Just get rid of these filters. What exactly are you trying to prevent? It can't possibly help in the real world and these silly examples will just recur. If there's billing associated with it, its easy enough to cross reference the billing account with the "entered names" to check for mismatch.
Who exactly is Verizon to determine if the name is valid or not?
Probably happens with Ms Null as well.
How exactly is a computer meant to know that Aabb isn't real? If I have a credit card or other mechanism, eg drivers license, with that as the name, is there any value whatsoever in that system flagging that as a fake name? Its just poor customer service. I'll be offended, they'll need to apologise. For no real gain.
I'd be fascinated to see statistics on the number of times that these filters prevented "wrong doing".
Not sure why I got downvoted. So I'll assume its someone who can't reply. For reasons.
For the record, I have an ongoing argument with booking companies seemingly every time I book something. They always misspell my name. Even if I spell it out letter-by-letter. Even if I get them to read it out.
I had an ongoing argument with an electricity company and basically got to the point after a few days where I said, "I refuse to pay any bill until my name is spelt correctly." I got a Director of Sales to confirm they'd send me accurate bills. Or else.
“Office hours” is something you hear in college. It’s a stated time of the week where the professor will be in their office and students can stop by to discuss course material, assignments, and ask questions in a one-on-one situation.
Lastpass is the most widely used password manager.
They've been the target of security breaches in the past and are currently receiving bad press because of a bait and switch they did with users on their free plan.
I'm not sure I'd call reducing the functionality of the free tier as bait and switch. First, you aren't paying anything for that free tier, and bait and switched usually refers to a type of business fraud (which is illegal, btw) in which you are sold one good but then provided with a different good. If you didn't buy anything, and were not asked to buy anything, but were simply provided with less free stuff than last year, it's a bit of stretch, and even a bigger stretch to be so indignant that you are now getting less. Honestly, it sounds pretty damn entitled.
What LastPass did was they removed functionality of a free plan -- functionality which they had for several years (I think over 5 years now) and then decided to remove it, most likely because they thought the marketing value of the free plan was no longer worth the potential sales cannibalization. (I'm not an employee and have no inside knowledge). This is a straightforward business decision that firms do all the time. You can always take your zero dollar business elsewhere.
I wouldn't consider LastPass to be the most secure password manager, and I'm not sure I would recommend them as my favorite, but they are very easy to use, are the market leader, and it is important that they stay in business, as on balance these password managers do improve the overall security of the web.
Yes, I think people should know about this because LP is the most popular one. And it's collecting loads of data.
Probably this is the reason why they never open sourced it
This is why I ask. A big target means lots of attention. A small target might have even worse security but no one is paying attention to the same extent.
I think this is mostly true and there are plenty of qualifiers. Stress is an excellent example. But in general, you can still apply various forms of leverage and get more results.
eg your ability to calculate in your head is usually limited but if you leverage the use of a calculator you can operate faster.
Also you can practice various aspects and become more efficient. So learning a technique for calculating faster can actually make you faster. Or you can memorise the Times Table and just lookup the result rather than calculating it.
The actual exploration of options can be accelerated as well. You need to be able to collapse the complexity of the evaluation down and trust this process being accurate. This is not trivial.
Even the impact of stress can be reduced by changing the "stress floor" level of what you've encountered. You can place yourself in multiple stressful situations and practice to get better.
This is very much the likely scenario. The money is in further DLC. The existing GTAO engine is "done" from their perspective.
I'd guess also that the next version of the base engine is in RDR2 or later and doesn't have these issues. But at the same time they likely wouldn't backport the changes for fear of cost overruns.
We used to start up Quake while we waited then we'd forget about GTAO. Later we'd discover GTA had kicked us out for being idle too long. Then we'd just close it.
That should be embarrassing for Rockstar but I don't think they would even notice.
Going by the canary email addresses I put into my devices from time to time... nowhere good. Those email addresses receive spam despite never sending or being signed up to anything. Apps are actively uploading and selling email addresses. I'd not be surprised if some Big Data company has a massive graph of mobile numbers / email addresses sourced purely from app uploads, let alone reasonable signups. Then its all correlated with other sources like linkedin. Yay! Profit!
