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by cynwoody 13y ago
It was. But in order to pull it off on the scale they did, the bad guys must have broken into Target's corporate network. Apparently, the level of access they achieved allowed them to raid the marketing database as well as to hack larg
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by cynwoody 13y ago
Merchants are required to scrub the card details as soon as the business need for them has passed. In the case of a retail store, I would think that would be as soon as the accept or decline response from the payment processor is received.
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by cynwoody 13y ago
Using Chrome, I configured nytimes.com cookies to "Clear on exit" from each browser session. Since I restart my browser at least once a day, and I only land on the New York Times as a result of links, I never hit the monthly limit
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by cynwoody 13y ago
In the US, such a card is known as a "check card". A check card is a debit card linked to a bank account but sporting a credit card logo and having an account number falling within the range allocated to the credit card brand. Cha
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by cynwoody 13y ago
In the US, the PIN-pad has no way to validate the PIN by itself. The PIN-pad is a separate, black-box peripheral of the POS terminal. The POS commands it to read a PIN, and, when the customer finishes entering the PIN, the PIN-pad replies t
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by cynwoody 13y ago
Not likely, given the large number of compromised cards. What is likely, and also not very significant, is that they intercepted encrypted PIN blocks along with unencrypted mag stripe data. Of course, if they managed to decrypt the encrypte
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by cynwoody 13y ago
Is that an AK-74? Bin Laden's favorite weapon?
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by cynwoody 13y ago
> Debit cards can be used in non-point of sale transactions (e.g. phone or internet) and point of sale non-PIN "signature" transactions where you use your debit card like a credit card. That's true of most debit cards, na
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by cynwoody 13y ago
Nothing. The difference is that, when fraudsters hit your credit card, you're not out any money, ab initio . You call the card company and make them take the fraudulent charge off your bill. If they refuse, they have to sue to get you
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by cynwoody 13y ago
> Voting isn't a lottery game, you're not trying to use your vote to predict the outcome. You use it to voice your opinion. No, it's not a lottery game. But it's nevertheless desirable to have the best possible ball
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by cynwoody 13y ago
That's a tactical mistake. You are throwing away your vote. I'm a libertarian. But I almost never vote Losertarian, because I want to influence the outcome. So, I generally hold my nose and vote Republican, the Democrat Party bein
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by cynwoody 13y ago
How can a system that costs more for less coverage and poorer access to treatment be better than what we had before? RTFA! What we had before had plenty of problems, but Obamacare is a failure from the get-go, leaving aside the $600+m web s
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by cynwoody 13y ago
Defiantly risky That's a species of risk that is admirable and patriotic! A safer plan might be to buy non-qualifying catastrophic coverage in case you get in an accident or develop a serious illness outside the open enrollment perio
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by cynwoody 13y ago
$ python -c "print '0x%x' % (2147483629*2147483647)" 0x3ffffff600000013
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by cynwoody 13y ago
Same here. I used my throw-away email to sign up at Adobe, along with my weak throw-away password. I don't have any Adobe licenses or such. The only Adobe product I use is the Flash plugin. The email account is on Hotmail and currently
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by cynwoody 13y ago
I got three hits for president@whitehouse.gov.
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by cynwoody 13y ago
A startup in Australia, Flirtey,† has partnered with a university textbook seller to deliver books via hexacopter on/near campus. They are hoping to begin operation next March. When the drone arrives, the customer presses a button on t
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by cynwoody 13y ago
And Steve Jobs. The two dominant companies in personal computing, both founded by drop-outs!
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by cynwoody 13y ago
So, what attributes does an aircraft require in order to deserve to be called a drone? Is it the degree of remoteness of control? E.g., ability to be operated reliably beyond the visual range of its operator? Or the ability to operate aut
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by cynwoody 13y ago
Based on that quote and my understanding of aeronautical engineering, I would say Mr Bill agrees with you. Even if, as you imply, he has been less than successful in achieving the goal.
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by cynwoody 13y ago
A famous computer entrepreneur had this† to say about the usefulness of the LOC metric: “Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.” † http://www.goodreads.com/quot
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by cynwoody 13y ago
Column orientation is an implementation detail. It has nothing to do with whether or not a DBMS is relational. Whether a system should be classified as relational depends on how fully it supports the standard SQL interfaces, not on how it w
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by cynwoody 13y ago
I did. The expected definition appeared. And the first two "Images for jhajariya" were frames from the ad.
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by cynwoody 13y ago
IBM keyboards of old were distinguished by their superior tactile feedback. In fact, some of the old mainframe terminals, e.g., the 3270†, were capable of physically locking the keyboard when the program was not expecting input. When the ke
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by cynwoody 13y ago
I've done a couple of these, and that's close to what I did. I started with a small "industrial" computer — Intel D525, 2g RAM, 40g SSD — costing about $300. I installed Ubuntu 12.04 Alternate with X and Fluxbox. I used
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by cynwoody 13y ago
It appears this one works the same way. As the About page explains: Search for images and only get the unsafe ones. That's Filther in a nutshell. We give you only the stuff that Safe Search Filters leave out. This search
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by cynwoody 13y ago
Actually, if you are corresponding with me, it's marginally useful if your email leaks your IP. It means I can select Show Original in Gmail and see your X-Originating-IP header. Then I can run your IP against, for example, MaxMind†
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by cynwoody 13y ago
There's an old joke about a letter addressed to Wood John Massachusetts To whom was it delivered? Turn your monitor over: 6666-0Ɩ8Ɩ0 ∀W 'ɹǝʌopu∀ ʎɹǝʌᴉlǝp lɐɹǝuǝפ pooʍɹǝpu∩ uɥoſ
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by cynwoody 13y ago
> but OS X treats it as 72dpi I just added a 960px <hr> to this web page. On my monitor, attached to a MBP running OS 10.6, it measures about 9.5 inches (by holding up a ruler to the screen). That would indicate OS X treats my scr
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by cynwoody 13y ago
That's not how it works. In the real world, some of the 10% would be slackers, and some of the 90% would think up ways to enable the slackers in return for some of their income. They, in turn, would need to employ more of the 90% to sa

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