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eBay sellers start weeklong boycott | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
You might see fewer items on eBay this week. Sellers angry over higher fees and other policy changes are launching a weeklong boycott of the auction site in protest.

EBay recently announced plans to raise the commission sellers have to pay for items they sell, which goes into effect on Wednesday. The company also is banning sellers from offering any feedback on buyers, good or bad.

The problem the way I see it is that there is no accountability for what you say, in the feedback system. What really are the penalties if malicious feedback is left? Or what is the standard of malicious feedback? I think Ebay is being kind of lazy because what they really need to do is set forth these guide lines review feedback that is left and proactively enforce those guidelines. But the solution they have chosen is easier to code.

… and not by the two planes that smacked in to the side of the buildings.

I think this guy might be on California Cancer Medication but check it out for yourself.

dap: MH King

Real ID pretty much sailed through the House. Will most likely do the same in the Senate and signed in to Law. C|Net has got FAQ detailing everything you need to know about this bill. Including a link to how each Congressman voted.

What’s going to be stored on this ID card?
At a minimum: name, birth date, sex, ID number, a digital photograph, address, and a “common machine-readable technology” that Homeland Security will decide on. The card must also sport “physical security features designed to prevent tampering, counterfeiting, or duplication of the document for fraudulent purposes.”

Homeland Security is permitted to add additional requirements–such as a fingerprint or retinal scan–on top of those. We won’t know for a while what these additional requirements will be.

One might note that easiest way to “prevent tampering, counterfeiting, or duplication of the document for fraudulent purposes” is to NOT PUT IT ON THE CARD.

Another Little gem

You said the ID card will be electronically readable. What does that mean?
The Real ID Act says federally accepted ID cards must be “machine readable,” and lets Homeland Security determine the details. That could end up being a magnetic strip, enhanced bar code, or radio frequency identification (RFID) chips.

In the past, Homeland Security has indicated it likes the concept of RFID chips. The State Department is already going to be embedding RFID devices in passports, and Homeland Security wants to issue RFID-outfitted IDs to foreign visitors who enter the country at the Mexican and Canadian borders. The agency plans to start a yearlong test of the technology in July at checkpoints in Arizona, New York and Washington state.

RFID. What the heck does that mean? That mean that ANY PERSON with an RFID reader can send a signal to my drivers license and get the info on it. If a person wanted to tamper with, counterfeit, or duplicate the document for fraudulent purposes he wouldn’t have to rummage though my garbage, a get me to download spy ware on to my computer, I would just have to WALK down the freaking street.

Note to self: I see a future for wallets lined with aluminium foil.

Here is one for the conspiracy theorists.

In case you missed it.

hat tip Unraveling the Enigma…sorta