"He read every email he received and dealt with them all, either by replying, filing, or unsubscribing. He even scanned his spam filter for false positives. It was a lot harder than he thought it would be."
I've been doing this just about every day, ever since I've had an email address. What's the big deal? A good spam filter helps, of course, and so does being organized, but it's not impossible by a long shot.
While I agree that licensing laws protect wages, and in many cases are ridiculous - does it really matter if your barber is licensed? - there are also valid reason for licensing some professions
A license indicates a level of understanding of the basics of a profession - a plumber or electrician knows code and some of the reasons behind it so you get proper water seals and safe circuits installed. A pharmacists understands drug interactions and, assuming you use the same one, can catch incorrect prescriptions or potential adverse reactions with drugs you are already taking; they are a second line of defense to ensure your safety.
A licensed barber understands the basics of hygiene and knows how to properly disinfect their shears, combs and other equipment.
That being said, I think most fields should allow unlicensed practitioners, with a strong caveat emptor warning. (Note: I may have used a Latin phrase but this is not legal advice and I am not a lawyer. Nor do I want to cut your hair.)
"OTOH, who usually cleans up any messes that happens with it? Who gets blamed if the cloud provider has an outage?"
You blame the cloud provider, and maybe even get them to comp you a month or two for your trouble. If outages are chronic, you switch to a different cloud provider (who may have the same problems, but you won't find out until it happens).
Note that none of what I said is something I would advocate; I'm just describing what most businesses would do.
In the past year that I've had Win7 installed on one of my PCs, I've lost count of the many "critical security updates" Windows Update has installed. Virtually every one of them describes the vulnerability as a possibility of a malicious program allowing an attacker to gain control of my PC. I would characterize those as "extreme."
A smarter idea would be to fit them all with radio transmitters. That way owners (or anybody with a suitably tuned receiver) could find and retrieve them more quickly.
If an intruder wants to disable the system all they have to do is open the junction box outside and unplug the cable that feeds your house. Voila: you're off the net and they're free to break in.
Is there some token of information that only John Smith, SSN 123-45-6789 could ever possibly know, and would never divulge to anyone else?
Even if there is such a thing, as soon as they tell it to the credit card issuer (who doesn't know it either at that point, making your "token of information" useless, but that's another story) it is no longer something that only that person could ever possibly know. A better bet would be biometrics, although that's not without its flaws.
Just write at the bottom, "This entire document is null and void" before signing. And if you want to have some fun, change that to "Doctor agrees to waive any and all charges for services rendered, and will not pursue legal action against patient for monetary compensation." Of course, make sure the doctor signs it as well.
(I am neither a doctor nor a lawyer so this is neither medical nor legal advice. But it sure is fun pretending.)
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Custom sex dolls with more realistic faces?
Uh, it's not the faces that consumers want to make more realistic. Or so I've heard.
"This one derps to eleven."
Sure: As a US citizen and taxpayer, I'm a shareholder of the US Gov't and all its assets.
"He read every email he received and dealt with them all, either by replying, filing, or unsubscribing. He even scanned his spam filter for false positives. It was a lot harder than he thought it would be."
I've been doing this just about every day, ever since I've had an email address. What's the big deal? A good spam filter helps, of course, and so does being organized, but it's not impossible by a long shot.
MILF: Mom In Linux Filesystem.
Yes, but theirs goes up to 11x11x11.
While I agree that licensing laws protect wages, and in many cases are ridiculous - does it really matter if your barber is licensed? - there are also valid reason for licensing some professions
A license indicates a level of understanding of the basics of a profession - a plumber or electrician knows code and some of the reasons behind it so you get proper water seals and safe circuits installed. A pharmacists understands drug interactions and, assuming you use the same one, can catch incorrect prescriptions or potential adverse reactions with drugs you are already taking; they are a second line of defense to ensure your safety.
A licensed barber understands the basics of hygiene and knows how to properly disinfect their shears, combs and other equipment.
That being said, I think most fields should allow unlicensed practitioners, with a strong caveat emptor warning. (Note: I may have used a Latin phrase but this is not legal advice and I am not a lawyer. Nor do I want to cut your hair.)
The correct parody of the name is "Facepalm". Everyone knows that!
Fixed that for you.
Fixed that fix for you
Fixed that for you
They're silicon wafer-thin.
By that logic, the owner of couchsurfing.org has a legit claim to the ".localhost" TLD.
"OTOH, who usually cleans up any messes that happens with it? Who gets blamed if the cloud provider has an outage?"
You blame the cloud provider, and maybe even get them to comp you a month or two for your trouble. If outages are chronic, you switch to a different cloud provider (who may have the same problems, but you won't find out until it happens). Note that none of what I said is something I would advocate; I'm just describing what most businesses would do.
In the past year that I've had Win7 installed on one of my PCs, I've lost count of the many "critical security updates" Windows Update has installed. Virtually every one of them describes the vulnerability as a possibility of a malicious program allowing an attacker to gain control of my PC. I would characterize those as "extreme."
But how do we know that article you pointed us to isn't itself a spear phishing attack?
A smarter idea would be to fit them all with radio transmitters. That way owners (or anybody with a suitably tuned receiver) could find and retrieve them more quickly.
If an intruder wants to disable the system all they have to do is open the junction box outside and unplug the cable that feeds your house. Voila: you're off the net and they're free to break in.
Is there some token of information that only John Smith, SSN 123-45-6789 could ever possibly know, and would never divulge to anyone else?
Even if there is such a thing, as soon as they tell it to the credit card issuer (who doesn't know it either at that point, making your "token of information" useless, but that's another story) it is no longer something that only that person could ever possibly know. A better bet would be biometrics, although that's not without its flaws.
You seen two, you seen 'em all.
It was an elegant hack, but a hack nonetheless. What it was not, it seems, is a kludge.
They mailed the patent application in 1944 but it took the USPS over 50 years to deliver it.
Just download it from the QuApp Store.
That should be "Nazi" with a capital "N".
Just write at the bottom, "This entire document is null and void" before signing. And if you want to have some fun, change that to "Doctor agrees to waive any and all charges for services rendered, and will not pursue legal action against patient for monetary compensation." Of course, make sure the doctor signs it as well. (I am neither a doctor nor a lawyer so this is neither medical nor legal advice. But it sure is fun pretending.)
It would be made up of former members of Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel.
I shot a man in Reno 911: Excessive Force, just to watch him die.
Just one, but it generates too much heat when overclocked.