I don't manage my own iron anymore, but in my host's spamasssassin config I block everything from *.cn, *.ua, *.hk, *.kz, and *.ru...my control panel UI only allows 5 custom blocks, but those seem to be by far the most offensive TLDs.
Well, as an example, look at the new Sony TVs with Roku-like functionality for NetFlix steaming...and when you start adding stuff like that into devices, of course you have driver updates, etc...it seems to be more of a framing for future use thing than something with immediate mainstream funcitonality, although I wouldn't give it more than a few years for wider adoption.
Drawings==child exploitation? That's a stretch akin to saying the/b/rothers on the internet are abusing cats by stretching them out to ridiculous proportions and giving them tank tracks so as to attack Mordor, putting AIDS in the pool thus jeopardizing the public health, and putting people's lives in danger by shoop-da-wooping everything in sight.
That's what I was thinking, too. I don't know that much about VPN, but I suppose in the case of them (**AA et al) sniffing traffic or just looking at seeding/downloading IPs, would it point back to PB's VPN servers, almost like a proxy, as opposed to the actual user's IP? Not sure.
The other thing that occurred to me: if I sign up for PB's VPN service and they all of a sudden get subpoenaed to hand over their records, wouldn't my billing activity and, more importantly, traffic history potentially be in that report somewhere?
Well, again, my criticism isn't that they don't have viewing material out there...I think they have a few thousand titles: they just cut a deal with Starz which bumped their list up quite a bit, and have quite a few full-season TV shows out there.
The biggest issue and the reason it won't take off for them is that they don't have very many popular movies; I'm not talking about just new releases or first-run: Netflix by their own admission only carries second-shelf and lower movies, because the studios license their wares in tiers based on popularity, and they (studios) don't make much on streaming, so they jack up the prices for streaming content on popular movies and try to keep all of the eyeballs on DVD and bluray.
That's why Netflix's Watch It Now is subpar. They do have Heroes and some other popular TV content, but I'm not a TV watcher so I can't really assess if it's quality stuff or not. I'm hoping Blockbuster comes in with an awesome streaming catalog so that Netflix can't stay complacent anymore.
It's not quantity that's the issue with Netflix, it's quality. I like my Roku, but there are only so many days when I'm in the mood to watch Noam Chomsky documentaries or Hannah Montana Season 2 or the Poltergeist 2/3 double feature.
I presume they are all corrupt until they run for office again and I forget everything I've learned over the last two/four/six years.
Sometimes a democracy seems like a bad relationship that you just can't shake...you know you're being lied to, but we manage to convince ourselves over and over that a psychotic date is better than no date at all.
Many moons ago, I worked for a consumer hardware/software company that no longer exists...but their mascot was a professor. With an egg-shaped head. Ahem.
Anyhoo...a manager was packaged one day. He was well-liked by his co-workers and employees, but butted heads with the exec team. On his last day he wrote a lengthy email to everyone in the company detailing why he was very sad to see a company with so many good people and good products go to hell because of poor management, and proceeded to detail examples of what he deemed to be poor management. As he was packing up his desk and saying his goodbyes, he was pulled into the Operations Exec's office along with two corporate lawyers, and spent the last three hours of his last day apologizing for sending the email, and pleading his case as to why he should still be allowed a package, and not be fired outright and have any severance payments and benefits denied on the spot.
What have I done to deserve this negative press? You come to my website on the day of my daughter's wedding, and you ask me to commit review-fraud...but you don't come with a handful of cash. You don't even think to call me Publisher.
I'm in a cox market in Las Vegas...signed up 4 years ago; tech install was $125, self-install was free, with a one penny modem purchase.
In all, I'm pretty happy with cox...good fast connection (5:55PM, and dslreports just clocked me at 27ms latency, 10.6MB down, 1.9MB up to L.A. speakeasy). Modem died once, but I've had almost zero downtime in almost 4.5 years ("almost" qualified as downtime from a windstorm that knocked everything out).
Their customer service isn't much to brag about, though. And $55 is way too much to pay for an internet connection. But, other than that...better than DSL on their worst day.
Everyone pays. Consumers deal with losses and ID theft, merchants deal with lost customers and higher fees and time to deal with the issue, acquirers and issuers pay fines and fees and hire people to work the issues and fix the problems, the card brands have to pay people to sort through the problem, ensure the current regulations were adequate and who is at fault, hire lobbyists to keep themselves from being slammed in Washington. Everybody, at all points of the industry, loses.
Both of the first points are relative...it depends on the processor, and the product on which they are processing. The address verification (AVS) gives the merchant better pricing, but is not a mandatory knock-out rule with Visa/MC to get an authorization. Some processing platforms will force a reject if the AVS match fails, some will let it go through at the higher rate.
The expiration is relative, too...some platforms do a literal verification, some just check to see if it matches [0-1][0-9][date(YY)-13] or some such logic.
Well, considering the pummeling TJMaxx got for a smaller breach, they may be trying to keep their brand from becoming synonymous with some nefarious concept like 'security breach', 'stolen credit cards', etc
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That's what happened to heartland...PCI doesn't cover sploitz or whatever it was that they found.
"Chinese Internet Maintenance Day"???
Man, they celebrate weird holidays, don't they?
Seriously, though, that would make a good passive-aggressive protest t-shirt (a la Free Tibet).
I don't manage my own iron anymore, but in my host's spamasssassin config I block everything from *.cn, *.ua, *.hk, *.kz, and *.ru...my control panel UI only allows 5 custom blocks, but those seem to be by far the most offensive TLDs.
Well, as an example, look at the new Sony TVs with Roku-like functionality for NetFlix steaming...and when you start adding stuff like that into devices, of course you have driver updates, etc...it seems to be more of a framing for future use thing than something with immediate mainstream funcitonality, although I wouldn't give it more than a few years for wider adoption.
Drawings==child exploitation? That's a stretch akin to saying the /b/rothers on the internet are abusing cats by stretching them out to ridiculous proportions and giving them tank tracks so as to attack Mordor, putting AIDS in the pool thus jeopardizing the public health, and putting people's lives in danger by shoop-da-wooping everything in sight.
Yo, Dog, we heard you like to hold buildings, so we put a holding building in yo holding building so you can hold buildings while you hold buildings
I let Vista install all 300MB of collective updates last night, including IE8, and it did not change my default from Chrome.
There is nothing wrong with choosing someone for their tits.
Wait, I skipped a couple of posts. Are we still talking about Obama?
That's what I was thinking, too. I don't know that much about VPN, but I suppose in the case of them (**AA et al) sniffing traffic or just looking at seeding/downloading IPs, would it point back to PB's VPN servers, almost like a proxy, as opposed to the actual user's IP? Not sure.
The other thing that occurred to me: if I sign up for PB's VPN service and they all of a sudden get subpoenaed to hand over their records, wouldn't my billing activity and, more importantly, traffic history potentially be in that report somewhere?
Well, again, my criticism isn't that they don't have viewing material out there...I think they have a few thousand titles: they just cut a deal with Starz which bumped their list up quite a bit, and have quite a few full-season TV shows out there.
The biggest issue and the reason it won't take off for them is that they don't have very many popular movies; I'm not talking about just new releases or first-run: Netflix by their own admission only carries second-shelf and lower movies, because the studios license their wares in tiers based on popularity, and they (studios) don't make much on streaming, so they jack up the prices for streaming content on popular movies and try to keep all of the eyeballs on DVD and bluray.
That's why Netflix's Watch It Now is subpar. They do have Heroes and some other popular TV content, but I'm not a TV watcher so I can't really assess if it's quality stuff or not. I'm hoping Blockbuster comes in with an awesome streaming catalog so that Netflix can't stay complacent anymore.
It's not quantity that's the issue with Netflix, it's quality. I like my Roku, but there are only so many days when I'm in the mood to watch Noam Chomsky documentaries or Hannah Montana Season 2 or the Poltergeist 2/3 double feature.
I presume they are all corrupt until they run for office again and I forget everything I've learned over the last two/four/six years.
Sometimes a democracy seems like a bad relationship that you just can't shake...you know you're being lied to, but we manage to convince ourselves over and over that a psychotic date is better than no date at all.
Many moons ago, I worked for a consumer hardware/software company that no longer exists...but their mascot was a professor. With an egg-shaped head. Ahem.
Anyhoo...a manager was packaged one day. He was well-liked by his co-workers and employees, but butted heads with the exec team. On his last day he wrote a lengthy email to everyone in the company detailing why he was very sad to see a company with so many good people and good products go to hell because of poor management, and proceeded to detail examples of what he deemed to be poor management. As he was packing up his desk and saying his goodbyes, he was pulled into the Operations Exec's office along with two corporate lawyers, and spent the last three hours of his last day apologizing for sending the email, and pleading his case as to why he should still be allowed a package, and not be fired outright and have any severance payments and benefits denied on the spot.
Yeah...oops
What have I done to deserve this negative press? You come to my website on the day of my daughter's wedding, and you ask me to commit review-fraud...but you don't come with a handful of cash. You don't even think to call me Publisher.
VirtuaMod: +1
A quick peek at Duotrope shows 78 sci-fi markets with electronic editions paying semi-pro and above.
Ooo...stacking the deck. No, I didn't know that. Know of any more under-the-table test sites?
'scuze me, ma'am...we're taking a television provider survey today. Would you mind answering a question for us:
Are you happy with cox on the whole?
I'm in a cox market in Las Vegas...signed up 4 years ago; tech install was $125, self-install was free, with a one penny modem purchase.
In all, I'm pretty happy with cox...good fast connection (5:55PM, and dslreports just clocked me at 27ms latency, 10.6MB down, 1.9MB up to L.A. speakeasy). Modem died once, but I've had almost zero downtime in almost 4.5 years ("almost" qualified as downtime from a windstorm that knocked everything out).
Their customer service isn't much to brag about, though. And $55 is way too much to pay for an internet connection. But, other than that...better than DSL on their worst day.
Everyone pays. Consumers deal with losses and ID theft, merchants deal with lost customers and higher fees and time to deal with the issue, acquirers and issuers pay fines and fees and hire people to work the issues and fix the problems, the card brands have to pay people to sort through the problem, ensure the current regulations were adequate and who is at fault, hire lobbyists to keep themselves from being slammed in Washington. Everybody, at all points of the industry, loses.
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Fuck it.
Slightly OT, but FYI:
Both of the first points are relative...it depends on the processor, and the product on which they are processing. The address verification (AVS) gives the merchant better pricing, but is not a mandatory knock-out rule with Visa/MC to get an authorization. Some processing platforms will force a reject if the AVS match fails, some will let it go through at the higher rate.
The expiration is relative, too...some platforms do a literal verification, some just check to see if it matches [0-1][0-9][date(YY)-13] or some such logic.
Well, considering the pummeling TJMaxx got for a smaller breach, they may be trying to keep their brand from becoming synonymous with some nefarious concept like 'security breach', 'stolen credit cards', etc
Thanks...I needed a new one to renew my 2600 sub.
Also of note: there multiple contact methods on that page for Senator Ford. Not that most of you are in his constituency, but you know. Just sayin'.