E-ZPasses Get Read All Over New York (Not Just At Toll Booths)

Police Warn of Gift Card Scam

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Fare cards, gift cards, credit and debit cards used at Target, etc.,.etc,. etc...

When are we going to make our erzatz money secure?

I'm sorry, but to call 911 because you didn't get what you wanted at McDonalds is just plain stupid (and in some jurisdictions reason for a citation or arrest), no matter how to try to spin things based upon your weird personal experiences.

Florida Woman Calls 911 After McDonald's Runs Out of McNuggets

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There are too many stupid people on this planet, and our emergency response people are already overworked without having to respond to McNugget shortages.

Star Trek: Make It So: Leadership Lessons from Star Trek: The Next Generation It's a good discussion of management techniques.

Trust, but verify.

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I come from the days when it was the programmer, not the compiler, that optimized the code. So nowadays, I let the compiler do its thing, but I do a lot of double-checking of the generated code.

I've thought the same thing, especially since I saw the delay go from nearly no delay to an hour delay from one month to the next. There was no "exponential Increase", it was more like a step function. That is why I think the update delay was intentional in order to push people off XP.

Perhaps you should chat with the author of the article. He seems to make that equation.

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Maybe he did it just to grab headlines, or maybe he did it for other reasons. Who knows his intent?

The bottom line is that page hits = $$

He got a lot of page hits from the story here on /.

Yeah, the writer seems to think that knowing what you need is a big problem.

HTTPS only ensures security between the browser and the web server. HTTPS is not designed to ensure security of what the browser decides to store locally.

Exactly. It is a shame that the writer does not seem to be able to understand the process of picking a vendor appropriate for the task at hand.

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What does seem absurd, however, is how magazines seem to create issues to write about.

That is not as difficult as it may sound. And it is not a question of "sensitivity". The paper bag does not generate heat, while a small animal does.

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So big deal - the car has an infrared camera on board.

Ahhh... a sample size of one. I understand now.

You state this without any substantiation as if it were a fact.

No assumption on my part. I did start with good files. :)

That's not how I read the comment. From the OP:

With the quantity of data (~2 TB at present), it's not really practical for us to examine every one of these periodically so we can manually restore them from a different copy.

That sound to me as if he wants to check the files from time to time and locate ones that have gone bad.