All of those electronic locks are garbage. Last year I bought a safe with a S&G mechanical spin-dial lock. Those are GSA approved. S&G also has electronic spin-dial locks, but they do not seem to be available as an option on consumer/commercial safes.
Why does the article repeat this known-to-be-false assertion about Wikileaks?
"But WikiLeaks had also shown, quite recently, a willingness to be a mouthpiece for foreign intelligence services: in 2016, the site had released e-mails from the Democratic National Committee which had been stolen by hackers working on behalf of the Kremlin."
The DNC leak was an inside job and not a result of a "hack".
There are plenty of other contemporaneous sources all saying the same thing. Similar to the now dis-proven Russia-gate hoax, the DNC are the ones pushing the narrative that the leak was a Russian operation. The analysis of the time stamps on the DNC files has proven that they were not copied over a network, but copied locally.
CrowdStrike is a 40 billion dollar cyber security company. You must be deep down the conspiracy rabbit hole to be convinced it is a front for a think tank. Dmitri Alperovich is a well respected and experienced security professional.
For those who don't know, here's some background on Dantzig:
"During his first year as a doctoral student at the University of California-Berkeley, Dantzig arrived late to the class of Jerzy Neyman, one of the great founders of modern statistics. On the blackboard were two problems that Dantzig assumed to be homework.
"A few days later I apologized to Neyman for taking so long to do the homework—the problems seemed harder to do than usual," Dantzig once recalled. It turned out the conundrums, which Dantzig solved, were two famous unsolved problems in statistics."
I've done this and it makes a big difference, but I still get a lot of junk from local businesses. Either those businesses are not part of the DMA, or they are ignoring the opt-out list. I'm not sure what to do about it.
I've done this as well. Another issue I've noticed is that when a certain item is set to go to "all" addresses, the mail carrier will simply give one to everyone until they run out. This is probably right most of the time. But I would consistently get junk mail for my neighbor with an apartment number one higher than mine.
I recall reporting this to the USPS multiple times without any effect. The only thing that helped was putting a note inside my mailbox to check for my neighbor's mail.
> but I still get a lot of junk from local businesses
> I'm not sure what to do about it.
What I found to be particularly effective when dealing with spam from local businesses is to contact them directly and request that your information is deleted, while also posting that they engage in unscrupulous practices like sending junk mail on public review sites like Yelp and Google Reviews, and then finally filing a BBB complaint directly against the business.
A lot of businesses these days aren't registered with BBB, which makes them ineffectual. That's more of a past thing, as I'm finding out. Mostly older businesses, or businesses run by older people are the ones participating.
I just Google the business and email them. Usually they're able to take me off their mailing list.
Also as I recall, there was a coupon mailer that did not participate in the DMA. The flyers show up with branding from Vericast/Save/Valassis. The opt out for them is here: https://www.save.com/mailing/delivery-options
Similarly I recently moved houses and got a ton of catalogs to the former owner. It was a PITA to get sorted out, but after a couple months of diligent removal requests my mail is mostly stuff I care about.
I wish there was some equivalent of credit card chargebacks for USPS bulk mail. If I mark the mailpiece as being to someone not at the address, the USPS would bill the company for the failed delivery. (Also the "Or Current Resident" loophole is ridiculous.)
Then this would be the organization's problem to keep their own lists up to date. I realize this is probably infeasible but it would be nice.
The post office literally provides a service to advertisers that you can't opt out of. If it is addressed to Current Resident or something similar, then it is most likely USPS Every Door Direct Mail. There is no opt-out.
Local businesses just give the post a bunch of shit to drop at every address. Your and my post person doesn’t give a shit about our opt outs. They’ll deliver this to everyone. I’ve tried man. I’ve lost hope at this point.
From what I understand, local businesses can make an arrangement to send out mass mailers at a bulk price with their local post office. Maybe you see it as junk but I can see why being aware of whats available as far as the local economy (while helping keep the post office afloat) may make those mass mailers (assuming I’m making the right connections) “not junk.” Jmo though
This is a terrific example of the game of "telephone", but achieves the result through multiple language translations instead of multiple phrase interpretations in the same language.
Agree. Creating corporate sovereignty for insurance companies just re-enforces government interference in a free economy. As a result of the interference, health providers have continuously raised their prices far beyond what anybody would pay in a free market. If nobody had insurance, what do you suppose would happen to health care costs? Answer: They would adjust to what the market will bear.
Ruckus is not bad, but not great either. I've got a ICX 7150-C12P that worked fine until the PoE power supply failed just a few months out of warranty. I'm glad that I did not pay them for the "license" to use the SFP ports (which every other manufacturer just enables by default).
I do like their WAPs. I've got a couple of RS510 WAPs that do a great job, but initially they had some noticeable performance problems for almost a year until fixed by a firmware update.
I had a legitimate call from my credit union last month. They were following up on a problem I had reported with their on-line bill pay system. Toward the beginning of the call, they wanted to verify that it was me and they asked me to provide them with the 2FA code they had just texted to me. I declined and told them that this is what scammers do. They agreed with me and encouraged me to call them back at the number on my ATM card.
I thought it was really unprofessional of them to operate this way.
It's insane for them to request that you read a 2fa code to a human over the phone. Even if you called them. Escalate and get their policies changed, or get them fired if they're violating policy.
