Forgot your password?
typodupeerror

Comment Re:This is pretty ridiculous... (Score 1) 574

Agree.

They're basically doing what Ticketmaster and Tickets.com are doing. Get the tickets from the acts and resell them + "Convenience Charge"

Convenience Charge This fee covers costs that allow Ticketmaster to provide the widest range of available tickets while giving you multiple ways to purchase. Tickets are available in many neighborhoods via local ticket outlet locations, our telephone reservation system and Ticketmaster.com. Tickets can be purchased through at least one distribution channel virtually 24 hours a day. The convenience charge varies by event and is determined by negotiations with arena operators, promoters and others, based on costs for each event.

Last 2-3 times I bought tickets from them the Convenience Charge is 80-150% of face value. How is that not scalping?

Comment Re:yeah. its much better to be p0wned (Score 1) 552

9 years ago, when I was in the foreign student freshman orientation session, one of the first things that they talked about/warn to us is about how crazy expensive it is to get the medical care you need here in USA. He then talked about his experience and how he is still paying for his bills, even though he has a health insurance, and how he would be better off dead than paying the bills without health insurance.

And so after the orientation I asked why is it so expensive here than what it would cost me in my home country for say, when I broke my arm or something. He then ramble about how here you will get the BEST care with the BEST doctors (plural, because yes you need 5 different doctors to say you have a broken arm), BEST nurses (you need more than 1 nurse to attend you), BEST drugs (god forbid you to have 1 pain killers.. need moar!!), BEST ambulance.. the BEST of everything..

I stared at him as I was looking at a guy that just paid a full price sticker on a new car in the lot.. wow I thought.. here I am thinking people here would have some kind of COMMON SENSE (last time I checked USA is not a third world country) but nope..

Safe to say I never bought a health insurance here because by NOT paying a health insurance here I can buy 2-3 roundtrip tickets a year and still have money left for dental surgery, broken arms/legs, appendix surgery or what have you back home.. why? because we would settle to just have a GOOD ENOUGH health care that's subsidized by the goverment.

And no I kid you not. Have a friend shifted some bone on his arm, bought a ticket home, got it fixed, spend a week resting and goofin around, and pay them all less than i would if I have the procedure here.. pathetic & a joke.. that's all I can say about health care industry here.
Microsoft

Submission + - US Army Upgrades To Windows Vista? (hothardware.com)

MojoKid writes: "Just in time for the rest of us to prepare for an upgrade to Windows 7, the U.S. Army is upgrading to Windows Vista. The upgrade will include getting rid of all the Office 2003 programs and installing Office 2007 in its place, and is scheduled for a Dec. 31 completion date. Half the Army's computers (they have 744,000 desktop units) have Office 2007 so far and 13 percent (44,000, more or less) are on Vista, which was released in January 2007. Windows 7 is supposed to launch before year's end, so the Army will be fully on Vista sometime after Microsoft's next generation OS is already launched."
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - Verizon Tells Cops: Your Money Or Your Life (timesreporter.com)

Mike writes: "A 62-year-old man had a mental breakdown and ran off after grabbing several bottles of pills from his house. The cops asked Verizon to help trace the man using his cellphone, but Verizon refused, saying that they couldn't turn on his phone because he had an unpaid $20 bill. After an 11-hour search (during which time the sheriff's department was trying to figure out how to pay the bill), the man was found, unconscious. "I was more concerned for the person's life," Sheriff Dale Williams said. "It would have been nice if Verizon would have turned on his phone for five or 10 minutes, just long enough to try and find the guy. But they would only turn it on if we agreed to pay $20 of the unpaid bill." Score another win for the Verizon Customer Service team."
Security

Submission + - Calculating Password Policy Strength Vs. Cracking (infoworld.com) 1

snydeq writes: "InfoWorld's Roger Grimes offers a spreadsheet-based calculator in which you can key in your current password policy and see how your organization's passwords might hold up against the number of guesses an attacker can make in a given minute. The calculator includes results for four different password entropy models, and is based on length, character set, maximum age, whether complexity is enabled, and the number of guesses per minute an attacker can attempt. As an example, Grimes assumes an eight-character password, with complexity enabled, a 94-symbol character set, and 90 days between password changes. Such a policy, typical for many organizations, would require attackers to make only 65 guesses per minute to break — not at all hard to accomplish, Grimes writes."

Comment wow questions/rant (Score 1) 504

WoW questions/rant

Can you make the leveling process more tedious please? I mean, can you give us more kill 1000 of that thing and then when you're done kill 1000 more? Oh and please make it like in Borean Tundra (I'm in beta) where there are only 10 of that mob spawning and hundreds of players waiting in line to kill them?

And please stop trying to 'balance' the classes because you are not doing a good job at it. Here's an idea, is it possible for you guys to just revamp all of the talent trees and make 1 for pve, 1 for pvp and 1 for when you're bored? we have 1 class that's just like that.. why can't you do that to all of them? And please don't use the lore as an excuse.

The only good thing that I've seen in beta is the phasing. Will we see more of that throughout the game? or is it just something that you guys added to make me feel good for spending 40 bucks?

Slashdot Top Deals

Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die. -- C.S. Lewis

Working...