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by bjowen 5y ago
eftpos has been quiet while doing quite a lot of innovation (eg - [0]). ATMs and any CHQ/SAV transaction still run on their rails, and there’s a lot of iceberg below what you see in terms of branding at point of sale and plastic cards.
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by bjowen 5y ago
Even with 3DS challenges, people are persuaded out of their one-time passcodes by phishing, using an increasingly elaborate series of text-message and voice-call based deceptions. I hate the term, but search for “smishing” and there’s a bun
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by bjowen 5y ago
Sure, but you often hear it being talked about in terms of a victimhood hierarchy or “oppression Olympics” which is a mischaracterisation that is used to stake out a position against listening to people who are being marginalised. In my exp
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by bjowen 5y ago
The dispute rate is certainly true for companies under the general umbrella of “subscription services”, usually meaning porn / webcam sites, and there are trigger points where the payment processor will switch off a facility that excee
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by bjowen 5y ago
Eh? No, it’s part of the EMV standard and uses the same triple-DES crypto. There have been contactless implementations with poor security, including some truly weird contactless-mag stripe devices, but they are not the current standard or w
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by bjowen 5y ago
Visa and MC put Australia in the Asia-Pacific region, and the regional rules and fees have been gradually changed (2004ish onwards) to favour chip payments. There still had to be an extravagant amount of re-work for ATMs and compromises to
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by bjowen 5y ago
Anti-fraud measures for inherently insecure mag stripe are really tilted in favour of the big operators who can afford a well-skilled fraud shop or a provider who’ll happily charge millions per year in licence fees. The difference in fraud-
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by bjowen 5y ago
That’s a great answer. My observation (watching from a card issuer across the pond) has been that it’s also integrated checkout/POS infrastructure at a number of large retailers - supermarkets, department stores, pharmacies as well as
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by bjowen 5y ago
You forgot Irish disease, French disease, German disease, Italian disease [0]. Why do you think the toponym of the point of discovery of a virus or strain is relevant? At this point, it has been circulating on multiple continents for 18 mon
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by bjowen 5y ago
Or perhaps the history as it is told by refugees from Ingsoc. We don’t get any information about what lies beyond the border, but I always imagined that the Handmaid universe was somehow continuous with this one and that there might plausib
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by bjowen 5y ago
Not at all. And this happened during testing for the battery’s commissioning, so there should be a lot of eyeballs on the monitoring.
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by bjowen 5y ago
They’re located in high voltage switchyards, because they basically have to be - and the nearest bushland is separated by a comfortable 20km of pasture. You can read up on Powercor and Augrid’s bushfire mitigation work if you’re having trou
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by bjowen 5y ago
.. assuming that the laptop batteries tested in the paper are a suitable comparison. Tesla’s cells are at least similar LFP chemistry these days, and the documentation [0] lists the same gases in the case of a fire. But this is not an enclo
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by bjowen 5y ago
There’s almost no population within a kilometre of the site - it’s on the absolute rural edge of a city the size of Reno or Aachen, in a switchyard on the main power transmission lines. There’s maybe a handful of people and a kangaroo that’
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by bjowen 5y ago
I find the advertising to content ratio is a decent clue as well.
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by bjowen 5y ago
Indicts != convicts, fwiw.
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by bjowen 5y ago
This is also why the canonical answer of turning it off and on again is a meme.
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by bjowen 5y ago
I cannot thank you enough
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by bjowen 5y ago
This is so hard to explain in text, given the variation of English accents and that aspiration is not meaningful in English. For my regional speech, the strongest difference would be something like the difference between the /k/ s
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by bjowen 5y ago
It’s not really a critique of someone gawping at a big number to then go and gawp at a bigger one. These two numbers are only related in that they express volumes of water. The context for the comment was that lawns consume water on a scal
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by bjowen 5y ago
-tachi could stand in for an English-style suffixed plural, but emojitachi sounds super weird.
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by bjowen 5y ago
I can’t help but think about how little time the average cellular device spends pressed up against an ear in significant range of brain tissue vs in a pocket, and what might be the comparative risk between Tx energy while in a voice call vs
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by bjowen 5y ago
[edit] This is relevant context, which goes to the author of the book’s reliability as a source of information. The mobbing of someone who (implicitly) endorses the political posture of the author is of course a cause for concern, but you’d
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by bjowen 5y ago
The author is a bit of a serial provocateur, and is one of the exacerbating forces of the twitter discourse - which you might also be able to distil from the book’s title. He has dined out on making a boogeyman out of student protests, BLM
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You had one job: Akamai's Prolexic DDoS protection system denies service(theregister.com)
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CDN outage brings down bank and airline systems(france24.com)
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by bjowen 5y ago
They make a worthwhile distinction for ICT devices, which definitely have all those characteristics for miniaturisation. But that’s not the end of the right-to-repair story - glib example, but plenty of toasters end up in landfill, and ther
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by bjowen 6y ago
Depending where you are, these may well already be growing wild or as weeds, they’re distributed pretty widely especially where euro crops are grown. Look out for nettle as well, it’s not bad at all.
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by bjowen 6y ago
Also the serial poisoning of birds of prey - prosecutions in Tubbut and Violet Town and reports of it being more widespread.
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by bjowen 6y ago
Hang on, what? This seems like a non-sequitur, how does Oz’s (terrible) treatment of asylum seekers by irregular maritime arrival (not illegal immigrants) relate to the point you’re making? Australia is not indefinitely imprisoning arrivals

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