How did they get the malware deployed onto thousands of POS terminals without anyone noticing?
After the malware collected the data, how did the POS terminals report the stolen data back to the controller?
Are these POS terminals just directly connected to the internet?
Janet Black: Doctor Manhattan as you know the Doomsday Clock is a symbolic clock face analogizing humankind's proximity to extinction, midnight representing the threat of nuclear war. As of now it stands at four minutes to midnight. Would you agree that we are that close to annihilation?
Jon Osterman: My father was a watch maker. He abandoned it when Einstein discovered time is relative. I would only agree that a symbolic clock is as nourishing to the intellect as photograph of oxygen to a drowning man.
Have to call BS on this. Anyone in WA can choose to observe the vote counting process. Fraud by one party could only occur with exceptional incompetence by other parties and independents.
http://www.secstate.wa.gov/elections/pdf/An_Observers_Guide_to_Washington_State_Elections.pdf
"Anyone has the right to observe any part of the election process. Major political parties also have a responsibility to provide observers to monitor the election process. A political party is designated as a major party if one of its nominees received more than 5 percent of the total votes cast for President, United States Senator, or a statewide office in a General Election in an even numbered year. Observers may watch all parts of the election including opening absentee ballots, counting ballots, and securing ballots. Prior to an election, County Auditors or Elections Departments contact the political parties to inform them of how many observers will be needed."
No one knows how I vote when I step into a voting booth.
A consequence is that you don't know whether your vote was actually counted for the candidate you believe you chose, so long as the election results show that candidate receiving at least 1 vote.
They view the use of contraceptives as the murder of innocent children
If that is true, these people are the most cowardly and despicable people on the planet, because they have watched hundreds of millions of innocent children be murdered every year and done nothing effective to stop the murder. For example, they shop and work at grocery and drug stores that sell the tools that will be used to murder these children every night. If I walked into a store and saw a row of shelves with "Baby Killer 9000, 99.9% guaranteed kill probability, 12-pack, on sale for $9.99" then I'd go to the police and BBB to get that item removed from the shelves. I haven't seen any of these "believers" protesting at any store I go to.
I get the joke, but to be anal I think that it will be 2020 when four astronauts leave for Mars to bury the previous four. The ones who leave in 2018 will arrive with no bodies on the planet to bury. (There may be up to 4 bodies in the spacecraft.)
Agreed. For more examples, look at the salaries of executives at "non-profit" hospitals.
The government does not compel you to drive.
The government does compel caregivers to provide health care to you.
The Crimson Bolt might say: "Unless we increase human population to the point where we exceed the capacity of the planet, we can never know for certain what the maximum capacity is."
Suppose there was a minimum income tax amount of $N per year (where N is some number set by law and greater than 0). Thus the 47% number would be reduced to 0%, as every adult would pay some income tax, at least $1. Would that make Mitt happy? Or would he then find something else to complain about? Perhaps Mitt would then complain "Why do I have to pay more income tax than my housekeeper?
There are many States that successfully implemented working websites for the ACA. I don't understand why the Feds can't just license the best of these and clone it 36 times for each of the States that refused to implement their own site.
Which begs the pre-Oct 1 question: Why didn't the Feds just test each of the websites developed by the dozen or so states that implemented their own, then license the best one for cloning purpose for each of the other 36 states?
A manager not knowing who you are or what you are doing is a problem, I agree. But even if a software engineering manager read every line of code written by every one of his employees, I don't think it would be generally possible to rank them.
e.g. Joe was assigned to design and implement Foo last quarter, and did it on time and with good quality. Dave was assigned to design and implement Bar last quarter, and did it on time with good quality. What information would you use to determine whether to rank Joe higher or lower than Dave?
If you want to apply for a job at the NSA, just pick up the phone. Any phone.
Perhaps the biggest of the big lies is that the government will not be able to pay what it owes on the national debt, creating a danger of default. Tax money keeps coming into the Treasury during the shutdown, and it vastly exceeds the interest that has to be paid on the national debt.
I'm not a bankruptcy lawyer, so I don't know whether creditors would consider a country to be in default if it paid interest on its loans, but reneged on promises to its citizens for things like Medicare and Social Security.
What I do know, is that if the American government kept paying Chairman Mao his usury, while cutting off Grandma's health care, then that government would be finished. Putting rich commies ahead of poor seniors is about the surest form of political suicide I can imagine.
Syria used chemical weapons on its own people.
You have actual proof of this?
"No, a proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof, and when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven." - Jean Chretien
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX6XMIldkRU
I do not have "actual proof" that a man walked on the moon. I read stuff, watch the news, and decide on what seems to have happened. Could the moon landing have been faked, and thousands of NASA employees and contractors kept quiet about it all these years? Sure, it's possible, but it just seems like it would have been much easier to actually land a man on the moon that to fake it.
I've noticed several design suggestions in your code.
