I'm curious...does Verizon offer a business account?
Yes, they do offer a business service, with a static IP and no port blocking. It's about twice as expensive as the residential service at the same speeds.
However, there's some sort of dependency between the TV service and residential service. You can't get TV with a business internet account on the same Optical Network Terminal (ONT) at your premises. Some people have been successful in having a second ONT installed at their house.
Also..what if you don't need landline phone...they won't sell you fiber internet and/or tv if you don't get phone service too?
I don't believe you must have phone service, but I'm not sure. However, you do get a discount for the bundle.
Although it was reportedly inspired by an earlier version, it will always be the "classic version" for me, as it's one of the first computer games I ever played (the other was Colossal Cave Adventure).
Download and compile it, and experience the awe-inspiring sight of motion rendered on an 80x25 green-screen CRT!
Others have modded you "funny", but you are closer to the truth than you might think.
My first cell-phone was the Dynatac featured in the article summary. I primarily used it to call air traffic control for departure clearances from the non-towered airport where my plane was based. It made things much easier when I could taxi to the runway, do my run-up, call ATC and say: "I'm ready to take off". They could issue an immediate clearance with a short void time, and not tie up the airspace for a long time.
Motorola offered the Star-Tac shortly afterwards, but it was really expensive. They also released a slightly smaller version of the Dynatac. It wasn't as thick and heavy, but it was still substantial. And it was affordable.
About that time, several of my women friends bought cellphones to carry in their cars for use in an emergency. I warned all of them to buy a car charger, because the battery will probably be dead when it was needed most. One responded: "well, if the phone is dead, at least this model is heavy enough to use as a weapon."
He's an idiot. First off to the dealer cash, cheque or finance makes no difference to them. Secondly car dealers offer some insanely low interest rates (like 0%).
There's no such thing as a "no-interest" loan, especially from a car dealer. All they are doing is inflating the price of the vehicle and recovering their cost of financing up front.
Next time you are offered a 0% loan, ask how much they will discount the purchase price if you pay cash up front. Even if you don't have the cash, you'll probably find that arranging your own financing with your bank or credit union will yield a lower payment after they discount the price.
There are exceptions. A dealer offered to lower the price AND match a lower interest rate for a friend of mine, because he had an exemplary credit rating. The dealer said that his money lender required him to "bundle" high-risk borrowers with low-risk borrowers. By signing a loan with my friend, he could offer financing to other buyers with poor credit.
MAD Magazine may have expanded it further, but it's based on a alleged real event.
George Smathers was alleged to have given a similar speech to rural Florida audiences when challenging incumbent Claude Pepper in the 1950 Democratic primary for a US Senate seat.
However, it was not reported at the time by Florida newspapers and a $10,000 reward offered (by Smathers) to anyone that could prove it has gone unclaimed. The story was probably intended to poke fun at rural Florida (and Southern) voters, rather than Smathers.
rednecks are so popular in the USA that one even managed to get elected president.
Having grown up around many true rednecks, I can tell you with absolute certainty that Bush isn't one.
The term refers to the burn on the back of one's neck after a day of work in the sun. And after enough sunburns, the skin starts to take on the appearance of rippled leather. It makes it easy to spot the older guys that have spent their working lives outdoors.
Bush 43 would be a nobody, if he hadn't been the fortunate son of Bush 41.
I remember when I was a kid, there were highway checkpoints at the Florida border, everyone had to submit to a mandatory search to make sure they weren't carrying fruit, for fear of carrying disease.
They were trying to avoid contamination of their local crop. I don't remember what they were worried about in Florida, but California did the same thing awhile back during a fruit fly infestation.
I thought this was pretty fascistic.
No, it wasn't. A better candidate was when the US Border Patrol set up a checkpoint where the highway from the Florida Keys entered the mainland, to catch Cubans from the Mariel boatlift. As a result, everyone living in the Keys had to establish citizenship every time they went to mainland Florida. The City of Key West filed suit in federal court, but was denied.
In response, the mayor of Key West announced secession from the US and formed the Conch Republic. He declared war on the US, then immediately surrendered and demanded a billion dollars in war relief. Any resemblance to a movie was purely intentional.
How is requiring a "state issued picture ID" helpful, exactly?
It addresses at least one form of voting fraud: impersonation. For instance, an elderly family member's (who may even be deceased) voter registration is used by a younger family member to cast a fraudulent vote.
Requiring a state-issued ID also provides an opportunity to cross-check the information on the voter registration against the information on the ID, so that people cannot change their address for the purpose of voting in a different precinct.
What's needed is some sort of captcha for telephone calls.
I have one. I use a device from TalkSwitch to present the caller with two options: "If you are attempting to sell me a product or service, or are taking a poll or survey, please press 4. Otherwise, press 5".
Pressing 4 yields: "Please put me on your do-not-call list and do not call again. (click)." Pressing 5 rings the phone in my house. In practice, live telemarketers probably just hang up. Automated dialing systems don't know to press 5.
The device can recognize distinctive ring cadences, so only my listed phone number is handled this way. I give the listed number to businesses, and any caller ID that is captured from my outgoing calls also displays this number. I give the secondary number to friends and family, and it rings through without any interruption (except in the middle of the night).
The key legal term is ex parte, which means that the opposing side is not allowed to see the filed material. So, it is effectively secret and the plaintiff was not allowed to review or formulate a challenge.
This doesn't appear to have been a factor in the subsequent decision. But, I think there's a legitimate concern here: the TSA has made policy that is effectively law, but the actual policy is not public. That means that TSA is free to interpret it and change it without any oversight.
In this particular case, the plaintiff has a written statement from one of the students, who admits that he made the MySpace page with assistance from others (who are apparently not identified). That statement is corroborated by the other student named in the complaint, who has admitted that his computer was used to make the MySpace page.
According to the complaint, the local police have reportedly obtained information from MySpace that confirms the computers used to make/access the MySpace page are located at the homes of the two students named in the complaint.
actually, they spent a LOT of time cleaning as best as they could, and spent a LONG time looking for the "3rd bomb" - it fell in the ocean. They found it - it's where the submersible "Alvin" first came to real fame
The device was first found by USN diver Carl Brashears, who was portrayed by Cuba Gooding, Jr. in the movie "Men of Honor". Regrettably, Brashears passed away earlier this year.
Alvin was used to recover the device, although they did use it to find it again after losing it during an attempt to lift the device.
For the most part, parents should give teens a cc (with a low limit) and a debit card so that way when they are "on their own" they never get stranded.
I'm not so sure about a debit card: it's too easy to wipe out a checking account with fraudulent activity, and you are at the mercy of the bank to reinstate the funds on a timely basis. A better choice would be a 'stored value' card like Visa Buxx. I've known a few parents that have used it for their child's 'allowance'.
But, once they are at driving age and not yet a good credit risk, I agree with the 'low limit' card for emergencies. But if you trust the child to use it responsibly (or want to give them a chance to learn), co-signing a credit card is a way to start a good credit history for them. There are a couple of card issues in the US that offer them.
My problem with the statement is, how would he know who the votes were for? U.S. elections are conducted by secret ballot. I'm not saying 56 registered voters in a single house is not stinking of fraud -- but he had to add this detail that he knew they voted for Kennedy and the reality is he could have known no such thing.
There's one possibility: the entire precinct voted for Kennedy, or maybe 90+ percent. Under those circumstances, it would not be unreasonable to presume that clearly fraudulent votes were cast for the winner.
It unlikely that an entire precinct voted for one candidate, but it's not impossible. In the 1946 primary election that gave LBJ the Democratic nomination for US Senator, one precinct voted 203-1 for Johnson. Despite many indications of fraud and a fight that went all the way to the US Supreme Court, the election was upheld and LBJ was subsequently elected (this was back when winning a Democratic primary in Texas assured election).
LBJ "won" that election by 87 votes, earning the nickname "Landslide Lyndon". In the late 70's, the head election official at the precinct finally admitted that he had stuffed the ballot box with fraudulent votes for LBJ.
Last night, the kids in SouthPark spent most of the episode playing World of Warcraft. A large part of the animation actually occurs in WoW (or a reasonable facsimile of it).
One of the best lines in the entire show is near the end, when Cartman says in a matter-of-fact voice:
I'm not saying the Democrats commit election fraud. I'm not saying the Republicans commit election fraud. What I am saying is that at no presidential election before 2000 was election fraud even brought up.
You need to do a bit more research before making your claim.
No? You'd think nobody would bother making SATA flash disks then...
Although they are certainly interesting, they definitely aren't in the same market segment as consumer SATA drives. It took me a while to find someone that sold them:
In small quantities (less than 50), price per unit ranges from $711 USD for a 1GB drive to $3,215 USD for a 32 GB drive. If you have to ask for the price of the 128 GB drive that is offered by the manufacturer, you probably can't afford it.
Lots of things have changed in the last 10 years. P2P fileswapping is one of them. iTunes is another.
For me, it's the easy availability of commercial-free music.
When not at a client, I work in a home office. When I had a Dish Network receiver, I tuned to one of the music channels. Now that I've switched to Verizon FIOS TV, I do the same -- just a different set of channels. I let it play in the background for most of the day.
I ripped some of my CDs (most of which I've had for YEARS) into a handful of discs full of MP3's to fill the disc changer in my car, but I rarely listen to them -- because I have an XM radio receiver. If I'm bored with XM's music, I listen to one of the three different comedy channels.
I haven't been buying CDs because I'm paying subscription fees that provide the all the content I want.
The biggest error that I see in the methodology is the presumption that "owning a computer" means the owner is "engaging in file sharing". But, even setting that aside, any correlation between owning a computer and reducing CD purchases could be caused by a simple shift in priorities: a person with limited disposable income can afford CDs, but not a computer. During the measurement period, computers were relatively expensive, compared to now.
Once someone has the means to purchase a computer, CD purchases may fall off for a lot of reasons that aren't even related to the presence of a computer.
When you sign the acceptance papers and register, you usually just signed a waiver saying that the University/College owns all rights to the work you do while in school.
RTFA, my entire posting, or any of the several postings that have made the same point:
If these students were registered/enrolled at a university or even a private school, it would be different. But, these students are being compelled to assign IP rights to a third party by a school operated by a government agency. And truancy law requires these students to attend school.
As I recall, the process was something like: student is required to get Turnit in account (usually the first assignment of the semester in English). To get said account I'm sure the EULA granted Turnitin all the rights they wanted. Then, when turning in the paper, the student had to submit it to Turnitin (or the paper was late/not turned in).
Thanks for the clarification. Although the student is actually doing the submission, he/she is being compelled to do so in order to complete the assignment.
Your argument about requiring public schools not to use this is better. Extend that to public universities, please.
I think it would be difficult to extend it to public universities, because admission is still a voluntary process. I think it would also get all tied up in questions about who owns research done by public university labs. But, school attendance is mandatory in the US. Forcing a public school student to provide useful IP to a private company, without compensation, is questionable.
But, the students will have to start with the school board, then the state legislature. It's unlikely they will convince the school administration to change policy.
I think the problem here is that the company is permenantly keeping it, and I'd be pretty smarted about that as well, but then on the flip side of the coin for the company and the school, the more copies they have, the more likely (in their view) it is that they will catch those who for example, are using their older brothers essays to go through or using work taken from old pupils.
Setting aside what may be the student's true motivation, I think this is the real issue.
I wouldn't have any problem with using this service to check my work for plagiarism. But, if the service is retaining a copy of my work for checking other submissions, they would be using my IP without my permission. I'm sure that their TOS/EULA says that uploading my work for screening says that I'm granting them that permission. But, if the school is doing the checking -- I am not the one granting the permission.
A university could require that I grant them this authority as a condition for admission. But, a public high-school shouldn't be doing this. The students may have to turn to the state legislature for a remedy.
Students can apparently use the service to check their work before submission for grading. This is voluntary, so there's no reason that retention for screening other papers cannot be stipulated as a condition for doing so -- although one could argue that a draft shouldn't be retained. But, when submitting a paper for grading, the school should be able to specify that it is not to be retained by the service.
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Yes, they do offer a business service, with a static IP and no port blocking. It's about twice as expensive as the residential service at the same speeds.
However, there's some sort of dependency between the TV service and residential service. You can't get TV with a business internet account on the same Optical Network Terminal (ONT) at your premises. Some people have been successful in having a second ONT installed at their house.
Also..what if you don't need landline phone...they won't sell you fiber internet and/or tv if you don't get phone service too?
I don't believe you must have phone service, but I'm not sure. However, you do get a discount for the bundle.
For the true classic, you have to go back farther than that:
Super Star Trek.
Although it was reportedly inspired by an earlier version, it will always be the "classic version" for me, as it's one of the first computer games I ever played (the other was Colossal Cave Adventure).
Download and compile it, and experience the awe-inspiring sight of motion rendered on an 80x25 green-screen CRT!
My first cell-phone was the Dynatac featured in the article summary. I primarily used it to call air traffic control for departure clearances from the non-towered airport where my plane was based. It made things much easier when I could taxi to the runway, do my run-up, call ATC and say: "I'm ready to take off". They could issue an immediate clearance with a short void time, and not tie up the airspace for a long time.
Motorola offered the Star-Tac shortly afterwards, but it was really expensive. They also released a slightly smaller version of the Dynatac. It wasn't as thick and heavy, but it was still substantial. And it was affordable.
About that time, several of my women friends bought cellphones to carry in their cars for use in an emergency. I warned all of them to buy a car charger, because the battery will probably be dead when it was needed most. One responded: "well, if the phone is dead, at least this model is heavy enough to use as a weapon."
I put instant coffee in the microwave, and time ran backwards.
There's no such thing as a "no-interest" loan, especially from a car dealer. All they are doing is inflating the price of the vehicle and recovering their cost of financing up front.
Next time you are offered a 0% loan, ask how much they will discount the purchase price if you pay cash up front. Even if you don't have the cash, you'll probably find that arranging your own financing with your bank or credit union will yield a lower payment after they discount the price.
There are exceptions. A dealer offered to lower the price AND match a lower interest rate for a friend of mine, because he had an exemplary credit rating. The dealer said that his money lender required him to "bundle" high-risk borrowers with low-risk borrowers. By signing a loan with my friend, he could offer financing to other buyers with poor credit.
MAD Magazine may have expanded it further, but it's based on a alleged real event.
George Smathers was alleged to have given a similar speech to rural Florida audiences when challenging incumbent Claude Pepper in the 1950 Democratic primary for a US Senate seat.
However, it was not reported at the time by Florida newspapers and a $10,000 reward offered (by Smathers) to anyone that could prove it has gone unclaimed. The story was probably intended to poke fun at rural Florida (and Southern) voters, rather than Smathers.
I just downloaded and installed the Mobile Google Mail application on my Cingular phone, and it works fine.
Having grown up around many true rednecks, I can tell you with absolute certainty that Bush isn't one.
The term refers to the burn on the back of one's neck after a day of work in the sun. And after enough sunburns, the skin starts to take on the appearance of rippled leather. It makes it easy to spot the older guys that have spent their working lives outdoors.
Bush 43 would be a nobody, if he hadn't been the fortunate son of Bush 41.
They were trying to avoid contamination of their local crop. I don't remember what they were worried about in Florida, but California did the same thing awhile back during a fruit fly infestation.
I thought this was pretty fascistic.
No, it wasn't. A better candidate was when the US Border Patrol set up a checkpoint where the highway from the Florida Keys entered the mainland, to catch Cubans from the Mariel boatlift. As a result, everyone living in the Keys had to establish citizenship every time they went to mainland Florida. The City of Key West filed suit in federal court, but was denied.
In response, the mayor of Key West announced secession from the US and formed the Conch Republic. He declared war on the US, then immediately surrendered and demanded a billion dollars in war relief. Any resemblance to a movie was purely intentional.
It addresses at least one form of voting fraud: impersonation. For instance, an elderly family member's (who may even be deceased) voter registration is used by a younger family member to cast a fraudulent vote.
Requiring a state-issued ID also provides an opportunity to cross-check the information on the voter registration against the information on the ID, so that people cannot change their address for the purpose of voting in a different precinct.
I have one. I use a device from TalkSwitch to present the caller with two options: "If you are attempting to sell me a product or service, or are taking a poll or survey, please press 4. Otherwise, press 5".
Pressing 4 yields: "Please put me on your do-not-call list and do not call again. (click)." Pressing 5 rings the phone in my house. In practice, live telemarketers probably just hang up. Automated dialing systems don't know to press 5.
The device can recognize distinctive ring cadences, so only my listed phone number is handled this way. I give the listed number to businesses, and any caller ID that is captured from my outgoing calls also displays this number. I give the secondary number to friends and family, and it rings through without any interruption (except in the middle of the night).
The GP overstated the scope of the decision, but the documents cited on the website in question clearly show:
Court order to file under seal the relevant material pertaining to the identification requirement.
US DoJ files the relevant material under seal, reiterating that is ex parte and in camera.
Court order affirming that the material filed under seal is ex parte.
The key legal term is ex parte , which means that the opposing side is not allowed to see the filed material. So, it is effectively secret and the plaintiff was not allowed to review or formulate a challenge.
This doesn't appear to have been a factor in the subsequent decision. But, I think there's a legitimate concern here: the TSA has made policy that is effectively law, but the actual policy is not public. That means that TSA is free to interpret it and change it without any oversight.
According to the complaint, the local police have reportedly obtained information from MySpace that confirms the computers used to make/access the MySpace page are located at the homes of the two students named in the complaint.
The original complaint is here: http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/Draker%20Orig inal%20petition.doc. However, the student's statement (referenced in the complaint as exhibit 1) is not included in this copy.
The device was first found by USN diver Carl Brashears, who was portrayed by Cuba Gooding, Jr. in the movie "Men of Honor". Regrettably, Brashears passed away earlier this year.
Alvin was used to recover the device, although they did use it to find it again after losing it during an attempt to lift the device.
http://www.khaaan.com/
I'm not so sure about a debit card: it's too easy to wipe out a checking account with fraudulent activity, and you are at the mercy of the bank to reinstate the funds on a timely basis. A better choice would be a 'stored value' card like Visa Buxx. I've known a few parents that have used it for their child's 'allowance'.
But, once they are at driving age and not yet a good credit risk, I agree with the 'low limit' card for emergencies. But if you trust the child to use it responsibly (or want to give them a chance to learn), co-signing a credit card is a way to start a good credit history for them. There are a couple of card issues in the US that offer them.
There's one possibility: the entire precinct voted for Kennedy, or maybe 90+ percent. Under those circumstances, it would not be unreasonable to presume that clearly fraudulent votes were cast for the winner.
It unlikely that an entire precinct voted for one candidate, but it's not impossible. In the 1946 primary election that gave LBJ the Democratic nomination for US Senator, one precinct voted 203-1 for Johnson. Despite many indications of fraud and a fight that went all the way to the US Supreme Court, the election was upheld and LBJ was subsequently elected (this was back when winning a Democratic primary in Texas assured election).
LBJ "won" that election by 87 votes, earning the nickname "Landslide Lyndon". In the late 70's, the head election official at the precinct finally admitted that he had stuffed the ballot box with fraudulent votes for LBJ.
One of the best lines in the entire show is near the end, when Cartman says in a matter-of-fact voice:
"Looks like you are about to get pwned."
You need to do a bit more research before making your claim.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A36425-20 00Nov16?language=printer
Although they are certainly interesting, they definitely aren't in the same market segment as consumer SATA drives. It took me a while to find someone that sold them:
http://www.wdlsystems.com/modperl/view_services.cg i?r=list_aisle.plate&aisle_id=778
In small quantities (less than 50), price per unit ranges from $711 USD for a 1GB drive to $3,215 USD for a 32 GB drive. If you have to ask for the price of the 128 GB drive that is offered by the manufacturer, you probably can't afford it.
Even when the same guy with a beard arises from the dead and gets killed at least once more.
For me, it's the easy availability of commercial-free music.
When not at a client, I work in a home office. When I had a Dish Network receiver, I tuned to one of the music channels. Now that I've switched to Verizon FIOS TV, I do the same -- just a different set of channels. I let it play in the background for most of the day.
I ripped some of my CDs (most of which I've had for YEARS) into a handful of discs full of MP3's to fill the disc changer in my car, but I rarely listen to them -- because I have an XM radio receiver. If I'm bored with XM's music, I listen to one of the three different comedy channels.
I haven't been buying CDs because I'm paying subscription fees that provide the all the content I want.
The biggest error that I see in the methodology is the presumption that "owning a computer" means the owner is "engaging in file sharing". But, even setting that aside, any correlation between owning a computer and reducing CD purchases could be caused by a simple shift in priorities: a person with limited disposable income can afford CDs, but not a computer. During the measurement period, computers were relatively expensive, compared to now.
Once someone has the means to purchase a computer, CD purchases may fall off for a lot of reasons that aren't even related to the presence of a computer.
RTFA, my entire posting, or any of the several postings that have made the same point:
McLean High School is a public school, operated by Fairfax County Public Schools.
If these students were registered/enrolled at a university or even a private school, it would be different. But, these students are being compelled to assign IP rights to a third party by a school operated by a government agency. And truancy law requires these students to attend school.
Thanks for the clarification. Although the student is actually doing the submission, he/she is being compelled to do so in order to complete the assignment.
Your argument about requiring public schools not to use this is better. Extend that to public universities, please.
I think it would be difficult to extend it to public universities, because admission is still a voluntary process. I think it would also get all tied up in questions about who owns research done by public university labs. But, school attendance is mandatory in the US. Forcing a public school student to provide useful IP to a private company, without compensation, is questionable.
But, the students will have to start with the school board, then the state legislature. It's unlikely they will convince the school administration to change policy.
Setting aside what may be the student's true motivation, I think this is the real issue.
I wouldn't have any problem with using this service to check my work for plagiarism. But, if the service is retaining a copy of my work for checking other submissions, they would be using my IP without my permission. I'm sure that their TOS/EULA says that uploading my work for screening says that I'm granting them that permission. But, if the school is doing the checking -- I am not the one granting the permission.
A university could require that I grant them this authority as a condition for admission. But, a public high-school shouldn't be doing this. The students may have to turn to the state legislature for a remedy.
Students can apparently use the service to check their work before submission for grading. This is voluntary, so there's no reason that retention for screening other papers cannot be stipulated as a condition for doing so -- although one could argue that a draft shouldn't be retained. But, when submitting a paper for grading, the school should be able to specify that it is not to be retained by the service.