I've never seen the bank to supply either POS software (thing that works at touchscreen-enabled device) or card payment terminal - the latter is usually supplied by a processing center company which works with many banks.

However, if that was the customer's (Apple) wish to only process the override numbers at the end of the day, then perhaps Apple is the victim, not the processing company or the bank. In fact, I don't see the "bank" in this scheme at all. It's either Apple or the processing company, which might or might not belong to the bank.

What Sharron and Temeshia (oh, these anglo-saxon names...) did to Apple and Victoria Secrets was one of many possible exploits to imperfect system of card transaction. When you are entering your PIN code using corded pin pad, the data is encrypted in transit (where "transit" is that short cable) using DES algorithm. The system consists of two parts - business rules and technology. However, it only protects itself against technology attacks.

The algorithms of higher level, the workflows of the whole process, are made to comfort the customer. Until that final moment of ultimate discomfort, which is regarded as "nonsense fantasy" during the development process. So you don't have to beat the technology if you know the business rules.

Indeed. Russia began in Europe and then expanded to Asia. So now it borders with both Germany and Japan. Actually, even with USA. I recall there is about 2km between Russia and USA.

Russia is 38% of Europe. No other country in Europe takes as big part of it.

Even though 75% of Russia's territory lies within Asia, the Asian part of Russia accommodates only 22% of its population.

Sorry, I don't trust what American government says ever since Saddam's "weapons of mass destruction".

Many people who are not stupid believe in things that are [obviously] false [to others].

Including you.

Some modern smartphones do not have external SD cards, only internal storage. Which can be accessed just like an SD card, excerpt that it can't be removed and disposed.

108 billions.

Well, the guy in TFA did speak, and actually provided around 50 fake passwords. Apparently, he got a bad lawyer, if any.

Did you just say that population of USA is 0.000001% of the "people who have walked the face of planet"?
That means that 1080 people in USA ever had a chance of justice. Perhaps you're right.

Well, Russians are calling it the Snow Man. Almasty is what it's called in Caucasus - Chechnya and so on. Just saying.

Slashdot is mass media. Mass media can't swear now too.
Bloggers are mass media too, if they have 3000 subscribers or more. Immediately after the parliament made that decision, LiveJournal.com (which now belongs to Russian company) removed the stats from bloggers, expressing numbers in Heroes Of Might and Magic style.

I assume, that this rule won't be enforced like it could happen in Saudi Arabia or other similarly enlightened country. Instead, Russian authorities are getting a license to kill, for later use, when the real cause could be personal dislike or business interests.

Also, if I remember right, they wanted to force all Russian mass media to be hosted in Russia. You know why.

Furthermore, why would you assume he "lost" it, whether or not he is Yakuza?

This reminds me the cloud service of Microsoft, called Danger. It died the same way - they simply lost all customer information, with no backups made (and, actually, the size of full backup could be less than 1Tb).

In my humble opinion, these people are too lame to stay in business. Having offline backups couldn't be the only problem of their service. As I can conclude from the article, they also had problems with security and lack of common sense and strategic thinking.

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I would trade my Windows Phone (HTC 8X) for an iPhone!

I have to carry a backup Android phone to use 15 features (yes, I counted) that WP could not provide. Windows Phone is not ugly, but it's useless. I want a smart phone, not a feature phone with large screen!

What you are making with your Aeropress is Americana. Espresso, for example, is made with nearly boiling water. Bialetti "percolators" make perfect Espresso, using the power of boiling water, which pushes itself through the grind coffee. I wouldn't call Americana a "progression" from Espresso. Or from "proper" spiced African creamy coffee, which is a totally different thing. And I'm not even talking about the coffee you may get in coffee shop in Amsterdam.

For space, Espresso is better, as it consumes less water.

There are filter machines (Dutch Technivorm, for example) which produce coffee of very high standard (of Americana). In my opinion, a way higher quality than Aeropress. And they waste less coffee in process. By Nordic standards, which are most coffee consuming of all (followed by Euro and American, if I remember right), you need 60 grams of ground coffee per 1 liter of water. For Aeropress, you need to go beyond that for the same result. For space travel that would mean a higher price of a shot.

Regarding the instant coffee - it depends from what is your source. Something tells me, that if you brew your perfect coffee and then freeze-dry it, you will get result of a higher quality than anything you could buy in shop. Except for mentioned coffee shop, of course.

I assume that bringing that 20kg machine to Space was PR stunt of Lavazza, otherwise I see no reason to not use the high quality instant coffee. If they need coffee in space anyway. Besides, if they have a coffee machine in Abrams tank, why not to have it in space station?