rnicey - Slashdot User

Comment: Welcome to 3 years ago (Score 5, Informative) 243

by rnicey on Thursday January 28, 2010 @03:37PM (#30939308) Attached to: Why "Verified By Visa" System Is Insecure

I'm in the high risk card not present industry and if it wasn't so painful it'd be funny how bad it is.

3DS solves problems for Visa and nobody else. It transfers the liability from the merchant to the customer. No more 'it wasn't me'.

Only problem is, it's crap.

Bit like the chip and pin problem in the UK which is a similar joke. If I can get your card and your pin I can go shopping as you and good luck trying to explain that to the bank.

If I can fool you into giving me your 3DS password somehow, I can shop online as you with great false trust, and the merchants don't care because they're protected. Kind of.

Most merchants refuse to deploy it anyhow unless forced. It causes a 5-8% immediate drop in throughput. I wouldn't use a site that used it either.

+ - Vista's changes rob Creative of PC audio crown 4

Submitted by Dr. Damage on Tuesday January 15, 2008 @12:59PM

Dr. Damage writes "Creative has ruled PC sound almost since the beginning, but Vista's new audio layer changes the game by essentially killing off 3D positional audio acceleration. The Tech Report has reviewed a pair of post-Vista sound cards, with surprising results. Motherboard maker Asus saw the opening and created perhaps the best consumer-level sound card yet, the Xonar D2X, with quality components, an EMI shield, color-illuminated ports, the best objective measurements and subjective listening test scores we've ever seen, and (finally!) a PCI Express x1 connector. Could the Sound Blaster era finally be over?"

+ - "Don't tase me bro" police cleared 0

Submitted by Fozzyuw on Wednesday October 24, 2007 @04:30PM

Fozzyuw writes "WFTV.com's website has news on the University of Florida police involved in the Andrew Meyer tasering have been cleared of using excessive force. It also includes a link to the full report, which shares details of the incident and events leading up to the incident."

+ - Swedish cops come to the defence of the Pirate Bay-> 0

Submitted by Da Massive on Tuesday September 25, 2007 @07:05PM

Da Massive writes "Swedish police are expected to decide later this week whether a criminal case is warranted against 10 major music and movie companies over their alleged efforts to disrupt the Pirate Bay, one of the largest file-sharing search engines. If Swedish police decide to pursue a criminal complaint, the Pirate Bay will be spared the time and expense of pursuing its own civil suit against the companies, Peter Sunde, one of a small circle of volunteers in Sweden that runs the Web site, said on Tuesday. http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;955069824"
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+ - Scientists freeze water at body temperature-> 0

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Spy der Mann

on Tuesday September 25, 2007 @06:20PM

Spy der Mann writes "Harvard physicists have shown that specially treated diamond coatings can keep water frozen at body temperature, a finding that may have applications in future medical implants. The process works only for layers of ice of two to three nanometers, depending on the temperature."
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