Don't forget ColdFusion, PHP, JSP and the host of CGI languages that you can accomplish the same server-side functionality.

You can check the links without visiting the site. Even visiting the site is not a huge risk, as long as you are not on IE.

If it is an HTML formatted email (which most are) then you can hover over the link to see the actual address.

While it is true that character compinations or UTF-8 characters can be used to try to fool you, I have not seen that too often. Usually it it more like http://www.ebay-securitycheck.com/ or the like. They do not use the real base domain.

Even banks/credit unions who use different urls for the online banking still have you log in at their main site.

Indeed. jQuery rocks. I have started introducing it to existing apps here. I just wish the other developers would see the beauty and not remain tied to archaic methods.

You could also do this, I would think, using stored procedures for data reads as well as writes.

The first step in a read of unlocked data would be to lock the row/dataset. You can accomplish this with a "lock column" which is just an id column. This id can be a user id or more appropriately a session id.

Then on the submit, the record is unlocked by removing the entry in the "lock column".

Only a matching user/session id can write to that data.

Upon reading, if the "lock column" is not null, read in the data but notify the user that it is read only.

*** Disclaimer ***

It is early and I just came up with this off the top of my head, so there may well be flaws with, or at least a better method to acomplish, this task.

It is off. I know that for a fact.

I was talking about turning it off.

But I can turn the GPS and cellular radio totally off independently as well, just a couple clicks.

Yes, but I have control over the source.

I can turn my phone (or the aspects of it in question) off.

At some point the tin foil hats have to come off.

Me, I could care less if someone is tracking where I am or what I am doing. What difference does it make?

If you use a phone or a computer you are susceptible to the same"invasion". I am not going to stop using my computers or my phones.

I understand the -1 Off topic. Been around long enough. As far as the OP goes, this is off topic.

The unfortunate thing is as it was an AC that posted, he/she'll likely never see the comments.

*shrug*

Not much I can do about that.

I'm against universal health care, as it is being proposed now.

As a person with a disability and on again, off again health health issues, I know exactly what my insurance covers. It is why I read the benefits package when I get it to determine what the package offers.

Before I was employed, I had public health care, both through Welfare and Social Security. While everything was "covered" technically, I had a hard time finding doctors that accepted the Medicaid coverage and that I didn't have to wait 3 months to get in to.

I think a better solution would be to open the private insurance companies to individual or public group memberships. Until recently, it was all but impossible to get insurance on your own. Washington state (where I live) has a low income insurance program that gets you insured by a regular insurance company. However, it is income restricted. If you a buiness owner, a consultant or work in a job that does not offer insurance and you make more than the llowed amount, you are SOL.

It has gotten a bit better with individual options being offered with the insurance company at a somewhat reasonable rate.

If the government insists on throwing money at this, perhaps a subsidy to get people insured through the established insurance companies.

Just my $0.02.

Did you here something? :)

I find it humorous that the initial AC blasted you for a quote in your sig. And even at that, the ramblings are without enough coherent content to make anything from it.

Except for the purposes of a credit check.

Part of the reason companies keep this information, in my estimation, is to have ready to perform future credit checks if you request additional service.

I know with my cell contracts, every time I have added a line, my credit gets checked. Nevermind that I have been a customer in good standing for many years.

Charter Communications does this as well.

IIRC, a few years ago, this was attempted at a lower level and reversed.

I guess a big part of my new development project has to be rewritten.

New entry in the user manual:

Updates:

Users must check their notification page(s) regularly for new content, comments or results. (I know e-mail, sms, etc would be easier, but we cannot risk a lawsuit to make, you, the user's life easier. Sorry. Please send complaints to idiots@techradium.com.)

Sounds like a self-fulfilled prophet. I've known people like this. "Everybody thinks I'm a(n) [insert term here], so I will act like a(n) [insert term here]."

The sad thing is they often think that the world will stop viewing them that way.

If they successfully put through this ban, how long until they ban acetaminophen outright? Like another responder said, it won't prevent the mixing of acetaminophen with codeine based medications to get the same effect.

As it is now, acetaminophen is one of the few OTC analgesics that are in the mainstream. You have aspirin, acetaminophen, ibupophin and naproxen. Doctors are shying away from naproxen as there are poswible detrimental side-effects, ibuprophin has had its share of kidney related complications, etc, etc.

Me, I can say there were times that between vicodin and extrastrength tylenol, I probably took as much as 6000mg a day of acetaminophen. I used to take 3 or 4 500mg caplets at a time. Last I checked, I am not dead. I have enough medical issues that I have had a lot of blood work done over the years and never once was there a concern over my liver. Granted, I no longer do that. I choose to live with my pain rather than live under a drug induced mask.

I am not saying there are not risks, but at some point we need to be allowed the opportunity to decide for ourselves. These law, bazns, regulations, etc, often do nothing more than inconvenience the intelligent and/or law abiding citizens of the planet.

Everything out there has the ability to bring harm to us. That is why we develop common sense. Those who don't may find themselves the brunt of a Darwin Award. Take, for example, Dihyderogen Monoxide, it can be very deadly if you do not use common sense when around it. But when use/handled correctly, there is nothing wrong with it.