My two-year-old dropped my iPhone 3gs in the dog's water bowl. From the time I heard the *ploink*, realized what I had heard, and ran to the kitchen and pulled out the phone out, it was completely submerged in disgusting dog water for at least 15-20 seconds.
Similar thing here! Did it to myself though, was an Android phone, and only submerged for a couple seconds. Recovered okay too.
However, as an aside for anyone reading this, you probably shouldn't let your dog's water get to the "disgusting" stage. I understand that any water a dog's drank from could be termed "disgusting", but some folks wait 'til it's nearly empty to replace it, at which point it's likely disgusting even to a dog. Refresh it often!
Only mentioning the last part as a general PSA 'cause I'm still mourning my dog.:-(
if he/she is happy at 1 m/sec, and is paying less than 32/month, how would paying more make them happier?
They might find that paying $5, even $10 more per month, for example, for 5 times the speed, might be worthwhile. They may not realise that a significant improvement in speed is not a significant price hit.
And a 300 GB cap is pretty close to unlimited: they likely couldn't download that much per month if they tried, at least at current speed.
Plus, there's not a lot of love for Bell out there, so that might be extra incentive to leave them.
tl;dr:
Just pointing out options that they may not be aware of but might be of benefit to them.
We do not have "Miranda" rights, no, but we do have all of the rights that Americans would know as Miranda rights, as granted by other legislations. We do not have "District Attorneys", but we do have public prosecutors who serve exactly the same role. Those are merely a question of nomenclature. We *do*, however, have a constitution. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms is section 1 of The Constitution Act, 1982. When somebody talks about the Constitution granting rights that are part of the Charter, they are absolutely correct, because the Charter is part of the Constitution.
All good points, and correct about the Constitution.
I guess it bugs me when complicated issues are referred to with incorrect nomenclature: it's not a good indicator of a grasp of the topic.
Having said that, I've probably been guilty of mentioning the "Dis, DA, er, Crown's opinion" or somesuch in the past.
On the other hand, services like Netflix are far more limited in Canada, and really not of much value. This is mainly because of archaic 'culture protecting' laws (limit foreign networks and shows and enforce certain percentage of 'Canadian content' by hours of broadcast time) and laws allowing the three regional monopolies, Bell, Rogers, and Telus to buy sole distribution rights to foreign (mostly American) shows in Canada.
I think in the case of Netflix it's entirely due to the distribution rights and nothing to do with CanCon (Canadian Content) legislation (which some would argue led to the success of some of the greatest Canadian bands in history, and are generally a good thing. I personally hate it when Canadians talk about our "Miranda rights" or "District Attorneys", "The Constitution" instead of "The Charter", etc. Also good for Canadian artists & businesses that produce content & jobs. I'm getting on a tangent here...:)
Damn, that's almost enough to get me to sign up for Netflix. But, it's Silverlight-only, isn't it? That would be a deal-breaker.
BTW, if you like MI-5, did you ever watch Intelligence (follow-up show to Da Vinci's Inquest & Da Vinci's City Hall)? Similar vein, though more polished IMHO. (Saw a couple MI-5 shows that were a bit... unfulfilling.)
1Mb/s down, unlimited bandwidth. I know that I could upgrade to a better speed, but that would mean loosing the "unlimited" part. As it is, Netflix, at the highest quality setting, works just fine. What more could I ask?
A couple thoughts:
1) You could check out TekSavvy (not affiliated, just happy customer), and you could fund a small, agile company instead of a humongous, predatory one.
2) You might have unlimited bandwidth, but it's limited by your speed*time_in_month. You could likely get faster speeds from TekSavvy with a cap that you couldn't bump up against without downloading constantly.
DSL (Ontario): Premium : Up to 5M/800k : 300 GB/month : $31.95/Month
Not sure what you're paying now, but 5Mbps download with cap of 300 GB/month is a pretty good DSL plan. Especially if you're paying > $20 or $25 per month for your 1Mbps current plan.
TekSavvy DSL is still giving money to Bell. TekSavvy cable is giving money to Rogers. They win unless you cut it all.
True, but in my case, I switched from Shaw to TekSavvy. Shaw was getting >$80 / month for basic cable & high speed internet. Internet alone was about $45, if unbundled.
Having dropped cable TV, I'm now paying $30 / month for high speed internet to TekSavvy, so while Shaw is getting some money indirectly from me, it's a tiny fraction of what it used to be. And I don't hate Shaw like I do Rogers or Bell, so I'm not bothered.
WIND might still be its own entity, though.
It is, and like GP poster, I'm a (satisfied) customer, in my 13th month. Their roaming agreement is with Rogers, so if I were to roam outside the urban environment, Rogers would make money from it.
(Ironically, roaming on Rogers as a Wind customer costs $0.20 / minute (or did), where when I was with Rogers and my pittance number of minutes expired, extra minutes were $0.25 / minute. Bastards.)
"InsightIn140Bytes", I'm trying to figure out why, in the nearly 300 comments you've posted on Slashdot in the three weeks since you signed up for an account here, that so many of them are posts fiercely defending Sony (at least when you're not fiercely defending Microsoft). I'm curious, is it because you just can't stand the injustice of people picking on poor, weak corporations who only want to give their customers great products and make them happy, or is it because you work for one of the "New Media Strategies" type companies and defending these corporations is your job?
Bingo, we have a winner. The ever-insightful Mr Ratzo has hit the nail on the head, without even having to mention the absurd number of first posts "Insight..." has had. Must be paid to troll Slashdot.
You guys in the U.S. don't know how lucky you have it. In Canada we get ass-reamed. Even Virgin Mobile Canada charges $35/month just for 500 megabytes of data..
Won't dispute that Rogers, Bell, & Telus are rip-offs, and their Fido, Solo, & Koodo sub-brands are a joke, and Chatr is criminal in its anti-competitiveness (driving out Wind & Mobilicity), but with Wind I spend $40/m and get unlimited talk & text, Canada-wide, US-wide (not sure about Hawaii), unlimited global SMS, unlimited MMS, and unlimited data.
You cannot get that in USA as far as I know.
my understanding is that in the U.S. that would get you heaps of data and a few hundred minutes. You might have it bad, but here in Canada we have it far, far worse!
You may want to re-evaluate your understanding. Unless you have a hard-on for all things American (hey, there's a fair bit of that up here, so whatever turns your crank...), their mobile market is really not much better than ours at all. Maybe worse since we have Wind & Mobilicity.
We're absolutely indistinguishable if you look at European / Asian mobile markets and then compare back to Canada / US.
On that same line of thinking, I'd love to be able to see our Earth in the full range of the electromagnetic spectrum.
With broadcast transmission frequencies tuned out maybe.
I'd love to be able to see broadcast transmissions; perhaps with fancy glasses. Imagine seeing mobile phone towers, find a missing phone, see interference given by car engines, see locations of Wifi units, etc.
Of course, I'd want to be able to turn it off. Think of a virtual-assisted reality.
That said, they did NOT name themselves after that event. Blitz is a football term, and they are in London.
The London Blitz was a fucking WWII bombing campaign, how can you say it's not related in any way?
WTF, are you on drugs? Or... just a moron?
The Blitz (from German, "lightning") was the sustained strategic bombing of Britain by Nazi Germany between 7 September 1940 and 10 May 1941, during the Second World War.
Not sure if it would've helped in this situation, as it seems the DB itself had no password, but since I don't run phpMyAdmin, I use a fail2ban jail which bans any IP trying to access phpMyAdmin since they're obviously up to no good.
And, it's using a self-signed certificate... seems like the only CA I can trust is myself, and I don't really like the look of that shifty character in the mirror either.
If people in London are OK with that name why aren't you?
If they're okay with it, I'm okay with it.
But if you searched for "Pearl Harbour Attack" and found a link to act of war in 1941 and a Hawaiian Rugby Team by the same name, and it didn't cause you to give it a second glance,...
That would be strange, wouldn't it?
Although, on second (or third) thought, not a bad name for a sports team in an aggressive sport. Wouldn't work for cricket.
You missed one part... "London Blitz are a British American football team based in North London at Finsbury Park athletics stadium." Just because they are playing 'American style football' doesn't mean they are affiliated in any way with anyone from USA. They are not NFL. They are BAFL, British American Football League.
Didn't miss that part. But it doesn't mean that there was no affiliation with NFL Europa.
Although it appears there wasn't, so I'm somewhat surprised.
Javad Iqbal, an Pakistani-American cable television installer from Hicksville, New York,[2] was arrested in New York in November 2001, on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States and fraud in relation to identification documents
The Washington Post story I quoted said,
Javed Iqbal runs HDTV Corp., a Brooklyn-based company
The straight line distance between Hicksville and Brooklyn is approximately 24 miles or 38 kilometers.
It appears that Javed Iqbal is a rather common Pakistani name, so maybe the Wikipedia entry incorrectly conflates the two guys, only one being the satellite TV installer?
that doesn't change the fact that he is not rotting in prison (he was released years ago)
Fair enough, original post was incorrect, rotted in prison perhaps. However, original post was correct in the charges against some guy by that name. The guy hurling accusation of anti-American propaganda was wrong on that, and gave an example apparently of a different case.
The Blitz (from German, "lightning") was the sustained strategic bombing of Britain by Nazi Germany between 7 September 1940 and 10 May 1941,[1] during the Second World War. The city of London was bombed by the Luftwaffe for 76 consecutive nights and many towns and cities across the country followed. More than one million London houses were destroyed or damaged, and more than 40,000 civilians were killed, half of them in London.[3]
Other important military and industrial centres such as Glasgow, Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Coventry, Hull, Liverpool, Manchester, Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Southampton, Swansea, also suffered heavy air attacks and high numbers of casualties. Birmingham and Coventry were heavily targeted due to the Spitfire and tank factories in Birmingham and the many munitions factories in Coventry; the city centre of Coventry was almost completely destroyed.
76 consecutive nights of bombing.
Now, compare to 9/11, and America's reaction and expectation that the entire world would jump immediately to their side, and... well sometimes the gag reflex is hard to suppress.
Straighten up your own act before whining about the rest of the world.
People still complain about the last time the US tried that. World War II, I think it was. Didn't last very long (although, who knows what would have happened if the Japanese had left well enough alone.)
I think the complaint is that the US was involved in countless (well, about 175 by copy/pasting Wikipedia article starting here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_military_operations#1900.E2.80.931909, into text editor, counting lines, dividing by 2 due to double-spacing) military conflicts during the 20th century, but somehow managed to sit out of about half of each of the World Wars, as though they were either too insignificant, or perhaps not lopsided enough, or maybe sympathies with the other side were too strong (hi Prescott Bush).
Yeah, I think it's the hypocrisy that's the issue.
Javed Iqbal was arrested in New York in November 2001, on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States and fraud in relation to identification documents.
New Yorker Arrested for Providing Hezbollah TV Channel
By Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, August 25, 2006
A New York man was arrested yesterday on charges that he conspired to support a terrorist group by providing U.S. residents with access to Hezbollah's satellite channel, al-Manar.
Javed Iqbal runs HDTV Corp. [...]
[...snip...]
Donna Lieberman of the American Civil Liberties Union said she is "deeply troubled" that a television distributor is being prosecuted for the content of a broadcaster. Such a prosecution, she said, "raises serious First Amendment concerns." She said she thinks that the law under which Iqbal has been charged has a First Amendment exception for news communications.
You wouldn't be a(nother) pro-American propagandist liar, would you? Yes, it looks like you are. Couldn't even get the year right on your dissemination, could you?
Misogyny - it doesn't mean what you think it means.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misogyny [...] -- Barbara RMS is asking police to investigate a murder attempt. Someone slipped Odor-Eaters into his sandals.
While we're on this topic, I've wondered about your new signature for a while.
I'm curious if you've actually met RMS and found him stinky, or if you're maybe biased against long-haired guys ("filthy hippies!"), or is it an attempt at humour, or has he wronged you somehow, maybe you hate GNU?
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Similar thing here! Did it to myself though, was an Android phone, and only submerged for a couple seconds. Recovered okay too.
However, as an aside for anyone reading this, you probably shouldn't let your dog's water get to the "disgusting" stage. I understand that any water a dog's drank from could be termed "disgusting", but some folks wait 'til it's nearly empty to replace it, at which point it's likely disgusting even to a dog. Refresh it often!
Only mentioning the last part as a general PSA 'cause I'm still mourning my dog. :-(
"Oogway Girrrrrul!"
Cheers
They might find that paying $5, even $10 more per month, for example, for 5 times the speed, might be worthwhile. They may not realise that a significant improvement in speed is not a significant price hit.
And a 300 GB cap is pretty close to unlimited: they likely couldn't download that much per month if they tried, at least at current speed.
Plus, there's not a lot of love for Bell out there, so that might be extra incentive to leave them.
tl;dr:
Just pointing out options that they may not be aware of but might be of benefit to them.
All good points, and correct about the Constitution.
I guess it bugs me when complicated issues are referred to with incorrect nomenclature: it's not a good indicator of a grasp of the topic.
Having said that, I've probably been guilty of mentioning the "Dis, DA, er, Crown's opinion" or somesuch in the past.
Cheers
InsightIn140Bytes either has the day off or is still hurtin' from the smack-down PopeRatzo gave him yesterday.
I think in the case of Netflix it's entirely due to the distribution rights and nothing to do with CanCon (Canadian Content) legislation (which some would argue led to the success of some of the greatest Canadian bands in history, and are generally a good thing. I personally hate it when Canadians talk about our "Miranda rights" or "District Attorneys", "The Constitution" instead of "The Charter", etc. Also good for Canadian artists & businesses that produce content & jobs. I'm getting on a tangent here... :)
Agree on TekSavvy as a provider.
Here it's cable: $30 / month, 7.5 down (minimum, on Shaw's network), 300 GB cap.
Last 6 months' usage at Shaw for me were 5, 6, 4, 11,5, 6 (roughly, from memory), so 300 GB is pretty acceptable.
Just thought I'd throw that out there for anyone looking for a slightly cheaper option...
Damn, that's almost enough to get me to sign up for Netflix. But, it's Silverlight-only, isn't it? That would be a deal-breaker.
BTW, if you like MI-5, did you ever watch Intelligence (follow-up show to Da Vinci's Inquest & Da Vinci's City Hall)? Similar vein, though more polished IMHO. (Saw a couple MI-5 shows that were a bit ... unfulfilling.)
A couple thoughts:
1) You could check out TekSavvy (not affiliated, just happy customer), and you could fund a small, agile company instead of a humongous, predatory one.
2) You might have unlimited bandwidth, but it's limited by your speed*time_in_month. You could likely get faster speeds from TekSavvy with a cap that you couldn't bump up against without downloading constantly.
Example from http://teksavvy.com/en/res-internet.asp:
DSL (Ontario):
Premium : Up to 5M/800k : 300 GB/month : $31.95/Month
Not sure what you're paying now, but 5Mbps download with cap of 300 GB/month is a pretty good DSL plan. Especially if you're paying > $20 or $25 per month for your 1Mbps current plan.
Food for thought...
True, but in my case, I switched from Shaw to TekSavvy. Shaw was getting >$80 / month for basic cable & high speed internet. Internet alone was about $45, if unbundled.
Having dropped cable TV, I'm now paying $30 / month for high speed internet to TekSavvy, so while Shaw is getting some money indirectly from me, it's a tiny fraction of what it used to be. And I don't hate Shaw like I do Rogers or Bell, so I'm not bothered.
It is, and like GP poster, I'm a (satisfied) customer, in my 13th month. Their roaming agreement is with Rogers, so if I were to roam outside the urban environment, Rogers would make money from it.
(Ironically, roaming on Rogers as a Wind customer costs $0.20 / minute (or did), where when I was with Rogers and my pittance number of minutes expired, extra minutes were $0.25 / minute. Bastards.)
I was going to second the recommendation for TekSavvy, but wait, what, 1 TB / month?
That's > 1,000 Linux images.
I don't believe the internet has that much data. /joke
Man, that's a lot of downloading.
Bingo, we have a winner. The ever-insightful Mr Ratzo has hit the nail on the head, without even having to mention the absurd number of first posts "Insight..." has had. Must be paid to troll Slashdot.
I do love it when two contradictory posts, one in response to the other, are both correctly modded +5 (insightful|interesting).
It shows people are thinking, and that the famous "slashdot groupthink" is a myth.
Well done both parent & grand parent posters.
Won't dispute that Rogers, Bell, & Telus are rip-offs, and their Fido, Solo, & Koodo sub-brands are a joke, and Chatr is criminal in its anti-competitiveness (driving out Wind & Mobilicity), but with Wind I spend $40/m and get unlimited talk & text, Canada-wide, US-wide (not sure about Hawaii), unlimited global SMS, unlimited MMS, and unlimited data.
You cannot get that in USA as far as I know.
You may want to re-evaluate your understanding. Unless you have a hard-on for all things American (hey, there's a fair bit of that up here, so whatever turns your crank...), their mobile market is really not much better than ours at all. Maybe worse since we have Wind & Mobilicity.
We're absolutely indistinguishable if you look at European / Asian mobile markets and then compare back to Canada / US.
OKAY. IF YOU CAN MAKE, er, ahem, if you make valid points, we'll believe you, don't have to shout.
Apparently you're also a dickhead. Who knows how to design a phone. But a dickhead none-the-less.
I'd love to be able to see broadcast transmissions; perhaps with fancy glasses. Imagine seeing mobile phone towers, find a missing phone, see interference given by car engines, see locations of Wifi units, etc.
Of course, I'd want to be able to turn it off. Think of a virtual-assisted reality.
Apparently Londoners aren't appalled, so I guess I have no problem with it.
Sure does seem odd though, at first glance. Don't you think?
I wondered where the Germans got that term from.
The London Blitz was a fucking WWII bombing campaign, how can you say it's not related in any way?
WTF, are you on drugs? Or... just a moron?
Nice how you overlooked the other 150+ wars / skirmishes mentioned (only during 20th century) and supplied no links of your own.
Protecting its profit?
There's never been a war that the US hasn't loved... except for the two World Wars, that was the point, one you utterly failed to address.
Not sure if it would've helped in this situation, as it seems the DB itself had no password, but since I don't run phpMyAdmin, I use a fail2ban jail which bans any IP trying to access phpMyAdmin since they're obviously up to no good.
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And, it's using a self-signed certificate ... seems like the only CA I can trust is myself, and I don't really like the look of that shifty character in the mirror either.
If they're okay with it, I'm okay with it.
But if you searched for "Pearl Harbour Attack" and found a link to act of war in 1941 and a Hawaiian Rugby Team by the same name, and it didn't cause you to give it a second glance,...
That would be strange, wouldn't it?
Although, on second (or third) thought, not a bad name for a sports team in an aggressive sport. Wouldn't work for cricket.
Didn't miss that part. But it doesn't mean that there was no affiliation with NFL Europa.
Although it appears there wasn't, so I'm somewhat surprised.
Hear hear!
I looked at Wikipedia (as I agree the facts are important), and I'm wondering if there's a confluence of stories here.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashcroft_v._Iqbal#Facts:
The Washington Post story I quoted said,
How close is Hicksville to Brooklyn? Here's what I found ( http://www.findlocalweather.com/forecast.php?forecast=pass&pass=distances&dpp=0&pands1x=Hicksville%2C+NY&pands2x=brooklyn%2C+ny&Find+distance=How+far+is+it%3F ):
It appears that Javed Iqbal is a rather common Pakistani name, so maybe the Wikipedia entry incorrectly conflates the two guys, only one being the satellite TV installer?
Fair enough, original post was incorrect, rotted in prison perhaps. However, original post was correct in the charges against some guy by that name. The guy hurling accusation of anti-American propaganda was wrong on that, and gave an example apparently of a different case.
Cheers
Sorry, this required a second reply.
Following quote from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Blitz.
US stayed out when Britain suffered this:
76 consecutive nights of bombing.
Now, compare to 9/11, and America's reaction and expectation that the entire world would jump immediately to their side, and ... well sometimes the gag reflex is hard to suppress.
Further case in point, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Blitz_(American_football).
Yes, it appears that an American football team, based in London, named themselves after the 76 nights of consecutive bombing.
How'd America like a European-style football (soccer) team based in NY naming itself the New York Nine Elevens? Boggles the mind.
I think the complaint is that the US was involved in countless (well, about 175 by copy/pasting Wikipedia article starting here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_military_operations#1900.E2.80.931909, into text editor, counting lines, dividing by 2 due to double-spacing) military conflicts during the 20th century, but somehow managed to sit out of about half of each of the World Wars, as though they were either too insignificant, or perhaps not lopsided enough, or maybe sympathies with the other side were too strong (hi Prescott Bush).
Yeah, I think it's the hypocrisy that's the issue.
[citation needed.]
From http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/24/AR2006082401461.html, is this:
You wouldn't be a(nother) pro-American propagandist liar, would you? Yes, it looks like you are. Couldn't even get the year right on your dissemination, could you?
While we're on this topic, I've wondered about your new signature for a while.
I'm curious if you've actually met RMS and found him stinky, or if you're maybe biased against long-haired guys ("filthy hippies!"), or is it an attempt at humour, or has he wronged you somehow, maybe you hate GNU?
Honest question.
Thanks.