Comment Re:SCSI Voodoo (Score 1) 615
Oh, and decwriters.
"When I ask my other tech friends what they would do, they simply suggest changing ISPs. Nobody likes Comcast, but I don't have a choice here. I'm two years into a three-year contract. So, moving is not an option"
Moving is always an option. But you have to eat the cost of one year of Comcast. Sorry, but that's your solution.
For example, when a user has a bad day, he's likely to look up acquaintances who have it worse off, and feel a bit better that way.
That sounds automatable. Schadenfreude, the browser extension.
And to be fair to Sony, this is almost certainly the result of an automated scanning system that identified what it thought was Sony content, and blocked it per Sony's policy on their own content. Whether or not that should be a valid way of protecting one's IP is a separate question, but I'm 99% certain there's no malice on Sony's part here, and it will likely be resolved within a day or two.
I made this.
So get off my lawn!
This has been done. Tassimo has barcodes on their 'pods' that tell the system how to brew that particular pod. It lets the system have greater variety, e.g. there are latte, cappuccino, cocoa pods.
It was quickly reverse engineered on the internet.
Moral: Unless this thing has a mandatory internet connection, it's not going to stop anything.
That's the point. I bet the open access requirement is also harder to reach than it seems.
Another bill that looks helpful on the surface but really just supports their agenda.
Ah, the pyramid scheme delusion. Good luck with that, sucker.
Spies.
Ah, Americans talking about Canadian healthcare. It's like hearing from an old, crazy friend.
(For the record, Canadian healthcare is awesome. Consider any metrics from Americans who haven't lived there to be very likely cherry-picked to support their ideology.)
Please? How much more complicated do we have to make it before we do what the rest of the civilized world is doing?
I know Americans like to be different but it's gone too far.
the company not only gets to bill it as a perk of the job
Until you need to leave during peak time and find your battery depleted.
Unix soit qui mal y pense [Unix to him who evil thinks?]