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A_Griffin wrote: it's Trump's fault! 
It's Hillary's fault - her new email server is in the same server farm! 
And the entire world is hacking it.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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A man gets sent a credit card contract[^], scans it into his computer, changes the terms to 0% interest at no limit. Also inserts clauses that allows him to fine the bank every time they don't honour a transaction and then the bank tries to cancel the agreement because they 'didn't read' the terms - and fail.
(I know it's from 2013, but I only just heard about it)
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Classic!
Play them at their own game. And win. Love it!
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He hasn't quite won yet - they're suing him back for fraud, and I would not be surprised if they win.
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The story is well above four years old, so I would assume that the case is settled by now.
Does anyone happen to know the outcome?
(Or, was the story revealed to be an April fool joke? Lots of such stories come out of the blue and disappear into the blue with no trace/evidence)
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Member 7989122 wrote: The story is well above four years old, so I would assume that the case is settled by now.
We are speaking about a trial with a possible high amount of $$$$ as result... and besides... american justice.
Are you sure 4 years is that much?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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Nelek wrote: american justice
*Russian justice.
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Then they have already been shot. Both of them. Just in case.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Or brought to siberia
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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It would be fraud if the contract came pre-signed by the bank and he altered it. He sent them a contract which they assumed was the same they sent him but didn't check.
If there is a communication where he stated that he sent them back the contract with the required signature then it would be eligible for a fraud lawsuit, or if in the instructions attached to the contract there was the obligation to not alter it except for the require signatures before sending it back.
But they received the copy and later signed it - so there is very little which the bank can grab.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Now that rates are lower he should sue the bank that they didnt improve his conditions. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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SFW
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning
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Never mind Windows, how many times does VS2017 need to update?! "Too many, too often" is the answer.
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My Android is always wanting to update. So is my Linux. And neither are particularly fast at it. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Was about to write the same thing. Even worse with Android is that it will declare there isn't enough memory, so the update can't be completed, even though there clearly is enough memory.
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011111100010 wrote: My Android is always wanting to update.
Whereas my Android finally got upgraded to Nougat in October last year, and hasn't seen a security update since. (The previous security update was from April.)
Guess I'll just have to live with all the security vulnerabilities discovered since... 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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You have an Android device that updates itself??? Or do you just mean individual apps?
Apps, sure--but I have 4 Android-based tablets here; one from Dell, two from Acer, and I forget the last one...running Android 2.1, 4.3, 4.4 and 6.0. None of them has ever got a single OS update, which means that things like Heartbleed (now long patched elsewhere) are still a problem, and are most likely not to be resolved, ever.
Yet my "dead", "unsupported" Windows phone still got updates earlier this month.
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I prefer frequent updates to being exposed to malware and hackers. Yes, it's a never ending struggle.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I prefer getting work done, it's a rewarding use of time
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Come now. Do the updates really take so much time out of your work week?
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actually no idea, haven't run an update for a few years, there was nothing in them I needed, nothing useful.
you do realise all the latest scary stories, wannacry, meltdown, spectre included are weaknesses, but still rely on operator stupidity to be effective - they still need you to run something on your machine to give the access, download something, double click an email attachment... as has always been the case with every virus since the 1980's (which btw is when I first got into computers). OK, there were a few exploits found in mailservers and similar but those are long gone, and I don't run a server.
There's actually nothing very new in those "new" viruses, trojans, malwares except perhaps the way they instantiate themselves (yes because with updates the older holes are closed). It's like new cars are far better then the old ones and have less [old] problems, but they're still 5 wheels and an engine - the "new model" is just that - a new model of the same thing, improved yes, but not a completely new item. wannacry is just the new bleeding hearts which was the new iloveyou which was the new ... Same crap, different name.
Short version: I don't need crap designed to protect idiots slowing me down. I mean do you still use training wheels when you ride a bike? No matter how you say it, it's the same bloody thing.
If my computer is on it's because I'm using it, when I'm not using it it's switched off, and so yes, the time taken for updates is my lost time, it wastes my time, and I gain nothing from it.
Oh and yes, I've got zero sympathy for anyone that gets infected, because only one thing is true: it was their own fault, and I'll happily tell them exactly that too.
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Well, I think I was attacked 3 times (it may have been 4) with some variant of Ransom malware, when I visited malicious websites. Every time I was surfing, searching for information on some programming issue I was having. Every time it took me less than 30 minutes to recover, because I always have a fairly recent systems drive image that I could restore.
I have a strategy to recover when attacked. I am not going to cower in some safe little corner for fear of the nasty low lives that stink up the Internet.
Does that make me an idiot? I think not. I stay prepared! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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So what you say is your backups helped you, not so much the updates.
As to malicious websites, never had a problem even when warned the site was malicious. If the settings are correct it's not possible; there are settings to block or at minimum ask before downloading and/or running anything - it's that simple.
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