on 5 inch iphone. The phone runs down to 5% charge. Now he can't use both head phones and the charger at the same time. Charges for a few minutes, gets very edgy and nervous, connects his headphones for a few minutes, keeps switching between charger and the headphones.
In some sense it is a welcome thing, forces him to break staring at that little screen for hours on end. Even with this forced break, he is going to end up with severe myopia, -15 diopters before he turns 15.
Coming back to Google Dongle, does this have this severe myopia prevention feature by not allowing charging and listening at the same time?
Gee, none of us here knew that. Thanks a lot Sherlock, for that amazing piece of information!
Why should the income earned through blood and sweat of millions of Americans be taxed at high rates, while money making money be taxed at low rates?
The rail road should consider itself lucky it got off with just this much damage. It could have been a lot worse.
The people who are going to lose, will know they are going to lose and fight very hard. People who will gain, don't know whether they will gain, at what time or by hoe much. So they discount the future and do not support the changes that might benefit them.
In this specific example the fossil fuel industry is well entrenched and they know how to fight and they fight hard.