The assumption is that the west didn't know anything about it. I bet the CIA has rooms full of people going over satellite images of North Korea that would make Google Maps look like something Magellan used.

I would be surprised if the west didn't know about it.

Now, that's totally different from discovering the Icelandic military (is there one?) has ICBMs. I would assume that's not a place we're actively looking to protect ourselves from.

FTFY- We all know anyone who does dev in IE isn't concerned with standards compliance.

This more reminds me of the 'new at the time' Kindergarten teacher "Hi, so your child is restless, do you mind if we tie him to a chair? Our professors say that children "

"Lady, you're telling me you can't control a 5yr old little boy? They're the definition of restless. Is he running around the room? "

"No"

"Is he beating on other kids"

"No no, he's just restless and doesn't always pay attention"

"As I said, that's what a little boy does. You have to attract his attention, not expect it. Make it interesting for him - that's your job."

I agree. So in that he has already researched the problem, shouldn't diet/exercise already have been addressed?

You're assuming that he must have a poor diet. That's just as likely as him having a poor sex life. Neither can be alluded to by details in the parent post.

Maybe he should lay off the weed.
Maybe he should take fish-oil supplements.
Maybe he should get a C-PAP machine.

Ok - I suppose - other than lack of sleep since childhood, there's really not much detail to go on and just about any suggestion is a shot in the dark.

Huh? Talk about a shot in the dark. Your post is about as on-topic as the "You just need to get more sex, Bro", post.

That said, I do agree with both, but neither really address the OPs issue.

What bank? Here is the basic process:
User (swipe)-> Merchant (dial)-> Front-End Processor (T1) -> card issuer.

At least the first 6 digits need to be unencrypted so the transaction attempt can be routed to the correct bank. Of course, with terminals accepting Amex (15 digits), and proprietary cards - it's probably not even that easy.

As it is, (though I've been out of the biz for 5 years), there are no terminals that encrypt the transaction end to end. The front-ends only accept unencrypted data (via encrypted transmission).

So medical costs have dropped $300 billion in the last 5 years? I rather doubt they've dropped at all. It seems to me if we've been increasing food stamps to help people, and food stamps have SOME SORT of correlation with medical costs, they should be SOME SORT of decease in medical costs over the last 5 years.

As a grandfather, let me assure you these private organizations aren't providing 'family planning'. They're colluding with, and encouraging, underage girls to have sex without their parents involvement and knowledge. "But it's 'family planning'" they say. Oh really, do those places meet the partners? hahahaha

I was once as naive as you. Now I'm a grandfather. At best, those places need WAY more oversight.

I had the same experience when we were 'integrated' with a new parent company. My (admittedly) VERY trimmed down PCs couldn't handle their McAfee install - but I wouldn't call them a 'security group'. I had to argue with them that 'spyware/malware' was a separate module (a new PCI requirement at the time), which fortunately saved us from installing their crap. They also declared my recently moved db server PCI Compliant because they put it in a physical cage.

I could go on and on about that place - I've never gotten a clearer message to get the hell out.

I had 5 Chase credit cards at the beginning of 2013 with about $45k in credit. After they called me regarding ~$50 in itunes charges that I didn't recognize, and I wasn't able to find any record of in my own itunes accounts (and my cards are kept in a safe when not in use), they decided to 're-evaluate' my credit and knocked me down to about $15k in retaliation - on all my credit accounts. Which, of course, knocked my credit score down 10 points.

Bastards. Stay far away from them.

I agree with both of you - but my beef is with Lavabit. People are supporting that guy left and right, when he could have simply CCd (archived) incoming/outgoing mail for the FBI Target. That target we assume to be Snowden, is a single person, who was sheltered and protected by a business owner who has now taken in at least half a million dollars in donations and kickstarter campaign funds. And his service was never as secure as he claimed in the first place.

IMHO, you cannot be a trustworthy person when you cannot follow the law of the land (recall, these are normal subpoenas, not NSL, not FISA, not NSA related in any way other than the probable target). I think he's a Digital Madoff - refusing to duplicate email (which is not encrypted), then trying to milk the government for thousands to do it.

I'm tired of hearing his 'woe is me' crap, and until the naive, delusional fools see that he's full of shit, it won't stop - so I'm repeating it as often as possible to let people know that guy is doing nothing but riding on Snowden's coattails to simply make more money for himself.

Of course they are, they're meant to protect the Card Issuers. Having implemented PCI at a credit card processor, I'm not even sure it applies to debit transactions - and it surely doesn't apply to private label cards.

If you want to be protected as a card holder, use CREDIT not DEBIT. Credit card transactions are protected by Visa/MC regulations - you as the user are not liable for ANY loss. If you use debit, you are subject to your banks regulations, which aren't not in the best interests of the cardholder. Mine would limit the bank's liability to $500, anything higher I would be on the hook for.

Just as an aside - I also worked InfoSec at Kohls - we had multiple subnets in all the stores. Kohls is not built like Target.