They have no set cap written in stone. But if you use enough bandwidth in an area where your usage stands out, they come after you just like the others. If you haven't been called by them, it just means you aren't using enough bandwidth to merit the time to get someone to call. I know people who were downloading just over 250 Gigs a month and got calls about "excessive usage", while others have downloaded almost double that and haven't been bothered. They generate reports of "excessive bandwidth usage" based on the average usage for a particular network segment. If you are near the average for your area you won't be bothered. This of course may change in the future.
Correct. It is in the Rochester general area. The only other options are Earthlink cable, but that runs over Time Warner copper anyway, and Frontier. And frontier is garbage in terms of support and overall speed (but so is all DSL). FIOS wanted to come into the area, but they were denied because Time Warner owns all the polls their copper is run on and won't rent the space out to anyone else. Basically Time Warner owns the broadband market up here for end user and business class connections. Frontier owns the high-end corporate side of things because of the Frontier Cyber Center and is in downtown Rochester. All of our high-bandwidth links go through the cyber center.
Honestly I wouldn't want FIOS either, though, because it's Verizon and since they deployed 4G in Rochester their network has SUCKED. I drop at least 2 calls a day. Add that together with everyone else dropping at least 2 calls a day and it makes for a very frustrating experience. Also, they have an enforced cap on their network, and I just can't have an ISP with a cap. The only reason TW doesn't have one right now is because the entire tri-county area threatened to drop their service if they imposed a cap on us.
Cablevision users, on the other hand, shouldn't expect more than half of the promised bandwidth
Hmm...Perhaps you may not hit the max advertised rate on Cablevision's Optimum service, but I can tell from experience that it is much faster than most other services. I have Time Warner Road Runner Turbo and I am paying $66/mo for it in Western NY. I MAX out @ 1.7 MBps sustained, with bursts up to 2.0 MBps (Yes, Mega BYTES, bot bits). But when I visit my friends who live in Eastern NY where Time Warner doesn't have a death gripping monopoly on the broadband market, they are paying far less per month for speeds that always exceed 2.0 MBps on STANDARD level service. Optimum Online Boost, which some do have, get in excess of 3.0 MBps.
So in my personal experience, Optimum wipes to floor with other ISPs. Especially because they have no enforced cap like Comcast or FIOS, and are faster than Time Warner and Cox based connections. Benchmarks and speed tests are fine, but my real world use will decide what ISP I look for when it comes time to buy a house somewhere else. I don't care if they only give me 1/10th of their advertised speed. As long as that speed is still faster than the competition for an equal or lesser price, which so far they have been delivering in my experience.
I work with dozens of police organizations that use license plate readers. They are extremely effective and even a small fleet of cars can easily gather thousands upon tens of thousands of license plates a day in their jurisdiction. Tracking people via this technology is a scary thing to think about because it would be extremely effective. I disagree with their use in regular police operations, so this database is just plain crazy in my mind. This should be fought against by anyone who values the small amount of privacy we have left in this country.
I can't stress enough how crazy this would be if this happened and started getting adopted outside of MA. This would be one of the worst invasions of privacy ever. There is already enough tracking that goes on with the toll passes (EZ-Pass, Sun Pass, etc) in all the states that have them as well as all the cameras that are up everywhere in most major cities. But that should be expected, as you are voluntarily signing up for the convenience of speedier tolls and most of the camera systems are used to help detect crimes (such as ShotSpotter hearing gun shots and dispatching police). But if you choose to not have any kind of electronic pass or GPS in your car, there should be a reasonable expectation of privacy.
The Federal Reserve is only "Federal" by name. It is about as "Federal" as "Federal Express". The Federal Reserve is a private bank. It loans all money to the American government with interest attached to each dollar, just like a real bank.
You mean there are still people who play that who aren't 50+ year old house wives? Since when? I seem to remember reading not too long ago how the average SL user only stays logged in for a very short period of time, something like 5-10 minutes.
One of the biggest negatives that can be given in a game review is it being too short if it is anything more than a puzzle or simple adventure game. Almost every review for games includes mention of how long it took the reviewer to beat the game. If it is only a couple hours and the game is full price, then it is almost always listed as a negative. And I agree with that assessment 100%. If I pay $50-60 for a game, I better get at least 20 hours of gameplay out of it. Otherwise it was not worth the $ to me. And that is why I rarely actually purchase games when they first come out anymore unless they are a big name RPG and there has been pre-release information on how long the game is. I don't think I've bought a non-RPG title for at least the last 10 years on this stipulation. Skyrim? Already pre-ordered, since they are saying it easily has over 100 hours of gameplay, with some estimates approaching 300+ hours. Now THAT is getting your money worth. Fallout? Dragon Age? Mass Effect? Bought em all for the PC. Any other game I wait until there is a collectors edition or "game of the year" so that I only have to pay $20 for it.
These morons think that just because all the moms and dads and sheeple out there play crappy facebook games for 5 minutes a day means that everyone else doesn't expect AT LEAST 10 hours of gameplay from a $50-60 game? Or that just because people don't finish a game means they should make it shorter? Guess I won't be buying any of their games anytime soon either! When someone doesn't finish a game that lasts longer than a few hours, it's either because the developer failed to keep it interesting past the first few hours (linear level design with waves of bad-AI enemies anyone? sound familiar?) or the person just didn't have the time. It has nothing to do with anyone saying "WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't BELIEVE this game is longer than 5 hours!!!! I refuse to play this when I could be playing FARMVILLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Call them what you will, but I believe their actions speak louder than mere "vandals" and "punks". They have received world wide love and hate across the spectrum, and some of their accomplishments go above and beyond what was possible even 20 years ago for combating big government and oppression around the globe. Call them names all you like, but they have had more impact than most people who are commenting on this article will ever have. Behind all the script kiddies who are just riding on the coat tails of their more knowledgeable counter parts exists an animal that I don't think will be stopped by arresting a handful of people in a couple countries. Nor should it.
That's the thing. I had already expressed my desire to not buy it and that I wasn't going to buy it. And I had already said "no thanks I'm all set" before we got into it. I just thought it'd be easy to make his head explode by having an informed counter-argument. But there was a severe lack of heads exploding. He was very proud that he thought he was right and I was wrong, regardless that I had proved it to him in person.
Right but my point was that I was able to find a cable that was super pretty like the Monster cable, with rubberized ends and all that, and it was still less than 1/6th the price as the monster cable, while being 6 feet longer too! There are several other offerings from Rosewill on Newegg without those additional perks and they are between $5-15. I don't mind paying $20 for a nice HDMI cable that looks cool, has rubberized ends (easier to grip) and a nice braided cable. But $129? That is just stupid.
I literally just had an argument with a Best Buy employee over this the other day. Me and a friend went to the mall because I needed some emergency thermal paste for a PC build I was doing (I was visiting friends 5 hours from my house and had forgot some). I went to Best Buy because they had some for $10 (probably the cheapest thing in the store). After buying the paste, we hung around in the store while my friend's brother went and got a haircut. My friend and I went to the cable section and he asked me about HDMI cables for his HDTV. He showed me the cable he bought (Insignia for ~$40) and asked if it was good. I said it was fine, but that he over paid even for that. I then proceeded to pick up a Monster cable that was only 4 feet long and cost $129 and explain to him that this cable and that cable were the same. A Best Buy employee then came over and started a conversation with me.
Best Buy Employee: "Can I help you with anything?"
Me: "No, I'm all set."
BBE: "I see you have a Monster HDMI cable there. What kind of TV do you have?"
Me: "Oh I am just explaining to my friend that there is no reason to spend over $100 on a 4' cable when a $5 online will do the same thing"
BBE: "Well that isn't true. That cable will give you superior sound and video quality. It also has Ethernet over HDMI capability and compatibility for 3D"
Me: "Well I'm sure it does all of that, but any cable will do that for you as long as it is rated for HDMI 1.4 spec."
BBE: "It will but that cable will give you better picture quality because it has gold connectors and better shielding"
Me: "No, it really won't. Unless you have your TV inside a power transfer station with unshielded electrical cables, you will not really need to worry about interference. And picture quality will not be better regardless of what cable you are using."
BBE: "You are giving your friend bad advice. This cable is better and will give you better -"
Me: *interrupting him* "If I hooked up the same exact TVs to the same exact source with my cable and this cable, not only would they be the same quality, but my cable would be 15' longer and be able to connect across the room where as this is only capable of connecting to a device close by, and my cable will have cost around $5-20 and this one costs $129. I'd bet you any amount of $ that the difference in picture and sound quality would be indistinguishable."
BBE: "I'd take that bet, but only if I saw the cable you were going to use first"
We then went to the computer in the department and I went to Newegg and showed him this cable. He said "Right but that is a nice shielded cable like this one". And I said "Yea, but look at the length and the price." He then basically dismissed what I was saying and said that the Monster cable was still superior.
I wonder if they train people to be this ignorant? Or could places that sell cables for this price just attract people who buy into the BS?
Considering 5.0 is mostly just a newer revision of 4.0, how can testing be that hard? We have Firefox 4 deployed on all our computers (over 5000). We will test it in a lab environment and then push out the new version with our deployment software to all machines at once. What exactly is hard about that? I suppose it would be hard if you didn't have something like patchlink or an equivalent software to do mass deployments. But then again that isn't really a Firefox issue is it?
Actually, the parts of the Hudson above NYC are fine. That water is clean when compared to the water that sits in the small bays and accumulates around the mouth to the long island sound. I grew up swimming in the Hudson up by Poughkeepsie and Kingston. It is fine up there. But down in the East River and that area? You would never get in that water. And if you do, I wouldn't want to be near you after you did;)
It is a better idea, only so much containment and junk has settled down into the sludge at the bottom of the rivers that the only way to get it out would be dredging the river (they've been dredging the Hudson for years). Problem is that dredging churns up so much of the contaminants that they are trying to remove, it almost isn't worth it.
On a more serious note, last time I docked my boat at a marina in NYC (on my way to the long island sound), not only was the water disgustingly dirty, but the smell was overbearing. The rest of my family stayed in a hotel the rest of the night while I roughed it out on the boat to keep an eye on things. In the morning, a garbage truck showed up to empty some of the large garbage bins out. When they lifted it up with the truck, the liquid sludge in the bottom of the bin started to leak out the bottom. They then drove it over to the edge, and let it empty into the river. I have never smelled a worse smell in my entire life.
I love NYC and NY in general. But swimming in the water down there? No thanks.
...strange thing I have never played Neverwinter Nights, nor have I ever signed up on those forums. I believe everyone with an EA account for any game must have received this e-mail. Nice to at least see a company do a full disclosure quickly after a breach, rather than sitting on the info for a few weeks whole they "assess the damage".
Sorry, but allowing Apple the ability to stifle competition by suing anyone who makes a rival product, which would end the potential for anything BETTER being created, is not only stupid but backwards thinking of the worst kind. We should encourage competition and rival products, not award companies who are the first through the gate with a free pass to take companies who want to compete to court. If you think that is what patents are for, then you should not be commenting on the patent system.
The only thing this highlights are the huge problems with the current patent system and shows a prime example of why it should be reformed from the ground up. Apple getting license to say they own certain finger gestures and touch technology is worse than Best Buy trying to say they own the word "geek", because this could actually effect real technological innovation as the market shifts more and more towards touch based devices.
I fail to understand, however, how government-issued money is a "fake currency"
Using the USD as an example, our money is not money. It is legal tender. It is loaned, AT INTEREST, to the government and the American people. Such is the scam that is the Federal Reserve. We don't have the actual gold or anything else to actually back up the paper money like we used to. And they made sure the average American didn't have any other valuable assets in the forms of gold during the This is also what contributes to the steady decline of the value of the dollar as the Fed continually prints more and more money (remember - loaned AT INTEREST) and puts it into circulation, whether through their normal printing or when the government asks for a massive amount of $ to bail out too-big-to-fail mega corps. So, every piece of paper you have in your wallet that says "One Dollar" is actually "One Dollar + Interest" as far as the Fed is concerned.
This is why the founding fathers were so against a central banking firm in America. They knew as soon as banking was privatized on a federal level (which, btw, the Federal Reserve is not. They are NOT a federal organization. They are only "federal" in name. They are a private bank) that our country was, quite simply, fucked. It took less than 100 years to screw the American economy this way (The Federal Reserve Act was issued in 1913).
Unless we get rid of the central banking system, there will never be such a thing as "debt free". It is a fantasy invented by corrupt politicians vying for office.
Wasn't a "geek" originally a circus performer who attracted viewers with strange and disturbing activities like biting the heads off of live animals?
What sort of activities would make someone unworthy of that title?
The Best Buy equivalent would be if you went to the Circus to see some "strange and disturbing activities like biting the heads off of live animals" but when you walked up to the tent they said "So it is going to cost you $80 to just have us tell you about the disturbing activities, which may not be accurate, and then you can decide if you want to contact us in about 2 weeks to find out if we've actually gotten around to biting the heads off of live animals or if we've just misplaced the animals and not actually bitten any heads off. By the way, most of the circus trainers and employees are high school kids with no formal circus training, or circus school drop outs from ITT Tech/DeVry/Random Unaccredited College. Oh BTW, would you like us to give sell you a FREE upgrade on your circus package for $30?"
If the "Geek Squad's" track record indicates anything, it is that they are not worthy of the title "geek" anything.
Anyone who brings their computer to Best Buy for service either 1) Has never brought their computer to best buy for service before, 2) Is too stupid to know any better, or 3) Have no friends who have even a remedial knowledge of IT.
Ok, but what about things that have to be housed internally? Most of the projects and networks that I support can't be done "on the cloud". Can a new Wireless controller and Wireless N be done in "the cloud"? How about a new blade center that manages hundreds, if not thousands, of VM's for local initiatives and projects? Internal/Inside only servers and things that should NEVER be put out on the internet? How about sensitive data that CAN'T be put in the cloud like electronic voting results or the security systems for all the county buildings? How about public safety and police car connectivity to county assets or the servers that house special police and warrant information?
Those above are all situations and projects, that I have been a part of or directly managed, that can't be done on the cloud, yet still had politics gumming up the works every step of the way. The cloud is great, but only to a certain point.
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They have no set cap written in stone. But if you use enough bandwidth in an area where your usage stands out, they come after you just like the others. If you haven't been called by them, it just means you aren't using enough bandwidth to merit the time to get someone to call. I know people who were downloading just over 250 Gigs a month and got calls about "excessive usage", while others have downloaded almost double that and haven't been bothered. They generate reports of "excessive bandwidth usage" based on the average usage for a particular network segment. If you are near the average for your area you won't be bothered. This of course may change in the future.
Correct. It is in the Rochester general area. The only other options are Earthlink cable, but that runs over Time Warner copper anyway, and Frontier. And frontier is garbage in terms of support and overall speed (but so is all DSL). FIOS wanted to come into the area, but they were denied because Time Warner owns all the polls their copper is run on and won't rent the space out to anyone else. Basically Time Warner owns the broadband market up here for end user and business class connections. Frontier owns the high-end corporate side of things because of the Frontier Cyber Center and is in downtown Rochester. All of our high-bandwidth links go through the cyber center.
Honestly I wouldn't want FIOS either, though, because it's Verizon and since they deployed 4G in Rochester their network has SUCKED. I drop at least 2 calls a day. Add that together with everyone else dropping at least 2 calls a day and it makes for a very frustrating experience. Also, they have an enforced cap on their network, and I just can't have an ISP with a cap. The only reason TW doesn't have one right now is because the entire tri-county area threatened to drop their service if they imposed a cap on us.
Cablevision users, on the other hand, shouldn't expect more than half of the promised bandwidth
Hmm...Perhaps you may not hit the max advertised rate on Cablevision's Optimum service, but I can tell from experience that it is much faster than most other services. I have Time Warner Road Runner Turbo and I am paying $66/mo for it in Western NY. I MAX out @ 1.7 MBps sustained, with bursts up to 2.0 MBps (Yes, Mega BYTES, bot bits). But when I visit my friends who live in Eastern NY where Time Warner doesn't have a death gripping monopoly on the broadband market, they are paying far less per month for speeds that always exceed 2.0 MBps on STANDARD level service. Optimum Online Boost, which some do have, get in excess of 3.0 MBps.
So in my personal experience, Optimum wipes to floor with other ISPs. Especially because they have no enforced cap like Comcast or FIOS, and are faster than Time Warner and Cox based connections. Benchmarks and speed tests are fine, but my real world use will decide what ISP I look for when it comes time to buy a house somewhere else. I don't care if they only give me 1/10th of their advertised speed. As long as that speed is still faster than the competition for an equal or lesser price, which so far they have been delivering in my experience.
I work with dozens of police organizations that use license plate readers. They are extremely effective and even a small fleet of cars can easily gather thousands upon tens of thousands of license plates a day in their jurisdiction. Tracking people via this technology is a scary thing to think about because it would be extremely effective. I disagree with their use in regular police operations, so this database is just plain crazy in my mind. This should be fought against by anyone who values the small amount of privacy we have left in this country.
I can't stress enough how crazy this would be if this happened and started getting adopted outside of MA. This would be one of the worst invasions of privacy ever. There is already enough tracking that goes on with the toll passes (EZ-Pass, Sun Pass, etc) in all the states that have them as well as all the cameras that are up everywhere in most major cities. But that should be expected, as you are voluntarily signing up for the convenience of speedier tolls and most of the camera systems are used to help detect crimes (such as ShotSpotter hearing gun shots and dispatching police). But if you choose to not have any kind of electronic pass or GPS in your car, there should be a reasonable expectation of privacy.
The Federal Reserve is only "Federal" by name. It is about as "Federal" as "Federal Express". The Federal Reserve is a private bank. It loans all money to the American government with interest attached to each dollar, just like a real bank.
You mean there are still people who play that who aren't 50+ year old house wives? Since when? I seem to remember reading not too long ago how the average SL user only stays logged in for a very short period of time, something like 5-10 minutes.
One of the biggest negatives that can be given in a game review is it being too short if it is anything more than a puzzle or simple adventure game. Almost every review for games includes mention of how long it took the reviewer to beat the game. If it is only a couple hours and the game is full price, then it is almost always listed as a negative. And I agree with that assessment 100%. If I pay $50-60 for a game, I better get at least 20 hours of gameplay out of it. Otherwise it was not worth the $ to me. And that is why I rarely actually purchase games when they first come out anymore unless they are a big name RPG and there has been pre-release information on how long the game is. I don't think I've bought a non-RPG title for at least the last 10 years on this stipulation. Skyrim? Already pre-ordered, since they are saying it easily has over 100 hours of gameplay, with some estimates approaching 300+ hours. Now THAT is getting your money worth. Fallout? Dragon Age? Mass Effect? Bought em all for the PC. Any other game I wait until there is a collectors edition or "game of the year" so that I only have to pay $20 for it.
These morons think that just because all the moms and dads and sheeple out there play crappy facebook games for 5 minutes a day means that everyone else doesn't expect AT LEAST 10 hours of gameplay from a $50-60 game? Or that just because people don't finish a game means they should make it shorter? Guess I won't be buying any of their games anytime soon either! When someone doesn't finish a game that lasts longer than a few hours, it's either because the developer failed to keep it interesting past the first few hours (linear level design with waves of bad-AI enemies anyone? sound familiar?) or the person just didn't have the time. It has nothing to do with anyone saying "WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't BELIEVE this game is longer than 5 hours!!!! I refuse to play this when I could be playing FARMVILLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Call them what you will, but I believe their actions speak louder than mere "vandals" and "punks". They have received world wide love and hate across the spectrum, and some of their accomplishments go above and beyond what was possible even 20 years ago for combating big government and oppression around the globe. Call them names all you like, but they have had more impact than most people who are commenting on this article will ever have. Behind all the script kiddies who are just riding on the coat tails of their more knowledgeable counter parts exists an animal that I don't think will be stopped by arresting a handful of people in a couple countries. Nor should it.
Don't see Hot Pockets on that list. Winning!
Actually no. He is a lead on Burn Notice, a show about a burned spy on the USA Network. Does a great job imo too.
That's the thing. I had already expressed my desire to not buy it and that I wasn't going to buy it. And I had already said "no thanks I'm all set" before we got into it. I just thought it'd be easy to make his head explode by having an informed counter-argument. But there was a severe lack of heads exploding. He was very proud that he thought he was right and I was wrong, regardless that I had proved it to him in person.
Right but my point was that I was able to find a cable that was super pretty like the Monster cable, with rubberized ends and all that, and it was still less than 1/6th the price as the monster cable, while being 6 feet longer too! There are several other offerings from Rosewill on Newegg without those additional perks and they are between $5-15. I don't mind paying $20 for a nice HDMI cable that looks cool, has rubberized ends (easier to grip) and a nice braided cable. But $129? That is just stupid.
I literally just had an argument with a Best Buy employee over this the other day. Me and a friend went to the mall because I needed some emergency thermal paste for a PC build I was doing (I was visiting friends 5 hours from my house and had forgot some). I went to Best Buy because they had some for $10 (probably the cheapest thing in the store). After buying the paste, we hung around in the store while my friend's brother went and got a haircut. My friend and I went to the cable section and he asked me about HDMI cables for his HDTV. He showed me the cable he bought (Insignia for ~$40) and asked if it was good. I said it was fine, but that he over paid even for that. I then proceeded to pick up a Monster cable that was only 4 feet long and cost $129 and explain to him that this cable and that cable were the same. A Best Buy employee then came over and started a conversation with me.
Best Buy Employee: "Can I help you with anything?"
Me: "No, I'm all set."
BBE: "I see you have a Monster HDMI cable there. What kind of TV do you have?"
Me: "Oh I am just explaining to my friend that there is no reason to spend over $100 on a 4' cable when a $5 online will do the same thing"
BBE: "Well that isn't true. That cable will give you superior sound and video quality. It also has Ethernet over HDMI capability and compatibility for 3D"
Me: "Well I'm sure it does all of that, but any cable will do that for you as long as it is rated for HDMI 1.4 spec."
BBE: "It will but that cable will give you better picture quality because it has gold connectors and better shielding"
Me: "No, it really won't. Unless you have your TV inside a power transfer station with unshielded electrical cables, you will not really need to worry about interference. And picture quality will not be better regardless of what cable you are using."
BBE: "You are giving your friend bad advice. This cable is better and will give you better -"
Me: *interrupting him* "If I hooked up the same exact TVs to the same exact source with my cable and this cable, not only would they be the same quality, but my cable would be 15' longer and be able to connect across the room where as this is only capable of connecting to a device close by, and my cable will have cost around $5-20 and this one costs $129. I'd bet you any amount of $ that the difference in picture and sound quality would be indistinguishable."
BBE: "I'd take that bet, but only if I saw the cable you were going to use first"
We then went to the computer in the department and I went to Newegg and showed him this cable. He said "Right but that is a nice shielded cable like this one". And I said "Yea, but look at the length and the price." He then basically dismissed what I was saying and said that the Monster cable was still superior.
I wonder if they train people to be this ignorant? Or could places that sell cables for this price just attract people who buy into the BS?
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Considering 5.0 is mostly just a newer revision of 4.0, how can testing be that hard? We have Firefox 4 deployed on all our computers (over 5000). We will test it in a lab environment and then push out the new version with our deployment software to all machines at once. What exactly is hard about that? I suppose it would be hard if you didn't have something like patchlink or an equivalent software to do mass deployments. But then again that isn't really a Firefox issue is it?
Actually, the parts of the Hudson above NYC are fine. That water is clean when compared to the water that sits in the small bays and accumulates around the mouth to the long island sound. I grew up swimming in the Hudson up by Poughkeepsie and Kingston. It is fine up there. But down in the East River and that area? You would never get in that water. And if you do, I wouldn't want to be near you after you did ;)
It is a better idea, only so much containment and junk has settled down into the sludge at the bottom of the rivers that the only way to get it out would be dredging the river (they've been dredging the Hudson for years). Problem is that dredging churns up so much of the contaminants that they are trying to remove, it almost isn't worth it.
...it filters out hypodermic needles?
On a more serious note, last time I docked my boat at a marina in NYC (on my way to the long island sound), not only was the water disgustingly dirty, but the smell was overbearing. The rest of my family stayed in a hotel the rest of the night while I roughed it out on the boat to keep an eye on things. In the morning, a garbage truck showed up to empty some of the large garbage bins out. When they lifted it up with the truck, the liquid sludge in the bottom of the bin started to leak out the bottom. They then drove it over to the edge, and let it empty into the river. I have never smelled a worse smell in my entire life.
I love NYC and NY in general. But swimming in the water down there? No thanks.
...strange thing I have never played Neverwinter Nights, nor have I ever signed up on those forums. I believe everyone with an EA account for any game must have received this e-mail. Nice to at least see a company do a full disclosure quickly after a breach, rather than sitting on the info for a few weeks whole they "assess the damage".
...want to know what Snooki smells like after a night at the bar?
I'm sorry but this sounds like and even bigger gimmick than 3D.
Sorry, but allowing Apple the ability to stifle competition by suing anyone who makes a rival product, which would end the potential for anything BETTER being created, is not only stupid but backwards thinking of the worst kind. We should encourage competition and rival products, not award companies who are the first through the gate with a free pass to take companies who want to compete to court. If you think that is what patents are for, then you should not be commenting on the patent system.
The only thing this highlights are the huge problems with the current patent system and shows a prime example of why it should be reformed from the ground up. Apple getting license to say they own certain finger gestures and touch technology is worse than Best Buy trying to say they own the word "geek", because this could actually effect real technological innovation as the market shifts more and more towards touch based devices.
I fail to understand, however, how government-issued money is a "fake currency"
Using the USD as an example, our money is not money. It is legal tender. It is loaned, AT INTEREST, to the government and the American people. Such is the scam that is the Federal Reserve. We don't have the actual gold or anything else to actually back up the paper money like we used to. And they made sure the average American didn't have any other valuable assets in the forms of gold during the This is also what contributes to the steady decline of the value of the dollar as the Fed continually prints more and more money (remember - loaned AT INTEREST) and puts it into circulation, whether through their normal printing or when the government asks for a massive amount of $ to bail out too-big-to-fail mega corps. So, every piece of paper you have in your wallet that says "One Dollar" is actually "One Dollar + Interest" as far as the Fed is concerned.
This is why the founding fathers were so against a central banking firm in America. They knew as soon as banking was privatized on a federal level (which, btw, the Federal Reserve is not. They are NOT a federal organization. They are only "federal" in name. They are a private bank) that our country was, quite simply, fucked. It took less than 100 years to screw the American economy this way (The Federal Reserve Act was issued in 1913).
Unless we get rid of the central banking system, there will never be such a thing as "debt free". It is a fantasy invented by corrupt politicians vying for office.
Wasn't a "geek" originally a circus performer who attracted viewers with strange and disturbing activities like biting the heads off of live animals? What sort of activities would make someone unworthy of that title?
The Best Buy equivalent would be if you went to the Circus to see some "strange and disturbing activities like biting the heads off of live animals" but when you walked up to the tent they said "So it is going to cost you $80 to just have us tell you about the disturbing activities, which may not be accurate, and then you can decide if you want to contact us in about 2 weeks to find out if we've actually gotten around to biting the heads off of live animals or if we've just misplaced the animals and not actually bitten any heads off. By the way, most of the circus trainers and employees are high school kids with no formal circus training, or circus school drop outs from ITT Tech/DeVry/Random Unaccredited College. Oh BTW, would you like us to give sell you a FREE upgrade on your circus package for $30?"
If the "Geek Squad's" track record indicates anything, it is that they are not worthy of the title "geek" anything.
Anyone who brings their computer to Best Buy for service either 1) Has never brought their computer to best buy for service before, 2) Is too stupid to know any better, or 3) Have no friends who have even a remedial knowledge of IT.
Ok, but what about things that have to be housed internally? Most of the projects and networks that I support can't be done "on the cloud". Can a new Wireless controller and Wireless N be done in "the cloud"? How about a new blade center that manages hundreds, if not thousands, of VM's for local initiatives and projects? Internal/Inside only servers and things that should NEVER be put out on the internet? How about sensitive data that CAN'T be put in the cloud like electronic voting results or the security systems for all the county buildings? How about public safety and police car connectivity to county assets or the servers that house special police and warrant information?
Those above are all situations and projects, that I have been a part of or directly managed, that can't be done on the cloud, yet still had politics gumming up the works every step of the way. The cloud is great, but only to a certain point.