If you piss off 5 more people who get infected by the machine that is spewing viruses and spam, and they all leave, then what? You just lost 5 customers by not "bending over backwards to make them happy" by removing the source of the hack attempts/spam that is causing them trouble.
Uh, right. I paid for it, they shipped it. It's mine. If I'd gotten one early, and they called me demanding it back, I'd say "Nope, not happening. I paid you, you sent me the goods. Do not contact me again." I'd like to see them try to force me to give them something that is no longer their property.
Right click on them and select "Adblock iframe" and set the string to 'http://*.googlesyndication.com'. Or 'http://*/pagead/*'. Or 'http://*/show_ads.js'.
What ads?;) Though for that site I do buy from banner advertisers that sell things on it. The ads are relevant -- I just don't want to see the banners themselves since they make the page look bad. It's much cleaner without them. They even provide a nice little directory:
I'm on Charter and I'm not so sure it's filtered... I've switched to backup DNS servers before. Just as a test, I removed Charter's servers from my list (I have like 8 more servers behind their two as fallbacks), applied the change (I use Mac OS X 10.3) and then went to example.net. My machine successfully looked up the domain and went to the associated website.
What's the easiest way to check to see if your machine does indeed fetch records from another server? dig?
The space.com version of this story (where I originally heard about this) goes on to say:
Disclosure: collectSPACE Editor Robert Pearlman is among the collectors who unknowingly purchased items stolen from the Cosmosphere. In response to a request by NASA, he has surrendered the artifact - an Apollo spacesuit strap-on pocket - to NASA's Inspector General.
If the items are showing up in the hands of other people, who know where they got them from (if you're a serious collector, you keep records) then there's definitely something fishy there.
When you sign a document stating that something's in your possession, you verify that first by actually physically making sure you still have it. If you do not, you are liable for making a false statement because it was your responsibility to ensure that you were affixing your signature to a true statement. A lot of papers like that do state "Under penalty of perjury, I state that..." so yes, you are legally responsible for making sure the statement on the document is true.
Much of B5's plot was written before the show ever started, so whether or not Sinclair was originally thinking he'd be on the show for multiple seasons, his role did change because it was designed to be changed before the show ever got started.
While the actor (I forget his name; Boxleitner plays his replacement) had to put a lot of time in in the first season (appearing in most episodes), he does appear again later (for spoiler's sake I won't say how, as it's a Vital Plot Point (tm)) in a couple of the later episodes.
Also, I note that most shows, whatever the length of their run, don't change character actors mid-series. Usually, if an actor quits, the character vanishes. (Like Claudia Christian in Babylon 5 -- Ivanova disappeared as a result of her quitting and only reappears in the final episode, which was filmed before she quit. Ivanova wouldn't have been the same without her!)
Although a great deal of them should last longer -- seems to me that the network execs' rule is "If a TiVo with that one particular SID is recording that show, kill it!"
One television adaptation of a fantasy novel series I love got killed literally a day or two before the start of production -- because it wasn't Buffy-like and the producers refused to make it so. (It wouldn't have fit, not at all, but they bitched anyway).
It's not like it matters that much... this show is well known (even to those non-watchers like me) for going through lead actors like a kid through M&Ms. They'll just switch actors again and write it off like they have every time previously with the magical plot-wand. (And, apparently, those who do watch the show don't seem to care -- not to offend any of them, just to note a fact).
And it sounds to me like this guy didn't do anything aggressive or anything. He just wanted to pay their bullshit fee and go home. When they touched and detained him, they falsely imprisoned him. They should not have done that.
He was only being an ass because the store attempted to rip him off. I'd have been an ass too if someone had magically invented fees (with no contract agreeing to them) after I'd settled the account and left.
Ah, sorry for the confusion. I should have been more specific -- I referred to calls that asked for information that could be used for ID theft. The kind of call you mean isn't a problem.
I wish they'd did that before I suddenly found myself out $800! (Thankfully, lots of yelling at the bank and at the thieving companies who helped themselves to my credit got refunds back, but it should not have taken a month!)
If you get fired from a company that you signed an NDA for, that doesn't mean you can tell everyone what's in the NDA. Like, if you leave the military, they still expect you to respect their NDAs. (I'm sure they have some term for that).
And if you're doing work for a US company which does business where it's illegal to disclose said records, said company bound you to an NDA where you can't talk about the records. So if you break the contract, YOU ARE BREAKING THE LAW. I highly doubt that, in Pakistan, you're allowed to break contracts you sign. In fact, I understand that sometimes the payback for doing something like that is, shall we say, much more painful than what happens here...
So no, no "good for her" from me, either. In fact, I'd have thrown the book at her.
They got caught because the people who were stolen from yelled at the bank and demanded refunds... the same way I've had to yell at my bank (not Citibank) until I finally (after weeks) got refunded in full for fraudulent charges on my credit card.
What upsets me is that the three companies who illegally charged my card took a day or so each to do it and I had to wait multiple weeks to get credited back (and to get my name removed from the fake website one company put up using my funds).
Quick to steal, slow to pay the restitution. Pathetic. And they wouldn't have done anything at all to pay me back, I suspect, if I hadn't started leaning on them. Heavily.
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So is AOL, thank you.
If you piss off 5 more people who get infected by the machine that is spewing viruses and spam, and they all leave, then what? You just lost 5 customers by not "bending over backwards to make them happy" by removing the source of the hack attempts/spam that is causing them trouble.
Uh, right. I paid for it, they shipped it. It's mine. If I'd gotten one early, and they called me demanding it back, I'd say "Nope, not happening. I paid you, you sent me the goods. Do not contact me again." I'd like to see them try to force me to give them something that is no longer their property.
Right click on them and select "Adblock iframe" and set the string to 'http://*.googlesyndication.com'. Or 'http://*/pagead/*'. Or 'http://*/show_ads.js'.
/*banner/
;) Though for that site I do buy from banner advertisers that sell things on it. The ads are relevant -- I just don't want to see the banners themselves since they make the page look bad. It's much cleaner without them. They even provide a nice little directory:
Try it on this URL:
VWvortex Forums: Golf IV & Jetta IV
I also have blocks on this page on:
http://*.qksrv.net/*
What ads?
VWvortex - The Volkswagen Enthusiast Website
And we don't have enough of that crap already? It's not going to go away no matter what.
I'm on Charter and I'm not so sure it's filtered... I've switched to backup DNS servers before. Just as a test, I removed Charter's servers from my list (I have like 8 more servers behind their two as fallbacks), applied the change (I use Mac OS X 10.3) and then went to example.net. My machine successfully looked up the domain and went to the associated website.
What's the easiest way to check to see if your machine does indeed fetch records from another server? dig?
I'm hearing-impaired and I needed this badly. Thank you. It may not be full subtitles on the screen, but I can arrange my windows so I can read along.
I've seen captioned Quicktimes (BMWfilms) but they are rare. More needed! Hopefully that will happen.
Source: Former Museum Director Indicted in Theft of Space Artifacts
When you sign a document stating that something's in your possession, you verify that first by actually physically making sure you still have it. If you do not, you are liable for making a false statement because it was your responsibility to ensure that you were affixing your signature to a true statement. A lot of papers like that do state "Under penalty of perjury, I state that..." so yes, you are legally responsible for making sure the statement on the document is true.
The trick is, "Was it planned?"
Much of B5's plot was written before the show ever started, so whether or not Sinclair was originally thinking he'd be on the show for multiple seasons, his role did change because it was designed to be changed before the show ever got started.
While the actor (I forget his name; Boxleitner plays his replacement) had to put a lot of time in in the first season (appearing in most episodes), he does appear again later (for spoiler's sake I won't say how, as it's a Vital Plot Point (tm)) in a couple of the later episodes.
Also, I note that most shows, whatever the length of their run, don't change character actors mid-series. Usually, if an actor quits, the character vanishes. (Like Claudia Christian in Babylon 5 -- Ivanova disappeared as a result of her quitting and only reappears in the final episode, which was filmed before she quit. Ivanova wouldn't have been the same without her!)
Although a great deal of them should last longer -- seems to me that the network execs' rule is "If a TiVo with that one particular SID is recording that show, kill it!"
One television adaptation of a fantasy novel series I love got killed literally a day or two before the start of production -- because it wasn't Buffy-like and the producers refused to make it so. (It wouldn't have fit, not at all, but they bitched anyway).
Arrrrrg.
It's not like it matters that much... this show is well known (even to those non-watchers like me) for going through lead actors like a kid through M&Ms. They'll just switch actors again and write it off like they have every time previously with the magical plot-wand. (And, apparently, those who do watch the show don't seem to care -- not to offend any of them, just to note a fact).
And it sounds to me like this guy didn't do anything aggressive or anything. He just wanted to pay their bullshit fee and go home. When they touched and detained him, they falsely imprisoned him. They should not have done that.
He was only being an ass because the store attempted to rip him off. I'd have been an ass too if someone had magically invented fees (with no contract agreeing to them) after I'd settled the account and left.
Ah, sorry for the confusion. I should have been more specific -- I referred to calls that asked for information that could be used for ID theft. The kind of call you mean isn't a problem.
I wish they'd did that before I suddenly found myself out $800! (Thankfully, lots of yelling at the bank and at the thieving companies who helped themselves to my credit got refunds back, but it should not have taken a month!)
There's one problem: I'm female. :)
Please see my previous comment on this statement.
If you get fired from a company that you signed an NDA for, that doesn't mean you can tell everyone what's in the NDA. Like, if you leave the military, they still expect you to respect their NDAs. (I'm sure they have some term for that).
And if you're doing work for a US company which does business where it's illegal to disclose said records, said company bound you to an NDA where you can't talk about the records. So if you break the contract, YOU ARE BREAKING THE LAW. I highly doubt that, in Pakistan, you're allowed to break contracts you sign. In fact, I understand that sometimes the payback for doing something like that is, shall we say, much more painful than what happens here ...
So no, no "good for her" from me, either. In fact, I'd have thrown the book at her.
They were confused? They should be expecting and encouraging that sort of thing!
They got caught because the people who were stolen from yelled at the bank and demanded refunds ... the same way I've had to yell at my bank (not Citibank) until I finally (after weeks) got refunded in full for fraudulent charges on my credit card.
What upsets me is that the three companies who illegally charged my card took a day or so each to do it and I had to wait multiple weeks to get credited back (and to get my name removed from the fake website one company put up using my funds).
Quick to steal, slow to pay the restitution. Pathetic. And they wouldn't have done anything at all to pay me back, I suspect, if I hadn't started leaning on them. Heavily.
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I *do* watch only PBS or Discovery or the History Channel... on my TiVo, you insensitive clod!
With Adblock at least, when you put them on your block list, the ads go away.