On the Do Not Call list. I have reported them about ten times. I stopped after someone told me that it was pointless to report them any more since Cardholder Services is the number one robocaller on the FTC robocall list and they are well aware of who they are.
Put Cardholder Services in Google and you get 17M hits on people complaining about them.
Nomorobo actually works pretty well and it is already free on land lines. It has totally stopped Cardholder Services from call me. That spammer was driving me crazy having called me over 300 times. After about a hundred calls I started answering some of them and telling the operators what a disgusting company they work working for. Or I'd hit '1' and set the phone next to my radio. I heard that other people give them made up credit card info just to make them waste time. Even after paying a $1M FCC fine Cardholder Services is still calling my land line. https://www.nomorobo.com/
Of now they have started calling my cell phone four or five times a week. And there is no free blocking.
Apparently Nomorobo works by using the billing information in the call to block the call. The billing information can't be spoofed like the caller ID can be. End phones can't access the billing info so the call have to be blocked inside the network.
Here's how you abuse zero rating. Make up an ISP plan with 1KB/mth data cap. Then charge $1000/kb overage (like a typical Verizon plan). Then go around and charge Facebook/Google/etc fat fees to deliver their data to the consumer for 'free' outside of exorbitant data plan cap. Now you have achieved total net discrimination on a plan that is net neutral. it is discriminatory because this absurd fee arrangement was created to manipulate you into only using the sites that have paid for zero rating and to abandon the rest of the Internet. Of course the ISP arranges things so that Facebook/Google/etc are yielding them more profit than when you were paying for data access. Facebook/Google/etc go along with this because it increases their profitability by driving more traffic to them.
You then say "this is cool, I get free Internet". But you aren't getting free Internet, you are only getting Facebook/Google/etc who pay paid for zero rating. You are unable to access any other web site unless you pay $1000/kb for the data. And of course you won't do that.
2015 interest paid on federal debt: $402,435,356,075.49 Average interest rate paid is 2.331% for 2015
It is very scary to consider what is going to happen to that number when rates go back to a normal level - maybe 3% above current depressed rates. Three or four years from now that interest number could exceed $1T.
Here is the full blurb from Google.. Ask it: what do the 1% pay in taxes
When looking at just federal income taxes, they pay 68 percent of the burden. The top 1 percent pays 24 percent of all federal taxes compared to 35 percent of all federal income taxes. The data for total federal taxes come from the Congressional Budget Office. The data for federal income taxes come from the IRS.Apr 15, 2015
The general public does not understand how few extremely rich people there are. If you took everything from all of the billionaires in the US - and I mean everything - assets, income, etc and left them broke - it is not enough to keep the US government running for two years.
These same people, who get most of the spending pay nothing. The need is not for the worth to donate. The need is to force the scrounging rich to pay up.
You are very misguided....
From Google: The top 10 percent pays 53.3 percent of all federal taxes. When looking at just federal income taxes, they pay 68 percent of the burden. The top 1 percent pays 24 percent of all federal taxes compared to 35 percent of all federal income taxes.
I've been tempted to design the Atom Z3735G into some products but I can't figure out how to acquire it at a low enough price. I've seen it around for $15 but that is not very competitive with $5 ARM chips. I suspect these guys are paying less than $15 but I don't know how to achieve that.
China is the top country for poor people moving into the middle class. A lot of that movement is from millions of people setting up mom and pop shops. Cell phones are very important to the functioning of this segment of the market and cell phone are a window into the Internet. So I'd say they have it backwards. They are focusing on the small number of tech lottery winners and ignoring the major improvement cell phones has had on ordinary people's lives.
"Cars also took a beating - roughly 26,000 vehicles sustained damage in the storm - while 2 billion trees were reportedly wiped out across New York and New England."
Today you can't even tell 2 billion trees were knocked down. And it has happened multiple times.
If you are an academic and want to ensure very people people see your work, then by all means publish it in an expensive journal. On the other hand, if you want to be widely recognized try putting the articles up on a web server which will probably increase the number of people looking at them by about 1000x.
I have noticed that an increasing number of authors submit to the paid journals and modify the contract to keep ownership and then put their papers up on their own web servers. When you Google for the title both the paid journal and local copy will be in the results. One you can click on and they other you can't.
Without an escalating fee works owned by corporations will never, ever come out of copyright. The RIAA and MPAA will renew their copyrights for a 1,000 years under a $10 renewal fee.
At some point these works need to become part of history and culture. For example every photograph from WWII will be under copyright until after most people that are alive today are dead. I think that is just wrong. WWII is a major part of history and should be available freely to everyone.
That's fine. The fees double each year. In 120 years the renewals will be $1M, $2M, $4M... each period. And a company like Disney has 10's of thousands works to protect.
You need to renew the copyright every ten years with a one year grace period. Renewal is via an on-line registration system. On-line system makes it easy to check if the work has been renewed or not. First renewal is free. Second renewal is $1,000 Fee for each subsequent renewal doubles. You can renew as long as you keep paying the fee.
This is definitely going on in the music industry. Vast amounts of older music is kept buried via copyright law so that it won't compete with the new stuff. As escalating fee for copyright renewal would stop this.
There is a very simple way to fix the orphan works problem and also let Disney have Mickey forever. The root of the problem is giving free, automatic copyright for 150 years or so to every work.
Instead require that copyrights be renewed every ten years with a one year grace period. First renewal is free but you have to fill out a form on-line. Second renewal is $1,000. Fee for each subsequent renewal doubles. This will quickly place all of the non-economically via works into the public domain. It also lets you keep a copyright forever as long as you keep paying the renewal fees.
No, they want the routers to ship with CPU Trusted mode turned on. Without access to the private key you won't be able to load WRT.
This a security nightmare since you will now be dependent on router manufacturers for issuing security updates and remotely loading them into your router. We all know how well that has gone in the past.
I also believe that to date the FCC has received zero actually complaints about someone illegally modify current routers. So in attempting to address this imagined problem the FCC is going to enlarge a gigantic real problem (ie unpatched routers).
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On the Do Not Call list. I have reported them about ten times. I stopped after someone told me that it was pointless to report them any more since Cardholder Services is the number one robocaller on the FTC robocall list and they are well aware of who they are.
Put Cardholder Services in Google and you get 17M hits on people complaining about them.
The number of these call is ridiculous. From the Nomorobo page:
115,596,364 calls blocked.
I suspect that far less than 1% of phone lines are running Nomorobo so this implies that many billions of these annoying calls are being made.
Nomorobo actually works pretty well and it is already free on land lines. It has totally stopped Cardholder Services from call me. That spammer was driving me crazy having called me over 300 times. After about a hundred calls I started answering some of them and telling the operators what a disgusting company they work working for. Or I'd hit '1' and set the phone next to my radio. I heard that other people give them made up credit card info just to make them waste time. Even after paying a $1M FCC fine Cardholder Services is still calling my land line. https://www.nomorobo.com/
Of now they have started calling my cell phone four or five times a week. And there is no free blocking.
Apparently Nomorobo works by using the billing information in the call to block the call. The billing information can't be spoofed like the caller ID can be. End phones can't access the billing info so the call have to be blocked inside the network.
Here's how you abuse zero rating. Make up an ISP plan with 1KB/mth data cap. Then charge $1000/kb overage (like a typical Verizon plan). Then go around and charge Facebook/Google/etc fat fees to deliver their data to the consumer for 'free' outside of exorbitant data plan cap. Now you have achieved total net discrimination on a plan that is net neutral. it is discriminatory because this absurd fee arrangement was created to manipulate you into only using the sites that have paid for zero rating and to abandon the rest of the Internet. Of course the ISP arranges things so that Facebook/Google/etc are yielding them more profit than when you were paying for data access. Facebook/Google/etc go along with this because it increases their profitability by driving more traffic to them.
You then say "this is cool, I get free Internet". But you aren't getting free Internet, you are only getting Facebook/Google/etc who pay paid for zero rating. You are unable to access any other web site unless you pay $1000/kb for the data. And of course you won't do that.
2015 interest paid on federal debt: $402,435,356,075.49
Average interest rate paid is 2.331% for 2015
It is very scary to consider what is going to happen to that number when rates go back to a normal level - maybe 3% above current depressed rates. Three or four years from now that interest number could exceed $1T.
Here is the full blurb from Google.. Ask it: what do the 1% pay in taxes
When looking at just federal income taxes, they pay 68 percent of the burden. The top 1 percent pays 24 percent of all federal taxes compared to 35 percent of all federal income taxes. The data for total federal taxes come from the Congressional Budget Office. The data for federal income taxes come from the IRS.Apr 15, 2015
The general public does not understand how few extremely rich people there are. If you took everything from all of the billionaires in the US - and I mean everything - assets, income, etc and left them broke - it is not enough to keep the US government running for two years.
These same people, who get most of the spending pay nothing. The need is not for the worth to donate. The need is to force the scrounging rich to pay up.
You are very misguided....
From Google: The top 10 percent pays 53.3 percent of all federal taxes. When looking at just federal income taxes, they pay 68 percent of the burden. The top 1 percent pays 24 percent of all federal taxes compared to 35 percent of all federal income taxes.
Even tax return has a box right near the end that says "contribute extra to US/state treasury".
Use it.
I've been tempted to design the Atom Z3735G into some products but I can't figure out how to acquire it at a low enough price. I've seen it around for $15 but that is not very competitive with $5 ARM chips. I suspect these guys are paying less than $15 but I don't know how to achieve that.
An ESP8266 based ESP-12 is cheaper still. And it has real FCC approval too. $1.84 shipped.
Lot's of info at www.esp8266.com
Be careful what you wish for.....
The median worldwide per-capita household income is $2,920,
http://www.gallup.com/poll/166...
China is the top country for poor people moving into the middle class. A lot of that movement is from millions of people setting up mom and pop shops. Cell phones are very important to the functioning of this segment of the market and cell phone are a window into the Internet. So I'd say they have it backwards. They are focusing on the small number of tech lottery winners and ignoring the major improvement cell phones has had on ordinary people's lives.
How many trees on Earth....
3,000,000,0000,000 - 3 trillion
http://www.npr.org/sections/go...
1938 storm 'The Long Island Express'
http://www.nydailynews.com/new...
"Cars also took a beating - roughly 26,000 vehicles sustained damage in the storm - while 2 billion trees were reportedly wiped out across New York and New England."
Today you can't even tell 2 billion trees were knocked down. And it has happened multiple times.
US 5371734 A
Expiration Date: 1/29/2013
Going after Napierville for a installing a technology they simply bought and started installing a year before this junk patent expired.
If you are an academic and want to ensure very people people see your work, then by all means publish it in an expensive journal. On the other hand, if you want to be widely recognized try putting the articles up on a web server which will probably increase the number of people looking at them by about 1000x.
I have noticed that an increasing number of authors submit to the paid journals and modify the contract to keep ownership and then put their papers up on their own web servers. When you Google for the title both the paid journal and local copy will be in the results. One you can click on and they other you can't.
Here it is in Google cache
Without an escalating fee works owned by corporations will never, ever come out of copyright. The RIAA and MPAA will renew their copyrights for a 1,000 years under a $10 renewal fee.
At some point these works need to become part of history and culture. For example every photograph from WWII will be under copyright until after most people that are alive today are dead. I think that is just wrong. WWII is a major part of history and should be available freely to everyone.
The first 20 years are free. Why are you screwed?
That's fine. The fees double each year. In 120 years the renewals will be $1M, $2M, $4M... each period. And a company like Disney has 10's of thousands works to protect.
A fee like this is fine for corporations too....
You need to renew the copyright every ten years with a one year grace period.
Renewal is via an on-line registration system.
On-line system makes it easy to check if the work has been renewed or not.
First renewal is free.
Second renewal is $1,000
Fee for each subsequent renewal doubles.
You can renew as long as you keep paying the fee.
This is definitely going on in the music industry. Vast amounts of older music is kept buried via copyright law so that it won't compete with the new stuff. As escalating fee for copyright renewal would stop this.
There is a very simple way to fix the orphan works problem and also let Disney have Mickey forever. The root of the problem is giving free, automatic copyright for 150 years or so to every work.
Instead require that copyrights be renewed every ten years with a one year grace period. First renewal is free but you have to fill out a form on-line. Second renewal is $1,000. Fee for each subsequent renewal doubles. This will quickly place all of the non-economically via works into the public domain. It also lets you keep a copyright forever as long as you keep paying the renewal fees.
No, they want the routers to ship with CPU Trusted mode turned on. Without access to the private key you won't be able to load WRT.
This a security nightmare since you will now be dependent on router manufacturers for issuing security updates and remotely loading them into your router. We all know how well that has gone in the past.
I also believe that to date the FCC has received zero actually complaints about someone illegally modify current routers. So in attempting to address this imagined problem the FCC is going to enlarge a gigantic real problem (ie unpatched routers).