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Anonymously Mad writes:
My fiance's debit card was stolen from her car and used at a EBgames where an employee bypassed whatever is needed to avoid putting in a PIN (which is not written on anything *DUH*). They attempted to use a credit card first for the purchase, but the fraud protection kicked in at the $700 charge (She has never purchased a Video Game in her life, I do the buying). When I spoke to the Manager, he said "The guy had ID", stating he remembered the transaction; my fiance is most indeed female and looks like one (long hair, lipstick and all). The manager is either in on it, doing generic lying to cover up an employee who did it, or lying to cover a stupid mistake. EBgames/Gamestop corporate's response is that they will cooperate with any investigation police bring to them, whenever that will be seeing as how it was $700 across county lines in a large city with other crime problems.
The issue is: The employee was a willing participant in credit card fraud. People make, I would guess thousands of dollars of purchases with EBgames/Gamestop daily using credit cards and now at least on person at a location to whom you would hand your card is committing fraud with cards like that.
The question is: Should the brick and mortar locations be held to the same expectation of fraud protection as their cyberspace counterparts? Clearly, there is a physical hole in the security policy as corporate has no oversight for employee malfeasance.
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An anonymous reader writes:
Pay per click advertising is a great way for advertisers to drive targeted audience to their website. Extending this further, can a "pay per visit" advertising model be devised for the real world? In this model advertisers will shell out ad dollars only if the target audience happens to visit the particular business or avail a certain service.
URL : http://amanthan.blogspot.com/2007/01/pay-per-visit -advertising-advertisers.html
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TheDawgLives writes
"Just as we near the end of the hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean, winds whirl and clouds churn 2 billion miles away in the atmosphere of Uranus, forming a dark vortex large enough to engulf two-thirds of the United States."
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eldavojohn writes
"An electrical short cause the space shuttle Atlantis to be delayed since a lightning strike to the pad and Tropical Storm Ernesto caused delays. From the article:
'Liftoff was only hours away Wednesday morning when engineers reported a short in one of three fuel cells that supplies electricity for all the on-board systems, including the crew compartment.' It also points out that 'The faulty cell is currently operational even with the short. But after the 2003 Columbia disaster, which killed all seven astronauts, NASA says it has adopted an aggressive, safety-conscious approach to launching.' It causes one to wonder whether pre-Columbia-disaster NASA would have just replaced the fuel cell on the fly without telling anyone — and whether or not that is an ethically sound choice."