They didn't predict the storms so much as cause them. If we let them send up more satellites they can get back on schedule for destroying the world in 2012. Due to budget restrictions, delays and the housing market crash they already missed the judgement day deadline. Skynet is going to build itself. If we don't hurry up there won't be any more films about the US building doomsday devices because they just will not be believable. Everyone will know the Chinese will build them first. Most of our students and potential mad scientists already come from abroad. We have to do this while we still can otherwise we will just become irrelevant and depend on other countries for dictating the future of humanity.
We have these old places that store tons of paper but you need to get a special card and perform a ritual before they let you leave with anything. Then they only allow you to go for a few weeks without returning the paper.
Maybe you could find such a place.
Hardly FLG. That is one item that didn't seem involved in the Tibet issue. I am a bored nerd with too much time on his hands.
Oh one more item...
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If you ever find yourself in a land where everything is taken too literally It is best to have another language to fall back upon. This is esp true for psychiatric computer science students. Too much hawking radiation is bad. I wonder just how many programmers know more then one language.
We have for a long time been breaking laws of Nature with cool experiments and thus improving our understanding of science. Escalation and evolution of DRM seems as natural as our efforts to attack it. Our species has risen to a new level of evolution.
Put a stop to it now. Is this tax attempt to take from companies and industries that are doing well and REDISTRIBUTING THE WEALTH to assist locally. I guess then Hong Kong should subsidize local production of wheat because their local production is impacted by cheap foreign imports.
Oh, send me 1 dollar for every camera sold. I mean whats a buck? make it 526 vs 500
Look at every country that embraces a philosophy of redistributing wealth. At every level each group wants a piece of the pie from border agents to local police. If you think I am out of line look at the taxation imposed on charities that are trying to help them recover from a tsunami. They taxed everything they brought in to assist with. Is it all right as long as the organizations where willing to pay it?
Who is running your country and deciding taxation? Is it some SPECIAL INTEREST?! Its not the governments job to prop up failing enterprises. I could understand special action if prices where excessive and there was a monopoly on cameras and consumers where being hurt. There looks to be many sources and the industry seems to be robust. I guess that satisfies the bleedable criteria.
The last thing they need is freedom to think and all the other shit on the first page of our constitution. I mean what good did that crap do for us. That is the last thing we should give them. We should just feed them so they do not have to fight over food because of the unforeseen famine. Have you no fucking heart. We should help those in need for as long as we are able. What kind of sad person are you.
And any country that is corrupt or breeds people like rabbits or just wishes to evict some ethnic group should just be able to export their problems?
Neither countries nor their citizens should not be allowed of the hook. Countries and people can earn privileges of being able to visit or work here. Just because people mess up their home so bad they do not want to live in it, that does not entitle them to do the same here. Thing what would happen if we had a border with Haiti. If the only reason was racism then all the countries that place restrictions are also racist. Perhaps we should invade them to set things right(or left if that is your inclination). Until those in power of countries not meeting our standards reform. America and Canada should be the refuge of those who complement our ideals and who we deem worthy. I do not think a country wanting money from tourists or investors is by itself enough for us to want to reciprocate.
I think so what if Google's shareholders make money. So far they have been making money hand over foot and providing one of the best search services, if not the best essentially for free. Google has good taste with advertising, having never resorted to pop-ups. Anyhow privacy on this one is more of a concern for me. I do not care if Google is making money as whatever parties are giving Google money, they seem to be doing it willingly. Perhaps it is because they realize more profits for themselves by giving Google money. Holy shit those capitalist bastards are conspiring!!!
Oh shit consumers are benefiting as well because shopping online for the lowest prices is easy with the tools Google and ebay and other bastard capitalistic companies provide.
What the hell? capitalism actually works?
Google will not be able to help itself but to collect all sorts of interesting network data it did not have a chance to get at before. Who knows what they will try to do with it. I am leaning on a wait and see what the hell they come up with.
I would however be more at ease if Google was not willing to lie in bed with China.
1>Oh God! 1>Oh God! 2>Oh God thats is awesome. more!!!
3>Hey wait, you guys are studying the wrong kind of collisions. 1>Sorry just stress testing the hard drives. 2>Yeah we couldn't help it, the vibrations of so many drives...
Ceo makes observations offers to purchase and direct company, asks for a fair price by pointing out items obvious to him, uses arguments and experience to negotiate fair price. Its questionable using Yahoo for research so long as that it is the only research he did. Forward thinking CEO looks at what people are saying about his company and the competition, and believes his experience would benefit others, puts money down on table.
Can we do more stories on Capitalism at work and how trade and mutual self interest can benefit both/all participating?
NAFTA does not cover songs, music and TV. (Canada has CRTC - Canada's regulator for telecoms, radio and television services). It protect our culture from the infernal Yankee Influences... RIAA and appearanlty too much prime time American content. Canada can always alter how many foreign shows (and we do) are allowed on our stations/and or during peak periods as well as tegulate sales of foreign content. I do not think the RIAA will get far threatening Canada.
I do not RIAA has not managed to slip anything in the middle of the night past our legislators and it leaves most Canadian citizens alone. I think they have a idea that if they pushed things here the kind of ruling the courts would make and they do not want that example getting around especially given the taxes on blank media.
Some people are just good at complaining and getting credit. I worked for customer care for 4 years and spot those accounts in 10 seconds by looking at payment history/credit history at the start of a call. But the turnover for care representatives was between 6 months and a year. So if they call back there is a good chance they get someone more lax or inexperienced. There are a lot of valid reasons for credit. Every now and then I found a person who called me who had received so much credit they don't pay for service for months on end and called us a lot. I submit it under social engineering. I am taking programming so I know it would be trivial to write a database query if the billing system to identify all customers costing the company money.
A consumer even if acting legally can act in a manner where providing service looses the company money. All carriers put in the contract the ability for them to change the terms of service. There are also government and court imposed mandates that force the provider to do something and override this(mergers and court rulings ). Notwithstanding exceptions, if the changes are not favorable to the customer they can cancel without early termination fee. So if the company wishes to drop customers or raise costs of plans and features they may be able to do so legally in a lot of cases. For instance AT&T added a 5.00 surcharge to plans of people still using TDMA phones.
Yes and if they designed my pcmcia slot to play cd's... but it is not and at one point standards are made and we have to live in reality. It would be cool if everything worked together. Yes they are all essentially using cdma but their implementations are different. You can pop a sim from one gsm phone to another unlocked or compatible to another and turn it on and receive calls on that device. With cdma you do that with settings and call the company to do it. I do see the advantage of separate networks. There is at least competitions to improve networks. There is also the matter of choice for the consumer. If everyone worked on one networked they would received the same service what would be the point of trying to improve network quality from acceptable to something more?
That question is just dumb. It would not be possible at all with sprint because sprint is cdma/EVDO and At&t is GSM/edge,hsdpa. It may be doable with t-moble sim. However At&t customer service will not help you set it up. We will just allow the phone with other carrier's overseas (voice).
The real problem will be trying to get the data features to work. I have had mixed success getting other carriers phones working on At&t when At&t had not sold those phones before. If they had sold them before its as simple as going to the device tutorials and inputing the settings if I cant over the air program. If it is a unsupported customer owned and maintained (coam) device that we have not tested (losts of testing) and sold configured prepared documentation for then the best I can do is suggest trying settings on our website from a similar phone from the same manufacturer that we have sold. I found mixed results with getting other carriers (gsm)equipment work with At&t(data). I will not be surprised if someone manages to get it working on t-mobile or some other gsm service. www.phonescoop.com tells you what companies have supported and sold equipment. That tells you settings for said phone are easily available. Other then that dif carriers settings and menu will be organized differently.
Here is the deal if the phone is unlocked you can make calls. Where you to call customer care and to try to get some phone working from sprint here is what I would tell you. If we had supported that phone
the steps 1 call customer care and explain calling to request subsidy unlock code 2 explain paid full retail, or use for international calling
-(first get transfer to IPC/Fraud if 3 months serve if no international roaming enabled) 3 explained date purchased, price 4 *#06# give imei and model 5 write down date request made on 6 wait up to 1 week 7 follow up
The long winded version... I worked for At&t wireless then , Cingular , and finally had to answer calls New At&t... Cingular (its all the same to me) unlocks phones for people that pass a credit requirement and enable the sim to work internationally. Its easiest to enable after 3 months of service otherwise you have to get apply for international service thought the fraud department.
They policy is to unlock phones if the full retail price was paid for the phone. That policy may have changed as of a month ago but I doubt it. Why don't some of you people call in just ask them to do it.
As a side-note the new At&t let up on their policy of not unlocking phones locked to what was At&t wireless. To qualify for(At&t assistance) unlocking those all you need is to verify the account, and it be in good standing or closed in good standing and the contract when that phone was purchased to be expired(can do it without asking for international service). Go-phones request for unlock code can be done after 3 months of service.
The reason that At&t locks the phones is subscription fraud. If they are locked then they can be used only on the At&t network and then they can be either shut down and also tracked if stolen (Every now and then a phone sold was not entered as sold and the account it was used with was shut down). As the system records both IMEI(phone) and ICCID(sim) for each call it becomes possible to catch people who do subscription fraud or claim to loose the phone for insurance purpose but still have it. It was interesting to search for ssn to check pending orders and people trying to order 16 new lines. I then call At&t subscription fraud department and have them check it out fraud after call is done before going to next call. Oh yeah, and I found most reps have not read thought the company policy to unlock the phones if they changed it recently or not so they may be a bit clueless in going about how to request unlock. *#06# gives you imei (its also under the battery on the box, and as well on the paperwork), you need model of phone. Turnaround time is 5 days they can email instructions if you give them email address. If the request is denied or delayed or you missed the call they will have either the unlock code or the reason in the notes. Follow up calls go a lot quicker if you tell them the date you made request for unlock code.
Is it just me or does anyone else think microbes that eat cellulose could be a bad idea? I have a few books I like and my house is mostly made of wood. I am more scared they succeed wildly then I care if they fail. Look I am not usually one to raise panic and all that but most times they meddle with nature trying to apply one bug to solve a different problem there are lots of unintended consequences. Whats the worst that could happen?
In other news, bugs escape containment eat the house, mutate and fail to make rum as programmed.
Don't tell me that no one will try it. They only good thing that could come out of this is not having to cut the grass.
Please show me examples of too much Transparency not being in public interest. I absolutely love the concept. I can't get enough of it in govt, business and programming code. It could help impact corporate corruption government corruption, and some FUD attacks. Kudos.
This argument is critically flawed. Just because they collected information does not mean they could do with it as they please... Even ignoring copy-write, it may be desirable for Information that is gathered and refined, and distilled from public domain to be restricted. As a example, monitoring security even from public areas, for the purpose of planning a attack could be used as evidence for treason. More intrinsically there could exist other reasons it is desirable to restrict collecting of this information. I used that example because some people do not place much value in privacy.
I am from Alberta. I we can take them Google up on a "Personal Information Protection Act" (PIPA) request to see what they are collecting on me and who they are sharing this with (my searches etc)... Google has to share all personal information they collect on me if they intend to use it or not(subject to a possible fee so I want to know what they charge for it first... and there is a complain process). Anyhow if you have paranoid concerns you can get some people to make some requests here in Alberta. I think having Google disclose information they are collecting here may be of interest to the people involved in this action.
http://www.oipc.ab.ca/pipa/about.cfm
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They didn't predict the storms so much as cause them. If we let them send up more satellites they can get back on schedule for destroying the world in 2012. Due to budget restrictions, delays and the housing market crash they already missed the judgement day deadline. Skynet is going to build itself. If we don't hurry up there won't be any more films about the US building doomsday devices because they just will not be believable. Everyone will know the Chinese will build them first. Most of our students and potential mad scientists already come from abroad. We have to do this while we still can otherwise we will just become irrelevant and depend on other countries for dictating the future of humanity.
We have these old places that store tons of paper but you need to get a special card and perform a ritual before they let you leave with anything. Then they only allow you to go for a few weeks without returning the paper. Maybe you could find such a place.
Could it be radiation that is affecting the body and causing it to operate in a state where the drugs have not been built for?
Hardly FLG. That is one item that didn't seem involved in the Tibet issue. I am a bored nerd with too much time on his hands. Oh one more item... -- If you ever find yourself in a land where everything is taken too literally It is best to have another language to fall back upon. This is esp true for psychiatric computer science students. Too much hawking radiation is bad. I wonder just how many programmers know more then one language.
I could thing of a few other reasons to boycott.
... Oh hey they noticed... And you thought global warming a disaster... they could at least cut back on the cancer causing shit.
Corruption has other ways of expressing itself...
water...
http://www.usatoday.com/money/world/2005-07-04-pollution-china-cover_x.htm
land....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6582571.stm
air...
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/01/70107
effect of being there
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-04/16/content_434747.htm
Laws of Thermodynamics have not yet been broken.
Actually its good point.
We have for a long time been breaking laws of Nature with cool experiments and thus improving our understanding of science. Escalation and evolution of DRM seems as natural as our efforts to attack it. Our species has risen to a new level of evolution.
Put a stop to it now. Is this tax attempt to take from companies and industries that are doing well and REDISTRIBUTING THE WEALTH to assist locally. I guess then Hong Kong should subsidize local production of wheat because their local production is impacted by cheap foreign imports.
Oh, send me 1 dollar for every camera sold. I mean whats a buck? make it 526 vs 500
Look at every country that embraces a philosophy of redistributing wealth. At every level each group wants a piece of the pie from border agents to local police. If you think I am out of line look at the taxation imposed on charities that are trying to help them recover from a tsunami. They taxed everything they brought in to assist with. Is it all right as long as the organizations where willing to pay it?
Who is running your country and deciding taxation? Is it some SPECIAL INTEREST?! Its not the governments job to prop up failing enterprises. I could understand special action if prices where excessive and there was a monopoly on cameras and consumers where being hurt. There looks to be many sources and the industry seems to be robust. I guess that satisfies the bleedable criteria.
The last thing they need is freedom to think and all the other shit on the first page of our constitution. I mean what good did that crap do for us. That is the last thing we should give them. We should just feed them so they do not have to fight over food because of the unforeseen famine. Have you no fucking heart. We should help those in need for as long as we are able. What kind of sad person are you.
And any country that is corrupt or breeds people like rabbits or just wishes to evict some ethnic group should just be able to export their problems?
Neither countries nor their citizens should not be allowed of the hook. Countries and people can earn privileges of being able to visit or work here. Just because people mess up their home so bad they do not want to live in it, that does not entitle them to do the same here. Thing what would happen if we had a border with Haiti. If the only reason was racism then all the countries that place restrictions are also racist. Perhaps we should invade them to set things right(or left if that is your inclination). Until those in power of countries not meeting our standards reform. America and Canada should be the refuge of those who complement our ideals and who we deem worthy. I do not think a country wanting money from tourists or investors is by itself enough for us to want to reciprocate.
I think so what if Google's shareholders make money. So far they have been making money hand over foot and providing one of the best search services, if not the best essentially for free. Google has good taste with advertising, having never resorted to pop-ups. Anyhow privacy on this one is more of a concern for me. I do not care if Google is making money as whatever parties are giving Google money, they seem to be doing it willingly. Perhaps it is because they realize more profits for themselves by giving Google money. Holy shit those capitalist bastards are conspiring!!! Oh shit consumers are benefiting as well because shopping online for the lowest prices is easy with the tools Google and ebay and other bastard capitalistic companies provide. What the hell? capitalism actually works? Google will not be able to help itself but to collect all sorts of interesting network data it did not have a chance to get at before. Who knows what they will try to do with it. I am leaning on a wait and see what the hell they come up with. I would however be more at ease if Google was not willing to lie in bed with China.
1>Oh God!
1>Oh God!
2>Oh God thats is awesome. more!!!
3>Hey wait, you guys are studying the wrong kind of collisions.
1>Sorry just stress testing the hard drives.
2>Yeah we couldn't help it, the vibrations of so many drives...
Ceo makes observations offers to purchase and direct company, asks for a fair price by pointing out items obvious to him, uses arguments and experience to negotiate fair price. Its questionable using Yahoo for research so long as that it is the only research he did. Forward thinking CEO looks at what people are saying about his company and the competition, and believes his experience would benefit others, puts money down on table.
Can we do more stories on Capitalism at work and how trade and mutual self interest can benefit both/all participating?
NAFTA does not cover songs, music and TV. (Canada has CRTC - Canada's regulator for telecoms, radio and television services). It protect our culture from the infernal Yankee Influences... RIAA and appearanlty too much prime time American content. Canada can always alter how many foreign shows (and we do) are allowed on our stations /and or during peak periods as well as tegulate sales of foreign content. I do not think the RIAA will get far threatening Canada.
I do not RIAA has not managed to slip anything in the middle of the night past our legislators and it leaves most Canadian citizens alone. I think they have a idea that if they pushed things here the kind of ruling the courts would make and they do not want that example getting around especially given the taxes on blank media.
AT&T is GSM and UMTS... and uses sim cards. UMTS is in fact CDMA, however it is not compatible the CDMA most people are familiar with.
/ DataCapabilities_beyond.pdf
http://www.wireless.att.com/b2b/content/downloads
Some people are just good at complaining and getting credit.
I worked for customer care for 4 years and spot those accounts in 10 seconds by looking at payment history/credit history at the
start of a call. But the turnover for care representatives was between 6 months and a year. So if they call back there is a good chance they get someone more lax or inexperienced. There are a lot of valid reasons for credit. Every now and then I found a person who called me who had received so much credit they don't pay for service for months on end and called us a lot. I submit it under social engineering. I am taking programming so I know it would be trivial to write a database query if the billing system to identify all customers costing the company money.
A consumer even if acting legally can act in a manner where providing service looses the company money. All carriers put in the contract the ability for them to change the terms of service. There are also government and court imposed mandates that force the provider to do something and override this(mergers and court rulings ). Notwithstanding exceptions, if the changes are not favorable to the customer they can cancel without early termination fee. So if the company wishes to drop customers or raise costs of plans and features they may be able to do so legally in a lot of cases. For instance AT&T added a 5.00 surcharge to plans of people still using TDMA phones.
sorry just forget all that... sprint doesn't have sims
Yes and if they designed my pcmcia slot to play cd's... but it is not and at one point standards are made and we have to live in reality. It would be cool if everything worked together. Yes they are all essentially using cdma but their implementations are different. You can pop a sim from one gsm phone to another unlocked or compatible to another and turn it on and receive calls on that device. With cdma you do that with settings and call the company to do it. I do see the advantage of separate networks. There is at least competitions to improve networks. There is also the matter of choice for the consumer. If everyone worked on one networked they would received the same service what would be the point of trying to improve network quality from acceptable to something more?
That question is just dumb. It would not be possible at all with sprint because sprint is cdma/EVDO and At&t is GSM/edge,hsdpa. It may be doable with t-moble sim. However At&t customer service will not help you set it up. We will just allow the phone with other carrier's overseas (voice). The real problem will be trying to get the data features to work. I have had mixed success getting other carriers phones working on At&t when At&t had not sold those phones before. If they had sold them before its as simple as going to the device tutorials and inputing the settings if I cant over the air program. If it is a unsupported customer owned and maintained (coam) device that we have not tested (losts of testing) and sold configured prepared documentation for then the best I can do is suggest trying settings on our website from a similar phone from the same manufacturer that we have sold. I found mixed results with getting other carriers (gsm)equipment work with At&t(data). I will not be surprised if someone manages to get it working on t-mobile or some other gsm service. www.phonescoop.com tells you what companies have supported and sold equipment. That tells you settings for said phone are easily available. Other then that dif carriers settings and menu will be organized differently. Here is the deal if the phone is unlocked you can make calls. Where you to call customer care and to try to get some phone working from sprint here is what I would tell you. If we had supported that phone
the steps
1 call customer care and explain calling to request subsidy unlock code
2 explain paid full retail, or use for international calling
-(first get transfer to IPC/Fraud if 3 months serve if no international roaming enabled)
3 explained date purchased, price
4 *#06# give imei and model
5 write down date request made on
6 wait up to 1 week
7 follow up
The long winded version...
I worked for At&t wireless then , Cingular , and finally had to answer calls New At&t... Cingular (its all the same to me) unlocks phones for people that pass a credit requirement and enable the sim to work internationally. Its easiest to enable after 3 months of service otherwise you have to get apply for international service thought the fraud department.
They policy is to unlock phones if the full retail price was paid for the phone. That policy may have changed as of a month ago but I doubt it. Why don't some of you people call in just ask them to do it.
As a side-note the new At&t let up on their policy of not unlocking phones locked to what was At&t wireless. To qualify for(At&t assistance) unlocking those all you need is to verify the account, and it be in good standing or closed in good standing and the contract when that phone was purchased to be expired(can do it without asking for international service). Go-phones request for unlock code can be done after 3 months of service.
The reason that At&t locks the phones is subscription fraud. If they are locked then they can be used only on the At&t network and then they can be either shut down and also tracked if stolen (Every now and then a phone sold was not entered as sold and the account it was used with was shut down). As the system records both IMEI(phone) and ICCID(sim) for each call it becomes possible to catch people who do subscription fraud or claim to loose the phone for insurance purpose but still have it. It was interesting to search for ssn to check pending orders and people trying to order 16 new lines. I then call At&t subscription fraud department and have them check it out fraud after call is done before going to next call. Oh yeah, and I found most reps have not read thought the company policy to unlock the phones if they changed it recently or not so they may be a bit clueless in going about how to request unlock. *#06# gives you imei (its also under the battery on the box, and as well on the paperwork), you need model of phone. Turnaround time is 5 days they can email instructions if you give them email address. If the request is denied or delayed or you missed the call they will have either the unlock code or the reason in the notes. Follow up calls go a lot quicker if you tell them the date you made request for unlock code.
Is it just me or does anyone else think microbes that eat cellulose could be a bad idea? I have a few books I like and my house is mostly made of wood. I am more scared they succeed wildly then I care if they fail. Look I am not usually one to raise panic and all that but most times they meddle with nature trying to apply one bug to solve a different problem there are lots of unintended consequences. Whats the worst that could happen?
In other news, bugs escape containment eat the house, mutate and fail to make rum as programmed.
Don't tell me that no one will try it. They only good thing that could come out of this is not having to cut the grass.
Please show me examples of too much Transparency not being in public interest. I absolutely love the concept. I can't get enough of it in govt, business and programming code. It could help impact corporate corruption government corruption, and some FUD attacks. Kudos.
People cant be this stupid. Mod the parent as flamebait.
This argument is critically flawed. Just because they collected information does not mean they could do with it as they please... Even ignoring copy-write, it may be desirable for Information that is gathered and refined, and distilled from public domain to be restricted. As a example, monitoring security even from public areas, for the purpose of planning a attack could be used as evidence for treason. More intrinsically there could exist other reasons it is desirable to restrict collecting of this information. I used that example because some people do not place much value in privacy.
I am from Alberta. I we can take them Google up on a "Personal Information Protection Act" (PIPA) request to see what they are collecting on me and who they are sharing this with (my searches etc)... Google has to share all personal information they collect on me if they intend to use it or not(subject to a possible fee so I want to know what they charge for it first... and there is a complain process). Anyhow if you have paranoid concerns you can get some people to make some requests here in Alberta. I think having Google disclose information they are collecting here may be of interest to the people involved in this action. http://www.oipc.ab.ca/pipa/about.cfm
Ah, don't ask us what we want to hear. For me the winner will be whoever wins me over on You Tube.