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Verizon Sues to Stop Privacy Rules; Wants to Sell Call Data
Jake writes "Verizon has asked a federal court to stop state regulators from enforcing new privacy rules that would prohibit telephone companies from using or sharing details about customers' calling habits without permission. Verizon, which serves nearly 1 million customers across Washington state, had plans to begin a data-sharing system that allowed the company and its affiliates to collect information on when, where and how often customers make telephone calls. It would use that data to sell new products and services to customers." "We believe we have certain rights as a corporation to use this information," Verizon's PR person says. Great.
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Fire Michael Sims.
Now.
Bush is a Moron.
Everything is yellow in here! Arrrrrrgggghhhhh! My eyees!
At the best, they'll do like most companies and say that you have to "opt-out" every year to keep your information from being sold.
Think about it though. Even if you're sitting at your computer at the right time logged in and ready to click the button at the exact second you have to opt-out, they could a nano-second before you click zip your personal information to a third party.
Not to mention if they say, "Well, we'll send you a letter first to say you have the option to opt-out, but you'll be optted-in as soon as you recieve the letter giving them several days to pass your information along for money." Why else would they have us opt-out instead of in?Seriously, you can answer that question. I'm an openminded person.
We live in an IT dominated world now.
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They really do, I've seen them.
AT&T broadband also digests fecal matter in large quantities, but I guess they haven't come out and said it on a webpage like verizon has yet.
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CmdrTaco burns penis with hot laptop
Friday, November 22, 2002 Posted: 2:33 PM EST (1933 GMT)
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LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Laptops have always been a hot item but
28-year-old CmdrTaco didn't realize to what extent until he burned his penis.
The previously healthy father of two (by a three-way gay marriage to
Jon Katz and Michael Sims) remembered feeling a burning sensation after he had
been writing a report at home for about an hour with the computer on his lap.
He noticed a redness and irritation the following day but it wasn't until he was
examined by a doctor that he realized how much damage had been done.
"The ventral part of his scrotal skin had turned red, and there was a blister
with a diameter of about two centimeters (0.8 inches)," Claes-Gorn Ostenson, of
the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, wrote in a letter published in The Lancet
medical journal Friday.
Two days later, the blisters broke and the wounds became infected and then
crusted but after about a week the unidentified scientist was "healing quite
rapidly."
Ostenson noted that the computer manual did warn against operating it directly
on exposed skin but said the patient had lap burns even though he had been
wearing trousers and underpants.
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Can you hear me now?
Uh, yeah, who is th-
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I said NO, #$@% it!
But that was then! You might have changed your mind between then and now! Our other specials include-
[growling] I see. In that case, go have a gasoline enema and sit on a lit welding torch. Goodbye, and don't ever call me again! [click]
Jeeze, the nerve of those fscking bast-
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Hello?
Can we spam you now? Good! As I was sayi-
[sound of a phone being hurled to the floor and then stomped on]
[voiceover] At Verizon, we're doing our part to annoy you until you explode!
Where do I sign-up for Joint Rolling 101? After... 15 years of smoking weed I've never learned. Pipes and bongs are just too convenient.
Actually, I switched to MCI because it has lower rates. I get Unlimited long distance anywhere in america plus unlimited local calling, caller id, call waiting and voicemail. This is costing me a flat rate of $54 a month. Considering i was spending over $100 on ling distance a month plus $25 for local phone service, MCI is great.
I apologize for this off-topic posting which was submitted to the Slashdot editors, but which was rejected earlier today.
I believe that this story is very in line with the usual Slashdot fare, except that this story deals with hi-tech being used in a politically incorrect fashion.
I also believe that a public debate on the issues and actions discussed in this article is vital to the health of this country, and so therefore I am posting this article here.
If you are an American citizen, of whatever race, who is concerned with the future of America, then I ask you to Mod Up this post so that other are more likely to read it.
Thank you.
this Wired News story tells the story of the hi-tech being used by a group of tech-savvy ranchers in Arizona is using military technology to monitor and apprehend illegal immigrants crossing the border from Mexico into the United States.
Members of the group have spiked their land with thousands of motion sensors. They also use infrared tracking devices, global positioning systems, night vision goggles, radar and other gear to survey movement near the border.
Go to the Wired News story for more...
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Navy nuke sub lifestyle?
....my father got a cell phone from sprint (he got a REAL good deal with SOoooo many minutes included that he calls all the time now) and doesn't use his land line phone any more. Now if only the cell phone didn't keep dropping out every 3 minutes and he has to call again and again and again every time it hangs up by itself. (Can't they do ANYTHING right in NYC?).