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Here's the situation. A long time ago (in a galaxy far, far away ...), I walked into a branch of a major national American bank and opened up some accounts (i.e., checking, brokerage, IRA, etc.), and was able to set up a passcode that I was to give to a telephone representative to help me with my online account. I no longer have those original accounts (or they are dormant, etc.), but do have an active credit card account. The code I gave is what I now consider to be a "throwaway password" to log into any internet account in which I can't be financially or legally harmed (like CodeProject  ), whereas I use different passwords for any banking account, and especially the ones where payments can be made from my main stash  . Anyway, this passcode is the last instance of my having this "throwaway password" for something important, so of course, I want to change it, or even delete it, since I have a different passcode for my credit card account.
So I ask how to change the online passcode, and I am told that I need to visit a branch. I respond with the fact that I live far away now, and am told, sorry, no go. I call up the "Executive Office" number that GetHuman.com recommends, and I end up talking to a few folks that purported to be "executives" who, even after I strongly mentioned that this passcode should be considered insecure, that I could not even get it deleted!  I then said that any major institution these days has someone called "Chief Security Officer", and asked to speak to his office since obviously there is a big hole in the security procedures if a customer tells the freaking bank that the passcode should be considered compromised, and the bank cannot do anything to stop it from being used! (Of course I was denied.  ) I then told the last yahoo that the government is going to force them to do this for me, and then promptly filed an official complaint with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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Yup. That's a major f***-up right there for that bank.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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ah, you are one of those people. 
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In the mean time I assume you've reduced your balances in accounts with them to 1 cent each and signed up for paper statements again.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Er .. no! The bank asked you to verify your identity by attending a branch in person. How is that unreasonable?
Are you suggesting that the bank should simply have taken your word for it that you weren't somebody who had obtained the password by nefarious means and was now attempting to lock out the true owner by changing it? And it was supposed to be not at all suspicious that you now lived 'too far away' to do the necessary?
Looks to me that you want security only when it's not inconvenient for you.
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I just converted a subset of pages on a website to SPA. The pages typically load about 25 jqwidget javascript controls, and on my free EC2 instance, a page takes about 5 seconds to load.
After converting to SPA, loading only the page-specific HTML and Javascript, and the same Ajax query to populate the grid, the page loads in under a second. Can't even measure it.
Hot damn.
Oh, and article on the SPA code is coming out in November, as I refuse to use any of these bloated framework. 8 functions, 97 lines of Javascript (including } and blank lines).
Marc
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Spa is where you take the Mrs on your anniversary.
This too[^]
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Hi Super Lloyd, I look forward to your CP article on Vue !
cheers, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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Hahaha!
Thanks Bill! It feels like I must do it now! 
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I just assumed that Nevada made all of it's decisions by rolling dice... 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Nish Nishant wrote: And then enough others in the room saying, "wow, brilliant idea, let's do that".
And, at that moment, a dozen of Elvis singing "Be Bop A Lula" doing air-guitar. They rock in Nevada, I've seen that on TV.
I never finish anyth
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Well all the nuts already roll to the left coast anyway, who'd notice the difference.
And it's still cheaper than keeping them in the funnyfarm for more than a few weeks each.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I'm just curious as to how SF realized there were a couple extra nut cases around. They should be put in charge of tracking terrorists!!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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I use Windows Live Mail but I've seen this same feature on other mailhandles. When I get the dropdown menu on junk mail there are a number of choices including:
Add sender's domain to blocked senders list.
Add sender to blocked sender list.
Mark as junk.
Are any of these any better at blocking out spam that keeps slipping through?
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I hear the logout option works best at reducing your junk-mail.
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Tipton Tyler wrote: Add sender's domain to blocked senders list.
Should work the best because it will get anything from that same domain.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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It will particularly well if the sender's domain is gmail.com, yahoo.com, veriszon.net, etc. ! ! !
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: It will particularly well if the sender's domain is gmail.com, yahoo.com, veriszon.net, etc. ! ! !
Indeed. I was counting on OP having some common sense. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: counting on OP having some common sense
Indeed, thou doth thread on thin ice, indeed!
I've not assumed a 'user' of any of my applications had common sense since I was (literally and in all seriousness!) asked where the Anykey was. Over the decades they've never ceased to disappointment me - I just have gotten better at outsmarting the less persistent ones.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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The reason spam slips through is that it is constantly changing exactly the kind of things that these kinds of filters are picking up. So no, in the long run, nothing will ever work to eliminate all spam all the time. And, as others have pointed out you do need to be cautious about excluding too wide a range of mail lest you inadvertently cut off genuine messages.
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Yea, I do have to glance through the list each time to make sure nothing important has slipped through but I am rather surprised how well these things work. I guess what I really wonder about is why are there 3 filters and what's the difference between them. For instance I kind got the impression that if I choose "Mark as Junk" any time a subject heading came up with the same words (as Dr. Oz Add 6 inches) it would throw it into the junk mail folder despite the sender's name or domain. I don't know if that's true, however. And then there's the ones loaded with all the special character junk in the subject line.
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