MattPie

In terms of a convention space, does obsolete mean technical things like wifi, cell repeaters, and power infrastructure, or is the space "out of style"?

Has anyone challenged Ted Cruz's eligibility to be President officially yet? I don't mean in any partisan way, it just seems like at this point (he's winning delegates and whatnot), someone should get a definite answer on this. I assume being a constitutional issue it would have to be the Supreme Court, right?

My guess would be somehow unite the fascist, religious, big-spending part of the party with the Libertarian portion.

We want to say unequivocally how much he hates the leafs. How he's going to barricade the Peace Bridge and neuter Carlton the Bear. Burn effigies of the Leafs from the customs booths on the way into the USA. Only serve American Bacon at Sabres Pancake breakfasts. He is the Buffalo-lord, our leader, act like it. Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo-visiting Leafs fans! Rawr!

I dunno, he did seem pretty quick to be able to call Sabres PR people and writers. Surely he's in the know, and not just clicking on the "email me" links on these people's pages, right?

I agree, you can't trust those dastardly Canadians. :) In all seriousness, Cruz is more like Trump than many like to admit, Trump just has no filter and Cruz is polished enough that he hides it.

I read something interesting about French food recently, I wish I had the link. "Back in the day", you didn't toss food or meat that was a little spoiled because it was too valuable. The poor would hold their nose and eat it. The rich could afford to import spices to cover up the taste. Once spices became cheap enough for the poor to afford, the rich folks wanted to separate themselves out from the "poor food" by essentially having no spice in it so you could taste the food was fresh.

Yes, it is. Some have a very strong us or them streak, others take a more nuanced view. Sports fandom is a microcosm of real life.

Wow, what an article, I nearly spit out my Coke in surprise! :) The premise makes sense, although I don't know how practical it is in real life. If nothing else, my family history has a bunch of stuff in it so you'd have to blend things to make it work. That being said, I could get used to eating pirogi, sauerkraut, and steak and ale pies (a nod to my English side). Also, I've never wished to be born Thai more in my life than right now. Also, this person is really excited about vegetables.

I think there's a display of old bikes every year. The rally in Bloomsburg PA (2011, I think) had a bunch, including a Harley Davidson XA (The Harley BMW), which I'd never seen before (Google it, I won't threadjack any more than I already have). I think it's around $10 for a day pass.

It wouldn't surprise me with the pervasiveness of the internet and sites that make it easy to share info. Attendance at many motorcycle rallies (which often have a vendor section and presentations and lectures much like a convention) is trending down. People used to go because they could see new products and catch up with old friends. That's mostly possible online now. I went to a few here and there, but it's an easy choice for me these days between camping in a field with 10,000 other people or camping at a campsite with a handful of friends. (not that I get to do either often anyway). On a related note, the National BMW Motorcycle Rally is at the Hamburg Fairgrounds in July. Watch for Motorcycles!

I don't doubt it, I started at 10 and never really shook a certain amount of fear (that's part of my personality) that always limited me. I think the bigger problem is my wife is a dedicated non-skier so it'll make for a difficult pitch at a family vacation.

i think you've gotten a bit of short shrift, but I think the idea of even breaking even on tickets (or profiting) is an odd concept, but maybe that's just me. Before the easy online sale era, was it common to try to sell off enough tickets (I'm assuming via mail order catalogs and scribblings on bathroom walls) to break even or is it new?

I agree, he's in a good spot, which is more than a lot of guys can say.

I think I missed my window, I never made the effort to ski "real" mountains when I was active. I haven't skied in a few years so unless RosePie really takes a shine to it I can't imagine making a trip to do it now.

NP. Thinking about it further, I'd bet those records have been the same all along. McAfee bought MX Logic in 2011 or 2010, it's unlikely that in 2012-13 when all this stuff blew up someone would switch things to a semi-defunct hosting service. If someone found a server in the bathroom (or whatever that rumor was), at the very least the records would be pointed to something McAfee hosted, I'd think.

Cool, I'll have to look at my phone. I'm interested to see how/when/if they update the PS3 client; I do a lot of my watching via that. If they don't, I might have revisit building a computer system of some sort for the TV. EDIT: Phone is updated. First look: the game video does seem a little clearer, but on a 6" phone screen it's not that much of a difference. I didn't really watch enough on the old app to tell if the motion looks better. The old games I'm looking at, however, still have the blacked-out commercial breaks which really sucks. I haven't been doing it as often this year, but it's a lot easier to justify watching a 1:45 game after it's been condensed than a 2:45 game with 2-3 minutes of dead air often. Maybe that'll get fixed. The other odd one is there are a bunch of games from Wednesday (Buf/Ott) that are greyed out can can't be played. Maybe they started the migration too early and corrupted those games? :)

Like Buffalo!

The Preds consider the Hawk rivals, right? Here's a recent one: http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2016/01/12/the-nashville-predators-are-continuing-their-anti-blackhawks-fans-crusade/. I'm guessing that if the game were in Buffalo, the fans would boo whomever Toronto (and Boston, and Philly, and Moe-ray-all, and ...) send too.

It's Vancouvers 50th too, so they'd probably have that in their favor plus being a larger, slightly more Canadian city.

Nope nope nope, there are few excuses for "going rogue" when it comes to setting up your own systems, and I can't think of any in this case that apply. The linked article isn't exactly in depth but it points to real issues with mindset of whomever set the system up. Having those ports open on the net says to me that the admin doesn't have a grasp on information security in a modern environment. And when I say modern, at least 10 years ago everyone with a clue (which is rarer than you'd think, I'll admit, even now) knew that you need to be very careful about what you expose to the internet and those protocols have no business being open. In hockey terms, this server has it's head down every time it skates through the neutral zone. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/14/hillarys_sysadmin_next_to_the_pillory/ I did a little snooping on my own (just now, it's entirely possible the records are different now than they were before all the kerfuffle started). The DNS mail exchanger record for clintonemail.com points to a system named clintonemail.com.inbound10.mxlogic.net. The IP address resolves to mxl145v3.mxlogic.net. This is all pretty common stuff, but if I had to guess it's a system at an email hosting company. "MX" is the abbreviation for "Mail Exchange" in DNS so MX logic makes sense. The site itself isn't up any more, but using archive.org I found a few juicy things confirming my suspicion. MXlogic was an email hosting company that was acquired by McAfee in 2011. mxlogic.com currently redirects to a McAfee Portal login page, presumably for existing MXlogic customers. https://web.archive.org/web/20110225212105/http://www.mxlogic.com/ Going back a ways finds the pre-buy web site. It actually looks "legit" on the surface, so relatively easy to be fooled into thinking they know what they're doing. It's possible that one of the servers was hacked by some means and the (rather unsophisticated) hacker put RDP and VNC onto the system for their own use. I'm not sure how likely that is though, since it's a pretty big "hey, look what I'm doing over here admins!" play. If I had more time (and wanted to raise more flags with my snooping than I already have), I'd start looking around that network to see what's open. https://web.archive.org/web/20100114035842/http://mxlogic.com/ So this is my guess at a timeline: Clinton Team decides to host email on a commercial service, choosing MX Logic (pre-McAfee buyout) for whatever reason. MXLogic isn't very secure based on the stuff in the Register article above, but few people look into security any further than "the web site says it's secure so it isu". MXLogic gets bought by McAfee. In theory this could be a good thing as McAfee is at least somewhat respectable, but it looks like the existing accounts didn't get u migrated into (what I assume) is McAfee's more secure offering. This is pretty common, old systems from merged companies often stick around for years. Unless this is all after the fact, I don't think that story about the server being at her house holds water. Is there any "real" article that talks about that? This should push people to think about who is hosting your stuff online. Just because a company exists and claims to be secure, try to find out more. I'm not saying small companies can't be good, but there are a lot that don't really know what they're doing.

Nailed it! (Although I'm not sure they purposely fed him that much, but I didn't watch) This discussion came up with the lottery stuff a few weeks ago, and that sounds like a bunch of money, but if you play it out it doesn't go as far as you'd think. I'm not crying poor for John Scott by any means, but think about it this way: Scott has played part of 9 seasons in the NHL, mostly around the league minimum, so let's say he's averaged $800k/year (that might even be high) for $7.2M. After this year, I'm not sure he'll be back in the NHL, so let's pretend he retires instead of playing for small money in the AHL or overseas. He's 33, so let's say he lives another 50 years (we're also pretending he hasn't spent a penny of the money he's earned, but if he's been smart investing he might be even). That works out to $144k per year. He's not poor, but he's not exactly rolling in it for the rest of his life, especially with 4 kids to get through school. Obviously, investing, other jobs, wife works, etc. add to that total, but it's not like he's living in a mansion the rest of his life with a stable of exotic cars unless he finds a niche that pays well. It may also be why a lot of the commentary guys and whatnot you still see around the game after they're retired. A big star has the option to retire and do whatever. The borderline guys to a certain degree need to punch a clock and if they came up through Juniors, don't have much education to fall back on.

Some will admit something is happening (because they actually believe science), but for the most part none will allow it's man made. Personally, I don't say it *IS* man-made, but it sure looks like it. The flip side is, we should do what we can to eliminate our contributions in case it is man-made and if it's not, oh well. It's like if you're in an out of control car; the deniers are essentailly, "we're screwed! save me!" as they let go of the wheel. Those that think it's man-made are trying to wrestle the car back into control, even if it doesn't work.

Sanders supporters are a cult, and taxes cause global warming.

I don't think Neil is in the same class there, but I get your point. My counter would be that, let's say you take guys out of the league that are better at fighting than other hockey skills. By the time you're down to the 4th line, how much cap space and availability do you think there will be for quality players to put in there? I think you end up with guys that skate around ineffectively for 8 minutes a game. I'm not sure that's better than a line of guys that go out and bump and sometimes fight. Or to put it another way, if you open up 30-60 places for guys that aren't fighters, a guy like Matt Ellis or COR is back in the NHL.