So you have shaw would be my guess. Which puts you into the 'small' minority of Canadians who can get it. Drive 2hrs north of where you live, and zip. You'll be lucky if you can get a 1.3meg/256k connection that's stable.
Except bandwidth isn't a limited resource, which is what they're charging for. UBB is the easy and cheap way to stall back network upgrades and ding consumers hard in the pocketbook at the same time. In Ontario, independents with their own DSLAMS and cable plants can offer 200-300gb caps and competitive, or better service than the big incumbents can. This tells me that either these organizations have serious fiscal problems in operations, they're so inept that they can't figure out what needs to be upgraded, or there is no problem with bandwidth, and they're just out to screw everyone they can, because they're in a duopoloy, monopoly or super-monopoly position.
Oh it's much, much worse than that once you start looking into. You know being a canuck, I really didn't believe the whole conspiracy thought that the F&F scandal was an attempt at restricting the 2nd amendment. Those gun nuts though? They were spot on call it as it was, especially when you see how much Holder had his hands in it.
They've been given a vacate notice. The park is private property, and operates on a 'pro-quid-quo' status as semi-public at the pleasure of the owners who can restrict who can, and can't use it.
What? You're shocked by that or something. It was all a gimmick to begin with. You won't have synthesis and recognition on board for another 2-4 generations.
Doesn't really matter until developers get off their asses and start including multi-threading code. You'd think that after multicore and multiprocessor usage started jumping through the roof, that you'd see it.
Sure it's worthy. This should be a fine lesson to everyone, especially to those that believe that government is the solution to societies ills. People have and are being successfully trained to turn to the government to have any problem at all fixed.
I've always thought of innovation as thinking outside the box. Sure it's not in your genes, it's not in your upbringing and it's not in your head. But the second you have that epiphany, realizing that something you thought up can make a change. It's your first step, it might be a failure, it might be several failures, it might be thousands. But it only takes one good idea to launch you on the path.
You mean besides the fact that they've either worked for, been employed by the democrat party, and/or have been in contact previously with handlers from as high up as Obama, and/or that at least two of them have a history of workplace allegations, and not only their coworkers have attested to this, but their friends as well.
Yep. Heaping of the top of the barrel there. Then again, we live in the age where if a women walks up to a random male stranger on the street and says "he grabbed my ass" he's automatically guilty, even if he's innocent. And of course it's the fastest way to ruin anyones reputation. It's also the most predictable way.
No. Because Cain believes that a person stands on their merits, not their skin colour. Being half-asian, I do the same. Institutional bias to 'create' groups of people and segregating them does more damage than anything, and the left are very happy to use those all the time.
Useful tip: You might want to actually look into his "computer related" background experience.
Yeah except Obama like many leftists, and environmentalists have this thing against nuclear energy. And have a desire to waste money on windmills and solar. Sorry the cost ratio is what wins at the end of the day. People will not buy power at 60-80c/KWH when they can buy nuclear energy at 3-4c/kwh.
Those are the prices I pay in Florida, oddly enough, those are the same prices I pay in Ontario.
Good faith requires that you have reasonable grounds to believe that something is true, or that you have the claim or right, or legal right to do so. That isn't the case here. They're simply doing it because they 'feel' or 'think it might be' something based on assumptions, and guesswork. It would be the same as a cop going along and busting down someone door randomly and saying "I reasonably believed that they were smuggling 250lbs of coke" based on their gut. Doesn't fly there, it shouldn't fly here.
There is a clause in the DMCA for filing claims that are false, perhaps people should start using it?
First things I'd look at are price, getting screwed over by the incumbents, then I'd look to see the current state of the country along with Europe, and wondering whether or not I'd have a job next week. Superfast is all good and fine, but if what you have works. It'll work until things get better.
May 4, 2011 Dear Valued Sony Online Entertainment Customer:
Our ongoing investigation of illegal intrusions into Sony Online Entertainment systems has discovered that hackers may have obtained personal customer information from SOE systems. We are today advising you that the personal information you provided us in connection with your SOE account may have been stolen in a cyber-attack. Stolen information includes, to the extent you provided it to us, the following: name, address (city, province, zip, country), email address, gender, birthdate, phone number, login name and hashed password. Customers outside the United States and Canada should be advised that we further discovered evidence that information from an outdated database from 2007 containing approximately 12,700 non-Canadian customer credit or debit card numbers and expiration dates (but not credit card security codes) may have also been obtained - we will be notifying each of those customers promptly. There is no evidence that our main credit card database was compromised. It is in a completely separate and secured environment. We had previously believed that SOE customer data had not been obtained in the cyber-attacks on the company, but on May 1st we concluded that SOE account information may have been stolen and we are notifying you as soon as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience caused by the attack and as a result, we have: 1. Temporarily turned off all SOE game services; 2. Engaged an outside, recognized security firm to conduct a full and complete investigation into what happened; and 3. Quickly taken steps to enhance security and strengthen our network infrastructure to provide you with greater protection of your personal information. We greatly appreciate your patience, understanding and goodwill as we do whatever it takes to resolve these issues as quickly and efficiently as practicable. For your security, we encourage you to be especially aware of email, telephone, and postal mail scams that ask for personal or sensitive information. Sony will not contact you in any way, including by email, asking for your credit card number, social security number or other personally identifiable information. If you are asked for this information, you can be confident Sony is not the entity asking. When SOEâ(TM)s services are fully restored, we strongly recommend that you log on and change your password. Additionally, if you use your Station or SOE game account name or password for other unrelated services or accounts, we strongly recommend that you change them, as well. To protect against possible identity theft or other financial loss, we encourage you to remain vigilant, to review your account statements and to monitor your credit reports. We are committed to helping our customers protect their personal data and we will provide a complimentary offering to assist users in enrolling in identity theft protection services and/or similar programs. The implementation will be at a local level and further details will be made available shortly in regions in which such programs are commonly utilized. We thank you for your patience as we complete our investigation of this incident, and we regret any inconvenience. Our teams are working around the clock on this, and services will be restored as soon as possible. Sony takes information protection very seriously and will continue to work to ensure that additional measures are taken to protect personally identifiable information. Providing quality and secure entertainment services to our customers is our utmost priority. Please contact us at 1-866-436-6698 (Monday to Friday 15:00 to 22:00 GMT excluding holidays) should you have any additional questions. Sincerely, Sony Online Entertainment LLC ***These emails are being sent by Innovyx, our third party email distributor, and will contain either 'soe.innovyx.net' or 'soe.sony.com' in the sender field. If you have any questions conc
Funny. From the time Sony was hacked to the time I go an email on an account that was a one-time use for something particular it took them nearly 3 weeks to send out an email.
Valve took their forums offline on the 7th, reported that they were attacked the same day. And reported today exactly what had been taken. I dunno 3 days, all the major gaming sites covered it...
Even after this, I still trust Valve more than I trust EA. Hell Valve could kill kittens and use their blood to fuel their servers, and I'd still trust them more than EA. One only needs to look into the past and see how much EA has treated not only their customers as dirt, but their employees.
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So you have shaw would be my guess. Which puts you into the 'small' minority of Canadians who can get it. Drive 2hrs north of where you live, and zip. You'll be lucky if you can get a 1.3meg/256k connection that's stable.
You're not paying for the bandwidth. You never have, you're paying for the hardware. Remember your highschool physics?
Except bandwidth isn't a limited resource, which is what they're charging for. UBB is the easy and cheap way to stall back network upgrades and ding consumers hard in the pocketbook at the same time. In Ontario, independents with their own DSLAMS and cable plants can offer 200-300gb caps and competitive, or better service than the big incumbents can. This tells me that either these organizations have serious fiscal problems in operations, they're so inept that they can't figure out what needs to be upgraded, or there is no problem with bandwidth, and they're just out to screw everyone they can, because they're in a duopoloy, monopoly or super-monopoly position.
End government handouts for crony capitalism. It makes the world a better place.
Oh it's much, much worse than that once you start looking into. You know being a canuck, I really didn't believe the whole conspiracy thought that the F&F scandal was an attempt at restricting the 2nd amendment. Those gun nuts though? They were spot on call it as it was, especially when you see how much Holder had his hands in it.
They've been given a vacate notice. The park is private property, and operates on a 'pro-quid-quo' status as semi-public at the pleasure of the owners who can restrict who can, and can't use it.
Funny, the last time I looked. That park was private property and they were squatting after they were told to leave.
What? You're shocked by that or something. It was all a gimmick to begin with. You won't have synthesis and recognition on board for another 2-4 generations.
Doesn't really matter until developers get off their asses and start including multi-threading code. You'd think that after multicore and multiprocessor usage started jumping through the roof, that you'd see it.
Sure it's worthy. This should be a fine lesson to everyone, especially to those that believe that government is the solution to societies ills. People have and are being successfully trained to turn to the government to have any problem at all fixed.
Are you crazy? Do you really want anyone to be able to have their own TLD?
Give it 50 years and you can be that the net infrastructure will have moved that way.
I've always thought of innovation as thinking outside the box. Sure it's not in your genes, it's not in your upbringing and it's not in your head. But the second you have that epiphany, realizing that something you thought up can make a change. It's your first step, it might be a failure, it might be several failures, it might be thousands. But it only takes one good idea to launch you on the path.
You mean besides the fact that they've either worked for, been employed by the democrat party, and/or have been in contact previously with handlers from as high up as Obama, and/or that at least two of them have a history of workplace allegations, and not only their coworkers have attested to this, but their friends as well.
Yep. Heaping of the top of the barrel there. Then again, we live in the age where if a women walks up to a random male stranger on the street and says "he grabbed my ass" he's automatically guilty, even if he's innocent. And of course it's the fastest way to ruin anyones reputation. It's also the most predictable way.
No. Because Cain believes that a person stands on their merits, not their skin colour. Being half-asian, I do the same. Institutional bias to 'create' groups of people and segregating them does more damage than anything, and the left are very happy to use those all the time.
Useful tip: You might want to actually look into his "computer related" background experience.
Yeah except Obama like many leftists, and environmentalists have this thing against nuclear energy. And have a desire to waste money on windmills and solar. Sorry the cost ratio is what wins at the end of the day. People will not buy power at 60-80c/KWH when they can buy nuclear energy at 3-4c/kwh.
Those are the prices I pay in Florida, oddly enough, those are the same prices I pay in Ontario.
Good faith requires that you have reasonable grounds to believe that something is true, or that you have the claim or right, or legal right to do so. That isn't the case here. They're simply doing it because they 'feel' or 'think it might be' something based on assumptions, and guesswork. It would be the same as a cop going along and busting down someone door randomly and saying "I reasonably believed that they were smuggling 250lbs of coke" based on their gut. Doesn't fly there, it shouldn't fly here.
There is a clause in the DMCA for filing claims that are false, perhaps people should start using it?
Since they started running down hill.
*ba-dash*
Oh don't worry, at the rate they're going at. We'll be at Firefox 121212 just in time for the end of the world.
First things I'd look at are price, getting screwed over by the incumbents, then I'd look to see the current state of the country along with Europe, and wondering whether or not I'd have a job next week. Superfast is all good and fine, but if what you have works. It'll work until things get better.
I dunno. EA shitting on the living room rug is a high possibility. :P
This is the canuck version but here ya go:
May 4, 2011
Dear Valued Sony Online Entertainment Customer:
Our ongoing investigation of illegal intrusions into Sony Online Entertainment systems has discovered that hackers may have obtained personal customer information from SOE systems. We are today advising you that the personal information you provided us in connection with your SOE account may have been stolen in a cyber-attack. Stolen information includes, to the extent you provided it to us, the following: name, address (city, province, zip, country), email address, gender, birthdate, phone number, login name and hashed password. Customers outside the United States and Canada should be advised that we further discovered evidence that information from an outdated database from 2007 containing approximately 12,700 non-Canadian customer credit or debit card numbers and expiration dates (but not credit card security codes) may have also been obtained - we will be notifying each of those customers promptly.
There is no evidence that our main credit card database was compromised. It is in a completely separate and secured environment.
We had previously believed that SOE customer data had not been obtained in the cyber-attacks on the company, but on May 1st we concluded that SOE account information may have been stolen and we are notifying you as soon as possible.
We apologize for the inconvenience caused by the attack and as a result, we have:
1. Temporarily turned off all SOE game services;
2. Engaged an outside, recognized security firm to conduct a full and complete investigation into what happened; and
3. Quickly taken steps to enhance security and strengthen our network infrastructure to provide you with greater protection of your personal information.
We greatly appreciate your patience, understanding and goodwill as we do whatever it takes to resolve these issues as quickly and efficiently as practicable.
For your security, we encourage you to be especially aware of email, telephone, and postal mail scams that ask for personal or sensitive information. Sony will not contact you in any way, including by email, asking for your credit card number, social security number or other personally identifiable information. If you are asked for this information, you can be confident Sony is not the entity asking. When SOEâ(TM)s services are fully restored, we strongly recommend that you log on and change your password. Additionally, if you use your Station or SOE game account name or password for other unrelated services or accounts, we strongly recommend that you change them, as well.
To protect against possible identity theft or other financial loss, we encourage you to remain vigilant, to review your account statements and to monitor your credit reports.
We are committed to helping our customers protect their personal data and we will provide a complimentary offering to assist users in enrolling in identity theft protection services and/or similar programs. The implementation will be at a local level and further details will be made available shortly in regions in which such programs are commonly utilized.
We thank you for your patience as we complete our investigation of this incident, and we regret any inconvenience. Our teams are working around the clock on this, and services will be restored as soon as possible. Sony takes information protection very seriously and will continue to work to ensure that additional measures are taken to protect personally identifiable information. Providing quality and secure entertainment services to our customers is our utmost priority. Please contact us at 1-866-436-6698 (Monday to Friday 15:00 to 22:00 GMT excluding holidays) should you have any additional questions.
Sincerely,
Sony Online Entertainment LLC
***These emails are being sent by Innovyx, our third party email distributor, and will contain either 'soe.innovyx.net' or 'soe.sony.com' in the sender field. If you have any questions conc
Sounds about right. The first email I got from them was on May 4th.
Reply-To: no-reply@soe.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Message-ID:
Subject: [Bulk] Important Customer Notification
Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 15:05:17 -0700
To: xxxxxxx
From: "Sony Online Entertainment"
Funny. From the time Sony was hacked to the time I go an email on an account that was a one-time use for something particular it took them nearly 3 weeks to send out an email.
Valve took their forums offline on the 7th, reported that they were attacked the same day. And reported today exactly what had been taken. I dunno 3 days, all the major gaming sites covered it...
Even after this, I still trust Valve more than I trust EA. Hell Valve could kill kittens and use their blood to fuel their servers, and I'd still trust them more than EA. One only needs to look into the past and see how much EA has treated not only their customers as dirt, but their employees.
No. We never levied fines. We gave ultimatums, including blocking and seizing their assets in Canada, and the changes went in.