Per FCC regulations, your phone company can NOT initiate a confirmation contact once a port-out has been initiated. If the account #'s, names, and security information are correct in the port-out request initiated by the new phone company, the old provider has no legal authority to question or verify the legitimacy of the port-out request and must complete the port-out within 24 hours or show good reason it could not technically be completed. And they are not allowed to contact you for any reason regarding the number port.
Totally off-topic here, but I just want to say that I appreciate you using the phrase "moot point" as opposed to "mute point." Such a rare thing to see someone use the phrase correctly. Kudos.
Me. The conversation went kind of like this... "I don't have enough to pay for all that this month." "Well, ok, we can work with that. How much can you pay? Yeah, that will do it."
Uhhhh... yeah. I've had bills reduced or even waived by my doctor in the past because they were significantly higher than I'd planned. Have you ever tried?
All culture, everywhere, everywhen, has been about celebrity. It has never been otherwise. The Greeks fawned over philosophers who in turn accepted paid philosophizing gigs. Roman gladiators had endorsements and groupies. BCE China had emperors, courtiers, bureaucrats, entire classes of people who were fawned over and obeyed without question. There has never been and never will be a time when the average person on the street has any personal independence in his or her life.
This feigned or mistaken indignance over supposedly increasing state powers or the failings of modern pop culture is just sorely misplaced. There's no loss of privacy, there was never any privacy to begin with. It's just that now, the spread of information access to the masses give some awareness of the situation.
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Wrong. The 200 mile zone is an "exclusive economic zone," not territorial water. Territorial waters only extend 12 miles out. Any ship can navigate within the 200 mile zone, just can't harvest any materials or sea life. As long as the Cowpens wasn't fishing or mining, it was free and clear.
No telco should be running its ONTs off a power brick unless the entire building is on a backup generator or you put a UPS on every ONT. They carry POTS, too, and you can't have that drop every time there's a power outage. We have a hybrid system, UPS running off mains for the early areas that were converted to fiber 6 years ago and 400v DC carried over legacy copper for the more recent installs. That way we can power the ONTs during a power outage with diesel generators at the remotes or in the CO.
The first time, we take the member's word that they've cleaned or replaced the computer. After that, if it recurs, we need to see either an invoice from a repair shop or retail shop for repair of purchase of a computer. We provide CDs here in our office with removal tools, and we do provide removal and cleanup services.
We also provide download links for security software right from our tech support portal, and a complimentary CD with the same software with every new subscriber. 3 times a year we offer a class on intro to pc and internet security. If someone's still getting infected after all the resources we've made available, then tough love may be just what's needed.
Because you've apparently never been blacklisted because one of your members sent comcast.net 250,000 spam emails in a 24-hour period.
Because you've never had your SMTP server so overloaded with botnetted messages that delays of up to an hour were occurring for legit traffic.
Because you've never had to block port 25 for out-of-area SMTP traffic because of complaints from other local partner ISPs.
Yes, we disable access for identified botnet members and spammers. The infections of a handful of our members' PCs aren't going to ruin the experience for our other 6500 members.
Unfortunately, that's not what Jesus' primary message was. It was more "Be my personal friend and I'll make sure Dad doesn't hurt you." According to Jesus, you could be as big a dick as you wanted as long as you said sorry and made up with him before you died.
How the heck is this similar to the Onstar system? This uses a directed EMP to disrupt electronic engine control, Onstar uses a built-in remote kill switch. That's like saying shooting a lightbulb is the same as turning off the switch.
You slave drive over onto another Windows machine, open regedit, select either HKLM or HKU, then click on File, Load Hive. Point it to the registry folder on the drive to be repaired, make your edits, then unload the hive.
You're not so clueful yourself. The largest volcanic eruption [i]ever[/i] took a million years to wipe out only 75% of land-based species and 95% of marine species. 99.9% in 5 years? No.
...squarely with the tech. I do field repair work for a smallish ISP myself, and it is absolute, zero flexibility policy that if any sort of threat, even in a joking manner, is made to our safety, we leave the premises immediately. Now to the best of my knowledge, the only circumstances this has actually been invoked under have involved unruly dogs, but were a subscriber to joke about holding one of us hostage, we're required to get the hell out, even if it means leaving equipment, up to and including entire vehicles, behind if necessary.
The policy does allow us to return to the customer's premises at a later time, at our discretion, but only when accompanied by another tech.
While I cannot vouch for the following, it is what has been described around the office here. "Back in the day" a subscriber apparently did use a shotgun to, ahem, "troubleshoot" a wiring ped right in front of a field tech. So, no, I have no doubt whatsoever that some people are more than capable of threatening what's implied in the article.
So even the page you linked to, which not only gives nonsensical, unsupported data but leads to dead links where trying to follow its footnotes, doesn't support your assertion. The page you linked says that in 10 years, China may approach parity with the US and might surpass Russia as a global power. In 10 years. Whereas your initial assertion stated that China had surpassed American superpower status already. Try again, this time, try to remember what you claimed, before giving supporting evidence that, well, doesn't even come close to supporting what you think it does.
Let's try another tack. How many carriers does China posses? How many ICBM warheads? What kind of C3 capabilities? Battlefield communications? Force projection? Sorry, zerg rushes might work in video games, but in the real world, having 3 times the men doesn't amount to jack shit if your troops can't be brought to a battlefield because you lack the capability to move them from point a to point b without having them sunk or shot down. China is a regional power only, and will be precisely that for the next 10 years.
You're the idiot, idiot. When a closed container is turned over to a public entity (business, etc) for the express intent of having that container opened, the expectation of privacy (and thus 4th Amendment protection) is voluntarily waived. Since the third party has physical possession of the container, there is no right to privacy.
Being accused of the crime had nothing to do with the abrogation of 4th amendment rights; the voluntary transfer of a closed container to a public entity for the intention of opening it, did.
Idiot.
How else are you going to test the DVD-video burning software? You know of another way to create a DVD-video disk other than, oh, I don't know, burning videos onto a DVD?
Subvert our reason? If our reason wasn't already subverted, this wouldn't work at all. Like it or not, your mind isn't as independent as you'd like to believe. It's already being influenced by thousands of external stimuli, and you have no idea how they're influencing you. Wouldn't you rather know what makes you choose the things you do, rather than leave it up to others to decide for you?
At least, this is being researched publicly, so the results will be available. So the next time you walk into a restaurant and see that the carpeting as a burgundy instead of maroon, you'll know what it's supposed to make you decide.
And face it, "they" can probably already play you like a drum whenever they feel like it. Your mind hasn't ever been your own. Ever since the first social environment arose, decisions and thinking have been made by groups, not individuals. Get used to it.
It's a free service, some will find it useful, some won't. I mean, what kind of nimrod would expect his data to be 100% perfectly private and encrypted if he's outsourcing his data retention to someone else, and then question the company storing his data for, um, storing his data in the form he transmitted it?
I just don't get the OMFGism.
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Per FCC regulations, your phone company can NOT initiate a confirmation contact once a port-out has been initiated. If the account #'s, names, and security information are correct in the port-out request initiated by the new phone company, the old provider has no legal authority to question or verify the legitimacy of the port-out request and must complete the port-out within 24 hours or show good reason it could not technically be completed. And they are not allowed to contact you for any reason regarding the number port.
Meh, I live in a town of ~6000 and I have gigabit fiber to my home. Co-ops are a wonderful thing.
Totally off-topic here, but I just want to say that I appreciate you using the phrase "moot point" as opposed to "mute point." Such a rare thing to see someone use the phrase correctly. Kudos.
Me. The conversation went kind of like this... "I don't have enough to pay for all that this month." "Well, ok, we can work with that. How much can you pay? Yeah, that will do it."
Uhhhh... yeah. I've had bills reduced or even waived by my doctor in the past because they were significantly higher than I'd planned. Have you ever tried?
All culture, everywhere, everywhen, has been about celebrity. It has never been otherwise. The Greeks fawned over philosophers who in turn accepted paid philosophizing gigs. Roman gladiators had endorsements and groupies. BCE China had emperors, courtiers, bureaucrats, entire classes of people who were fawned over and obeyed without question. There has never been and never will be a time when the average person on the street has any personal independence in his or her life.
This feigned or mistaken indignance over supposedly increasing state powers or the failings of modern pop culture is just sorely misplaced. There's no loss of privacy, there was never any privacy to begin with. It's just that now, the spread of information access to the masses give some awareness of the situation.
Wrong. The 200 mile zone is an "exclusive economic zone," not territorial water. Territorial waters only extend 12 miles out. Any ship can navigate within the 200 mile zone, just can't harvest any materials or sea life. As long as the Cowpens wasn't fishing or mining, it was free and clear.
No telco should be running its ONTs off a power brick unless the entire building is on a backup generator or you put a UPS on every ONT. They carry POTS, too, and you can't have that drop every time there's a power outage. We have a hybrid system, UPS running off mains for the early areas that were converted to fiber 6 years ago and 400v DC carried over legacy copper for the more recent installs. That way we can power the ONTs during a power outage with diesel generators at the remotes or in the CO.
The Britain doesn't have citizens. It has subjects.
Didn't say Mcafee. Didn't allude to Mcafee. We provide links for Avast and Avira.
Now, who should try again?
The first time, we take the member's word that they've cleaned or replaced the computer. After that, if it recurs, we need to see either an invoice from a repair shop or retail shop for repair of purchase of a computer. We provide CDs here in our office with removal tools, and we do provide removal and cleanup services.
We also provide download links for security software right from our tech support portal, and a complimentary CD with the same software with every new subscriber. 3 times a year we offer a class on intro to pc and internet security. If someone's still getting infected after all the resources we've made available, then tough love may be just what's needed.
Because you've apparently never been blacklisted because one of your members sent comcast.net 250,000 spam emails in a 24-hour period. Because you've never had your SMTP server so overloaded with botnetted messages that delays of up to an hour were occurring for legit traffic. Because you've never had to block port 25 for out-of-area SMTP traffic because of complaints from other local partner ISPs. Yes, we disable access for identified botnet members and spammers. The infections of a handful of our members' PCs aren't going to ruin the experience for our other 6500 members.
Unfortunately, that's not what Jesus' primary message was. It was more "Be my personal friend and I'll make sure Dad doesn't hurt you." According to Jesus, you could be as big a dick as you wanted as long as you said sorry and made up with him before you died.
How the heck is this similar to the Onstar system? This uses a directed EMP to disrupt electronic engine control, Onstar uses a built-in remote kill switch. That's like saying shooting a lightbulb is the same as turning off the switch.
You slave drive over onto another Windows machine, open regedit, select either HKLM or HKU, then click on File, Load Hive. Point it to the registry folder on the drive to be repaired, make your edits, then unload the hive.
You're not so clueful yourself. The largest volcanic eruption [i]ever[/i] took a million years to wipe out only 75% of land-based species and 95% of marine species. 99.9% in 5 years? No.
...squarely with the tech. I do field repair work for a smallish ISP myself, and it is absolute, zero flexibility policy that if any sort of threat, even in a joking manner, is made to our safety, we leave the premises immediately. Now to the best of my knowledge, the only circumstances this has actually been invoked under have involved unruly dogs, but were a subscriber to joke about holding one of us hostage, we're required to get the hell out, even if it means leaving equipment, up to and including entire vehicles, behind if necessary.
The policy does allow us to return to the customer's premises at a later time, at our discretion, but only when accompanied by another tech.
While I cannot vouch for the following, it is what has been described around the office here. "Back in the day" a subscriber apparently did use a shotgun to, ahem, "troubleshoot" a wiring ped right in front of a field tech. So, no, I have no doubt whatsoever that some people are more than capable of threatening what's implied in the article.
So even the page you linked to, which not only gives nonsensical, unsupported data but leads to dead links where trying to follow its footnotes, doesn't support your assertion. The page you linked says that in 10 years, China may approach parity with the US and might surpass Russia as a global power. In 10 years. Whereas your initial assertion stated that China had surpassed American superpower status already. Try again, this time, try to remember what you claimed, before giving supporting evidence that, well, doesn't even come close to supporting what you think it does.
Let's try another tack. How many carriers does China posses? How many ICBM warheads? What kind of C3 capabilities? Battlefield communications? Force projection? Sorry, zerg rushes might work in video games, but in the real world, having 3 times the men doesn't amount to jack shit if your troops can't be brought to a battlefield because you lack the capability to move them from point a to point b without having them sunk or shot down. China is a regional power only, and will be precisely that for the next 10 years.
I just don't get how Apple patented magnetic power cords. My deep fryer has a magnetic easy-release power cord and I've had that since about 1997.
Won't work. There is no "end date." The auction ends when the bidding comes to a halt.
"Fighting its negative image"?
That's funny, since Fortune Magazine apparently has MS rated as the 12th most admired company nationwide.
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/mostadmired/2007/top20/index.html
You're the idiot, idiot. When a closed container is turned over to a public entity (business, etc) for the express intent of having that container opened, the expectation of privacy (and thus 4th Amendment protection) is voluntarily waived. Since the third party has physical possession of the container, there is no right to privacy. Being accused of the crime had nothing to do with the abrogation of 4th amendment rights; the voluntary transfer of a closed container to a public entity for the intention of opening it, did. Idiot.
How else are you going to test the DVD-video burning software? You know of another way to create a DVD-video disk other than, oh, I don't know, burning videos onto a DVD?
Subvert our reason? If our reason wasn't already subverted, this wouldn't work at all. Like it or not, your mind isn't as independent as you'd like to believe. It's already being influenced by thousands of external stimuli, and you have no idea how they're influencing you. Wouldn't you rather know what makes you choose the things you do, rather than leave it up to others to decide for you? At least, this is being researched publicly, so the results will be available. So the next time you walk into a restaurant and see that the carpeting as a burgundy instead of maroon, you'll know what it's supposed to make you decide. And face it, "they" can probably already play you like a drum whenever they feel like it. Your mind hasn't ever been your own. Ever since the first social environment arose, decisions and thinking have been made by groups, not individuals. Get used to it.
It's a free service, some will find it useful, some won't. I mean, what kind of nimrod would expect his data to be 100% perfectly private and encrypted if he's outsourcing his data retention to someone else, and then question the company storing his data for, um, storing his data in the form he transmitted it? I just don't get the OMFGism.