Oh, so now any random person should know and use and contrast multiple search engine results for routine searches, good, good, that will definitely happen. And common people definitely do check website security certs, which are also not a thing that anybody can get for their random domain. And anybody who falls for it is a crybaby. Great insight.

I don't know where you got that worldview, but I wish you could reevaluate.

You'd be surprised to know that people exist outside the USA and Canada, and we don't really know what your phone numbers look like, so both those numbers look plausible.

As for your "Where do you go to find the URL for a site you haven't been to before for a company you know?", the whole point is that *the trusted search engine is now lying to you*. But now try https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.royaicaribbean.com... ? Would everybody notice? You willing to bet? When the link is the first result on Google?

So where and how should people find this verified public portal?

If you're about to say "you can use the exact same method they used to find the phone number" and you don't see the issue, you have a problem.

"Argentine, Argentinian, and Argentinean refer to anything that originates in Argentina".

If you're going to be a smartass, at least do it properly.

I'm not defending him because I believe he needs it, I'm defending him because your comment pissed me off. That you still consider only one possible cause for my comment is cute. Sad, and cute.

I did say that's your problem, not mine, and exactly why. Sorry, but I have to choose between the judgment of someone giving more than 1.000.000 Euros, and a random slashdot poster. I choose the former. Of course, you have the same right.

Go on, please. The only reason I could defend Linus Torvalds is because I worship him. More so, that he hasn't innovated is hard fact, just because you made a quip.

Get bent. Digging deep enough, and being enough of a smartass, nothing is actually innovative. Meanwhile, other people are writing world-class operating systems for the love of the game.

Well, since one of the implications of a product being "sold out" is that "somebody bought it", it stands to reason that someone should actually receive what they bought. If they bought it before christmas, a subsequent valid question is to inquire whether they got it in time for the holiday.

Delivering shoddy work may pay off in the beginning, but on the long term, I am pretty sure much it's stupid. You've lost one customer, and gained bad reputation.

You misread the article. It's about how well supported the phones are going on in time, not (only) about whether they ran the latest and greatest when they came out.

Is this actually something which would fall under the do-not-call provisions? It's not commercial, not exactly politics...

Yes, I'm sure most everyone of 350 million people can't think.

Are you for real? Whenever I read shit like this it usually mean 'they don't hold my worldview, therefore they're drooling morons'.

I'm not arguing that you shouldn't point out this. If I am, I got carried away and I apologize. But I have read too many comments in just this thread that treat people of faith as morons, and I find that wrong, too. Faith and belief have managed to inspire men to great things, as well as to atrocities, and I like to remember the great things, since I have to suffer knowing about the atrocities.

About the last point, I misread your post. Sorry.

There are all kinds of idiots. Those who read the whole bible as literal truth (or the ones that assume that Jesus was a caucasian who rocked a wild blond hair and beard) are not that different from the ones who read The Da Vinci Code as if it was the Gospel (oops).

Rather than trying to 'disprove' a book the truth of which even the Pope points out is more allegorical than literal, I'd say the problem is with the people who read it literally. You could make a similar argument about guns:
"Guns have been killing people in the past. Guns are killing people right now. Therefore, the best thing to do is ban them".

I love it, guns are the new Hitler :) I'm only missing a car analogy here.

If there were no rational counterbalance to the Bible, how would you tell the difference? Are you advocating that everyone should accept or believe only what they themselves can prove? That way lies madness, too. I've talked to people who believe that gravity exists but evolution doesn't exactly because of this.

Or they were selfish jerks who couldn't say 'I don't really want to answer a survey, thanks' and hang up or leave, but had to skew results to have some fun.