...why didn't the seller give you the username and password for the account originally created with that CD key? Nevermind that the EULA specifically states that you aren't allowed to transfer accounts. Yes, I realise that there's a double standard there saying that the media can be sold, but the account can't be transferred. That's where the real ambiguity in the EULA is. It should be that both can be transferred, or neither. (Personally, I'm for neither, since level 60 noobs are no fun).
In any case, if you never got the username and password because the seller are still playing the game on that account then you have no leg to stand on, and you were pretty well ripped off. Blizzard has repeatedly stated they aren't going to sell CD keys alone. If they just forgot to give the username and password to you and they aren't playing anymore, you should be able to get the information from them and just use the existing account. This is a violation of the EULA, though. See previous comment about EULA ambiguity.
To capture market share, they need to figure out how to write drivers that don't crash 50% of the systems they're installed on. I've flirted with ATI on and off since 1989, and have *never* had a stable system with one of their cards installed.
Now change the situation. It's -10 F outside, and you want to start your car to warm it up, then run back inside. That's right, that remote starter you were so thrilled to get for Christmas is useless now.
Yep, those famous New Mexico winters.
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Well, that'd be the whole "Comic books get their science right more often than one would expect" part. Your class focussed on comics that got it wrong. Those who RTFA will learn that this class is based on those that got it right.
A physics text is great for telling you that a 250lb. Superman hit by a 150 grain bullet moving at 1000 ft/sec should have a final backwards velocity of about 12 ft/sec. It also doesn't account for any reaction by Superman to set his weight and muscle against the impact he knows is coming. An incomplete analysis is as bad as a wrong one.
There're enough people with open WiFi access points, why in hell would you pay for it?
Beyond that, here in Ottawa at least there are also a number of places with free WiFi access points as a draw for customers, like the 24 hour diner down the street from me.
Without knowing what they said in the VA report about exacly *why* you are a major security risk, it's pretty hard to interpret what they were thinking. Perhaps there's someone at your former employer that you can contact to get at least an idea of the why?
Certianly if you were the only ITS employee around, that's a lot of potential power in one person's hands. That said, I'd recommend that some sharing of responsibility be made, some sort of check and balance between you and someone else if it was really a concern. If the VA truly did recommend that you be let go, that's at best a poor solution, and at worst a highly unethical conflict of interest with their product.
A vulnerability assessment does need to look at everything from personnel to the nuts and bolts of the hardware, but it also gives only recommendations for safeguards pertaining to those vulnerabilities... the final decision as to your fate could only have come from the brass of your former employer. You do have a right to know why you were let go; you should pursue that. "You're a major security risk" is NOT good enough.
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...why didn't the seller give you the username and password for the account originally created with that CD key? Nevermind that the EULA specifically states that you aren't allowed to transfer accounts. Yes, I realise that there's a double standard there saying that the media can be sold, but the account can't be transferred. That's where the real ambiguity in the EULA is. It should be that both can be transferred, or neither. (Personally, I'm for neither, since level 60 noobs are no fun).
In any case, if you never got the username and password because the seller are still playing the game on that account then you have no leg to stand on, and you were pretty well ripped off. Blizzard has repeatedly stated they aren't going to sell CD keys alone. If they just forgot to give the username and password to you and they aren't playing anymore, you should be able to get the information from them and just use the existing account. This is a violation of the EULA, though. See previous comment about EULA ambiguity.
I'm sure Microsoft will miss you.
To capture market share, they need to figure out how to write drivers that don't crash 50% of the systems they're installed on. I've flirted with ATI on and off since 1989, and have *never* had a stable system with one of their cards installed.
Now change the situation. It's -10 F outside, and you want to start your car to warm it up, then run back inside. That's right, that remote starter you were so thrilled to get for Christmas is useless now.
Yep, those famous New Mexico winters.
Well, that'd be the whole "Comic books get their science right more often than one would expect" part. Your class focussed on comics that got it wrong. Those who RTFA will learn that this class is based on those that got it right.
A physics text is great for telling you that a 250lb. Superman hit by a 150 grain bullet moving at 1000 ft/sec should have a final backwards velocity of about 12 ft/sec. It also doesn't account for any reaction by Superman to set his weight and muscle against the impact he knows is coming. An incomplete analysis is as bad as a wrong one.
There're enough people with open WiFi access points, why in hell would you pay for it?
Beyond that, here in Ottawa at least there are also a number of places with free WiFi access points as a draw for customers, like the 24 hour diner down the street from me.
He didn't happen to test those out on August 14th this year, hmm?
Without knowing what they said in the VA report about exacly *why* you are a major security risk, it's pretty hard to interpret what they were thinking. Perhaps there's someone at your former employer that you can contact to get at least an idea of the why?
Certianly if you were the only ITS employee around, that's a lot of potential power in one person's hands. That said, I'd recommend that some sharing of responsibility be made, some sort of check and balance between you and someone else if it was really a concern. If the VA truly did recommend that you be let go, that's at best a poor solution, and at worst a highly unethical conflict of interest with their product.
A vulnerability assessment does need to look at everything from personnel to the nuts and bolts of the hardware, but it also gives only recommendations for safeguards pertaining to those vulnerabilities... the final decision as to your fate could only have come from the brass of your former employer. You do have a right to know why you were let go; you should pursue that. "You're a major security risk" is NOT good enough.
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