I received this today. Another case where I'm happy to use throw-away accounts at a
domain I own.
Dear [me],
We have been informed by our email service provider, Epsilon, that your name and email address have been exposed by unauthorized entry into their system. Epsilon deploys emails on our behalf to our Reward Zone members. Click here to read Epsilon's statement.
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Sincerely,
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Rogers, Telus and Bell will be whining to the CRTC about it again. They don't like real competition to their price fixing and overpriced plans.
What Canada needs is foreign competition in the ISP market and to scale back the powers of the CRTC. The whole UBB fiasco has proven that the CRTC isn't acting in the interest of Canadian consumers, it shows they're in the pocket of the communications giants.
It's interesting that Microsoft has 4.37% even after making Bing the default search engine on Windows. That's a HUGE number of people changing the default over to other engines
I'm sure at one time we've all trusted a single hard drive. I've been bitten by that a few times since 1983. At least backups are easier now (and Time Machine is awesome)
Oddly I seem to find that IT people are some of the worst for backing up stuff even though they chant the mantra of regular backups to users.
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Home taping is killing music!
Yeah. Holy crap, I finished it only on Monday and already screwed up the name. At least I got the moon name correct... ;)
Janus is pulling them!
(just finished Pulling Ice. I'm sorry.)
Zombies are emulated people!
My floor had a spot that creaked all the time.
I went to the basement, put some construction adhesive along the joint, pulled the floor down and put in some screws.
I could have also called in Ghostbusters but think this was a more pragmatic approach...
about the gadgetry scammers use to take money from people who believe in the pretend:
It's called a "collection plate."
Why would Apple want the vast bulk of their customer base cured?
(I jest, big Apple fan here.)
Charlie Sheen is rumoured to be 5'10", hardly a hobbit.
16 hours a day. So the guy quit his job? Hmmm.
Maybe it's all a big cron job.
Rogers, Telus and Bell will be whining to the CRTC about it again.
They don't like real competition to their price fixing and overpriced plans.
What Canada needs is foreign competition in the ISP market and to scale back the powers of the CRTC. The whole UBB fiasco has proven that the CRTC isn't acting in the interest of Canadian consumers, it shows they're in the pocket of the communications giants.
I still pass mine around but probably use ~50% of them for picking my teeth after a meal nowadays.
That's what I was thinking. We must shop at the same hatter.
Still waiting for a lifelike 'CmdrTaco' doll with Carpal Tunnel Grip.
Speak to the people at RealDoll. I'm sure there's a market among the neckbeards!
"9.8 M/s^2 seems faster than it did in the simulation..."
A tenth of a watt-second is not exactly Hiroshima.
It is if you're in a colony of bacteria living quietly on a certain razor blade.
This is running on top of Windows, though.
It'd be like driving a Lamborghini on a canoe.
No panic, all her better pictures are archived on 4chan.
My my... sounds like someone's Farm was left alone too long and had crop failure...
I'll give you nightmares: imagine if they get George Lucas to do these.
Because our current laws and privacy regulations don't allow the MPAA and RIAA to send their jackbooted hire-a-thugs across the border to bother us.
The US lawmakers and lobbyists (one in the same, really) are trying to force their shit down our throat.
I laughed so fucking hard when I read this! Shame on you... and me.
It's interesting that Microsoft has 4.37% even after making Bing the default search engine on Windows. That's a HUGE number of people changing the default over to other engines
Why didn't he check that she was a real person. Would have cost less than 200k.
Indeed. One "Sharpie in pooper" request would have caused their scam to fall apart.
What idiot trusts a single hard drive?
I'm sure at one time we've all trusted a single hard drive. I've been bitten by that a few times since 1983. At least backups are easier now (and Time Machine is awesome)
Oddly I seem to find that IT people are some of the worst for backing up stuff even though they chant the mantra of regular backups to users.