It wasn't so bad, overall... but they should have made the series two movies, at most. There was significant filler.

Of course while they like to point out that their service areas don't overlap so "competition" won't be impacted, they fail to note that because their service areas don't overlap, there has never been any real "competition" to keep prices down.

While this is true, the attacker does not need physical access for this. All they need is access to an innocent user who can be convinced to plug something in.

The FBI and secret service demonstrated this type of attack back in the early 2000s. They dropped usb drives near banks night drop boxes and front doors that pinged a server with the local ip and machine name and wrote a file locally when plugged in with the autorun on. Something like 70% or so pinged. People where plugging them in to try to figure out who's they were to return them.

Its pretty easy to convince someone to plug something in.

If you think the goal of systemd was faster booting then you have some reading to do. Like a lot of reading.

Nice excuse, but not valid.

You are trying to tell me that Sony has no sway over theatre chains that rely on Sony to provide them with product to sell to the public at excessive prices? Really?

Sony has a ***LOT*** of power, but chose not to use it because they have no spine.

Damned if I'm going to buy a smell phone and pay for a plan just so you can interrupt my life anywhere, anytime instead of leaving a message on my land line.

I never have understood the world's fetish with the US dollar. Every nation has a currency. The US economy is just as prone to stagnation, deficit, over, and under valuing as any other currency.

I'd like nothing better than to see the Rothschild's hold on international markets broken. If it takes China to do that, then all power to China in the endeavour.

Voice mail etiquette.

(speak slowly and distinctly here) Hi. This is (your name). My number is (your number).

(speak normally here) Now state the situation as clearly as you can. But be brief. This is a message. Not exposition.

End with repeating your name (slowly and clearly) and your phone number.

Thank you.

The easiest way to do this is to realize that you MIGHT run into voice mail before you pick up the phone. Go through the message in your head before dialing. This will cut down on the uh and um and huh and em and other noises.

You're right! That's, um, the, uh, problem.

"People north of 40 are schizophrenic about voice mail," says Michael Schrage.

Bullshit. I'm old and I hate voice mail. No one knows how to leave a message and they're just going to follow up with an email or come see you in person anyway.

If you're just going to leave a message that says "call me back" then send an email or a text or an IM. Or use the scheduling function in email to set up an appointment with me.

The worst offender was a manager I worked with some years ago. He would do the stream-of-consciousness thing whenever he got voicemail and you'd end up with 10 sentences covering 10 different topics. Which I would then turn into 10 different email messages and send back to him.

It's communication! It is NOT the same as talking. Just because you're talking does NOT mean you're communicating.

I guess I disagree that they are "acting like assholes" by regulating resources on their property to benefit their business.

Restaurants don't allow you to bring other restaurants food in, I can't pull into the Ford dealership and just use their stall to work on my car...

As I remember, the "happy ending" in Manna was only available to those whose ancestors had the foresight to invest in the libertarian Australia Project.....

We don't live in a Socialist State.

Perhaps this is "Corporate Assholes" trying to monetize their investment in their hotel property and make money as most businesses are created to do?

But on a practical engineering standpoint, the technology seems problematic.

It's my understanding - I heard this from a guy that had a roommate who worked in a Comcast call center - that once a week, they have a "motivational" meeting where fresh babies are sacrificed and eaten.

That was my thought. I want to know the location of his sea steading city so that if I'm forced to be a pirate, I know where to raid for supplies.