actually I meant uu.net hosted spammers. The spam I got was from spammers uu.net wouldn't terminate. However forcing their sales morons to deal with the volume of spam I was getting got me off the spam lists.
they stopped spamming me a long time ago. I made thier sales drones suffer by forwarding all the spam back to sales@uu.net, in addition to abuse. of course uu.net abuse was ignored. went from 5-10 spams per day via uu.net to one every 3 or 4 months.
Which decks? The things are too durable. I have FINALLY gotten the ok to remove the last 3/4" machines - the damn things won't die, and the @#$# sales staff don't want to lose them, "just in case" they can sell some spot with half-assed old 3/4" quality.
I've seen old BVW-10s are still running strong, and those are ancient. Aside from upper drums, and the odd scanner, I haven't seen problems with any of sony's commercial (professional) equipment. I work on some old sony cameras, which get so hot inside you can get blisters if you aren't careful - still going 20+ years later.
Haven't worked on any digi-beta yet, so don't know about the long term quality there.
Personally, I have NEVER regretted purchasing a Sony product, either consumer or professional.
Contact your local radio and television stations. Really hook them by letting them know that the kind of people who are sending sexually graphic pictures to children, and other forms of spam, via email are operating in town.
Especially if you are somewhere besides the northeast or west coast of the US. The more conservative the area, the harder you play up the porn/threat to children angle.
heh, I'd love to find out you're in some small bible belt town, causing the town to come out and lynch the spammers. Then I'd get to see it on tv myself.
Of course the whole Walmart/Best Buy/etc we won't carry it is the best advertising they could have had. How many people here would never even have heard of the game if not for this arcticle? And how many people will now go out and buy this game that would never have done so otherwise?
In light of all of this, does anyone want to bet that this idiot(s) in the DC area, when they get caught, will try and blame the whole thing on playing GTA 3 or something similar?
I had a battle with fax.com a couple of years ago. By fluke i happened to find out who was ordering the spam. It was the Center for missing and exploited children. They were selling advertising to various people and trying to use the charity as a cover to do what is illegal to do commercially. (anti-telemarketing laws specifically exempt political and non-profits from laws governing them, but this does not apply to faxes).
So I complained to Sun and Computer Associates (the two biggest donors to the Center) and very quickly I got an appology from the center's director and the junk fax stopped. Until about 2 months ago when it started up again.
text of letter:
We are sorry that you have been inconvenienced with the fax transmissions sent out by Fax.com. If you will provide me with your fax numbers, I will contact Fax.com and request that they remove
your numbers immediately from their database.
Our ability to use Fax.com to distribute posters of missing children has been a great success and has resulted in the recovery of a number of missing children. We certainly understand your request and will make every effort to stop the transmissions to you when you provide me with your
fax numbers.
I am forwarding a copy of your fax message request
to Fax.com -- Ben J. Ermini, Director NCMEC Missing Children's Division 703-837-6236
and the response to my reply:
Thank you for your rapid response. I have directed Fax.com to remove your fax number from their database.
Fax.com has assured us that all NCMEC poster fax transmissions are sent to fax numbers that have agreed to participate in the poster distribution program.
We are sorry for any inconvenience that we have caused you.
Ben J. Ermini
--- so once again spammers lie. My fax is unlisted etc, and never opted into any such program.
sorry if this is long winded by fax spammers are even worse than email spammers in my book
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Are they? I don't get spam from uu.net vermin anymore. I started bouncing every uu.net orginated spam to sales@uu.net - guess what. Their sales people started complaing to me about spamming them. After a couple of months the spam slowed dramatically, and I can't remember the last time a uu.net originated spam turned up in my mailbox. I think I have seen 1 spam for a uu.net hosted site.
The way to slow the spam is deluge the people selling the pink contracts. A company so unethical that it would allow spammers free reign is goint to have a non-existant abuse department. Don't get mad, get ever...
Sure another company could compete. But they have to lay down an entire new infrastructure. If you want to pick a different phone company, you use the same phone line system, regardless of wether its PacBell, GTE, or whoever else. If you have a choice of power providers, they all use the same power lines.
This is not the case with cable, and gutless corrupt politicians aren't helping. Either require the same fair conditions for multiple cable companies to prosper, or regulate the hell out of cable, starting with the rates they can charge.
There are a few overbuilders out there: RCN, Winfirst, that are trying to deploy new systems over the top of existing ones. Winfirst deployed such a system in Sacramento, but they are in financial trouble now do to a lack of venture capital. Fiber to the curb, integrated phone/cable/net in one package, etc.
Its a royal pita, but try 1-800-555-1212 and ask for the authority for the 800 # in question. ie ATT, MCI, etc.
Then you have to contact them, and ask for their legal departement and ask where do you send a subpoena to get all the necessary info to sue their customer. This usually rattles the low level individual who takes the call and gets you bumped up into management.
Next, take a field trip to someplace with a lot of pay phones, and start calling those 800 numbers. If you have to sit around an airport for a couple of hours before your flight - well start racking up charges on those 800 lines.
Those infomercials in a major marked (SF, LA, NY, Chi) cost $3k to $5k PER RUN! and they keep running them. If they weren't making money they wouldn't keep paying to run them. Makes you wonder just how many morons are in the major markets, doesn't it...
It gets published in the newspaper, a couple of weeks after the sale closes.
Name of buyer, name of seller, address, price paid.
So not only is it public record, but it is also widely published. Its in the San Jose Mercury News every week (Saturday or Sunday - i forget which) here.
You can get the price hidden, there is a procedure for it during the purchase process. But the buyer/seller is going to be published - people often use trusts to protect a bit against some of the publicity, especially celebrities.
They do - if you die and release (don't get resurrected by another pc) - you lose points of constitution and have to pay to get them back...It gets very expensive at high levels
A telemarketer calls their modem only 2nd phone line. Wife answers while the telemarketing woman goes into her speil - some kind of insurance. Husband starts making gay sex sounds in background, occasionally getting really loud. The loud outbursts cause the telemarketer to lose her place in the script, causing her to start over. The wife acts sincerely interested. After about 10 minutes, the woman gives up and gets her supervisor to continue the sale - he is a little brighter and hangs up within 2 or 3 minutes.
To this day I laugh hard thinking about this one - truly a classic.
No, you can't. After 6 boxes, I gave up and downgraded to the basic box. Just waiting to free up the coin for a Replay 4k.
the pvr becomes very unstable after 30 days. after 60 days, it reboots every 24 hours. everything was fine until they added the keyboard control functions (the ir keyboard option they sell for an extra $15). Ever since that was added the pvr became really unstable. Prior to that patch I never had any trouble. Too bad their software engineers won't revert to the old code.
HD tuner and pvr - with the caveat: copyrighted materials will be recorded in standard definition.
I have no idea wether they mean HBO-HD, or everything, except maybe PBS. (at least PBS has some of the best HD content out there - watch a nature type program and you'll see what i mean)
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actually I meant uu.net hosted spammers. The spam I got was from spammers uu.net wouldn't terminate. However forcing their sales morons to deal with the volume of spam I was getting got me off the spam lists.
are you still getting uu.net spam?
they stopped spamming me a long time ago. I made thier sales drones suffer by forwarding all the spam back to sales@uu.net, in addition to abuse. of course uu.net abuse was ignored. went from 5-10 spams per day via uu.net to one every 3 or 4 months.
Which decks? The things are too durable. I have FINALLY gotten the ok to remove the last 3/4" machines - the damn things won't die, and the @#$# sales staff don't want to lose them, "just in case" they can sell some spot with half-assed old 3/4" quality.
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I've seen old BVW-10s are still running strong, and those are ancient. Aside from upper drums, and the odd scanner, I haven't seen problems with any of sony's commercial (professional) equipment. I work on some old sony cameras, which get so hot inside you can get blisters if you aren't careful - still going 20+ years later.
Haven't worked on any digi-beta yet, so don't know about the long term quality there.
Personally, I have NEVER regretted purchasing a Sony product, either consumer or professional.
just my
Contact your local radio and television stations. Really hook them by letting them know that the kind of people who are sending sexually graphic pictures to children, and other forms of spam, via email are operating in town.
Especially if you are somewhere besides the northeast or west coast of the US. The more conservative the area, the harder you play up the porn/threat to children angle.
heh, I'd love to find out you're in some small bible belt town, causing the town to come out and lynch the spammers. Then I'd get to see it on tv myself.
Of course the whole Walmart/Best Buy/etc we won't carry it is the best advertising they could have had. How many people here would never even have heard of the game if not for this arcticle? And how many people will now go out and buy this game that would never have done so otherwise?
In light of all of this, does anyone want to bet that this idiot(s) in the DC area, when they get caught, will try and blame the whole thing on playing GTA 3 or something similar?
don't remember who to credit the quote to:
"A lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client."
I just noticed that his webpage WAS on my ferret list of sites.
I prefer theferretstore.com
however it sounds like your ferrets have been borrowing your pc the way my 4 have...
i keep finding my web browser on:
http://home1.gte.net/wrenched/weezil.htm
I had a battle with fax.com a couple of years ago. By fluke i happened to find out who was ordering the spam. It was the Center for missing and exploited children. They were selling advertising to various people and trying to use the charity as a cover to do what is illegal to do commercially. (anti-telemarketing laws specifically exempt political and non-profits from laws governing them, but this does not apply to faxes).
So I complained to Sun and Computer Associates (the two biggest donors to the Center) and very quickly I got an appology from the center's director and the junk fax stopped. Until about 2 months ago when it started up again.
text of letter:
We are sorry that you have been inconvenienced
with the fax transmissions sent out by Fax.com.
If you will provide me with your fax numbers, I
will contact Fax.com and request that they remove
your numbers immediately from their database.
Our ability to use Fax.com to distribute posters
of missing children has been a great success and
has resulted in the recovery of a number of
missing children. We certainly understand your
request and will make every effort to stop the
transmissions to you when you provide me with your
fax numbers.
I am forwarding a copy of your fax message request
to Fax.com
--
Ben J. Ermini, Director
NCMEC Missing Children's Division
703-837-6236
and the response to my reply:
Thank you for your rapid response. I have directed Fax.com to remove your fax
number from their database.
Fax.com has assured us that all NCMEC poster fax transmissions are sent to fax
numbers that have agreed to participate in the poster distribution program.
We are sorry for any inconvenience that we have caused you.
Ben J. Ermini
---
so once again spammers lie. My fax is unlisted etc, and never opted into any such program.
sorry if this is long winded by fax spammers are even worse than email spammers in my book
Are they? I don't get spam from uu.net vermin anymore. I started bouncing every uu.net orginated spam to sales@uu.net - guess what. Their sales people started complaing to me about spamming them. After a couple of months the spam slowed dramatically, and I can't remember the last time a uu.net originated spam turned up in my mailbox. I think I have seen 1 spam for a uu.net hosted site.
The way to slow the spam is deluge the people selling the pink contracts. A company so unethical that it would allow spammers free reign is goint to have a non-existant abuse department. Don't get mad, get ever...
Sure another company could compete. But they have to lay down an entire new infrastructure. If you want to pick a different phone company, you use the same phone line system, regardless of wether its PacBell, GTE, or whoever else. If you have a choice of power providers, they all use the same power lines.
This is not the case with cable, and gutless corrupt politicians aren't helping. Either require the same fair conditions for multiple cable companies to prosper, or regulate the hell out of cable, starting with the rates they can charge.
There are a few overbuilders out there: RCN, Winfirst, that are trying to deploy new systems over the top of existing ones. Winfirst deployed such a system in Sacramento, but they are in financial trouble now do to a lack of venture capital. Fiber to the curb, integrated phone/cable/net in one package, etc.
Its a royal pita, but try 1-800-555-1212 and ask for the authority for the 800 # in question. ie ATT, MCI, etc.
Then you have to contact them, and ask for their legal departement and ask where do you send a subpoena to get all the necessary info to sue their customer. This usually rattles the low level individual who takes the call and gets you bumped up into management.
Next, take a field trip to someplace with a lot of pay phones, and start calling those 800 numbers. If you have to sit around an airport for a couple of hours before your flight - well start racking up charges on those 800 lines.
why does this vermin still have a pulse?
only one I can think of - getting ahold of spammers identities. Be nice if that info was made public.
Well, if they move off-shore, then they may take the risk of not having personal/consitiutional rights to protect them.
Let them all move to Russia - professional hit men are inexpensive there...
I work in television engineering
Those infomercials in a major marked (SF, LA, NY, Chi) cost $3k to $5k PER RUN! and they keep running them. If they weren't making money they wouldn't keep paying to run them. Makes you wonder just how many morons are in the major markets, doesn't it...
No - the navy is good about keeping barnacles scraped off of their ships hulls...it slows their speed noticably.
Now an old rust-bucket freighter/tanker with lots of nice sharp barnacles...
I almost went and bought a laserdisc player, because I saw 5 boxed sets of 5 each laserdisks.
They were complete sets of WB cartoons, by decade, like $250/set.
It would have been worth it if I could have just found/begged/borrowed/stolen the cash.
Words can't even begin to describe the magnitude of this loss.
Congrats man
and what a way to do it...
It gets published in the newspaper, a couple of weeks after the sale closes.
Name of buyer, name of seller, address, price paid.
So not only is it public record, but it is also widely published. Its in the San Jose Mercury News every week (Saturday or Sunday - i forget which) here.
You can get the price hidden, there is a procedure for it during the purchase process. But the buyer/seller is going to be published - people often use trusts to protect a bit against some of the publicity, especially celebrities.
They do - if you die and release (don't get resurrected by another pc) - you lose points of constitution and have to pay to get them back...It gets very expensive at high levels
There is a relationship between Mythic and Vivendi-Universal. Thats some serious ambulance chaser power on tap...
A friend did something that was a riot
A telemarketer calls their modem only 2nd phone line. Wife answers while the telemarketing woman goes into her speil - some kind of insurance. Husband starts making gay sex sounds in background, occasionally getting really loud. The loud outbursts cause the telemarketer to lose her place in the script, causing her to start over. The wife acts sincerely interested. After about 10 minutes, the woman gives up and gets her supervisor to continue the sale - he is a little brighter and hangs up within 2 or 3 minutes.
To this day I laugh hard thinking about this one - truly a classic.
No, you can't. After 6 boxes, I gave up and downgraded to the basic box. Just waiting to free up the coin for a Replay 4k.
.02
the pvr becomes very unstable after 30 days. after 60 days, it reboots every 24 hours. everything was fine until they added the keyboard control functions (the ir keyboard option they sell for an extra $15). Ever since that was added the pvr became really unstable. Prior to that patch I never had any trouble. Too bad their software engineers won't revert to the old code.
my
There is a Sony box out for Dish I beleive.
HD tuner and pvr - with the caveat: copyrighted materials will be recorded in standard definition.
I have no idea wether they mean HBO-HD, or everything, except maybe PBS. (at least PBS has some of the best HD content out there - watch a nature type program and you'll see what i mean)