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Stonepounder

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2. Hope so.
Wed Oct 31, 2018, 12:49 AM
Oct 2018

I just feel so stupid. My first programming course was at Ohio State. The language was FORTRAN and we coded it on punch cards and got one compile a day. I usually am pretty careful about clicking on links I don't recognize. My bank wants me to change my password? Click here? Not a chance! I will go to my bank's web page using the address I always use and check my notifications. Etc. (I actually had my Netflix password hacked by someone in Germany who changed my viewing preference from English to German, but that's another story.)

I'm a little regretful of the millions of $$$ that I have passed up from Princes, Kings, and Financial Ministers in Africa and the Middle East, not to mention the lotteries that I have won that I didn't even buy tickets for. (I even had an offer from the UN that I had been chosen for my amazing work and it came with a cash prize.) Not to mention the free stuff that I have won.

But my motto has always been better safe than sorry. This was just a momentary brain fart and I was reminded that if your are going to be on a computer, be careful.

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