Over the past couple of years, the vast majority of telemarketing spam calls to my house have been through Predictive Dialing systems.
When answering a call from one of these systems, you typically hear a pause while the system alerts the telemarketers that it has found a live human for them to speak to.
Upon hearing that characteristic pause, I now simply dial 25 to instruct my Canon ImageClass multifunction laser printer to accept an incoming fax and hang up, leaving the caller to be bombarded with shrill fax tones.
In the two months I've been doing this, the number of spam calls I get has dropped by 2/3.
While there are certain differences of meaning between the terms "self-evident", "natural", and "inalienable" with respect to your rights, all three boil down to the same basic principle: You can't waive your rights, either accidentally or purposely.
As with the term "hacking", "cross-selling" is incorrectly used here to describe only a particular negative use of this otherwise accepted (and acceptable) practice.
In marketing, cross-selling refers to the practice of trying to sell customers additional related items in the wake of a purchase they've already made. (Buying a new laptop? How about a shoulder bag to carry it in, a compact mouse, a CAT-5 cable and an extended service plan?) It's easier to sell to someone who is already in buying mode. Contrast this with up-selling, where the seller tries to convert a sale to the higher-priced alternative. (Buying a 42" plasma TV? You could step up to the 50" one for just a few bucks more...)
What the article describes as cross-selling really isn't.
Isn't GlaxoSmithKline the company that patented Prilosec?
And then when the FDA would no longer let them charge inflated prices for Prilosec "to cover their development costs", didn't GlaxoSmithKline then repackage Prilosec in purple capsules and re-patent it as Nexium, for which they could in turn charge inflated prices?
Gee, why would GSK be concerned about greater patent scrutiny?
My company's IT Security dept. has what must amount to thousands of policies. But by far their favorite policy is the one that says "We can make up any policies we want, even after the fact".
Really, the only secure system is the one that is completely unusable. Clever IT security folk know that, and create policies to implement unusability.
Virtualization increases security against nastyware that isn't aware it's running in a virtual layer.
There's nothing to stop nastyware that's written to penetrate (or even exploit) virtual layers.
So, yes, virtualization increases security. But not by much, and not for long.
One possibility is that Time's Arrow runs backwards, resolving a massive cosmic nest of wave functions (existing some time in the future) down into a singularity (existing some time in the past), and what we experience as Now is just the wavefront of that collapse.
...is Smart car tipping, the newest sport to hit Canadian streets.
It only takes two guys of average strength. The challenge is to try to put the car on its side with the least possible rocking motion.
While I have no doubt that this craze will catch on with Americans too, we Canadians have four years' more experience (just in case you have any visions of starting an international Smart Car Tipping League).
The rest of you can supply the cars.
Here's what happens: Actually, an anecdote does not a maxim make.
Here's what happened in the case of my elderly mother-in-law, at least:
1. CC company calls victim to tell them there are unusual charges. 2. Victim says they were not authorized. CC company says tough titty, you agreed to our conditions by using the card, so pay up. 3. CC company begins laying on interest charges. 4. Victim's son-in-law (me) files police report. 5. Police contact CC company as part of their investigation. 6. CC company immediately clears charges and issues letter to victim saying so. 7. Police receive no cooperation (or even returned calls) from CC company, making it impossible to pursue their investigation without a subpoena. 8. CC company acts surprised when victim wants to cancel still-active card, stating that incidents like these "never happen".
It's purely a matter of the market. Suppliers got into municipal wi-fi because they had dollar signs in their eyes, which led them to under-serve and over-charge.
Toronto's municipal wi-fi costs $30 CAD a month. And while it's quite fast, it only works outdoors (which in Canada means it's only going to be used a few months of the years anyway) and it only has a relatively small geographic footprint. So that $30 is ON TOP OF the price a Toronto user is already paying for Internet and e-mail by cable or DSL.
Until free (or at least ad-sponsored) wi-fi becomes ubiquitous, it's better value for anyone in Toronto to walk a block to the nearest coffee shop and nurse a $2 coffee while using their access point.
To summarize TFA:
All data AGAINST Global Warming is sketchy and anecdotal.
All data FOR Global Warming is rock-solid and self-evident.
(Despite the fact that it's the same data.)
Disclaimer: I am biased against Global Warming, if only because of the propaganda-like activities of the pro-Global Warming camp.
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When answering a call from one of these systems, you typically hear a pause while the system alerts the telemarketers that it has found a live human for them to speak to.
Upon hearing that characteristic pause, I now simply dial 25 to instruct my Canon ImageClass multifunction laser printer to accept an incoming fax and hang up, leaving the caller to be bombarded with shrill fax tones.
In the two months I've been doing this, the number of spam calls I get has dropped by 2/3.
While there are certain differences of meaning between the terms "self-evident", "natural", and "inalienable" with respect to your rights, all three boil down to the same basic principle: You can't waive your rights, either accidentally or purposely.
Yeesh! I'm just a Canadian and even I know that!
In marketing, cross-selling refers to the practice of trying to sell customers additional related items in the wake of a purchase they've already made. (Buying a new laptop? How about a shoulder bag to carry it in, a compact mouse, a CAT-5 cable and an extended service plan?) It's easier to sell to someone who is already in buying mode. Contrast this with up-selling, where the seller tries to convert a sale to the higher-priced alternative. (Buying a 42" plasma TV? You could step up to the 50" one for just a few bucks more...)
What the article describes as cross-selling really isn't.
Isn't GlaxoSmithKline the company that patented Prilosec? And then when the FDA would no longer let them charge inflated prices for Prilosec "to cover their development costs", didn't GlaxoSmithKline then repackage Prilosec in purple capsules and re-patent it as Nexium, for which they could in turn charge inflated prices? Gee, why would GSK be concerned about greater patent scrutiny?
My company's IT Security dept. has what must amount to thousands of policies. But by far their favorite policy is the one that says "We can make up any policies we want, even after the fact". Really, the only secure system is the one that is completely unusable. Clever IT security folk know that, and create policies to implement unusability.
Virtualization increases security against nastyware that isn't aware it's running in a virtual layer. There's nothing to stop nastyware that's written to penetrate (or even exploit) virtual layers. So, yes, virtualization increases security. But not by much, and not for long.
And what rough beast, his hour come 'round at last, slouches toward ...er, Labrador... to be born?
Actually, here is the latest version: http://www.palm.com/us/support/downloads/windesk414e.html
Or not.
If so, you're saying that reality is serial, not parallel (as the Many Worlds Interpretation would suggest).
I don't believe this. On the other hand, I do.
Al you have to do is [redacted] and the problem will be solved!
Global warming.
My company circulates material like this on a regular basis. This is to totally bogus -- wait, six grand you say?
So what are the odds this is bull? A million-billion-gazillion to one?
...is Smart car tipping, the newest sport to hit Canadian streets. It only takes two guys of average strength. The challenge is to try to put the car on its side with the least possible rocking motion. While I have no doubt that this craze will catch on with Americans too, we Canadians have four years' more experience (just in case you have any visions of starting an international Smart Car Tipping League). The rest of you can supply the cars.
It's purely a matter of the market. Suppliers got into municipal wi-fi because they had dollar signs in their eyes, which led them to under-serve and over-charge. Toronto's municipal wi-fi costs $30 CAD a month. And while it's quite fast, it only works outdoors (which in Canada means it's only going to be used a few months of the years anyway) and it only has a relatively small geographic footprint. So that $30 is ON TOP OF the price a Toronto user is already paying for Internet and e-mail by cable or DSL. Until free (or at least ad-sponsored) wi-fi becomes ubiquitous, it's better value for anyone in Toronto to walk a block to the nearest coffee shop and nurse a $2 coffee while using their access point.
To summarize TFA: All data AGAINST Global Warming is sketchy and anecdotal. All data FOR Global Warming is rock-solid and self-evident. (Despite the fact that it's the same data.) Disclaimer: I am biased against Global Warming, if only because of the propaganda-like activities of the pro-Global Warming camp.