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UnknownEngineer

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  1. That "password that only you and the bank knows of" isn't going to work. Your credit card could be charged without it. Here is an example, you put your card in, you take some money out of the ATM. Meanwhile someone gets all the data he needs to charge your account in an identical way. There are many ways for people to use their credit cards, as there are many ways for people to access their bank account without the card being used at all. To defeat the password that is only stored in the users head the thieves only need to listen in when the use makes a transaction. Man in the middle, attacks are not uncommon. While a password like you suggest would reduce the likelihood of data being stolen and used, it isn't infallible. And to implement it in every method that the user has available to access his/hers online funds is not exactly feasible. Not to mention that if there is one place where it isn't used, there is a hole for the thieves to use. G2A in it self is a bottleneck of sorts, behind it game keys are being "stolen", there are so many ways to get to the point of owning a stolen game key to sell that it is easier to just find another weakness in the chain. The weak link in the chain is G2A, remove it and trading stolen game keys just gets much much harder, as there is not "store front" for the thieves to use. G2A knows that there isn't going to be a magical solution that will suddenly stop credit cads from being exploited, this is what they are banking on (hah). This is what I also asked previously, but you said you didn't need to answer it. I would like to insist that you try.
  2. Please, some up with a method that the banks could feasibly use to determine a legit purchase, from a purchase done with a stolen credit card. BEFORE the money is actually transferred, before the product is already "moved". Optionally, remove G2A from the equation, this means you disallow the criminals from using a marketplace that doesn't require any form of ID to be used. Then see if you could, as a criminal, still make a profit from stolen credit cards.
  3. Read my previous post, they are a marketplace that directly caters to people who use stolen credit cards to turn a profit.
  4. Why are there still people defending G2A? The stolen keys and credit cards have been brought up before, yet G2A is only doing something about it now that it being talked about more widely. Not to mention putting the responsibility retailers who get scammed by stolen credit cards, or even putting the responsibility on banks. There is absolutely no way they can tell who is the person punching in the numbers, the thieves already have all the numbers the actual owned of the card would have in his/her mind. Unless you want a physical confirmation (fingerprint for an example) then the only counter against this is a charge-back. Now it becomes an accounting problem, and there are many accounting solutions out there. And out of all that I have seen, they all need a person at some point, the accounting isn't done by some central AI of the bank for free, transaction fees apply. Especially when you are buying stuff from abroad, even though the item is digital and "free" to transport, there is still money moving, moving money also costs, and reversing that money flow does too. It takes time to trace back every charge back to a purchase, and then a key. Here is an ideal situation: A charge back request goes from the initial victim, to the bank, then possibly to another bank, then to the retailer (who ends up paying for the charge back), then further to original source of the product. By the time the people who made the product know of a key being "stolen" from the retailer, it has already likely been purchased by another customer. Then the original source of the product has a choice, disable the key if they can (not all games use DRM, see The Witcher 3 as an example) and get complaints from the end customer (see what happened to ubi), or just leave the key be. Disable it or not, the fees that hit the retailer will not go away, and there is technically no trace of the criminal. But how does G2A and the people who sell the stolen keys come out of the end with a profit? The reason is G2A's store policy, no refunds, and even with a shield you just get another stolen key. They only sold a defective product, and the receipt of the end customer doesn't indicate that the key is stolen, nothing can enforce them to give the money back as there is no evidence of anything illegal happening. The legit retailer who is complying with consumer laws cannot just avoid the fees of the charge back, see they have a stolen credit card on their hands, not an unhappy consumer. G2A just denies the customer from getting money back, this is fine in many places, especially if no evidence of a crime is there. The legit retailer is dealing with their bank, they cannot just deny the bank from getting money. I couldn't seriously believe that G2A's creator(s) could be stupid enough to not realize how much of a golden opportunity they are creating for fraud, not to mention they they are smart enough to come up with a business where they make money, while separating themselves of the crime that is happening. The idea of the store is to sell products for less than what they actual creator asks, if they weren't making a profit they would automatically be giving away money.
  5. Welcome to the forum. 1. T case, measured by a sensor imbedded into the heatspreader itself. 2. Tj max, or Thermal junction max. Basically the temperature limit at which the CPU will A: Turn off. B: Get damaged 3. T junction is measured off the actual cores themselves, T case is measured of the heat-spreader. 4. Usually 105C on intel and AMD CPU's, can be lower on some other devices, some GPU's/CPU's could have a Tj max of 90C for an example. 5. Yes, just as with Tj max. If either of the mentioned sensors exceed their specified limits the CPU will most likely cut power to itself. EDIT:Source
  6. Please do, I think that people who see gender as a selling point in a game to be the minority. I have yet to hear about a person who didn't by a game because "it has a woman as the main character".
  7. I legitimately want to hear more about this. Have you heard of anyone actually saying they didn't want to buy a game because the main is a different gender? Do you have anything to show that could even hint at this?
  8. I like how my GTX 970 is now worth like.... IDK 100$ Good thing I was planning on sticking with it anyway.
  9. I had that same issue when I was testing some USB turtle beaches, thank goodness I tested in Win 10 first. I tested them later on win 7 and got no warning, the cable and the part where the micro USB plugs in got really hot. I ended up breaking the cable somehow, it nolonger charges my phone. I guess I should have tested it with a better cable. Try unplugging every USB device, and front I/O, then just start plugging everything in one at a time.
  10. My quick estimate was at 1220€, Could be a bit more than that though. Do note that this price if what it would possibly be going for in Finland, might not be the same in your country necessarily. 4790k ~250€ + 40€ + 70€ + ~300€ (GPU) + 100€ (HDD/SSD) + ~50€ + 80€ + 100€. Peripherals 70€ + 40€ + 100€ All that amounts to 990€ for the PC, 210€ for the other stuff. 1200 exactly. IMO the HDD+SSD, GPU, and possibly the peripherals could go higher. CPU might not go for 250€.
  11. Well, it's not like MS will just tell your doctors "OP has cancer, time to blast his insides with radiation am I right?" They can tell you to get checked, and you can choose to be checked or not checked. If you decide to get checked and the doctors find something wrong with you, then I would say MS's diagnosis helped. But regardless of all that, it would be weird to just suddenly have cortana in Win 10 say "Dude, you have cancer, get help". I am given that diagnosis in WoT sometimes as well, it's weird there too.
  12. Ok, so 3 and 4 way SLI can't be used in games, but it can be used in benchmarks. This doesn't make sense to me, PC benchmarks are often used solely to gauge gaming performance, especially if GPU are involved, so why enable 3 and 4 way SLI for that? Doing this for just the "overclocking community" is odd, doing all that work that is apparently too much to do otherwise for a game, for a niche group of people.
  13. I am currently running the upgrade tool to get my Win 7 installation to win 10. While creating the media I am getting temps to 63c, that is package. Hottest core is 64c.
  14. Same setup here, also with MX4. I just re-assembled this today as I got a mobo back from RMA. Fresh install so I haven't benched yet, however I was getting quite toasty under load as well. I suspect it is just because the CPU has bad thermal paste under the IHS. EDIT: Everything stock, no OC, no additional voltage.
  15. Try a single threaded stress test. Check OS and BIOS settings. Windows can also limit your CPU's frequency, tough it would be more likely to be the BIOS.
  16. 3.5 is still the base clock. It goes to 3.9 when it can, you could just have turbo disabled from BIOS.
  17. This isn't going to even be an engine test, I don't think they want another halo online to happen, where people just take the content and make their own game. This will be an editor like blender, just with prefab components. Can't wait for nearly nobody to use this to make maps, as they will only be able to make maps for a different platform. Only a few of the people who already have the game on Xbox will use this.
  18. " Then I performed a banishing ceremony. I used a black bowl with a magnet and water to draw [the virus] out. " I think she just tries to wipe the HDD with a magnet.... I wonder what happens when a customer with SSD storage comes in.
  19. This graph shows a 100% increase if you just take a glance and ignore the numbers. If you added the 1.5 to the vertical, the part that isn't show, the graph would be absolutely correct even without the numbers. This logarithmic graph shows roughly a 50% height increase, this is approximately what the above graph would ideally look like. Yes, OP gave all the necessary data, but @Enderman's argument about the graph itself (just the graph, not the numbers associated with it) being misleading is correct. Might not be as relevant considering how the numbers are stated separately, namely the ~52% increase, but it is still a correct statement about the graph itself.
  20. After watching the video I still don't see the problem, what is wrong with having plastic on the phone? Do you really want to feel the heat from the components that bad? If anything the phone looked very easy to repair, and that is an automatic + as far as I am concerned.
  21. If only it was that simple, there is still the encryption to worry about, sure you can read the 1's and 0's, but you can't do anything with them. And that is assuming the the chips with the data on the have absolutely 0 logic on them, they too could have a system in place that allows them to "refuse" giving the data if the hardware asking changes.
  22. To me this only seems like a working solution if you literally shit like a rabbit, you'd be surprised by how big a single human turd can be. This design looks nice an all, but I think it will require much improvement. While I am not a waste expert, I can still think of many ways for the system in the video to clog up.
  23. And they call it the "Avatar project" And here I am thinking that this millionaire supports the ADVENT.
  24. Not only will anyone using this face serious legal consequences, but the performance is not guaranteed, all they say is the "it will run". They aren't saying that it will run without performance degradation/overhead, or whatever you want to call it.
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