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If you're getting dozens of password reset notifications, you're being attacked
I don't understand how the assholes are generating these notices on devices. By what means are they causing the password reset notification to appear? If they can do that remotely aren't they already in your system at that point?
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Microsoft hammered with $29 billion back-tax bill
9secondkox2 said:
Minimizing tax burden by storing your money in a more favorable location (still within US jurisdiction) wasn’t illegal at the time. Retroactively making it so is just theft by the government. Pure and simple. “Adjustment” my left buttock! Microsoft didn’t do anything wrong. They looked at options available to them and utilized them. anything else would just be dumb. But now you have the government retroactively changing things. If a company knew that would happen, of course they’d do things differently in the past. But they didn’t. Because it wasn’t wrong at the time. It’s like an entrapment feature of the government. Pure thievery.darkvader said:
The only theft is what Micro$oft did. And the sad part is that a company with $136 billion in profits in 2022 only has to pay $29 billion in penalties for their decade of theft.9secondkox2 said:This is theft.The government wants money. Solution? Just retroactively “adjust” someone’s taxes from years ago! A good solid decade ought to do it.Pure evil. If there was ac actual issue all this years ago, the IRS WOULD HAVE NOTIFIED THEM AND THEY COULD PAY WHAT WAS OWED. this isn’t that. This is an extortionist government.Microsoft didn’t do anything illegal. They took advantage of the way the tax systems were set up, like any smart company would do.
You don't know that "Microsoft didn’t do anything wrong.". No one has said they were doing anything illegal, they simply didn't do the tax dodging in a manner the IRS thinks is correct. There will be a back and forth and eventually a settlement will be reached. There is no reason to ever place any faith or belief in corporations doing the right thing, that's not how they operate. All desisions are based on what makes or saves the most money - period. Apple are slightly less guilty of that than some mega-corporations, but MSFT? Come on, they are not going to follow the law to the letter if they think they can get away with it. Gates' legacy of hacking and gaming everything, always and forever lives on.
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Apple may discontinue silicone iPhone case in eco-friendly push
We started using Pela cases last year on our iPhone 11 and 11 Pro. They work well, have the right level of grippiness without being overyly so, and have successfully protected both phones from drops. The big plus is that the cases will break down in a compost pile without leaving any hazardous compounds behind - they are fully compostable instead of merely biodegradable.Would be interesting to see Apple carry Pela cases in the Apple Store.
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Apple Watch bands harbor dangerous bacteria -- because no one cleans them
Soap does not kill most bacteria, unless it is anti-bacterial soap which we aren't supposed to use because of the creation of resistant strains of bacteria, because soap will not kill them - wait what just happened?Lysol and alcohol may have negative effects on band materials - use with caution unless you are really rich and in that case go ahead and destroy your posessions on a regular basis because you really just don't care, because you have that luxury and are a very inconsiderate and wasteful person which is the worst insult I know.Apple cider vinegar is a total scam and is no different than regular acetic acid and this reminds me of the people who think that mixing vinegar and baking soda makes some sort of miracle cleaner that is safe and effective which of course it is not effective at all since you just deactivated the vinegar. The by product of the magic "cleaning" reaction is co2 and sodium acetate, which is a chemical compound used to make salt and vinegar potato chips very vinegary without being a wet soggy acidic mess.I don't wear a watch but my wife likes her Apple Watch and when she cleans her bands we use OxiClean or the active ingredient, sodium percarbonate, which is also the active ingredient in Efferdent and is also the active ingredient in most coffee machine cleaning tablets and the active ingredient in most "color safe" laundry bleach products and so far we have seen no damage to the bands.
Tonight I like really long sentences.
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Hollywood studios fail to prevent actors striking during writers' strike
Ofer said:
Except that the execs and top brass have been getting paid more and more to meet changing times, while the writers and actors (with the exception of A list actors) have not. There’s absolutely no reason they would need to raise prices except for greed. So yeah, on second thought, you’re right, they probably will.welshdog said:It will be interesting to see what scheme the studios/streamers come up with going forward. So far no one has business model for streaming that works for all parties involved. Unfortunately, any new scheme will 100% means higher costs to consumers. In order for writers, directors and actors to receive residuals from streaming, we will have to pay on a per view basis. And of course that means we will pay a lot more than we pay now for content.
Yes execs are over paid, but even if you took their salaries and distributed that to all the lower employees it would not make a significant increase in take home pay. Right now if some brat watches Frozen 400 times on a streaming platform, no one gets any additional money for those views. There are no residuals for anyone. Either pay them more up front, cut the big star's pay or figure out a way to make some back end. Either way, that money has to come from somewhere.
