maximara

mike fix said:

I thought Felon Musk was going to put an end to the fake users himself?  

Just another grift. 

What in the world is this nonsense?  Musk's price was based on Twitter's numbers being "real" and the SEC's job to check if what is being claimed is real.  As "Sources: SEC Didn’t Keep a Close Watch on Enron" shows "The agency (SEC) relies mostly on private-sector accountants, investors and even the news media to bring serious problems to its attention."

MustSeeUHDTV said:

lkrupp said:

As always the weakest link in security is between the ears of the idiots who gladly hand over their credentials to anyone who calls them with an offer too good to be true. And there’s no patch for stupid.

These automated scams are getting really sophisticated though. Here is one that ALMOST got me.

Caller ID displayed the name and phone number of my actual bank (which I googled).

Automated message in perfect English:
"We recently got a purchase request which we blocked the transaction. If you made this purchase, please press 1. If you didn't make this purchase press 2."

Then when you hit a number (which I selected #2):
"Thank you, please enter you ATM card number for verification"

It keep repeating the message to enter the card number. This is where I was like wait a minute and hung up. The automated call kept calling back every minute for the next hour.

 I called my bank to make sure there weren't any transactions attempts and they said no, so I notified them of the scam.

A week later, I get another call from a different bank (which I don't have) called me and had the same message (I let it go to voice mail).

The "please enter you ATM card number for verification" was the tip off.  No bank will request that information. That should send up a red flag faster than a 35 car pile up at the Indianapolis 500.  In fact, as demonstrated by an experience my parents had banks will just freeze your card until you contact them if they detect strange activity on the account.  My late mother went through law school and I seek out and read laws to make sure I am well informed.

Had some clown trying to claim they were the IRS and I asked them 'what provision of 5.1.10 Taxpayer Contacts' are you using?  They hung up right then and there.

Another tried to claim they were the local police (even spoofed their number) and claimed they were going to arrest me unless I paid them.  I pointed out that no real cop would call regarding a possible crime for fear any evidence would be destroyed and that I was invoking the federal False Claims Act which gave me the authority to sue on behalf of the federal government and would be hitting them with extortion charges and posing as a police officer.  They hung up.  

Related to credit cards.  My mother was in surgery in Houston when it got flooded (result of Allison IIRC) and we were stuck there for a month.  My father's credit card was near maxed out so I used mine at a parking garage.  Six months later a charge for prepaid phone cards appeared on my credit card statement from Houston.  I called the bank and had the charge expunged but it shows why these 1 year of protection for errors by the company that let your CC number out in the wild are useless.  The smarter thieves will wait a while before starting to charge stuff and the real smart ones will wait longer than a year.

rivertrip said:

MustSeeUHDTV said:

lkrupp said:

As always the weakest link in security is between the ears of the idiots who gladly hand over their credentials to anyone who calls them with an offer too good to be true. And there’s no patch for stupid.

These automated scams are getting really sophisticated though. Here is one that ALMOST got me.

Caller ID displayed the name and phone number of my actual bank (which I googled).

Automated message in perfect English:
"We recently got a purchase request which we blocked the transaction. If you made this purchase, please press 1. If you didn't make this purchase press 2."

Then when you hit a number (which I selected #2):
"Thank you, please enter you ATM card number for verification"

It keep repeating the message to enter the card number. This is where I was like wait a minute and hung up. The automated call kept calling back every minute for the next hour.

 I called my bank to make sure there weren't any transactions attempts and they said no, so I notified them of the scam.

A week later, I get another call from a different bank (which I don't have) called me and had the same message (I let it go to voice mail).

I hope "perfect English" was sarcastic.

Likely not.  BEST TEXT TO SPEECH SOFTWARE FOR YOUTUBE Completely FREE shows just how sophisticated text to speech software has become.  And if the free stuff can do that imagine what commercial grade software can achieve.

FileMakerFeller said:

maximara said:

lkrupp said:

I’ve settled on Safari as my primary browser and keep only one other browser, Firefox, just in case I encounter a website with Safari issues. But that hasn’t happened lately at all. Chrome is on my “Do not Use” list.

Chrorme is so write happy to SSDs even on windows that any other browser is better:

I wonder if Safari simply relies on the virtual memory system being efficient enough, and just keeps everything in RAM? The other browsers may be performing their own data caching due to a (probably informed) belief that it gives better speed - in which case, the data being written is explicitly measurable rather than being subsumed into the memory paging. I'm not sure this graph tells us anything meaningful.

The graph shows all things being equal Chrome writes to the SSD more than any other browser.  Several Youtuve video have found that much of it is due to video.  Seems for whatever brain dead reason Chrome writes the video to the disk rather than keeping it in RAM like a intelligently written browser through people tired to blame Apple's VM despite as I pointed out Chrome is not kind to SSD on Windows machines either.

lkrupp said:

I’ve settled on Safari as my primary browser and keep only one other browser, Firefox, just in case I encounter a website with Safari issues. But that hasn’t happened lately at all. Chrome is on my “Do not Use” list.

Chrorme is so write happy to SSDs even on windows that any other browser is better: