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Apple tablet could cement Jobs' legacy - CNN.com - http://www.cnn.com/2009...
Sparky Crocker, Michael Hannah and Olivier Castets liked this
"Tablet speculation mostly centers on what's in it for the user, and third parties, including the print media. But the key is what's in it for Apple -- more specifically, what's in it for CEO Steve Jobs. We think there's one thing that makes an Apple Tablet inevitable: Jobs is considering his legacy, and he wants it to include saving the media, pulling it back from the brink at its darkest moment."
- Bill Sodeman
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Yes, it's clear he's taking Moses as his role model...
- Tim Ostler
Tim, does that mean the Apple tablets will ship in pairs? :)
- Bill Sodeman
Yup -- a screen and a detachable keyboard... The big question is will they shatter as Jobes hurls them to the ground in discovering that the faithful have been waiting so long for the tablet they've given up and are worshipping the Golden Android
- Tim Ostler
+1 Tim. "Where's your Moses now?!"
- Bill Sodeman
Maxamad (Amazigh) to Maxamad's feed, All Things Apple, The Apple Room, Security, Crypto, Security, Privacy
BBC NEWS | Technology | Worm attack bites at Apple iPhone - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
"The first worm to infect the Apple iPhone has been discovered spreading "in the wild" in Australia."
- Maxamad (Amazigh)
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"The self-propagating program changes the phone's wallpaper to a picture of 80s singer Rick Astley with the message "ikee is never going to give you up"."
- Maxamad (Amazigh)
This, ladies and gentlemen, is win.
- Maxamad (Amazigh)
This is pretty easy to prevent. If you have enough skill to jailbreak an iPhone, you should be able to install Mobile Terminal and change the mobile and root passwords.
- Matt Hilton
Arnaldo M Pereira to Arnaldo's feed, All Things Google, All Things Apple, The Apple Room, TheNextWeb Forum, RWW: The Future of Tech, All Things Mobile
Gallery: Droid vs. iPhone - battle of the screens | The Apple Core | ZDNet.com - http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple...
"Much has been made of the screen on the new Droid smartphone from Motorola and Verizon Wireless. The 854 x 480 pixel, 3.7-inch panel is 273% larger than the iPhone’s 320 x 480, 3.5-incher and is setting itself apart as one of Droid’s flagship features."
- Arnaldo M Pereira
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ilginç, Droid'in ekranı çok daha büyük olmasına rağmen iPhone'dan daha az alanı gösterebiliyor...
- SY
what language is that?
- Arnaldo M Pereira
Turkish
- SY
Sadece bir ekran içinde anlaşılan.
- Arnaldo M Pereira
i love translate.google.com
- Burçin Mumcuoğlu
interestingly, translating that turkish sentence back to english doesn't give me what I've wrote. that's how translators have been working forever, anyway.
- Arnaldo M Pereira
((: sürekli çeviriyor google...
- SY
Anyone got suggestions for iPhone panorama apps? So far I've got AutoStitch, Panorama, Pano and PanoLab. Are there more?
Bill Sodeman, Dave Roth and Roberto Bonini liked this
What I'd like are some opinions on which one is best.
- Dave Roth
For now I've only worked with AutoStitch and had no problems whatsoever. Gonna give the others a try though...
- Holger Eilhard
Totally forgot about autostitch... damn could have used it this morning.
- Roberto Bonini
Praveen Vasudev to Praveen's feed, iPhone, All Things Apple, The Goodie Room, TheNextWeb Forum, RWW: The Future of Tech
Factron iPhone 3G case with interchangeable camera lenses - http://www.techchee.com/2009...
Ron Thompson, Robert Freeze, Kazuya Yokoyama and 3 other people liked this
Factron iPhone case is a pretty unique metallic jacket for your iPhone. Once your iPhone has been wrapped with the Factron case, you can also stick a lens at the back of where the camera is. By that you can also interchange a variety of lenses to suit different shootings that you want.
- Praveen Vasudev
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That looks very nice.
- Ron Bailey
Its bulkier than I thought it would be.
- Praveen Vasudev
Really?
- © b e e n s w a n k
Tunesart: un’estensione per iTunes da provare! | HeavyTrader - http://www.heavytrader.it/2009...
Does anyone have the new Magic Mouse? What are your thoughts on it? Is it better than the Mighty Mouse? :)
I played with one at an Apple Store (Roseville, MN) before Apple had them on the shelves. Felt cool, solid, and serious in my hand. An Apple-ite demo'd it for me. My hands-on convinced me to order one when they were available. I think it arrives in a couple days.
- Jason Miller
Yeah, I just tried one out today, and I liked it. I am a long time Mighty Mouse user, so I wanted to hear what other people thought. I think I am going to order one as well. thx :)
- TheHenry
jitouch - Multitouch Extension for MacBook's Trackpad - http://www.jitouch.com/index...
Really useful gestures
- Onur Babacan
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WALL·E is a PC, EVE is a Mac - Fubiz™ - http://ffffound.com/image...
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Mathew™ one of a kind and nick liked this
yeah. But there's a scene at the movie, Wall-E boots with Mac's Boot chime...
- Melih
Steve Jobs: CEO of the Decade - FORTUNE on CNNMoney.com http://money.cnn.com/magazin... (via http://friendfeed.com/idesign...)
Cagan Caglar, Sarp Tüzün, Guido Alberti and 3 other people liked this
Praveen Vasudev to Praveen's feed, The Apple Room, All Things Apple, TheNextWeb Forum, RWW: The Future of Tech
Steve Jobs named CEO of the Decade - http://money.cnn.com/magazin...
Livy, Eric, Mitchell McKenna and 7 other people liked this
Why him? Steve Jobs revived Apple and remade entire industries, defying the worst economic conditions since the Great Depression -- and his own serious health problems.
- Praveen Vasudev
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50 Common Mac Problems Solved - MacLife - http://www.maclife.com/article...
Siddharth Deb, denise, orionstarr and 3 other people liked this
Marketing Tips - What Apple Can Teach You About Marketing http://www.smallfuel.com/blog...
Alemsah Ozturk, Burak "cyrus" Bayburtlu, aerodeon and 5 other people liked this
Bende bu konuda bir yazı girmiştim bloğumda, içerisinde yer alan bir madda üzerinden Apple'ı örnek vererek. Görsellerin kalitesi ve gücü hakkında.
- aykut - webbcini
Apple işini gerçekten çok iyi biliyor. Tapılası.
- Ceren Şekerci
Review: Parablox - The Addictive Puzzle Brick-Breaker Hybrid - http://theiphonewebsite.com/review-...
SimpleLeap Software, LLC. liked this
Very fun!
- Patrick Chukwura
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Love this game!
- SimpleLeap Software, LLC.
Apple Attacks Back in Commercial | iPhone Blog, App Reviews, Tips, and How-Tos - http://theiphonewebsite.com/apple-a...
SimpleLeap Software, LLC. and Ninja Monkey!! liked this
Dunno if this is real, but it would be nice if it is
- Patrick Chukwura
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What? That couldn't possibly be real. It comes off as very amateurish and frankly, juvenile. "iWas first"? Come on.
- Chieze Okoye
May not be real, but cute. I personally think Apple won't even respond to this type of ad, as I don't believe the Droid is a close threat.
- SimpleLeap Software, LLC.
Jerry Seinfeld Dumps Microsoft, Goes Back To Mac (VIDEO) - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009...
Süha Yunus Erol, .LAG liked that and Spidra Webster liked this
ell, it seems Jerry Seinfeld's chummy Microsoft days are over (despite the $10 million he was reportedly paid for the Microsoft ad spot). TUAW broke the news that Seinfeld had been spotted in a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode fraternizing with a MacBook pro.
- Tate DA FF MVP
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To be fair, he could be running Windows on it...
- Jennifer Dittrich
Numan Arda Çebi to Numan's feed, Apple iPod Touch & Apps, All Things Apple, The Apple Room, iPhone, Toys, Games & Game Tools, iPhone Türkiye, Appetite
Apple iPod touch - See games and apps in action. - http://www.apple.com/ipodtou...
Nuran Esici, YunusYAMANER(CITRIL), Kaan Şengül and 2 other people liked this
Taking a bite out of Apple - http://labs.ideo.com/2009...
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Joshua Schnell, nazeee, SY and 2 other people liked this
'My first thought when I got the request to cut a corner off the MacBook was that it should be a bite or two, literally shaped like you would take a bite out of a sandwich. And this quick experiment could represent us, as designers, biting back at the technology that people are so enthralled with that they don’t realize it takes up so many hours in their life never to be recovered.'
- Simon Wicks
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poor powerbook :-(
- alex
Om nom nom though! :)
- Simon Wicks
Zirve University Gaziantep - http://www.vimeo.com/7219393
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mesut felat, elki, omasozturk and 10 other people liked this
güzel bir konuşma olmuş, ancak kuzey teksas üniversitesi hazırlık okulundan gelen konuşmacının dediklerini tercüman kızımız heyecandan unutmuş :)
- Süha Yunus Erol
O tercuman degıl aslında.... gel kızım cevır dedıklerı ıcın bır den olan bır sey.... tercuman degıl o :)
- Bahaeddin [ MacinLife ]
heyecanlandığı belli epeyce :)
- Süha Yunus Erol
Bahaeddin abi süper konuşmuşsun :)
- MeRT (GoLden)
Memleket rüyası...Gerçek oldu.Bu tabloyu çizenler kadar izleyenlerde sevinçli.Teşekkür ederim.
- elki
Apple says booting OS X makes an unauthorized copy of it in RAM - Updated (Groklaw) - http://www.groklaw.net/article...
"Psystar and Apple continue to battle it out, and things are coming to a head next month. They are fighting on two major fronts, and both will be the subject of oral argument on November 12. It looks like we will see an end, one way or another, of much of the first Apple-Psystar litigation. Psystar, I gather, would like this to be the end of this litigation, period, and then it will be on to Florida, I assume, for the second, the one over Snow Leopard, which Psystar has already been infringing, from Apple's point of view. Psystar has said it will accept an injunction of just Leopard, since it claims it isn't selling it any more anyway, and a nominal fine. All the rest of Apple's claims, it argues, are then moot."
- Maxamad (Amazigh)
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I retain the copyright in this comment. When you read it you are making 3 unauthorised copies: 1. In your retina 2. In your visual cortex, and 3. In your memory. You all owe me $$$, thanks. http://www.reddit.com/r...
- Maxamad (Amazigh)
i didn't read it. :)
- Cristo
I don't see Apple saying normal booting of OSX makes an unauthorized copy. They acknowledge the "essential step" exception but claim it doesn't apply to what Psystar is doing. (Any copy made as an essential step in using a computer program is non-infringing under US copyright law.)
- Bruce Lewis
Proprietary minds acting as they were Open Source compliant... Business as usual, most common IT song through years...
- Thierry Lhôte
If you want to start to use MAC , you need this link .... (Bahaeddin) 101 really useful tips for Mac beginners | News | TechRadar UK - http://www.techradar.com/news...
If you want to start to use MAC , you need this link .... (Bahaeddin) 101 really useful tips for Mac beginners | News | TechRadar UK - http://www.techradar.com/news...
Adobe engages Apple in passive aggressive warfare with iPhone's Flash message---------------- Adobe saygi duyuyorum sana :) Ve bu yaziyi destekliyorum http://www.engadget.com/2009... - http://www.engadget.com/
Ali Bahşişoğlu, Matt Hilton, veli bahceci and 4 other people liked this
So you want an iPhone? Heres a comparison for the new Tariff from Orange UK in comparison to the current deal offered by O2 UK. Have a look and see what the total cost would be over 18 months for the phone of your choice along with the Monthly Tariff :)
Charlotte M, Tyson Key and Simon Wicks liked this
Wonder what i'd spend my 48p on..
- Simon Wicks
48 penny sweets?
- Giraffes Up In The AIr
Argh, so much money spend on a tiny phone! Now I feel like a complete idiot for buying into it. Just think about how much I could have saved to spend on a house...
- Charlotte M
Thats true Charley,look at the cheapest one - £624.98, you can buy a 42 inch 1080p Samsung LCD tv for that
- Giraffes Up In The AIr
Quit your jibber jabber! I don't want no LCD tv, I want a one bed flat in Kensington! Do the math for that one!
- Charlotte M
What a letdown! So much for competition driving down costs -- call in the Anti-Trusts..
- Tim Ostler
Come on people, did you actually expect to get it cheaper? Vodafone will be similar too I think. However, I will port as the voda network is just so much better for me.
- Keith Bennett
No ID is required for credit card purchases. If a store says it is, they're violating their contract.
Kol Tregaskes, Iván Abrego, Anthony K. Valley © and 20 other people liked this
It happens rarely, but it really irks me when a store asks for ID to complete a credit card transaction. It happened to me today at an apparel merchant I won't specify here. It is a violation of their merchant agreement with the credit card issuer. You can choose it go elsewhere, try to get an exception or escalate it to their management, or cave in. But it is a good idea to report it to the credit card issuer: http://consumerist.com/333160... Stand up for your rights as a consumer or you may find those rights eroding.
- LogEx
If you're using a MasterCard and get asked for ID, you can report the merchant here: http://www.mastercard.com/us... Edit: I see the link is in that Consumerist article, too. LE, why is this in the Apple room, though?
- Rochelle
Umm...and this is exactly what's wrong with the credit card system. Stores should be required to verify your ID when you buy using a credit card.
- Alex Scoble
No they shouldn't Alex, the issuers have sophisticated fraud detection algorithms and specifically forbid the merchants from checking ID. This is a good consumer-friendly policy. Your card and signature are all that's necessary.
- LogEx
Given how many ways you can use a card without showing ID (online, gas pumps), having to show ID nowadays is rather pointless.
- Rob H.
Their sophisticated fraud detection algorithms are "we take responsibility for any fraud"...They still lose billions in dollars because retailers don't do their due diligence when ringing up sales. The scammers know exactly what stores are lax about their practices. We all pay because of this in higher interest rates and credit card fees.
- Alex Scoble
Key distinction: they cannot REQUIRE an ID, but they are not prohibited from REQUESTING it.
- Glen Campbell
That may be true Glen, but when they say it's store policy to show ID before the transaction can be completed, that's requiring. I have refused before and had the refusal accepted, and that's fine.
- LogEx
Having spent 6 months trying to get fraudulent changes out of my record and off my credit reports, I wish more merchants would verify ID.
- Glen Campbell
Visa's rules for merchants state: "Although Visa rules do not preclude merchants from asking for cardholder ID, merchants cannot make an ID a condition of acceptance . Therefore, merchants cannot refuse to complete a purchase transaction because a cardholder refuses to provide ID . Visa believes merchants should not ask for ID as part of their regular card acceptance procedures ."
- Ken Sheppardson
LogEx — only if they refuse to complete the sale without the ID. If you politely decline, and they proceed with the sale, no harm, no foul. But I still do not understand why you'd not want them to verify your identity.
- Glen Campbell
21 years as a retail manager: we've never required ID but we will ask in some situations. Stolen CCs are a major problem in this city. Asking for ID discourages those using stolen cards.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
I'm fine with ask, but don't require, as long as consumers are educated that they are not required. The transaction is what's important to verify, not identity.
- LogEx
Merchants usually have the right to refuse service. If they think something is fraudulent they have a right to ask. Based on your response they can refuse if they are not certain.
- Robert Higgins
Incorrect, LogEx. I've had fraudulent charges put on my card before with a completely different name. If the system was set up to link ID to CC # this type of fraud would not be possible.
- Alex Scoble
That's true and it is increasingly annoying to have stores seemingly require ID. Just say no.
- AJ Kohn
@Alex... "billions in fraud"? Do you have a citation for that. I pay no interest and only a minimal fee (in exchange for benefits). Also, ID is easy to forge too. There are no guarantees. The credit card companies know what they are doing. They know if the card is being used in a manner or place that is atypical enough to be potentially fraudulent.
- LogEx
I actually write "Ask for ID" in the signature space on the back of my cards. Technically, merchants are supposed to give the card back and ask me to sign it, but I've never had one do that. They just ask me for ID. I already have my wallet open, they look at the picture, look at me, then put the transaction through. I figure it won't stop a professional, but if somebody happens to find my wallet and it deters them at all from using the card, it's worth it.
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken, that's perfect if it works for you. My point is that it is not required and for those who do not like showing it, they should know they don't have to. Looking at it is one thing. But sometimes they want to do more, like scan it or enter the number into the register. That is completely unacceptable to me.
- LogEx
They do? Have you read the PCI standard? They don't have a real good clue of what they are doing. But they have a lock on a huge market with a lot of transactions that allows them to make a huge amount of money despite the high amounts of fraud they deal with so they eat it. To date it's been cheaper for them to pay for the fraud then to do anything reasonable about it.
- Alex Scoble
LogEx - you would think they would -- I had $14000 in fraudulent charges on my CC with 7 transactions over a 7 day period -- all through "purchases" at a hydroponics store in Petaluma. Until my wife alerted them the CC company had no idea. I live in Toronto btw and have never been to Petaluma.
- Brian Sullivan
Brian... but you were not liable for any of it.
- LogEx
The fraud number is in the billions as I said, LogEx.
- Alex Scoble
I still don't see the problem. Get a no-fee card and pay when it's due (if interest rates are bugging you).
- LogEx
No but I had to jump through hoops to deal with it -- I was in Paris at the time it was discovered -- the card was cancelled immediately. That left me with no credit card.
- Brian Sullivan
Yeah, Brian, that's why I travel with two cards now.
- Alex Scoble
Brian, I understand and can sympathize with the inconvenience. But I think it would be worse if we have a regime that requires ID to every merchant, large and small, honest and rogue… and that puts your ID info at risk and only helps identity thieves and other fraudsters.
- LogEx
The liability is not the problem. My card company did not require me to pay anything. They did, however, carry the charges and show me as severely past due on my credit reports until they finished their six-month "investigation" and cleared everything.
- Glen Campbell
I don't have so much of a problem with requesting ID. Its the minimum purchase amount to use a credit card that pisses me off. Explicitly not allowed yet so many businesses do it. I wish Visa would let me be an official spot checker for this so I could make a business stop or remove their ability to accept credit cards.
- EricaJoy
All my credit cards now are PIN based -- no ID or signature required. So that helps somewhat (until the PIN stealers catch up I guess) with direct purchases. Web purchases are still a problem though -- which is where the fraud came from on my card (or at least how the card information was stolen).
- Brian Sullivan
I worked with a CC company doing training a number of years ago and got the impression that the fraud detection algorithms and procedures were very strong. I found out to my dismay that they are woefully inadequate.
- Brian Sullivan
Yeah, I wish that temp card numbers were the norm and not an exception. Chase doesn't offer them, but BofA does, unfortunately, BofA charges a yearly fee for most of their cards, at least that I've seen.
- Alex Scoble
Credit card companies don't lose as much money on fraudulent credit card transactions as the merchants do, especially on-line merchants who can not collect signatures. The credit card companies consider the CVV2 number to be proof that the person who is asserting the card number is also holding the card (and even this falls flat for anyone who knows anything about security). Often...
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- Andy Bakun
Alex is right about the PCI standard; it's all about CYA on the part of the card issuers. Some of the things in there don't even make any sense. Off the top of my head, on the self-auditing questionnaire, they ask if you encrypt all credit card information for storage, then ask if you've delete all credit card information after the transaction is complete and don't store it. It's really bogus.
- Andy Bakun
Andy, I agree it's not merchant-friendly, but it is consumer-friendly (which to me is far more important). Merchants, and consumers, have a choice of whether to use/accept credit cards (consumers obviously more so). It is a broken oligopoly, but it works (well) for most consumers.
- LogEx
All I can say is, I've charged hundreds of thousands of dollars on my credit cards over the years in large stores and small, much on the internet, much while traveling. As you can imagine, I'm careful with my credit card and my other credentials. I've never had a bad charge. I'm open to better alternatives, but I strenuously object to ID being required at POS, it's worse for fraud than no ID. Fraud will never go away, but it can certainly be decreased.
- LogEx
Great. 1 data point, that confirms it.
- Glen Campbell
LogEx: true, as a consumer, I am much more concerned about consumer protection, I don't really care who else eats the cost of the fraud. But if anyone thinks that the card issuers are doing most of the eating and are not pushing the majority of it on to the merchants, they're mistaken. This is why we have not seen better card security features coming from card issuers: they don't have an economic incentive to avoid fraud better, and they leave the merchants' hands tied.
- Andy Bakun
Ah, here's one of them, from PCI DSS Security Audit Procedures. Requirement 5: Use and regularly update anti-virus software or programs. I notice that they've recently updated it to exclude systems not "commonly affected by viruses", such as UNIX based systems or mainframes, but it wasn't like that a few years ago. There was no way to answer this question honestly and still get 100% on...
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- Andy Bakun
Glen, it's not 1 data point. In general, the system works for consumers.
- LogEx
Andy, I have no argument on the merchant side. This is where the issuers use their power, and the market harms are done. Like I said, I'm open to alternatives for reducing the merchant issues, and fraud in general, but ID is not the right answer.
- LogEx
Mitigating Identity Theft - "Identity theft solutions focus much too much on authenticating the person. Whether it's two-factor authentication, ID cards, biometrics, or whatever, there's a widespread myth that authenticating the person is the way to prevent these crimes. But once you understand that the problem is fraudulent transactions, you quickly realize that authenticating the...
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- LogEx
@Brian Sullivan... being PIN-based, are they actually credit cards any more or now debit cards? I'm curious how that works, it's already confusing at some check-outs between credit, PIN-debit, and signature-debit.
- LogEx
They are still credit cards -- you have to be at the machine to enter your PIN just like a debit card but in all other respects it is a credit card. The only real issue is at places like restaurants where they normally take your card away. Now they bring a remote card reader to you in most places -- in some places you have to follow the server to a stationary machine somewhere. My understanding is that this has been quite common in Europe for a number of years.
- Brian Sullivan
Yeah, that's a good writeup, LogEx, but I disagree that it can't involve the account/card holder on any level. I've been waiting for years for a real-time transaction authentication that works via my phone. It can be effectively instantaneous. Swipe the card, you acknowledge the transaction via your phone (to a pre-configured phone number tied to the account). This would also put more consumer visibility into the process of credit card transactions. But why hasn't anyone implemented this?
- Andy Bakun
I have my photo on my credit cards that I use in public - that works well
- Susan Beebe
I feel showing my id protects me from identity theft. Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't. I would like to have a cc with my pic on it. Which company does this?
- Bill Grubbs
I've had to ask people for photo ID a few times when their signatures have been almost rubbed off on their cards. It might be different in America, but if someone was to steal someones card and then sign for purchases and the real card's owner disputes the charges it is our store's responsibility to trawl through thousands of signatures slips and prove that I did all I could to ensure the transaction wasn't fradulent. That's why banks are (only now) trying to push PINs on people.
- Bryce, Low in Sodium
Visa wants to take away all barriers to using their card. Don't like it? Don't use it.
- Lindsey is Fierce!
actually, i haven't used Visa since 1999.
- Joe Silence is not dead
I'm with Alex here 100%. They should ask for your ID, I always give my ID with my credit card. There is no inconvenience is doing it, and it helps.
- Matthew DeVries
I always thank the clerk when they ask for my ID - Personally I think it is great and fully support that move.
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
If there is a scheme where people can opt-in, for example a checkbox on the card saying to check ID (which probably still won't happen 90% of the time), I'd be OK with that for those who want that. But ID is bad for a number of reasons... (1) IDs vary widely and are basically impossible for a retail clerk to validate, (2) IDs are quite easy to forge (see #1), (3) it puts your ID...
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- LogEx
Debit with PIN typically doesn't require ID, neither should credit with signature. The main point of all of this though was that retailers asking for ID are violating their contract, and consumers have a right to know that they cannot be compelled to show ID for a credit card transaction. Very few places try to check for ID, many places don't look critically at the signature stripe,...
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- LogEx
LE - But that simple step catches the "stupid crooks", the ones who will screw me for a $10 to $100 that I may never catch myself even happened. That's a good thing. The smart crooks, who make fake ID's and steal $1000s of dollars, the credit card company hels me with and will kill that person for me if they find them. It provides ZERO inconvenience. I'm just baffled that you are...
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- Matthew DeVries
The only photo ID most people have is their driver's license. It typically shows D/L#, DOB, full name and address, height, weight, license class, potentially some medical/living will information, plus mine has three distinct bar codes, one of them high-density (I don't even know what's in there, I'm not about to let a retailer scan and database them). It's too much of a personal intrusion, and it's explicitly forbidden by Visa, MasterCard, and AMEX.
- LogEx
Which is enough information for a person to establish that you are the person named on the card. All of that information should be on the credit card as well.
- Matthew DeVries
LE - If you don't want to share that moddest amount of information to allow everyone to be comfortable with the transaction, carry cash, or barter goods, or barer bonds, or have cashiers checks issued to the service provider.
- Matthew DeVries
No Matthew, I'm only standing up for the rights the issuers have given me via the agreements they make with their merchants. My issuers do not have most of the information that is on my ID, and I'd never want them to. People confuse identity with security.
- LogEx
No Matthew . . . if you're not comfortable that ID is not required for transactions then you should request Visa change their policy or not use them. The best way to avoid fraud is to not use credit cards period
- Lindsey is Fierce!
Then you should put up a post asking the CCCompanies to start requiring ID checks for all transactions, rather than standing up for a bad rule.
- Matthew DeVries
But why? I'm totally against that. I don't think ID helps anything, and in fact would be worse on the whole.
- LogEx
Why would I ask them to do that? I don't want them to require IDs
- Lindsey is Fierce!
If ID was required, or even allowed by the issuers, I'd move to other options like PIN-credit, temp/alias cards, and more use of cash. I still wouldn't use debit though, but that's another thread entirely.
- LogEx
I'm just totally lost on the logic of that thinking, to the point where I can't accept it's a real one, but just a contrarian one. So let's talk about this issue that we can all get on board with. Restaurants that make you fill in the tip and total and sign before giving you your receipt, and the cashier is often the exact same wait person who just served you, who will not watch you fill in her tip amount. I don't go to Bob Evans, Dennys, or IHOP any more because of this.
- Matthew DeVries
No, I am 100% serious and honest about this thinking, and clearly it's shared with many other consumers or the issuers wouldn't have such a stringent policy (there are other reasons for the poilcy as well I recognize... like ID isn't a good fraud prevention strategy).
- LogEx
Matthew, In restaurants that process like that (if I'm understanding correctly), if the situation is sensitive I typically leave a cash tip, and mark the receipt accordingly, just like I do for pizza deliveries.
- LogEx
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- Matthew DeVries
Interesting thread. I didn't know about the "no ID required" policy. I understand arguments in favor of showing IDs. But honestly, it's rare that I *am* asked. And when I am, I'm suspicious as to why (Do I look distrustful? unable to afford to shop at their establishment?). I just don't believe an ID card is extremely effective against fighting fraud. I've been a victim of credit fraud....
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- jbrotherlove
++ jbrotherlove ...consumers are much much better protected against the repercussions of CC# being stolen than other identity data.
- LogEx
Do the terms of the contract expressly forbid the seeking of ID or do they simply remain silent on the matter?
- Matthew DeVries
They expressly forbid merchants from REQUIRING ID. They can ask, but not require. The event that prompted this post was a merchant who stated to me that they Required ID as a condition of the credit card transaction, even after I pointed out to them that it was a violation of their merchant agreement.
- LogEx
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iWork ‘09 files are really .zip files with PDF previews - Finer Things in Mac - http://finerthingsinmac.com/2009...
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"iWork files created from Pages, Numbers and Keynote are all really .zip files containing XML and plist files that describe the formatting. But more importantly, the files also include a PDF representation of the file. So, if someone sends a Pages file to a coworker that lacks the software (even a PC user), all one has to do is unzip the file to get a readable PDF."
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Chalk up more good Customer Service points for Apple...
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I walked into an Apple store today with an out-of-warranty iPhone that was (to me) obviously the victim of negligence (broken case due to a drop)...
- LogEx
Dude looked at it, said it wasn't really repairable, and gave me a brand new identical iPhone for no charge.
- LogEx
Really makes me wonder if they have some customer history/rating info available to them when they make their decisions. I have never had a bad experience at an Apple Store.
- LogEx
That (what, $100 to them? $200 tops?) iPhone is worth hundreds and hundreds in customer loyalty, future purchases and posts just like this. There's a reason why Apple Store's are the most profitable ventures per square foot in this country.
- Mike Nayyar
I wouldn't be surprised if Apple employees could pull up a customers Apple whuffie.
- Bill Sodeman
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