That they say this right after McAfee VirusScan turned a lot of PC's into bricks.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/03/mcafee_false_positive_glitch/

I don't think PETA will be happy with that - can't you just ask them nicely to go away ?

It's easier for the credit card companies to just write it off as some fraud and not actually go out and do anything. Realistically most of their early warning systems probably limit their losses to under $1,000 to each card (i.e. the amount of money that someone can charge and get away with before the company discovers the card has been compromised). So figure if even ten people a day get their cards stolen by this method, that's 300 a month, or $300,000 in costs. They probably feel keeping the staff and the equipment to do this costs more than what they'll lose. That and they can always write off their fraud charges on their taxes ad bed debts.

According to a 2002 report Visa's commissions alone were over $455 million. If that entire $300,000/month fee was all on Visa, the 3.6 million a year is a drop in the bucket to them, less than 1% of their commission. Trust me, if it cost them less to setup the system than the money that's lost, it would be done.

Indeed. The thechnology has been around since 2001.

Yet another example which only shows that Slashdot only shows old news or dupes.

Boing Boing is the place to be!
As usual they posted this story yesterday

How long unti l they post a link to 5th graders re-enactment of Devo's "Whip-It"