It's that yahoo mail case still...

Yahoo! should so not cave on this issue. The email account doesn't belong to the family, it belongs to the dead guy. If he really wanted his family to have access to it, he should've used his head and given them the password. I know I don't want my family butting into my email when I'm gone. (I do want them butting into my LiveJournal, assuming it's still up, and posting that I've died. This is why I've told them that, specifically, and told them how to find the password.)

Oh, and there's editorials too: Yahoo! should shed the cold hearted poise. Stop sticking to the rules and work closer with the family toward a solution.

Cold hearted poise? What about "caring sensitivity towards the needs of the customers"? We don't know that this guy wanted his family to have his emails - for all we know, there's tons of porn in there! They should let things lie, and not press into their son's private life.

At this writing, Yahoo says it must abide by its subscriber privacy rules. But a soldier's last words to his family would seem to fit an almighty exception; the one case where breaking the rules is right and just and necessary.

Until they get the damn email account, and find out that there's lots of stuff in there they didn't want to see. Complaints about how "mom is always looking over my shoulder, even half a world away", talk about the cute guy in the mess hall, admissions that "yes, I did it, I killed Mr. Boddy in the dining room with the candlestick, it was me!". It's not just letters to the family.

And a poll.

Gee, I'm bored.

*yawns*

Anthro was canceled, so I'm heading home to Jenn after updating my journal, checking my FList.

Listen, guys? If you signed up for the Frienditto thingy, and gave them your password, you're an idiot. Go change it now, and if any of your other things share that password, or a similar one, change those too. And then go smack yourself for being stupid. NEVER GIVE UP YOUR PASSWORD. Except for a very good reason, for example, to allow your relatives to have access to your email account after you die.

That said, here's another, tangentially related warning. Nothing is that secure. LiveJournal isn't a fortress of security (redundant, yeah). Even if nobody gives up their passwords, there's always a chance that things can go wahooni-shaped and somebody can see your locked posts without your permission. Not a huge chance, I think, but have a little care. If it's that important that nobody knows where you buried the body, don't post about it. At all. Keep it to yourself and take it to the grave.

Oh my god!

They killed Daniel! Again! Those bastards!

He seems to be tooling around just fine in the next episode though, so with luck this'll only be temporary. And the next episode is 90 minutes, which is the length I want my BSG to be, dammit!

So, I just watched Stargate: Atlantis.

Apparently, everybody in the galaxy knows that the Wraith are awakening, and temporarily peaceful places are taking in refugees.

Maybe I'm missing something, but wouldn't it make more sense to pack up everything and return to the place the Wraith just decimated, rebuild from there? I mean, they're not likely to head back to the old place, at least not right away, right? And you could check at your regular homeworld at intervals, see if they've arrived yet. Once they do, and leave, go home. It could take them years to figure out this scam!

And BSG...

Can somebody explain to me why Baltar bothered building a real Cylon detector if he was just going to lie about the losers? And why did Sex Six ask him to do that? Doesn't she know who all the Cylons are? Is it really just a plot device so that we, the viewers, can chant "I know something you don't know" every week?