I always thought it was a problem that student debt cannot be removed by declaring bankruptcy. If that restriction was removed I bet good money banks would be on the hook. Of course, then banks wouldn't loan out so easily.

Maybe because it's not in the constitution for the federal government to pay for education?

Tipping is now popping up everywhere, cashiers mainly but all sorts of industries are doing it. I had movers ask me for a tip. Meanwhile, traditional tipping jobs such as waiters are now asking for tipping by default to 25% or 18% instead of the normal 15%. The question is why is this happening? It's indicative of people getting poorer and having a harder time making ends meet. This is going to end up driving people away from many places when they feel harassed by tips. What will be the tipping point (pun intended) where people say they've had enough?

I'm sorry but where is it stated in the US Constitution that the President has the right to give money to another country? I know it's a pledge and therefore just a promise which means nothing and sounds like a nice thing but I don't see what would actually give Biden the right to cut a cheque to do something like this.

There is no way this guy will be able to pay that kind of money back.
He will just end up declaring bankruptcy to get out of this. That's what people who were sued for downloading from Napster ended up doing when told to pay up millions in damages each.

I hope it also forces those Addon features put in Edge or Chrome to no longer work. My company's bank is using such an addon to get around the removal of IE instead of seriously rewriting its code to something more secure for their cheque deposit system that uses a machine to feed multiple cheques. It's insane they have to be dragged away from it kicking and screaming.

I'm pretty sure other industries were pressuring them to find a compromise. It's hard to believe but farmers are the ones leading the charge on right-to-repair bills because they can't wait a week for a repair to happen. When it breaks down, they need a solution now as every minute of downtime is costly. People needing to repair their appliances or phones or other stuff aren't usually as hands-on as farmers need to be.

Did I actually say I didn't want security beyond password protection? Is that really what your powers of deduction concluded from what I wrote?
I do want protection, it just clearly isn't MFA as it's can be compromised by people with limited skills.
Auditors should be recommanding something that isn't just the current trendy fad and be at least able to propose something else as a secondary option.

I'm glad I'm not the only one seeing such a thing.

I just feel management just wanted the audit to then follow the recommendations and cover themselves if something happens and blame the auditors.
It just grinces my teeth knowing how much we now need to spend on an MFA authentication on a monthly basis on top of the fee that was given to these auditors.

Yes, I could. People have less money now because, during the pandemic, there were moratoriums on evicting people in many locations who then used that money to spend on places like Amazon. People were paid more to stay at home and produce nothing which helped create inflation. All that came to an end and this is the consequence of all those decisions. People do not have the money to spend as they had before and we are only seeing the beginning of this layoff trend.

My company just had a security audit and they strongly recommend using MFA to secure our infrastructure against remote attacks. I even pointed out a few articles warning about the MFA vulnerabilities at the time and yet they still insisted on this being the solution to secure accounts. Every time I see an article like this one I keep asking myself why we even bothered to have an audit if they recommend stuff that is already showing so many signs of security issues.

They said that same story a few years ago. for multiple countries.
I think this blog summarizes it well.

Long ago, computer storage and memory were expensive and companies programmed games to be lean and pull the most amount of processing it could. But as those increased programmers stopped being efficient as the constraint disappeared. For years there were complaints about how programmers were making their code bloated and the art of programming efficiently had disappeared. Now because the new place to code is on phones and the storage isn't increasing as quickly as PCs the art of tight coding seems to be lost. Perhaps they should learn to code better.

Then I had when I 1st heard of Stadia from Google. When it comes to gaming Microsoft has more will to commit.

Back in 2019, I was in a course for my college degree and the teacher was such a google fanboi. Stadia was new and he was talking about it like Google was going to revolutionize the gaming industry. I recall pointing out to him the early complaints about the resolution and also how Google was constantly canceling products which I felt at that time was going to keep any serious AAA companies from investing in them. Their reputation was pretty much sullied already at that point in my view. I really need to find that teacher's email and remind him about that talk. This is what passes for education these days or maybe this bit of news just reminded me how much of a waste of time that course he gave was in the end