I promise, it's true. An also, I've noticed that the long distance carriers *have* stopped patching through calls. Occasionally, it seems like I can slip through, but for the most part, 10-10-321 or 220 will give me a message that I need to contact their billing office (with no information on how to do that, FYI.)
I also think it's an odd circumstance. I'm guessing I asked for extra privacy somewhere along the line, and the two policies clashed.
True, But my phone company doesn't even pass along other carrier's bills to me. I don't have a long distance carrier selected, so if I dial and do get connected at all, then I can presume it's on my local plan. Anything else it's up to who ever I call to set up an account and bill me on their own. Most numbers that expect to get money when I call them expect to get it from my phone company, so they don't bother with me. When my phone company doesn't give it to them, they're at a loss, all they have is my phone number.
I saw this warning a while ago, in an email. I figured it was about as realistic as the warnings about my kidneys, but before I told the person that it wasn't true, I called my operator and asked. It turns out, this may be legal, but while I was on the phone, I found something else out. My phone company, PennTelecom will not a.) pass along any third party bills, (except for a long distance provider specified by me), and b.) will not give out any personal information on me. The effect is that if I dial any number that is supposed to collect money from me, the company that is supposed to collect the money has to send me a bill themselves, they can't just add it onto my phone bill. However, they also can't send me a bill because my phone company adheres to their privacy policy and won't give them my name or address.
I used one of the 10-10 numbers once, and I got a bill from AT&T mailled to me, addressed to one of my aliases. Obviously they'd pulled the name from some marketting database and managed to match up my phone number that way, but they obviously didn't have any actual evidence to force me to pay that bill, or ruin my aliases credit.
Does anyone else think of "Adam Ant" everytime they see this? I picture a nearly indestructable singer telling the bad guys what a goodie two shoes he is.
I agree here. When looking at who to promote, if more than one person has enough qualifications, i can see taking the second, or even third or fourth best for a job if s/he's the one whose 'Paid the most dues'. I still feel that someone should be qualified before being promoted, even if that means letting a nice person ride the same chair for a decade or two.
Besides, when you get a payraise, do you want to tell people that you've been promoted from "Junior Admin for Icons and Buttons" to "Senior Admin For Icons And Buttons", or would you rather just get a $1.13 payraise because your bitmap skills have improved?
Another aspect is that too many job titles can breed discontent. If you have a guy whose been working there for a few years, and just worked up to "Senior Admin for Icons and Buttons", but some new guys shows up and is only a "Junior Admin for Icons and Buttons", but does know more, he's going to get upset that he's not promoted. (And I do happen to agree that seniority and time spent with a company should be a factor in determining who gets promoted.)
Wasn't that the point of the Universal Serial Bus? To be the only kind of connector you need? It seems to be working, even my mother can figure out how to plug that in, and without having to worry about what else is plugged in, or if there are any free ports (assuming you actually have at least one to plug it in to) it's just easy.
Actually, this looks like something that would be very useful if you have a laptop, and wanted to be able to use it to play music for others, like a traveling DJ.
If you look through the actual disk part of a floppy diskette (Either 5.25 or 3.5 size), you will see the sun as a red circle, and you can safely watch the eclipse through them.
Can't say if the diskette will survive, never tried it with one I liked.
Wil did pretty well. Made it to being one of the last three people (Robert Picardo And LeVar Burton went on, LeVar won), and I think he could have taken Robert. LeVar was pretty sharp, though.
Also, it was good to see the EFF on a more 'Mainstream' medium. Go Wil!
What was with Roxanne? She was honestly out to get Wil at first, and she just seemed like a real bitch, otherwise.
While it's fairly obvious he's being intentionally vauge about which site he is bashed on, during the credits he thanks the people at aintitcool for giving him subject material for the movie.
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I have every faith the editors read the article.
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They also can be protected in many legal systems as a RELIGION.
And Slashdot Has The Freedom Of The Press and Freedom Of Speah On It's Side. It Reports What It hears, And Aside from The Copyrighted Texts They Have, We Are Allowed To Say Anything We Want For The Same Reason they Are Allowed To believe Whatever They Want: The First Amendment.
I Also Think That If they Do Sue Us, We Would Win. Right Now, They Have No Context In Which To sue Us, So To Do So Would Be Very Foolish On Their Part. I Don't Think They're Going to Try To Attack Slashdot for Nothing, but It Does Seem Like both The Community And The Admins Are A Bit Sore At Having To Delete A Comment. I Think They Would Be Willing To Go A Few Rounds If It Meant Denting The Egoes Of The Scientologists.
And There Is Nothing Wrong With Trouble, As Long As It's Trouble With A Good Reason.
Slashdot Itself Has Been Targetted For Being Set Against Scientology. I Wonder If The Scientologists Are Going To Start Seeing Slashdot As An Actuall opponent And Start Doing More Against Them, Things Akin To What They've Done To Poor Keith. All I Can Say Is I Hope So. I Think It's Horrible That The Justice System Can Be Perverted So Easily, Like With These Sort Of Events, And The DMCA, And Many Other Places Where It Becomes An Issue Of Power As To Who Wins The Court Case, Not Who Was Right. The Courts Were Put There To Protect The Little Guy, The Opinion No One Likes, And The Outcasts. If The Scientologists Do End Up Trying To Take On Slashdot, I'm Sure Slashdot, With It's Users And Andover Backing, Help Can To Win A Court Case, And Maybe Start To Put These Cultists In Their Place.
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I Don't See Any Reason that 2600, Or Anyone At All, Shouldn't be Allowed To Point A Link To Ford. That Is, After All, What A DNS Entry Is: a Link. At No Point Did Anyone Claim To Be Ford, And Any Whois Database Will Clearly Point Out Who Does Control The Link, In This Case:
WHOIS information for fuckgeneralmotors.com:
Registrar: CORE INTERNET COUNCIL OF REGISTRARS
Organization: emmanuel@2600.com
address: PO Box 99
Middle Island, NY 11953 US
If I Were To Buy Some Land Across From A Ford Dealer, And Put Up A Sign That Said "Fuck General Motors!" With An Arrow Pointing Across The Street, Aside From A Possible Obsenity Charge From The State, I Should have Nothing To Fear, Especially Nothing From Ford, As I Haven't Done Anything By Point At Them.
More Information On this Can Be Read At http://www.fordreallysucks.com, Which Is Also Registered By Emmanuel Goldstien.
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At the risk of sounding a bit too cliche, why would we put up with this at all? Cameras are easy to deal with, simply walk through them, until you are underneath them, so you can't be seen by them, and from there, reach up and cover them with a sticker or some duct tape. It could even be fun, just get a bunch of stickers made up that say "Down with Big Brother!" on them, and whenever you see a camera, cover it. Granted, nothing puts a red flag up faster than a monitor going dead somewhere, but if you are just passing through, odds are you will be out of the area faster than it takes maintence to responed.
I realize this means I am outright advocating vandalism, but when laws and rules are set directly against you, sometimes, the best option is massive civil disobedience, such as the DeCSS case. --------------------
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An M$ product that lasts Years? At best I give anything one year until the service release is out, then the next upgrade. --------------------
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I also think it's an odd circumstance. I'm guessing I asked for extra privacy somewhere along the line, and the two policies clashed.
10-10 Numbers are third party calls, so they patch through. They aren't expected to be my long distance carrier.
Ah. So that's where my friend got it. I've never had the slightest temptation to watch that show, so I'd have never know. Thanks.
True, But my phone company doesn't even pass along other carrier's bills to me. I don't have a long distance carrier selected, so if I dial and do get connected at all, then I can presume it's on my local plan. Anything else it's up to who ever I call to set up an account and bill me on their own. Most numbers that expect to get money when I call them expect to get it from my phone company, so they don't bother with me. When my phone company doesn't give it to them, they're at a loss, all they have is my phone number.
I used one of the 10-10 numbers once, and I got a bill from AT&T mailled to me, addressed to one of my aliases. Obviously they'd pulled the name from some marketting database and managed to match up my phone number that way, but they obviously didn't have any actual evidence to force me to pay that bill, or ruin my aliases credit.
I realized I, and my friends, were geeks when I heard chemistry jokes outside of school. Not just randomly, but at a party i'd held.
Incidently, they were:
A,U, Gimmie back my gold!
C-U later, copper.
(I know, and they're funnier when you've had a few beers.)
Does anyone else think of "Adam Ant" everytime they see this? I picture a nearly indestructable singer telling the bad guys what a goodie two shoes he is.
I agree here. When looking at who to promote, if more than one person has enough qualifications, i can see taking the second, or even third or fourth best for a job if s/he's the one whose 'Paid the most dues'. I still feel that someone should be qualified before being promoted, even if that means letting a nice person ride the same chair for a decade or two.
Besides, when you get a payraise, do you want to tell people that you've been promoted from "Junior Admin for Icons and Buttons" to "Senior Admin For Icons And Buttons", or would you rather just get a $1.13 payraise because your bitmap skills have improved?
Another aspect is that too many job titles can breed discontent. If you have a guy whose been working there for a few years, and just worked up to "Senior Admin for Icons and Buttons", but some new guys shows up and is only a "Junior Admin for Icons and Buttons", but does know more, he's going to get upset that he's not promoted. (And I do happen to agree that seniority and time spent with a company should be a factor in determining who gets promoted.)
So, Is The New One An Opitcal, Or Wireless Mouse?
As a rabid Buffy Fan, I respectfully request this is changed to 'Once more with feeling', just because it would have made me laugh.
Wasn't that the point of the Universal Serial Bus? To be the only kind of connector you need? It seems to be working, even my mother can figure out how to plug that in, and without having to worry about what else is plugged in, or if there are any free ports (assuming you actually have at least one to plug it in to) it's just easy.
Actually, this looks like something that would be very useful if you have a laptop, and wanted to be able to use it to play music for others, like a traveling DJ.
This might be a good answer to This question.
Can't say if the diskette will survive, never tried it with one I liked.
Spoiler, If you didn't watch yet:
Wil did pretty well. Made it to being one of the last three people (Robert Picardo And LeVar Burton went on, LeVar won), and I think he could have taken Robert. LeVar was pretty sharp, though.
Also, it was good to see the EFF on a more 'Mainstream' medium. Go Wil!
What was with Roxanne? She was honestly out to get Wil at first, and she just seemed like a real bitch, otherwise.
While it's fairly obvious he's being intentionally vauge about which site he is bashed on, during the credits he thanks the people at aintitcool for giving him subject material for the movie.
The first link works, but to get to the nude pic, you have to go through yahoo, I think they are bouncing any traffic to that image from slashdot.org, or possibly any place not on yahoo.
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At first I thought it was the models for the characters, but it's the CGI.
Taken from Sci-Fi News.
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I have every faith the editors read the article. Just because they read the article doesn't mean they understand the article.|
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And Slashdot Has The Freedom Of The Press and Freedom Of Speah On It's Side. It Reports What It hears, And Aside from The Copyrighted Texts They Have, We Are Allowed To Say Anything We Want For The Same Reason they Are Allowed To believe Whatever They Want: The First Amendment.
I Also Think That If they Do Sue Us, We Would Win. Right Now, They Have No Context In Which To sue Us, So To Do So Would Be Very Foolish On Their Part. I Don't Think They're Going to Try To Attack Slashdot for Nothing, but It Does Seem Like both The Community And The Admins Are A Bit Sore At Having To Delete A Comment. I Think They Would Be Willing To Go A Few Rounds If It Meant Denting The Egoes Of The Scientologists.
And There Is Nothing Wrong With Trouble, As Long As It's Trouble With A Good Reason.
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Slashdot Itself Has Been Targetted For Being Set Against Scientology. I Wonder If The Scientologists Are Going To Start Seeing Slashdot As An Actuall opponent And Start Doing More Against Them, Things Akin To What They've Done To Poor Keith. All I Can Say Is I Hope So. I Think It's Horrible That The Justice System Can Be Perverted So Easily, Like With These Sort Of Events, And The DMCA, And Many Other Places Where It Becomes An Issue Of Power As To Who Wins The Court Case, Not Who Was Right. The Courts Were Put There To Protect The Little Guy, The Opinion No One Likes, And The Outcasts. If The Scientologists Do End Up Trying To Take On Slashdot, I'm Sure Slashdot, With It's Users And Andover Backing, Help Can To Win A Court Case, And Maybe Start To Put These Cultists In Their Place.
Yes, I Know I Type Funny.
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I Don't See Any Reason that 2600, Or Anyone At All, Shouldn't be Allowed To Point A Link To Ford. That Is, After All, What A DNS Entry Is: a Link. At No Point Did Anyone Claim To Be Ford, And Any Whois Database Will Clearly Point Out Who Does Control The Link, In This Case: WHOIS information for fuckgeneralmotors.com: Registrar: CORE INTERNET COUNCIL OF REGISTRARS Organization: emmanuel@2600.com address: PO Box 99 Middle Island, NY 11953 US If I Were To Buy Some Land Across From A Ford Dealer, And Put Up A Sign That Said "Fuck General Motors!" With An Arrow Pointing Across The Street, Aside From A Possible Obsenity Charge From The State, I Should have Nothing To Fear, Especially Nothing From Ford, As I Haven't Done Anything By Point At Them. More Information On this Can Be Read At http://www.fordreallysucks.com, Which Is Also Registered By Emmanuel Goldstien.
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Is that what porn companies do! I thought they made different web pages open when you closed the one at which you were looking.
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I realize this means I am outright advocating vandalism, but when laws and rules are set directly against you, sometimes, the best option is massive civil disobedience, such as the DeCSS case.
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An M$ product that lasts Years? At best I give anything one year until the service release is out, then the next upgrade.
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