Asking someone to leave and informing someone they are banned from the property are two different things. Since he wasn't arrested for criminal tresspass, we can deduce that he never was told he was banned.
Well, actually, it was a Sony Vaio - and it wasn't an actual scroll wheel (that would of have made sense and stuff, especially seeing how it was centered between the mouse buttons) - I discovered this after I installed the drivers, it was basically a "scroll me to alt tab between applications or go through sony's magical menu of apps we think you should have". Never did get the damn thing working as a scroll wheel. The laptop was stolen at the begining of this year and between that useless wheel, the actual honest to god desktop p4 processor that sucked the batteries dry in an amazing amount of time, the insurance settlement and the deal I got on a replacement laptop, I found it really, really hard to feel all that bad about losing it. You can see a wee bit of the laptop in this pic. Link (yes, the insurance lady loved that picture too, lol) I'd love a laptop with a scroll wheel too.
It's a bit of both, actually... When was the last time you heard of a large corporate chain lose their ability to process visa or mastercard, even if they did something stupid like leak thousands of cc numbers? Last I checked (a while ago) Discover was expensive for the merchant, which is why a lot of places don't take it.
Changing a wep key every hour would not only be a pain in the ass for the store, it would be pretty abusive to the paying customer, which is why shops usually don't do something so stupid. Daily I could understand though.
Clearly, because there aren't any people who are classified as sex offenders whose cime was public urination or having sex at 17 with your 16 year girlfriend (or if both were 17 years old) and her mommy complained to the police. Then again, you're right, the average jury is made up of people who think like you. Never mind.
Ignoring the fact that the courts routinely side with the police in wrongful arrest suits, it would be trivial for the officer to claim that he banned the person from the property instead of the "knock it off" as stated in the article. Take into account that the accused is also a sex offender and I'd put down $50 that he'll never see a penny.
Then you ban him from the property and if he comes back, call the cops who charge him with criminal tresspass. Simple. Effective. Done thousands of times and would probably even work without the slightest hitch legally when it comes to banning him from the network, even if he isn't on land that the company company owns or has control over.
The question is whether it is theft of service from the cable / dish company assuming the store is using that instead of bunny ears or whatever. The answer is "fuck no."
Perhaps, but if a cop tells you to "knock it off" one day, without tellling you that you are banned from the property, it will be sort of difficult for the prosecution to secure a conviction for tresspass. Maybe they did, but the "qaulity reporting" of katu leaves us a little light on details. I'm guessing that they didn't because otherwise he would of have been charged with criminal tresspass and this would be a pretty open and shut case.
Maybe your dumb ass should build a fucking fence, just like every other fucking human being in the last 5000 or so years has done when they wanted privacy. Just a thought.
Just a FYI - Discover is a bitch to do chargebacks with (if you received any "service" - even if you didn't use it, you won't get your money back), but AMEX will do the chargeback quickly, without problems, give you a massage and will leave a mint on your pillow in the morning. They will also quickly drop retailers who have lots of chargebacks, etc. Visa and MC are somewhere in the middle.
Not trying to shill, check forums around the net if you want confirmation. If you are going to use a card with a company where you suspect you may have problems, use the appropriate card.
When I worked in a call center, we were under standing orders (i.e. don't = termination) to disconnect a call if the customer mentioned they were recording it on one contract - believe it was the Blockhead contract. Sort of funny, but what do you expect from a job that doesn't care whether you are so shitfaced that you can't stand up for more than 5 seconds... We drank Bacardi 151 (actually, the bottom shelf 151) pretty much openly in our cube. Obviously we didn't keep the bottle out, but when you open a bottle of 151, you can smell that for 20 feet in all directions... Call centers are, at the same time, both fun and terrible places to work.
I got the same treatment a while back when I was cancelling an account from AOL -- not quite as bad, but close. The rep kept offering me free months in exchange for not cancelling.
Ditto, but when I tried to cancel (years ago), I talked them into giving me 6 months free, threw a reminder into my pda to call them in 5 months and 3 weeks and did the same thing over and over for just under 2 years. It was actually kind of crazy and was a running joke in the family for a while. Free dialup access sometimes is nice, even in this day and age where pretty much every hotel has wifi. The way I see it, this way everyone wins - the CSRs got their brownie points for retention and "Hey, umm... you do realize that I've had your service for free for 2 years" is a great way to kick the CSR into reality and letting you cancel without too much trouble. Mooching free stuff off retention CSRs can be fun and profitable too. Hold times are usually the shortest out of all the branches too.
My variation on that is to boot it, toss a copy \winnt\system and system32 to another box on the network and then reformat. Not having to go to a shitty website to download 30 drivers (clicking "I agree" to a 26 page license agreement for each file) saves me tons of time (especially for laptops, dear god, the freaking scroll wheel needs a driver?). Just keep on pointing windows to one of those 2 folders and you'll have a fully working system in far less time than running the installs, etc.
It might be extortion, but if one or two of these companies burned to the ground after a leak, it might convince others to get serious.
Remember boys and girls, improvised napalm can be made with egg whites, gasoline and salt (about 4 eggs and a tablespoon of salt to a liter). Smells good too. Just leave the cell phone at home, go to a gas station without cameras (or siphon) and pay cash.
/No, I'm not serious.
//would have a hard time shedding a tear if it happened though.
If you live in the city and don't have a car, getting the big bulky stuff home is a pain in the ass. When I lived at PSU, I often biked down to the safeway to pick up fresh meat and veggies and did the "buy bulk stuff all at once" every month or so in my car. Having a car there was a bit of a pain in the ass because the meter maids constantly issued fraudulent tickets, etc. Could see this as being a kick ass thing for college students - especially is amazon prime covers it. Besides - most college students eat mainly non perishable food.
Tried an alpha build on a dual processor 1.3ghz xeon box with 512mb ram and it ran like molasses in the winter, mainly because it was paging so much stuff to disk (lord knows what, I hadn't installed anything but the os)... Haven't installed the beta because I was scarred by that experience. Hopefully this will stop OEMs from selling machines with 128mb of ram.
And what about RTS's? The genre has evolved by leaps and bounds in terms of gameplay in the last 5 years (try playing the original command and conquer and you can see the evolution. Ignoring the whole genre is doing a pretty big disservice.
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Asking someone to leave and informing someone they are banned from the property are two different things.
Since he wasn't arrested for criminal tresspass, we can deduce that he never was told he was banned.
Well, actually, it was a Sony Vaio - and it wasn't an actual scroll wheel (that would of have made sense and stuff, especially seeing how it was centered between the mouse buttons) - I discovered this after I installed the drivers, it was basically a "scroll me to alt tab between applications or go through sony's magical menu of apps we think you should have".
Never did get the damn thing working as a scroll wheel.
The laptop was stolen at the begining of this year and between that useless wheel, the actual honest to god desktop p4 processor that sucked the batteries dry in an amazing amount of time, the insurance settlement and the deal I got on a replacement laptop, I found it really, really hard to feel all that bad about losing it.
You can see a wee bit of the laptop in this pic. Link (yes, the insurance lady loved that picture too, lol)
I'd love a laptop with a scroll wheel too.
Hehe, well, you need to have something unique to be able to find it in the mess that we call the 'net ;)
It's a bit of both, actually... When was the last time you heard of a large corporate chain lose their ability to process visa or mastercard, even if they did something stupid like leak thousands of cc numbers? Last I checked (a while ago) Discover was expensive for the merchant, which is why a lot of places don't take it.
Changing a wep key every hour would not only be a pain in the ass for the store, it would be pretty abusive to the paying customer, which is why shops usually don't do something so stupid. Daily I could understand though.
Clearly, because there aren't any people who are classified as sex offenders whose cime was public urination or having sex at 17 with your 16 year girlfriend (or if both were 17 years old) and her mommy complained to the police.
Then again, you're right, the average jury is made up of people who think like you. Never mind.
Ignoring the fact that the courts routinely side with the police in wrongful arrest suits, it would be trivial for the officer to claim that he banned the person from the property instead of the "knock it off" as stated in the article.
Take into account that the accused is also a sex offender and I'd put down $50 that he'll never see a penny.
Then you ban him from the property and if he comes back, call the cops who charge him with criminal tresspass.
Simple. Effective. Done thousands of times and would probably even work without the slightest hitch legally when it comes to banning him from the network, even if he isn't on land that the company company owns or has control over.
The question is whether it is theft of service from the cable / dish company assuming the store is using that instead of bunny ears or whatever.
The answer is "fuck no."
Perhaps, but if a cop tells you to "knock it off" one day, without tellling you that you are banned from the property, it will be sort of difficult for the prosecution to secure a conviction for tresspass.
Maybe they did, but the "qaulity reporting" of katu leaves us a little light on details. I'm guessing that they didn't because otherwise he would of have been charged with criminal tresspass and this would be a pretty open and shut case.
Maybe your dumb ass should build a fucking fence, just like every other fucking human being in the last 5000 or so years has done when they wanted privacy.
Just a thought.
they had probable cause that he was violating the terms of his parole (by using an open AP to surf anonymously
Really? So sex offenders can't go to coffee shops or internet cafes and use the internet there?
Sounds like bullshit.
Because nobody has ever been arrested for "resisting arrest" eh?
Just a FYI - Discover is a bitch to do chargebacks with (if you received any "service" - even if you didn't use it, you won't get your money back), but AMEX will do the chargeback quickly, without problems, give you a massage and will leave a mint on your pillow in the morning. They will also quickly drop retailers who have lots of chargebacks, etc.
Visa and MC are somewhere in the middle.
Not trying to shill, check forums around the net if you want confirmation. If you are going to use a card with a company where you suspect you may have problems, use the appropriate card.
When I worked in a call center, we were under standing orders (i.e. don't = termination) to disconnect a call if the customer mentioned they were recording it on one contract - believe it was the Blockhead contract.
Sort of funny, but what do you expect from a job that doesn't care whether you are so shitfaced that you can't stand up for more than 5 seconds... We drank Bacardi 151 (actually, the bottom shelf 151) pretty much openly in our cube. Obviously we didn't keep the bottle out, but when you open a bottle of 151, you can smell that for 20 feet in all directions...
Call centers are, at the same time, both fun and terrible places to work.
I got the same treatment a while back when I was cancelling an account from AOL -- not quite as bad, but close. The rep kept offering me free months in exchange for not cancelling.
Ditto, but when I tried to cancel (years ago), I talked them into giving me 6 months free, threw a reminder into my pda to call them in 5 months and 3 weeks and did the same thing over and over for just under 2 years. It was actually kind of crazy and was a running joke in the family for a while.
Free dialup access sometimes is nice, even in this day and age where pretty much every hotel has wifi.
The way I see it, this way everyone wins - the CSRs got their brownie points for retention and "Hey, umm... you do realize that I've had your service for free for 2 years" is a great way to kick the CSR into reality and letting you cancel without too much trouble.
Mooching free stuff off retention CSRs can be fun and profitable too. Hold times are usually the shortest out of all the branches too.
My variation on that is to boot it, toss a copy \winnt\system and system32 to another box on the network and then reformat.
Not having to go to a shitty website to download 30 drivers (clicking "I agree" to a 26 page license agreement for each file) saves me tons of time (especially for laptops, dear god, the freaking scroll wheel needs a driver?). Just keep on pointing windows to one of those 2 folders and you'll have a fully working system in far less time than running the installs, etc.
It might be extortion, but if one or two of these companies burned to the ground after a leak, it might convince others to get serious.
/No, I'm not serious.
Remember boys and girls, improvised napalm can be made with egg whites, gasoline and salt (about 4 eggs and a tablespoon of salt to a liter). Smells good too. Just leave the cell phone at home, go to a gas station without cameras (or siphon) and pay cash.
//would have a hard time shedding a tear if it happened though.
If you live in the city and don't have a car, getting the big bulky stuff home is a pain in the ass. When I lived at PSU, I often biked down to the safeway to pick up fresh meat and veggies and did the "buy bulk stuff all at once" every month or so in my car. Having a car there was a bit of a pain in the ass because the meter maids constantly issued fraudulent tickets, etc. Could see this as being a kick ass thing for college students - especially is amazon prime covers it. Besides - most college students eat mainly non perishable food.
Actually, you are, and it is probably this episode.
The wikipedia entry for Jack is pretty damn funny / sad.
What about... The Indians and other people who own and run tons of casinos in Washington?
Tried an alpha build on a dual processor 1.3ghz xeon box with 512mb ram and it ran like molasses in the winter, mainly because it was paging so much stuff to disk (lord knows what, I hadn't installed anything but the os)...
Haven't installed the beta because I was scarred by that experience.
Hopefully this will stop OEMs from selling machines with 128mb of ram.
Well, at least Dell, HP and Acer are happy. Wonder if MS owns any stock in those companies...
And what about RTS's?
The genre has evolved by leaps and bounds in terms of gameplay in the last 5 years (try playing the original command and conquer and you can see the evolution. Ignoring the whole genre is doing a pretty big disservice.