The SSL certs provide identification for the server and details about what protocols are supported. It doesn’t actually do anything. It sounds like this company is saying that the use of ECC over HTTP is the issue. Certificates can be used for a lot more than just HTTPS, and elliptic curve cryptography can be used to…

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Even a pre-made crust with fresh toppings is better than a frozen pizza and takes less than 10 minutes to prepare, assuming you suck at chopping. I’m not much of a food snob but pizza is so incredibly easy to assemble with fresh ingredients, it seems almost silly to bother with frozen ones.

Get to know your kitchen better and never buy a frozen pizza again.

I’m sure some stores push it harder than others, and I have no doubt that they’re all instructed to provide good customer service.

I wonder if it’s a regional thing.

This is pretty disappointing to hear. The only reason I shop at REI is for the expertise of the employees. There are lots of places to get outdoor clothes and so many online stores offer free returns now that the lure of a place to try them on is less of a draw.

I’m not sure. I’ve shopped in a fair number of REI stores and regularly get asked about memberships. How much “pressure” there is varies store-to-store, but I have never been in an REI that solely asked at check-out.

No, you couldn’t. You could download map data months ago. You couldn’t download location data or activate navigation.

What’s new is that you could previously download the map data, but you could not activate navigation or search (or places of interest).

Wait what? This is a life hack?

This is all well said, and I agree with it.

Our work’s health insurance “personal assessment” has the same kind of questions.

If it truly had nothing to do with the number of miles you flew, why did you say “one that truly ticked me off given the “level” I was at”?

Well, I mean, the nice thing about any of these is you really can’t turn the laptop into a paperweight. You can certainly screw it up to the point where it won’t boot into the OS, but it’s hard to put it into any kind of state where you couldn’t re-install Windows.

So, what you’re saying is that your needs were definitely more important than the needs of everyone else who was on standby, and doubly so because you happen to fly a lot. None of them could possibly be flying home for anything important, right? And certainly none of them had your status.

Delta will do this as well. I had a traffic accident occur right in front of me in an area where I couldn’t turn around or back out.

Cuisinart’s customer service is terrible, for the record.

Cuisinart’s customer service is terrible, for the record.

It depends on the cloud storage and how it’s put together.

Many/most services that back up your files support file versioning now, usually for free.