Apart for 2b and 8 ( which are debatable at best), the rest seem to be normal business activites which any other for-profit organisation would undertake.
I sincerely hope you were trying to be funny with that post. All visa chipcards cards conform to the EMV standard, and the plain magnetic stripe ones are just that. Hence, the branding or loyalty schemes built into it have aboslutely nothing to do with the (lack of) security of the card.
Power consumption IMHO is not a problem peculiar to laptops. And im sure a lot of machines exist out there running kernels 2.6.2 that wont be able to use this utility. Considering that slackware isnt primarily targetted at servers or business machines, i would say the fact that it ships with the 2.4 kernel as default means quite a numbe rof hobbyists, students and home users still run 2.4.
"We are proud to announce that Slackware Linux version 11.0 has been finally released; it took some time but is well worth the wait. You can read the official announcement at this link.
Slackware 11.0 contains the 2.4.33.3 Linux kernel, 2.6.17.13 in/extra and 2.6.18 in the/testing directory; the default boot option is the dependable 2.4.33.3 kernel, but this time we included more choices and support for 2.6.x kernels..."
http://www.slackware.com/
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Hide!! Hide!!! Dont let the political correctness police get you. Nowadays, they call it Developing!!!!
Apart for 2b and 8 ( which are debatable at best), the rest seem to be normal business activites which any other for-profit organisation would undertake.
Nice try!! I'm sure you'd also love the rich people wherever you live to have more voting power than you.
I sincerely hope you were trying to be funny with that post. All visa chipcards cards conform to the EMV standard, and the plain magnetic stripe ones are just that. Hence, the branding or loyalty schemes built into it have aboslutely nothing to do with the (lack of) security of the card.
Foreplay!!!
Google Desktop searches you!!!!
before i get screamed the hell out of, i meant machines less than 2.6.2
Power consumption IMHO is not a problem peculiar to laptops. And im sure a lot of machines exist out there running kernels 2.6.2 that wont be able to use this utility. Considering that slackware isnt primarily targetted at servers or business machines, i would say the fact that it ships with the 2.4 kernel as default means quite a numbe rof hobbyists, students and home users still run 2.4.
"We are proud to announce that Slackware Linux version 11.0 has been finally released; it took some time but is well worth the wait. You can read the official announcement at this link. Slackware 11.0 contains the 2.4.33.3 Linux kernel, 2.6.17.13 in /extra and 2.6.18 in the /testing directory; the default boot option is the dependable 2.4.33.3 kernel, but this time we included more choices and support for 2.6.x kernels..."
http://www.slackware.com/
Too bad this doesnt do anything for older kernels. Most people i know still run 2.4.x and Slackware still ships with 2.4 as default.