Social Security Numbers need to be defanged. There is no reason they should be considered 'secret numbers' that can be used against a person. It should be totally safe to print your SSN on a t-shirt and wear it in public.
There is no excuse for it being 'dangerous' to reveal your SSN to others. It's not designed to be a 'protected' piece of information and when established, a Social Security Number was intended simply as an index.
Unfortunately, the credit industry seems to think they can use the posession of a person's SSN to extend credit to anybody who has access to it. Because of this, our SSNs have become weapons against us.
It would be easy for us all collectively to take that power of the SSN away from the credit industry. If 10% of all Americans agreed to disclose their SSNs publicly, it would make it impossible and impractical for the credit industry to use the revealing of a SSN to issue credit cards at cash registers in stores, which is, among other conveniences for them, what the 'secrecy of SSNs' is all about.
My dream is that someday enough of us will agree to publish our SSNs that it would become impractical for the credit industry to use it as a 'secret code.' The coolest way for this to happen would be for people to just start writing their SSN on a sign in front of their house, or on the mailbox or something of that nature.
Practically, though, the best way it could happen would be in an all-at-once event, so that the Credit Industry can't use SSNs tricking out as an attack vector on a few people at a time. But with a mix of some sort of 'big release' of SSNs and a trickling out, i.e. people not on the 'big release' revealing their SSNs on a place like their mailbox where it can't be verified en-masse, the use of SSNs as a 'secret number' for credit applications could be nullified.
It's quite possible Elizabeth Warren could have won against Trump. There: a first woman president. But since it wasn't Hillary (and it's 'Her Turn' just like it was Bob Dole's 'Turn') it couldn't be.
In spite of the bad things one hears about Warren 'faking being an Indian' she has a very compelling life story that would have resonated a lot better than the story of Bill's shrew.
No, but a review of voting rolls might indicate that there are voting precincts where a massive number of ineligible voters voted. If it's in a precinct where Hilliary got almost all the votes, it could be time for some sort of statistical adjustment to be made.
Run Bochs on a Mac SE/30 in order to run MS-DOS. Then run Executor on the MS-DOS. (Executor is an old MacOS emulator that let you run System 6 and earlier Mac software on a PC).
And Sexual Harassment is a crime. Unless the Chief Executive who is sexually harassing subordinates* in his office happens to be popular with Mainstream Feminists.
(* any time there is a power dynamic, i.e. the head of an organization is engaging in sexual acts with an intern, it fits the definition of sexual harassment. Except when it's somebody special. See above paragraph)
Slashdot is under new ownership. They're sorta scrambling to monetize the whole operation. As the site declines into becoming a tabloid, we will just have to deal with it. I guess.
The 'filter' functions are constantly being tuned. It isn't just to block crapflooding anymore.
Retraining plans? Seriously? We should crowd everybody into the Universities where they can be indoctrinated and when they get out they can lubricate the bearings on industrial robots??
Now, we all know that Ms. Clinton is a policy wonk, and I am certain she had some devastatingly boring ideas to propose. But she lost.
Elections have consequences, I remember some dunderhead say.
China is ahead in terms of what exactly? Human rights abuses and tyranny?
China is way ahead of the US in terms of capital-punishment efficiency. They actually have lethal injection beds in panel vans. Far more efficient. And Chinese citizens can be executed for far more infractions. Drug dealing, corruption. etc.
The IoT device is installed in a home, and writes the 'manifest' to the firewall device at installation. If it ever changes, the firewall would immediately know.
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Social Security Numbers need to be defanged. There is no reason they should be considered 'secret numbers' that can be used against a person. It should be totally safe to print your SSN on a t-shirt and wear it in public.
There is no excuse for it being 'dangerous' to reveal your SSN to others. It's not designed to be a 'protected' piece of information and when established, a Social Security Number was intended simply as an index.
Unfortunately, the credit industry seems to think they can use the posession of a person's SSN to extend credit to anybody who has access to it. Because of this, our SSNs have become weapons against us.
It would be easy for us all collectively to take that power of the SSN away from the credit industry. If 10% of all Americans agreed to disclose their SSNs publicly, it would make it impossible and impractical for the credit industry to use the revealing of a SSN to issue credit cards at cash registers in stores, which is, among other conveniences for them, what the 'secrecy of SSNs' is all about.
My dream is that someday enough of us will agree to publish our SSNs that it would become impractical for the credit industry to use it as a 'secret code.' The coolest way for this to happen would be for people to just start writing their SSN on a sign in front of their house, or on the mailbox or something of that nature.
Practically, though, the best way it could happen would be in an all-at-once event, so that the Credit Industry can't use SSNs tricking out as an attack vector on a few people at a time. But with a mix of some sort of 'big release' of SSNs and a trickling out, i.e. people not on the 'big release' revealing their SSNs on a place like their mailbox where it can't be verified en-masse, the use of SSNs as a 'secret number' for credit applications could be nullified.
If more Access users would limit their scope to such a project, Access wouldn't get the hate that it does.
small net grabs a lot of shit
That is the language a 40 year IT professional uses to describe email?
This isn't the BOFH section of the register, you know.
What quite a few of us aren't a fan of are moderators/editors on Slashdot with seven digit UIDs.
Microsoft twisted the classic sol.exe badly in the translation to Windows 8. And it was such a nice clean little piece of code.
This is a bastardized Solitaire. Who would want that.
I wish they would just compile sol.exe for a 64 bit environment and be done with it.
Slashdot is recently under new management.
In my estimation, the scripting that used to be used to prevent crapflooding has been tweaked for other purposes.
It may have been better when Slashdot was owned by incompetent suits at Dice, who really just let the site drift.
Facebook would probably code one up for us if we asked nice, too.
They have all the prototype code in a vault for the rollout to China soon.
Biden could have won against Trump.
It's quite possible Elizabeth Warren could have won against Trump. There: a first woman president. But since it wasn't Hillary (and it's 'Her Turn' just like it was Bob Dole's 'Turn') it couldn't be.
In spite of the bad things one hears about Warren 'faking being an Indian' she has a very compelling life story that would have resonated a lot better than the story of Bill's shrew.
No, but a review of voting rolls might indicate that there are voting precincts where a massive number of ineligible voters voted. If it's in a precinct where Hilliary got almost all the votes, it could be time for some sort of statistical adjustment to be made.
You're sputtering. Possibly that is affecting your local climate.
Why be such a potty mouth?
Nobody at all likes Hillary. Some people voted for her because of Trump, though.
You made a spelling mistake. You have to capitalize Reality when you use it as a proper noun.
Just tagging this on:
Executor still exists, and is open source now. But it appears nothing is being done with it.
Run Bochs on a Mac SE/30 in order to run MS-DOS. Then run Executor on the MS-DOS. (Executor is an old MacOS emulator that let you run System 6 and earlier Mac software on a PC).
And Sexual Harassment is a crime. Unless the Chief Executive who is sexually harassing subordinates* in his office happens to be popular with Mainstream Feminists.
(* any time there is a power dynamic, i.e. the head of an organization is engaging in sexual acts with an intern, it fits the definition of sexual harassment. Except when it's somebody special. See above paragraph)
Slashdot is under new ownership. They're sorta scrambling to monetize the whole operation. As the site declines into becoming a tabloid, we will just have to deal with it. I guess.
The 'filter' functions are constantly being tuned. It isn't just to block crapflooding anymore.
So, basically, this whole controversy is about shutting down The Onion.
Good. I'm glad we've cleared that up.
You forgot to capitalize 'Reality.' When it's used as a proper noun you are supposed to do that.
Retraining plans? Seriously? We should crowd everybody into the Universities where they can be indoctrinated and when they get out they can lubricate the bearings on industrial robots??
Now, we all know that Ms. Clinton is a policy wonk, and I am certain she had some devastatingly boring ideas to propose. But she lost.
Elections have consequences, I remember some dunderhead say.
China is ahead in terms of what exactly? Human rights abuses and tyranny?
China is way ahead of the US in terms of capital-punishment efficiency. They actually have lethal injection beds in panel vans. Far more efficient. And Chinese citizens can be executed for far more infractions. Drug dealing, corruption. etc.
How long have you been speaking for China? Do you draw a salary as an ambassador?
The IoT device is installed in a home, and writes the 'manifest' to the firewall device at installation. If it ever changes, the firewall would immediately know.
Be careful, because you just defined yourself as a troll.
(and half of those are probably low-cost shit).
You're right! WTF! Who wants low-cost??? Get that shit outta here. We're talking about APPLE here and now!