Comment Re:Let me be the first to say (Score 1) 107
fuck the children.
Pedophile.
fuck the children.
Pedophile.
If they didn't keep your transaction open, they wouldn't be able to charge you for damage or incidentals. It's why hotels require credit cards for bookings in the first place. Usually they haven't seen your room when you check out.
First thing my parents heard from the idiots "Your VISA card is not working
Well of course - because why would they accept a card that doesn't at least pre-authorize for the expected amount? That's not the same as a charge. You were attempting fraud, and you failed.
Checks (cheques, this being a British hotel) do still exist
That sounds great. I could raid the minibar and trash the place. Not having a credit card on file is a wonderful thing.
take a lawyer with you every time you bought groceries.
But that would make a great Bit of Fry and Laurie sketch.
or perhaps even just because the card wasn't present at the transaction
Standard practice in hotels to keep a card on file to charge damages/incidentals. And when you check out in the morning, nobody's seen your room yet.
For a certain level of technical competence, I suppose that makes sense. But there's a big RAM hit to have a CPanel instance for each customer, so the beginners would save a lot of resources to be on the same server instance.
The amount of identity verification required is very small. StartSSL is fully compliant and included in browsers by default, but it's very simple and takes only a few minutes online.
Bob DeHacker isn't going to be able to get an accepted cert for a MITM attack for a major company. Really, these days, the only thing that lights up the address bar green is EV-SSL. Your standard HTTPS site just puts in a tiny padlock in the address bar. And nobody's going to buy a certificate for a MITM attack on a site that's not big enough to be buying an EV-SSL certificate.
A static IP for your shared host is usually cheaper than SSL. However, they're not going to let you use your free SSL and will charge you for their own SSL anyway, because they have the control.
And how is that worse than using HTTP?
Then explain why every apartment complex will refuse cash and tell you to go get a money order to pay your rent?
Cash is not the only way to pay in U.S. Dollars.
There are human-level brain simulations being worked on, but I haven't been following them closely. I don't think they're implementing everything. Actually, I know they aren't because we keep discovering new things. Are they working off and standard model of the human brain or a specific person's brain?
Oh, you know. It'll be just like the Nintendo 64 emulators. You start with an HLE instruction set and work your way to cycle accurate. Before you know it, we'll be playing commercial humans.
You'll have to call Kevin Bacon. That's what happens.
Please, don't shoot your daughter out of a cannon.
Naked Wii party?
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