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New comment by ctennis1 in "Kurt Got Got"

ctennis1 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:36:28 +0000

Maybe not - but I work in a regulated industry, we had an employee get phished a few years ago, and the regulatory bodies wanted detailed records of all phishing testing and training conducted for the previous 5 years. So for some of us it's a necessary evil.

New comment by ctennis1 in "Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync"

ctennis1 — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 23:25:34 +0000

I'm in the midst of a transfer of enterprise account ownership with with Apple, and I can assure you, the only way to complete it is to wait for a phone call from Apple Support from 1-512-884-5022. You can call this number back and verify it is indeed Apple Support and get notified it does not accept inbound calls, only outbound.

New comment by ctennis1 in "Accident Forgiveness"

ctennis1 — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 22:07:36 +0000

Google Cloud will not cut you a break unless you have an incredible about of pull. Even then, you won't get much of one.

New comment by ctennis1 in "Winner of $1.3B Powerball jackpot is a immigrant from Laos who has cancer"

ctennis1 — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 23:56:15 +0000

There's a reason why the jackpots seem bigger...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/02/03/powerba...

New comment by ctennis1 in "Insta360's Ace Pro combines Leica engineering with computational photography"

ctennis1 — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 20:21:12 +0000

My Insta360 X3 shuts down quite a bit for heat too. Maybe these Ace Pros are better.

New comment by ctennis1 in "A Lot of Damage in Grindavík"

ctennis1 — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 15:44:19 +0000

We have plans to visit for this coming New Years, (unless things get dramatically worse I suppose). Excited in reading your comment.

New comment by ctennis1 in "Finding that lead emissions from aircraft engines contribute to air pollution"

ctennis1 — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 18:13:31 +0000

I don't disagree with your statement, but I'll note that as it pertains to engines in the GA world, there's not a lot of options that weren't designed in the 40s.

New comment by ctennis1 in "Finding that lead emissions from aircraft engines contribute to air pollution"

ctennis1 — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 18:09:12 +0000

A myriad of things: Octane, ethanol, and also additives used in the winter vs the summer.

New comment by ctennis1 in "Finding that lead emissions from aircraft engines contribute to air pollution"

ctennis1 — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 16:28:50 +0000

I'm an airplane owner, and I agree. If they had outlawed it, I bet the solution would have come a lot faster.

New comment by ctennis1 in "Finding that lead emissions from aircraft engines contribute to air pollution"

ctennis1 — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 15:47:36 +0000

There's also distribution problems. Jet fuel aside, most airports only have one tank for servicing avgas. Once they switch over to non-leaded, now they have a customer base that may not be able to buy from them. Those revenues go to fund the airport operation.

There's going to have to be a concerted effort to fix type certificates and fuel distribution all at the same time. A slow effort is going to be more problematic.

New comment by ctennis1 in "Medicaid Could Save $2.6B Within a Year If Just 1% of Recipients Quit Smoking"

ctennis1 — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 18:43:30 +0000

Totally, but people on medicaid are people who essentially don't have money, right? In order to qualify, you must be below certain asset and income limits.

New comment by ctennis1 in "Experts warn yearly checkups carry risks and do not reduce mortality"

ctennis1 — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 16:16:24 +0000

We have DPC, and it's amazing. We pay $250/month for a family of 4. Some places charge less, but then also charge you for each time you see the doctor. Ours is all inclusive except for any in office incidentals - like lab work.

It's truly amazing. Our doctor knows us all well, can get responses to email or text within just a few minutes, generally same day appointments, or next day if she's really busy. Most things we don't even need to go in for - I did a recent international trip, and she just ordered me all of the needed travel medications without having to stop in.

New comment by ctennis1 in "Americans lost a record $10.3B to online scammers last year, FBI says"

ctennis1 — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 15:16:11 +0000

My wife got suckered into one a few days ago (though hung up before anything bad happened). We ordered a replacement pair of glasses for my daughter, and the store said they would call when the glasses came in so we could pick them up.

Flash forward a few days, and she gets an automated called saying something akin to "Your delivery is on hold, please press 1", so she did, and got connected to an "agent" who she started talking with. In her conversation it became obvious to me it was a scammer, so I told her to hang up, but not before she got overly concerned at me.

She's pretty aware of these things, but it was just a right place at the right time kind of thing that caught her off guard even though there were plenty of warning signs.

New comment by ctennis1 in "World’s only sleeping bank website"

ctennis1 — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 18:19:52 +0000

Maybe not quite the same, but https://www.gen-aircraft-hardware.com/ shuts down every Saturday for observation of the sabbath.

New comment by ctennis1 in ".bestbuy"

ctennis1 — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 03:56:48 +0000

caleb.tennis checking in

New comment by ctennis1 in "When buying the dip doesn’t work: An analysis of the dot-com crash"

ctennis1 — Sun, 08 May 2022 12:48:50 +0000

Did it come and "go", though? A lot of that money was earmarked for local and state government programs, and at least from what I'm seeing, a lot of those projects haven't even taken place yet. Our local city hall, for example, is still trying to spend some of the money, which they will be reimbursed for after the projects are complete.

New comment by ctennis1 in "FAA, do your damn job"

ctennis1 — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 18:21:01 +0000

I have a good friend now who went in for his third class medical in October 2021, the doctor flagged a prescription he had previously been taking (but was no longer taking), and wanted clarification from the FAA. Now in April, it's still in the "review queue". Meanwhile he's grounded, with no end in sight as to when the answer will be returned.

Not only that, but once it's cleared, the medical date will be retroactive to October, so the renewal clock is ticking the whole time he can't be flying.

New comment by ctennis1 in "Is Grammarly a keylogger? What can you do about it?"

ctennis1 — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 20:23:11 +0000

My previous role was at a public facing ecommerce site. One day I started noticing a lot of public traffic to internal administrative endpoints that were failing - likely bots, but also to URLs that bots would have never known existed. Urls that only someone internal to the company would even know existed, due to the complex way they were crafted. It was very concerning.

We spent a LOT of time tracking down, and finally realized that the "bot" traffic was coming about 30 minutes after one of our employees legitimated visited the site. We found that user was using grammarly. Once we deactivated grammarly, all of the bot traffic stopped.

As best as I could tell, every URL that particular person went to in their browsers, grammarly had a service about 30 minutes later that would try and hit the url directly and ascertain what was there.

Haven't been on the crusade against it ever since.

New comment by ctennis1 in "FDA authorizes first antiviral pill for Covid, Paxlovid"

ctennis1 — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 20:02:21 +0000

Don't underestimate the large number of people who are also completely scared of doctors and needles. Being able to get something they can pickup at a pharmacy and take in their own home is a win.

New comment by ctennis1 in "Many believe it's time to do away with lawmakers making stock trades"

ctennis1 — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 14:35:11 +0000

Not really - I work for a company in the financial space and my spouse is restricted on any trading they can do just like I am.