Companies - 5

My cloud storage choice has been LaCie's (the hard drive company) Wuala. The main reason why I did choose Wuala is in their Privacy Policy:

2. Stored Content

Wuala encrypts all your files before they leave your computer. They are encrypted such that only you and those you have authorized can decrypt them. Even LaCie cannot decrypt them unless you have made them public or share them by secret weblink and access them with your web browser. In the latter case, the encryption key is temporarily sent to our web server as part of the URL for the purpose of serving the requested data.

They do exactly like Kim's MEGA. They encrypt everything so that even they can not access it (or at least that's what they claim to do, nobody has yet proven that wrong, though). That is: unless you choose not to encrypt the data, or publish the decryption key, but then it is an another story.

The sad thing is that they use Java on client-side to do the access. Java Runtime has been described as a disease in an article in the Forbes magazine. They're right. It is a disease. In Wuala's own discussion forum there are a number of happy customers pleading to stop using Java.

What really pisses me off is that on my 64-bit Windows 7, the only reason to have a 32-bit JRE is Wuala. All my other software utilizes the 64-bit version I also have installed. Whenever a new JRE version comes out, I need to update both versions. Also I simply cannot use Wuala on all of my computers. For security reasons, I refuse to install Java Runtime into them.

Wuala: Stop using Java now! Please.

I've been having Sonera (or TeliaSonera) Internet connection for ages. Occasionally I refer to my own IP with the DNS-name and now they chose to change them. It looks like they chose to change the subscriber identifier part of FQDN to indicate IPv4 address instead of some sort of internal identifier.

Typical Sonera broadband dynamic IP-address' reverse-DNS FQDN has format:

• Connection type: (fixed: dsl or cable)
• City identifier: always 3 characters
  
• Gateway identifier: (example: brasgw1)
• Subscriber identifier: hex-decimal -combo
  
• Dynamic broadband pool identifier: (fixed: dhcp.inet.fi)

A regexp would be:
^(dsl|cable)-([a-z]{3})([a-z0-9]+)-([0-9a-f]{6,}-\d{1,3})\.dhcp\.inet\.fi$

The old subscriber identifier had 8 hex digits, a dash and 1-3 decimal digits. For example: fe82eb00-56

The new subscriber identifier has 6 hex digits to represent the first 3 bytes of IPv4 address, a dash and 1-3 decimal digits for the last byte of IPv4 address. For example IPv4 address of 21.32.43.54 would be: 15202b-54

Wishful thinking: Are they finally preparing to offer IPv6?

On my Google AdSense payment history: Jan 28 2013: Invalid Traffic - AdSense for Content

They reduced my monthly payment with about 1% of the total sum. No explanations, no nothing. They're just claiming that I'm not following the mutual agreement made about AdSense usage policy and provide no proof of that. Quite literally they're saying is that I'm abusing the system to gain extra payments out of Google and if not abusing the system, I'm a liar because I don't admit doing that. Nice!

There is a discussion thread Help to identify Invalid Traffic Source in the Google AdSense in English support forums. Lot of people having this issue since December 2012, and no possibility of tracking who clicked what to cause the alleged invalid clicks.

This is not about the 1% of lost revenue, it's about me being called a liar and not introducing any kind of evidence what I did. The AdSense payments fluctuate a lot anyway, they somewhat correlate with visitor flow, but sometimes Google issues more expensive ads which yield more cost-per-click. Then again they issue cheaper ads with lower CPC. Since they get to control who gets what, in the end it is a zero-sum-game and on a monthly payment differences equal out resulting something that correlates the site visitor flow. But this 100% control is not enough for them, they don't want to pay out what they're agreed to do and get 101% of control.

It is needless to say this, but I'm doing it anyway: This sucks like a Kirby vacuum cleaner scam!

Looks like my ISP (Sonera) loves to boot my cable modem on first monday of each month at noon(ish). Must be something regarding deactivating those boxes who did not pay the bills.

Sonera: Not cool, guys!