Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 10-27-18 04:30 <=-

bad guys figuring out how to get sensitive information
out no matter how carefully wiped (physically or softwarely)
the media were. It is instilled in people dealing with
sensitive information that actual destruction is the only
really secure method.

I can understand that... :) Richard's going to let me take his bulk
eraser to MD, and Dale has said he thinks that will do the job... :)

I read that that's unnecessary now, though let me reiterate
the importance of physical destruction of the media.

I'd guess that Dale has a good idea as to how important it would be in connection with his data....

In some places flavorings were allowed that were
supposedly chemically identical to the real thing.
I forget the terminology, but I think the term
"equivalent" or the equivalent was used. Edited to
add, the term used is "identical."

In that case, I certainly hope it WAS completely chemically
identical...!

There will still be some issue there. Identicality
doesn't substitute for naturalness here.

Granted. Mother's milk will never be totally duplicated commercially...
they keep finding more aspects to it that weren't apparent earlier...
I'd imagine that other cases of natural vs 'identical' would also be...

Because I was willing... I think she may have been a bit lacking in transportation at the time, as well.... and, yes, she gave me a reduced rate for that week's massage, usually a bit more rebate than I'd
actually spent... :)

Your labor was worth something.

She also took me out for lunch (her tab) regularly, and gave me a free
rub for my birthday, along with a birthday lunch... ;) I don't think I
got the raw end of the stick... :)

A nice symbiosis.

We became more friends than anything else over the years... :) Now that
she's pretty much moved to BC, I do miss her...

I'm hoping to get this packet out tomorrow when we go over to Edith's
for the next bbs training session... and not sure when my next chance

I see that it worked.

Actually, we found we still could dial out, and our backup dialup ISP account at Bluefrog worked just fine.... This morning, the dial out was
gone too... but that was because of where we were in the process of
getting it back, I think....

Eventually that will resolve (one presumes and hopes).

One still presumes and hopes... even though we have our number back,
safe and sound supposedly, we've been again without DSL since Sunday
night... also need to straighten out the billing... we ended up with an entirely new account, and are to be getting both a closeout and a
beginning bill, and then straighten everything out with the Customer
Service rep that has been working with me... I've got a call in to her
about the loss of DSL again, but so far she hasn't returned my call...
We do have one of the bills we've been waiting for, still need the
closeout of the old account to arrive....

at sending anything will be... Today, we abruptly lost our internet service, and when I called to find out what gave, discovered that
someone has apparently stolen our phone number, and it has been ported
to some unknown company for some perfect stranger.... and that the porting is already a done deal... We got absolutely no warning that it was in process, nothing asking for confirmation that we had in fact

How weird. That has to be reversible.

It is... and supposedly tomorrow it will all be put back into place...
at the very least our full phone service... with our DSL internet to
follow soon if not at the same time...

It's a puzzlement how that came to pass in the first place.

The answer appears to be that somehow a block of numbers was made
available to the other company, without (I guess) verifying that they
were all free and available to be used.... possibly by our company,
possibly stolen from our company... they had all the account info... At
least we did get our very own number back.... :) And the DSL actually
worked first...

intended to port our number to another company... either by phone,
email or letter.... We are both quietly sizzling about it....
Apparently the only notice we'll get is when we get the bill from the
new company as to who it is now... but that might not even happen
since it might be (probably is) going to the person that stole our number.... Dunno if I'll even have my landline as of tomorrow....

Kind of scary, actually.

Indeed... It's been an experience, I tell you.... But after I'd written that first message, I got a VERY competent and nice Customer Service gal working on getting things back, and today, also a very nice and
competent gal in the department that handles the porting in and out...
We are putting a lock on the account to keep it from happening again...
next time we'll get a call at the beginning to see if it's us that are asking for the porting... and since it won't be, it won't get so far,
just dropped at that point.... :)

Competent and nice - buy a lottery ticket.

Nah, I probably used up all my lucky streak.... (G)

ttyl neb

... Halloween, a pagan holiday perpetuated by the American Dental Assoc.

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