Be assured that the Amateur Radio community is quite active; especially regarding emergency communication and disaster preparedness.
Personally, I am active with the Connecticut Amateur Radio Emergency Services(CT-ARES), which is a local organization part of the larger national ARES organization(http://www.arrl.org/ares). Both of these offer training and procedures for facilitating communication during emergencies. CT-ARES works with the state of CT, in particular the Red Cross and many local town governments.
My activities include participating in regular 'nets' (http://www.ctares.org/networks.php) which are station tests which serve to prove that my radios work in various failure scenarios. Other members are even more active and practice their communication skills by offering supplemental communication for various events like marathons, fairs, etc.
It comes down to this; you don't know something works unless you regularly use it.
de K2CHA
PS: One should also test their backups by actually restoring from them...
Ah, ok, that makes a lot more sense. I was imagining removing comments that had been downvoted; not removing the link to downvote.
I generally agree with that, but it reminds me of another problem. The Karma number is now an ever-growing and meaningless figure. I think it should be harder to improve your karma as you get higher, and it should be easier to lose it. That it actually has a meaning.
I'm embarrassed to say that I have accidentally upvoted many times. This always happen on a particularly egregious comment that caused you to be distracted while clicking.
We should not remove down votes outright. I've seen a comment get downvoted to -4 because people didn't like the commentary, but then shoot back up to +10 when it was shown that they were correct after all.
I feel similarly constrained when traveling and using my limited bandwidth 3G card. I did the following:
* Installed Squid locally - This has the benefit of allowing all your browsers to share one cache.
* Run AdBlock in Firefox - This causes advertisements to not download. The latest AdBlock in Chrome also stops the downloads (this wasn't always the case)
* Run Flashblock - Whitelist sites where you need to see flash.
* Rarely I'll disable images to view sites that I know are wasteful of bandwidth
* Use elinks, rather than lynx. elinks feels much more user friendly.
My current machine runs OSX and I used brew to install squid/elinks.
With the exception of Mint, the other examples were already quite successful before improving their domain name. Establishing causality in these cases is tenuous.
I think it is horrible. It shifts blame entirely onto the shop, doesn't explain how it went wrong, isn't clear about what what GroupOn is doing to help this business, and doesn't give any clue how they will avoid this situation in the future.
If I were a small business owner looking to use GroupOn I wouldn't feel comforted by this response in the least.
I'm not going to defend or support OpenSSL, but I find your tone extremely frustrating. For better or worse OpenSSL is an open library for you to use, and you should be thankful for that.
Also, insulting the people working on it is no way to improve the situation.
Blizzard did try to make everyone feel good about their ranking. However, the flaw in your argument is that hardly anyone ranked D- in ICCup was actually a novice at Broodwar.
Normally I would agree with you, but having owned both I disagree. I think the latest generation of Macbook Pro's are just heads and tails above the older generations.
This rule is only in there so they can justify their selective enforcement. I'm sure you'll still be able to do whatever you want, but it gives them a line to point to when not approving certain apps they don't like for whatever reason.
Personally, I am active with the Connecticut Amateur Radio Emergency Services(CT-ARES), which is a local organization part of the larger national ARES organization(http://www.arrl.org/ares). Both of these offer training and procedures for facilitating communication during emergencies. CT-ARES works with the state of CT, in particular the Red Cross and many local town governments.
My activities include participating in regular 'nets' (http://www.ctares.org/networks.php) which are station tests which serve to prove that my radios work in various failure scenarios. Other members are even more active and practice their communication skills by offering supplemental communication for various events like marathons, fairs, etc.
It comes down to this; you don't know something works unless you regularly use it.
de K2CHA
PS: One should also test their backups by actually restoring from them...