Lots of people who were buying when available to sell for a profit. I have a few friends who did this (they offered me sales at cost, reserving their price gouging for strangers. I never did take them up on their offers. I don't think anybody I know made much money. Most were happy to break even when prices started to dip :)

Thank God, a voice of reason in this discussion. Until this point, all I saw was a bunch of oldsters bemoaning their inability to look at gauges.

Motorcyclists are deathly afraid of technology. Aren't a substantial number of bikes still sold with carbs? Drum brakes? Air cooling? (And before anyone gets on my ass, of the five most recent bikes I've acquired, the newest is an '83. so it's not like I can't adjust a carb or a points gap. But I also know how to adjust the ABS sensor gap on my BMW.)

These people bitching about polyca probably bitched about moving away from cork linings as well (if they weren't too busy complaining about helmets in general). Yeah, I like my waxed cotton jacket. I also like my modern textile jacket. /rant

I know. :-/

Good point. Except of course that, just like Microsoft Windows, it exists and we occasionally have to deal with it...

My guess would be: spending her time with her hubby.

I'm not too familiar with AD and Exchange. I believe you, but I wouldn't have guessed that this would be the origin.

Well, the two factor authentication I favour most is the simple SMS to a know phone number. Facebook seems to be able to send warning SMS, but it want you to use their App for the two factor authentication. I don't see that as a good idea.

I'm not all that fond of phone based two-factor authentication any way. Especially, because phones break, get lost or get stolen at the least opportune moments.

Wow, that's one side I never expected to hear. Quite interesting. I've heard of owners of email addresses that get unwanted mail from people with the same name.

Alerting you to login attempts from new locations or devices, and offer two-factor authentication, will slow down the hackers for a time.

But the answer, for most service providers, is to tell the user that it's their problem now.

Another flaw - using the email address as the username and then not verifying the email address prior to actual account creation has lead to me getting a number of accounts on a number of systems I have no interest in. This is probably mostly due the fact that my main email address is very simple and a bunch of people either mistakenly or idiotically keep using it instead of their own... As a matter of fact that's how I ended up with a FB account in the first place.

Must vary by situation. In the two agencies in which I've contracted, the bottleneck wasn't contractors, it was the federal management. Layers upon layers upon ungodly layers of ignorant, micromanaging Federal 'management'.

John Goodman? Hehe.

As a result of this debacle, MD changed to a two party consent state.

It's not the core instruction set that's the problem with booting alternate OSes .. as long as you stick to the base archtecture you'll be fine. It's the lack of standardization when it comes to boot firmware and device configuration that's the problem. The server ARM initiative at least is standardizing on UEFI and ACPI .. hate them or love them, making ARM hardware more similar to Intel Architecture hardware will likely make it easier to support both.