Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

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  • A solution to US government shutdowns

    September 22, 2021
    Uncategorized

    How about if the US government shuts down for lack of a budget, then for that month, no one gets any tax breaks. Also, there are no subsidies. That means mortgage holders lose that month. Corporations actually have to pay their taxes. Farmers and oil drillers don’t get their subsidies. That would shift a lot…

  • Old enough to drink

    September 16, 2021
    Uncategorized

    My first blog post from 21 years ago.

  • A modest incentive

    July 23, 2021
    Health / Medicine, Justice

    I believe current Federal policy covers medical costs for COVID-19 testing and treatment. If we slightly adjust such policy such that only vaccinated or those allergic to ingredients or medically ineligible are covered, then I think perhaps it might be another incentive to get vaccinated. Of course, this should go into effect after the FDA…

  • Feature request: Netflix notes

    July 23, 2021
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    Netflix needs a feature where one can  add a note about why you disliked the show or movie. Seeing it was started could mean it was saved to watch with the spouse or it sucked.

  • TED Talk: What frogs in hot water can teach us about thinking again

    May 4, 2021
    Psychology, Stoicism

    This one is a nutshell for Adam Grant’s newest book, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know. I loved the book. I encourage everyone to read it. I’ve long strived for confident humility. I love that he names this talk after the myth of the frog in a slowly boiling pot. Frogs…

  • MFA on a smartphone

    April 14, 2021
    Cybersecurity

    Multi-factor authentication (MFA; aka Two-factor authentication aka 2FA) makes access to things more secure. However, how to do it from the same smartphone seems to be an afterthought. First, if someone has the smartphone which is used to generate the code, receive the text, answers the phone call, or confirms the access, then is MFA…

  • Sports signage in times of pandemic

    February 24, 2021
    Corporations, Sports

    In watching some futbol (aka soccer aka English football) matches this past year, it kind of seems like some of them have maybe increased the sponsorship names on the stadium seats. It kind of makes sense that with no butts in seats, this is real estate that is more on camera than in the past.…

  • Insecure logins

    January 6, 2021
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    I worked a ticket years ago where a student claimed not to have taken an exam. The faculty member asked the school who asked us as the hosting provider for the online class system to check on it. What I was able to see in the logs were sessions with two different IP addresses. One…

  • Collected quotes, 2020

    December 26, 2020
    Quotes

    The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It’s not that there’s something new in our way of thinking – it’s that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before. Carl Sagan Quotes. (n.d.). BrainyQuote.com. Retrieved January 6, 2020, from BrainyQuote.com Web site:…

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