My Droid Turbo is 11.2mm thick and I added a velcro strip to the back making it even thicker. (The velcro allows me to attach it to vertical surfaces instead of taking up space on my desk.)
It's thin enough even with the velcro.
I'm not going to upgrade it anytime soon (despite no Marshmallow) but neither Apple or Samsung are looking very likely as replacements. Motorola is probably out too since they seem to think I'm fine with Android 5.1 on this one. (Or that I'll buy a new one? Ha!)
My new kitten might convince me to get wireless headphones though.
It's the last time in your life that your job is to learn stuff; you don't realize what a luxury that is until you miss it.
This really hits home to me. I was a poor student in college living in a crappy apartment with no car, but I really didn't know how good that was.
I thought being in the workforce earning a salary would be so much better. It certainly has given me nicer more expensive things and a car, but there's a certain freedom to being a student that I just didn't grasp at the time.
Would exercising your free speech to demonstrate someone who is promoting trump be considered intolerant?
They are not willing to tolerate working with (and hence supporting even if indirectly) someone who is promoting ideas with which they disagree.
So sure, they're being intolerant to the point where simply stating they don't like trump for whatever reasons is not enough of a statement for them.
What if either Clinton or trump tried to hire someone who disagreed with their political ideas? Would that person be intolerant for refusing to work for them?
How far do you expect tolerance to go?
Hey, I donated to every politically party equally just to prove how tolerant I am of other ideas. Don't call me intolerant.
I'm thinking of doubling my donation to trump just to prove how tolerant I am.
I have always complained about paying for cable TV and I resisted it for a long time but while I had a job making a decent but not extravagant salary I could easily pay the exorbitant prices and I did. I have since cut the cord and only pay for Netflix.
I don't know about this CEO's kids but I imagine they're doing okay financially and could easily afford it if they wanted to so I doubt cost is the issue. Perhaps they see all the other options for media consumption as enough for them. That is of course pure speculation, but certainly plausible.
Perhaps they're huge consumers of streaming services and physical media.
And being children of NBC's CEO it wouldn't surprise me if they have access to their content that isn't available to the general public.
Personally I hate cable providers with a passion especially Comcast (which owns NBC Universal). I hope cable TV dies off or at least is reduced greatly in price. I would love for downloading and streaming to be so prevalent that the market forces CATV into submission or death.
So you don't like xkcd? Fine. It's easy enough to ignore.
There are plenty of popular forms of humor that don't amuse me much but I would get no satisfaction from going into threads and telling people that whatever they enjoyed was actually crap. They wouldn't be convinced anyway. They think I was a troll or a fool.
I don't think The Onion is funny, I grew bored with Seinfeld in the '90s and now I can't stand him, I like Monty Python, but how many times do we have to see a reference to it in a thread before it gets old? It's not dead yet, it's just pining for the fjords, right?
There is some humor that I like that a lot of people don't find funny either. There's no point in me trying to convince them that it's funny - or in the case of some xkcd comics explain it to them.
Imagine explaining the linked xkcd strip to someone whose only technical knowledge involved Facebook and Snapchat. Even if you can explain it to them at best their response will be "Meh".
I would think the term "serial" would be more apt to describe a show which one should really watch in order, but that doesn't refer to where each episode fits into a sequence.
Was I supposed to watch Red Dwarf in order? Sure, some elements build on earlier episodes but it's not like watching many other shows where if you miss a few episodes you have no idea what happened to some characters or what is going on with certain sub-plots.
Basically, they're updating software in their home market to only charge up to 60% until everyone stops using them.
The software update is due to be introduced early the following day [next Tuesday] for phones that haven't been exchanged, according to the newspaper ad.
The ad didn't say whether the update would be automatic or require users' agreement. Samsung didn't respond to a request for more information on the software patch.
In the U.S., the company is working with the Consumer Product Safety Commission to figure out how a formal recall of the phones will work.
Asked about the software update, a Samsung spokesperson in the U.S. said that "no action will be taken without the approval of the CPSC."
I mean, I really would have thought the 9/11 truthers would have burnt out by now and those of us who don't think it was a conspiracy aren't lured in by such things now but then again I'm not the type of person who uses Facebook so maybe they'll still click on that crap.
It seems the environmentalist complaints boil down to 3 things:
* impact on wildlife * impact on the land (in and around the dam as well as downstream) * carbon emissions which they say "can also be significant"
But aside from that, it's all good.....as long as the water doesn't dry up.
Comparing it to money, it would be more like you get a fixed income every month, but if you don't spend it, it just flows downstream (presumably in the form of bank fees). Barring any unforeseen catastrophe however the money is completely renewable as well as transient.
Some auto manufacturers don't sell cars without engines. Some of them use engines built by other car companies. A computer without an OS is about as useful as a computer without one.
I'm reminded of something I saw a while back. My memory is vague but an early car manufacturer (possibly German) used to sell the chassis and engine without a body as well as a version with a mass-produced body. Custom coachbuilders would handbuild bodies and at least one of them was doing quite well for itself. The car manufacturer decided they didn't like that so IIRC they stopped selling the chassis/engine as a stand-alone product.
I'm sure there's some auto-history enthusiast on/. who can fill in details but that's what I can recall right now.
There's also this quote "It’s aerial bombing without any sense of being able to lay the chemical down on the target,” but that comes from a lwayer and not a scientist.
My guess is they hit the targeted mosquitoes just fine, but they also hit the bees and who knows what else.
I used to attempt to manage passwords in my head with a similar system.
Gradually I decided I needed to do better than that and as the number of passwords and variations of those passwords grew it became impossible for me to remember. I lost a long-time e-mail account because I read about a security breach while I was drinking and being security minded I immediately changed my password to something very clever that I was sure I would remember. Of course I couldn't remember it.
Shortly thereafter I started using a password locker program. If something doesn't have a unique and strong password, it's because it fits your 4th category. It's also a great place to store the answers to those security questions that I can never remember.
You know, like "What's your mother's maiden name?". Those should never be answered truthfully so I'll make up an answer and say "The Battle of Hastings" is my mother's maiden name. How could I possibly ever forget such a clever answer? Well, very easily apparently because I only need to know that very rarely.
I really would separate your banking ID/passwords from your e-mail ID/passwords. Financial transactions are in their own class of risk. I avoid them if at all possible and they certainly never get anywhere near my phone.
Now my biggest point of failure is the password to my password locker file. It could be a stronger password, but it's not written anywhere and I know I can remember it.....that is I can right now. What if I suffer a concussion? That could lock me out of every account I have. And of course if someone gets that and they get the password-locker file, they've got the keys to the kingdom.
You can always find a place to store a hardcopy of key passwords that you just can't lose if you want. Safety deposit box. In a simple form of steganography (e.g. disguised as a word-find puzzle). Or just choose something like the first letter of every verse in the King James Version of Psalm 23. Use your imagination. All those are simple enough for you to recover, but difficult enough that the average hacker is not going to get it easily.
One of the scariest experiences I ever had driving involved black ice in a heavy snowstorm. I couldn't tell it was there until I started to lose control. I quickly regained it and then lost it again a moment later causing me to do a near 360 and for a moment I was sure the cars behind me were going to slam into me or that I was going to end up in a ditch. Instead I came to a near perfect stop at the red light. In retrospect I should not have even tried to stop for it.
Worst case scenario: It wouldn't detect the black ice until traction started to be lost, but it would have reacted faster and probably better than I did.
Another of the scariest moments was on an interstate in a different heavy snowstorm with a bad windshield wiper (the one on the driver's side).
Looking back on it, I must have been crazy to continue even though I drove that stretch of road every day. I could not see the lines or where the shoulder stopped or started but I suppose with the help of other cars taillights I got home okay.
A SDC could probably determine that even though it couldn't see the lines or where the should started and ended that it was in the right place and headed in the right direction given that this would be the route it took home from work every day.
Worst case scenario: It wouldn't do any worse than I did. It might have even had the good sense to say "You're nuts, dude. This is not safe."
I cannot think of any experience I've ever had driving where I am confident that I could outperform a self driving car. I can think of a few where the SDC would have done better than me.
And of course, like everyone else, I consider myself a better than average driver. My faults in the snow and on black ice were due to lack of experience - I spent the first 40 or so years of my life living in places where even a light dusting of snow was a once in a decade event and would cause chaos on the highways.
Even where I live now it seems the first decent snow will result in chaos to a lesser degree as many people seem to forget how to drive in such conditions over the summer.
As for your fear of "second amendment solutions", what was actually said what that "second amendment people" know how to deal with the political process of infringement of their second amendment rights.
This is just my interpretation of what trump said:
* He didn't literally mean for anyone to assassinate Clinton - or any SCOTUS nominees or to rise up to overthrow the government.
* He did refer to the 2nd Amendment to evoke the "spirit" (if you will) of many of his supporters who talk about "2nd Amendment solutions" and have protested in the past with slogans such as "We came unarmed. This time." and those who love to quote Jefferson about refreshing the tree of liberty "from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
* He said it because he knew is audience would love it and he knew it would be criticized by his opponents. If that was his intent he certainly succeeded.
In case anyone is keeping score at home, according to the CIA
Ukrainian 77.8%, Russian 17.3%, Belarusian 0.6%, Moldovan 0.5%, Crimean Tatar 0.5%, Bulgarian 0.4%, Hungarian 0.3%, Romanian 0.3%, Polish 0.3%, Jewish 0.2%, other 1.8% (2001 est.)
So maybe 1.8% black or African-American....err, African-Ukrainian? African-Asian? Probably not. I suspect most of them are just as white as the native Ukrainians and Russians and Polish people.
In many foreign countries your best bet is just dust yourself off and go on with your life.
I would agree with you on this point. I might make a police report if I were actually robbed in a foreign country, but I wouldn't expect anything to come from it. I doubt I would get the embassy or even a consulate involved, nor do I think they would care much as long as it was just a minor street crime.
So you went to Tijuana, you got drunk and you say some cartel guys just showed up with automatic weapons and ripped off your wallet with $24 and a picture of your high school sweetheart in it. And you say El Chapo was the ringleader? Oh, that's a sad story. I hope you learned your lesson.
1. Is it a good story (not true, just plausible is all that's required)? You can make it up as a total work of fiction, but if SOMEBODY might think it's true you meet this requirement. 2. Will it draw attention to us? It doesn't matter if it's good or bad attention.
This opens the door to a whole lot of potentially awesome fiction.
Your leaked documents should contain enough truth as to be somewhat credible but also contain enough fantasy to make a corrupt Iraqi security guard who hasn't been paid in 6 months blush.
I'm sure governments engage in this type of thing as a form of propaganda, but I want to leak some fake documents just to troll wikileaks and all the press who report on them.
Not that Ashley-Madison may have violated privacy laws and that they had poor security and slapped a bogus 'trusted security award' on their site, but that people seem so surprised that they did.
I suspect almost everything I see on the internet is a lie, but of course that's not right either. Some things can be trusted, but everything you see has to be evaluated on its own merits. How anyone could look at AM and decide they were trustworthy without the least little twinge of doubt is beyond me.
I think one of the craziest ideas a marketer ever had was to put up ads with a sexy woman pretending to send you a private message saying she only lives 2 miles away from you and she wants to have sex, right now!
So.....I'm supposed to believe that some horny woman who has never seen me and knows nothing about me other than I visited some porn site knows exactly where I live and not only that she wants me to come over and do whatever I want with her. Yeah, that sounds legit.
Goddammit, what if it's true and I'm missing out?
And where did Ashley-Madison advertise on the web? Porn sites.
For good or for ill most websites actually think my IP address is about 50 miles away from where I actually live. It really would creep me out if it were so trivial to find the physical address of someone else's IP address.
Well, I've been a Cox customer in the past and I wouldn't know how they compared to other ISPs at the time because my choice was Cox or nothing....or maybe dialup.
At the time I thought their speed was decent - plenty enough for my needs at least - their uptime was flawless. Their channel selection on cable was adequate and I don't remember the price being ridiculously high.
Now granted, this was 10 years ago and I may have been lucky, because they don't treat all markets the same, but this was a choice of sucking Cox or not getting any internet at all - besides maybe dialup with a Cox land line.
The one complaint I had with Cox was their inability to apply payments properly. It could be that I denied having a SSN (in truth I just refuse to give it out like it's candy) but I had phone, internet and cable TV with them, but apparently phone service was regulated differently - that is, the state seemed to view it as an essential utility so I got billed separately for phone and internet/cable TV service.
If I understood correctly, they were allowed to shut off your internet/Cable TV much more easily than they could cut off your phone service for non-payment.
I still wrote checks (printed them actually) and sent them via USPS to my creditors in those days and I thought it was stupid to have to write 2 checks to Cox each month. Not to worry they assured me. Just write one check for everything and we'll apply it properly.
Next month I get two bills, one for phone and one for internet/cable TV. I have a credit balance on the phone and a past due amount on the internet/cable TV equal to the credit balance on the phone bill.
And that was the last time I ever had a land line in my home.
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Amen.
My Droid Turbo is 11.2mm thick and I added a velcro strip to the back making it even thicker. (The velcro allows me to attach it to vertical surfaces instead of taking up space on my desk.)
It's thin enough even with the velcro.
I'm not going to upgrade it anytime soon (despite no Marshmallow) but neither Apple or Samsung are looking very likely as replacements. Motorola is probably out too since they seem to think I'm fine with Android 5.1 on this one. (Or that I'll buy a new one? Ha!)
My new kitten might convince me to get wireless headphones though.
It's the last time in your life that your job is to learn stuff; you don't realize what a luxury that is until you miss it.
This really hits home to me. I was a poor student in college living in a crappy apartment with no car, but I really didn't know how good that was.
I thought being in the workforce earning a salary would be so much better. It certainly has given me nicer more expensive things and a car, but there's a certain freedom to being a student that I just didn't grasp at the time.
Intolerant is an interesting word.
Would criticizing trump be intolerant?
Would exercising your free speech to demonstrate someone who is promoting trump be considered intolerant?
They are not willing to tolerate working with (and hence supporting even if indirectly) someone who is promoting ideas with which they disagree.
So sure, they're being intolerant to the point where simply stating they don't like trump for whatever reasons is not enough of a statement for them.
What if either Clinton or trump tried to hire someone who disagreed with their political ideas? Would that person be intolerant for refusing to work for them?
How far do you expect tolerance to go?
Hey, I donated to every politically party equally just to prove how tolerant I am of other ideas. Don't call me intolerant.
I'm thinking of doubling my donation to trump just to prove how tolerant I am.
I have always complained about paying for cable TV and I resisted it for a long time but while I had a job making a decent but not extravagant salary I could easily pay the exorbitant prices and I did. I have since cut the cord and only pay for Netflix.
I don't know about this CEO's kids but I imagine they're doing okay financially and could easily afford it if they wanted to so I doubt cost is the issue. Perhaps they see all the other options for media consumption as enough for them. That is of course pure speculation, but certainly plausible.
Perhaps they're huge consumers of streaming services and physical media.
And being children of NBC's CEO it wouldn't surprise me if they have access to their content that isn't available to the general public.
Personally I hate cable providers with a passion especially Comcast (which owns NBC Universal). I hope cable TV dies off or at least is reduced greatly in price. I would love for downloading and streaming to be so prevalent that the market forces CATV into submission or death.
This just oozes "stop-liking-what-I-don't-like".
So you don't like xkcd? Fine. It's easy enough to ignore.
There are plenty of popular forms of humor that don't amuse me much but I would get no satisfaction from going into threads and telling people that whatever they enjoyed was actually crap. They wouldn't be convinced anyway. They think I was a troll or a fool.
I don't think The Onion is funny, I grew bored with Seinfeld in the '90s and now I can't stand him, I like Monty Python, but how many times do we have to see a reference to it in a thread before it gets old? It's not dead yet, it's just pining for the fjords, right?
There is some humor that I like that a lot of people don't find funny either. There's no point in me trying to convince them that it's funny - or in the case of some xkcd comics explain it to them.
Imagine explaining the linked xkcd strip to someone whose only technical knowledge involved Facebook and Snapchat. Even if you can explain it to them at best their response will be "Meh".
My browser extensions make Forbes not work so
No, Forbes made it so your browser doesn't work.
It's the fight they're offering. Oh, you users want to use adblock? Fine, we'll make our site unusable to you.
My response?
Fine, I'll go somewhere else. (Forbes doesn't have any exclusive news content anyway).
I would think the term "serial" would be more apt to describe a show which one should really watch in order, but that doesn't refer to where each episode fits into a sequence.
Was I supposed to watch Red Dwarf in order? Sure, some elements build on earlier episodes but it's not like watching many other shows where if you miss a few episodes you have no idea what happened to some characters or what is going on with certain sub-plots.
They're releasing an update in Korea that limits charging to 60% capacity.
Samsung plans to issue a software update for its recalled Galaxy Note 7 smartphones that will prevent them from overheating by limiting battery recharges to 60 percent.
There's much greater reward for sailing to American or going to the moon. There's also far fewer people willing let alone able to do so.
What do I have to gain by crossing an untested bridge when I could see if others make it safely across?
Samsung to limit battery charging on Galaxy Note 7 phones to prevent fires
Basically, they're updating software in their home market to only charge up to 60% until everyone stops using them.
The software update is due to be introduced early the following day [next Tuesday] for phones that haven't been exchanged, according to the newspaper ad.
The ad didn't say whether the update would be automatic or require users' agreement. Samsung didn't respond to a request for more information on the software patch.
In the U.S., the company is working with the Consumer Product Safety Commission to figure out how a formal recall of the phones will work.
Asked about the software update, a Samsung spokesperson in the U.S. said that "no action will be taken without the approval of the CPSC."
is this news?
I mean, I really would have thought the 9/11 truthers would have burnt out by now and those of us who don't think it was a conspiracy aren't lured in by such things now but then again I'm not the type of person who uses Facebook so maybe they'll still click on that crap.
Doesn't that have more to do with wildlife and habitat protection than whether hydroelectric is renewable?
Well, renewable so long as the water doesn't dry up anyway.
Here's a whole article on it:
Environmental Impacts of Hydroelectric Power
It seems the environmentalist complaints boil down to 3 things:
* impact on wildlife
* impact on the land (in and around the dam as well as downstream)
* carbon emissions which they say "can also be significant"
But aside from that, it's all good.....as long as the water doesn't dry up.
Comparing it to money, it would be more like you get a fixed income every month, but if you don't spend it, it just flows downstream (presumably in the form of bank fees). Barring any unforeseen catastrophe however the money is completely renewable as well as transient.
Car analogy?
Some auto manufacturers don't sell cars without engines. Some of them use engines built by other car companies. A computer without an OS is about as useful as a computer without one.
I'm reminded of something I saw a while back. My memory is vague but an early car manufacturer (possibly German) used to sell the chassis and engine without a body as well as a version with a mass-produced body. Custom coachbuilders would handbuild bodies and at least one of them was doing quite well for itself. The car manufacturer decided they didn't like that so IIRC they stopped selling the chassis/engine as a stand-alone product.
I'm sure there's some auto-history enthusiast on /. who can fill in details but that's what I can recall right now.
well, the article does mention "aerial spraying".
There's also this quote "It’s aerial bombing without any sense of being able to lay the chemical down on the target,” but that comes from a lwayer and not a scientist.
My guess is they hit the targeted mosquitoes just fine, but they also hit the bees and who knows what else.
I used to attempt to manage passwords in my head with a similar system.
Gradually I decided I needed to do better than that and as the number of passwords and variations of those passwords grew it became impossible for me to remember. I lost a long-time e-mail account because I read about a security breach while I was drinking and being security minded I immediately changed my password to something very clever that I was sure I would remember. Of course I couldn't remember it.
Shortly thereafter I started using a password locker program. If something doesn't have a unique and strong password, it's because it fits your 4th category. It's also a great place to store the answers to those security questions that I can never remember.
You know, like "What's your mother's maiden name?". Those should never be answered truthfully so I'll make up an answer and say "The Battle of Hastings" is my mother's maiden name. How could I possibly ever forget such a clever answer? Well, very easily apparently because I only need to know that very rarely.
I really would separate your banking ID/passwords from your e-mail ID/passwords. Financial transactions are in their own class of risk. I avoid them if at all possible and they certainly never get anywhere near my phone.
Now my biggest point of failure is the password to my password locker file. It could be a stronger password, but it's not written anywhere and I know I can remember it.....that is I can right now. What if I suffer a concussion? That could lock me out of every account I have. And of course if someone gets that and they get the password-locker file, they've got the keys to the kingdom.
You can always find a place to store a hardcopy of key passwords that you just can't lose if you want. Safety deposit box. In a simple form of steganography (e.g. disguised as a word-find puzzle). Or just choose something like the first letter of every verse in the King James Version of Psalm 23. Use your imagination. All those are simple enough for you to recover, but difficult enough that the average hacker is not going to get it easily.
Why do people click links in emails claiming to be from the IT administrator that are poorly formatted and full of spelling errors?
Your admins can format and spell coherently?
One of the scariest experiences I ever had driving involved black ice in a heavy snowstorm. I couldn't tell it was there until I started to lose control. I quickly regained it and then lost it again a moment later causing me to do a near 360 and for a moment I was sure the cars behind me were going to slam into me or that I was going to end up in a ditch. Instead I came to a near perfect stop at the red light. In retrospect I should not have even tried to stop for it.
Worst case scenario: It wouldn't detect the black ice until traction started to be lost, but it would have reacted faster and probably better than I did.
Another of the scariest moments was on an interstate in a different heavy snowstorm with a bad windshield wiper (the one on the driver's side).
Looking back on it, I must have been crazy to continue even though I drove that stretch of road every day. I could not see the lines or where the shoulder stopped or started but I suppose with the help of other cars taillights I got home okay.
A SDC could probably determine that even though it couldn't see the lines or where the should started and ended that it was in the right place and headed in the right direction given that this would be the route it took home from work every day.
Worst case scenario: It wouldn't do any worse than I did. It might have even had the good sense to say "You're nuts, dude. This is not safe."
I cannot think of any experience I've ever had driving where I am confident that I could outperform a self driving car. I can think of a few where the SDC would have done better than me.
And of course, like everyone else, I consider myself a better than average driver. My faults in the snow and on black ice were due to lack of experience - I spent the first 40 or so years of my life living in places where even a light dusting of snow was a once in a decade event and would cause chaos on the highways.
Even where I live now it seems the first decent snow will result in chaos to a lesser degree as many people seem to forget how to drive in such conditions over the summer.
Everything is on their website:
As for your fear of "second amendment solutions", what was actually said what that "second amendment people" know how to deal with the political process of infringement of their second amendment rights.
This is just my interpretation of what trump said:
* He didn't literally mean for anyone to assassinate Clinton - or any SCOTUS nominees or to rise up to overthrow the government.
* He did refer to the 2nd Amendment to evoke the "spirit" (if you will) of many of his supporters who talk about "2nd Amendment solutions" and have protested in the past with slogans such as "We came unarmed. This time." and those who love to quote Jefferson about refreshing the tree of liberty "from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
* He said it because he knew is audience would love it and he knew it would be criticized by his opponents. If that was his intent he certainly succeeded.
In case anyone is keeping score at home, according to the CIA
Ukrainian 77.8%, Russian 17.3%, Belarusian 0.6%, Moldovan 0.5%, Crimean Tatar 0.5%, Bulgarian 0.4%, Hungarian 0.3%, Romanian 0.3%, Polish 0.3%, Jewish 0.2%, other 1.8% (2001 est.)
So maybe 1.8% black or African-American....err, African-Ukrainian? African-Asian? Probably not. I suspect most of them are just as white as the native Ukrainians and Russians and Polish people.
An interesting article about being a black American in Ukraine: A cop in Ukraine said he was detaining me because I was black. I appreciated it.
Altering an e-mail is all well and good until the original e-mail surfaces and it's proven that you've altered the e-mails.
In many foreign countries your best bet is just dust yourself off and go on with your life.
I would agree with you on this point. I might make a police report if I were actually robbed in a foreign country, but I wouldn't expect anything to come from it. I doubt I would get the embassy or even a consulate involved, nor do I think they would care much as long as it was just a minor street crime.
So you went to Tijuana, you got drunk and you say some cartel guys just showed up with automatic weapons and ripped off your wallet with $24 and a picture of your high school sweetheart in it. And you say El Chapo was the ringleader? Oh, that's a sad story. I hope you learned your lesson.
1. Is it a good story (not true, just plausible is all that's required)? You can make it up as a total work of fiction, but if SOMEBODY might think it's true you meet this requirement. 2. Will it draw attention to us? It doesn't matter if it's good or bad attention.
This opens the door to a whole lot of potentially awesome fiction.
Your leaked documents should contain enough truth as to be somewhat credible but also contain enough fantasy to make a corrupt Iraqi security guard who hasn't been paid in 6 months blush.
I'm sure governments engage in this type of thing as a form of propaganda, but I want to leak some fake documents just to troll wikileaks and all the press who report on them.
Not that Ashley-Madison may have violated privacy laws and that they had poor security and slapped a bogus 'trusted security award' on their site, but that people seem so surprised that they did.
I suspect almost everything I see on the internet is a lie, but of course that's not right either. Some things can be trusted, but everything you see has to be evaluated on its own merits. How anyone could look at AM and decide they were trustworthy without the least little twinge of doubt is beyond me.
I think one of the craziest ideas a marketer ever had was to put up ads with a sexy woman pretending to send you a private message saying she only lives 2 miles away from you and she wants to have sex, right now!
So.....I'm supposed to believe that some horny woman who has never seen me and knows nothing about me other than I visited some porn site knows exactly where I live and not only that she wants me to come over and do whatever I want with her. Yeah, that sounds legit.
Goddammit, what if it's true and I'm missing out?
And where did Ashley-Madison advertise on the web? Porn sites.
For good or for ill most websites actually think my IP address is about 50 miles away from where I actually live. It really would creep me out if it were so trivial to find the physical address of someone else's IP address.
Well, I've been a Cox customer in the past and I wouldn't know how they compared to other ISPs at the time because my choice was Cox or nothing....or maybe dialup.
At the time I thought their speed was decent - plenty enough for my needs at least - their uptime was flawless. Their channel selection on cable was adequate and I don't remember the price being ridiculously high.
Now granted, this was 10 years ago and I may have been lucky, because they don't treat all markets the same, but this was a choice of sucking Cox or not getting any internet at all - besides maybe dialup with a Cox land line.
The one complaint I had with Cox was their inability to apply payments properly. It could be that I denied having a SSN (in truth I just refuse to give it out like it's candy) but I had phone, internet and cable TV with them, but apparently phone service was regulated differently - that is, the state seemed to view it as an essential utility so I got billed separately for phone and internet/cable TV service.
If I understood correctly, they were allowed to shut off your internet/Cable TV much more easily than they could cut off your phone service for non-payment.
I still wrote checks (printed them actually) and sent them via USPS to my creditors in those days and I thought it was stupid to have to write 2 checks to Cox each month. Not to worry they assured me. Just write one check for everything and we'll apply it properly.
Next month I get two bills, one for phone and one for internet/cable TV. I have a credit balance on the phone and a past due amount on the internet/cable TV equal to the credit balance on the phone bill.
And that was the last time I ever had a land line in my home.