It's a controversial opinion, but while I thought season 7 was mostly terrible, I actually liked where they went with the last season and actually hold it up as a rare example of a show managing to breath new life into something that's gone stale by introducing a major plot development near the end.

Yeah, but "a bit rough" meant there was maybe a month or so where the teller would say "our chip and pin isn't working yet" and maybe the odd occasion you'd have to re-try a few times or eventually "lets just do it the old fashioned way". It sounds like the US is having a much harder time of it.

As a Canadian I really don't get this. We've had chip and pin here for awhile, and while the initial adoption was a bit rough, it generally works fine.

Reader says "insert chip in the bottom".
You insert chip in the bottom.
Reader says "enter pin".
You enter pin.

I've noticed some readers are slow, but this probably has nothing to do with the chip, the merchant just has a shitty system. If you're talking about the process being slower, ok yeah, by about 10 to 15 seconds or so.

What alternatives? Getting a signature that no teller ever verifies or checking the name against your ID (which again, never actually happens)?

Not saying chip and pin is perfect, but I really don't get why this is such a big "disaster".

I honestly feel like when it comes to television, women are better represented.

It seems like most shows are either squarely aimed at women, or are designed to appeal to both sexes. For all the whining about it, there arn't that many "guy shows" any more.

Meh, guilty as charged to pretty much all of that.

If what you said works then I'm envious.. I accepted having to choose between sitting through some crap while cuddling or no cuddling and possibly a speech a long time ago.

I do complain about the shows though, it's no secret that I don't like them. Why women (or at least the subset I've known) absolutely insist on forcing us to watch stuff with them that they _know_ we hate is beyond me, but it's a thing and I (like I suspect many others) gave up fighting it a long time ago.

This would actually be really useful, but would probably cause a huge PR shitstorm.

So much actual this.

And beyond that, when your GF does sit through one of "your shows" she's usually doing something else, whereas for whatever reason I feel guys are compelled to watch what's on the TV even if we hate it to our core.

There are certainly legit social issues relating to gender inequality, but I wish we could find a balance and accept that yes, there _are_ actually differences between how men and women generally behave and that may not actually be a bad thing.

I admit it's mostly a psychological thing for me, objectively you're probably 100% right.

That said, I have certainly been considering moving a big chunk (at least half) of it into a low to mid risk index fund (I'm Canadian and lean towards tangerine for that kind of thing).

In general I'm in the Canadian couch potato crowd (primarily relying on index funds and self balanced ETF allocations). I've played with investopedia enough to learn that individual securities trading is probably a terrible idea for me.

And since it's life story time, I'm on the "live within my means, balance between mid and long term goals and enjoying life while young and healthy, retire comfortably within a reasonable timeframe" plan, but I have respect for the live frugal retire well and early plan.

I keep about 6 months living expenses in a plain-ol savings account (earns %0.8 interest) for accessibility and safety. Sure I could dump that money in with the rest of my investments and risk eating a loss if I need it at the wrong time, but I prefer the peace of mind of knowing I have that money available and can use it worry free if required.

Sure, but the average Joe doesn't tend to care either.

I have to imagine it's a pretty small market of people who are tech savvy enough to get the risks of public wifi but not be able to do something about it themselves.

It's trivial to set this up yourself, just get some kind of dyndns type service so you can find your machine and either run a vpn server or just tunnel through SSH (lots of guides on how to do this, just google it).

Opera is still (and will probably always be) that weird guy no one really likes but few have specific complaints about.

Personally I'm strongly debating switching to chromium because firefox has gone to shit and palemoon doesn't look long for this world unfortunately. I never even considered opera, but despite this reminder that they are still around and despite my admission that I don't really have anything specific against them, I'm still not going to.

This entirely.

Another thing where paper wins out over tech is writing space. When I'm working on something complicated I like to have it all spread out so I can quickly see everything and re-arrange as appropriate. Scrolling around on a screen (or even a few screens) just doesn't have the same utility as a conference room table and a pile of paper printouts for some things.

Right, at minimum there should be two sets, and both should never be connected at the same time for exactly this kinda reason.

This is borderline bait at this point.

There are plenty of examples already and keeping a set of backups physically disconnected from running infrastructure is pretty well established practice, with random software bugs and screw ups being just one of many reasons. That said people will continue to have all their backups fully accessible (and destroyable) or just not back things up at all and things like this will continue to happen.

Guy can possibly recover the data, but the company is probably still screwed reputation wise.