Holy shit, Maria! That's ridiculous.
Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.
Andrew ,'Damage'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Jan 04, 2019 10:18:04 am PST #3608 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jesse - Jan 04, 2019 10:21:24 am PST #3609 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
In other news, I'm in this awkward cycle where I'm working directly with a coworker on something, which he thinks is going well, but my boss really wants to talk to his boss about doing it differently, and I feel awkward not saying that to him, but if his boss doesn't agree with my boss, I'm not doing anything. So I'm just stalling.
Jesse - Jan 04, 2019 10:32:35 am PST #3610 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
On the other hand, thank goodness there was candy in the kitchen just now because I hadn't eaten any sugar all day and was starting to get withdrawal.
Gudanov - Jan 04, 2019 10:47:14 am PST #3611 of 30019
Coding and Sleeping
It's been an interesting day and I can't say why.
-t - Jan 04, 2019 10:56:00 am PST #3612 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I hope that's good, Gud.
Damn, Maria, glad you caught it! And sympathies to everyone caught in fraudulent plastic rectangle hell! I heard something on the news about a new, um, exploit doesn't seem right but I don't know what is - apparently there is code floating around that can harvest your card number and CVV off the website as you legitimately pay for something. The advice for how to guard against it was a big shrug. Sucks.
I need to figure something out for lunch. Which is basically, vending machine or go out and pick something up.
Steph L. - Jan 04, 2019 10:59:07 am PST #3613 of 30019
I look more rad than Lutheranism
apparently there is code floating around that can harvest your card number and CVV off the website as you legitimately pay for something.
That has to be what happened to mine, because I never lost my physical card. In fact, I used it at Five Guys about 12 hours before the fraudulent charge popped up on my account.
The advice for how to guard against it was a big shrug.
Man, that is some kind of bullshit.
shrift - Jan 04, 2019 11:11:21 am PST #3614 of 30019
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
The advice for how to guard against it was a big shrug.
Everything I've learned about credit card fraud lately is that all of our credit card numbers are available online for not very much money, so we're all the aliens waiting for The Claw in Toy Story.
Steph L. - Jan 04, 2019 11:14:40 am PST #3615 of 30019
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I know some banks will create virtual credit card numbers for one-time use shopping online, so even if some shady individual gets ahold of that number, it's useless to them. Sadly, it looks like my bank does create virtual credit card numbers...only for business accounts. Sheesh.
bennett - Jan 04, 2019 11:26:07 am PST #3616 of 30019
Steph - Capital One has a browser extension that you can add to Chrome to create/manage virtual credit card numbers. So far it has worked OK for me.
One of the things I do is use one credit card exclusively for online stuff and a different one for in-person. The idea is that they (probably) won't both be compromised at the same time so I will have some kind of plastic available.
We live in complicated times.
-t - Jan 04, 2019 11:53:25 am PST #3617 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I went with a cold sandwich from the vending machine. So unsatisfying, but cheap.