Schools.

Duty of Care requires the school to at least *try* to block porn at school.

If they did nothing it'd be like a chip to seagulls when it hits the lawyers...

So why are schools using them for "Duty of Care" to cover their arses from "my kid surfs porn during school days and it's your fault"?
So why are web companies putting reverse proxies in front of farms to speed up all those new cable and FTTN connections world wide?
So why are companies with offices in remote areas using them on their GPRS- or satellite-based internet connections?

While you have a nice 20Mb connection mum or work pays for, not every-one else has the luxury.

But all my passwords are "correcthorsestaplebattery"!

Toss up between "urgh! TMI!!!" and "ooh, chance to quote 'Family Guy' " aaaaand...

"Stop Smiling. 90% of the people playing this [Angry Birds] are pooping."

There's the core market that take whatever dross is shovelled to them under a certain brand. They get sucked in to buying all the DLC even if it's just cosmetic or even maps from the last revision (no, they don't qualify as versions anymore).

There's enough mindless COD sheep to keep the new consoles going for quite a while, meaning this will not go away this coming console generation or next.

"The Telco" has little idea. In Australia, each ISP takes turns to install equipment in the Exchange. The previous and next ISPs will detail exactly how many ports they're installing, but it will be for the whole exchange, not for a particular street run or RIM. The port (and rack) count is to organise Exchange space, cooling, power, etc so it all stays within spec.

His street may have all been on ISP#3's waiting list, but ISP's #1 and #2 don't know that. They see 10 ports on a RIM free from last time someone spoke to them about installs, and once ISP#3 comes in and take all 10, it's back to planning for more cables - something unlikely with a pure fibre NBN being rolled out. Of course that's all up for grabs again once we change government and the RIM gets replaced by a FTTN cabinet. (urgh!)

A session cookie is just like a case number, it may be used to speed up communication between departments or sections of your website. Whenever I'm in a queue, there's always a ticket I hold to identify where I am in the queue, what my wait time is, possibly referenced by their third party SLA/QA company, and it could be tied to my Account Number when I get to the counter. It's stomached in real life, because it brings order to what could be chaos, and makes our lives that little bit simpler.

Secondly you must be rather naive to think permission is required to monitor your *every* activity. Through various laws, mutual sharing agreements, and straight greed, there's a wealth of information for people to gather and misuse. While they limit "personally identifiable" information, they gather everything they can and assign it their own ID. It then only takes a little homework to link the ID and your real ID together, and its just this last step which is prohibited in these privacy clauses.

Haven't most of these points been argued to death before, like why everyone attacks the AT-ATs from in front?

Why not flank them and attack from behind or from the sides? The trip cables don't care which part of the body they start from, and you're less likely to be shot with cannons that only shoot in the front quadrant...

Seriously, you argue The iOS device cable's price, while leaving alone the myriad of other proprietary interoperability technologies, and eloquently neglect to mention that Lightning adapters are patent encumbered for anything other than dumb charging. (darn, pesky facts!)
Sure I can buy third party 30-pin adapters, but I can also buy floppy drives, DB15 video cards, and IDE cables but they're obsolete now. Unless I buy a $29USD, no lets round to $30, 30-pin to Lightning adapter.

Lastly, Apple's Lightning to USB cables may be $19 in the US, but it's $25AUS ($25.80USD) even though our dollar is stronger and China is closer to us. Since a currency wasn't specified, I can only assume you both meant USD, as here $25 is closer to $30 than to $19...

Here's fragmentation's sub-par experience:-
https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=J2+Interactive

Then start on PowerVR Vs Tegra Vs Mali differences for some games...

nVidia have made a good sales pitch about finding Tegra-only games via their TegraZone app.

If you found a platform to be incredibly insecure why on earth would you continue to run it?

He never said TFA author ran Android and moved to iOS.

That said, I don't believe either of you made a persuasive point :)

I've found similar, but a little digging showed that it came back to distributors locking the price similar to boxed product to not disadvantage their resellers.

http://blog.greenmangaming.com/2012/12/australianew-zealand-pricing.html

Example for those wanting examples...

I've found similar, but a little digging showed that it came back to distributors locking the price similar to boxed product to not disadvantage their resellers. Trust me, us Australians know about discriminatory pricing, especially on digital downloads.

I use http://www.steamprices.com/ and pay friends in alternate distribution zones to gift me games. I know a couple of people that use free VPNs to the US and UK to create gifting accounts purely for grey market purchasing.

Steam is treading the line between providing good pricing and not biting the arm that feeds them licenses...

However Walmart iPads fly just fine. We have video proof...

1974 says you're wrong. :)

I agree that there's appears to be a change in the motivation and thought processes after that *rough* age bracket. Last year our CTO and I were having the same discussion regarding new hires. Initially we thought it was a different mindset between age brackets that wasn't just related to how old they were. New hires were appearing to have padded their CVs more, less likely to take ownership of issues, less willing to apply basic troubleshooting logic (even when flowcharts, knowledge-bases, and internal Wikis are provided), little initiative, and less willing to push themselves.

In the end, we realised that there's just more people claiming IT proficiency now. In my day, I started on electronics, and moved to computers as an extension. Many of the others I know had a similar background of wanting to know how everything worked. Our claim of working with computers was either met with some admiration and a lot of recrimination (whether verbal or physical) and thats formed a perception of 'if you went through those years and still work IT you must be good'.

Now almost everyone has a level of IT proficiency but the background is now no longer required and the derision isn't there anywhere as much. Those that do have the background, different mindset, and critical thinking are now preened for promotion/succession and we don't see a lot of our competitors potential Level 3s changing companies since everyone's fearful of the job market. We do concentrate hiring during or after major contract reshuffles (like last months mining industry contractor bloodbath) or competing MSPs folding.

There's still the same amount of *good* IT people, but the quantity of mediocrity overshadows that. After that conversation, questions about how candidates push themselves outside of work have been added to the practical spot questions interviewees receive.

All said, we also had some issues with pre-1991-born employees having little initiative or feeling that surfing a news site during waiting for tasks to complete whilst onsite was acceptable. IT infrastructure, procedures, and documentation are never completely optimised, so there is no excuse for non-work related surfing (outside of lunches when employees are suggested to go outside get some fresh air, and surf there)