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Comment Authorisation is only half the process.... (Score 2, Informative) 126

The poster obviously doesn't understand how credit cards word. Sure, we can do an offline transaction for whatever value we want, provided the merchant doesn't fall into any of the various restricted merchant category codes, like gambling companies and so forth. Even then, you've got an offline authorisation for almost a million dollars... you think you've stolen a million dollars? Nope! Firstly the point of sale system must upload a file containing the authorisations it's performed. The bank takes this, and generally a night, through a process called settlement, moves the appropriate funds around. A lot of the settlement processes are still performed with ALOT of human supervision. For one company I used to work at, which processed billions in credit card payments every year, there were 3 hardy engineers, ensuring the process went off without a hitch. Catching large or fraudulent transaction happens at this stage too. Most cards have an upper transaction value also, so when submitting a file containing a value over this, the entire batch would be rejected, and an engineer would have to regenerate a new file, minus the transactions and submit. The file submitter would get an automated report of what transactions failed to settle correctly, and from there they could investigate fraud...

Comment I've moved to Mikrotik (Score 5, Informative) 427

I've moved over to a Mikrotik RB2011 series device and I have to say I'm loving it. Has all the features I need, and even though the hardware is 3 years old at this stage, it's still alot faster than the older WRT devices. Interface and command line are a little whacky, and hard to get used to, but once you do, you'll never go back. http://routerboard.com/RB2011U...

Submission + - Getty Images makes 35 million images free for non-comercial usage 1

kc123 writes: In an effort to deal with copyright infringement Getty Images is launching a new embedding feature that will make more than 35 million images freely available to anyone for non-commercial usage. Anyone will be able to visit Getty Images’ library of content, select an image and copy an embed HTML code to use that image on their own websites. Getty Images will serve the image in an embedded player – very much like YouTube currently does with its videos – which will include the full copyright information and a link back to the image’s dedicated licensing page on the Getty Images website.

Submission + - Fusion Reactor Breaks Even 2

mysqlbytes writes: The BBC is reporting the National Ignition Facility (NIF), based at Livermore in California, Has succeeded in breaking even — "During an experiment in late September, the amount of energy released through the fusion reaction exceeded the amount of energy being absorbed by the fuel — the first time this had been achieved at any fusion facility in the world."

Comment Consider a Microtik Router? (Score 5, Informative) 193

I recently got a Microtik router running RouterOS, and I have to say I love it functionality at it's price point. Even supports BGP if you are that way inclined. My DSL was annoying me, so I turned it to bridged mode, and now the new router does everything else. NAT seems faster, with pings being 3ms quicker which I was astonished at. My other idea was an old desktop running linux, but I worked out the pricing for hardware vs electricity. And within a year (in Ireland) I am going to save money with the Microtik router. The router uses about 7W fully loaded, whereas my desktop would be churning 250 watts fully loaded... This is my one: http://routerboard.com/RB2011UAS-2HnD-IN
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Submission + - Free Software NVIDIA driver now supports 3D acceleration with all GeForce GPUs (h-online.com) 2

aloniv writes: The reverse-engineered free/libre and open source driver for NVIDIA cards Nouveau has reached a new milestone. The Nouveau driver in the current Linux 3.8 development branch has recently acquired everything that's necessary to support the 3D acceleration features of any GeForce graphics hardware. Together with a current version of libdrm and the Nouveau 3D driver in Mesa 3D 9.0, this allows Linux applications to use 3D acceleration even with the most recent GeForce graphics cards.

Comment Isn't this what VPS are for? (Score 2) 206

Personally I have a VPS in every country I want to get content from. I have a US VPSs, for Netflix, Pandora an whatever else. I have a UK VPS for BBC iPlayer, Channel4 and so on. Cheap as chips generally. I think my UK one cost $30 a year! Sell the service to my friends, and bingo I've made my money back, and I don't have to worry (too much) about some third party stealing all of my traffic

Comment PCI Compliance is basically a cover up. (Score 1) 306

PCI compliance can be a cover up, and a cover story over many troubled companies. I work at one, where I was instructed to be creative when it came to giving answers. Patching was always an annual affair, generally before the auditor came onsite. As for external pens tests, they can be faked. At one stage we pointed the pen testers at a non-production test system, with a completely different version of software. Thank god I am out of that sector now. Sony are liable for costs from the Credit card companies. I was told it was $100 an exposed card number. So they could be liable for billions.

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