It's been over 20 years ffs! Just move to IPv6.

As word-processors go, the old text mode ones rocked. Wordstar was pretty decent and I used it quite a bit back in the day before moving to the pinnacle of word processing, WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS.

I guess the only thing that would make G.R.R. Martin's statement even better is if he was using CP/M instead of DOS. ;-)

You beat me to it, was going to mention that myself.

It's not like a simple search online wouldn't have found that name was already well established, but then I guess we're not in the USA and thus don't count.

In my 20 years of IT experience, I've had precisely two managers that would fit the optimistic description in the story. The rest have been a complete waste of oxygen and usually made life much harder than it needed to be.

Alas, the Dilbert Principle is the order of the day in most Enterprises.

So, out of curiosity, since I am on a Mac and using Safari as my main browser, I thought I'd see what was in the offending file. I have a in excess of 20 tabs open at the moment, a good deal of them to authenticated sites via https.

A quick test in Terminal like so:

$ strings LastSession.plist | grep -i pass

Produced 8 lines that matched, of which 6 matched on the word "passive" and the last two were urls that contained the word "ChangePassword". A more thorough search through the file did not produce any login credentials or passwords.

I should point out this is with the latest release version of Safari 7.0 (9537.71)

SWIFT is used by major banks in Australia too for various inter-bank transactions. It wouldn't surprise me if other countries also use the SWIFT systems.

Considering that most modern democratic nations in the western world tend to subscribe to the free-market capitalistic world-view, I really don't understand how mobile carriers get away with these exclusivity deals. Not only are they tantamount to a monopoly in a particular market, but they constitute collusion between the manufacturer and the carrier.
Where are the consumer watchdogs ? Where are the anti-competition commissions ? Why isn't something being done about this anti-competitive behaviour ?