A set of documentation, technical standards, as well as a glossary of terms to aid Stripe Snoop Developers

Stripe Snoop Developer Inforamtion

] the default choice is to decline an ActiveX
] program,
]
] When you use Internet Explorer to download new software,
] Windows will ask if you're sure you want to run each of
] these programs,
]
] The Outlook Express e-mail program, meanwhile, no longer
] allows any access to programs sent as file attachments.
] Hiding a program inside a compressed "zip" file won't
] work either -- you can decompress the archive, but
] Windows won't let you run its contents.
]
] Many non-program attachments, such as Microsoft Word
] documents and MP3 audio files, also require a second
] click to confirm that you really want to open them.
]
] Outlook Express also stops the display of Web images in
] messages, a common trick spammers use to see who opens
] their junk.

Hello, I'm Acidus, and I like to welcome you to 2004.

'SP2' a Must For XP Users (washingtonpost.com)

] "Until recently, I wasn't able to see any light at the
] end of the tunnel," he said Monday from his hospital bed.
]
] Deuel, who has battled weight problems all his life and
] blames his condition in part on genetics

Really? Genetics huh? Because I blame you.

I hate these people who blame their behavior on Genetics."oh Genetics is against me! Its not my fault!" Fuck you, It is your fault. What about the people who lose their legs in car accidents? Every other day I'm hearing about these peoples' strength and courage to learn to live a new life in a wheel chair or push themselves through hours of physical therapy so they can use artifically legs. They have lost half their damn body, and overcome it. Yet you sit around shoving twinkies down your throat bitching that its all genetic. Its not genetic, its laziness.

Its the same thing at a theatre I'm involved with. Everyone there are emotional wrecks. They get drunk and bitch about how much their lives suck. But it's not the fact that they are lazy, don't work hard, fuck around, drink heavily and skip class. No its because they have bi-polar disorder. They are manic depressive. Statistically, its inpossible for all those people to have all the disorders they claim. Most (if not all) are lying to get attention and to excuse their complete failures in love and life.

Fuck these people that blame genetics or some mental disorder for how sorry their lives are. Fuck them because they cheapen the struggle of people who really have to combat these problems on a daily basis.

Half-ton man: It was genetics

] The new software's "simplified task management" in which
] "first-time home PC users can have up to three programs
] running concurrently" represents a downgrade from the
] standard XP system.
]
] Other downgrades include "display resolution set to
] 800x600 maximum and no support for PC-to-PC home
] networking, sharing printers across a network or more
] advanced features such as the ability to establish
] multiple user accounts on a single PC," the company said.

Oh. My. God. *This* is how they expect to combat Linux in developing markets? 3 Concurrent processes? 800x600 max? I would say they took a bunch of copies of Windows For Workgroups 3.11 and repackaged them, but even WFW could do peer-to-peer file/print sharing.

"Here, have some 1993 Technology, and remember Linux is bad." How stupid do they think people in South East Asia are? Yes Microsoft, you win people over to your brandname by insulting their intelligence.

XP Lite - Now with hi res 800x600 and up to 3 concurrent programs!

] Four members of a family have been arrested and charged
] with murder for allegedly killing and eating a relative
] during a wedding reception -- and serving his flesh to
] unwitting party guests, police have said.

Damn!

Police: Wedding guests eat victim

There were 10x the total number of downloads over the lifetime of the project in a single day.

/. Effect of Stripe Snoop homepage (jpg)

] Great job on Stripe Snoop! When are you going to go to the
] next level - like wiping unnecessary but private data like SS
] #?

This is an interesting question. Stripe Snoop's original purpose was to simply be a program to let people see what was on a magstripe. I then add features and other tools to allow people to modify and validate those modifcation to the magstripe data. Ultimately I'd like to get to the point of writing that modified data back to a card. All while keeping the code OSS, the hardware designs free, and the

As for wiping the card, it really would depend. I might have an insurance card, that has a magstipe with my SSN, and other stuff. Assuming that I never actually use this magstripe, nor do my doctors, and assuming that the info you want to eliminate isn't simply printed on the car. You could safely remove the information.

This might be a nice feature of Stripe Snoop database. To tell you not only what personal information is stored on the card, but also whether or not, but whether the card will still be operable if that data is removed.

Magstripes: wiping private data

] Unfortunately, over the past 20 years, I've noticed
] that cruft has been appearing in computer interfaces. And
] few people are trying to fix it.

A nice article about stupid ways modern UIs work, because of stupid decisions. Makes some good points about using existing subsystems (mainly the file system) to stop doing stupid things.

When good interfaces go crufty

] ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- The effort by U.S. officials
] to justify raising the terror alert level last week may
] have shut down an important source of information that
] has already led to a series of al Qaeda arrests,
] Pakistani intelligence sources have said.

Nice to see mainstream media picking this up

U.S. leak 'harms al Qaeda sting'

Decius wrote:
] ] Acidus writes "While researching for an embedded systems
] ] project (a magstripe enabled Coke machine), I was shocked
] ] by the lack of magstripe information: Programs/code that
] ] would run on a modern OS were all but nonexistant,
] ] articles that were 6-10 years old, etc.
]
] Acidus is on Slashdot today.

I'm just glad I'm on Slashdot and I'm not getting sued for something.

Thanks to Decius who pointed out a lot of spelling/typos late last night that I fixed, so I wouldn't look like a dumbass.

RE: Slashdot | Unlocking The Power Of the Magstripe