Comment I don't buy any game that's "On-line only" (Score 1) 198
And I can't see why anyone else would.
If you want, you can probably buy some tractors and water filters right now and have them shipped to poor villages.
The length at which I'd like to point out the intricacies of growing food and filtering water in areas of the world that are heavily populated and dry, far exceed my want to type, and I'm sure your want to read. Let's just say that sending over a tractor and a filter would be as close to solving the problem that they're having as sending over a scalpel and air-mask to your house, when you need heart surgery.
The techniques needed to make fertilizer or purify water by boiling are well known.
Are they? If they're so well-known, let's hear your take on it. How do you make fertilizer? How do you 'boil' 50,000 gallons of water? Because if you ever need food or water (God forbid) to the point that these people need it, then that's going to be your main objective of the day, not regex.
And let me remind you that if we cannot pull together as a people, then what we see in the areas where dictators rule food/water supply, we'll see here one day as well. $85 BILLION are printed each month. One day, someone is going to have to pay that back. It may not be you or I, and it may not be our kids, but one day the whole idea of simply going to the store and buying whatever you need is either going to be to expensive, or not an option. Humanity will need people like you (and whatever you teach your kids) to solve problems that we'll face.
...tinkering around with regex to do neat things, while clever, doesn't mean that that cleverness will transfer to other tasks.
Exactly. That's why it's important to train your way of thinking to be in line with the rest of the natural world, and not some way to do some man-made confined way of thinking. This is exactly why I think it's a waste of great human potential.
and this time, they've been working on PR before asking for money
Obviously, if this story's on Slashdot.
People, for centuries, spent hours a day looking down at their desks before these new-fangled computer monitors let us look levelly.
Seems like a good point. Think of board-drafting.
If you are affected, you can opt for polyurethane condoms, which protect against pregnancy just as well. Polyurethane is thin and strong and effectively conducts body heat and, according to some reports, is more compatible with sexual pleasure than latex.
I've never heard of polyurethane condoms either. Hell if I didn't find them at Walgreens! ( http://www.walgreens.com/store/c/trojan-supra-lubricated-premium-polyurethane-condoms/ID=prod2303823-product )
"Smaller breaches on at least three other well-known U.S. retailers took place and were conducted using similar techniques as the one on Target," Reuters reported, citing sources familiar with the attacks. "Those breaches have yet to come to light...
What the hell, why not? I had to cancel one of my family debit cards because of Target, do I now have to cancel my other one from an unnamed store?
After gaining access to a merchant’s network, attackers can install memory-parsing malware on register systems or backend processing servers to extract magnetic-stripe data as it moves through the through the payment process.
How are they gaining access to Target's network? Maybe it's from the ever-famous wireless network that's in all Target stores, and is prone to attacks, based purely on it's password policy (changes automatically once a month - or doesn't at all - I hear)
“The malware is configured to hook into a payment application binary responsible for processing payment transactions and extracts the systems memory for full track data,” Visa explained in a security advisory.
Again, how did they not only get into the system, but how'd they know the executable binary that was running? I mean, this isn't something that was done in one day, it had to be a collective goal for more than one person.
Visa first warned about these types of attacks targeting grocery merchants, but said merchant segment is vulnerable. According to Visa, these types memory parser malware attacks have been found only targeting Windows-based operating systems.
This one is my favorite. Why any retailer is running Windows on a POS PC is beyond anyone that knows how computers work. It should be illegal.
In March 2013, new malware was found targeting point-of-sale (POS) systems and ATMs and was behind the theft of payment card information from several US banks. Called "Dump Memory Grabber", the malware scans the memory of point-of-sale systems and ATMs looking for credit card data.
And how the shit does one gain access to an ATM's RAM?
All in all, I feel that this must have been an inside job of some kind. Not just a Target employee, but a Target employee(s) and someone who has access to ATMs inner-workings.
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