> If your company has a requirement to electronically warehouse documents and really has no other need for IT services
What kind of company would that be that has no need for IT services? No need to store any data at all? And if you are legally required to warehouse documents, I doubt they accept cloud storage that could go up in a puff any moment.
Honestly, the first company profile that came to mind that has a requirement for records retention while usually not retaining full-time IT services is a legal firm. I've seen my fair share of small firms fit this profile quite well.
And if you are legally required to warehouse documents, I doubt they accept cloud storage that could go up in a puff any moment.
As far as documents going "up in a puff", that's kind of exactly what happens in the traditional scenario of an office building burning to the ground overnight. If you didn't hire a competent SysAdmin to maintain servers, backups, and tape media that would have been shipped offsite, all within a relevant disaster recovery plan, well then you're kind of fucked.
Encryption is a perfectly acceptable (read: compliant) means of protecting sensitive data in the proverbial cloud, and you ensure that your cloud provider SLA mitigates against the "up in a puff" scenario properly, which is fairly easy to ensure data replication happens, and they are responsible for disaster recovery.
I find humans being utterly reliant upon reviews for every fucking thing in their life completely pathetic.
Getting opinions of people when you're stepping into the unknown is not pathetic, it's just common frigging sense. Those reviews for pizzas aren't so locals can masturbate over them, they are for people who have never been there before don't know the town, city or even country, and who want to know if they are going to get screwed or not.
Ever wonder how restaurants managed to survive and thrive before the internet came along? Or how anyone managed to find something exceptional to eat without a Michelin guide in their hand? Humans are gifted with five keen senses that also help make individual decisions that can often be the right one. Live a little. Lead, don't always look to follow.
When it comes to any restaurant in domestic or foreign territory, it's rather easy to see if it's any good or not; they're open for business. Those that suck, aren't.
You get five stars for being over-the-top judgmental and insulting -- apparently that's a requirement on the Internet -- but unless you have the time and money to see every movie, try every restaurant, etc, then you have to decide which ones to try and which to avoid based on something. What you're advocating is either making random decisions (which can be fun occasionally but also leads to wasting a lot of time and money suffering through crap), or making decisions based on other, less relevant criteria (such as which movie has the most competent advertising team, or which restaurant happens to be located in front of your eyeballs when your stomach rumbles).
If you want to make your decisions based on subconscious reasoning that you don't even understand yourself, go ahead, but don't blame others for trying to make an informed decision.
I don't blame others for making informed decisions. I stand in amazement at how they seemingly cannot make any decision without consulting someone else about it, which is my entire point.
Humans were born gifted with intelligence and reason, and yet it is often manipulated in an instant with a dozen subjective or fake reviews. As I said before, there is satisfaction knowing you made a decision on your own. There's even satisfaction in having the fuck-it-go-for-it mentality every now and then.
A cell signal. GPS. The internet. Take these services away from the average person today and see how quickly they become incapacitated, unable to communicate, navigate, or make a decision. Welcome to the Lemming Society.
Are you considering the total annual cost of servers, redundant storage, backup hardware, software and media, software licenses, real estate costs/taxes, and IT staff to run it all?
Having all those things done by some external party doesn't magically reduce the cost.
Uh, yeah, it kind of does. If your company has a requirement to electronically warehouse documents and really has no other need for IT services, you either bear the burden of scanning, storing, and making it available in electronic format yourself, or you pay someone else to do all that.
A single competent SysAdmin (fully loaded) would cost more than that for one year, and you've not even spent money on hardware and software yet.
Apparently, you don't need a single competent sysadmin to maintain 100,000 scanned pages, otherwise they could never offer it so cheap.
Again, volume matters. Their SysAdmin costs are not only shared across hundreds or thousands of customers managing millions or billions of pages, but their SysAdmin costs are also likely sourced from the most inexpensive resources available on the planet.
And to keep any IT system up and running and maintained properly (security, patching, upgrades, maintenance, accounts, etc.), you need a competent SysAdmin to maintain the entire system. That tends to be true regardless of end use.
Some stuff needs to be stored for 15 years. At 0.004 a month per page, that's $0.72 per page. At that price, it's WAY cheaper to have someone remove the staples and scan it in locally, and not be dependent on them staying in business, not getting hacked, or raising prices.
WAY cheaper?
Are you considering the total annual cost of servers, redundant storage, backup hardware, software and media, software licenses, real estate costs/taxes, and IT staff to run it all? High-speed scanner hardware and minimum-wage staple pullers? Multiply all that by fifteen to obtain the total cost of long-term document storage and protection?
With costs per page, it would all depend on volume when looking at what's cheaper. 100,000 pages would cost you less than $75K for fifteen years. A single competent SysAdmin (fully loaded) would cost more than that for one year, and you've not even spent money on hardware and software yet.
I find humans being utterly reliant upon reviews for every fucking thing in their life completely pathetic. Can't even drink a cup of coffee or eat a pizza without asking a panel of five-star rated liars. Ever heard of product satisfaction being subjective?
Use your own brain for once and make your own judgements. Live a little. Good or bad, it is satisfying knowing at the end of the day the decisions you made were yours, and not made based on sponsored bullshit.
Ticket prices keep going up with inflation, wages not so much.
Ever wonder how much hipster coffee prices have gone up since the birth of Starbucks? Somehow they manage to afford that.
Ever wonder how much they spend on those unlimited cell plans to feed social media addiction? They won't go without that.
In the meantime, I can still get up early on Saturday and catch an opening-weekend movie at matinee prices for less than the cost of a single mochafuckachino latte with extra cream.
Not saying the younger generation isn't struggling, but they certainly have other priorities when it comes to spending the money they do have.
Why change the red light grace period? Red light is red light.
If you want to reduce accidents, increase the yellow period. People who push the limits of an extended yellow don't deserve grace. All this is going to do is now make people more comfortable running a little bit of red.
When the end result is a net loss to revenue, perhaps we should look to understand why a change to a program centered around safety came about, if this is still about safety and reducing accidents.
To validate my latter claim, I'd like to see the aggregate safety statistics since red-light camera inception. When main statistic that is peddled first is revenue, it tends to question the intent of the entire damn program. If this is truly about saving lives and preventing accidents, then prove it.
And no, a rather small impact to revenue in this program is not proof. That may simply be a minor concession to allow tens of millions more to be collected under the guise of "safety".
The comparison to Windows was meant to highlight the utter lack of infighting, unlike the Linux community, riddled with "trigger words" such as EMACS, vi, BSD, Linux, GNOME, or KDE, which manage to incite flame wars every time.
Yes, there are many options in Windows, but the overwhelming majority of the user base doesn't give a shit enough to argue endlessly about it.
1. money....Exorbitant fees for tickets and concessions price most of them well outside the range of the 18-24 demographic.
And yet fueling up with a $7 mochafuckachino at the local hipster coffee shop every morning, along with a $100/month all-you-can-eat unlimited cellular plan, are well within the gotta-have-it budget for everyone in the 18-24 demographic.
Funny how that shit excuse of "money" gets confused with priorities...
Ah, your religion has taught you all kinds of weird stuff. Put down the sci-fi and join reality.
What part of building and stockpiling pointless nuclear arsenals is somehow science fiction? How are the millions lost to religious warmongering over thousands of years not part of factual reality?
"After thousands of years, you idiots never learn"
...and what species are you?
The variety that managed to retain the common sense gene. Doesn't really matter. We'll be extinct soon.
Look at the TCP/IP. One solution. One standard protocol. There are good examples, and there are shitty examples. North Korea tends to fit into the latter.
Now look at the western world. Republicans vs. Democrats vs. Greens. Conservatives vs. Liberals vs. a bunch of other flavors. McDonald's vs. Burger King vs. Pizza etc... It's the Organized Kaos of contradicting interests, with followers locked in endless battles over which system is The Best(TM).
Democracy never finding true peace is exactly why it must never stagnate into The One Right Solution.
True peace should be viewed and treated as a goal and a positive thing, not a fucking stagnation point.
And my analogy was centered around religious warmongering, which much like the KDE/GNOME/EMACS/BSD/Linux/vi bickering, can be far more pointless and futile than mere politics.
I pass on your supposed flame war, was just thinking about how much I'd need a Strong Leader...
Ever read a rant from the likes of Linus or Theo? We've had plenty of Strong Headed Leaders in this space. The end result is 2017, the Flame Wars rage on, and the Year of the Desktop is a fantasy.
...So the NASA, SpaceX, and co will need a way to finance these kind of "for Science !" projects privately.
Yes, because heaven forbid we actually try and justify exploring space without having to tie pointless warmongering to it.
As if there's some kind of damn point to feeding the bigger-dick syndrome that gave us "Tsar-bomba" class weapons. Haven't lit off a nuke in warfare since 1945, and yet that sure as shit didn't stop anyone from building ones thousands of times stronger, and stockpiling way more than anyone would ever need to "win" a nuclear war.
Fucking humans. After thousands of years, you idiots never learn, and you deserve your own demise.
Now look at Linux. KDE vs. GNOME. EMACS vs. vi. BSD vs. Linux. It's the Organized Religion of software, with followers locked in endless battles over which system is The One.
Religion never finding true peace is exactly why Linux has never found the Year of the Desktop.
You may return to your inevitable flame war I fully expect here, since one of the religious lines has been crossed.
Perhaps ebay have become aware of a security flaw in the keyfob, and are thus trying to migrate users away from them?
Let's stop bullshitting here. eBay knows few users give a shit enough to even want to deal with MFA, so they're doing this as a cost-saving measure, and nothing more.
Any keyfob that just displays a different code over time depends on the security of the initial seed value... If these values were compromised then so are all the tokens, and it wouldn't be the first time something like this has happened.
If this in fact is the case, we could probably find evidence of an attack elsewhere. An void of evidence would tend to point at my initial statement above.
The trouble with saying "less secure" is that it's highly subjective, even if you're in full possession of the facts (which we may not be)...
Fact: 99.999% of the devices that will provide the SMS authentication to support MFA are smartphones, and smartphones have a fucking horrible security record. They are constantly getting hacked, rooted, and otherwise compromised, which is the exact reason NIST came out with recommendations to use dedicated hardware (like tokens), and not something like a smartphone to support MFA.
A lack of transparency is a problem as always... These companies are a black box, and we the users/customers are expected to just accept what they tell us without having any idea of their internal processes or code etc.
When in doubt, my initial statement stands. Companies are cheap, and users don't give a shit about strong security anymore.
Let's see you call it worthless and pointless after it acts as a physical shield against a comet that would have otherwise come straight for Earth.
And Pluto could act as a billiard ball and cause a comet that would have otherwise not been in our trajectory to be manipulated to our demise. Fate is sometimes a fickle bitch.
I was being facetious with certain labels to highlight the fact that the label argument itself is both worthless and pointless. Scientific minds could be used for discussions far more relevant than textbook revenue.
"...have fought about what to call the small, icy world at the edge of our solar system."
I have a name for it.
Irrelevant.
Not good enough? Need more clarity? OK, here's some more.
Uninhabitable. Worthless. Pointless.
Until we start landing space mining equipment there to bring back an argument of value, perhaps we could find something else to discuss. This "religious" discussion is reduced to nothing more than textbook revenue when they need to re-write millions of them, which makes it rather cheap and not very scientific.
I don't have anywhere close to this unnerving tracking with Safari or Firefox.
You're running a browser created by the same organization who has essentially indexed our digital universe, and turned that into a multi-billion dollar empire.
At this point, shareholders practically demand perpetuating "hideous" activity.
The irony here is Chrome users feel more secure than ever.
So what. Their lips don't have the same shape and their lip motion is different. That's the point.
No, not quite. The point is don't try and sell this as a "combined" security model when one half of the system is essentially compromised, simply by using it as intended.
Unfortunately, the other half of this system will ensure the entire thing is marketed as the best "multi" factor authentication solution in the entire universe.
So, we've reached a point where a user actually has to say their shitty password out loud in order to obtain better security?
Let me put my boots on so I can wade through the irony.
Oh, and not to nitpick or anything, but this is hardly combining functionality to create better security when your password is known to anyone within earshot of you authenticating. One half of that system is basically compromised simply by using it as intended.
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> If your company has a requirement to electronically warehouse documents and really has no other need for IT services
What kind of company would that be that has no need for IT services? No need to store any data at all? And if you are legally required to warehouse documents, I doubt they accept cloud storage that could go up in a puff any moment.
Honestly, the first company profile that came to mind that has a requirement for records retention while usually not retaining full-time IT services is a legal firm. I've seen my fair share of small firms fit this profile quite well.
And if you are legally required to warehouse documents, I doubt they accept cloud storage that could go up in a puff any moment.
As far as documents going "up in a puff", that's kind of exactly what happens in the traditional scenario of an office building burning to the ground overnight. If you didn't hire a competent SysAdmin to maintain servers, backups, and tape media that would have been shipped offsite, all within a relevant disaster recovery plan, well then you're kind of fucked.
Encryption is a perfectly acceptable (read: compliant) means of protecting sensitive data in the proverbial cloud, and you ensure that your cloud provider SLA mitigates against the "up in a puff" scenario properly, which is fairly easy to ensure data replication happens, and they are responsible for disaster recovery.
Conversations would be different if the uber car was at fault but not all accidents can be avoided.
Conversations will be different when the autonomous car is at fault due to a hack, as prioritizing security over everything else is usually avoided.
I find humans being utterly reliant upon reviews for every fucking thing in their life completely pathetic.
Getting opinions of people when you're stepping into the unknown is not pathetic, it's just common frigging sense. Those reviews for pizzas aren't so locals can masturbate over them, they are for people who have never been there before don't know the town, city or even country, and who want to know if they are going to get screwed or not.
Ever wonder how restaurants managed to survive and thrive before the internet came along? Or how anyone managed to find something exceptional to eat without a Michelin guide in their hand? Humans are gifted with five keen senses that also help make individual decisions that can often be the right one. Live a little. Lead, don't always look to follow.
When it comes to any restaurant in domestic or foreign territory, it's rather easy to see if it's any good or not; they're open for business. Those that suck, aren't.
You get five stars for being over-the-top judgmental and insulting -- apparently that's a requirement on the Internet -- but unless you have the time and money to see every movie, try every restaurant, etc, then you have to decide which ones to try and which to avoid based on something. What you're advocating is either making random decisions (which can be fun occasionally but also leads to wasting a lot of time and money suffering through crap), or making decisions based on other, less relevant criteria (such as which movie has the most competent advertising team, or which restaurant happens to be located in front of your eyeballs when your stomach rumbles).
If you want to make your decisions based on subconscious reasoning that you don't even understand yourself, go ahead, but don't blame others for trying to make an informed decision.
I don't blame others for making informed decisions. I stand in amazement at how they seemingly cannot make any decision without consulting someone else about it, which is my entire point.
Humans were born gifted with intelligence and reason, and yet it is often manipulated in an instant with a dozen subjective or fake reviews. As I said before, there is satisfaction knowing you made a decision on your own. There's even satisfaction in having the fuck-it-go-for-it mentality every now and then.
A cell signal. GPS. The internet. Take these services away from the average person today and see how quickly they become incapacitated, unable to communicate, navigate, or make a decision. Welcome to the Lemming Society.
Are you considering the total annual cost of servers, redundant storage, backup hardware, software and media, software licenses, real estate costs/taxes, and IT staff to run it all?
Having all those things done by some external party doesn't magically reduce the cost.
Uh, yeah, it kind of does. If your company has a requirement to electronically warehouse documents and really has no other need for IT services, you either bear the burden of scanning, storing, and making it available in electronic format yourself, or you pay someone else to do all that.
A single competent SysAdmin (fully loaded) would cost more than that for one year, and you've not even spent money on hardware and software yet.
Apparently, you don't need a single competent sysadmin to maintain 100,000 scanned pages, otherwise they could never offer it so cheap.
Again, volume matters. Their SysAdmin costs are not only shared across hundreds or thousands of customers managing millions or billions of pages, but their SysAdmin costs are also likely sourced from the most inexpensive resources available on the planet.
And to keep any IT system up and running and maintained properly (security, patching, upgrades, maintenance, accounts, etc.), you need a competent SysAdmin to maintain the entire system. That tends to be true regardless of end use.
Some stuff needs to be stored for 15 years. At 0.004 a month per page, that's $0.72 per page. At that price, it's WAY cheaper to have someone remove the staples and scan it in locally, and not be dependent on them staying in business, not getting hacked, or raising prices.
WAY cheaper?
Are you considering the total annual cost of servers, redundant storage, backup hardware, software and media, software licenses, real estate costs/taxes, and IT staff to run it all? High-speed scanner hardware and minimum-wage staple pullers? Multiply all that by fifteen to obtain the total cost of long-term document storage and protection?
With costs per page, it would all depend on volume when looking at what's cheaper. 100,000 pages would cost you less than $75K for fifteen years. A single competent SysAdmin (fully loaded) would cost more than that for one year, and you've not even spent money on hardware and software yet.
I find humans being utterly reliant upon reviews for every fucking thing in their life completely pathetic. Can't even drink a cup of coffee or eat a pizza without asking a panel of five-star rated liars. Ever heard of product satisfaction being subjective?
Use your own brain for once and make your own judgements. Live a little. Good or bad, it is satisfying knowing at the end of the day the decisions you made were yours, and not made based on sponsored bullshit.
They're broke that's why.
Ticket prices keep going up with inflation, wages not so much.
Ever wonder how much hipster coffee prices have gone up since the birth of Starbucks? Somehow they manage to afford that.
Ever wonder how much they spend on those unlimited cell plans to feed social media addiction? They won't go without that.
In the meantime, I can still get up early on Saturday and catch an opening-weekend movie at matinee prices for less than the cost of a single mochafuckachino latte with extra cream.
Not saying the younger generation isn't struggling, but they certainly have other priorities when it comes to spending the money they do have.
Why change the red light grace period? Red light is red light.
If you want to reduce accidents, increase the yellow period. People who push the limits of an extended yellow don't deserve grace. All this is going to do is now make people more comfortable running a little bit of red.
When the end result is a net loss to revenue, perhaps we should look to understand why a change to a program centered around safety came about, if this is still about safety and reducing accidents.
To validate my latter claim, I'd like to see the aggregate safety statistics since red-light camera inception. When main statistic that is peddled first is revenue, it tends to question the intent of the entire damn program. If this is truly about saving lives and preventing accidents, then prove it.
And no, a rather small impact to revenue in this program is not proof. That may simply be a minor concession to allow tens of millions more to be collected under the guise of "safety".
The comparison to Windows was meant to highlight the utter lack of infighting, unlike the Linux community, riddled with "trigger words" such as EMACS, vi, BSD, Linux, GNOME, or KDE, which manage to incite flame wars every time.
Yes, there are many options in Windows, but the overwhelming majority of the user base doesn't give a shit enough to argue endlessly about it.
1. money....Exorbitant fees for tickets and concessions price most of them well outside the range of the 18-24 demographic.
And yet fueling up with a $7 mochafuckachino at the local hipster coffee shop every morning, along with a $100/month all-you-can-eat unlimited cellular plan, are well within the gotta-have-it budget for everyone in the 18-24 demographic.
Funny how that shit excuse of "money" gets confused with priorities...
Ah, your religion has taught you all kinds of weird stuff. Put down the sci-fi and join reality.
What part of building and stockpiling pointless nuclear arsenals is somehow science fiction? How are the millions lost to religious warmongering over thousands of years not part of factual reality?
"After thousands of years, you idiots never learn"
The variety that managed to retain the common sense gene. Doesn't really matter. We'll be extinct soon.
Look at North-Korea. One leader. One lifestyle.
Look at the TCP/IP. One solution. One standard protocol. There are good examples, and there are shitty examples. North Korea tends to fit into the latter.
Now look at the western world. Republicans vs. Democrats vs. Greens. Conservatives vs. Liberals vs. a bunch of other flavors. McDonald's vs. Burger King vs. Pizza etc... It's the Organized Kaos of contradicting interests, with followers locked in endless battles over which system is The Best(TM).
Democracy never finding true peace is exactly why it must never stagnate into The One Right Solution.
True peace should be viewed and treated as a goal and a positive thing, not a fucking stagnation point.
And my analogy was centered around religious warmongering, which much like the KDE/GNOME/EMACS/BSD/Linux/vi bickering, can be far more pointless and futile than mere politics.
I pass on your supposed flame war, was just thinking about how much I'd need a Strong Leader...
Ever read a rant from the likes of Linus or Theo? We've had plenty of Strong Headed Leaders in this space. The end result is 2017, the Flame Wars rage on, and the Year of the Desktop is a fantasy.
...So the NASA, SpaceX, and co will need a way to finance these kind of "for Science !" projects privately.
Yes, because heaven forbid we actually try and justify exploring space without having to tie pointless warmongering to it.
As if there's some kind of damn point to feeding the bigger-dick syndrome that gave us "Tsar-bomba" class weapons. Haven't lit off a nuke in warfare since 1945, and yet that sure as shit didn't stop anyone from building ones thousands of times stronger, and stockpiling way more than anyone would ever need to "win" a nuclear war.
Fucking humans. After thousands of years, you idiots never learn, and you deserve your own demise.
Look at Microsoft. One browser. One Office suite.
Now look at Linux. KDE vs. GNOME. EMACS vs. vi. BSD vs. Linux. It's the Organized Religion of software, with followers locked in endless battles over which system is The One.
Religion never finding true peace is exactly why Linux has never found the Year of the Desktop.
You may return to your inevitable flame war I fully expect here, since one of the religious lines has been crossed.
Perhaps ebay have become aware of a security flaw in the keyfob, and are thus trying to migrate users away from them?
Let's stop bullshitting here. eBay knows few users give a shit enough to even want to deal with MFA, so they're doing this as a cost-saving measure, and nothing more.
Any keyfob that just displays a different code over time depends on the security of the initial seed value... If these values were compromised then so are all the tokens, and it wouldn't be the first time something like this has happened.
If this in fact is the case, we could probably find evidence of an attack elsewhere. An void of evidence would tend to point at my initial statement above.
The trouble with saying "less secure" is that it's highly subjective, even if you're in full possession of the facts (which we may not be)...
Fact: 99.999% of the devices that will provide the SMS authentication to support MFA are smartphones, and smartphones have a fucking horrible security record. They are constantly getting hacked, rooted, and otherwise compromised, which is the exact reason NIST came out with recommendations to use dedicated hardware (like tokens), and not something like a smartphone to support MFA.
A lack of transparency is a problem as always... These companies are a black box, and we the users/customers are expected to just accept what they tell us without having any idea of their internal processes or code etc.
When in doubt, my initial statement stands. Companies are cheap, and users don't give a shit about strong security anymore.
What with all the "it's broken" scammers, and the gray market crap being peddled. Who still uses the former auction site?
Perhaps you're right.
After all, there's nothing but honest reviews at Amazon, with ethics ensuring no chance of grey-market product being sold there...
The more this shit spreads out from the software world, the sooner it ends.
Ah, because that mentality somehow stopped every new car rolling off an assembly line being controlled by an ECU?
Give me a fucking break. Once a revenue model is deemed successful enough, Greedalone will ensure this shit perpetuates throughout the industry.
Let's see you call it worthless and pointless after it acts as a physical shield against a comet that would have otherwise come straight for Earth.
And Pluto could act as a billiard ball and cause a comet that would have otherwise not been in our trajectory to be manipulated to our demise. Fate is sometimes a fickle bitch.
I was being facetious with certain labels to highlight the fact that the label argument itself is both worthless and pointless. Scientific minds could be used for discussions far more relevant than textbook revenue.
"...have fought about what to call the small, icy world at the edge of our solar system."
I have a name for it.
Irrelevant.
Not good enough? Need more clarity? OK, here's some more.
Uninhabitable. Worthless. Pointless.
Until we start landing space mining equipment there to bring back an argument of value, perhaps we could find something else to discuss. This "religious" discussion is reduced to nothing more than textbook revenue when they need to re-write millions of them, which makes it rather cheap and not very scientific.
...it's hideous how it tracks you.
I don't have anywhere close to this unnerving tracking with Safari or Firefox.
You're running a browser created by the same organization who has essentially indexed our digital universe, and turned that into a multi-billion dollar empire.
At this point, shareholders practically demand perpetuating "hideous" activity.
The irony here is Chrome users feel more secure than ever.
So what. Their lips don't have the same shape and their lip motion is different. That's the point.
No, not quite. The point is don't try and sell this as a "combined" security model when one half of the system is essentially compromised, simply by using it as intended.
Unfortunately, the other half of this system will ensure the entire thing is marketed as the best "multi" factor authentication solution in the entire universe.
So, we've reached a point where a user actually has to say their shitty password out loud in order to obtain better security?
Let me put my boots on so I can wade through the irony.
Oh, and not to nitpick or anything, but this is hardly combining functionality to create better security when your password is known to anyone within earshot of you authenticating. One half of that system is basically compromised simply by using it as intended.
So go on the "dark web" trade your bit-coin for drugs. Sell drugs to locals and take cash. Bingo! Really, this isn't a difficult situation at all.
Perhaps Ross Ulbricht could enlighten you as to what a "difficult situation" is, since it fits so well here...
That a gallon of milk will run you about $20 and a tank of gas is $500...
The 6% annual increase in tuition costs was clearly outlined, and we know that milk and gas have both not followed that rate of increase.
I'd say they DID tell you. Right there. In TFS.