What!!! I’ve never heard this! I want to try it, but… I have been relying heavily on my side mirrors to showoffily backswoop into parking spaces for 30 years. I can’t seem to do it as effectively using just the rearview. It’s my superpower (sad, yes) and I don’t want to mess with it. And I can’t change them only when I go to park- part of the superpower is the speedy swoop, I can’t be fiddling around with mirrors while some db in a white SUV (somehow this specific vehicle is the bane of my existence) flies up behind me, all impatient.
My wife and I stopped at the Char-Grill (well-known local hamburger chain) located in Terminal 1 of Raleigh-Durham airport to grab a bite before our flight. For some reason, she decided she wanted a hot dog instead of a burger. I ordered two dogs with relish, mustard, and onions, plus a couple orders of onion rings.
When we unwrapped the dogs, the condiments were UNDER the dogs at the bottom of the buns. Who does that? In what universe is it OK to put the condiments in the bun and lay the dog on top? Is this Char-Grill policy? I went back up and complained about it and they basically said, “What difference does it make?”
I’ve never ordered hot dogs from Char-Grill, but they put toppings on top of burgers the regular way. Maybe they got complaints that toppings were falling off the hot dogs when unwrapped, so they stuffed them underneath.
My part time job provides opportunity to enroll and pay for voluntary supplemental benefits that are not considered health insurance and do not satisfy the requirements of minimum essential coverage under the ACA. Basically if you get critically ill with a covered affliction they’ll pay a lump sum equal to about $1500 or so. I opt not to participate as I’d rather pay for a real plan using the ACA marketplace.
My beef is with the whiners who complain about the lack of health insurance, yet do nothing like research their options at the Marketplace. Likely they could get subsidy allowing them an affordable premium for comprehensive health insurance.
How about if they tie a knot in the twist tie before twisting it in the wrong direction–doubly mean! But I’m with you on that. There is one proper direction for a twist tie.
Same with candy wrappers: all machine-wrapped candy is done with opposing twists, so you just need to grab the ends and pull. I occasionally find some off-brand sweets that have probably been wrapped by hand and they were simply twisted in the same direction from both ends, confounding candy consumers like myself.
Yep, my wife doesnt like the “no blind spot” system. Oh well.
Yep.
Good news!
The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday announced it has finalized a proposal known as “click to cancel” that requires companies to make it just as easy to cancel a subscription or service as it is to sign up for it.
Yeah, pros have been telling them and us that requiring changing passwords often LOWERS security, not increases it-
The U.K. National Cyber Security Centre has advised against forced password changes since at least 2015 when it published a guide to password administration for system owners. When users are forced to change their password, the NCSC warned, “the chances are that the new password will be similar to the old one.”
Not to mention writing them down on a sticky.
More than 'some"- all the real experts.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is no longer recommending using a mixture of character types in passwords or regularly changing passwords.
NIST’s second public draft version of its password guidelines (SP 800-63-4) outlines technical requirements as well as recommended best practices for password management and authentication. The latest guidelines instruct credential service providers (CSP) to stop requiring users to set passwords that use specific types or characters or mandating periodic password changes (commonly every 60 or 90 days). Also, CSPs were instructed to stop using knowledge-based authentication or security questions when selecting passwords.
That relates only to paid subscriptions, AIUI. I was talking about the ‘free’ emails I receive from Dell and TripAdvisor and Hertz and all the other companies that continue to send me emails well after I have opted out.