Oops, sorry - 14,000 e-mail accounts get deleted
Looks like Charter, a national cable and high-speed internet provider, decided to include more than just inactive accounts in its routine email account deletion. Although arguably not as bad as over-billing your customers a year in advance to the tune of $7.5 million, 14,000 users that had e-mail accounts with Charter found them to be completely emptied, including all the cute photos of the grandchildren and other attachments.Worse yet, it's gone for good. According to the AP, Charter says that none of it can be restored. To make amends, the company credited the bill of each user who's account was deleted with $50. Better than nothing, but still - the only excuse Charter could come up with for this error was that something like this had never happened before.
All told, the mistake cost them $700,000 - and a few customers, perhaps. It seems that irresponsible handling of customer data has virtually no repercussions beyond self-inflicted ones. Airlines lose luggage on occasion, but not a whole day's flights worth of luggage. But who's to blame? The users who failed to protect their own data or the company that failed to protect the user's data?
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
