Hydra: Shostie: Have we considered the possibility that Zuckerberg doesn't speak or read Italian?

Doesn't matter. He's rich; therefore, he's hated and evil by most of Fark.


therefore, he's hated and evil by most of Fark.

/fixed

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: powhound: Don't most other developed countries use chips in their cards now?

That's what I was thinking. The US is waaaaay behind other countries when it comes to this technology.

It is a stupid technology. You need less than $100 bucks worth of equipment to build a simple device that reads every card, on every person you walk past. No need to steal, skim, or pickpocket. You can simply walk past someone and get their numbers. Mythbusters was going to do a show about that fact, but multiple companies (American Express, Visa, Discover... etc.) had their lawyers have a nasty talk with the Mythbusters crew about it....

Adam Savage talking about why there will be no Mythbusters show on RFID technology.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X034R3yzDhw

It is a stupid technology.

I think the fail is is dumbass getting married when your that rich. The divorce settlement in a few years will make Paul McCartney look smart. Not that they haven't been together for years, just you know it's gonna happen.

/haven't found a euro ATM yet I couldn't figure out.

captjc: newton: Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: powhound: Don't most other developed countries use chips in their cards now?

That's what I was thinking. The US is waaaaay behind other countries when it comes to this technology.

It is a stupid technology. You need less than $100 bucks worth of equipment to build a simple device that reads every card, on every person you walk past. No need to steal, skim, or pickpocket. You can simply walk past someone and get their numbers. Mythbusters was going to do a show about that fact, but multiple companies (American Express, Visa, Discover... etc.) had their lawyers have a nasty talk with the Mythbusters crew about it....

Adam Savage talking about why there will be no Mythbusters show on RFID technology.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X034R3yzDhw

It is a stupid technology.

RFID is a great technology. It is also an inherently insecure technology that shouldn't be used in conjunction with anything that should be secure, like credit cards.

Copper wires, magnetic stripes and radio waves are also inherently insecure...this is why you take steps to secure the information...

Having just passed through Italy a couple of weeks ago and finding not a single damn automated machine that worked(ATMs, ticket machines at the train station, vending machines), I am not in the least bit surprised. That whole country is like a half step up from Mexico on the shiathole scale.

Slaxl: 2 within 10ft of each other, identical looking, one worked for me one didn't

Stuff like that is very common in Japan. One is connected to the Japanese banking network, the other to an international network like Swift or something. If you're lucky, the international one is labeled in something you can read. Same with the Japanese cell phone networks - it's a completely separate network and set of standards from the rest of the world.

That being said, I've never met more helpful people than in Japan. Once when trying to find an ATM, a woman who didn't speak enough English to explain to me how to get to it, closed up her shop and walked me there.

Never had a problem getting ATMs to work in Europe, surprisingly. Then again, my bank (USAA) caters specifically to people who are often overseas, so that might have something to do with it.

newton: Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: powhound: Don't most other developed countries use chips in their cards now?

That's what I was thinking. The US is waaaaay behind other countries when it comes to this technology.

It is a stupid technology. You need less than $100 bucks worth of equipment to build a simple device that reads every card, on every person you walk past. No need to steal, skim, or pickpocket. You can simply walk past someone and get their numbers. Mythbusters was going to do a show about that fact, but multiple companies (American Express, Visa, Discover... etc.) had their lawyers have a nasty talk with the Mythbusters crew about it....

Adam Savage talking about why there will be no Mythbusters show on RFID technology.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X034R3yzDhw

It is a stupid technology.

Chips != RFID.

Well, at least his wife knows what buttons to press to get money.

Perhaps he neglected to tell his bank he was traveling abroad, so they denied his card on the assumption it was fraudulent.

How does a god damned video player work Gizmodo? fark me, it autoplays and the volume was 3 times as loud as the music I had on. Good Lord, I have to go change my shorts now.

Slaxl: ATM's never work abroad. ....when I went to Romania there were 2 within 10ft of each other, identical looking, one worked for me one didn't.

One was real, the other probably had a card skimmer on it.

Tomorrow's headline: "Zuckerberg's bank account drained by Italian ATM skimmer"

ATM's never work abroad. When I was in America there was only one ATM in San Francisco I found that would give me money, whenever I go to France or Spain it's 50/50 whether they'll work, when I went to Romania there were 2 within 10ft of each other, identical looking, one worked for me one didn't. I don't know why, I just assume it's a card/bank thing... or I'm exceedingly unlucky.