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Comment Re:Bad summary (Score 1) 412

I suspect it's also got a lot to do with retailers getting SFA margin on any apple product. Have you ever asked why the actual sell price on any apple product in AU is really close to the apple store price? Accessories are the only way a retailer can make anything selling apple gear. Maybe this is what the ACCC should be looking into...
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Submission + - Visa offers "virtual" credit cards - no pl (apcmag.com)

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BaconFloss
BaconFloss writes: "Credit giant Visa has unveiled a new super-secure credit card for online shopping: it's merely a card number and expiry date on a piece of paper which expires once you've used up the prepaid amount. There's no plastic involved. It works much like a mobile phone prepaid recharge voucher, except that the virtual card number is printed out on the docket. Clearly it's relatively secure compared to a rolling credit account, but is it also a tacit admission that the card companies have failed to actually make credit cards adequately secure in the high fraud environment we live in today?"
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Submission + - How To: Arm a nuclear bomb with a Bic pen (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by rubydooby
rubydooby writes: Well, until 1998. According to the BBC, Britain's WE 177 nuclear bomb's final layer of protection was a familiar-looking cylindrical key. That's right, it's the same type as the key to the recently-replaced Kryptonite bicycle lock- brought to fame by demonstrations of it's compatibility with Bic pen barrels. Other security features? How about "a series of dials which you can turn with an Allen key to select high yield or low yield, air burst or groundburst and other parameters". Everyone knows how hard it is to find the right size allen wrench... All this is in contradistinction to the U.S.'s "PAL protection", or "Permissive Action Links", which required the Chiefs of Staff to phone in the correct combination. Of course, the U.K. government responds that "officers of the Royal Navy as the Senior Service could be trusted", (BBC) and that The Bombs are "designed such that the warhead must have experienced missile launch and ballistic deployment before it can detonate". Now I feel safe.

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