Comment Yes. (Score 1) 183
This happened to us a couple of years ago - check to the IRS intercepted, washed, and redirected. Nearly cost us a fortune. We caught it in time, and were able to get the IRS paid and get the fraud reversed.
Never pay the IRS with a check. Credit card, ACH wire transfer, or EFTPS for us from then on.
Comment Re:two wrongs don't make it right (Score 1) 142
[M]urdering lots of innocents to kill a few bad guys is NOT justifiable, that makes you the bad guys too
Soooo, then who were the Good Guys in WW2? All parties bombed the living shit out of "innocent" civilians.
The ratio of civilian to military deaths in Iran is very low. Orders of magnitude lower than WW2.
Your measure also makes IRGC and their international islamist proxies very, very, very Bad Guys, yes?
Comment Not a new idea, why is this news? (Score 2) 53
Snug Safety has the same purpose, and has been around since at least 2016: https://www.snugsafe.com/
There are many, many other similar apps on iFraud and Android.
Why is this one news? Has "in China" replaced the "on a computer" meme?
Comment Re:APL? (Score 1) 83
Comment Re:This is like the third time they've redone this (Score 1) 46
I'm confused why your wife couldn't just use your login credentials? You live in the same house, yes?
But that is no longer relevant as unless her brother also lives in the same house, he's the one who will be automatically kicked-off.
Comment H. L. Mencken reminds you: (Score 2) 95
“The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.”
They'll eventually come for you if you don't stop them at 4chan.
Comment Every singe day. (Score 1) 181
TT-RSS install on my cloud server, web browser and android clients. Use it for everything I can. It vastly simplifies keeping up with news/ events/authors/sites I want to follow without having to visit dozens of sites daily. I've over 100 feeds I track, not counting the YouTube channels. On some I find articles to read daily, some weekly, some rarely. For example, I followed a link in my Slashdot feed to this story. I'd not have seen it if it wasn't in my feed.
Comment Worse that it already is? (Score 5, Interesting) 91
Really? Now that would be an achievement.
Between the AI crud that's remarkably inaccurate and the litany of sponsored links, it's hard to get Google to return results of value anymore.
Perplexity (mentioned in systemd-anonymousd' comment) is one good alternative. Here's another (IMHO):
https://www.startpage.com/
Useful Google results without the crud.
Comment File an ADA Complaint (Score 1) 91
Your CV says you are in CA in the USA. If the website it in the USA, file an ADA complaint. The
You can likely file a complaint with the CA
You may even be able to file a lawsuit yourself which would get their attention very quickly, if you qualify as disabled by EEOC definition.
Comment Great Filter (Score 1) 104
Cryptocurrency is Fermi's Great Filter. We are getting filtered...
Comment Re:No need to cry (Score 1) 1605
No, this time there are no guardrails.
Good thing the Demorats have failed to negate the Second Amendment, eh?
Comment Re:CIS (Score 1) 163
And in geography for millennia before that. Viz., Transylvania (beyond the woods), Cisalpine Gaul (Gaul on this side of the Alps).
Comment Surprise, Surprise (Score 4, Insightful) 210
And this, kids, is what happens when you hire for ideology conformity first, and competence second.
(Project 2025 aims to ensure the Federal government follows this hiring methodology. The Pendleton Act, which it seeks to ignore if not overturn, is there for a reason.)
Comment Re:Shocking... (Score 2, Informative) 93
...and this, boys and girls, is why we can't have nice things.