Banks routinely monitor accounts for "suspicious activity" and suspend those accounts until they can confirm what's going on. I've had credit cards locked because a fraudster started charging a series of gas station transactions in a city several hundred kilometres from where I live. I got in touch with the bank, straightened the mess out (in this case by having a new card issued), and was on my way. I've has credit cards locked because I myself made a series of unexpected and large transactions overseas. I got in touch with the bank, straightened the mess out (by asking them to please unlock my card), and was on my way.
This is all done via automated algorithms that scan for patterns of activity that don't match the norm - however it is they choose to define the norm.
The difference here is that PayPal is holding on to actual cash (rather than suspending a credit card account), and that PayPal is notoriously opaque and difficult to deal with (while my banks were easy to reach and easy to talk to).
I agree. In my opinion it should be as simple as "You want to be considered a church? You don't burn religious texts. Doesn't matter if it's 'your own' religious text or somebody else's - the moment that match hits the paper your status is revoked."
You should try sniffing other random things and then looking pointedly at the cat... just to see if there are any other disturbing secrets to be uncovered.
"Yup. I'm totally shut off now. No chance of me listening in or observing my surroundings at all. Definitely no chance of me springing back into action without warning. Just a peaceful, totally depowered robot. Nothing to see here."
The thing is, what the pastor is doing isn't illegal or against U.S. Policy, thus the IRS can't legally touch his tax-exempt status.
Are you sure it isn't against U.S. foreign policy? Rightly or wrongly, Gen. Patraeus has essentially characterized this as a foreign policy issue that will directly endanger U.S. troops and other personnel stationed overseas. Seems to me an IRS lawyer would be able to connect enough dots.
I've seen some pretty obscure phish attempts - including some service providers I use that I would have never thought were "big" enough to be worth targeting.
I wonder if this organization should still be considered a "church" (including all the tax advantages, charitable status, etc. that goes along with being a church) if they proceed with this moronic plan. So, go ahead and burn religious texts under the guise of "free speech" if you want, but don't be surprised if your local, state, and federal tax bills next year are a whole lot higher than you were expecting.
Find a proxy that your company doesn't blacklist and connect to the nyud.net proxy via the other proxy? Just keep chaining them together... eventually something is bound to work.
I'd bring the issue up to management until they fixed it though
I'm curious what size and what kind of corporation you work for. If I were to repeatedly bring up the issue of administrative portals to management - for as many months as it takes - expecting the company to make it a priority to change those portals, I'd probably be out of a job before a single line of HTML got rewritten.
I use FF as my everyday browser, but I can tell you there are plenty of corporate portals, etc. I have to deal with that only render properly in IE. I'm not defending the practice, and I think anyone who deliberately codes a page that breaks standards should be shot, but that doesn't change the fact I have to use IE (and hence windows) at various times throughout the week.
Dell already has somewhat of an alliance with EMC. I'm not sure who would be getting the better deal out of a deeper alliance or even a merger, but the possibility exists.
My view is that in about 50 years, people will look back at the proliferation of EM radiation we surround ourselves with, and just shake their heads. Remember, the shoe fitting fluoroscope seemed like a great idea once too.
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Banks routinely monitor accounts for "suspicious activity" and suspend those accounts until they can confirm what's going on. I've had credit cards locked because a fraudster started charging a series of gas station transactions in a city several hundred kilometres from where I live. I got in touch with the bank, straightened the mess out (in this case by having a new card issued), and was on my way. I've has credit cards locked because I myself made a series of unexpected and large transactions overseas. I got in touch with the bank, straightened the mess out (by asking them to please unlock my card), and was on my way.
This is all done via automated algorithms that scan for patterns of activity that don't match the norm - however it is they choose to define the norm.
The difference here is that PayPal is holding on to actual cash (rather than suspending a credit card account), and that PayPal is notoriously opaque and difficult to deal with (while my banks were easy to reach and easy to talk to).
I only ever used it for eBay, so I just stopped using eBay.
Ditto.
I haven't visited PayPal or eBay in at least a half a decade. My world didn't implode.
As soon as they sign in it has to be on until they sign out.
There goes the entire concept of covert surveillance or undercover work ...
Latitude D620 and Latitude E6400. Both have given me nothing but WiFi heartache.
Take heart - you're still in the running for lamest post.
Now maybe I'll finally be able to get wireless working on my two Dell laptops!
I agree. In my opinion it should be as simple as "You want to be considered a church? You don't burn religious texts. Doesn't matter if it's 'your own' religious text or somebody else's - the moment that match hits the paper your status is revoked."
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You should try sniffing other random things and then looking pointedly at the cat ... just to see if there are any other disturbing secrets to be uncovered.
Mine tried to send me over a non-existent bridge.
"Yup. I'm totally shut off now. No chance of me listening in or observing my surroundings at all. Definitely no chance of me springing back into action without warning. Just a peaceful, totally depowered robot. Nothing to see here."
The thing is, what the pastor is doing isn't illegal or against U.S. Policy, thus the IRS can't legally touch his tax-exempt status.
Are you sure it isn't against U.S. foreign policy? Rightly or wrongly, Gen. Patraeus has essentially characterized this as a foreign policy issue that will directly endanger U.S. troops and other personnel stationed overseas. Seems to me an IRS lawyer would be able to connect enough dots.
I've seen some pretty obscure phish attempts - including some service providers I use that I would have never thought were "big" enough to be worth targeting.
That's useful to some degree, but it doesn't solve the problem.
I wonder if this organization should still be considered a "church" (including all the tax advantages, charitable status, etc. that goes along with being a church) if they proceed with this moronic plan. So, go ahead and burn religious texts under the guise of "free speech" if you want, but don't be surprised if your local, state, and federal tax bills next year are a whole lot higher than you were expecting.
Find a proxy that your company doesn't blacklist and connect to the nyud.net proxy via the other proxy? Just keep chaining them together ... eventually something is bound to work.
I'd bring the issue up to management until they fixed it though
I'm curious what size and what kind of corporation you work for. If I were to repeatedly bring up the issue of administrative portals to management - for as many months as it takes - expecting the company to make it a priority to change those portals, I'd probably be out of a job before a single line of HTML got rewritten.
I'd be curious to know your views on whether a timesheet submission portal is "vital" or not. You can refuse to use it, but then you won't get paid.
And that's just one of them.
I use FF as my everyday browser, but I can tell you there are plenty of corporate portals, etc. I have to deal with that only render properly in IE. I'm not defending the practice, and I think anyone who deliberately codes a page that breaks standards should be shot, but that doesn't change the fact I have to use IE (and hence windows) at various times throughout the week.
Dell already has somewhat of an alliance with EMC. I'm not sure who would be getting the better deal out of a deeper alliance or even a merger, but the possibility exists.
Nah, you're overreacting. We will still be free to use subtlety and nuance. Teabaggers are unable to detect or comprehend subtlety and nuance.
My view is that in about 50 years, people will look back at the proliferation of EM radiation we surround ourselves with, and just shake their heads. Remember, the shoe fitting fluoroscope seemed like a great idea once too.
If my imagination is to be trusted, a Zombie Nicola Tesla would rate pretty high in the badass department.
As the old saying goes "Never attribute to malice that which can be readily explained by incompetence."