2. Send Lexus a certified letter telling them to stop.
3. Call the FTC to find out who you can file a complaint with.
4. File the complaint.
5. CC the complaint to your congress critters, and the congress critters of the location you send the complaint, and any other congress critter that you think may be interested.
The only point in needlessly harrassing someone for taking pictures of trains, or undersides of aircraft is worthless security theater. If you are doing covert surveillance, you aren't going to have a nice, noticeable camera rig with you, you are going to have a camera phone, and will look like you are texting someone, or holding your phone waiting for an important call, when you are taking your images.
Sure, it's not the best quality... be right back, someone's at the door
I've had a customer like this as well. He was in the early stages of Alzheimer's. He would often times have problems getting his documents to print, claiming the printer drivers were the problem. Every time I saw his machine, he had at least a dozen identical drivers installed for his printer. I typed up the instructions for what I did to his machine each time I saw it for him. That reduced the number of visits to the shop for his printer problems.
He was great fun to talk with about the old times. He was an engineer that worked on designing some of the first punch card readers. Tragic the way that knowledge can be taken away from someone like that.
If I recall correctly, we only charged him on his first visit, before realizing what the true nature of his problem was.
Ever hear of the Virus Creation Laboratory? Better than open source, it was a code factory that emitted them without heavy duty coding at all.
No, it wasn't better than open source, it was worse. Had VCL been open source, then it could have been fixed by the community, rather than abandoned. By now, we could not only have the source code for the viruses, but could also have *.vcl files that would allow your copy of VCL to quickly reproduce the original virus with you own copy of VCL.
Imagine the possibilities of taking the vcl file for your favorite/least favorite virus. Loading it up and tweaking it to your very own needs. All without having to do any heavy coding. Tired of that virus ridden spam bot filling your inbox, create a computer "bacteriophage" that targets the spam bots and wipes their hard drives.
I know, I know, you ask why not just remove the spambot and let the machine live on. That would be just treating the symptoms of the larger problem. The larger problem being the computer running the spambot. If you wipe the hard drive often enough, the physical owner of the
machine will eventually learn to better secure their machine and not let the problem return. Sure, they will probably still have no clue that they were spamming the world and will only have taken the steps to keep the bacteriophage from wiping their hard drive, but the end result will be the same. That and a lot of us here will profit from the lusers bringing their machines in for repairs. It's a win-win situation for us.
You are implying by your response that these students aren't using the technology to communicate the classroom topic. Rather than having to "hide" under their desks, the typically high school or middle school students using SMS should be *encouraged* to learn the proper uses of new technology.
Yes, that is what I'm implying. The only reason they would need to hide their messaging under the desk, if they are using it to communicate the classroom topic, is if they are using it to cheat on their tests. Unless the kid knows an expert in the field of the class they are in, there is very little reason for them to text anyone while in class.
Of course, with our crippled public school system (another topic entirely), kicking out kids who fail is difficult or impossible.
I would put some responsibility on these 10+ year old kids - pay attention or you might get the boot. If SMS helps you stay on-topic and enhance the conversation with your fellow students, that should be encouraged.
So, you would rather have these kids out running the streets, rather than trying to get them into an environment where they can, at a minimum, learn a trade so that they may earn a living once they grow up. I was going to ask for a ticket to the utopian world you live in, but obviously, you want to introduce huge problems to that world.
People in the business world multi-task meetings via email and SMS frequently, and there is no reason that high school kids can't be brought into the modern era.
High school classes are not business meetings. Business meetings can easily be influenced in many ways by outside communications, ie... a stock market crash or rally, a lawsuit being filed that affects the companies interest, a major failure in one of the companies products, an explosion or major accident at one of the companies manufacturing plants... the list goes on and on.
I can see very little outside influence that would affect the instructors curriculum that the instructor would not be receiving from a source other than the students, (do note the above exception).
And when the hell are the malware writers going to start open sourcing their code? They do everything they can to push their pre-compiled binaries onto people's machines, why not the source as well?
Most of my profs in college didn't care if we showed up to class on a regular basis. As long as the assignments were done, and we were there for the tests, no problem. Just don't try asking the prof for help with something you don't understand if you don't show up for the class on a regular basis.
I can't speak for the others here, but my post wasn't referring to college students.
It's one thing to be a bored honor roll student reading a book, (been there, done that), it's quite another to be an average student chit-chatting away with your friends when you should be making an effort to learn.
Your teachers probably never bothered you about it because your work got done, and you did well in the class. If you didn't do well in the class, they should have been all over your ass about it. It really confuses teachers when you ace an AP math course doing pretty much what you did, (OK, I admit, I did use that class to catch up on sleep from time to time as well).
Since then, we've sent & received as much as 40,000 text messages a month combined.
I call bullshit on this one. How can you have a girlfriend while sending and receiving 40,000 texts per month. Not only would there be no time for sleep, but you would have to forgo eating and sex as well.
160bytes isn't much but that's still data that has undergo handshaking, be routed around a limited bandwidth network, processed to find the destination then sent to the destination phone.
There are only 2 small segments that the message has to go through that have limited bandwidth:
1. From the originating phone to the tower.
2. From the tower to the destination phone.
All other processing, routing, etc... is going over the same large pipes that the voice traffic goes over. The situation your post implies would be that of your internet connection being only able to handle 1 protocol at a time, ie... I can surf the web, or IM with friends, or listen to streaming music, but I cannot do more than one of those things simultaneously.
If the control messages were handled end to end on what would essentially be a dial-up connection, then text message rates would be much more excessive, and we would have those exact same connection rates charged every time we attempted to make, or received, a cell call, whether or not the call connected.
What?!? We need an excuse to get up in arms about Microsoft? I would say you must be new here, but I just looked at your ID. Did you steal this account from someone else?
More to the point, why would I choose to pay for metered useage of MY machine?
From TFPatentApplication:
A computer with scalable performance level components... The scalable performance level components may include a processor, memory, graphics controller, etc.
Yep, "components" == hardware. Now if they provide me a top of the line gaming rig, that I can exchange yearly, and they provide all maintenance and support, then sign me up.
In this case, they would actually have to pay for cops to be near the speed cameras looking for kids taping fake plates over their real ones. The cameras are there to increase revenue and reduce costs, why would they want to incur extra expenses?
There are usually city ordinances to cover things like lawn and maintenance neglect. Here you are likely to find the city demolition crew at your door if things get too far out of hand. After a few fines, and other nasties from the city, he will learn that it is easier to pay someone to keep the lawn mowed, etc... than to sit in court, pay outrageous fines, have his property condemned...
I wonder why the idea of "cut spending" and "lay off 75% of the government staff who are doing nothing but surfing the net" never occurs to these Governors and Legislators?
But then they wouldn't have any staffers to order around at will. Imagine how less efficient they would be if they no longer felt that kind of immediate power.
Jhon, it's not just the schools, you are forgetting several things.
Increasing illegal immigrant populations also means that the rest of the infrastructure has increased maintenance costs, as well as costs for expansions that would otherwise not be needed at this time, (roads, hospitals, law enforcement, fire departments).
Artificially increased labor pool == deflated wages.
Costs of deportation/incarceration for the "unlucky" few that do get caught.
Before anyone decides to mod me a troll, I am not anti-immigrant, I am anti-illegal-immigrant. Our immigration laws may need some reform, but I feel that before we can even begin such a debate, the illegal immigrant problem has to be addressed.
FWIW, a client, and dear friend of mine, immigrated here from Peru, put himself through Harvard with money he earned in the Alaskan fishing industry, and has had his US citizenship for years. I think that it is total bull shit that his non-citizen, non-resident family members, that are abiding by our immigration laws, have to keep traveling between here and Peru waiting for their residence status, while illegal immigrants just come and stay with no respect for our laws and have lobbying groups demanding that they be allowed to stay and have the same rights as citizens and non-residents. Another friend, from Belize, got his citizenship just in time to vote in the Presidential election. He runs a property management company.
Immigration works, illegal-immigration does not work.
USPS generates lots of it's revenue from bulk rate mail. Like it or not, that junk mail the mailman always delivers is what keeps our postal rates low.
I don't understand why they just don't make the anti-phishing functions a separate library that can be updated independently of whatever program that is calling it.
Actually, rattle snakes are quite peaceful creatures. They give you a little warning if you startle them or get to close. You then can back away and all is cool with the world. It's those damned cotton mouths you need to shoot on site. They are vicious, nothing but plain vicious. They will come at you for no reason at all.
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You need to find a different source for your downloads.
1. Check out your state's telemarketing laws.
2. Send Lexus a certified letter telling them to stop.
3. Call the FTC to find out who you can file a complaint with.
4. File the complaint.
5. CC the complaint to your congress critters, and the congress critters of the location you send the complaint, and any other congress critter that you think may be interested.
The only point in needlessly harrassing someone for taking pictures of trains, or undersides of aircraft is worthless security theater. If you are doing covert surveillance, you aren't going to have a nice, noticeable camera rig with you, you are going to have a camera phone, and will look like you are texting someone, or holding your phone waiting for an important call, when you are taking your images.
Sure, it's not the best quality... be right back, someone's at the door
I've had a customer like this as well. He was in the early stages of Alzheimer's. He would often times have problems getting his documents to print, claiming the printer drivers were the problem. Every time I saw his machine, he had at least a dozen identical drivers installed for his printer. I typed up the instructions for what I did to his machine each time I saw it for him. That reduced the number of visits to the shop for his printer problems.
He was great fun to talk with about the old times. He was an engineer that worked on designing some of the first punch card readers. Tragic the way that knowledge can be taken away from someone like that.
If I recall correctly, we only charged him on his first visit, before realizing what the true nature of his problem was.
Ever hear of the Virus Creation Laboratory? Better than open source, it was a code factory that emitted them without heavy duty coding at all.
No, it wasn't better than open source, it was worse. Had VCL been open source, then it could have been fixed by the community, rather than abandoned. By now, we could not only have the source code for the viruses, but could also have *.vcl files that would allow your copy of VCL to quickly reproduce the original virus with you own copy of VCL.
Imagine the possibilities of taking the vcl file for your favorite/least favorite virus. Loading it up and tweaking it to your very own needs. All without having to do any heavy coding. Tired of that virus ridden spam bot filling your inbox, create a computer "bacteriophage" that targets the spam bots and wipes their hard drives.
I know, I know, you ask why not just remove the spambot and let the machine live on. That would be just treating the symptoms of the larger problem. The larger problem being the computer running the spambot. If you wipe the hard drive often enough, the physical owner of the machine will eventually learn to better secure their machine and not let the problem return. Sure, they will probably still have no clue that they were spamming the world and will only have taken the steps to keep the bacteriophage from wiping their hard drive, but the end result will be the same. That and a lot of us here will profit from the lusers bringing their machines in for repairs. It's a win-win situation for us.
You are implying by your response that these students aren't using the technology to communicate the classroom topic. Rather than having to "hide" under their desks, the typically high school or middle school students using SMS should be *encouraged* to learn the proper uses of new technology.
Yes, that is what I'm implying. The only reason they would need to hide their messaging under the desk, if they are using it to communicate the classroom topic, is if they are using it to cheat on their tests. Unless the kid knows an expert in the field of the class they are in, there is very little reason for them to text anyone while in class.
Of course, with our crippled public school system (another topic entirely), kicking out kids who fail is difficult or impossible.
I would put some responsibility on these 10+ year old kids - pay attention or you might get the boot. If SMS helps you stay on-topic and enhance the conversation with your fellow students, that should be encouraged.
So, you would rather have these kids out running the streets, rather than trying to get them into an environment where they can, at a minimum, learn a trade so that they may earn a living once they grow up. I was going to ask for a ticket to the utopian world you live in, but obviously, you want to introduce huge problems to that world.
People in the business world multi-task meetings via email and SMS frequently, and there is no reason that high school kids can't be brought into the modern era.
High school classes are not business meetings. Business meetings can easily be influenced in many ways by outside communications, ie... a stock market crash or rally, a lawsuit being filed that affects the companies interest, a major failure in one of the companies products, an explosion or major accident at one of the companies manufacturing plants... the list goes on and on. I can see very little outside influence that would affect the instructors curriculum that the instructor would not be receiving from a source other than the students, (do note the above exception).
And when the hell are the malware writers going to start open sourcing their code? They do everything they can to push their pre-compiled binaries onto people's machines, why not the source as well?
Most of my profs in college didn't care if we showed up to class on a regular basis. As long as the assignments were done, and we were there for the tests, no problem. Just don't try asking the prof for help with something you don't understand if you don't show up for the class on a regular basis.
I can't speak for the others here, but my post wasn't referring to college students.
It's one thing to be a bored honor roll student reading a book, (been there, done that), it's quite another to be an average student chit-chatting away with your friends when you should be making an effort to learn.
Your teachers probably never bothered you about it because your work got done, and you did well in the class. If you didn't do well in the class, they should have been all over your ass about it. It really confuses teachers when you ace an AP math course doing pretty much what you did, (OK, I admit, I did use that class to catch up on sleep from time to time as well).
Since then, we've sent & received as much as 40,000 text messages a month combined.
I call bullshit on this one. How can you have a girlfriend while sending and receiving 40,000 texts per month. Not only would there be no time for sleep, but you would have to forgo eating and sex as well.
When you are in class, your attention should be on the class, not your stupid fucking phone.
160bytes isn't much but that's still data that has undergo handshaking, be routed around a limited bandwidth network, processed to find the destination then sent to the destination phone.
There are only 2 small segments that the message has to go through that have limited bandwidth:
1. From the originating phone to the tower.
2. From the tower to the destination phone.
All other processing, routing, etc... is going over the same large pipes that the voice traffic goes over. The situation your post implies would be that of your internet connection being only able to handle 1 protocol at a time, ie... I can surf the web, or IM with friends, or listen to streaming music, but I cannot do more than one of those things simultaneously.
If the control messages were handled end to end on what would essentially be a dial-up connection, then text message rates would be much more excessive, and we would have those exact same connection rates charged every time we attempted to make, or received, a cell call, whether or not the call connected.
What?!? We need an excuse to get up in arms about Microsoft? I would say you must be new here, but I just looked at your ID. Did you steal this account from someone else?
More to the point, why would I choose to pay for metered useage of MY machine?
From TFPatentApplication:
A computer with scalable performance level components... The scalable performance level components may include a processor, memory, graphics controller, etc.
Yep, "components" == hardware. Now if they provide me a top of the line gaming rig, that I can exchange yearly, and they provide all maintenance and support, then sign me up.
One of two very common ingredients in thermite. Hell of an incendiary.
In this case, they would actually have to pay for cops to be near the speed cameras looking for kids taping fake plates over their real ones. The cameras are there to increase revenue and reduce costs, why would they want to incur extra expenses?
There are usually city ordinances to cover things like lawn and maintenance neglect. Here you are likely to find the city demolition crew at your door if things get too far out of hand. After a few fines, and other nasties from the city, he will learn that it is easier to pay someone to keep the lawn mowed, etc... than to sit in court, pay outrageous fines, have his property condemned...
I wonder why the idea of "cut spending" and "lay off 75% of the government staff who are doing nothing but surfing the net" never occurs to these Governors and Legislators?
But then they wouldn't have any staffers to order around at will. Imagine how less efficient they would be if they no longer felt that kind of immediate power.
Wish I had mod points now.
Jhon, it's not just the schools, you are forgetting several things.
Increasing illegal immigrant populations also means that the rest of the infrastructure has increased maintenance costs, as well as costs for expansions that would otherwise not be needed at this time, (roads, hospitals, law enforcement, fire departments).
Artificially increased labor pool == deflated wages.
Costs of deportation/incarceration for the "unlucky" few that do get caught.
Before anyone decides to mod me a troll, I am not anti-immigrant, I am anti-illegal-immigrant. Our immigration laws may need some reform, but I feel that before we can even begin such a debate, the illegal immigrant problem has to be addressed.
FWIW, a client, and dear friend of mine, immigrated here from Peru, put himself through Harvard with money he earned in the Alaskan fishing industry, and has had his US citizenship for years. I think that it is total bull shit that his non-citizen, non-resident family members, that are abiding by our immigration laws, have to keep traveling between here and Peru waiting for their residence status, while illegal immigrants just come and stay with no respect for our laws and have lobbying groups demanding that they be allowed to stay and have the same rights as citizens and non-residents. Another friend, from Belize, got his citizenship just in time to vote in the Presidential election. He runs a property management company.
Immigration works, illegal-immigration does not work.
Only when they can't harvest info to make a buck with.
Funny, I thought all those long words meant, "We are searching your notes so that we know what advertisements to cram down your throat."
How much more productive work do you get done in those first 5 minutes of the day because your machine is powered on all night?
Does that extra "5 minutes of productive work" get offset by the amount of time you spend on slashdot while at work?
How much company money...errr...time do you spend on slashdot while at work each day?
(Don't even expect me to answer that one.)
but am I the only one who thinks that alot of popular open source projects are stinking piles of crap?
I would probably say something in agreement, and even add a bit of my own comments, but I don't feel like burning up my karma today.
USPS generates lots of it's revenue from bulk rate mail. Like it or not, that junk mail the mailman always delivers is what keeps our postal rates low.
I don't understand why they just don't make the anti-phishing functions a separate library that can be updated independently of whatever program that is calling it.
Actually, rattle snakes are quite peaceful creatures. They give you a little warning if you startle them or get to close. You then can back away and all is cool with the world. It's those damned cotton mouths you need to shoot on site. They are vicious, nothing but plain vicious. They will come at you for no reason at all.