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Comment Rewrites of massive code bases... (Score 1) 338

Good bye Social Security. I'm not collecting it, but I'm going to say that pretty much EVERYONE knows at least 2 people that are collecting... I hope they aren't dependent on it. Because when this is "done", I'm pretty sure it will not work for at least several months, which will get the administration an excuse to say "nope, not fixing broken system that we broke, good bye social security payments!" then promptly reallocate the funds to their own pockets.

Comment Crypto value (Score 1) 170

Two questions because when it comes to crypto I'm not really that well informed. 1- What's actually backing the value of crypto currency anyways aside from general venture capital. 2 - US to crypto and vice versa, fine it's worth a lot. What about Euro to Crypto, or Yen to Crypto, or any other country backed currency?

Comment Re:Question... sort of. (Score 1) 24

Honestly no, I haven't. only thing I've done "recently" banking wise was setting up transfers from a brokerage account, and getting a mortgage loan about 5 years ago. Lots of paper work there on it's own, but as far as opening an account - No. I've ended up "switching banks" by "force" when certain banks left the region I was in, then bought out by a larger bank... which has made it easy for me because... all the transitions were easy and seamless, and never had to worry about transferring banks really.

Comment Question... sort of. (Score 3, Insightful) 24

I'm confused, I can understand why an investment company would need your social security number, so that it could be tied back to you for tax related purposes. I don't entirely agree with it but OK, fine. But Why would they need your driver's license information at all? If they are able to validate you are who you say you are based on your ID information, there's no need to Keep that set of record data long term.

Comment Controller issue... (Score 3, Insightful) 92

Sorry, but the controller is not going to matter. doesn't matter if it's a $10 used NES controller, or a $500 dollar specialized driving device. The Submersible Imploded at extreme Depths. If the Vehicle can't withstand the pressures, the controller isn't going to matter in the slightest.

Comment Re:Doesn't really matter (Score 0) 19

This is correct. where I live up until about a year ago, My Only "viable" option was Comcast Xfinity. Now fortunately, in my area their service actually wasn't terrible from an uptime perspective. Then last year, this other company called Google signed contracts with the local cities, or some of them anyways, to build out Fiber networks. Pretty sure Comcast subscriptions locally as it's built out as just dropped like a rock.

Comment WTF? (Score 0) 249

"If those disagree by more than 5.5 degrees, the MCAS system will be disabled and will not push the nose of the plane lower." Why did someone think that was a good idea? Isn't the Pilots job to you know... PILOT the plane?

Comment Email Validation (Score 1) 60

From the Article "They do this by literally sending the people an email. If it does not bounce, the email is validated." This is not always accurate. I work for an email security company, and our recommendation for incoming messages, if the email address isn't valid, mail sink the messages, and don't give any notification. Optionally, have a second rule that's applied to business partners to bounce messages to let them know they got the wrong address, and bounce at that point.

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