greentreerainfire

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greentreerainfire ,

Dedicated Dummies Offering [their] Savings?

Can I refuse MS Authenticator?

So my company decided to migrate office suite and email etc to Microsoft365. Whatever. But for 2FA login they decided to disable the option to choose "any authenticator" and force Microsoft Authenticator on the (private) phones of both employees and volunteers. Is there any valid reason why they would do this, like it's...

greentreerainfire ,

It will be easier to hackers to hack 2FA when they know what the authenticator app is, versus hundreds of different authenticator clients.

Security through obscurity is not security.

Additionally, any method that generates a code locally that needs to match the server will not be secure if you can extract the key used locally. Yes you can argue that more users makes a juicier target, but I’d argue that Microsoft has the resources spend reducing the chance of an exploit and the resources to fix it fairly quickly. Much more so than any brand new team.

The default authentication option for the company I work for is that a code is displayed in the screen of the device I’m logging into AND a push notification is sent to the Authenticator app, the app then prompts me to enter the code from authenticating device. To break that you’d need the username, password, a clone of the phone/device used to authenticate (or the original), and the user’s PIN for that device (MS Authenticator requires this to complete the authentication.)

Yes MS Authentication services do sometimes go down, and yea it can impact my ability to work

I am by no means a MS fanatic, but I’d trust them for mission critical authentication over something like Authy.

greentreerainfire ,

As a lay-person, it seems kind of light on details and a bit fanciful. The article states they created pancreatic islet seed cells, but fails to link how exactly this cures diabetes. (I’m assuming these cells create the insulin.)

Another point is this seems to fly in t he face of what we’ve been told for decades, that diabetes can now be cured and not just managed. (I personally don’t have a problem with this, everything is impossible until it becomes possible.)

The biggest issue I see is that this cured one person. Diabetes is a fairly common condition, they shouldn’t have had a problem getting more participants in a study.

greentreerainfire ,

Someone please let a bear into his home while he’s at work.

Wish granted… a large, hairy man now waits in his bed.

greentreerainfire ,

You collected 36 pieces of candy.
Coincidentally due to forces beyond my control your rent this month is 35 pieces of candy. You understand I’ve got bills to pay too, right?

greentreerainfire ,

You can teach them properly about capitalism by making them follow the rules to the letter and following slightly relaxed rules for yourself, such as starting with extra cash and the ability to take out interest-free loans on you properties while still collecting rent, and reducing the costs for you to buy houses and hotels because you can leverage market forces in you favor.

New chance cards only you could get would include:

You busted a union, collect $100

Shorted stocks and left everyone else holding the bag, collect $25 from each player

Caught Insider trading, pay $1 or go to jail until your next turn

greentreerainfire ,

Not sure how sarcastic you are, but I could see work camps being built. I think we’d see some deportations and some people sent to work camps, but not a complete crack down. Just enough to make it a threat.

It’s not just the logistics of moving that many people that is a problem. It would be extremely damaging to the economy. Undocumented labor makes the food we have as cheap as it is (along with government subsidies). If that labor pool evaporated we’d see more widespread issues with food rotting before being picked and food not getting processed.

The work camps would take the form of farms and food processing plants, possibly expanding to other manufacturing later. Free slave labor is how we’d compete against the slave labor in other countries. It’s important to note that managing that takes up a lot of resources, so I’d expect the majority to not be rounded up and sent to these camps. I’d expect the threat of being sent to a camp to be used to extract lower pay and more hours out of the existing undocumented population that works in those industries.

Having these populations still intact would be useful to instigate more crackdowns as political events to provide a boost.

The main problem with these camps (and existing populations) is that people have kids even under the worst circumstances. That is why we’re seeing the talking point to remove/overturn birthright citizenship. Eventually the camp population would be almost entirely us citizens which makes things less tenable. So they’d need to remain different so it’d be okay for them to stay in the camps they were born into.

greentreerainfire ,

I was curious. I did not find any specific listing fo le her, however since she sent the ballots to a Republican official who had been making claims of voter fraud (and is the person that reported the incident) I’m guessing she is republican leaning.

greentreerainfire ,

Now, now, this isn’t Texas.

greentreerainfire ,

Yup

greentreerainfire ,

12 Monkeys (1995)

Paradox (2016)

Both of these movies deal with time travel, I know that is a turn off for some people.

greentreerainfire ,

12 Monkeys (1995)

Paradox (2016)

Both of these movies deal with time travel, I know that is a turn off for some people. Also in both of these movies it’s not that evil overtly wins, it’s more that protagonists fail to prevent the inciting incident from happening. With Paradox it’s not really implied until the last scene what has actually been going on.

greentreerainfire ,

There is a fun theory that AI will become a god, a vengeful one which will punish everyone who didn’t participate enough in its creation.

greentreerainfire ,

I have a similar story. A relative was researching one of the family lines (he was early teens I think) and was advised by an older family member not to research that line further since there was a “pirate” and it’s “not good to have pirates in the family.” We were also told we had Native American blood somewhere.

We’re now pretty convinced the “pirate” was actually black but white passing and the Native American story was a cover for the slightly darker skin his descendants had.

greentreerainfire ,

All 9 justices agreed that a state can’t just kick a candidate off the ballot. This makes sense as we’d get states like Florida trying to kick Biden off and it’s devolve to which party controls enough states to kick the other guy off the ballot

Even though all justices agreed who was correct, they did not agree on why, which is common. 5 of those justices agreed with the opinion that ONLY CONGRESS can explicitly state who has participated in an insurrection and therefore is disqualified.

greentreerainfire ,

He will just turn it around on how the DA is doing the bidding of the Biden regime to try and take him out because everyone knows he like money and people know what it’s like when the government tries to take more money from you than they should and that is what Biden is trying to do. But we’re not going to let him. You fine patriotic are going to make sure it doesn’t happen by giving to the true patriot fund.

greentreerainfire ,

and calling people out because they do not want Trump or Biden and saying they support fascism for not voting Biden is going too far and is what is wrong in the US

This actually pretty easy to demonstrate:

  1. Trump has openly said he’d be a dictator on “Day One”
  2. Trump has suggested that his enemies should be murdered.
  3. Trump has said “We should try that” after commenting on how China made changes to let their dictator stay in power.
  4. Trump has proven that he’ll put terrible campaign promises into place (ban from majority Muslim countries for example) so it’s safe to assume he’d do the above.
  5. The above amounts to fascism.
  6. Any vote not for the DNC candidate weakens that candidate’s (likely Biden) ability to beat trump.
  7. Therefore a vote against (likely) Biden is a vote for fascism.

Now you, like me, may live in a state the DNC candidate will almost certainly win so you or me not voting or voting 3rd party may not swing the election any way. However if 50,00 or even 10,000 people in a close state decide not to vote, it could swing the election.

I don’t like Biden, the atrocities happening on the border and in the Middle East are disgusting and he needs to be doing more to stop them. However his inaction will result in less damage globally than the actions Trump has pledged to take.

greentreerainfire ,

He’s got the same age problem, but I’d rather feel the Bern than have a lukewarm cup of Joe.

Biden thinks no one else can beat Trump, and aside from Bernie (which won’t happen), I think he might be right (and too far right.) He tries to fill the role of centrist and he is a known quantity, so centrists would feel more comfortable voting for him. I can’t think of another candidate that would pull anti-Trump Republicans (or former Republican) voters. Can you?

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