On Nov 2, 8:15 pm, Andy Key <
[email protected]>
wrote:
> Tony Raven wrote:
> > In article <[email protected]>,
> > [email protected] says...
> >> Its here
>
> >> The first copies have arrived at the publishers.
>
> >> Get one atwww.eye-books.com
>
> [...]
>
> > Hmmm... fill in my credit card details on a non-secure web page? I
> > don't think so!
>
> The forms are in frames (spit) which ARE secure - or at least, served
> via https, from Paypal itself.
This "secure credit card" lark is a bit of a red-herring really. After
all, you show your credit card and all its numbers to all sorts of
shop assistants, waiters, ordering by phone and all the rest. And yet
everyone worries about someone snooping numbers off the web. "Secure"
is better, but not the worry it's made out to be.
The amazing thing is that Visa are introducing "3-d secure" which is
technically secure, but totally disastrous from a process / people
point of view, and would be sheer madness for any punter to touch with
a shitty stick. Still, it is "secure"
Gone off-topic a bit, never mind.
Still the book's a good thing. I've seen very few facilities of any
value, and most are positively dangerous. Quite why a white line
painted on a road makes you safer I don't know. This encourages cars
to miss you by a thou' rather than giving you a good couple of inches
safe clearance. And that's quite apart from forcing you to ride on
slippery white paint rather than grippy tarmac
Hywel
Hywel
