I received 2 copies of the email saying I was being upgraded from 1 to 1.5 Mbs. Funny, I was paying for 16 Mbs and Blast. Soooo....how are you going to screw me next. We had a "planned but unannounced" service outage in late July for about 10 hours. Several days ago we had an unplaned outage lasting 24hours. No phone or broadband, but TV worked. No explanation can be given and they are "considering and adjustment". I was hoping this was the long awaited update to Docsis 3, but the firmware in the ATDMA still reads 2.0. They are condescending, dishonest ba*stards. By the way, where's my Netbook? You know, the one you promised back 2009. I am being patient like you asked.
I play 777 at an Indian casino in California. I have been fairly lucky from time to time, but there is definitely a pattern to the payouts. Weekends and busy times, it's hard to get anything out of the machine. Week days, especially afternoons I break even or am ahead.
One afternoon, a slot "employee" was hovering around the cluster of machines where I play. I engaged him in conversation and basically he said "I'm hanging around this area because one of these machines (in the cluster) is going to hit and I don't want to be on the other side of the building."
Yup, 10 minutes later a player 5 seats down hit a $5K pay out and the slot employee was ready to pay.
Coincedence? They do not exist.
After attending a Gartner seminar on security, where some industry heavyweights spoke, it is simple. The cost of fraud has not execeded the cost of prevention. It is claimed for $5 a cardholder/card, they could reach virtual stopage of fraud (I don't have an exact definition of that term), but the fraud damage is still cheaper to absorb and/or pass on. It will take an event(s) of unimaginable magnitude for them to implement the additional security factors. I am not holding my breath.
The 5 lines includes comments (we are preofessionals).
AOL may be the great Satan, I heartily agree, but they don't leave easy money on the table. Trust me on that one.
Healthcare uses the birthdate and sex. In a population of 100,000 people, like a health plan, any given birtday will return only 4 to 5 hits. add sex and off you go.
Datashade,
Your story about the credit card numbers is not credible. Credit card numbers contain a check digit calculated with Modulus math. About 5 lines of code can determine whether the number is valid.
You also remark about card owners getting charged...so they must have been stolen numbers. It is not credible that AOL would accept a number without check digit validation.
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Comcast blatant lies
I received 2 copies of the email saying I was being upgraded from 1 to 1.5 Mbs. Funny, I was paying for 16 Mbs and Blast. Soooo....how are you going to screw me next. We had a "planned but unannounced" service outage in late July for about 10 hours. Several days ago we had an unplaned outage lasting 24hours. No phone or broadband, but TV worked. No explanation can be given and they are "considering and adjustment". I was hoping this was the long awaited update to Docsis 3, but the firmware in the ATDMA still reads 2.0. They are condescending, dishonest ba*stards. By the way, where's my Netbook? You know, the one you promised back 2009. I am being patient like you asked.
Slot machines etc.
I play 777 at an Indian casino in California. I have been fairly lucky from time to time, but there is definitely a pattern to the payouts. Weekends and busy times, it's hard to get anything out of the machine. Week days, especially afternoons I break even or am ahead. One afternoon, a slot "employee" was hovering around the cluster of machines where I play. I engaged him in conversation and basically he said "I'm hanging around this area because one of these machines (in the cluster) is going to hit and I don't want to be on the other side of the building." Yup, 10 minutes later a player 5 seats down hit a $5K pay out and the slot employee was ready to pay. Coincedence? They do not exist.
Electronic security in the financial sector
After attending a Gartner seminar on security, where some industry heavyweights spoke, it is simple. The cost of fraud has not execeded the cost of prevention. It is claimed for $5 a cardholder/card, they could reach virtual stopage of fraud (I don't have an exact definition of that term), but the fraud damage is still cheaper to absorb and/or pass on. It will take an event(s) of unimaginable magnitude for them to implement the additional security factors. I am not holding my breath.
Re: Re: Credit card numbers
The 5 lines includes comments (we are preofessionals). AOL may be the great Satan, I heartily agree, but they don't leave easy money on the table. Trust me on that one.
Cross checking
Healthcare uses the birthdate and sex. In a population of 100,000 people, like a health plan, any given birtday will return only 4 to 5 hits. add sex and off you go.
Credit card numbers
Datashade, Your story about the credit card numbers is not credible. Credit card numbers contain a check digit calculated with Modulus math. About 5 lines of code can determine whether the number is valid. You also remark about card owners getting charged...so they must have been stolen numbers. It is not credible that AOL would accept a number without check digit validation.