Often times, the thief sells calls at clusters of payphones in low income urban areas. The calls are made to wherever the immigrants in the area came from. These rings have phone systems like this that they hijacked, stolen prepaid phone card lists, stolen credit card lists that they can use to place calls, and so on. This is where a lot of phishing leads to. If they think anyone is on to them, they can just walk away. The authorities rarely get involved because they're too difficult to catch and the dollar amounts aren't large enough. It's a great scam because it's easy and they don't have to risk taking delivery of anything. The minutes turn into cash.
You're right, bad choice of words. Maybe I can file a patent for these features on a flash drive based DVR.
I have a DirecTV HR-20 DVR. It did have that jump back after fast forward at one point. They introduced it in a software update, and then a short while later it went away. I had assumed it was because people were annoyed with it. It drove me nuts, I was used to it not doing that.
Invented? It's a solid state VCR. VCRs have always had fast forward and rewind. This sure sounds like an "obvious" feature to me, and not something that merits a patent. Fast forward and rewind existed long before TiVo. Enabling it on a different box isn't really inventing something.
"Under the ULSD regulations, a minimum of 80 percent of the diesel fuel produced for highway vehicles must be ULSD with a maximum sulfur content of 15 parts per million (ppm), while the remaining 20 percent may be low sulfur diesel fuel (LSD) with a maximum sulfur content of 500 ppm. However, beginning June 1, 2010, all highway diesel fuel must be ULSD. Pumps used to dispense diesel fuel into motor vehicles must be labeled as to the type of diesel fuel being dispensed. The 80 percent ULSD production requirement is intended to ensure that ULSD is available for use in model year 2007 and newer diesel vehicles, which require use of ULSD."
Not that I like the idea of defending drunk drivers.. it could be argued that the drunk driver made a bad decision while impaired without any intent to do harm. The guy in the article, on the other hand, made a conscious decision to defraud the rightful owners of those copyrights in order to score a whole lot of easy money.
I'm on the fence too. Say a Xavier was arrested. The newspapers are going to publish the name on their web sites. Most of those hide their news after so many days so they can sell access to it. But not all of them do. And if anyone cuts and pastes the article into a forum for discussion, or anyplace else.. Google is going to pick it up there as well. So even if the courts hide the info, it likely exists elsewhere. Worse, elsewhere might not have the whole story. The news may have only published the arrest, but wasn't interested in following up.
If the court hides their info, how would a person ever know if the charges were tossed? Sure, they could go to the court in person. That's not very likely though, is it? If someone is casually browsing for info on someone, they're going to stop at the net.
It's a tricky issue. I do believe that public info should be available online. But I can also see the potential for harm.
I don't find flip3d particularly useful, but I do love the thumbnail images when mousing over processes on the taskbar. It's little things like that that I miss when forced to use XP on my work machine. I love the find text box that immediately gets focus on the start menu. No more hunting through the tree for stuff. I think part of Vista's problem is that none of these things are so huge that people even think about them.
I don't recall the model numbers anymore, but there several inkjet models that didn't get drivers. Maybe they were older than I thought, I did have a difficult time finding ink for some of them the last time. It's frustrating to "need" to replace hardware that functions just fine.
The whole printer industry is a scam, IMO. There's no reason why Staples should have a gigantic wall full of incompatible cartridges.
I used to favor HP, until Vista came along and they didn't bother releasing a driver for any of their older (but still fairly recent) models. Seems that they preferred to have everyone buy a new printer. Which I did, and none were HPs.
They may have more support for Linux than other manufacturers, but they're no friend of the consumer. Especially considering that debacle with the ink refills a while back.
I agree. Everyone needs to pay their fair share. "eBay" businesses should be no exception. I don't really see the privacy angle. If you're not using cash, then a third party is already privy to the transaction, and who knows who has access to it from there. Obviously privacy isn't the buyer or seller's primary concern. It's to everyone's benefit that individuals aren't able to escape their tax obligations through their unconventional business schemes. Why would we want to pay their due?
I have a Leap that I bought and took to work. It's much more comfortable than the Aeron knock-offs the company purchased.
Mine came fully assembled. I wonder if they later split the chairs in two because the delivery guys were complaining. The FedEx driver actually called me on the morning of delivery asking me to be around when he dropped it off so I could help get the enormous box off the truck.
There simply is not enough infrastructure to allow everyone to consume whatever they want, whenever they want, without making them pay for it. They do pay for it. I don't know too many people that get free high speed Internet.
This reminds me of the time when the Internet just started making it big with the public. Anyone and everyone was putting a modem in their home PC and dialing up the nearest ISP. What happened? Local exchanges got flooded with connections. Worse, the connections weren't the typical short conversations, the modem connections stayed on for hours on end.
It got to the point where callers in some areas could try to make a voice call and they'd get a reorder tone (fast busy) for any number in the exchange. Some users would get a cryptic message "we are unable to complete your call at this time." It was madness! Who was going to pay?
Yet.. we sorted it out. Even before DSL and cable Internet became available, the telcos managed to get everything flowing fairly smoothly. We find a way. How many times have we heard about "dark fiber" runs? Seems to me we have bandwidth options. We don't need metered Internet. What we need is to somehow convince the infrastructure companies to build instead of pocket the money.
The telcos had to react to the modem invasion because phone lines are heavily regulated. The net neutrality argument, the NY sales tax issue, this metered Internet plan, our falling behind other nations in available connection speeds.. perhaps it's all evidence that Internet access needs to be regulated the same way as the public telephone network is?
I've used Vista since it was in beta. The DRM hasn't stopped me from doing anything. The only software I use that does get in my way is Apple's iTunes. But we can't hate on Apple,/. loves Apple because it's not MS. That's why/. can never be taken seriously. It's a humor site.
I feel the same way. I've always found it somewhat annoying that my local bookstores toss them both on the same shelves. Fortunately, you can usually tell a fantasy book by its cover.
I haven't tried looking for any book clubs. What I usually do is check Amazon for any new books by authors I like, then if I come up empty, I check its recommendations. There's almost always something there that interests me. Then I go hit up one of the local bookstores with the list I got from Amazon. Usually another couple of books will jump out at me. It's expensive, but I end up with a nice pile of books.
Perhaps they're testing to generate articles like this. Then they get a nice shopping list of products that don't enforce the flag. They know they have to address each of them before setting the flag on everything, all the time. That way people have no escape. So be vocal, the content distributors need this information so they can lock up their content.
I guess it depends on whether you're a cynic like me, or an optimist that thinks corporations really care.
Centuries, yes. It's all of the time that makes up US history, but in terms of religious history or European history, it's not very long at all. I don't think religion tends to reinvent itself very quickly.
I've listened to some conservatives speak about what the Pope is up to, and many are angry at what they perceive as the "dumbing down" of religion. It's a lot like what has happened to our education system and our government. All these things the church expects of patrons are too difficult, Latin mass, confession, and so on, so let's skip over them and just call everyone a good catholic. This whole bit about accepting evolution really irks a lot of people. I wonder if the Pope really believes what he's saying or if he's saying that to welcome in the flock. I only refer to the Pope because it's in the news, the Vatican's antics are about the only religious news I ever hear.
I understand the replies above about persecution as well. There were many different groups that settled here and they all had a variety of reasons for leaving Europe. I was always taught that freedom of/from religion was a big factor. I grew up in New England though, so I'm sure our text books were slanted to the New England colonist's point of view. Sure, we had the Salem witch trials and isolationism of various religious groups, so the colonists didn't exactly sort things out all that great on their own.
That seems a little odd to me, as an American. One of the reasons the colonists came here was to escape religious persecution. It can't have changed all that much over the years, can it? Europe's religious elite didn't take too kindly the idea that the Earth might be round or that people might be descended from apes. Even now, the new Pope is visiting us and basically calling everyone a bunch of heathens, and telling us we need to return to Catholicism. Not terribly progressive, if you ask me.
Same here. I'm usually hovering between 48 and 50 mpg with mine. I live in NH, we don't have super densely populated anything. I love the vehicle, but I'm not terribly fond of the people that go to great lengths to explain how it's "wrong". It's a car. It gets ~50 mpg if you don't drive it like you stole it. Learn to cope.
I run Vista x64 at home, no problems. I've been running it since beta 2.
My biggest aggravation was that there was no driver for my iPod Touch, but Apple has since fixed that. That wasn't even Vista's fault anyway, although perhaps they could have allowed for 32 bit drivers.
Yea, but they're not contracting. They're pulling out and they've agreed to sell their assets, employees, and service area to Fairpoint. To me, the assets and employees are theirs to transfer, the right to service these states is not. Of course the PUC approved it, so now we're screwed. I guess the beef is more with the PUC than with Verizon, but both had a hand in this Fairpoint mess.
To say there aren't monopolies.. I just think it's silly. There is very slight competition, and it's not apples to apples. It's certainly not the way it should be.
Wow...are you actually telling me that you are pissed that you can't vote and FORCE Verizon to provide service in an area?
I should have addressed that, I just didn't want to ramble on and lose everyone. If Verizon wants out, yes, there's nothing really we can do about it. What I'm against is Verizon picking Fairpoint with no input from the people that are their potential and current customers. Fairpoint is a tiny company that has zero interest in providing next-generation services. Their only pitch is that they'll service rural areas with DSL. That offers nothing to the majority of the population that lives in urban areas.
This should have been put out to bid. Let other companies make offers to these states. Let them compete for the privilege of providing us with next-generation services. Heck, I'd like to see the defacto teleco monopoly go away, but that's not likely to happen. At the very least, the public had a right to choose the best company to take over our phone system. We shouldn't be forced to take on the worst by Verizon.
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Often times, the thief sells calls at clusters of payphones in low income urban areas. The calls are made to wherever the immigrants in the area came from. These rings have phone systems like this that they hijacked, stolen prepaid phone card lists, stolen credit card lists that they can use to place calls, and so on. This is where a lot of phishing leads to. If they think anyone is on to them, they can just walk away. The authorities rarely get involved because they're too difficult to catch and the dollar amounts aren't large enough. It's a great scam because it's easy and they don't have to risk taking delivery of anything. The minutes turn into cash.
That's part of the horror.
You're right, bad choice of words. Maybe I can file a patent for these features on a flash drive based DVR.
I have a DirecTV HR-20 DVR. It did have that jump back after fast forward at one point. They introduced it in a software update, and then a short while later it went away. I had assumed it was because people were annoyed with it. It drove me nuts, I was used to it not doing that.
Invented? It's a solid state VCR. VCRs have always had fast forward and rewind. This sure sounds like an "obvious" feature to me, and not something that merits a patent. Fast forward and rewind existed long before TiVo. Enabling it on a different box isn't really inventing something.
I'm sure it's difficult for other brands to be feature complete when TiVo has patented those obvious features.
We're already in the transition period.
"Under the ULSD regulations, a minimum of 80 percent of the diesel fuel produced for highway vehicles must be ULSD with a maximum sulfur content of 15 parts per million (ppm), while the remaining 20 percent may be low sulfur diesel fuel (LSD) with a maximum sulfur content of 500 ppm. However, beginning June 1, 2010, all highway diesel fuel must be ULSD. Pumps used to dispense diesel fuel into motor vehicles must be labeled as to the type of diesel fuel being dispensed. The 80 percent ULSD production requirement is intended to ensure that ULSD is available for use in model year 2007 and newer diesel vehicles, which require use of ULSD."
http://epa.gov/oecaerth/civil/caa/ultralow-sulfurdieselfuel.html
You should read more about it. There's a lot more to the vehicle's electric motor than being an over-sized starter.
http://prius.ecrostech.com/original/Understanding/WhatsGoingOnAsIDrive.htm
I agree with Aliencow though, the suspensions they put in them are pretty awful.
Not that I like the idea of defending drunk drivers.. it could be argued that the drunk driver made a bad decision while impaired without any intent to do harm. The guy in the article, on the other hand, made a conscious decision to defraud the rightful owners of those copyrights in order to score a whole lot of easy money.
I'm on the fence too. Say a Xavier was arrested. The newspapers are going to publish the name on their web sites. Most of those hide their news after so many days so they can sell access to it. But not all of them do. And if anyone cuts and pastes the article into a forum for discussion, or anyplace else.. Google is going to pick it up there as well. So even if the courts hide the info, it likely exists elsewhere. Worse, elsewhere might not have the whole story. The news may have only published the arrest, but wasn't interested in following up.
If the court hides their info, how would a person ever know if the charges were tossed? Sure, they could go to the court in person. That's not very likely though, is it? If someone is casually browsing for info on someone, they're going to stop at the net.
It's a tricky issue. I do believe that public info should be available online. But I can also see the potential for harm.
I don't find flip3d particularly useful, but I do love the thumbnail images when mousing over processes on the taskbar. It's little things like that that I miss when forced to use XP on my work machine. I love the find text box that immediately gets focus on the start menu. No more hunting through the tree for stuff. I think part of Vista's problem is that none of these things are so huge that people even think about them.
I don't recall the model numbers anymore, but there several inkjet models that didn't get drivers. Maybe they were older than I thought, I did have a difficult time finding ink for some of them the last time. It's frustrating to "need" to replace hardware that functions just fine.
The whole printer industry is a scam, IMO. There's no reason why Staples should have a gigantic wall full of incompatible cartridges.
I used to favor HP, until Vista came along and they didn't bother releasing a driver for any of their older (but still fairly recent) models. Seems that they preferred to have everyone buy a new printer. Which I did, and none were HPs.
They may have more support for Linux than other manufacturers, but they're no friend of the consumer. Especially considering that debacle with the ink refills a while back.
I agree. Everyone needs to pay their fair share. "eBay" businesses should be no exception. I don't really see the privacy angle. If you're not using cash, then a third party is already privy to the transaction, and who knows who has access to it from there. Obviously privacy isn't the buyer or seller's primary concern. It's to everyone's benefit that individuals aren't able to escape their tax obligations through their unconventional business schemes. Why would we want to pay their due?
I have a Leap that I bought and took to work. It's much more comfortable than the Aeron knock-offs the company purchased.
Mine came fully assembled. I wonder if they later split the chairs in two because the delivery guys were complaining. The FedEx driver actually called me on the morning of delivery asking me to be around when he dropped it off so I could help get the enormous box off the truck.
This reminds me of the time when the Internet just started making it big with the public. Anyone and everyone was putting a modem in their home PC and dialing up the nearest ISP. What happened? Local exchanges got flooded with connections. Worse, the connections weren't the typical short conversations, the modem connections stayed on for hours on end.
It got to the point where callers in some areas could try to make a voice call and they'd get a reorder tone (fast busy) for any number in the exchange. Some users would get a cryptic message "we are unable to complete your call at this time." It was madness! Who was going to pay?
Yet.. we sorted it out. Even before DSL and cable Internet became available, the telcos managed to get everything flowing fairly smoothly. We find a way. How many times have we heard about "dark fiber" runs? Seems to me we have bandwidth options. We don't need metered Internet. What we need is to somehow convince the infrastructure companies to build instead of pocket the money.
The telcos had to react to the modem invasion because phone lines are heavily regulated. The net neutrality argument, the NY sales tax issue, this metered Internet plan, our falling behind other nations in available connection speeds.. perhaps it's all evidence that Internet access needs to be regulated the same way as the public telephone network is?
I've used Vista since it was in beta. The DRM hasn't stopped me from doing anything. The only software I use that does get in my way is Apple's iTunes. But we can't hate on Apple, /. loves Apple because it's not MS. That's why /. can never be taken seriously. It's a humor site.
I feel the same way. I've always found it somewhat annoying that my local bookstores toss them both on the same shelves. Fortunately, you can usually tell a fantasy book by its cover.
I haven't tried looking for any book clubs. What I usually do is check Amazon for any new books by authors I like, then if I come up empty, I check its recommendations. There's almost always something there that interests me. Then I go hit up one of the local bookstores with the list I got from Amazon. Usually another couple of books will jump out at me. It's expensive, but I end up with a nice pile of books.
Perhaps they're testing to generate articles like this. Then they get a nice shopping list of products that don't enforce the flag. They know they have to address each of them before setting the flag on everything, all the time. That way people have no escape. So be vocal, the content distributors need this information so they can lock up their content.
I guess it depends on whether you're a cynic like me, or an optimist that thinks corporations really care.
Centuries, yes. It's all of the time that makes up US history, but in terms of religious history or European history, it's not very long at all. I don't think religion tends to reinvent itself very quickly.
I've listened to some conservatives speak about what the Pope is up to, and many are angry at what they perceive as the "dumbing down" of religion. It's a lot like what has happened to our education system and our government. All these things the church expects of patrons are too difficult, Latin mass, confession, and so on, so let's skip over them and just call everyone a good catholic. This whole bit about accepting evolution really irks a lot of people. I wonder if the Pope really believes what he's saying or if he's saying that to welcome in the flock. I only refer to the Pope because it's in the news, the Vatican's antics are about the only religious news I ever hear.
I understand the replies above about persecution as well. There were many different groups that settled here and they all had a variety of reasons for leaving Europe. I was always taught that freedom of/from religion was a big factor. I grew up in New England though, so I'm sure our text books were slanted to the New England colonist's point of view. Sure, we had the Salem witch trials and isolationism of various religious groups, so the colonists didn't exactly sort things out all that great on their own.
That seems a little odd to me, as an American. One of the reasons the colonists came here was to escape religious persecution. It can't have changed all that much over the years, can it? Europe's religious elite didn't take too kindly the idea that the Earth might be round or that people might be descended from apes. Even now, the new Pope is visiting us and basically calling everyone a bunch of heathens, and telling us we need to return to Catholicism. Not terribly progressive, if you ask me.
Same here. I'm usually hovering between 48 and 50 mpg with mine. I live in NH, we don't have super densely populated anything. I love the vehicle, but I'm not terribly fond of the people that go to great lengths to explain how it's "wrong". It's a car. It gets ~50 mpg if you don't drive it like you stole it. Learn to cope.
I had no idea there were drugs in my coffee, I swear!
I run Vista x64 at home, no problems. I've been running it since beta 2.
My biggest aggravation was that there was no driver for my iPod Touch, but Apple has since fixed that. That wasn't even Vista's fault anyway, although perhaps they could have allowed for 32 bit drivers.
Yea, but they're not contracting. They're pulling out and they've agreed to sell their assets, employees, and service area to Fairpoint. To me, the assets and employees are theirs to transfer, the right to service these states is not. Of course the PUC approved it, so now we're screwed. I guess the beef is more with the PUC than with Verizon, but both had a hand in this Fairpoint mess.
To say there aren't monopolies.. I just think it's silly. There is very slight competition, and it's not apples to apples. It's certainly not the way it should be.
Wow...are you actually telling me that you are pissed that you can't vote and FORCE Verizon to provide service in an area?
I should have addressed that, I just didn't want to ramble on and lose everyone. If Verizon wants out, yes, there's nothing really we can do about it. What I'm against is Verizon picking Fairpoint with no input from the people that are their potential and current customers. Fairpoint is a tiny company that has zero interest in providing next-generation services. Their only pitch is that they'll service rural areas with DSL. That offers nothing to the majority of the population that lives in urban areas.
This should have been put out to bid. Let other companies make offers to these states. Let them compete for the privilege of providing us with next-generation services. Heck, I'd like to see the defacto teleco monopoly go away, but that's not likely to happen. At the very least, the public had a right to choose the best company to take over our phone system. We shouldn't be forced to take on the worst by Verizon.