Yeh, however I'm not sure that the only cause. I think that record temperatures, and less moisture, are more important factors here.
For example, I know that in recent years we observe unprecedented fires in Siberia region where, due to wast areas and very low population/infrastructure, smaller natural fires were never artificially suppressed.
I would agree with Toyota. Excluding hybrids from the mix is simply wrong, as global electric mix (64% fossil fuels, mostly coal) poor performance in harsh conditions, charging time and infrastructure, are still so unmature. Hybrids with smaller batteries are great middle step and solution for now, as you can have best of the two worlds. And in the most countries, they could be better in terms of environment compared to pure EVs.
I think Adobe offers were even more confusing few years ago. This is not honest company, gently speaking.
I have another good example. I bought an Adobe license few years ago, and as a business in EU, I had to bought in excluding VAT, and pay VAX tax here locally. I provided my valid EU-VAT, price dropped to net price in interface (let's say 100 EUR), in confirmation, and even in invoice I get. However, to my surprise, my credit card was charged with full gross price (123EUR), meaning I lost 23% of purchase - as I was obligated to pay VAT anyway second time, as there was 0 VAT tax on the invoice.
Well, such things happen, you may think. This should be childishly easy to fix with support, as clearly amount from the invoice and amount charged simply didn't match. However, after dozen attempts with support, dealing with various support level people from Adobe support from India, not knowing even what the VAT tax is, and without any interest on helping me out, I had to give up. I decided to use PayPal protection for buyers, as transaction was made through the PayPal. Tu my surprise, despite clear evidence, they rejected claim after consultation with Adobe, without providing any reason. So I decided to not deal with those thieves any more and called my bank to fill chargeback request. It was so clear, that they recognised the request the next day and returned the money.
Takeaways are:
- Adobe is a shady corporation focused on robbing their customers, with other examples you can find online I cannot call that otherwise (among others, deceptive offers, blocking perpetual licenses, and as in my case simply stealing money from customers credit cards)
- PayPal protections are completely useless, even with so clear cases
- It's good to make transactions with shady companies with credit cards.
What’s strange here? I’m working remotely for over 15 years, but still, this is not work for everyone. It’s far from idyllic imaginations of office workers, as grass is always greener on the other side.
Also, I'm not sure that remote working will work for such businesses as banks, where keeping bank confidentiality may be hard or even impossible to enforce for remote workers. My girlfriend worked at bank once, they were very strict in controlling media drives, notes, even use of personal phones were not allowed near workstations.
In Poland we had quite large population of wild animals. It's estimated that we have population of over 2.000 wolves, they need large territories so it's natural to migrate outside the borders. Hopefully they will be protected everywhere at same level. I never heard here about threat to humans (we as a nation spend a lot time in forests for mushroom and berries picking, recreation, etc) beside rumours and fake news ignited by hunters - they want to end strict wolf protection to be able to hunt for them.
Wolves were always here in Poland, and now they are already on most polish territory, even near big cities. They are in forests just outside Warsaw, my friend is now hearing wolf pack 30km outside from Gdansk in northern Poland. Of course that farmers reports loses and this is some cost for the state, that is paying out for those.
But this is our european heritage and we need to make everything to preserve it. Nothing to be afraid of.
Although I rejected many similar MITM reports myself, in this case I think this is valid threat. It's not some random comments or forum site where there's almost no value for attackers, we're talking on pseudo-banking system, where users have usually at even few credit cards hooked and/or some account balance, and indeed there are many places you can buy leaked/stolen stolen credentials. Ability to bypass automatic 2FA by hackers is little alarming for service where users may lost $1000+. This simply should be fixed and some bounty should be paid for it (of course probably not maximum bounty, but still).
#5 and #6 are indeed exaggerated, especially that even if hacker has stolen credentials, and bypassed automatic 2FA, security question won't be displayed on same page users use to confirm payment (to replace e-mail address), or keylog credit card information.