You'd have to get rid of the war on drugs. And then you'd have to prevent the government from pulling the same thing with a new "enemy" like terrorism.
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If they need to login from a different place, I would put a simple 1 line form and button for emailing a link that would allow them to do that.
If it was necessary, I would give them the option to backup their account to an email address. This would just set the hash to something new so that the old cookie info no longer works, and they only have to click the reactivation email.
If this is an account where virtual goods are purchased (like Steam) and so there is actual value to the account, I would do email + phone backup. Phone backups aren't good enough on their own because people switch phone numbers. Emails aren't good enough on their own because people reuse login data all the time. This is the only case where I wouldn't store login data using cookies.
Forcing registrations and logins on the user really doesn't make sense 99% of the time.
I completely agree and was just using one possibility to illustrate my point that this topic seems to be crippled by this "Yes tech!" "No tech!" paradigm. Did you have any specific alternatives you were thinking of? Also if you know of any articles on the subject I'd love to read them. I think one possibility is that gender roles have gotten worse over time. In the 70s and 80s we had a lot of women joining the work force as families switched from single income to dual income households. I wonder if the result of things "settling" in the decades that passed was a more pronounced reflection of social values (gender roles) in the work force.
To me this just comes across as an excuse for bad parenting. There were junk food commercials on tv when I was a kid, but I didn't get to have them, because I didn't have money to buy them.
citation? There's no way anyone under 18 just lacks the ability to distinguish between commercials and the program they're watching. Source: was once a kid
In a real debate about these topics, people usually hide behind capitalist ideals to explain the immoral use of software. As opposed to trying to argue that immoral use doesn't exist, or isn't prevelent.
If you're going to say something is successful, be clear about it. Yes, it has been successful at locking up more people than any country in the world. Yes, it has been successful at seizing tons of property. No it hasn't been successful at putting any sort of dent into organized crime, which is fueled by the gigantic black market of drugs.
Yes, hopefully (though hopefully not at the scale you may be imagining). Cops have turned into thugs in this country and something needs to be done about it. Maybe legalizing drugs would fix everything. I don't know. But cops in this country aren't even accountable for the people that they kill. There are no logs on how many murders are carried out by police.
Yes, they can take our property, including cash, for no reason (something like 90% of dollar bills test positive for traces of cocaine). And in this case all the officers had to do was say they smelled weed. I have been a victim of this "smell like weed" abuse myself, in which everyone in my vehicle was pulled out and searched. My vehicle was then searched without my permission. They found nothing and gave me a speeding ticket for going 5 miles over the speed limit.
But seizing our property means nothing when they can take our lives without the public knowing about it.
Paypal is a terrible organization that has been setting itself up for a huge class action lawsuit for a while. The problem with Paypal is very simple. As a seller, you have absolutely no way of verifying that the buyer is the actual buyer, but you are held financially responsible if they are not. So what happens is people are constantly using stolen paypal accounts to make transactions. Paypal then reverses those transactions 24-48 hours later. Paypal refuses to give you any information up front about the buyer (the very same information that they use to verify that it was a stolen account after the fact, the very same information they use to flag the transaction and alert the real owner [but not the seller]), or any information on the criminal after the fact without a court order. So as a seller, there is no way to protect yourself against people using stolen paypal accounts. They are protected by the walled garden of paypal. Even though they have complete control over the security of their site and are the only party with the information required to verify whether an account is stolen, Paypal avoids the cost of their negligence and forces this cost on the helpless merchant. Paypal enables criminal activity and takes no financial responsibility for criminal use of their product. They don't even have the decency to share information about the person who committed a crime against you. Meanwhile, the merchant is left helpless. They have no way of getting the information necessary to verify the customer, no way of getting information on the criminal after the crime has taken place, and no other service to turn to because of the monopoly paypal has on international transactions for Americans.
No other services offer international transactions for Americans (maybe this has changed in the last couple years but I doubt it).
So if you are an American selling goods on the internet and you want to protect yourself against criminals, the only way to do it is to use Bitcoin. If you know of another way I'd love to hear it.
BTW: Bitcoin transactions are irreversible. A monopolist, like paypal, can't come in and just reverse the transaction after you've already sent the product to the customer.