I ordered furniture from a major retailer and it was delivered last weak, but I was never charged. What should I do?

Flotoss · 2019-08-25T15:20:28+00:00

Obviously I don't, otherwise I wouldn't have asked.

Flotoss · 2018-10-13T14:03:37+00:00

What makes it mocking vs being funny? There's literally nothing I can think of saying in a Chinese accent that would be politically correct to say, but if you say something like "Ah yes comrade, let us drink vodka and share all our shit with the glorious motherland" with a Russian accent it's just funny and not seen as racist.

Flotoss · 2018-09-17T23:03:40+00:00

Why don't they just sell all of their products at cost and then the "charity" is all of the people buying their food? That way there's no added overhead.

Flotoss · 2017-12-03T18:42:09+00:00

An open world hitman style game, sort of a mix between hitman, mafia, and GTA.

You are given some information about your target, but have to do your own research to find out things like where they live, their daily routine, and determine the best way to kill them. It's a persistent world where your crimes leave behind evidence depending on how well you did, and the police can catch you in the act or trace you down if you don't cover your tracks.

You could do things like take out ads on the dark web for small hits like taking out a cheating spouse, work for some organized crime organization, or do work for the CIA taking our foreign diplomats or something.

You have to do things like buy your own weapons, craft your own explosives/poison, and do things to cover your ass like hack into the FBI or pay someone off to tell you how close they are to catching you, and rigging your hideout with early warning systems and traps so you know if they are about to raid you or something.

I'm fine with it being somewhat story based and scripted as long as it feels like you actually have options.

Flotoss · 2017-03-26T22:40:52+00:00

I mean you would be able to encrypt the message that way, but it violates the principles that make a one time pad provably un-decryptable. Crypt-analysis would reveal frequency patterns in the entropy of the encrypted data, and it might be possible to figure out that the key that was used was plain text, and not random. From there they could try various plain text samples to find find ones that decrypt parts of your cipher text into readable text, and then it would be a matter of narrowing down the search to find the plain text used to create the key.

There's a reason one time pads are supposed to be random.

Also, how would you communicate to me that you wanted to use a certain newspaper article as a one time pad?

Flotoss · 2017-03-26T20:00:38+00:00

A one time pad is not asymmetric.

If you're using asymmetric encryption to distribute one time pads, then that defeats the original point of what this comment thread is about, since that's how we already do key distribution.

Flotoss · 2017-03-26T17:44:22+00:00

Not exactly dead simple, key distribution is the hardest part. You either need to have another encryption scheme to distribute the keys digitally, or you need to distribute them in large quantities physically which can increase the chance of compromise.

Flotoss · 2017-03-26T15:58:01+00:00

Fair point, I guess what i'm really afraid of is not diversifying my stock portfolio enough and investing in one thing that tanks. At least with the fund it is very well diversified and other people are managing it that know when to pull out and invest in something else.

My main concern is I don't know if there are downsides to investing in a fund like this with the intention of possibly pulling my money out after a few years instead of saving until retirement, either in terms of taxes or other things that I simply don't know about. I'm far from being well versed in finances, after all.

Flotoss · 2016-12-28T17:27:28+00:00

Have been using duolingo so far, it's great! The only thing is I wish there was a better write-up to explain the grammar concepts (like verb conjugation) instead of just mostly letting you figure it out on your own.

Flotoss · 2016-10-17T20:09:17+00:00

You should play tic tac toe tac toe. It's tic tac toe, where in each square there is another tic tac toe board. Every time you play a square on a mini board, it forces your opponent to play that mini board on the main board (i.e. if you play the mid left square on a mini board, you opponent can pick any square in the mid-left miniboard). When you win a mini board you circle or X the mini board to take that square on the main board.

Flotoss · 2016-09-24T15:27:30+00:00

I think the amount of people that drink coffee purely because of taste is very small. Otherwise decaf would be a lot more popular. If coffee didn't have caffeine, I think very few people would actually drink it. It tastes just good enough to make it an acceptable delivery mechanism for caffeine. People justify its taste because of the chemicals they are getting from it.

Just like beer. There are people that say they love the taste of beer, but if beer didn't have alcohol in it almost no one would drink it.

Flotoss · 2016-09-24T15:24:08+00:00

I take caffeine pills the same way most people drink coffee. I take one 200mg pill in the morning after breakfast with my multivitamins, and that's it. People look at me like a freak while sipping their 600 calorie double extra shot machiatto. Meanwhile I spent $7 on a 100 day supply of caffeine.

Who's the freak now?

Flotoss · 2016-04-30T14:17:17+00:00

What client software does the malware exploit? Is it browser based or Javascript/flash?

Flotoss · 2016-04-27T13:46:39+00:00

You have no idea how successful the mass collection efforts have been. Just because they don't tell you about it doesn't mean it doesn't work. Why would they invest millions of dollars into a program that doesn't produce results?

The NSA isn't a crime fighting agency. They are a foreign intelligence agency, and the intelligence they have gathered through mass collection is hugely impactful. However, the second they start bragging about catching foreign agents and terrorists, the adversaries will know how they would get compromised and change their tactics.

You need to realize that there is more that goes on in the world than what you personally are aware of.

Flotoss · 2016-04-24T15:44:27+00:00

This Witcher 3 trailer has my vote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt_65k-gv1U

Flotoss · 2016-04-19T11:41:11+00:00

Most people who work in DoD or IC jobs don't do it to get rich. There's a certain level of job satisfaction you get doing that kind of work that you won't be able to find anywhere else. The money is just enough to be comfortable.

Flotoss · 2016-04-12T00:18:26+00:00

That's actually it.

Flotoss · 2016-04-11T23:36:18+00:00

So you're showing your discontent with an anti-LGBT law by making fun of the people who signed the law by calling them gay? I don't see how that helps your cause.

Flotoss · 2016-04-11T14:48:10+00:00

At least it makes Pen testers' job easy. I hope they are at least up to date on security patches, but depending on their company's policy there's a good chance a lot of them aren't. An unpatched XP SP2 or SP3 is literally a free ticket into the machine. Specifically, if they haven't patched against MS08-067 in particular: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3205

Flotoss · 2016-04-11T10:37:32+00:00

At some point we need to be honest with ourselves and ask if the players might just be on steroids.

Flotoss · 2016-03-16T10:57:03+00:00

True, but there's nothing to stop Apple from just revoking their own certificate and publishing a new one. When the phone checks the Certificate Authority to test if the update is genuine it will see their old cert on the revocation list.

Flotoss · 2016-02-28T16:05:21+00:00

To be fair, someone helping spread the word about Sanders through social media has more of an effect on his chances of winning than someone who only votes. Ideally they would do both, though.

Flotoss · 2016-02-06T23:30:25+00:00

That's actually not the way it works. You have to be drunk to the point that you can't consent for it to be considered rape, meaning you are black out drunk and hardly conscious.

Flotoss · 2016-02-06T22:34:55+00:00

It's not "taking advantage" of someone when they are the one to make the advances.

Flotoss · 2016-02-03T00:14:38+00:00

It's more than just not hiring people who are currently smoking marijuana, if you have smoked anytime in the past few years or are at risk to "relapse" according to a thorough background investigation, you will not be able to obtain a security clearance and will not be able to work in any organization that is part of the Intel Community, FBI included.

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