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— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) September 19, 2014
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@ObsoleteDogma I did! We call it the Internet :-).
— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) September 19, 2014
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So… what’s on the agenda in your neighborhood, physical or pixilated?
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lamh36
Another security breach!
man failed to stop at the entrance to the WH complex while driving his vehicle
https://twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/513431867123851264
WaterGirl
Is there some context for quote at the top of the thread? It appears to be an answer without a question. What am I missing?
lamh36
Also too, based on this tweet from Knoller, the fence jumper was charged.
So wait, does that mean he was ARMED!
Wow, now imagine if this dude had actually made it this far into the WH with some form of suicide vest or something?
Again i ask, how the hell did he get that far without injury?
Tommy
Go Flordia. Just saying.
Corner Stone
Betty should be pretty happy. FLA just tied Bama off a TO.
Anne Laurie
@WaterGirl: A tweeter, riffing off the David Brooks column on making friends as an adult I covered earlier this morning, asks: Disrupt loneliness: when is @pmarca going to make this happen?
Tweeter @pmarca (Marc Andreeson) replies: I did! We call it the Internet :-)
Seemed mildly entertaining for those of us reading political blogs on a Saturday evening!
WaterGirl
@lamh36:
I’m with you on that!
lamh36
Also too, this happened:
Corner Stone
@lamh36: That is craze balls.
I wonder if it’s just coincidental nuts, or threat assessment?
WaterGirl
@Anne Laurie: It’s fine, now that I have the context. I even read the earlier thread and I had no idea what that was in reference to. Thanks.
Tommy
@Corner Stone: I just said go Flordia. Pretty sure that is a phrase I’ve only used once in my life.
James E Powell
An earlier version of this comment was marked as spam. I have no idea why.
I’ve asked about this before, but still haven’t found a way to fix it.
When I come to this wonderful blog using chrome on my laptop, it not only freezes, it sends the temperature up such that it will shut down if I don’t exit.
When I visit using ie, it stalls a bit, but operates normally after a minute or two.
The same thing happens when I to go josh marshall’s blog
All other blogs operate normally.
Corner Stone
Big sack by FLA!
Otmar
I just arrived in Seattle after 12.5 hours in planes (from Vienna via Frankfurt).
Immigration and customs took another hour (not just for visitors, US citizens had the same waiting time)
Why do Americans tolerate this sh*t?
James E Powell
My last comment was marked as spam and sent to moderation – I have no idea why. I didn’t mention any pharma or any places where people bet money or anything else that looks unusual.
Raven
Aw, you know!
lamh36
@WaterGirl:
I mean is it just the SS asleep at the wheel. Has Congress cut their funding or something? Have they just become lazy in recruiting or training?
Cause jeez, all these lapses are recent things aren’t they? Cause I don’t recall any of these types of lapses before the last 6 years
Corner Stone
That #27 for Bama is a freakin’ beast.
James E Powell
@Otmar:
Why do Americans tolerate this sh*t?
Freedom!
Also too – Why are my previous comments in moderation/spam?
FlipYrWhig
@lamh36: does this count? 1994.
lamh36
Alright, for some less serious fare, I watching the old ’94 movie version of “Streetfighter”.
Is it bad how much I actually love this stupid ass movie?
JCvD as Guile
Raul Julia as Bison
Ming Na as Chun-Li
Ken, Ryu, Blanka, Sagat…lol
Love it and all it’s campy goodness.
I should jut go ahead and get it on DVD to go along with my “Mortal Kombat” DVD.
Oh and don’t get me started on how much I love Mortal Kombat!
FlipYrWhig
@lamh36: This too.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
Indiana is hanging around with Missouri. I don’t expect it to last but I’ve been saying that for two quarters now.
And I have read every paragraph of this novel too many times. I won’t say that I’m sick of it but I am definitely sick of looking at it and trying to figure out how to make it better.
pseudonymous in nc
Marc Andreessen: a man whose historical legacy will be, rightly, that of inventing the IMG tag.
Tommy
@Corner Stone: Yes he is. I don’t think you arm tackle him.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@lamh36: It disappoints me so much that that was Raul Julia’s last movie.
Suffern ACE
@Otmar: because we know that we should be punished for wanting to leave the country for vacation.
lamh36
@FlipYrWhig: Ah yeah. i remember that.
I can’t see how one could get a small plane that close, but even then, it’s got to be going faster than a dude on foot who not only scaled a fence, but also ran across the lawn, and INTO the WH, and nary a shot was fired? Nary a contingent of SS converged on dude way before he made it to the doors?
I mean WTF, remember the woman who drove her car through the barricades? They shot into the car. I remember that being excessive, but damn this guy made it even further than her and not one agent attempted to stop him?
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@lamh36: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_intruders
? Martin
@Otmar: Because you’re an ISIS member bringing ebola to our shores from Benghazi and we are terribly afraid.
Randy P
I guess I saw a celebrity today. I was in downtown Philly and a couple of blocks were blocked off. Every cop in Philly was there and they were all taking photos with some guy in the middle of the street. I asked a couple of uniformed transit officers who the guy was and was greeted with:
Both: [Various noises of scorn and disbelief] You don’t know who that is?
Woman: That’s [something] Hopkins
Man: I’ll give you a $1000 to pick a fight with that guy
From the last comment and some of the poses, I deduce that the person in question is a fighter, probably this guy. He’s apparently a local and I guess also famous for being a boxing champion at the age of 49 going on 50. Not being a big sports fan, I had never heard of the guy.
Also, inexplicably, there was a large group of bikers (the motorcycle type, not the Lance Armstrong type) posing for photos in the same block. I’m not sure of the connection.
lamh36
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): I share in that disappointment. I still love it though.
Naw, i still like to remember Raul as Gomez Addams! But i don love Streetfighter and I somehow just have to watch it whenever it comes on
lamh36
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): Thanks for the list.
So from that it seems that none of the others actually made it near the WH interior or even close to it.
So I guess my question is back to how the hell this this guy make it “inside the North Portico” without ANY injury? Where was SS?
Amir Khalid
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN):
May I suggest you take a few days break from your novel, and occupying yourself with something else? For long enough so that when you do come back to it, you’ll be able to look at it with a fresh (or fresh enough) pair of eyes.
Oh, and I hope you’ve set yourself a deadline after which you will absolutely stop tinkering with the thing, and just accept whatever flaws remain; at some point, that tinkering process must end.
Corner Stone
Goodness. That was a heck of a catch by Bama #9.
Tommy
@Randy P: I would know him. A thousands bucks should be less to pick a fight with the man. He is a bad ass dude.
debbie
@? Martin:
Could be worse. They could be spouting Common Core principles.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@lamh36: I’m not really a fan of Julia’s Gomez Addams, though the problem isn’t the acting. It’s the scripting that turned into a superman that’s good at everything. I much prefer John Astin in the role.
Fun fact: Julia played Jerry’s brother on an episode of the Bob Newhart Show.
srv
Putin’s big head looms over Alaska:
Somebody needs to do something.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@lamh36: This is their side of the story.
Corner Stone
@debbie:
***Shutters***
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@Amir Khalid: At this point I’ve been working on it off and on for about three years. It’s reached the point that taking a few days off isn’t the key. It’s really just reached the point that I can’t make it any better and it’s time to raise the cash for professional editing. I have someone that I’ve worked with in the past that I’m really hoping I can afford this time around.
I just wish I had managed to get through this last revision before the weariness set in. I’ve noticed that I’ve been making fewer and fewer changes as I’ve moved through it and I’m now on a scene that definitely needs a lot of work. I tried editing it last night to no avail and today I’m trying to just rewrite the whole thing and see if it comes out better.
I will definitely have a point at which I stop tinkering. However, that point will come after at least one round of developmental edits (probably two) and copy editing. And then comes the process of turning a manuscript into an actual book, at least an ebook and hopefully in print.
debbie
@srv:
Most might think Sarah’s the gal to take care of this, but my bet’s on Bristol, who will take charge of the manhandling.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@efgoldman: He’s redoing his window treatments.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): Somehow, I’m not that upset that authorities decided not to shoot a brown person today.
Amir Khalid
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN):
If you’re at a point where you can’t make any more progress on the novel without outside help, now might well be a good time for a break.
Corner Stone
So basically Bama’s plan is to just throw the ball in the air anywhere on the field and #9 will go and get it?
Seems to be working.
mdblanche
@srv: Haven’t the Russians been doing stunts like that since forever?
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
I just looked up, saw Missouri score a touchdown and figured that was it. Then I realized that was just to tie. What the hell has gotten into the Hoosiers today?
Meanwhile the Gophers are somehow ahead of San Jose State despite the fact that the only two passes we’ve completed so far have been to the wrong team.
karen
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN):
Here is how Fox would have covered it if he had been killed.
“He was only following his Second Amendment rights, I thought we weren’t supposed to kill brown people!” he’d purr.
But his inner thoughts would be, “Dumbass was supposed to get into the White House WHEN BO was home!
Totally on another topic….Hershey’s hard chocolate shell tastes like heaven on frozen strawberries.
raven
Washington (CNN) — In the second security incident at the White House in as many days, an individual failed to stop at the entrance to the White House complex while driving his vehicle, Secret Service spokesman Brian Leary said.
Brad
Just thought I’d drop this tidbit into an open thread. Whilst walking through the Washington State fair I saw a straw poll at the Republican booth. With a commanding lead of treble the nearest rival was Dr Ben Carson. I laughed and laughed and laughed….
Randy P
Read an interesting article today about computer security at Home Depot
Seems they were warned for years about security vulnerabilities concerning store credit card accounts, but ignored the warnings. It was so bad one IT person warned his friends to use cash only at Home Depot.
The story just gets better and better. My favorite part is near the end.
I suspect there are some big lawsuits coming.
Edit to add: Uh, I hope it’s only store credit cards. I use my bank card all the time there.
WaterGirl
@Amir Khalid: Most excellent advice, Amir!
Mike in NC
@Randy P: No sympathy for wingnut billionaire Ken Langone. He’s why I refuse to shop at Home Depot.
lamh36
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): Not for nothing, but just FYI, the guy wasn’t a “brown” person according to this, but I get that one might think so based on his name.
Oh, and BTW,
Mike in NC
@srv: President Mitt Romney would declare war on the Holy Roman Empire.
lamh36
WaterGirl
@lamh36: Yep. No more texting, sexting or porn while on duty.
lamh36
Schlemazel
@Tommy:
I have used the phrased “Go FLorida” on one or more occasions, but always followed by “And take the rest of the god damned confederacy with you!”
WaterGirl
@lamh36:
Wow. That’s funny. My conclusion was that all the violence in the NFL is an NFL thing.
lamh36
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
Wow. The Big 10 is 18 seconds from winning a non-conference game against a Top 25 opponent.
And it’s Indiana that’s trying to pull it off.
Suffern ACE
@lamh36: the “chicken little” defense.
? Martin
@Randy P: It likely includes your bank card.
Schlemazel
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN):
The intruder was not white? (!?!?!)
A) that is very surprising, I assume angry white man since that seems to be the common theme when a D is in the WH
2) What is missing in Secret Service training that they don’t immediately blast brown people (the majority of people shot in what the FBI terms ‘non-combative confrontations’ are brown/black)
lll – Even if they had not shot him it seems there should have been a mob there before he got to the door, that is not a short sprint.
muddy
@? Martin: They said it was about 56 million cards, I assumed that couldn’t be all store cards.
lamh36
Alrighty, TTFN, time for Romancing The Stone and Jewel of the Nile.
Howard Beale IV
@Randy P: Expect that if you used any card at a Home Depot in the last 3 to 6 months it will be re-issued. The issuers won’t want to take a chance that you have been compromised by your use of a card at Home Depot-and this breach is the biggest of them all.
jayboat
@Howard Beale IV:
Yeah, 56 million sounds like all of ’em.
SiubhanDuinne
@jayboat:
FTFY. You must have momentarily forgotten that you were on BJ, with its own obligatory commenting memes.
JPL
@Howard Beale IV: I had my debit card changed but not my credit card, yet.
The bank will probably just call every time I use it. The bank I use, does have a good security monitoring system and assured me not to worry. The debit card was changed, because that’s what I normally used.
also.. truth be told the bank only calls if I make a large purchase outside of home depot.
Howard Beale IV
@jayboat: The issuers will pass the costs on to Home Depot for their failure to adhere to PCI standards. Home Depot’s gonna be in a world of hurt once the lawsuits start flying.
Howard Beale IV
@JPL: The Financial institution isn’t going to take that chance. Even with fraud detection systems in place (I’ve worked on them in a past life), an exposed live card places the bank at risk.
Mike J
@Amir Khalid: Just got home and saw the scores from this morning. West Ham? West Ham? WTF?
SiubhanDuinne
Was it only a week ago tonight that we had the Boston (Watertown) meet-up? Seems, in some ways, like years ago.
I’ll post in a bit of detail about my great New England trip once I get home, but I will say here and now and loudly that connecting with Juicers in Alexandria and Rhode Island and Boston and Vermont and Amherst constituted some of the best features of the entire 3+ weeks. On separate tracks, I met some previously-virtual friends from the old Dorothy L. Sayers/Lord Peter Wimsey chat groups I used to frequent; and was able to reconnect with some Real Life friends as well.
Now once again on the wrong side of the Mason-Dixon tracks (Hagerstown, MD for overnight) and think I will drop down to the start of the Blue Ridge Parkway tomorrow and go home that way. I’m in no particular rush but need to check and see what day I told the USPS to start re-delivering my mail, and plan accordingly.
SiubhanDuinne
@efgoldman:
Not yet. See my #81.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
Anyone know what the quarterback rating for going 1/8 for 7 yards with 0 TDs and 2 interceptions would be? And the Gophers won. Look out Michigan!
raven
And the shaky Illini look like a winner after being down 2 td’s and having a 2hr rain delay.
raven
And LSU getting their asses whipped IN Death Valley!!!!!
JR in WV
WVU tied w OK… Let’s Go, Mountaineers!!!
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@efgoldman: He’s probably watching it with Amir.
SiubhanDuinne
@raven:
Rain delay?? RAIN DELAY?!?!?! There are no RAIN DELAYS in football!!
raven
@SiubhanDuinne: It’s a rule for lightning. Clear the field and 30 minutes for each sighting. Georgia had the same thing last night.
raven
@efgoldman: see above
JPL
@Howard Beale IV: Why is just HD at fault when European banks have been using chips for years? Neiman’s, Target and others have had breaches. Isn’t it a bigger problem than just stores?
In other words, how safe are credit cards?
The Dangerman
Gotta feel for the people that bet FSU and were giving up 19 points; shit, even a 12 point spread looks pretty questionable tonight.
raven
@The Dangerman: xin loi doucheinnoles!
raven
@efgoldman: Les Miles is a dolt. . . a Michigan dolt no less.
skerry
@JPL: I recently re-thunk my use of my debit card. It was compromised and multiple charges made against it. The charges went through and the money was deducted from my checking account. It took over a week to get the money put back into the account. It was several hundred dollars. I caught the charges – not the bank. If I hadn’t seen it, who knows how long the thieves would have used the card. Could have emptied out my account, and I have overdraft protection that pulls from my savings.
With a credit card, they just cancel the fraudulent charges and you aren’t out anything.
The rules/regulations governing credit cards vs debit cards are very different. As a consumer, you have more protection with a credit card. Caveat Emptor.
I have stopped using my debit card except for cash withdrawals at my bank ATM. I’m using cash much more than I did just 6 months ago.
JPL
@skerry: That’s good advice.
The Dangerman
In a clarification, FSU to announce that Winston will sit the first half tonight and next game; the equivalent of a full game.
Jameis’s name will be mud if the Noles go down tonight.
Ruckus
@JPL:
The cards aren’t too bad, it’s the software/security that some merchants use sucks. And it seems like big merchants.
BTW when I owned a small retail store the law changed and all info had to be encrypted at the card reader and could not be stored on any computer in the chain, the merchants, any ISP, only the bank paying the charge. Look here for more info. I had to update my hardware and sales software to be compliant.
That was for small business. I’d bet that big business doesn’t have to do all that. Why would they, they can just lobby for them not to have to spend a dime to make your money safer.
SiubhanDuinne
@skerry:
@JPL:
Well, except for people like me who are cash/debit card only. I carry no debt; OTOH, I have a non-existent credit rating because I’ve paid cash for EVERYTHING since 1987. No mortgage, no car note, no nothin’.
raven
@The Dangerman: No they aren’t.
Florida State has suspended quarterback Jameis Winston for the entire game Saturday night against No. 22 Clemson, the school announced late Friday.
Winston, the reigning Heisman Trophy winner for the top-ranked Seminoles, originally had been suspended for just the first half against the visiting Tigers after a profane and sexually explicit
Star Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston picked the wrong week to do what he did, Ivan Maisel writes.
But Florida State decided to extend his suspension to the entire game because Winston was not entirely truthful or forthcoming regarding Tuesday’s incident, a source told ESPN.
? Martin
@muddy: Oh, there are very few store cards in that. It’s mostly credit and debit cards.
raven
2 kickoff returns for TD’s by Vandy!
Mike J
@raven: A profane and sexually explicit what? Roman à clef novel? Carrier pigeon?
raven
@efgoldman: And Indiana beat Mizzou!
JPL
@SiubhanDuinne: Credit cards don’t necessarily mean debt and it’s not a bad idea to have one. My sons are upset because I only have one.
Ruckus
@skerry:
I’ve had to cancel/change my debt card twice in the last 4 months. So now I use cash whenever possible. Until all merchants have to encrypt all card info as it is swiped and can no longer store any info in any fashion your card is potentially at risk. The last time mine was breached there was a $49.95 charge made 3000 miles from the card in my wallet. $49.95 is 5 cents less than the charge that you are responsible for on a debt card and was done so that banks will not see this as an issue. The company that ran the number has a history of doing this in the name of a “nutritional supplement” company. I’d bet good money they are owned by the same people. There is no reason for a company to use a second company to run your card. Except for fraud.
? Martin
BTW, if you want to know why Apple Pay exists, and why the banks are flocking to it, its because of Target and Home Depot. Apple started working with the banks on it before Target, but these breaches are only driving more support for it.
Apple Pay takes all of the user identification and verification away from the merchants and gives all of it to the banks. So long as a flaw isn’t found in Apple’s hardware security layer (none so far in a year) then the system should prove to be extremely difficult to commit fraud against – both for in-person payments and online unless you find a way to breach the bank’s systems directly.
Ruckus
@SiubhanDuinne:
Same here. Don’t have the cash? Don’t have the stuff.
Tommy
@efgoldman: We lost. But I have to ask how do you not like Les?
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@Ruckus:
I know one of the people that worked with Target on their breach. In their case, they got screwed by a vendor that told them they were taking security measures that they weren’t. It’s still their responsibility since they chose the vendor but a lot of the problems come up when information gets passed from one company’s systems to another’s.
raven
@Tommy: What do you mean “We lost”? the 4th qtr just started. I’m the one that thinks Miles is a dolt.
Ruckus
@JPL:
It’s a lot easier to stay completely out of debt if you don’t have any credit cards or rating. Yes emergencies can be difficult but it is impossible to get into debt trouble if you aren’t allowed to get into debt.
Tommy
@raven: 31 to 10. Maybe I am not the hormer I think because that is a victory I don’t see hapening.
raven
@Tommy: Step away from the bong. . .
Ruckus
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN):
And that is a huge problem with a lot of our huge businesses. The passing off of responsibility for things like credit card info. They let others do the work and act like they have done all they need to be responsible, when they really haven’t. It’s OK until the shit hits the fan, but the money they supposedly save is what they are looking for. Doing the right thing? Who needs that?
Corner Stone
There’s nothing wrong with debt. It’s not inherently evil. The fact that most people can’t appropriately evaluate risk and/or debt doesn’t make using debt a bad thing.
SiubhanDuinne
@JPL: I do not qualify.
SiubhanDuinne
@Ruckus:
Yup. This.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@efgoldman: Kid?
skerry
@SiubhanDuinne: Will airlines/rental car companies take a debit card? I thought all purchases had to be made with a credit card.
I have 2 credit cards. One that I use now for monthly purchases and pay off in full and one that I keep for “emergency use only” – like if I had to buy a ticket to get to my parents ASAP.
I do have a mortgage, but other than that, I am debt free.
raven
@efgoldman: Sparkin while typin is dangerous biddness!
raven
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): Just drag yourself in from Camp Randall?
SiubhanDuinne
@Corner Stone:
Just as some people (not all) cannot handle even a little bit of alcohol, some (not all) cannot be trusted with a line of credit.
Corner Stone
Why would someone attack somebody like that for just a simple typo?
SiubhanDuinne
@skerry:
Airlines, yes, in my experience (I rarely fly anywhere). Some car rental companies do (Alamo, for instance).
Tommy
@efgoldman: I wish I had a bong to step to. Alas I don’t. I just came home and went to ESPN and saw the score of the LSU game. It looked like it was final. Sorry.
Corner Stone
@SiubhanDuinne: It’s not really the same thing, but ok.
One is a rational decision matrix, and one is chasing the porcelain dragon on the regular.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@raven: Watched it on the TV box. Lots of rushing, lots.
Jack the Second
From the link (http://news.yahoo.com/why-the-secret-service-didn-t-shoot-the-fence-jumper-160933257.html)
Crazy!
raven
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): Yea I went to one of those today too. I posted earlier that I split at the half. It was 49-0 and a guy was trying to sell a ticket outside of the stadium!
raven
@efgoldman: almost is right
Ruckus
@skerry:
Have used a debt card and cash to rent cars. The companies don’t like it, but they accept them. Cash is the one that gets me. They really don’t seem to like cash, I think it’s that all debts public or private that gets them. They like credit cards as they can lay on a big reserve which a lot of debt cards won’t allow. My card limit is $200/day. With cash/debt cards I have had to show some bills, like utility to show them I actually live where I say I do.
jayboat
@SiubhanDuinne:
Apologies for the breach of protocol, kind friend. Won’t happen again, ever.
I plead Lebowski… it’s been a Caucasian kinda day/night.
Ruckus
@SiubhanDuinne:
Airlines are not a problem, ticket is x amount, you have x amount in a form they can count on, you’re good to go. A rent car may have additional charges. I once was hit in a parking lot on the passenger side and didn’t know it until I turned the car in. Not a big dent but I don’t think it was there when I picked up the car. As it was on my company card, they could just add on the cost. They didn’t because I made a fuss and showed them on their form that they hadn’t checked out the car well enough when I picked it up.
? Martin
@Ruckus:
That won’t solve the problem. They already encrypt the data. The problem is that your card number is being passed around. Payment systems like Apple Pay and Google Wallet don’t do that. Google still has your card number (as does your bank), but the merchant doesn’t, so if you trust Google then it’s a better approach. Overall it’s a fairly good system but the banks don’t trust Google collecting all of that information so they aren’t fond of it, but it does keep the data away from the merchants.
With Apple Pay only the bank has your card number – nobody else. That’s really the desired end-goal.
Southern Beale
We just watched a movie where the ENTIRE film is a guy driving a car talking on the cell phone.
raven
@efgoldman: Because she hates football?
Ruckus
@? Martin:
I agree that all the info is supposed to be encrypted, but I don’t believe it is. The link I gave above is about the law for small businesses but if a big business is acting as it’s own merchant bank, they should still not store the info. If it is encrypted like I had to do in my store, no one but the paying bank has any of the info, including the key.
raven
Tommy, you better turn that game back on.
Michael G
@James E Powell:
Regarding Balloon Juice causing problems on your laptop:
This blog has a lot of Flash ads and for whatever reason, one or more of them goes into a “Use 100% CPU” loop every so often.
I have just taken to blocking flash. I use Settings->Privacy->Content->Click to Play–this lets you renable Flash on a site-by-site basis.
But you could use AdBlock or some other flash blocking extension as well.
I have no reason why BJ is the only site that seems to trigger and and why you and I seem to be the only ones bugged by it, but there you go.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@efgoldman: ::sideeye::
raven
LSU within 5. And none of the great LSU fans are there! Tiger Bait Tiger Bait!
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
Does Phil Knight buy Oregon new uniforms for every game? And are there any of them that I don’t need to worry about burning out my retinas?
Ruckus
@? Martin:
Also I am talking not about encrypting in the computer attached to the card reader but in the card reader itself. Before the law changed(2009-10?) it was encrypted in my computer by my sales software. There was an absolute hole in the security, I had to be attached to the internet to transfer the info, and there was unencrypted info on my computer. That changed. I know it was for small business, I believe that large businesses were exempted(money talks) because they supposedly were already secure enough(and because I bet they didn’t want to spend the money to change over their card readers. Take someone like Ralph’s or Target for example, a lot of card readers there). Obviously they were not.
Joel
@lamh36: Bill Maher is a troll. I don’t see how anyone could think otherwise.
Anne Laurie
@Michael G:
From my tech-challenged perspective, WordPress is a weirdly glitch-ridden program and Chrome is (according to my tech expert) a weirdly glitch-riddled platform. Quite possibly Balloon Juice and TPM are in the limited subset of blogs using exactly the FYWP version/plugins that trigger the indefinite-load glitch on a particular version/modification of Chrome when a particular subset of (political?) Flash ads are downloaded.
I’ll be so frigging happy when we move past the Model-A “every driver needs to be a specialty mechanic” version of the Internet… but I suspect that won’t happen in my lifetime.
raven
20 seconds and it ain’t Halloween!
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@efgoldman: Why do you have cameras in my home?
raven
La Bamba comin!!!!!!
raven
Whew. . . MSU.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): Answers: Yes, No.
Suffern ACE
@BillinGlendaleCA: since the New School doesn’t have a football team, why doesn’t Oregon contract out that gimmick to Parsons students. You know. Kids with actual talent?
Mike J
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN):
Nike donates a new uniform every game.
bago
@Otmar: Enh, it ensures that the detail is so focused on banal entities that sneaking cuban cigars is relatively easy.
bago
@Michael G: True. I stopped visiting because of that ad.
Comrade Nimrod Humperdink
Came so close against the Nike Flying Highlighters. Maybe three years from now we’ll have a team that can beat a top squad that doesn’t show up. Ugh.
GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)
@efgoldman:
I nominate the Palin brood.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
ObDeadOpenThread: AP in the NY Times:
Cheers,
Scott.