Posts Tagged ‘stupid people’
Oh Comcast, you so silly!
Provide horrible customer service? Constantly disconnecting users from the internet? Charging highly obscene unadvertised penalties for users using too much data? Throttling back network connections because your users dare actually use their available bandwidth? All of this giving you a horrible corporate image that day after day takes more hits in the media? If so, then there is only one way to make it all better, rebrand yourself! Why bother actually addressing consumer problems and improving your network capability when you can spend all that money on changing your name! IN ALL CAPS! XFINITY!
This is the reason that the US is lagging behind the rest of the modern world in home network infrastructure. The so-called “gate keepers” of the internet have no real desire nor incentive to fix the ever growing list of network problems. Because there is a severe lack of provider options in this country, and little to no regulation, companies use rebranding tactics in an attempt to dazzle people in to forgetting their internet sucks.
Nice try, but your 90’s edgy naming attitude ain’t going to cut it Com… er XFINITY.
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Feb 4th, 2010
Princess? Really?
Recently there was a massive password breach at the social media provider RockYou. 32 million passwords were exposed. Of course the most alarming part of this is that when the passwords were analyzed the following were the top ten most frequent passwords out a dataset of 32 million passwords (really, just can’t emphasize that size enough):
123456
12345
123456789
Password
iloveyou
princess
rockyou
1234567
12345678
abc123
These passwords illustrate one of the fundamental security problems faced today. While there are exploits in code to be found, sometimes the best way to break in to a place is to just waltz in through the front door. Users often complain that remembering passwords is too difficult, and like to keep things as simple as possible. It’s another example of people not taking their data seriously. You don’t fully appreciate what your data is worth until someone you don’t want to have access to it manages to get a hold of it.
People need to get in to the habit of practicing better password security. Even if you have a difficult password with letters, numbers, and special characters writing it down on a Post-It note next to your computer is the same as buying a fancy high tech lock for your front door but then leaving the key in it. There are great password managers out there that encrypt your passwords with a single password.
But seriously, princess?
Tags: security and safety, stupid people
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Jan 21st, 2010
I’ve Got a Sudden Craving for a Pepsi
When it comes down to the Cola wars I was always in the Coke camp. Pepsi just has the kind of sweetness to it that hits my palette the wrong way. However I’ve always loved Wild Cherry Pepsi and I’m of course a Mountain Dew fanatic. Why is any of this relevant? Well after seeing this website I got the strongest craving for anything made by Pepsi.
I am sick and tired of groups that try to regulate morality. It’s right up there with those people who want to tax fattening foods. If I want to eat unhealthy that’s my own choice, not something the government needs to put their sticky little mitts all over. The same goes for morality – and of course the top of that subject has always been homosexuality. Apparently the American Family Association is upping the ante in intolerance and bigotry by calling for a boycott of all Pepsi products. The reason for this? Pepsi refuses to “remain neutral in the culture war”. Culture war? Really? I didn’t realize the gays and straights had taken up arms to promote their agendas. Because we know if there’s a gay in your neighborhood they are going to do everything possible to subvert your heterosexuality. Yes, these people are part of the nutbag coalition that is fracturing this country by polarizing political camps and creating the us versus them mentality. No compromise. Winner take all.
My favorite moment from their lunacy was this gem:
PepsiCo, while promoting the homosexual agenda, refuses to give one penny to help those trapped in this destructive and unhealthy lifestyle.
Personally i’ve always felt the destructive and unhealthy lifestyle is one where we preach hate and intolerance. If you feel strongly about homosexuality that is certainly your right. But to then try and force your will upon other people is just plain wrong. We can disagree about things, but to believe in the absolute truth and rightness of your position, that there is no middle ground, well look over to the Middle East for a great example of where that will get you. Centuries of intolerance have led to bloodshed and wholesale slaughter. I’d like to think the average person of the 21st century is capable of raising themselves above such petty behavior.
So I say to everyone who reads this, when you’re finished, go out and buy a Pepsi.
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Oct 6th, 2009
More Twisted Than the Day Before
Every day I think I’ve seen or read something that tops out the twisted meter, but then the next day I’m amazed to find something absolutely new. Accord to a Metro Detroit news site a 35 year old woman used the internet to track down a teenage boy whom she had given up for adoption. Okay, so far so good. Nothing unusual about that. She wants to reconnect for her pace. Assuage her guilt maybe. Or, maybe she tracked him down so she could do the mattress mambo with him. Yup, that’s right, she tracked down her son and had sex with him. These are the accusations and of course some people have jumped up to her defense. It’s claimed that they found each other to reconnect, and that they had the adopted parents consent to meet and that the rest of it isn’t true. People claiming to have connections to the accused have commented on websites and to the press to try and set the record straight. Still, in the coming weeks I imagine some version of the truth will come out.
Just the fact that she has been charged with these things makes you wonder just what’s going on. If true it is one of the more twisted things I’ve read about. There’s been news made of teachers sleeping with their teenage students, but a mother searching out her kid to have sex with him? Or ending up having sex with after it starting out to be something well meaning? I’m not sure there’s any kind of justification for something like this. Her defenders talk about threats being made and mental trauma, but once again there are some things that excuses just don’t cover and having sex with your child is right near the top of that list in my book.
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Sep 11th, 2009
Jumping on the bandwagon.
Well I’ll jump on the big bandwagon of the day by talking about Sarah Palin. She’s certainly one who hasn’t been able to stay out of the news for more than a few moments. Perhaps she’s been jealous of all the coverage Michael Jackson’s passing has been receiving and needed to put that limelight back upon herself. Today Sarah Palin announced that not only would she not run again for Governor of Alaska, but she is going to step down at the end of the month.
I suppose the obvious feeling going through the online community is jubilation. She’s that political whacko everyone (at least everyone who didn’t vote for her) has loved to hate since her nomination as a Vice Presidential candidate. Alaska is one of those states we barely remember is there let alone can believe that they have some form of organized government up there. Palin entering the headlines showed us we were all right – there’s nothing at all organized about it. However the news out of Alaska has certainly kept us entertained the past year.
The majority of pundits on both sides of the fence seem to feel her leaving office is part of a program to begin rebuilding her image in preparation for a 2012 Presidential run. It certainly makes a lot of sense. While some camps still support her she certainly doesn’t have the public support to be a viable Presidential candidate at the moment. She has plenty of time to begin a campaign towards creating an image with far more universal appeal. It might be a hard sell after lining herself up with some serious conservative powers as well as coming off as one of the least intelligent women to ever enter the political arena. It’ll take a lot of work to turn it around, so removing herself from active office may give her the time and focus it would take to start laying the ground work for 2012.
Other people have speculated that this stepping down is a pre-emptive move to help deal with a scandal that’s about to break. It seems like a far classier move than I’d expect from her – to actually remove herself from office rather than continue on while embroiled in scandal. It would have to be one hell of a scandal for that to happen. I think we can probably discount this theory, though it does open all sorts of interesting possibilities if it is true. It would certainly give the media plenty of new fodder for slow news days.
Finally I’ve heard that perhaps this is a move so she can spend more time with her family. If this is true it seems more like its part of a publicity campaign that would support her working on her image. I’m not saying she isn’t family oriented, nor am I saying that she doesn’t truly want more time with her family. I’m just not sure she is the personality type who would step out of their political career in order to have more time with her family. However it is a great way of making headlines, softening her image towards the more moderate crowd, and backing up her strong family value platform.
I guess in the coming months the truth will start to unfold – it’ll be good timing, Michael Jackson conspiracy theories will have started to lose their appeal by then.
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Jul 3rd, 2009