The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 668

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And I'm trying to explain that the rules are outdated and there is no code back the old rules. The old rules worked because the users were very few (banks). Now those rules are getting applied to all the endusers. The guidelines no longer work because it's a sieve.

You misunderstood. Extracting $100-transaction using computer gear that can do 100,000-hour gets you more money quicker than trying to clear one large chunk.

Verification sucks. Comm is virtual now and not a dedicated, guarded line. If you haven't noticed, the dotcom boom has side effects.

Now think about how the moving around has been prevented by the telcomm biz. It's going to get alot worse before the bugs of the process are oozed out by the legal writs. Until this happens I'm keeping my buttets as isolated as possible.

Really? Have you tried to tap through a menu of other global businesses who have millions of users doing a hundred transactions each day? Find one, if you can, and get them to change a datum for you in their data base. Keep track of how long the turnaround time to request the change, verify the change, correct the change verify the correction, correct the correction, verify the correction, then restore the options that were removed during one of these corrections....

Can you tell why I have paranoia? This was with databases of bizes that I could reach a human being--one was one the phone and the other was in person.

The last time Congress evened out the status quo, we got the S&L feeding trough.

BAH

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