Hanlon's razor would like a word with you.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Even simpler to use Chrome and open up an incognito tab.

That’s not the best news, the best part of this story is that Google will do it using it’s own open sourced VP9 technology. Google acquired the technology from O2 and open sourced it. Google started offering the codec on royalty free basis to vendors to boost adoption.

Google has also learned the hardware partnership game and has already roped in hardware partners to use and showcase VP9 at CES. According to reports LG (the latest Nexus maker), Panasonic and Sony will be demonstrating 4K YouTube using VP9 at the event.

VP9 keeps FSF happy, users happy, content providers happy, carriers/ISPs happy and hardware vendors happy.

Google today announced that most leading hardware vendors will start supporting the royalty-free VP9 codecs. These hardware vendors include major names like ARM, Broadcom, Intel, LG, Marvell, MediaTek, Nvidia, Panasonic, Philips, Qualcomm, RealTek, Samsung, Sigma, Sharp, Sony and Toshiba.

VP9 is beneficial for everyone as it makes the codec available to vendors for free of cost – thus boosting its adoption compared to the non-free H.264/265. At the same time being Open Standard and Open Source it also ensures that users won’t require proprietary (and insecure) technologies like Flash to view content. The third benefit of VP9 is that it can deliver high-resolutions at low bit-rates thus using less bandwidth to watch content. It means that those on slower connections will not have to wait for buffering and be satisfied with low-resolution videos. It will benefit those on faster connections as they won’t have to waste their expensive bandwidth on videos.

Back in the late 70's I used to work for the only company in Canada that manufactured very large ball valves for pipelines. We are talking in excess of 10 ton's with 42" flanges. We supplied Trans Canada Pipelines, Foothills, etc. I designed the pressure testing rig and tank for these very large units.

Know what the biggest problem was/is with pipelines? Materials used in manufacturing.

"Sour" gas vs "Sweet" gas valves (and the pipeline itself) are made of completely different materials. An "O" ring housing for example may be made from Titanium for a corrosive sour gas and Stainless Steel for sweet non corrosive gas.

More than once, on smaller valves (gate or ball, I forget now) we had to investigate why a valve failed and it was always the incorrect material. Some worker swapped a part behind QC's back thinking "no big deal, they look the same".

Perhaps traceability and manufacturing has improved (I would hope so) by now though.

On an interesting side note, the big guy's were tested at 20,000kpa, or about 2900psi. The rumor went that if there were ever a pinhole leak in one of the 3" deep welds, or porosity in the casting and you walked through it without seeing it, it would cut you in half.

Nothing is perfectly safe, but I do think a pipeline is "safer" than rail transport.

What could possibly go wrong!

I used to belong to a gun club. Competitive Bull's-eye shooter here.

I've seen the top strap of a S&W model 686 (Stainless Steel 6" barrel .357 Magnum revolver) get peeled back due to an "explosion". The top of the cylinder was blown open, then the top strap was blown upwards and back.
Now a revolver is inherently stronger than an automatic in most cases, and Smith & Wesson is a well manufactured pistol, but do you know what caused it? It was caused by a squib load.
A squib load is not enough powder in the case. Lets say you were hand loading your own cartridges and you were measuring out 14 grains of powder, but instead only put 4 grains in. Now, instead of a controlled burn (which is how firearm cartridges work) you really DO have an explosion. Too much pressure, probably in excess of 50,000 PSI, way too fast. Boom goes your handgun.
So, I don't have a tinfoil hat on, but things may not always be as they seem.

On behalf of all Canadians, we apologize.

I strongly recommend sending Teamviwer an email explaining your situation and perhaps asking for a little relief on the pricing.
We started using it a few years ago. I used it for "commercial purposes" on a few machines for 2 or 3 months, then contacted them about a business license. The cost was a little high, but they offered me a 40% discount, so I purchased it on the spot.

Later, after training a few employees on its use, I ran in to the single channel problem, so I called TeamViewer again and explained the situation. I upgraded to an Enterprise model that allowed 3 channels simultaneously. Again, based on the fact I had recently purchased the business class model (and if I could have seen the future I would have gone Enterprise right off the bat) they gave me an extremely nice discount.

No point in explaining all the features, you can look that up yourself, but we consider it money well spent and the point is they are very nice people to deal with, at least in my experience. One thing I will mention though, is you can set it up on your remote machines (white list connections) and forget it.

What have you got to lose? The worst they can say is "no".

Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with TeamViewer, other than the fact I purchased a corporate license.

The Dell 3115cn is an all in one color laser and I use it for home. It is not inexpensive, but has been bullet proof over the last year. Networkable, scanning, SMB, email and more. After the initial toner ran out, I purchased 3'd party "rainbow packs" and have had no issues using non Dell toner.
Now at work we use Kyocera 550's and they are tanks, but not something you would wat in your home.

He can own it.

We Will Die

I recently purchased around 50k in Dell servers. Sat on the fence awhile and my rep kept discounting and discounting. Original configurations added up to about 65k, (self configured on the website was much higher). He wanted that end of quarter sale very badly.
As well, I recently investigated Dells new AppAssure backup software. They bought out the original company in Feb I believe. Long story short, I paid 48% of the original quote which was 12k for 7 server / 100 workstation licenses.

I wonder if the push is on to get those end of quarter results up to enhance earnings for a potential sale?

Mid 30's for me, so 20 years ago.Last 5 years has been company phone. Yes, they pay, and it's unlimited everything....but....

BEWARE: Once you accept the yoke of a company cell, you are fucked. As a sysadmin I am "on call" 24/7 and thats NOT counting any hardware that might email me with a problem, although that is very rare. Sure, sure, I get paid for my time (only fair) but money is not everything.