The problem is that Softcard payment requires more steps than you think:
Don't forget the effort to unroot your phone in order to install the app. I unrooted mine just long enough to spend their bribe money.
As for mail order, I'm sure Visa/MC will continue to have a web object that pops up, asks for a PW or PIN, which is used for shopping via the Internet.
This is truly where credit card fraud is going to go in the next few years. As EMV rolls out in the US (finally!) credit card fraud is going to move online. Card not present transactions will be the next target and participation in multifactor authentication schemes like Verified By Visa and MasterCard SecureCode will become critical and possibly even mandatory.
It's also real life imitating art, because the protagonist of Charles Stross' novel Accelerando ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) uses this technique and becomes persona non-grata in the US. The book came out in 2005.
I believe that Cory Doctorow's protagonist used this technique at one point in Eastern Standard Tribe as well.
Personally I think it's insane that a civil crime such as a breach of copyright terms is treated as a criminal matter more serious than assaulting someone and leaving them with injuries that will be with them for the rest of their life.
Here in the US we have the best legal system that money can buy.
And much like the manufacturer of a hammer, they have no way of knowing whether that hammer will be used to nail together pieces of wood or open up the back of someone's head, and so they are therefore not responsible when someone misuses the tool which is intended for beneficial use.
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a skull.
The perfect keyboard has been around for a long time an IBM M13 mine is nearly 20 years old and in perfect working order. While I like the larger keyboard with f13-24 it's a pita to get many OS's to use them. You can also bludgeon an intruder with it and go back to typing.
Even better, you can wash the blood off with running water.
Real navigation keys are called H, J, K, and L.
You obviously meant C-b, C-n, C-p, C-f.
There has to be an equivalent to Godwin's Law that covers this....
I'm not so sure. LG sends back info on what you're watching via USB, Amazon, Netflix. No voice control there. I think smart TVs will keep taking liberties,
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BMW's programmers did as much as I'd expect any application programmer to do. It's then time for the security audit, by a truly qualified security person, to catch the kinds of mistakes that the author caught.
No. Security is not an afterthought or something do be approached at the end. It needs to be an integral part of the software development lifecycle from soup to nuts. Anything else results in "ship it now, we'll fix it later" decisions and we end up where BMW is today.
Also very hard if there is not a set of reference photographs.
Fortunately your friends, relative, and coworkers are willing to help out with that. Each photo uploaded to Facebook with your face tagged in it is a reference photo. Setting your privacy settings to not display those tags doesn't mean the data point wasn't saved.
Every e-mail client(desktop and mobile) should have S/MIME and GnuPG integrated in - including Gmail, Yahoo and the various ISP web clients. What's taking Google so long for Gmail - pressure from various governments?
Maybe it's the fact that if your email is encrypted as it passes through Google, they can't data mine it. Since that is the Raison d'etre for gmail, it would kind of defeat the whole purpose.
While some carmakers today offer over-the-air software upgrades to navigation maps and infotainment head units,
Others, such as Toyota, want to charge you $250 US for a one time update to the maps. Then they wonder why I still have a Garmin stuck to my windshield. Thanks for nothing Toyota.
Conventional ships guns hit targets over the horizon by firing up and then gravity brings it down (hopefully on target) and they have about as much range now as they are ever going to get, everyone is agreed there. All I was implying is it's going to be hard to hit a target over the horizon with a straight shot. If your going to shoot the railgun the same way you shoot conventional guns what's the point?
They'll still use indirect fire, it may just have to orbit the earth a time or two before coming back down for the impact.
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