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"After changing our passwords, I tried to pass the incident off to my wife... as a teachable moment," he said. "To which she deftly replied, 'Well, it is not my teachable moment. However, it is our money. No more Internet banking for you."
It's his wife's logic. We can blame him for being a pushover, though, by allowing his wife to make the financial decisions unilaterally. When a spouse makes family decisions without the spouse or doing research, you get dumb decisions like this where you don't consider that a rule like, "keep internet banking, but only access the bank by typing the URL into the browser" would be just as effective. She might as well have suggested, "don't use email" because that would have eliminated all the 419 scams as well.
It's phishing. The passwords weren't stored encrypted; they were collected directly via the fake server. Also, please correct me if necessary, but wasn't the original passwd "encryption" just some kind of weak hash?
Luxury! In my day, we didn't have any fancy pixels or phosphors! We had a screen of sharp needles that we had to stroke with our fingers like Helen Keller! The "lit" ones had 200 volts running through them so you could find them, although I ran mine at 300 just so there was no mistakin'. That's how I kept my job, fending off the pansy whippersnappers during the Great Depression.
This is what we bat-crazy libertarians are talking about when say we are for limited government. Because some bureaucrat wants his tax money, a government official is allowed to search your house for TVs without a warrant.
In all seriousness though, assuming that someone/something reached down and tweaked our DNA, then left the solar system leaving no other evidence behind takes a pretty big leap.
It also requires building a really flimsy straw man.
I assume you mean Galileo, and no, he wasn't killed but the R.C. Church basically placed him under house arrest for talking about the heliocentric theory (and other ideas they objected to). Ironically, Copernicus had already come up with the same theory many years earlier, with little fanfare.
No they're not, Captain Clueless. The two (or three, as it were) have nothing to do with each other. Only the jackass who modded you "insightful" is more clueless.
I'm guessing a very, very long term loan with a high interest rate. Some time back, I was frustrated with the problems my 9-year-old car was experiencing and bought a new one on a 6-year loan at a relatively high interest rate due to my credit rating. Due to the length of the loan, the car went out of warranty before it was paid off. It's possible to be stuck with some costly repairs and still have a lot of payments left. Fortunately, in my case that car is still running very well.
Antibiotics are not "regular maintenance" items. Drugs aren't like oil changes and brake pads for cars, which are items that are expected to wear out and a wise car owner budgets for. Health insurance should not cover regular office visits and other basic services, but they should cover things like emergency treatments and drugs (which really ARE expensive). This could be handled by an HDHP with a health savings account, which is the way the industry wants this to go and as long as the employer pitches in by partially funding the HSA, it works well and helps people budget for their health care.
That's part of the problem, but there are also people who don't think the government should have the right to pry into their lives and decide what they will eat and what drugs they will take. Once you make the government responsible for your health, it's in their interest to force you to live the way they believe will cost the least. This is assuming that the government actually remained benevolent and didn't start denying care to the elderly or the gravely ill-- which is possible in the worst case.
Healthcare debt is the #1 reason for personal bankruptcy.
No, it's not. Maybe that's what the universal health care backers are saying, but it's unemployment. Sometimes unemployment is due to poor health, but that's not the same as saying it's due to the cost of health care, is it?
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses (X) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected (X) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it (X) Users of email will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it (X) Requires too much cooperation from spammers ( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once ( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it (X) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email (X) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses ( ) Asshats ( ) Jurisdictional problems (X) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches ( ) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians (X) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers (X) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck (X) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually (X) Sending email should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
When making claims for availability as a service provider, scheduled maintenance is NOT counted in "the nines". You are making a guarantee of reliability, not uptime per se.
Air bags were exceedingly rare (and dangerous), but seat belts were standard equipment by 1970 in the USA. Also, cars were much heavier then due to the perception of quality and the need for crash survivability before the concept of crush zones. There were emissions controls, too, but generally only EGR until 1973. Also, you should compare the power ratings for, say, 1975 cars to 1971 cars with similar engines. The later engines were radically detuned just so they would even RUN with the hideous, un-computerized emissions controls. While the mileage was impacted only slightly based on EPA tests, in practice drivers had to push their poorly running cars to the limit to get them to perform adequately.
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... and when they push you down stairs, they claim it's to protect you from the terrible secret of space.
Fortunately, my insurance company, Old glory, can already protect you TODAY from the danger of robots. Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel. And when they grab you with their claws, you can't break free... because robots are made of metal, and they are strong.
It's his wife's logic. We can blame him for being a pushover, though, by allowing his wife to make the financial decisions unilaterally. When a spouse makes family decisions without the spouse or doing research, you get dumb decisions like this where you don't consider that a rule like, "keep internet banking, but only access the bank by typing the URL into the browser" would be just as effective. She might as well have suggested, "don't use email" because that would have eliminated all the 419 scams as well.
Technically, the subtonic in a C# major scale is a B#, not a C. But I like your style.
It's phishing. The passwords weren't stored encrypted; they were collected directly via the fake server. Also, please correct me if necessary, but wasn't the original passwd "encryption" just some kind of weak hash?
Luxury! In my day, we didn't have any fancy pixels or phosphors! We had a screen of sharp needles that we had to stroke with our fingers like Helen Keller! The "lit" ones had 200 volts running through them so you could find them, although I ran mine at 300 just so there was no mistakin'. That's how I kept my job, fending off the pansy whippersnappers during the Great Depression.
This is what we bat-crazy libertarians are talking about when say we are for limited government. Because some bureaucrat wants his tax money, a government official is allowed to search your house for TVs without a warrant.
So it's a no-TV tax? How's that socialism thing going, again?
I've heard...
The DS was still a hideously slow car, thanks to French "horsepower" taxation; it just appears reasonable next to a 2CV.
It also requires building a really flimsy straw man.
Q: Why does Nancy Pelosi wear a scarf?
A: To keep her vagina warm.
I assume you mean Galileo, and no, he wasn't killed but the R.C. Church basically placed him under house arrest for talking about the heliocentric theory (and other ideas they objected to). Ironically, Copernicus had already come up with the same theory many years earlier, with little fanfare.
No they're not, Captain Clueless. The two (or three, as it were) have nothing to do with each other. Only the jackass who modded you "insightful" is more clueless.
Not all birthers or deathers are white people.
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Because they're trying to kill him?
I'm guessing a very, very long term loan with a high interest rate. Some time back, I was frustrated with the problems my 9-year-old car was experiencing and bought a new one on a 6-year loan at a relatively high interest rate due to my credit rating. Due to the length of the loan, the car went out of warranty before it was paid off. It's possible to be stuck with some costly repairs and still have a lot of payments left. Fortunately, in my case that car is still running very well.
Antibiotics are not "regular maintenance" items. Drugs aren't like oil changes and brake pads for cars, which are items that are expected to wear out and a wise car owner budgets for. Health insurance should not cover regular office visits and other basic services, but they should cover things like emergency treatments and drugs (which really ARE expensive). This could be handled by an HDHP with a health savings account, which is the way the industry wants this to go and as long as the employer pitches in by partially funding the HSA, it works well and helps people budget for their health care.
That's part of the problem, but there are also people who don't think the government should have the right to pry into their lives and decide what they will eat and what drugs they will take. Once you make the government responsible for your health, it's in their interest to force you to live the way they believe will cost the least. This is assuming that the government actually remained benevolent and didn't start denying care to the elderly or the gravely ill-- which is possible in the worst case.
No, it's not. Maybe that's what the universal health care backers are saying, but it's unemployment. Sometimes unemployment is due to poor health, but that's not the same as saying it's due to the cost of health care, is it?
That throws this entire test into doubt, then, because if it wasn't in near-showroom condition it probably had a rust-weakened frame.
Your post advocates a
( ) technical (X) legislative (X) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
(X) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
(X) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
(X) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
(X) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
(X) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
(X) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
( ) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
(X) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
( ) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
(X) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
(X) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
(X) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
(X) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
house down!
When making claims for availability as a service provider, scheduled maintenance is NOT counted in "the nines". You are making a guarantee of reliability, not uptime per se.
Air bags were exceedingly rare (and dangerous), but seat belts were standard equipment by 1970 in the USA. Also, cars were much heavier then due to the perception of quality and the need for crash survivability before the concept of crush zones. There were emissions controls, too, but generally only EGR until 1973. Also, you should compare the power ratings for, say, 1975 cars to 1971 cars with similar engines. The later engines were radically detuned just so they would even RUN with the hideous, un-computerized emissions controls. While the mileage was impacted only slightly based on EPA tests, in practice drivers had to push their poorly running cars to the limit to get them to perform adequately.