I particularly like that one of his front page items is about Canada slipping in the Akamai rankings for broadband. In different categories we're 14th, 19th, and 68th. I guess that's why a telecom commissioned their own study: They realized they couldn't keep pointing at the old Akamai "6th best in the world" ranking!
What, you mean my stack of shrink-wrapped foil-cover never-read limited-edition collector's-issue Issue #0 of "Like Conan but with Machine Guns" aren't worth ANYTHING?
My bank (Royal Bank of Canada, the bastards) sent me a new debit card with a note explaining it was preactivated and was usable without using a PIN for up to $200 of purchases. They didn't even inform me they were sending a card, it just showed up one day. Gee, thanks for putting my rent cheque at risk, Royal Bank! When I called them they insisted it wasn't a security risk because "Not many places can do contactless purchases yet." When I pointed out they were trying hard to change that, they just offered canned assurances that didn't address the issue.
So the Royal Bank believes in security through obscurity, and then tries to destroy said obscurity through ad campaigns. Real clever.
"No, Steve, I think its more like we both have a rich neighbor named Xerox, and you broke in to steal the TV set, and you found out I'd been there first, and you said. "Hey that's no fair! I wanted to steal the TV set! - Bill Gates' response after Steve Jobs accused Microsoft of borrowing the GUI (Graphical User Interface) from Apple for Windows 1.0* "
You sure Bill Gates said that? Because when I saw him say it, he looked a lot like Anthony Michael Hall.
Damn, if I didn't know you weren't me I'd think I posted this. (My douchebag is Laurie Hawn.)
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If we're doing user quotes: "I need you to transfer the license."
We asked for more info, and got: "My son-in-law plugged his computer into my computer and said you needed to transfer the license."
Guessing at what she meant, we told her that she couldn't just install software assigned to her on computers owned by family members. Then she got annoyed with us and said: "The computer won't turn on! My son-in-law used his laptop to figure out you need to transfer the license!"
If we're arguing that Canada has become Americanized, then the biggest risk of this is that Canada will adopt the same type of idiotic, tech-blind, censorious legislation that is represented by SOPA and PIPA.
No worries there. PIPA declared Canada to be part of the US, so they've got us covered.
Alternately, the RIAA/CRIA is already trying to turn Bill C-11 into SOPA Canada. (My favorite part is the one where they can stop Canadian 'infringers' from ever using the Internet but somehow forgot to mention needing any proof beyond their own word. Those forgetful sillys!)
And even if they somehow don't manage it, we'll be extending copyrights AGAIN anyway if we join the Trans Pacific Partnership because Ernest Hemingway's poor orphaned children need the money from the extended copyright to live. In their retirement homes.
Nice, but I think a lot of us could build a Mini-ITX-sized *nix box if we wanted one that bad. Other than the nostalgic shape (and being a prize for a contest) I don't see it as being any different than something the hardware sorts here slap together on weekends.
This past fall I was extremely busy. If I had been spending $15 a month that would have been $45 that would have been wasted.
I thought the angle one of writers for the Escapist detailed was interesting. He'd actually feel guilty playing other games because he had this $15/month subscription sitting there doing nothing while he did. Eventually he realized he wasn't getting enjoyment out of it and was mostly playing out of guilt, so he quit.
(As for me, I play Echo Bazaar, and drop money here and there for the premium content. Even if I quit now, the freemium model's got more money out of me than the pay-for-play model did, and I don't see myself returning to anything that requires that much of a commitment.)
Best case scenario yes, the network is up. But what if the network is down? Do you lock out the customer?
Last time I was at a Scotiabank that's exactly what they did. Some part of their network went down, all the ATMs were shut down. No idea how big the outage was, but I know for sure the ATMs were nonfunctional. The in-bank ones were even powered off.
Amateur. I did a search today and managed to get more than the page removed. The page (supposedly showing the default ten results) had four copies of that warning, removing 2, 7, 11, and 4 results from the page.
Taylor said the school system has made it clear that if her son eats his pizza into the shape of a gun again and there is a similar occurrence, he will be suspended.
Eugh, must I? I really didn't like that book. It's been years, I admit, but all I remember of the story was complaints about pollution, complaints about bureaucracy, a MacGuffin everyone wanted, and a nonsensical epilogue. It felt like it was a modern-day thriller except with a thin coat of Ye Olde.
The middle third (it's split into three parts, with three different protagonists who don't interact much, so it's more like three short books) wasn't bad, but when it ended it felt like the story ended while there was still 150+ pages to read.
The likelihood of a fair player becoming labelled as a cheater in future is directly correlated with this person's number of friends who are cheaters.
Whereas the likelihood of a fair player being labelled as a noob, faggot, or the son of a whore is directly correlated to both their opponent's self-perceived skills and their opponent's lack of actual skills.
It's deliciously self-perpetuating. Kid finds a magic compound that will make their parents go easy on them ("It's just the sugar.") if they roughhouse immediately after eating a lot of it. So of course they roughhouse more after they eat it!
At that point, the interviewee should be saying "Thank you for your time. I'll be posting my interview experience online as soon as I get home" and walking the hell out.
Well, if some employers are demanding Facebook passwords from interviewees, it doesn't seem so long a step to demanding passwords to cloud services. Does nothing for offline backups, but....
where he lamented the failure of the music industry 'to sue every fresh-faced, freckle-faced college kid who downloaded material
Wonder if he's so quick to lament the failure of manga publishers to sue every fresh-faced, freckle-faced college kid who traced material and then sold it as their own?
For anyone who doesn't know what I'm talking about, look into Nick Simmons' "Incarnate". Not hard to find, just search for the words "Simmons" and "Incarnate" in a search engine and notice how many times the world "plagiarism" can turn up on a single results page.
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I particularly like that one of his front page items is about Canada slipping in the Akamai rankings for broadband. In different categories we're 14th, 19th, and 68th. I guess that's why a telecom commissioned their own study: They realized they couldn't keep pointing at the old Akamai "6th best in the world" ranking!
What, you mean my stack of shrink-wrapped foil-cover never-read limited-edition collector's-issue Issue #0 of "Like Conan but with Machine Guns" aren't worth ANYTHING?
So the Royal Bank believes in security through obscurity, and then tries to destroy said obscurity through ad campaigns. Real clever.
"No, Steve, I think its more like we both have a rich neighbor named Xerox, and you broke in to steal the TV set, and you found out I'd been there first, and you said. "Hey that's no fair! I wanted to steal the TV set! - Bill Gates' response after Steve Jobs accused Microsoft of borrowing the GUI (Graphical User Interface) from Apple for Windows 1.0* "
You sure Bill Gates said that? Because when I saw him say it, he looked a lot like Anthony Michael Hall.
The people say "no", but their masters seem pretty eager to say "yes".
Damn, if I didn't know you weren't me I'd think I posted this. (My douchebag is Laurie Hawn.)
If we're doing user quotes: "I need you to transfer the license."
We asked for more info, and got: "My son-in-law plugged his computer into my computer and said you needed to transfer the license."
Guessing at what she meant, we told her that she couldn't just install software assigned to her on computers owned by family members. Then she got annoyed with us and said: "The computer won't turn on! My son-in-law used his laptop to figure out you need to transfer the license!"
If we're arguing that Canada has become Americanized, then the biggest risk of this is that Canada will adopt the same type of idiotic, tech-blind, censorious legislation that is represented by SOPA and PIPA.
No worries there. PIPA declared Canada to be part of the US, so they've got us covered.
Alternately, the RIAA/CRIA is already trying to turn Bill C-11 into SOPA Canada. (My favorite part is the one where they can stop Canadian 'infringers' from ever using the Internet but somehow forgot to mention needing any proof beyond their own word. Those forgetful sillys!)
And even if they somehow don't manage it, we'll be extending copyrights AGAIN anyway if we join the Trans Pacific Partnership because Ernest Hemingway's poor orphaned children need the money from the extended copyright to live. In their retirement homes.
> most sites outside USA still use .org, .com and .net
Well now here's their incentive to change, with plenty of time to implement the gradual redirection to the new domain.
Why are people so lazy?
Hey, let's do that! Let's move over to a regional one like .ca or something in the Caribbean!
Oh, wait. PIPA specifically declares its jurisdiction to be an Internet Protocol address for which the corresponding Internet Protocol allocation entity is located within a judicial district of the United States, in other words EVERYTHING ARIN DOES. As far as PIPA is concerned, much of North America is "domestic", i.e. part of the USA and subject to American law. Happy Annex Day, United States of North America!
All the required notices were posted. They're right next to the demolition plans for the house of some guy named Dent.
Nice, but I think a lot of us could build a Mini-ITX-sized *nix box if we wanted one that bad. Other than the nostalgic shape (and being a prize for a contest) I don't see it as being any different than something the hardware sorts here slap together on weekends.
This past fall I was extremely busy. If I had been spending $15 a month that would have been $45 that would have been wasted.
I thought the angle one of writers for the Escapist detailed was interesting. He'd actually feel guilty playing other games because he had this $15/month subscription sitting there doing nothing while he did. Eventually he realized he wasn't getting enjoyment out of it and was mostly playing out of guilt, so he quit.
(As for me, I play Echo Bazaar, and drop money here and there for the premium content. Even if I quit now, the freemium model's got more money out of me than the pay-for-play model did, and I don't see myself returning to anything that requires that much of a commitment.)
Last time I was at a Scotiabank that's exactly what they did. Some part of their network went down, all the ATMs were shut down. No idea how big the outage was, but I know for sure the ATMs were nonfunctional. The in-bank ones were even powered off.
In fact, that was my first sign yesterday that something big was going on. It's not that often that a site known for doing it to others gets it back.
Amateur. I did a search today and managed to get more than the page removed. The page (supposedly showing the default ten results) had four copies of that warning, removing 2, 7, 11, and 4 results from the page.
Taylor said the school system has made it clear that if her son eats his pizza into the shape of a gun again and there is a similar occurrence, he will be suspended.
16-bit math: Because your ass is worth it.
The middle third (it's split into three parts, with three different protagonists who don't interact much, so it's more like three short books) wasn't bad, but when it ended it felt like the story ended while there was still 150+ pages to read.
Is Verizon a bank?
In a sense. With some of their overpriced services, they're certainly making bank.
The likelihood of a fair player becoming labelled as a cheater in future is directly correlated with this person's number of friends who are cheaters.
Whereas the likelihood of a fair player being labelled as a noob, faggot, or the son of a whore is directly correlated to both their opponent's self-perceived skills and their opponent's lack of actual skills.
Sugar-hyperactivity is a MYTH.
It's deliciously self-perpetuating. Kid finds a magic compound that will make their parents go easy on them ("It's just the sugar.") if they roughhouse immediately after eating a lot of it. So of course they roughhouse more after they eat it!
At that point, the interviewee should be saying "Thank you for your time. I'll be posting my interview experience online as soon as I get home" and walking the hell out.
Well, someone did: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/19/1746256/employer-demands-facebook-login-from-job-applicants
Well, if some employers are demanding Facebook passwords from interviewees, it doesn't seem so long a step to demanding passwords to cloud services. Does nothing for offline backups, but....
Thanks for the informative comment.
Not a problem. Thanks to you and everyone for all the great links. (My employer rather takes a dim view of me looking for comics on company time!)
where he lamented the failure of the music industry 'to sue every fresh-faced, freckle-faced college kid who downloaded material
Wonder if he's so quick to lament the failure of manga publishers to sue every fresh-faced, freckle-faced college kid who traced material and then sold it as their own?
For anyone who doesn't know what I'm talking about, look into Nick Simmons' "Incarnate". Not hard to find, just search for the words "Simmons" and "Incarnate" in a search engine and notice how many times the world "plagiarism" can turn up on a single results page.