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Comment Re:Spoofing from address? (Score 1) 17

Nothing is being spoofed.

Typically, the spammers find a support ticket submission page, or a bug tracker or some other quasi-public system. Then they open a ticket or report a bug using YOUR email address and a name like "YOURNAME, we are going to charge your credit card $587.16 for Norton Antivirus if you don't call XXX or email YYY in the next 24 hours"

YOU then get an email from the ticketing system or bug tracker or whatever it is. This email contains the spammer's message, plus whatever is in the stock "your report is now in our system" email template the system is using.

This was all over Zendesk a few months ago. I was getting them from seemingly every company on the planet that had outsourced ticket tracking to their system.

Comment Re:Congress is the one with the purse (Score 1) 338

Bureau of Land Management Instruction Memorandum 2023-010 talks about refunds for leases. It is dated November 21, 2022, right in the middle of the Biden Administration. It has been superseded by newer versions that contain very similar language.

The purpose of the memo is to ensure that BLM practices are compatible with various laws, including the then-recently passed Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

Additionally, refunds are standard practice everywhere.

Comment Re:Late to the party (Score 1) 179

No one has ever made that argument in the entire history of humanity.

The argument is that because EVs can't do everything, we shouldn't legislate the demise of gasoline cars and diesel trucks. That if an EV doesn't cover every possible vehicle use case, then we shouldn't take away the vehicles that do cover those use cases.

Comment Re:Curious looking with these wide mirror stalks (Score 1) 179

Are you deliberately trying to avoid understanding what he is saying?

With a mirror, if the sun is at a bad angle, you can move your head and change the apparent position of the sun. With a camera, you are fucked because the camera is in a single fixed location and can't be moved.

Sometimes "where you need them" isn't actually where you need them.

Comment Re:But why? (Score 1) 197

I don't think the calculus on his death changed at all, and probably still favored letting him live. My understanding is that he's never been difficult to find, and his office was never particularly secure.

I think what did it is that he had an in-person meeting with around a dozen other top officials. While the balance might have said to leave him alive, the chance to take them out with one shot changed things.

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