"Reporting to law enforcement when potential evidence of illegal activities is found during the course of such work is also standard practice and usually legally required. "

You obviously never did data recovery or computer repair. Its unethical to look at peoples files and generally unnecessary for the work you have to do.

Honestly, preventing them from doing something just makes then want to do it more. I tried that all with my first son, he gravitated to everything i didnt want him to do...

With his younger brother, we took a different approach. With among us, we just all got accounts and now play together as a family. We even got extended family involved now and can easily fill the 10 players with all our relatives we cant see due to covid. Its been great and the game is actually pretty fun.

The lesson i learned raising a kid to be a young adult is that the most important thing is spending time with them. Doesn't really matter what you do, just make the time to do it with them. Because they will never be young again, and they will always do their own thing, not what you want them to do. Doubly so if you forbid them. They will do it just to spite you.

considering the left position is generally on the side of science and facts, would you really call it a political position? More like reality.

sorry that reality gets in the way of your conservative viewpoint, as always!

and i hope he burns in hell

If you are part of the deluded masses that carry a cell phone everywhere, i've got some bad news for you...

"You're all like, "I'd rather die than be told to do what I already do!""

That's american hyper individualism in a nutshell right there.

So yeah in canada, same thing. Only shipping "essential" items. All other items are shipped a month out. However you can pay 7.99 as a prime member and have basically anything shipped to you with less delay.

This is a cash grab, pure and simple. I have also heard that their orders are up 50x and they can't possibly keep up, which is why they want people to believe the "essential" BS and order less.

I desperately needed some specialty bolts not available locally, and had them in less than a week after i paid the 7.99 "essential" fee. While they were essential to me, they in no way were essential items.

In my business, we have no customers, so we have no revenue. IT is surely the last to be let go, but if there is no business, they no longer need an IT department either.

This crisis is fucking everyone. I got everyone working from home in the last few weeks, which has been put on the back burner for years before this. But most of the jobs at my org are customer facing. We are completely shut down for the foreseeable future. There has been layoffs, about half the staff 150 or so. With management desperately trying to secure government money to keep going.

Most businesses are ultimately at the mercy of their customers patronage. Besides annual licensing, and software to deal with working remotely (eg zoom), all other spending has been put on hold now. So we are not spending money, which means other businesses in the economy are not getting that money. Its a huge fucking set of dominoes that WILL effect your business very soon, if it has not already.

We are in a major depression, the effects of which will be felt for years to come.

I love that movie. Its probably the most realistic movie about disease outbreaks that I have ever seen. The first part is all science and technicalities and then it quickly turns into a thriller.

The best parts were when the camera lingered on door handles, glasses, hand rails, and other infection vectors. To this day i stay away from supposedly hygienic tongs (like to grab bagels out of a hopper at the supermarket) and prefer to grab the bagels themselves. If someone starts telling me that i am dirty, i just tell them that they should watch contagion and that the bagels i am touching, i am the only one to touch, whereas every single person has touched the tongs. People just don't think about that kind of thing.

It really made me think so much about transmission vectors. I really enjoyed how they did a sort of following of the virus route from the first world, all the way back to the infected bat or whatever it was falling into the pig trough. Just seemed so super realistic and well done. I should really watch it again.

"When the SHTF you'll be begging for help from someone just like him."

Everyone needs to sleep sometime bro! Everyone needs to pause to reload. Even wannabe solider boys. You should really read The Road for a less rose tinted glasses version of "the fall".

If shit hits the fan, the best position you can be in is to be already homeless and already ignored by most of society. Not sitting on a tonne of valuable shit, resources and power.

"the US *is* a world leader in public health"

Sure, a country without universal healthcare is a world leader in public health. You keep telling yourself that. The cognitive dissonance of americans is unbelievable.

"I'm just done with the whole thing."

I am SO SORRY that the possible end of civilization is bumming you out. Perhaps you should go back to your reality tv and superhero movies.

"you're not on the hook when full, valid card details are presented online."

As a merchant? You are 100% on the hook for fraudulent charges that get charged back. Where do you think they get the money from, the russian scammer? No, the money gets pulled out of your account and no one will help you if you actually shipped the product or committed services before you realized that. Maybe insurance, but for most transactions thats obviously not worth a claim.

So you don't know what you are talking about, as usual.

The main problem I see is that stripe didnt have a way to mass void all the transactions for the customer by the CSR. And they didn't let her account run negative when she verbally explained the problem and they agreed it was fraud.

"Revamp your donation form, web store, etc. to be more resilient against bots."

If you read the article, that was one of the first actions she takes with her dev team. She did everything right here and very nearly almost got screwed. Had to waste at least two days because the tier 1 and 2 CSR's are braindead... The fault is 1) scammer 2) stripe 3) the programmer who introduced the vulnerability into the codebase, in that order.

"Everything is ready for IPv6."

Except you know, people.

Its an important part of the puzzle. Take a look at an ipv6 address, it makes no sense. I am sure there is some way to read them but i dont use them enough to learn the syntax. Catch 22 i guess.

This is the worst argument ever. It presumes that if people are in the "know" about the climate crisis, that they would immediately decamp to the middle of the continent and what, wait it out in a bunker? These aren't preppers that are focused on doomsday, they are rich people who don't give a fuck if their mansion is wiped out as they will just buy another one when that comes to pass.

You fail to understand human nature. No one thinks things will change till they wake up one day and realize that they have changed already. This is how the future gets to you, it slowly creeps up until you wake up and realize that you are in the future and you don't know how that happened. There isnt one particular day where a wall of water wipes everything out. This is not the movies.

Because people still live in the present and buy beachfront property, all scientists are wrong... Your error is in assuming that the rich don't waste their money on houses that their grand children might not be able to live in. Most people don't think that far ahead, because what matters to most is the here and now.