Imbecile. Check your arrogance and you will realize this is far from the first time you've been wrong, and that you could have been learning things all the while.

I may well have been wrong. I was under the impression the bank supplies the equipment (i.e. the card readers and pinpads) and therefore at least the core software to process those cards and authenticate them.

Really? Who do you think makes those Chase terminals? The Stores?

I admit I did not read your links, because I have seen this same nonsense theory pop up on /. numerous times before, and have read those links in the past.

The link and explanation RE the Common Council is interesting, thank you. Still, I only see evidence that this allows the corporations to have more influence over the City of London Police, it still is not the same thing as governing them.

When people make that claim, they make it seem like rest of laws in the country have no influence on the CoL police, and that simply isn't true. They are still accountable to higher powers and laws.

Do you have any information on arrestable offenses or crimes in The City of London that could not be made by the Metropolitan Police Force?

Any practical evidence of the corporations influence on the City of London police force benefiting corporations over people?

I think it's a terrible thing that corporations have this much influence on any police force, but I don't think it's fair to say they govern the police force. They are different things.

Sounds like you don't understand the difference between the executive branch and legislative branch.

Of course, cites might help.

A firewall will not stop most attacks. A firewall has to allow traffic to the services that are permitted (duh), and so that open channel, attacking and exploiting the service is what will allow the attack.

A firewall could not stop that by design.

If an internet facing server is secure correctly, there is no need for a firewall in front of it.

There is however a need for a firewall between the DMZ (which is where this server should be) and the internal network, to prevent access to the internal network in the event the server in the DMZ is compromised.

Well, yeah. Why should they?

Spying is what countries do on each other, even friendly countries.

I'd like to see a stop to agreements like the five eyes bullshit, and I don't think the NSA needs to archive every single goddamn email and telephone call....but intercepting communications of people from other countries if there is due cause?

No issue what so ever.

And, if you as a private citizen have an issue, you can double up on security because you should assume people are trying to listen regardless. Hell, maybe even your own government is doing the listening.

No, they are governed by the law. Corporations have more sway in elections, that isn't the same as governing the police force.

The only ignorant people here are those trying to insist there opinion, having been through Apple's RDF, is somehow objectively correct.

That means little. Corporations are often set up for bookkeeping or other reasons. It's disingenuous to use that as evidence that the City of London police force is corrupt and run by "corporations".

No, you're generally proved incorrect and are just too arrogant to realize it.

Your post history is available at http://slashdot.org/~Zero__Kelvin, FYI.

And yes, that is post history, and no, it isn't limited to your last 25 posts.

Here you can see your posts 10 pages in : http://slashdot.org/users2.pl?page=10&uid=151819&view=userhomepage&fhfilter=%22home%3AZero__Kelvin%22

And that argument with Xest? Idiot armchair lawyer didn't understand the law as much as he thought he did. I showed him to be wrong, but he just couldn't listen.

Ahh, I love arrogant IT people who can't admit when they're wrong. It's just so amusing.

The bank supplies Apple's POS software, so the bank is on the hook.

Pretty simple really.

They are a police force specific to a small area, that doesn't mean they are governed by corporations.

This nonsense again. No conspiracy theory here, and the police force is not run by corporations.

People only need to look at your post history to see more often than not you don't know what your talking about, and you're certainly not in any position to admonish others.

If Linus does have a point, he can make it professionally instead of ranting like a scorned child. If he isn't capable that, than he isn't qualified to lead.