One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn't belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?

Sadly a lot are doing this now. Even if you swipe, they will ask for the card, and then punch in the last 4.

  I stopped giving them the card and asked them what they needed, and they would still ask for the last 4. I got concerned when my wife's card was used within 40 mins of us buying something at a Best Buy at _another_ Best But location across town. We think the cashier called someone and gave them the digits. They had her security code as well. My wife had handed her card to the cashier at the cashiers request.

Pretty good memory for the cashier to remember the digits, expiration, and security code. That or it's a local security guy with access to the video cameras over the cashier. Or she had her phone sitting some where nearby and would wave the card over the camera for someone else to read.

Sadly, it's not really my problem. American Express needs to figure out how to handle these merchants and their employees. It's what I pay AMX for.

I routinely get service reps reading my last 4 digits of cards they have on file. This happen on Delta all the time. I have about 6 credit cards on file, and sometimes I need them to make sure specific tickets are on specific cards. I often have a conversation like "That's the one ending in 1011 right? No sir. Is it the 1099? No sir. Really? Which is it? It's the 1014 sir. Oh yeah, that one. ok."

Last 4 are not a secret. Best buy and lots of box retailers now actually ask you for it when you check out. You have to broadcast it in the air in front of everyone in line.

The issue here is GoDaddy. If GoDaddy doesn't have a 2 factor auth system option you should not be using them for DNS hosting.

An Go-Pro Hero 2 weighs about 1/4th of the total weight of one of these mini gyros. There's no way that's going to fly on these. They don't have that kind of lift.

... I don't see this covered in any of the mainstream media reports, but the 'drone' involved was a pink 'barbie' knockoff with no video capability. It's a $25 dollar think-geek type mini gyro. I'm amazed it made it to the 2nd floor window of a home outside. No wonder it crashed, those things have the stability of a paper airplane thrown into a fan.

Example of it:
http://www.amazon.com/33013-Concept-Alloy-Helicopter-Light/dp/B009VCHVJQ/ref=sr_1_3?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1389974986&sr=1-3&keywords=pink+gyro

"Obviously the pilot of the drone had some surprise..."

Obviously the pilot couldn't see you because there's no cameras on it, so I doubt she was surprised you looked out the window....

...because the drone wheeled around and crashed ..."

They do that a lot.

The irony here is Feinstein over dramatization of this event given what she authorizes on the SIC. Using this incident to call for stricter drone laws is like being hit by a paper airplane and calling for the FAA to investigate.

I think the person who wrote that article recently return from hospital, after an accident on holiday.

Love my mocha's. Can't tell you how many times I got to a 'local' coffee house and get a crap mocha. Some like to put store bought chocolate syrup in it, others like to add a mocha powder without first turning it into a wet paste. I've had Swiss Miss packets added to a late and told this was their 'Cafe Mocha'.

All in all, I can count on one hand the number of good cafe mocha's I've had at 'local' coffee houses.

On the other hand, every Starbucks I got into, anywhere in the world, seems to have the same Cafe Mocha. It's as if they had a recipe and the barista's were trained to make it. I like being in a town for the first time in my life, finding a Starbucks and feeling a little bit like being at home.

In the end, I reward any store on it's quality, I don't stereotype a store based on it's number of locations or perceived local community value. Would you patron a crap restaurant just because it's "local"?

Grandparent was informative, but parent is correct. .357 has about 25-30% more velocity than a comparable grain 9mm ( 125g vs 124g).

The other difference is .357 rounds don't need to feed smoothly into a chamber via a semi-auto mechanism ( I know that there _are_ .357 semi-autos but they are rarely seen outside of a gun show). Sitting in a barrel allows their bullet geometry to be pretty much anything and not jam. The physical design of the bullet can obviously play a large part in the characteristics of the wound.

If I had to be shot by either a 9mm or a .357, I'd take the 9mm, and hope for a clean exit.

I recall a few years ago participating with a lot of others in a crowd source effort to categorize fuzzy pictures of possible galaxies. I think it was galaxy zoo.

So is this the result of our effort? Would be nice to know...

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.