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I am banned from all Amazon sites and services for turning on 2FA.

I was getting constant fake SMS messages about a failed login attempt, turned on 2FA thinking it was a good idea, 2 minutes later banned completely for 'abuse'. My case will not be heard or reviewed.

NetAuthAgent has had a bug for years where you cannot connect to an FTP server if your username contains an `@` symbol.

Basic auth and FTP had a username password schema like

ftp://username@ftpserver.address.com and even

ftp://username:password@ftpserver.address.com

Updates to H-1B 2 years ago

My understand is that it comes down how likely it is that the employee could be bought/blackmailed/corrupted. A person with a drug (or gambling) habit could be blackmailed or might need more money to fuel their addiction, making them susceptible to a foreign power buying their support.

Same reason for homosexuality in the past when it was illegal/scandalous.

Ah yes, those famously irrational, illogical and xenophobic farmers. Idiots that they are, they barely keep us with the ability to throw away vast amounts of food while still becoming morbidly obese. Those bumpkins, those peasants, I bet they don't even know what a B-tree is.

I recently had to transfer a relatively small amount of data, ~2GB between MS SQL databases hosted on the same server. It was a consolidation of the data from 10 total DBs, merging the data from 5 of them into a different schema on the other 5. Think 5 DBs for current data and 5 for legacy data, where the outcome was the original 5 current data DBs now contained the current and legacy data.

There was a requirement that the migration didn't blow up the transaction logs on the target DBs. I thought it would be a simple affair but after much testing I had to write a tool to generate a list of all the tables in each source DB, generate format dumping bcp commands for all the tables, then bcp commands to dump the data for each table, then SQL statements to bulk import the data using both files. The MS docs were woefully unhelpful.