So... for some offices that I work with, who happen to have an old XP machine kicking around for accounting or some other random task... guess what file sync service they are NOT going to be paying for in the future?

Near the end of the article is the better info...

The SWIFT connected computers should have at least been hived off into a separate VLAN. They weren't.

This sounds a lot like the diesel-electric "hybrids" that power trains. Diesel generators generate electricity to power electric propellers. It makes sense to me... of course I know nothing about this stuff. If my assumption is correct, a nice benefit would be that aircraft could use cheaper fuel rather than jet fuel (which I assume costs more per litre... I think it does, if only because of lower volumes).

I was stumped working on a website on a shared ColdFusion server, where the webhost decided to install a SQL injection filter. Random form posts and URLs that used various SQL reserved words like, well, LIKE, or SELECT, or whatever started failing. That wasn't fun.

LOL. Is there an app for that? I was always amazed by those modems that you put the handset onto some microphone thing? (Slightly before my time, so I only saw them in the movies, I started with a 2400 baud ISA modem...)

It's a bottomless pit. I've personally banned hundreds of advertisers with crap "download" banner ads - I suspect they're automatically created AdWords accounts, or some variant of dirt cheap labour.

I want the ad revenue, but not at the expense of my visitors getting mislead - that's bad for the sales side of my website.

Come to think of it, it's been about a month since I did a purge in my AdSense account... I'd probably be shocked and appalled at the new batch of crap ads...

I imagine that in some jurisdictions competition affects pricing - though, not mine. I get crown corporation, monopoly provider car insurance - it might actually be a fair price. There are pro's and con's to it.

I strongly discourage any friends or family that I notice are using local ISP email accounts from doing it. I wouldn't trust it to keep the good email. LOL, for a while, our local cable co was spam binning their OWN newsletter. I do a lot of work with an opt-in email newsletter, so I've monitored a test email box with the cable company for years - it's bad, bad, bad. Coincidentally, they've recently changed something, and now a lot of spam emails don't even hit the junk folder, they simply vanish.

So... you're against trucks running late yellows and reds while leaning on their horns? Yeah. I drive a car on one of the major truck routes in our city... it freaks me out how often trucks run the lights... and I keep an eye on the rear view mirror every time I'm the first car to stop at a light.

But, my point is that a 100mi range car, that I can temporarily upgrade to 2-300mi range, is a FAR better value than a 100mi range car that has no such option (if they're about the same price). In fact, I wouldn't even consider a strictly short range vehicle over a gas car, if I only had the budget for 1 car. In addition, Tesla will probably continue to have the best charging network for these vehicles. I'm not saying that all Gen3 would be medium range, I think they've stated 200mi range for the launch edition, I'm just saying, that I wouldn't be surprised if an even cheaper Gen3 option with a smaller battery became available in the future. Who knows, maybe a few generations of batteries later, and the battery swap will be able to give a Model S a temporary 400mi range (with a taller battery, maybe).

I actually did read the article which seemed to think this was all a ploy to get additional green credits. While I'm sure this is a factor, here's my theory. Some day they'll want to release a cheaper model (which isn't even a secret) but with a lower battery capacity, say 100mi. More than enough for most people on their daily commutes. But, give the option for a battery swap to the 2-300 mile battery for the big trips. They get to trim a few K off the cost of their most entry level edition, and the buyer can still use their car for a big roadtrip, they just have to rent the big battery for the cost of a tank of gas!

I'm not 100% sure, but Gmail does require something different for IPV6 email than IPV4. I ran into this a few months ago when my VPS provided "helpfully" added IPV6 support. It was either DKIM or maybe it was encryption...

This is what we do in Canada with the federal GST (or HST in some provinces). People with lower incomes get a quarterly cheque, roughly equivalent to what someone would spend on the tax during a quarter.

This is kind of interesting... but they don't have a modern fab in Russia, do they? It'll take a lot of foreign parts to build a domestic fab...