With a traditional Visa/Mastercard 'debit' card that pulls money from your checking, there are two ways to use that card and pay for your purchase:

• Use it like a credit card (you don't type your PIN)
• Use it like a debit/atm card (you enter your PIN)

If you use you card as a credit card, you are protected in the same manner as you would with a credit card, you aren't responsible for fraudulent charges above $X.xx and you can dispute charges, etc. If you use it as a debit card, if your PIN is exposed by some 3rd party (i.e. the store you are purchasing from, the company they contract with for their POS system, etc) you are fully on-the-hook when it comes to losses - if they steal $2000 from your account, you have lost $2000 - there is no disputing charges or limited liability like with a credit card.

tl;dr;
Use your card as a credit card, you have many protections, use your card as a debit card (you enter your PIN), you are liable for every transaction associated with your PIN.

I use 172.16.99.x and 172.16.42.x and I happened to have a client that I often had to clean-up their messes that also used BOTH 172.16.99.x and 172.16.42.x.

That was annoying...

Yeah, I had my car in for an oil change at the dealership (I have free lifetime oil changes), 1 year ago they said I only had 1mm of brake pads left, then 3 months ago they said I had between 2-3mm of brake pads left. I think I have the *only* car that actually GROWS brake pads instead of wearing them down.

Needless to say, I don't let them do anything to my vehicle beyond the oil change.

Rimless glasses - CRAP
Razor stubble - CRAP
Black faux turtlenecks - whew, at least I don't own any of those...

I think it may be time for new glasses and kicking my lazy habit of not shaving every day.

Because Adobe Illustrator is bug-free, completely stable and doesn't corrupt files, like EVER?

Every software is going to have stuff that works great and stuff that wasn't thought out well or tested well - even on version 13.0.0.1

And on top of the different locales, different places charge different RATES for different kinds of purchases. Food in CO is 0%, but somewhere else it is like 4% - and it differs between COUNTIES AND CITIES, not just states.

There are companies who's whole purpose is keeping track of these tax rates which allow you to pay through the nose for their products. Vertex is one such company. Amazon shouldn't have a problem paying for those systems, but what about the little guy? I cannot afford $10k, just so that I can collect sales tax for FL when my only physical location is in NV.

Even though the average payment was $2.00, they still made a ton of money on the issue, even to the point of them calling it a huge success. This says to me that the product was worth $2.00 to people, you can see a similar effect on the iPhone App Store...

I would be at a loss of what to say when Cialis commercials come on, even in the audience of all adults.

Bathtubs? WTF?

I have been thinking for a while now that Solaris would benefit greatly from FatELF binaries. They already do some goofy magic with their execution of binaries to figure out which version to run (the one from /usr/bin -or- the one from /usr/bin/amd64)?

I had a similar situation, somebody brought over a zombie XP machine that started spamming. They were house sitting while I was out of town. Anyway, if you talk around to the right person and call about 5 different numbers, you CAN get port 25 unblocked, it just takes you getting in touch with the correct department...

Anyway, now my firewall doesn't let any "untrusted" ip addresses unfettered access to the internet anymore. Which is a pain when I bring the work laptop home and the VPN won't connect (until I make that IP a trusted ip)...