and now NZ customs is seeking blanket authority to force people to give them passwords at the border

anecdotally, I've never intentionally clicked on a google ad, but there's so far been 2 ads on facebook which directly led me to a purchase

Conversely, I have clicked on Google ads only to find that I have blocked the ad domain using my hosts file (which I had forgotten). I have never clicked on Facebook ads, as I don't have an account there.

Weird, I know. Actually, I do have an account but only used it to write a Facebook app for a client, not for actual use on that mini-Internet (kind of like Geocities isn't it?)

if someone can afford plate armor, they can probably afford a decent ransom

edit: beaten to it, that's what i get for loading a whole bunch of tabs when i first get into work...

i built a pc for a family friend around that time... i'd spec'd it with a different drive, but they showed it to the IT guy at their work who recommended seagate. 6 months later the drive stopped working, and it had to be shipped to the other side of the world to be reflashed

Sadly you could only flash them if they were still working, you had to ship them if they bricked. I saw the bulletin and promptly flashed all mine before failure. Big pita tho.

Australia right now?

inflation 2.3% [1]

my interest rate : 4.02% [2]

[1]: http://www.rba.gov.au [2]: https://www.ubank.com.au

its right there in the article: Dates, times, and durations; Percentages; Number formatting

the number of times i've opened a csv to find that excel has tried to determine the dates, and decided that the year thats being referred to is 1914 instead of 2014...

But you could get all those benefits by just testing your csv loads OK into excel.

medium is confusing, it was actually written by Quinn Norton. also female, so your point still stands

i loved the idea, but stopped using it around the time of the name change - for some reason the login stopped working for me in Opera, and that was enough friction for me to give up on it

Sorry you had troubles logging in. But thanks for using it.

To your point, the idea is/was great but if it wasn't good enough that you stopped using it because of a login issue that emphasizes my point.

I agree it's a great idea and other have had it before me and obviously still continue today. I don't believe it's something you can scale a large business from.

edit: missed the "unlimited" bit, i agree if you're buying an "unlimited" service, there shouldn't be an artificial cap

why not? if I only want to use a small amount of bandwidth per month, why should I pay the same as someone who uses 10 or 20 times as much? (I don't only use a small amount, but that's why i sprung the extra $10 a month to go from 500GB to unlimited)

having grown up with segmentation on both speed and quota, i struggle to understand why there's such opposition to the idea

on mobile (android), it was absolutely awful, every few scrolls it took over my screen and started automatically playing a video. if i wanted to watch the video in your article, i would press play, don't force it upon me

The software they used (shorthand.com) says it's in private beta - I'm sure they'd appreciate feedback. Otherwise on a laptop it was fantastic.

Are you using the stock Android browser? I found it presented well on Firefox for Android. And I didn't have trouble with the videos playing automatically, something which I also hate.