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Comment Re:Who leaves money in a paypal account. (Score 2) 443

It's also important to sweep the account you are sweeping into... usually, the wire transfer capability works both ways. So they can, without additional authorization, suck funds back out of your bank account. (if anyone happens to know a bank that will let you prevent this sort of outgoing transaction, I am all ears)

I think most banks will provide an account like that. I found out at work that we have an incoming only account (outgoing only to another account of ours) where our customers pay us when someone started trying to cash fraudulent checks on it. Since it doesn't allow it, we didn't lose anything. We use Bank of America.

Comment Re:The reason it is still used is simple. (Score 1) 276

COBOL is one of the few languages that is completely standardized. IO, formatting, everything works the same EVERYWHERE.

Hahahahaha!!!! No way. I work in a COBOL conversion shop (simple explanation, anyways) and I've worked with COBOL on several types of machines, and not even all the A series machines act the same with the same code. You would not believe the crazy, undocumented crap that programmers use to make their programs work.

Sure, the basic "COBOL" language is mostly standardized (once you pick your variant) but real life implementations are not coded that way and everyone manages to find the little things that make their stack unique.

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