With social engineering anything can be compromised, online or off. Online just gets more convenient seeing how you never have to leave your location.
I came across an interesting slide deck one time that had various examples of social engineering used in corporate settings to acquire data online and in person. A clever individual can get their hands on just about anything if they try.
This is ridiculous and infuriating. I did not realize it was that easy to raise money to pay health bills. Here I was at 18 scraping 3 grand for an emergency room visit, while people are getting an easy pass just by talking about their shitty situation and taking some photos. I understand there are some legit cases where you are kinda screwed insurance or not, but this motorcycle accident abroad crap is a big Nope.
I never understood the deal with signatures. Most signatures can be faked if analyzed by an amateur (every business). Sure there are experts who will spot fakes but how many of them are employed where signatures are verified?
I can tell you that I’ve faked a signature in harmless situations a number of times and nobody was the wiser.
Serious question: what’s to stop a startup or 2 or 3 from creating an alternative credit check system that’s not as horrendous as the current one, thus displacing the current overlords?
It’s peobably both, cause and effect. I agree with everything else you said. It’s just hard not to be depressed when I see everyone staring at their phone. I imagine back in the day people would strike up conversations and make random friends. Can anyone who was an adult pre-phones confirm this? There is no reason to make conversations with strangers anymore as anything you read online is likely more interesting and you can “pause” any time. I am guilty myself, and have to remind myself constantly that there is more to being in public than hiding behind a screen. Maybe I’m the weirdo who occasionally makes too much eye contact.
Easiest way is just to put up a fake service and they’ll give you their real password (same one they use everywhere). I can do this in a day and get thousands of real passwords and emails if I wanted to.
What stigma? Isn’t the novelty of college wearing off by now? We have thousands of courses from various elite universities accessible online for free now, not to mention places like khan academy. If college is for broad knowledge then I’d argue it’s no longer necessary. For a narrow field of experience a trade school or a condensed program should be all that you need. With automation ever increasing, kids will need to change their careers multiple times anyway. Why would you spend so much time in college on any one specialized field if there is a high chance you won’t stay in that career path forever?
I have a toddler and I plan on letting him decide if he wants to go to college or not when time comes. I won’t encourage or discourage it. Personally, college did very little for me as may be evident by my grammar, but I’m happpier for it.
Let me guess, isolation - both social and physical, brought about by cell phones and social media cancer is making people lonely and depressed. They turn to alcohol but that doesn’t quite do it so they turn to opioids and then decide to take their life. Perhaps I’m just pulling on unrelated strings to make a rope, or perhaps there is some truth to it?
In that case he could just come out with it. My guess is he lost the money either by trading or through pure technical incompetence that resulted in hardware loss or did something to erase it all on accident. Coming out with this would not excuse him from legal consequences as much as it would he be claimed he was hacked.
I don’t know about now, but in the past accessing an account was as easy as resetting the password in safe mode. I have done this numerous times when I worked in IT for people who forgot their passwords. It was such a stupid simple workaround. It wouldn’t surprise me if such workarounds still exist in win 10 and previous.
Same experience here. I felt like a dead man walking when my kiddo was born. Absolutely lifeless and ready to die. These days he is 18mo and acts as my alarm clock. Every day 6:20 sharp. Not a minute early, not a minute late. I am quite amazed actually.
I still go to bed late at times and absolutely regret it the next morning. On days when I go to bed before 10, I feel amazing - totally refreshed, happy, physically well and ready to go. On days I go to bed past 11:30 or closer to 12 - 12:30, I feel like total shit. Waking up hurts. My body aches so much and brain asleep most of the day. My eyes are closing and I cannot focus. Those days are usually the ones where my kiddo is most taxing on me, as if he knows dad feels like shit so why not make him wish he were dead.
Sleep is so damn important. Don’t skip it. I probably shaved 5-10 years of my life already.
There was a doc on Joe Rogan show talking all about sleep - so eye opening, highly recommend looking for that interview if you’d rather listen than read.
I lived with my best friend whom I’ve known forever and it drove us apart. Weirdly, we still kee in touch and are on friendlier terms now than we were when living together.
Doing it for 30 years sounds like my personal nightmare.
Ironically, they had a caption “scared of heights? Imagine going for a spacewalk” and when you click that you see a bunch of images of people in suits. Why get creative leaving me to believe I will look at actual spacewalks then just show astronauts. Sure they are about to go out but it’s not the same.
Also, art sex experiments? Am I the only one seeing that? Nice choice of urls.
Over designed, otherwise nice images. Loved the auroras - probably the coolest thing.
You could in addition to, but if you made sure the banks pay out their ass for their crimes then they’d make it extremely difficult for criminals to move their plunder.
Pawn shops don’t take deposit and engage in fractional reserve banking. Money laundering is only possible on the scales mentioned when financial institutions fail to do their job.
It’s interesting that the fraud and laundered money is always blamed on the bad guy when in fact it should be the banking system that is held accountable. If you take large sums of money with a deposit description “for bills” without doing anything about it, well, sorry to say but you’ve failed to do your part in ensuring that money is not dirty. Banks are incentivized to look the other way and when they do get busted, nobody goes to jail, they pay a small fine considering the large picture and go on business as usual - see HSBC
Sure, I’m not saying everyone has a miserable time. A lot of that likely depends on your standing in society and your family. My observations most likely reflect my standing and of the people I know. I think it’s great if someone is able to have an amazing time!
Because people have these movie weddings in their minds and are willing to pony up anything for a day to remember. Personally I find the whole experience rather sad and very very overrated. I have been to many weddings and opted out of the entire experience when it came to ours. Best decision I’ve ever made. Wife mostly feels the same but occasionally wonders what it would be like to have a traditional wedding. I don’t know, maybe the fact that I’ve been to so many weddings in itself has ruined the experience for me? Everyone I’ve even seen married never seem to have a great time - there is always a ton of stress, discomfort, expense and cliches that feel rather silly. I know women are the ones who mostly look forward to this, so hopefully they are getting their money’s worth and that day to remember.
#2 sounds most appealing. I live in Japan and don’t have a reachable phone #. Wife and I simply FaceTime if we need anything. Otherwise I have no mobile means of authentication. There have been several occasions where I simply couldn’t use the service because I could not authenticate via a phone number. I feel that companies that force this method of authentication have never considered my use case and could care less if they lose me in the signup process. Too bad. I for one actually have the money to pay them, but hey, if you don’t want it that’s fine with me.
I tried a new tab extension that lets you create to do lists and got lazy with it after a few days. Somehow these tools are not very helpful to me. I’m curious if anyone uses these things consistently day to day month to month?
As a user experience designer the first thing I ask for is access to any and all data available, including support chat system and access to support folks so I can quickly gauge the general level of issues being experienced. It’s just one way to identify possible issues, far in advance of jumping to make any UI changes.
Starvation need not provoke murder. If I had to choose between watching my child die and murdering another human so he could survive I’d choose the former. There is no life for a life. You only get one, and robbing someone of their life is the greatest injustice that can ever be carried out. I understand that if you grow up in that culture it feels normalized, but that doesn’t make it ok.
I never understood how anyone can take another life. To take away the memories, the experiences, the future potential of another spirit - all for the sake of what? Hate? Money? Power? How can anything be worth more than the only thing that allows one to experience this world? Sad.
I feel like this article wrongly assumes that the switch from coal to alternative would take a very long time and presents a nifty graph of total energy use.
The reality is that current policies worldwide favor coal for many reasons - most of which boil down to self-preservation. If a switch in policy was enacted quickly, that chart would see a dramatic rise in alternative energy sources. The trick is enacting self-harming policies that limit economic prosperity while ensuring the other guy does the same. This is where international agreements come in, which some countries ahem simply ignore.
What is the ultimate solution? I don’t know, but it feels like we need a huge shift in political values that put climate as the one and only issue that matters before all else. This would require and educated public willing to put aside other policies that they may disagree with. Ultimately we are probably doomed because our individual self-preservation will trump our collective well being (however flawed this view may be given that we are all living on the same rock).
Sure. My goal is to instill the mindset far in advance of handing down any sums of money. Basically, if I don’t observe the type of behavior I’m looking for such as managing your own finances in an intelligent manner, I’ll probably do something else with that money or just let it accrue interest until he is ready.