cosmicray

How many Mac owners do you think run their admin account as the personal account. I bet more than a few don't bother with the distinction between user and admin.

> If you want your mail delivered to your door, then you can pay extra. Otherwise pick it up yourself.

The funny part of that is, that is the inverse of how it is now. The post office charges for PO Box rental [0], but delivers to your house for free. Keep in mind that most post offices do not have sufficient PO Box numbers to cover all teh points they currently deliver to.

[0] the exception being those places with insufficient density to justify street/rural delivery. In those places the customers must travel to the post office to collect their mail, and they get the PO Box for free.

> Dead tree mail isn't dead just yet; they definitely have enough time to figure out a plan.

Traditional printed mail (flats, letters, etc) will not go away until every person has an iPad (or equivalent) and has broadband. Many many areas of the US are still without broadband access.

That doesn't reduce the mail volume. Then you would have to store the mail somewhere, and still have the same amount to sort. So on the days when they did deliver, it would take longer to sort it.

> I'm surprised that you don't have access to dsl but do have access to 3G.

There are quite a few locations (including mine) where the remote infrastructure is fractured (for lack of a better term). The remote box out here, a Lucent Mod 5, is quite capable of housing a DSLAM, and I am certainly within a functional distance from the Lucent box (4k-5k feet). The problem is the distance from the Lucent box back to the CO (6 miles) which is on copper T1 circuits. No fiber out here. The ILEC, AT&T Florida, appears to have no interest in replacing the T1 cable with fiber, nor to populate the box with a DSLAM.

There is an ISP that has deployed 2.5GHz WiMax, but I'm on the fringe of the range, plus I have vegetation issues.

When I see a title like the one at the top, I always cringe, because I know full well that saying 'everyone' will get this is hyperbole.

One thing that isn't particularly clear, is the timestamps on tweet library. Based on the top entry, I presume those are UTC. So if the action kicked off at 1 AM PST (UTC+5 according to wiki), then it would have been 4 PM EDT (UTC-4) in Washington. 3:50 PM doesn't jive with this (unless Pakistan is on DST).

Another article said that the burial at sea was completed by 2 AM EDT (so they presumably were done by 3 PM in Pakistan, about 14 hours after the first tweet).

> the data center has been moved to an undisclosed location

I fail to see the importance of physically moving the servers. What value is this ? Was the attack an inside job with physical access ?

> In a off-the-shelf service like Amazon, you as a customer are welcome to suggest a change of penalty to your Amazon account manager, and unless you're something like the US government, you will probably be directed to other cloud providers or your own internal IT organisation!

What that suggests to me, is that the time has arrived for an external organization, one that sells loss-of-business protection against such failures, needs to become involved. Such an organization, should enough cloud customers subscribe to it, would become an influence upon services like AWS. I'm not sure I 'like' this idea, but the premise that a customer is using the cloud service at the whim of whatever the provider decides is best practice needs to be revisited.

oh, I could think of something...

convince the major (big box) retailers to provide an access point, so that you can price scan with your smart phone, instead of having to hunt all over the store for a working scanner. places like walmart, target, kmart, bestbuy, etc, etc could all benefit from this.

> They could conceivably have enough money to buy Comcast by the end of this year.

assuming that Apple wanted to be in that type of business, they could achieve a similar end by buying Frontier/Echostar/DISH. In addition to the satellite assets, they get Frontier's LTE licenses (which cover a very large part, but not all, of CONUS).

> deciduous tree leaves are mostly falling only in the Southern Hemisphere

Here in Florida, and due to the mild climate, certain species of Oaks will hold their leaves right up to the time they put out fresh buds in the spring. I have a large quantity that need to be raked up and mulched/burned/etc.

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silly, but at least it has length going for it

> does this mean they kick out the citizens?

It means that the citizens will now try to book a group-rate 2-day stay on Ibiza, then return to clean things up before the next renter arrives.

> college is just another victim of this. no one wants to tell a parent that their new born child is ugly and no one wants to live in a world where we can't all hope to be anything.

Yes, the three words that define the last 10 years (in this context) are: exceptional, entitled, and special. Many people are merely average.

The devaluation of vo-tech schools also contributes to the bubble. Much of the CS technical skill training (like configuring a router, network planning, etc) needs to moved to vocational technical schools. You don't need a 4-year masters degree (nor the student debt) to do basic design and troubleshooting.