"Canadians...speak English with nearly American accents"... hey! Don't forget, Canadians are Americans also. We're all part of North America, the last time I checked.
It drives many Canadians crazy when people call the U.S. "America" to the exclusion of everyone else. I cringe every time a U.S. legislator discusses how the "American People" have spoken.
A friend of mine had an interesting incident at customs heading into Windsor, Ontario a few years back when he was asked his citizenship. He told the customs officer he was "American", to which the customs officer replied, "We're all Americans here. What country are you from?";)
Our company brochures tell people they can email anyone at our company using the first name, underscore, and last name. Pretty ordinary. Bad mistake: the sales folks wrote it up as "first_last@(our domain).com". Never trust a salesperson for *anything* the slightest bit technical.
We ended up having to add forwarding for all the mail we received at (you guessed it) "first_last@(our domain).com". Arrrrrgh.
Ummm.... Regarding the six items listed above, how do we know that's not *exactly* what happened here? It seems like it would be very easy for somebody to have wardriven/proxied their way into some poor schlep's system and used that. Not saying that it did happen, but something to consider.
German law used to require actually catching the perpetrator in the act (see Cliff Stoll's "The Cuckoo's Egg"). When I see cases like this, I start to understand that reasoning more. Not that I condone breaking down doors, or that it is even necessary, in order to catch black hats!
I'm sure there's more than meets the eye to what we're hearing here in the masses (and hopefully more than just a GIF bug!). Hopefully more will become public knowledge.
Don't laugh. There has been a push in place, for a while now, to regulate the type, and hence the color of light, of streetlamps near optical observatories. Reason? Something to do with interference to the observatory's ability to view the heavens. I happen to think this is a good reason. Some may not. But regulation of visible light may go further than you think.
I was merely annoyed to hear this until I went to a local retailer to buy a black ink cartridge for my Lexmark inkjet. $32.99!!!
It may have been my subjective viewpoint after reading that article, but this price seems exorbitant (or maybe I'm just a cheap b*stard). It also seemed to me to be higher than the price for cartridges for competing printers.
I'm disgusted to think I can buy a basic color inkjet printer for about the cost of color + black cartridges for this one. What a waste of resources.
Ok, so with the number of cable broadband subscribers going up, it makes sense that the cable companies can finally (hopefully) start collecting on those economies of scale. So when will we start to see the price stabilize? Or are we stuck with endless rate increases a la cable television?
I've already given up on DSL from the phone company (Good luck getting competitition-inducing rates from those guys.)
IMHO community run broadband (see this link) and other means like this are the only hope we have of keeping prices reasonable.
Erp, did I just come out in favor of regulating Internet pricing?!?
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"Canadians...speak English with nearly American accents"... hey! Don't forget, Canadians are Americans also. We're all part of North America, the last time I checked.
;)
It drives many Canadians crazy when people call the U.S. "America" to the exclusion of everyone else. I cringe every time a U.S. legislator discusses how the "American People" have spoken.
A friend of mine had an interesting incident at customs heading into Windsor, Ontario a few years back when he was asked his citizenship. He told the customs officer he was "American", to which the customs officer replied, "We're all Americans here. What country are you from?"
Our company brochures tell people they can email anyone at our company using the first name, underscore, and last name. Pretty ordinary. Bad mistake: the sales folks wrote it up as "first_last@(our domain).com". Never trust a salesperson for *anything* the slightest bit technical.
We ended up having to add forwarding for all the mail we received at (you guessed it) "first_last@(our domain).com". Arrrrrgh.
Ummm.... Regarding the six items listed above, how do we know that's not *exactly* what happened here? It seems like it would be very easy for somebody to have wardriven/proxied their way into some poor schlep's system and used that. Not saying that it did happen, but something to consider.
German law used to require actually catching the perpetrator in the act (see Cliff Stoll's "The Cuckoo's Egg"). When I see cases like this, I start to understand that reasoning more. Not that I condone breaking down doors, or that it is even necessary, in order to catch black hats!
I'm sure there's more than meets the eye to what we're hearing here in the masses (and hopefully more than just a GIF bug!). Hopefully more will become public knowledge.
Don't laugh. There has been a push in place, for a while now, to regulate the type, and hence the color of light, of streetlamps near optical observatories. Reason? Something to do with interference to the observatory's ability to view the heavens. I happen to think this is a good reason. Some may not. But regulation of visible light may go further than you think.
I was merely annoyed to hear this until I went to a local retailer to buy a black ink cartridge for my Lexmark inkjet. $32.99!!!
It may have been my subjective viewpoint after reading that article, but this price seems exorbitant (or maybe I'm just a cheap b*stard). It also seemed to me to be higher than the price for cartridges for competing printers.
I'm disgusted to think I can buy a basic color inkjet printer for about the cost of color + black cartridges for this one. What a waste of resources.
Ok, so with the number of cable broadband subscribers going up, it makes sense that the cable companies can finally (hopefully) start collecting on those economies of scale. So when will we start to see the price stabilize? Or are we stuck with endless rate increases a la cable television?
I've already given up on DSL from the phone company (Good luck getting competitition-inducing rates from those guys.)
IMHO community run broadband (see this link) and other means like this are the only hope we have of keeping prices reasonable.
Erp, did I just come out in favor of regulating Internet pricing?!?