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Become superuser on the dial-out machine.
Update DNS databases by creating the following /etc/resolv.conf file:
domain bigcompany.com nameserver 10.10.111.15 nameserver 10.10.130.8 |
domain bigcompany.com |
Specifies that the peer's DNS domain is bigcompany.com. |
nameserver 10.10.111.15 nameserver 10.10.130.8 |
Lists the IP addresses of name servers at bigcompany.com. |
For complete details on DNS implementation, refer to "DNS Administrtaion (Reference)" in System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (DNS, NIS, and LDAP).
Edit the /etc/nsswitch.conf file to have the DNS database searched first for host information.
hosts: dns [NOTFOUND=return] files |
Create the /etc/ppp/peers directory, and then add a file for the peer.
For example, you would create the following file to define the dial-in server myserver:
# cd /etc/ppp # mkdir peers # cd peers # vi myserver /dev/cua/a 57600 noipdefault defaultroute idle 120 noauth connect "chat -U 'mypassword' -T 1-123-555-1213 -f /etc/ppp/mychat" |
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For Instructions |
Configure another dial-out machine |
How to Configure the Modem and Serial Port (Dial-out Machine). |
Test modem connectivity by dialing out to a another computer |
cu(1C) and tip(1) man pages. These utilities can help you test if your modem is properly configured and can establish a connection with another machine. |
Get detailed information about the PPP configuration files | |
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Thief offers up moments of stealthy satisfaction, but not nearly enough of them to make up for its many rough edges, bland level designs, and god-awful plot.
It's easy to imagine a big-budget game tackling slavery with the subtlety of a hammer, but Freedom Cry is an emotional triumph...with some ethical issues.
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The minimap is a small, simplified version of a larger map. This plays a vital role in many games, especially Real Time Strategy, where it is important to have an overview of the entire map.
Product placement is the act of using branded products in high visibility settings inside movies and games in exchange for special consideration, financial purchases or otherwise. In recent years, it has become more apparent.
A gameplay mechanic allowing players to store their items and freely carry them around.
Using gestures with the controller to control on-screen actions. Alternatively, these gestures can also be detected by motion-sensing cameras.
RPG combat in which combat actions are performed in real-time, rather than through a turn-based structure.
A graphical effect used in video games where an object blocks light and around the edges of the object the light is significantly brighter than normal.
The concept of using two weapons at once, often for more damage at the cost of accuracy, the use of a shield, grenades, or other similar accessories.
Extreme violence pertains to excessive amounts of blood, gore, or violent acts. These include decapitation, mutilation, dismemberment, amputation, defenestration, disembowelment, torture and much more. Chainsaws usually produce the best excessive violence, while guns simply provide more blood spray.
Steam Cloud is a built in feature in some Steam games, it synchronizes game saves, settings and other data to the internet for access from any computer that has Steam installed.
Developed by Epic Games, Unreal Engine 3 is the third generation of the Unreal engine, and is base for numerous games, such as Unreal Tournament 3, Gears of War and Roboblitz.
OnLive is a streaming service that utilizes cloud computing technology to stream videogames straight to the consumer's computer or TV.
If a person is made of metal and has circuitry instead of a circulatory system, then their game belongs on this list.
Whether it be a close up shotgun blast, far away sniper rifle, explosive, or backstab, the "one hit kill" is a popular kill strategy. Usually hard to master and even harder to avoid, the instant kill is loved and hated by gamers everywhere.
Some females (and males) prefer to wear few clothes. Such clothing is seen in a variety titles, particularly many fighting games and fantasy RPGs.
A viewable map that displays the entire game world. The map also usually shows the player's location in the world.
Some games bought at physical stores and online retailers can be activated on Steam using its CD key. Some come with compulsory Steam activation, while for others it is optional.
One of the smaller innovations in the gaming industry was making the player's targeting reticle change colours depending on the situation.
PhysX is a realtime physics engine middleware originally developed by Ageia and now maintained by nVidia. It is the only currently available physics engine that supports hardware acceleration.
The deliberate animation of breasts, either in an exaggerated fashion meant to titillate, or as a means to conform to more realistic physics.
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Environments cycle between day and night, often with effects on other aspects of the game.
A widely popular music style originating from a fusion of blues, rhythm and blues, soul, classical, country, and jazz. Includes sub-genres such as punk, heavy metal, synth-rock, and pop, among others.
No point in gathering coins, gold, gil, money, or whatever if you can't buy anything with it.
Bats, hammers, wrenches, maces, staves, or even brass knuckles. These are weapons intended for blunt trauma rather than cutting or slicing.
Finishing moves are typically moves that end a fight in a traditional fighting game.
An action that is sensitive to context. Like going up to an object and pushing a button, which would normally perform a different action, to interact with it.
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Moral dilemmas presented to the player that often have a significant effect on the story or other characters.
These games let players see the credits without needing to play the game first.
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JD/MS in Journalism
The JD/MS in Journalism program combines into approximately three and one-half years of full-time study the Master of Science (MS) in Journalism and the Juris Doctor (JD) programs offered by the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications and the KU School of Law.
The program is designed to offer students academic grounding in both disciplines to prepare them for the professional practice of journalism, law or a combination of media law.
This joint degree prepares students to address legal, ethical, and policy problems facing communicators and media managers, legal practitioners and scholars who face complex issues within their own disciplines as well as pressing societal issues in biosciences, technology, business, intellectual property and constitutional law. Graduates of this combined degree will assume responsibilities in the public and private sectors. The goal of the joint program is to develop leaders with technical and philosophical approaches to address and communicate complex issues to policymakers and to various communities and audiences.
For more information, contact Melanie Wilson, law school, (785) 864-0359, firstname.lastname@example.com; or Tom Volek, journalism, (785) 864-7622, email@example.com.
Admissions Requirements
To be admitted to the joint JD/MS program, an applicant must hold an earned baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university, complete the admission processes and meet the admission requirements for both the School of Law and the School of Journalism. Also, the applicant must be admitted by both schools no later than the end of the first year of study in the School of Law or the completion of more than 18 credit hours of graduate work in the School of Journalism.
The Law School Admission Test (LSAT) is the only standardized test required for an applicant to the joint degree program. An applicant or student who is interested in entering the joint degree program should discuss his or her plans with the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the School of Law and the Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research in the J-School as early as possible.
Degree Requirements
To receive the JD/MS, a student must complete a minimum of 108 credit hours. Of these, at least, 81 credit hours must be from courses offered by the School of Law and 27 must be from the master's program in journalism.
Students in the joint degree program should note that while the School of Law requires a 2.0 grade point average in JD coursework to remain in good standing and for graduation, the master's degree in journalism follows the Graduate School regulation requiring a 3.0 cumulative grade point average for coursework that is counted toward the MS portion of the joint degree.
In planning their enrollments, students should inform themselves of course prerequisites and plan their course schedules accordingly. Please refer to the journalism school and law school websites for the most current information about admission and graduation requirements: www.journalism.ku.edu and www.law.ku.edu
JD Requirements
All candidates for the JD must complete the following required courses:
First Year | Upper Class |
Law 804 Civil Procedure (4) Law 806 Intro. to Constitutional Law (4) Law 809 Contracts (4) Law 814 Criminal Law (4) Law 820 Lawyering Skills I (2) Law 821 Lawyering Skills II (3) Law 826 Property (4) Law 831 Torts I (4) |
Law 873 Commercial Law: Secured Transactions (3) OR Law 874 Commercial Law: Payment Systems (3) AND Law 908 Evidence (3) Law 972 Professional Responsibility (2) |
Students must complete all required first-year courses (29 credit hours) during their first year of law school enrollment. In addition to these course requirements, the School of Law has an upper-class writing requirement, a residence requirement, and a time limit for completion of the degree. Please refer to the current School of Law Catalog for details.
In addition to the 37 credit hours of coursework (described above) required of all law students, students in the joint JD/MS program must complete the following coursework:
Any four of the following courses |
LAW 888 Copyright Law and Digital Works (3) LAW 951 Digital Privacy Rights in an Open Society (3) LAW 968 Intellectual Property (3-4) LAW 958 Media and the First Amendment (3) LAW 959 Media Law Clinic (3) LAW 994 Special Topics (when offered for at least three credits on a topic related to media, law and technology)* (3) |
One or more of the following courses for a total of at least 2 credits |
LAW 893 Topics in the Law of Cyberspace (2-3) LAW 894 Externship Clinic (when completed for at least three credits with a government agency or nonprofit or public international organization related to media, law and technology)* (3) LAW 924 Independent Research (written work on a topic related to media, law and technology* for at least two credits) (2) LAW 937 and/or 940 Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy (written work on a topic related to media, law and technology* for at least two credits) (2) LAW 950 Law Review (written work on a topic related to media, law and technology for at least two credits)* (2) LAW 955 Legislative Clinic (2.5-3) LAW 976 Public Policy Clinic (3) |
One or more of the following courses for a total of at least 2 credits |
LAW 851 Contracts III (2-3) LAW 867 Law and the Arts (3) LAW 916 The State and Religion (2-3) LAW 926 Insurance (2.5-3) LAW 946 Law and Literature (2.5-3) LAW 953 Legal Aspects of the Music Industry (1) LAW 957 Sports Law (2-3) LAW 964 National/International Moot Court Competitions (competition on the First Amendment or other media-related subject)* (1-2) LAW 971 Product Liability (2.5-3) LAW 977 Patent Law (2.5-4) LAW 991 Torts II (2-2.5) LAW 922 Introduction to Copyright in Literary and Artistic Works (1) LAW 984 Research Workshop (on a media, law and technology topic)*(2-3) |
Two of the following courses |
LAW 842 State Constitutional Law (2-3) LAW 850 Administrative Law (2.5-3) LAW 886 Civil Rights Actions (2-3) LAW 887 Constitutional Topics (3) LAW 891 Elections and Campaign Finance (3) LAW 910 Federal Courts and the Federal System (2.5-3) LAW 943 Law and Economics (2.5-3) LAW 933 Judicial Clerkship Clinic (3) LAW 954 Legislation (2.5-3) LAW 956 Local Government Law (2.5-3) LAW 984 Research Workshop (on a topic of interest to media and related to government and public policy)* (2-3) |
* Enrollment for credit toward the joint degree is subject to approval by the director of the Media, Law & Technology Certificate Program at the School of Law. |
The Academic Committee shall have the authority to make changes or substitutions to this list upon showing of changed circumstances, such as changes in the fundamental nature of a course or the discontinuance of a course.
In addition to the coursework described above, students in the joint JD/MS program may count 9 credit hours of master's journalism courses toward their JD degree. Students may choose courses to complete the remaining hours necessary to reach the total of 81 hours of law school credit needed for the joint degree from any part of the law school curriculum.
Journalism Requirements
All candidates for the MS in Journalism must complete the following required courses:
Final General Examination |
Students in journalism must also complete a final general examination in the major field, as required by the Graduate School. The student's project/thesis committee administers the master's final general examination during the semester of the student's final enrollment in coursework and when the project or thesis has been substantially completed. A defense of the project/thesis does not take the place of the required general examination. |
Advanced Courses (9 hours) |
JOUR 840 Seminar in: _________ (3) (May be taken twice on different topics) JOUR 898 Master's Research (3) JOUR 899 Master's Project/Thesis (3) |
Professional Courses (6 hours) |
Students in the joint degree must complete a minimum of 6 credit hours of professional journalism courses. These courses are numbered from JOUR 500 to JOUR 797. Students in the Strategic Communications course of study must include JOUR 676 Strategic Campaigns. Students in News and Information must include at least one course designated as advanced media. In addition to the credit hours of coursework described above, students in the joint JD/MS program may count 9 credit hours of elective law courses toward the 15-credit hour professional course requirements of the master's degree. |
Core Courses (12 hours) |
JOUR 618 First Amendment and Society (3) JOUR 801 Research I: Theory (3) JOUR 802 Research II: Methods (3) JOUR 803 Survey of Mass Media and Popular Culture (3) |
Continuous Enrollment in Project/Thesis
Master's degree students are subject to J-School and Graduate School rules relating to continuous enrollment (at least 2 hours of credit each semester, excluding summer session) while completing the project or thesis. Please refer to the J-School website for current rules, as well as the Graduate School Catalog. A student must complete the master's degree program within seven years of admission.
Basic Skills Requirement
A student entering the joint degree program is expected to have basic journalism skills. This requirement may be fulfilled by significant professional experience or undergraduate coursework in journalism and mass communications from a school accredited by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications. Students who do not meet the requirement must complete the following two courses, which do not count toward the total graduate credit requirement:
- JOUR 445 Multimedia Writing and Production (3)
- JOUR 419 Multimedia Editing (3)
Typical Program Format
Law | Journalism | Total | |
First Year | 29 | 0 | 29 |
Second Year | 15 | 18 | 33 |
Third Year | 21 | 9 | 30 |
Fourth Year | 16 | 0 | 16 |
Total Credit Earned | 81 | 27 | 108 |
Law Credit Allowed | -- | 9 | 9 |
Journalism Credit Allowed | 9 | -- | 9 |
Total Credit Required | 90 | 36 | 126 |
The policies of the two schools (Journalism and Law) and the University of Kansas Graduate School govern waivers, substitutions and all other degree requirements. Students should consult the respective associate deans if they have questions about degree requirements.


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Conversation the other day about training paradigms. The person was advocating that things are learned best starting with basic technique, then building on that into a system. As near as I can remember one quote, "The first day, sensei showed us a punch. It wasn't quite right, but he told us to practice and pay attention to form and we would do it right when we needed it. It couldn't be right, of course, because if you punch with full power, you'll stress your elbows."
If you heard something like this (as I did from my first karate sensei) I want you to put on your big boy hat and think about, because almost every single element of that thought is palpably false.
Never practice doing things "not quite right." Not quite right is wrong, and if you do enough reps at doing things wrong, you will do things wrong in a fight. We all know this. The best training in the world doesn't always come out, especially in your first fights-- but if your training does come out, you don't want it to be wrong.
There is no universe where doing things wrong long enough will magically morph into doing things right.
Correct form and not going full power are all artifacts of punching air. You need to punch a body. A moving body. You don't have to worry about your elbows. Wrists maybe, and shoulders if you have some of the snap power generations down... thing is, the feedback for really hitting a body is kinesthetic, not visual. Who cares if rotten food is pretty on the plate?
He tried to explain again with the house metaphor. You have to build a foundation. Then the walls, then the roof. Add the windows and doors and plumbing and electrical system. Only then will you have a house. The metaphore is that you practice your techniques with special attention to form (which, IMO, is confusing the paint job with the foundation) and then you build up through combinations to tactics to strategy and only then, when it is all complete, can you fight with it.
If this was the pattern of actual teaching, there might be some validity to the metaphor. But what you will see most often is the equivalent of handing someone a hammer and showing them how to swing it. After months or years of that they might be allowed to pound actual nails into random pieces of lumber. And they are told that enough reps of that combined with with making forts under the table with blankets (sparring) makes a complete house.
The principles-based approach is to understand what a house is. List what you need to understand (structural stability, insulation, air flow, heating and safety, light) to build one appropriate for your needs (emergency shelter to high rise). And then you play and experiment with the principles and the material you have on hand or can acquire.
None of us learned to talk the way we learned martial arts. We learned to talk through immersion. We played and sang and told stories and listened. We experimented with language-- The two-year-old's "No" stage is finding out how much he or she can control the world. We learned to speak with just a third of the principles-based model and we're all pretty good at it.
We learned to write from the foundational model, and after a minimum of twelve years of formal instruction under professional teachers, a lot of people still suck at it. And even the ones who don't suck have immense insecurities. In my opinion, most of the bad writing comes from the insecurities, by the way. Trying to be "a Writer" people become stilted and artificial trying to please some long-dead third grade teacher.
One of the commenters long ago (no way I could find the post before coffee, sorry) pointed out that all animals learn through play, and only humans were stupid enough to try to turn learning into a job. I'll go further and say that the primary effect of that form of teaching is to make the students easy to control. It serves no other function efficiently.
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February 13, 2013
Living Room Window
It's nice that the center window in our living room has an arch at the top. Even nicer is the view of the lake! And behind that are mountains, but here they are masked by clouds and snowfall.
Lakes and Ponds,
8 comments:
- ladyfi said...
That's a lovely view you have!
- 2:35 AM, February 14, 2013
- Gerald (Hyde DP) said...
lovely view
- 3:05 AM, February 14, 2013
- NatureFootstep said...
it is a beautiful window. And view. I also like that it is quite low at the bottom.
- 4:11 AM, February 14, 2013
- Lisa @ Two Bears Farm said...
Oh fun picture!
About the commenting - I just do what I can when I've participated in blog hops in the past. :-) - 7:30 AM, February 14, 2013
- Kris said...
I envy the location of your home more and more!
- 7:34 AM, February 14, 2013
- Honest Abe said...
The arched window used to be very popular in the 1920s. Our old house had one and it was decorated with leaded glass.
You certainly have a nice view. A place to sit and rest and sip on a cup of coffee. - 8:21 AM, February 14, 2013
- Daisy said...
That's a pretty window and view! Very peaceful-looking there. :)
- 11:52 AM, February 14, 2013
- My Journey With Candida said...
Very pretty!! Your window gives you a nicer view of your lake than mine does.... and my lake is a mud hole next to yours.
- 6:55 PM, February 14, 2013
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March 25-29 |
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Currently I'm at wits end. I'm trying to make a usb stick with fedora 18. I tried using unetbootin and when I try to boot it bios will say some along the lines of "No bootable media found blah something about floppy." Then I tried an older tool called live-usb-install which gave me "bad boot" (This is all from memory so take my errors with a grain of salt.) By this point, I was rather lost. I went to my parents computer and used YUMI to make it work. It works but now apparently I'm not seeing what everyone else is seeing for fedora. When I boot up it has sign in and "Don't see your sign in?" I installed it to a vm before I did this so I would know what to expect for an install and on the vm there was live session user which you used to install the Fedora. So the only thing I can do with this Fedora usb stick is treat it as a live disk. The "Don't see your sign in" takes me to a fill in user screen and the only thing it will take is root which it will bring up the desktop but there's no installer. Clearly, I made an over sight somewhere along the line but I'm lost.
tl;dr Can't get unetbootin nor live-usb-install to work for Fedora 18. Neither can I install the OS. Halp.
Thanks again reddit.
Edit: I was able to get it working by using the Fedora liveusb from the official website: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB I did this on windows and still can't reproduce it in Ubuntu with any other software. Thanks to oneiclosed for the link and help. Cheers mate.
[–]GameTechGuy 1 point2 points3 points 1 year ago
Both have support for Fedora 18 according to their websites.
[–]oneiclosed 0 points1 point2 points 1 year ago
[–]MDKwlan[S] 0 points1 point2 points 1 year ago
I don't have uefi. The computer isn't new enough for it.
[–]oneiclosed 1 point2 points3 points 1 year ago
Verify your download:
I took this with my shitty camera but this is what I get.
Do you know your processor/ram/graphics adapter?
For that laptop I know it's all Intel. This is the only time I've ever run into something like this. It has Arch bang on it as the main os.
It baffles me. My thought is that your graphics adapter will not support GNOME. Download and try XFCE or LXDE?
Even if it didn't work on my laptop it should work fine on my desktop. I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 with Gnome fallback session. I'm just aggrvated over this. I have no idea what it is and I'd if it's iso (the Sha256 was right) or it's just a bug. Who knows eh?
Dunno either. In the time we started talking, I have downloaded it, extracted it onto my USB drive with Unetbootin, ran from my shitty Dell Intel laptop, and then tested, ran and booted up F18x64 on my beater desktop. I am still going to guess that you are having hardware compatibility issues. Try to run this from your USB drive instead of the version you are running:
I got it working. I don't even.... I used the same iso, the same usb stick but used the fedora liveusb one. I did this on windows and not Ubuntu, so ??? It's gonna kill me on the inside. Why was this so frustrating, but hey I have fedora now. Yay I guess. Thank you so much for trying to help me. I really appreciate the help everyone gives everyone on this sub-reddit.
If it's any help this is an error that happens on the start up.
Jan 18 17:36:07.114521 spice-vdagent[1302]: err: Missing virtio device '/dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0': No such file or directory
[–]fixles 0 points1 point2 points 1 year ago
Try using the dd comand.
sudo dd if=ubuntu.iso of=/dev/sdX where X is the letter of your usb stick
Dont put /dev/sdx1 just write it to the device /dev/sdx
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"Sixteen" was named in reference to the common numbers of bars in most rap verses. However, Andre and Ricky Rozay step out of the norm and record a verse with 48 bars. The song has quickly become a favorite of fans, which have pushed the MMG founder's new work to the #1 spot on iTunes. He plans to release "Sixteen" as a single, although there is no set date for when it or the music video will happen.
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Astrophysicist Takahiro Sumi of Osaka University in Japan and colleagues—who form the Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA) and the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) collaborations—now appear to have figured out what is what. In a paper published online today in Nature, the researchers list 10 objects in our galaxy that are very likely to be free-floating planets. What's more, they claim that in our galaxy, free-floaters are probably so populous that they outnumber stars.
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Schneier on SecurityA blog covering security and security technology. « Friday Squid Blogging: Harrowgate's 1886 Giant Squid | Main | More Movie Plot Terrorist Threats » February 1, 2010 Online Credit/Debit Card Security FailureRoss Anderson reports: Online transactions with credit cards or debit cards are increasingly verified using the 3D Secure system, which is branded as "Verified by VISA" and "MasterCard SecureCode". This is now the most widely-used single sign-on scheme ever, with over 200 million cardholders registered. It's getting hard to shop online without being forced to use it. Posted on February 1, 2010 at 6:26 AM • 50 Comments To receive these entries once a month by e-mail, sign up for the Crypto-Gram Newsletter. CommentsPaul Renault • February 1, 2010 6:42 AM I just read this great paper this morning: it's an excellent overview (so even your boss could/might read it) of what's wrong with many of these schemes. And it confirmed a paranoid suspicion or two. To wit: fraac • February 1, 2010 6:55 AM I never remember my password for Verified by VISA but it never matters! Two simple security questions and we're in business. Twylite • February 1, 2010 7:17 AM The paper has numerous factual errors. Some examples: 1. It claims that OpenID (2005) existed before 3DS (2002), which is just plain wrong. 2. In section 2.6 "Inconsistent authentication methods" the authors criticise 3DS without acknowledging that OpenID has exactly the same weaknesses. 3. OpenID is cited as an example of "good engineering". Sorry Ross, that just flushed all my respect for you. OpenID is great for SSO for low-value accounts; but it has an extensive range of vulnerabilities that make it completely inappropriate for secure applications.
Mauro S • February 1, 2010 7:43 AM Just do like we do in Brazil: stick the bill with the credit card company and banks and let *them* figure out how not to get coned. The burden of proof for any bill is with the creditor; it's not up to the debtor to proof that he/she does not owe something. This proof is usually in the form of a signed piece of paper like a contract, credit card slip or merchandise delivery receipt. Courts here do recognize digital signatures, but only if it involves a very trusted and independent third party to do the record keeping. Computers records at the creditor's own computers are close to worthless in court. There's no "minimum charge" for fraudulent use of credit cards in Brazil. Zero. Nada. That would have been obviously illegal – why would you pay for something you didn't buy? AFAIK, neither VISA nor MasterCard are planning to abandon Brazil. AMEX did sell its operations to a local bank, but I don't know the causes for that; could have been AMEX own problems. It never ceases to amaze me how the society and legal system in the USA yield to the big corporations and its abuses. It's like the old adage "what is good for General Motors is good for the USA"; only now the beneficiaries are not wealth and job creating manufactures like GM but Wall Street - which creates little of both. Clive Robinson • February 1, 2010 8:09 AM It is not just this but a whole host of things that make me not in any way use online banking or purchases. In the UK Marketing gives the impression you are safe. The bottom line is the banks say you owe the courts kiss their feet, due to the incorrect assumption "banks must be honest"... I'm with Bruce on the idea of stoping banks externalising risk onto the customers and merchants. It's their shody system that they will not fix so just let them take the cost of their failures. The worst part is the Police in order to reduce their own cost send people who have been subject to bank fraud back to the banks for the banks to investigate. The banks then mislead the courts and others and refuse to divulge any information that would help stop fraud. So yes I would welcome real legislation that put them banks back in their place even if it did push the existing encumbrents with their outrageous business models into extinction. Neil • February 1, 2010 8:42 AM It is voluntary, at least here in the UK. Although its an opt out on part of the customer. A quick call to my creditcard company asking for it to be removed and it was done so. MemVandal • February 1, 2010 9:12 AM As a merchant I would really like to shift the burden on to banks/customer, its really hard to deal with chargebacks. But it would be really nice and practical if they implement RSA tokens for authentication in combination with this 3DS thing. Nobdy • February 1, 2010 9:29 AM It's not just online. Of course the pin was the same as the ATM pin, and they kept the ATM magnetic strip so they didn't have to build new ATMs. So you now hand over your card to be swiped through the retailer's terminal, (copying the strip) and then type the corresponding pin into their handset - brilliant ! kashmarek • February 1, 2010 9:29 AM It is all about marketing, public image (propoganda), and push accountability elsewhere. The credit card companies (Visa, MasterCard, etc) are middlemen that collect a fee regardless (akin to lawyers). On the marketing aspect, why it works is explained in the BBC series "Century Of The Self". JRR • February 1, 2010 9:46 AM I had to switch to using the PayPal button when making purchases to avoid VbV. When my favorite online retailer started forcing VbV, I would just opt out of using it (I hit Cancel when the "sign up now" box came up) - the charge went through anyway, but then Visa Fraud Prevention would call me up about an hour later, every time. They would always try to convince me that it was a great system and I should use it. I'd tell them "no, but if it makes you feel better to waste your time and blow your profit calling me every time I make a purchase online, knock yourself out." They'd ask why, and I said "Look, I was shopping at newegg.com. Suddenly during checkout, a (really pretty amateurish looking) box from another site pops up and asks me to enter personal information. Do you think I'm a MORON? I'd have to be to enter data there. Is this really the kind of online behavior you want to encourage your cardholders to start engaging in?" The last time they called, I said "OK, I'm getting tired of this. From now on I'll use your card via PayPal." The caller just said "Thank you" and hung up. I don't think that answer made her very happy. Chasmosaur • February 1, 2010 10:16 AM I only encountered Verified by VISA once - at newegg.com when the service first came out. They had a good price on a projector I needed for my business, and when I went through the checkout process, the Verified by VISA screen came up. It looked nothing like newegg's UI - indeed it looked like a phishing scam - who the hell else was going to ask for my SSN? I discontinued the order and sent them an e-mail asking what the hell was going on. They told me it was indeed kosher and I should complete the process. I told them no and they could consider this e-mail verification or I wouldn't shop with them again. They pushed through the order - a few months later I bought another piece of hardware, and the service had been removed. I'm guessing their tech-savvy target customers weren't appreciating the crap security ;) Chasmosaur • February 1, 2010 10:19 AM JRR - is newegg still using it then? I must have hit it on an off day. Bugger. OpenID Failure • February 1, 2010 10:22 AM I can't believe he lists OpenID as a solution. OpenID provides no guarantees of anything and easily MITM'd. Peter • February 1, 2010 10:39 AM @twylite: It is very hard to give your remarks credibility when you refuse to sign your own name and state any implied affiliation. Based on your remarks, and the mentioned failing, you sound like a party to the matter at hand or are a troll being employed by the same people who refuse to change the system. Misc. • February 1, 2010 10:46 AM Yeah, anyone can be an OpenID producer if they want to, so it's useless for anything except confirming that you control some specific OpenID identity on one OpenID provider. It's not a solution to this problem. Yuliy • February 1, 2010 11:29 AM What's wrong with OpenID for this? If Visa were an OpenID provider, they could assert that you control some identity that's attached to your account. Doug • February 1, 2010 11:41 AM I was recently asked by Verizon Wireless' website to validate my verified by visa, which included putting in my social security number. The frame that popped up, was from a different site (the bank), that had an *invalid* security certificate. I contacted Verizon and informed them that I would be paying via American Express in the future (which would cost them an additional 3-4% in fees) if they didn't remove the requirement. I also contacted the bank and was told that there is no means to 'verify' except from the merchant site. That was the final straw, and I called Verizon back to complain again. I must not have been alone, because verified by visa is no longer on their site. The banks pitch this as consumer protection, but it does absolutely nothing for the consumer - we're already limited in our liability by law. This is strictly their attempt to absolve themselves of that liability, and shift it to the consumer. It's a bad deal, bad design and bad implementation. This is exactly why I never use a debit card - I want the protection that current law and agreements provide. Verified by visa is an attempt to void both those. PackagedBlue • February 1, 2010 11:48 AM Another case where, INsecurity economics, trumps security economics. Ponzi methods, call it what they are. Found in legal, finance, political, security, and our defacto globalization game, shell game. JRR • February 1, 2010 11:48 AM @Chasmosaur - I don't know, I stopped using the regular checkout a month or two ago and started using the PayPal button. Joe Buck • February 1, 2010 1:09 PM OK, many commenters here are worried about whether online credit card transactions are safe. Do any of you use credit cards in restaurants? When you do, you turn your card over to an unknown person, who then has access to all the information he/she needs to buy things using your account. Brian • February 1, 2010 1:32 PM I personally use paypal for everything online. The main reason is they never get my credit card info, even when I use my credit card. Every transaction needs to be approved, and it automatically switches to my other accounts if one is empty (hasn't happened, but they claim it does). To make a purchase, I just need my email, password, and secure token ($5, seriously cheap). I don't enter any personal info for the security questions (psuedo random strings, stored on an encrypted flash drive and hard drive). To those who try and defraud me via paypal, good luck. I can't trust any system that requires zero authentication of the transaction. Chip cards really are the only salvation for credit cards (I assume, and I hope not wrongly, that they are actual crypto chips and not just pure memory devices). Per-transaction authentication means an extremely limited attack timeframe. They simply cannot take my number and ring up a bill. Instead, they can only take it while its inserted at wherever I am. Then the banks can call if 2 transactions are done within a minute. Someone mentioned chip cards use the stripe, but thats not true. I always correct vendors who try that, and don't give them the card if I don't have to. moo • February 1, 2010 1:57 PM @Joe Buck: The only purchases I'll make with a credit card are (1) in large brick-and-mortar stores where the card doesn't leave my sight, and (2) online (but I've mostly stopped doing that since they started trying to jam Verified by Visa down my throat; I read the fine print and it said I would now be liable for an fraudulent VbV transactions using my credit card... no thanks!) I don't use internet or phone banking, either. I never ever swipe my debit card to make a purchase, I only use it for actual banking. And I never use dodgy ATMs, I only use the ones at branches of my bank, or another reputable major bank. Of course no one is entirely safe from being targeted for fraud (identity theft or whatever). But I try to avoid most of the high-risk behaviours that I see people around me engaging in every day. So my chance of being victimized in that fashion, is hopefully as low as I can make it. BF Skinner • February 1, 2010 4:48 PM Still going through the report (okay after home work) but it seems to me based on the remarks...isn't this all just Risk Transference? When we buy insurance on our house we put the burden of paying off for a fire on the insurance company. While it is wrong to burn down our own house ... should someone else decide to play arson the burden is theirs (even if the arsonist is caught). While it may make poor ethical logic isn't it really sound security logic from the vendor/banks point of view? They do/have/can treat security risks as a sub-category of their risk management program. Andrew Stephen • February 1, 2010 5:03 PM @JRR: Try looking at the official New Zealand Government Login Service (now igovt apparently): http://www.e.govt.nz/services/authentication/gls It does exactly the same thing when authenticating to government services! The only saving grace is that it is so ill conceived, and virtually useless that almost no government agency uses it despite it having been made mandatory. Clive Robinson • February 1, 2010 6:13 PM @ BF Skinner, "When we buy insurance on our house we put the burden of paying off for a fire on the insurance company." Yes we pay the company a premium to take on the risk that they are capable of covering. "While it may make poor ethical logic isn't it really sound security logic from the vendor/banks point of view?" Hmm you pay the bank to put their and the merchants risk onto you. Does not quite seam the same to me... "They do/have/can treat security risks as a sub-category of their risk management program." Yes the "banks" can (and do) abuse their monopolistic position to force customers to take on unacceptable risk, by acting as an illegal cartell to restrict fredom of choice. I just wish various Governments would wake up and realise it is not possible to realisticaly survive in the modern world without having a bank account. Further that the account is effectivly usless without an ATM card, which means you have to accept the Bank/card issuers TOC's as there is no real competition in this area. Atleast you have a limited amount of legal protection on a Credit Card. However in the UK the banks issue combined debit/credit cards. And guess what the merchant terminals default to... Yup "debit" and you try switching it over to "credit" most of the EPos terminals I've seen in use don't offer you the choice... anton • February 1, 2010 8:05 PM Unfortunately governments are busy tyring to find terrorists, when should be imposing some rules here to tame such unruly behaviour by the corporates Oscar Blyth • February 1, 2010 10:21 PM I've been watching and waiting for this technology to catch on: http://passwindow.com Seems like once this kind of secure authentication methodology gains acceptance, we can expect a pretty high level of security and protection against fraud without having to pay through the nose.. Mjit RaindancerStahl • February 1, 2010 10:58 PM I had to go through the whole VbV thing for my last purchase with Tiger Direct. It was very annoying to have to go through this extra step. I'm even more pissedoff that it did nothing to increase the security of my online purchasing experience. I wish I could avoid online shopping all together, but the shops aren't open when I'm awake. Oscar Blyth • February 2, 2010 12:33 AM @DaveC Hmm you think? It seems like it'd be the cheapest way of authenticating both ways (client/server server/client).. I can't see how you would phish it as mentioned in the article... I agree, it appears unconventional, but I just can't think of any plausible way of attacking it online.. Yuliy • February 2, 2010 1:29 AM @Oscar: How does it prevent a MitM/online phishing attack? I present phishing site to user. When user enters credentials, I pass those along to actual site, and get back a passwindow key image. I pass this image/animation to the user, who enters a sequence which I pass back to the site. Voila. Phisher is logged in as you. Plus, how do they deal with differing pixel density? Oscar Blyth • February 2, 2010 2:16 AM @Yuliy: They deal with pixel density through a x/y resizable pattern image.. just a GIF... there's a demo on the site that shows it mitm/phishing is prevented by combining a known value (e.g. account destination value etc.) with a password in the pattern, so I can see what I'm authenticating when I authorize the transaction... BF Skinner • February 2, 2010 6:43 AM @Clive "...Governments would wake up and realise it is not possible to realisticaly survive in the modern world..." Given the amount of proofs of identity I had to give at my last financial transaction I think they have; least as far as money laundering goes. When I asked why I was told Patriot Act. I know they have difficulty dealing with the Hawala banks. Hmmmm...do we gain more with our credit cards than we lose in our anonymity of cash? I remember back in the 90s during the Clipper Chip fight some PITA (some guy he wrote ciphers) kept making the point that the encryption scheme's the Federal Gov't was willing to authorize civilians while strong enough for casual use wasn't a protection against other governments or the Fed and their code-breakers. He questioned their motives and speculated what the Fed really wanted was weak crypto so they could monitor transactions to off-shore banks. Clive I think likely some in Government want us off banknotes and coin as fast as possible. One of our local toll rodes has exits that, save one, are Ezpass or credit card only. I'm pretty sure this is due to the cost of human labor but it's a trend to watch. Paeniteo • February 2, 2010 7:35 AM @Oscar: "mitm/phishing is prevented by combining a known value (e.g. account destination value etc.) with a password in the pattern, so I can see what I'm authenticating when I authorize the transaction..." From the demo it looks like it is sufficient to enter a 4-digit PIN to authenticate. Also, sending more information does not really protect against phishing. Say, the phisher wants to transfer $5544 to account ...2211 and the PIN for that would be 9988. cu, Paeniteo Oscar Blyth • February 2, 2010 8:19 AM @Paeniteo What you have described is a social engineering attack. In the case of this method, according to this part of the website http://www.passwindow.com/security.html the transaction auth code would be in a format like AxxxPxxxx where A indicates the start of the destination account verifier and P indicates the password. I doubt a phisher could convince me that A2211 was an account I wanted to transfer money to... From the FAQ, it appears that the animated GIF intervals can be customized - probably even at the user level - e.g., fast for the young and tech savvy Daniel Lohin • February 2, 2010 8:20 AM Bruce, Randy • February 2, 2010 9:30 AM Whatever happened to "single use" credit card numbers? I use the CC# once and then it's no good...ever. I heard about them being developed a few years back, but then silence. Randy Clive Robinson • February 2, 2010 11:38 AM @ Daniel Lohin, "What do you think of the SET system?" It had a couple of major problems from the outset. The first and JCB sized shovel that buried it was it offered the customer less than they already had. That is for a CC Transaction the customer can say "not this was not me" but with SET they could not argue that. Also it cost big time back in the 1990's to generate and check the digital certs so that cost the customer and the merchant. Back in 2000 I identified a problem in that nobody could trust the software that you would have used to make your certificate (those I reviewd gave little entropy). At that time Adam Young and Moti Yung where going on about "kleptocryptography" and it was easy to show how this could be used when generating the users P&Q. Then of course there was a paper by D Copperfield (he of DES fame) who showed that if you knew as little as 25% of the bits in the P or Q then it was effectivly game over for the certificate. Then of course was the nigh on thousand A4 page specification with a huge chunk of ASN.1 descryptors. If I remember correctly there where iffy bits that could be exploited. As a general rule don't use somebody elses software to make your PQ pair for you, do it yourself there are plenty of checked bits of perl code for verifing a Prime of the right form that most people can check, and it's not overly difficult to make a random number generator with a couple of dice and a beer glass and beer mat. Then atleast you know what you are getting unlike black box software which could be hiding a back door in your certificate, that they know but you cannot find except by disassembling their code which we all know is a "serious" crime in the US... Nick P • February 2, 2010 1:00 PM @ Clive That kind of situation actually occurred with the Microsoft Windows Vista Elliptic Curve random number generator. One prominent cryptographer showed that, for the default numbers, a corresponding set of numbers existed that could decrypt communications. The concern was that those who picked the default numbers may have had the others' and intended to snoop in a clever way. That NSA consulted on their security and source came from NIST, under NSA influence, I don't blame people for not using that ECC system. Personally, I try not to use ECC at all: too esoteric and RSA is well-understood and easy to implement. Clive Robinson • February 2, 2010 2:25 PM @ BF Skinner, "Hmmmm...do we gain more with our credit cards than we lose in our anonymity of cash?" Worse many times over. A theif can only steal the cash in your wallet so you know you have only lost 100 buck's, they steal your cards and they can clean out your bank account whilst you are lying on the ER bed waiting to tell a disintereseted cop that "no you did not see who hit/knifed/shot/etc you from behind"... "He questioned their motives and speculated what the Fed really wanted was weak crypto so they could monitor transactions to off-shore banks." If the banks used it. They had and still have one heck of an investment in DES which has not yet gone away in various guises (3DES etc). However for many transactions they have no incentive to use encryption at all. As long as the authentication is strong.... "I think likely some in Government want us off banknotes and coin as fast as possible." Yes they do but in general not for the "Big Brother" option (although I'm sure they are happy with that side effect ;). Put simply "cash" is expensive, coinage doubly so. It is easy to forge both notes and coins, and in some places people have been known to smelt down old (pre 1980) copper coins as they are worth more as scrap than their face value. The problem the government had was seniorage, that is effectivly the interest on the money in circulation which goes to the person who prints the money (US Treasury in US, but the Five Banks in Scotland). Not so long ago when interest was above 5% then the costs of printing transportation forgery and end of life destruction where covered with a little profit left over. Now however with interest rates at 0.5% there is no profit. However the Governments are making large amounts on "Quantative Easing" in essence they just print money and spend it, thus devaluing the rest of the money in circulation as well as all that money in peoples savings accounts etc etc etc. Now if you or I where to print money or similar we would be looking at a very very long time in an orange jump suit with nice steel accessories, but atleast the bed and board is free (Not sure about non Fedral Prisons these days as I'm not a US citizen, nor have any interest in going to the US any longer, as the price, in loss of dignity and privacy is way more than I'm prepared to pay). @ Bruce, Oh and guess what in the UK we have installed the "nearly naked" scanners at London Heathrow, and they where showing the pictures on the news last night, and yes you can see the outline of the sex organs if those images are anything to go by not clearly but certainly enough to re-build with photoshop etc. And the best bit Lord Adonis (yes you cannot make it up if you tried) has said if you refuse to be scanned then "you will not fly" which as far as I can tell is actually illegal under EU legislation so expect to see the UK Gov get it's face slapped in the ECHR in about 2 years time. However how many people will they have needlessly abused both physicaly and mentaly in the meantime... Oh and also on illegal activities by the UK Government, even though having been told that "random stop and search" is illegal thay are still doing it, oh and also having been told "control orders" are illegal they are still using them. So even if the ECHR does tell the UK Gov it's illegal to say "no fly" I fully expect them to ignore it as normal. And we the British people are expected to have respect for these idiots... pradeep • February 2, 2010 11:24 PM Paypal and few other places (Wachovia Bank) offer a built in security card key, which generates and displays a six digit security code every 30 seconds. This device is tied to your account. http://www.claritech.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/... So when I log in to my Paypal account, aside from my login ID and password, I provide another factor of authentication by entering this security code. Paypal now even has it set up that you can do this on your mobile phone, in that, they text this security code to your phone and it changes every 30 seconds, so it can't be re-used. This seems to be a safe and easy to implement method for credit cards. Clive Robinson • February 3, 2010 3:01 AM @ Nick P, Hope all is well at your end of the world which reminds me EMail... I must sort it out. With regards, "That NSA consulted on their security and source came from NIST, under NSA influence, I don't blame people for not using that ECC system." Yes I'm told ECC has some oddities in it, which could easily be missused by those supposadly in the know. "Personally, I try not to use ECC at all: too esoteric" I'll put my hand up to having not got a real grip on the math of it (mind you I don't know if anybody I know personaly has either 8( "RSA is well-understood and easy to implement." Yes it is getting that way (still issues to do with P&Q selection though ;) Best of all is the patent time issue 8) However deep down the problem that both RSA and ECC have is what you might call "redundancy". They both have one heck of a lot of it in one way or another. As a friend who (does "math" ;) is involved with TRNG design says "The devil can hide a universe behind an atom, and there's on heck of a lot of them, thus we are all living in a state of sin" It's why I like OTP's and symetric ciphers as an engineer it feels like you can get a good grip on the "greasy pig" if you have "the right tools for the job" and have a chance of wining. Mind you I still cann't tell you if a number is "random" or not as they all look the same to me ;) k price • February 3, 2010 11:42 AM I had a problem with it, last week! Twylite • February 5, 2010 9:41 AM > Based on your remarks, and the mentioned failing, you sound like a party to the matter at hand or are a troll being employed by the same people who refuse to change the system. @Peter: I established an Internet identity using a pseudonym over 15 years ago, and use it consistently. My e-mail address is readily available via my web site (just click on my name, I make the URL public) and my "real" identity is in the domain records (because that's the legal requirement in my country). Although I work in the payment security industry, I don't disclose my affiliation because I do not speak on behalf of my employer. This is standard practice for most people. My company is not directly involved in Internet-based payments and we don't work with 3DS, but a draft did cross my desk in 2001. The credibility of my claims is easily verified via publicly available data. Apparently you couldn't be bothered, and would prefer to simply question my credentials. So, for the lazy: Wikipedia will tell you that OpenID was developed in 2005. A google search on 'visa "3d secure" history' will give hits claiming implementations as far back as 2003. A bit of reading of the specifications for both OpenID and 3DS will tell you that in both cases you will be redirected to a provider, the authentication mechanism (strength, type, etc.) is between you and the provider, and the provider confirms the authentication back to the originating site. So the interface to 3DS verification and its strength is under the controller of the issuer, not VISA or the 3DS spec. As for OpenID, search for 'openid problems' or read my blog entry (http://www.crypt.co.za/post/62) or one of many other pages on the issue (http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_troubles_with_openid_20.php).
Ralph Yozzo • January 14, 2011 12:50 PM Hi, I agree with the lack of security in the current systems. It's amazing that the secure well written systems are incorrectly not trusted by people. I hear "oh I don't trust Google or PayPal." It's amazing this same user will use a novice web site and disclose everything to it. While the novice website will use PayPal to clear the payment. Amazing! Here's a paper that I wrote about a real world experience: http://internetsecurity.brooklynmarathon.com/ Ralph Subscribe to comments on this entry Leave a comment
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- Three seemingly independent events occur on a single morning in London: None of these are noteworthy enough to satisfy the editors of the Evening Post.
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- Ken Follett is world famous for his bestselling suspense novels and his extraordinary nonfiction thriller On Wings of Eagles. Here, in its first American edition, is Paper Money, a little-known early Follett published pseudonymously in England before the author gained his international fame. Three seemingly independent events occur on a single morning in London: An MP wakes up after spending the night with a beautiful young woman he picked up at a bar; a tycoon meets a Bank of England official for breakfast; and a criminal briefs his crew. None of these are noteworthy enough to satisfy the editors of the Evening Post, who are looking for the story that will sell their edition. As the day progresses, however, these avaricious characters become integral members of a larger conspiracy, while an enterprising young journalist struggles to unravel it. On this one memorable day fortunes change hands and political reputations are tarnished Ken Follett has portrayed the pivotal day on which the greed and adultery of disparate characters create a race against the clock for paper money originally bound for the shredder. This chilling chronology of a single day displays Follett's well-known talent for intricate plots and swift character portraits. With an introduction by the author written especially for the American edition, Paper Money will be an exciting discovery for Follett's enthusiastic fans.
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 208 Pages
- 9780688058401
- Publisher:
- Date of Addition:
- 09/16/02
- Copyright Date:
- 1977
- Copyrighted By:
- Zachary Stone
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English US
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
- Submitted By:
- Guido Corona
- Proofread By:
- Guido Corona
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