Posts by Glenn Pearce

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  • Hard News: The Honours,

    my unkind feelings towards Mr Myers stem somewhat from an opinion piece he once wrote for the Herald

    Over 10 years ago Russell. Turn the page ;-)

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  • Field Theory: One in a billion,

    It's pretty much impossible to become an All Black unless you've zeroed in on rugby and shown uncommon talent since long before adolescence

    I don't think that's true at all. Ali Williams for one didn't pick up an oval ball until he was about 17 from memory.

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  • Speaker: North versus South, Part 1,

    We're simply speechless. This is not the Derek we know and love.

    Our feelings are with Isaac during this troubled time.
    Wishing you a speedy return to normailty.

    G & P

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  • Hard News: It is your right and duty to vote,

    teacher interview

    Mikaere, that is sooo old skool. It's all 3-way student led conferences these days.

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  • Public Address Word of the Year 2009,

    InTimeForTheWorldCup

    As in "The <substitute here anything requiring capital investment> must be ready InTimeForTheWorldCup

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  • Hard News: A bigger breach?,

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  • Hard News: A bigger breach?,

    I phoned the Bank and asked how someone other than me could make cash withdrawals and was told that they couldn't.
    Go figure that one.

    Seriously weird.

    So I phoned the Council and was told that they don't accept credit card payments

    I presume you're talking about AK City. I'm 99% sure they accept Visa or Mastercard for Rates payments.

    You wouldn't be the first person to come across an ill-informed AK City Council Call Centre reprsentative though.

    You should try something really tricky like trying to get a Resource/Building consent or get a street damage deposit returned.

    Although they were very good about the street damage thing in the end, refunding my $500 twice.......

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  • Hard News: A bigger breach?,

    he was pretty certain it wasn't skimming, because he watches for that kind of thing.

    Check this out and play spot the difference.

    http://grab.orsm.net/update20090402/atm_skimming_devices.pdf

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  • Hard News: A bigger breach?,

    The beauty of using DPS is that you don't record the Credit Card number in your system/database.

    You submit the transaction to them and they return you a "token", basically a unique number that is useless without their database.

    And they hold the translation between the "token" and the credit card number at their end

    There's a bit more to it than that, but that's it in a nutshell I think.

    So to get the credit card number you'd have to skim it either physically via some device or via software on the pass thru to DPS somehow.

    Or...... get access their database

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  • Hard News: A bigger breach?,

    Those parking machines probably use wireless connection to the internet. They'll will likely have GPRS card in them.

    Possibly a breach in there ?

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