It almost drove me insane when I was doing produce nightfill work at a local supermarket. Even though the store was closed to customers overnight, the managers would leave it running around the clock.
Given the episode in question, this is more of a blessing than a curse. The Season 4 finale is almost worse than the Season 3 finale.
I'm looking forward to Stephen Moffat taking over from Russel T Davies in 2010. Hopefully he'll be able to bring some intelligence (or just plots that make sense) back to the show.
It's going live on Christmas Eve? Seriously? What a stupid launch date for something that has potential to inconvenience so many people. I bet nobody in a position to remove sites from the blacklist will even be in their offices between Dec 25th and Jan 2nd.
I had similar problems with Dell Australia recently, and after a month or so of trying to play nice I looked up the location of their Australian office and contacted the Department of Fair Trading in that state to ask them for assistance. They took over from there and within a week I had the Executive Customer Escalation Manager for Dell Australia ringing and emailing me (and leaving me her direct email/phone number), apologising profusely and trying to get everything sorted out.
I don't know if a similar government regulatory body exists in whichever state Dell US are based in, but do a little research and if one does exist, ask them for help. Make sure you let them know eveything you've tried so far, and include any and all documentation to support your claim.
(a) Lojack is routinely used by the police (who, despite your opinion, do actually care about theft). (b) I wasn't suggesting people track down the thieves and confront them themselves. (c) I think you'll find the average laptop thief doesn't turn into a murderer as soon as they're confronted by someone about it. (d) Insurance is good to have, but it's not going to get you your data back.
I would have thought it'd be more sensible to just have some sort of lojack equivilent. It'd be much more useful - you could find & recover your laptop (hopefully with your data still on it) and probably locate the criminal as well.
Additionally, Paramount (who own the rights to Oz and are one of the studios suing iiNet) might sue Slashdot for aiding in the distribution of information about the television series, which in turn could directly lead to people downloading episodes of it.
Yeah, it sounds like something I'd read about on Encyclopedia Dramatica. Except with CEOs of huge IT companies instead of creepy obsessive anime fanboys/girls.
Interesting fact: Although the game discs force you to update, the games themselves often don't actually require the update. I don't endorse game piracy, but I did investigate the piracy scene while waiting for Smash Bros. Brawl to be released in Australia and was surprised to discover the pirated version had the update stripped out of the iso, and could still be played with no problems.
Apparently this was also true for every other game that had previously come bundled with an update.
Yet somehow other publishers manage to overcome these issues and have near-simultaneous worldwide releases! Amazing!
Most televisions in Australia and New Zealand support both NTSC and PAL signals, and HD televisions (which are becoming more and more common) use 720p/1080i/1080p which are standard HD resolutions worldwide.
As for classification problems, the removal of content for reclassification purposes is not nearly as common as you might believe. Maybe one in a hundred games actually have to be edited after the initial classification submission.
This update also renders modchips useless - though luckily it doesn't seem to brick the consoles (not those with Wiikey chips anyway).
Unfortunately the modchip community isn't as active as the homebrew community, so those with modchips might have to wait longer before being able to update their consoles again.
I'm sure other people more up to date on the state of Wii homebrew can suggest more things, but the first things that come to my mind are imported games. I live in Australia and many games (especially Nintendo and Capcom titles) take weeks, if not months longer to reach here after their US release. A lot of gamers want to support the publishers but not have to wait for ages to play those games.
It's also worth noting that until recently it was also a lot cheaper to import than to pay local prices for video games. Unfortunately, for some reason our dollar has become a lot weaker since the US economic crisis began, so importing is no longer the cheaper option.
They're also not taking weekends and school holidays into account. Kids don't have school at all then (and with the latter, they don't even have homework).
Fair point, but I like to do the right thing by my clients and it's not right for them to have to spend $60-80 AUD to remove a program that's holding their computer hostage.
Besides, there are plenty of other things that can go wrong with computers. I have no shortage of work at the moment.
I'm glad someone is finally taking action against these malware scammers. I do tech support part time and 95% of my recent virus removal jobs have involved these nasty little programs.
I see where they're coming from - my work resembles World of Warcraft. I'm a Level 2 Helpdesk Officer, work with trolls and orcs, don't have nearly enough gold, and have to grind for ages (often repeating the same missions multiple times) to get enough experience to level up.
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Hmm, I haven't been able to connect to TPB for the past hour. The timing seems a tad suspicious.
Open up a bunch of porn sites, and then hand it over to them, but warn them that the keys might be a bit sticky.
No no, that's even worse!
It almost drove me insane when I was doing produce nightfill work at a local supermarket. Even though the store was closed to customers overnight, the managers would leave it running around the clock.
My MP3 player saved my sanity that year.
Given the episode in question, this is more of a blessing than a curse. The Season 4 finale is almost worse than the Season 3 finale.
I'm looking forward to Stephen Moffat taking over from Russel T Davies in 2010. Hopefully he'll be able to bring some intelligence (or just plots that make sense) back to the show.
So, how long will they have to use this thing before global warming causes it to start melting?
It's going live on Christmas Eve? Seriously? What a stupid launch date for something that has potential to inconvenience so many people. I bet nobody in a position to remove sites from the blacklist will even be in their offices between Dec 25th and Jan 2nd.
I had similar problems with Dell Australia recently, and after a month or so of trying to play nice I looked up the location of their Australian office and contacted the Department of Fair Trading in that state to ask them for assistance. They took over from there and within a week I had the Executive Customer Escalation Manager for Dell Australia ringing and emailing me (and leaving me her direct email/phone number), apologising profusely and trying to get everything sorted out.
I don't know if a similar government regulatory body exists in whichever state Dell US are based in, but do a little research and if one does exist, ask them for help. Make sure you let them know eveything you've tried so far, and include any and all documentation to support your claim.
Good luck!
Well aren't you bitter and jaded.
(a) Lojack is routinely used by the police (who, despite your opinion, do actually care about theft).
(b) I wasn't suggesting people track down the thieves and confront them themselves.
(c) I think you'll find the average laptop thief doesn't turn into a murderer as soon as they're confronted by someone about it.
(d) Insurance is good to have, but it's not going to get you your data back.
I would have thought it'd be more sensible to just have some sort of lojack equivilent. It'd be much more useful - you could find & recover your laptop (hopefully with your data still on it) and probably locate the criminal as well.
Additionally, Paramount (who own the rights to Oz and are one of the studios suing iiNet) might sue Slashdot for aiding in the distribution of information about the television series, which in turn could directly lead to people downloading episodes of it.
Well played.
Yeah, it sounds like something I'd read about on Encyclopedia Dramatica. Except with CEOs of huge IT companies instead of creepy obsessive anime fanboys/girls.
Interesting fact: Although the game discs force you to update, the games themselves often don't actually require the update. I don't endorse game piracy, but I did investigate the piracy scene while waiting for Smash Bros. Brawl to be released in Australia and was surprised to discover the pirated version had the update stripped out of the iso, and could still be played with no problems.
Apparently this was also true for every other game that had previously come bundled with an update.
Yet somehow other publishers manage to overcome these issues and have near-simultaneous worldwide releases! Amazing!
Most televisions in Australia and New Zealand support both NTSC and PAL signals, and HD televisions (which are becoming more and more common) use 720p/1080i/1080p which are standard HD resolutions worldwide.
As for classification problems, the removal of content for reclassification purposes is not nearly as common as you might believe. Maybe one in a hundred games actually have to be edited after the initial classification submission.
This update also renders modchips useless - though luckily it doesn't seem to brick the consoles (not those with Wiikey chips anyway). Unfortunately the modchip community isn't as active as the homebrew community, so those with modchips might have to wait longer before being able to update their consoles again.
I'm sure other people more up to date on the state of Wii homebrew can suggest more things, but the first things that come to my mind are imported games. I live in Australia and many games (especially Nintendo and Capcom titles) take weeks, if not months longer to reach here after their US release. A lot of gamers want to support the publishers but not have to wait for ages to play those games. It's also worth noting that until recently it was also a lot cheaper to import than to pay local prices for video games. Unfortunately, for some reason our dollar has become a lot weaker since the US economic crisis began, so importing is no longer the cheaper option.
The solution to IPv4 address exhaustion is offshore IP address drilling, but Obama would rather punish small business owners with outdated equipment!
...I think I've been watching too many political conferences/debates.
No no, this is being made by Mozilla, not Google.
They're also not taking weekends and school holidays into account. Kids don't have school at all then (and with the latter, they don't even have homework).
Good to see Casey's moved past his previous job as a ninja-fighting vigilante.
Fair point, but I like to do the right thing by my clients and it's not right for them to have to spend $60-80 AUD to remove a program that's holding their computer hostage. Besides, there are plenty of other things that can go wrong with computers. I have no shortage of work at the moment.
I'm glad someone is finally taking action against these malware scammers. I do tech support part time and 95% of my recent virus removal jobs have involved these nasty little programs.
I see where they're coming from - my work resembles World of Warcraft. I'm a Level 2 Helpdesk Officer, work with trolls and orcs, don't have nearly enough gold, and have to grind for ages (often repeating the same missions multiple times) to get enough experience to level up.