Including the delivery driver themselves. Have seen Ring video of the driver putting the package down, shooting a photo, then picking it right back up and walking away.

The outfit I work with now is a customer. Right in the heart of Los Angeles, you can see the high rises downtown standing in the parking lot. Right about at the I5/I710 interchange, in case you know the area.

The building is a temporary location, with 13 units (Commercial condominium). When it was built, none of the providers ran anything to the building, making it an unserved island in the area. As a result the choices we faced when we moved in were cellular (cheap, unusably bad signal strength, we tried), terrestrial microwave (Expensive setup, 3 year commitment for a 1 year need - "Just pay for 3 years and use it for 1, see, it's solved - we'll bill for the last 2 years when you move out."), or having one of the wired outfits run a connection to the building for $60K plus. Of course, once run, the other tenants could jump on but nobody wanted to go first and for a 1 year sublease it made no sense for us.

Starlink was not available when we moved in, but became available a couple months later. No regrets, yes it's expensive but it's the only thing that made sense for our position. And when we leave in a couple months we can take the hardware and set it up at the permanent location - which is still under construction and won't have service for a couple of months. Then we turn the service off and put the hardware on a shelf until we need it again. Or sell it, whatever.

No kidding.

And as a matter of fact, the instructions for the Liberator state that:

Not the sharpest move, I'd say. Considering what they were scheduling.

Exactly.

I go to Las Vegas on business on a semi regular basis. It's a one hour flight for me and generally I can get done what I need to do in a day, and it's generally connected to a trade show in one of the hotels currently served by the Monorail.

ANY sort of taxi/rideshare in Vegas is a crapshoot (ha!). The taxi companies all "change shifts" at the time people are generally leaving the LVCC or hotels, so there's a huge line to get a lift to the airport. If the Monorail actually RAN to the airport it would be packed, but I'm sure the taxi & limo companies will block that - and they both own and lease enough politicians in town to make sure that never happens.

I bet your problem is that someone else has the same email but with a dot in it somewhere. I ran into this problem a few years back-- I had also registered lastname@gmail.com, and I started getting emails for l.astname@gmail.com and a couple other variations.

There was an Asian couple in Virginia, I got their emailed Apple Store receipts. And there was someone in South Africa who was renting out an apartment, so I got all kinds of information from prospective renters like photocopies of passports and pay stubs.

I ultimately had to abandon that address and get a different one.

> A complete nightmare, and even if you get it working, you wind up with an unstable system.

It's not as bad as that. I built 2 back back in 2008-2009, and they were rock stable-- kernel panics were extremely rare. They also didn't require much in the way of hackery. I put the EFI boot loader on a thumb drive and kept my OS X drive as free of hacked bits as possible. I wanted to be able to hook it up to a real Mac and boot it without issue, and I achieved this goal. Still, I would never recommend them in a business setting.

One of the machines was my daily driver, and dual booted Windows. The other ran OS X Server and was the fileserver in my house. The specs on the server were enough to get the job done, but my daily driver gave me top of the line Mac Pro performance for about $1200.

The only problem was OS updates-- they usually broke something. I maintained a bootable clone of both machines' boot drives, and waited a few days for other hackintoshers to find and figure out how to fix the issues before installing those updates. Both machines ran Snow Leopard for their entire term of service, which ended last year. They were replaced with refurb Mac minis. The hackintoshing was an interesting experiment, but I wanted a new OS without more hackery, supported hardware, and worry-free updating again. As a side effect, my electric bill fell off a cliff, which was nice.

...you deserve what you get, and any liability for a resulting "security breach" should be on you-- not on someone who can find a copy of a user's manual online.

Like previous commenters have said, these kids are damn lucky they're in Canada. In the US they'd have been fucking crucified.

I had an Apple LaserWriter Select 360 (built around a Canon engine, IIRC) that I bought new in 1994 last me until mid 2011. HP was putting out some damned good printers back then, too, before Carly Fiorina came in and turned HP into peddlers of second-rate shit.

Honorable mention to the TV in my basement, an RCA F35751MB-- the biggest CRT TV I could find in 1994. I don't yet own a flatscreen, because I'm just letting them get better and cheaper until the RCA finally gives up the ghost.

I've been doing it for years. I found that the best learning technique for me is to build something, blow it up, and then build it again, until the moving parts are second nature to me-- so it's handy to have a server/network I can blow up without getting fired.

A lot of the techniques and scripts I've developed on my network at home have ended up in use at client sites, and vice versa.