Perhaps by 2025 they will have realsised that this data is not worth what it is cracked up to be. Of course FTTB it is worth it to those at the top of the pyramid sale, but one day it will dawn to those propping it up at the bottom that they are being taken for a ride (just to mix metaphores). When this happens the pyramid will collapse and the smart money will be on the popcorn sales. Just like Dotcom.
I hate the stuff. The strong spice is designed to cover the taste of sub-standard or even rotting food.
Also, plenty of great minds and ideas have come from India.
Yes, if enough shit is thrown at a wall, some sticks.
Don't damn a people because you are ignorant about them.
I'm not ignorant of them, I have come across plenty and not just phone scammers. I even had an Indian GF once, and she was OK - an edge case. But the thought of her cooking for me was the deal breaker.
The article referred to "comments-on-its-creepy-clients", so I guess it is the "creepy" ones that got the comments. Clients who just wanted a "straight" massage (whatever that is) were considered non-creepy so got no comments, just their names and addresses published. I'm speculating.
Personally I can't see what is "creepy" about wanting to touch or shag an attractive woman. It might be against etiquette to try it, or scary for the woman, depending on circumstances, but not "creepy" which I associate with haunted houses etc. Moreover the word "massage" is, in many circles and parts of the world, just one of many euphemisms for "shag"; and, like "escort", is now so worn out that it is no longer even a euphemism. So, as someone said, what did this company and its workers expect?
I await the day that these restaurants and other places taking calls have their own automated assistants answering the calls
Indeed. Many of these systems are conceived on the premise that everyone in the world except the inventor himself is behind the curve, and will never move out of the Stone Age.
Automating calls shifts the costs towards the callee.
I don't understand this, perhaps because I am not in the USA. Why/how does an automated call put the cost on the callee? I asked this quesion recently in a non-automated context and was told that only with mobile calls does some cost fall to the callee, and I don't understand why a robot making the call should make any difference.
Anyone who can't remember to charge their phone, is just as likely to forget or lose their CC.
No they are not because paying by phone requires two things:-
1) To charge the phone beforehand
2) To take the phone with you
OTOH paying by credit card requires only one thing:-
1) To take the card with you
Moreover, I have the habit of checking by feel when I leave the house that my card wallet and phone are in my pocket. But I can't check the state of charge of my phone that way, and in any case even if I look at it, the little battery state icon on my phone goes from full to empty quite suddenly.
I am sitting here on my amazingly comfortable B&B Italia sofa,... while I enjoy a delicious Jimmy Johns sandwich with a Diet Cherry Pepsi.
Excellent! Meanwhile I am typing on a pre-used PC sitting on a chair I bought years ago from a shop near London, drinking a glass of tap water and eating a sandwich I made myself. Email me if you want details of how to acquire this stuff for yourself.
Not possible because some ads, and that is mainly what the issue is here, take the form of product placement. Eg, some expert photographer on Youtube is demonstrating composition and exposure. He uses a camera and it is inevitable that you will see or recognise the brand, especially if you have been thinking about buying a camera. So you might conclude that this is the brand you should use, even if the Youtube guy never mentions the brand name.
Here is my own bit of product placement. You rarely or never see Pentax cameras being used to demonstrate general photography on Youtube, and if one is explicitly reviewed it is marked down for bullshit reasons (like deliberately setting a lower resolution for the image quality test - you need to be an expert to realise what they are doing). It is mostly Canon or Sony, and sometimes Nikon that you see demonstrated. It's a reason why Pentax are significantly less buck for the same bang as Canon etc because they don't pay for this shit, or any other advertising at all that I've seen.
Some say abortion is murder, so we would have crime going up.
You can always reduce crime rates by removing laws, if you take crime by the lawyer's definition of it being something against the law. You can even reduce the crime rate to zero by not having any laws at all; however it's been tried in the past and it does not work out well. If they removed the law against murder tomorrow for example, I think I'd settle a couple of scores that way, and I'm just one relatively level-tempered person.
Musk has invented nothing. It's just another subway tunnel being bored by another tunnel boring machine. In the world ourside the USA it happens all the time.
I guess you also believe that Bill Gates invented computers.
Aha, so you admit subway lines have frequent access points - where the Boring Company seems to be able to do longer tunnels without them...
Of course subway lines have frequent access points. And I understood that Musk's idea would too; people keep saying that it will have on and off ramps all over the place because it's street footprint is so small - so they have said, but they are changing the story all the time.
Damn, that sucks. If only they were working on a technology to cheaply bore tunnels, so they could make up for a lack of serial performance by making a lot of parallel lines.
Good luck with finding the space for lots of parallel lines. I have been involved with building new London Underground lines, and a big problem is avoiding the existing network of underground railway tunnels, sewers, electric cable tunnels, deep foundation buildings, and ducted underground rivers; plus geological issues. A single larger bore tunnel takes up less footprint than several smaller bore tunnels of the same total capacity.
Elon found that small tunnels have drastic cost savings which can make them economical to build many more of...
So Musk found it cheaper to bore smaller tunnels. What a genius.
That gem of wisdom was also followed by the early London Underground railways, until they discovered what a mistake it was. Today there are abandoned tunnels under London that have been replaced by larger ones. The new Crossrail London underground line is being bored for full-sized trains.
Surface trains already kill a lot of people (and animals) every year,... daily at at-grade railroad crossings.
You quote USA statistics, where at-grade crossings and car drivers seeking Darwin awards seem to be the norm. OTOH, in the UK for example the numbers killed at crossings (or elsewhere or anyhow on the railway) are tiny compared with eg general road accidents, although when they occur they get bigger headlines just for their rarity. Even so, that does not stop more road building.
Unlike in the USA, UK railways are fenced, even in remote areas, and fencing is orders of magnitude less expensive than tunnels or tracks on stilts (like Hyperloop). In any case, no new railway would be built in the UK with any at-grade crossings. As for making a "barrier", you are just not conscious of railways as barriers in the UK, and I believe that half the population are scarcely aware that the railways even exist.
We simply can't improve our rail connections between cities at the surface level.
USA outlook again. Funny that the rest of the world is improving rail connections all the time, even from a starting point well in advance of the USA's present position. The UK's High Speed 2. for example.
One day soon someone will realise that this info is not worth what it is purported to. It is only worth "billions" (we are assured) because Facebook (and their like) can find buyers who will pay billions for it, and they buy it because they can find further buyers who will pay billions for it, and so on until in the end the info is provided as a service or retailed to smaller businesses who collectively pay even more billions for it.
But whether it brings value to those end users anywhere near what they pay for it is another matter. No-one can really tell, it is just assumed.
This info is really the stuff of a pyramid scheme, looking for some mug at the bottom to buy it.
My dad was quite upset when he called from his million dollar home..[and] customer service representative suggested that the poor reception might be from the metal roof on his mobile home... You see he lived his life paying everything in cash or with store credit.. He never had a credit card because he never needed one. When he got a cell phone they had no credit history..
Someone once did a spoof of the Duke of Edinburgh applying for a credit card. He was refused because :
Unemployed
Lives on state support
Status depends on wife
Doesn't own a home [state provides one - or several actually]
No fixed address [moves between different castles and palaces]
No previous credit card
And no spending history whatsoever [his flunkies do his purchases]
Now I feel even better I have never had a Facebook account of any kind.
I feel even better in that I once opened an account (in order to communicate with someone at the time) with entirely false information. The only thing they might have had right was my IP address but that has changed twice since then.
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Perhaps by 2025 they will have realsised that this data is not worth what it is cracked up to be. Of course FTTB it is worth it to those at the top of the pyramid sale, but one day it will dawn to those propping it up at the bottom that they are being taken for a ride (just to mix metaphores). When this happens the pyramid will collapse and the smart money will be on the popcorn sales. Just like Dotcom.
More like news from 15 years ago.
Yes, now and then the Indian police put on a show like this, but then turn a blind eye again. These scams are good for India's balance of payments.
The food is good
I hate the stuff. The strong spice is designed to cover the taste of sub-standard or even rotting food.
Also, plenty of great minds and ideas have come from India.
Yes, if enough shit is thrown at a wall, some sticks.
Don't damn a people because you are ignorant about them.
I'm not ignorant of them, I have come across plenty and not just phone scammers. I even had an Indian GF once, and she was OK - an edge case. But the thought of her cooking for me was the deal breaker.
They wanted a fucking massage
Did you mean literally fucking, or was that just for metaphorical emphasis?
The article referred to "comments-on-its-creepy-clients", so I guess it is the "creepy" ones that got the comments. Clients who just wanted a "straight" massage (whatever that is) were considered non-creepy so got no comments, just their names and addresses published. I'm speculating.
Personally I can't see what is "creepy" about wanting to touch or shag an attractive woman. It might be against etiquette to try it, or scary for the woman, depending on circumstances, but not "creepy" which I associate with haunted houses etc. Moreover the word "massage" is, in many circles and parts of the world, just one of many euphemisms for "shag"; and, like "escort", is now so worn out that it is no longer even a euphemism. So, as someone said, what did this company and its workers expect?
Well you just gave a reason why I'd like to know if it is a robot calling - because robot calls are not to be trusted.
I await the day that these restaurants and other places taking calls have their own automated assistants answering the calls
Indeed. Many of these systems are conceived on the premise that everyone in the world except the inventor himself is behind the curve, and will never move out of the Stone Age.
Automating calls shifts the costs towards the callee.
I don't understand this, perhaps because I am not in the USA. Why/how does an automated call put the cost on the callee? I asked this quesion recently in a non-automated context and was told that only with mobile calls does some cost fall to the callee, and I don't understand why a robot making the call should make any difference.
Anyone who can't remember to charge their phone, is just as likely to forget or lose their CC.
No they are not because paying by phone requires two things :-
1) To charge the phone beforehand
2) To take the phone with you
OTOH paying by credit card requires only one thing :-
1) To take the card with you
Moreover, I have the habit of checking by feel when I leave the house that my card wallet and phone are in my pocket. But I can't check the state of charge of my phone that way, and in any case even if I look at it, the little battery state icon on my phone goes from full to empty quite suddenly.
But I admitted it :-)
I am sitting here on my amazingly comfortable B&B Italia sofa,... while I enjoy a delicious Jimmy Johns sandwich with a Diet Cherry Pepsi.
Excellent! Meanwhile I am typing on a pre-used PC sitting on a chair I bought years ago from a shop near London, drinking a glass of tap water and eating a sandwich I made myself. Email me if you want details of how to acquire this stuff for yourself.
Ban all adverting and products from the internet.
Not possible because some ads, and that is mainly what the issue is here, take the form of product placement. Eg, some expert photographer on Youtube is demonstrating composition and exposure. He uses a camera and it is inevitable that you will see or recognise the brand, especially if you have been thinking about buying a camera. So you might conclude that this is the brand you should use, even if the Youtube guy never mentions the brand name.
Here is my own bit of product placement. You rarely or never see Pentax cameras being used to demonstrate general photography on Youtube, and if one is explicitly reviewed it is marked down for bullshit reasons (like deliberately setting a lower resolution for the image quality test - you need to be an expert to realise what they are doing). It is mostly Canon or Sony, and sometimes Nikon that you see demonstrated. It's a reason why Pentax are significantly less buck for the same bang as Canon etc because they don't pay for this shit, or any other advertising at all that I've seen.
We should aspire to be like Bezos and Gates ..... Look at how many peoples lives are better because of the products/services they created.
I assume this post was meant in irony.
> crime went down
Some say abortion is murder, so we would have crime going up.
You can always reduce crime rates by removing laws, if you take crime by the lawyer's definition of it being something against the law. You can even reduce the crime rate to zero by not having any laws at all; however it's been tried in the past and it does not work out well. If they removed the law against murder tomorrow for example, I think I'd settle a couple of scores that way, and I'm just one relatively level-tempered person.
My point is that this guy might be having a laugh at his victims with his name.
one developer called Luiz Pinto
Isn't "Pinto" Portuguese for a dick ?
this is a great invention by Elon!
Musk has invented nothing. It's just another subway tunnel being bored by another tunnel boring machine. In the world ourside the USA it happens all the time.
I guess you also believe that Bill Gates invented computers.
Aha, so you admit subway lines have frequent access points - where the Boring Company seems to be able to do longer tunnels without them...
Of course subway lines have frequent access points. And I understood that Musk's idea would too; people keep saying that it will have on and off ramps all over the place because it's street footprint is so small - so they have said, but they are changing the story all the time.
Damn, that sucks. If only they were working on a technology to cheaply bore tunnels, so they could make up for a lack of serial performance by making a lot of parallel lines.
Good luck with finding the space for lots of parallel lines. I have been involved with building new London Underground lines, and a big problem is avoiding the existing network of underground railway tunnels, sewers, electric cable tunnels, deep foundation buildings, and ducted underground rivers; plus geological issues. A single larger bore tunnel takes up less footprint than several smaller bore tunnels of the same total capacity.
Elon found that small tunnels have drastic cost savings which can make them economical to build many more of...
So Musk found it cheaper to bore smaller tunnels. What a genius.
That gem of wisdom was also followed by the early London Underground railways, until they discovered what a mistake it was. Today there are abandoned tunnels under London that have been replaced by larger ones. The new Crossrail London underground line is being bored for full-sized trains.
Surface trains already kill a lot of people (and animals) every year,... daily at at-grade railroad crossings.
You quote USA statistics, where at-grade crossings and car drivers seeking Darwin awards seem to be the norm. OTOH, in the UK for example the numbers killed at crossings (or elsewhere or anyhow on the railway) are tiny compared with eg general road accidents, although when they occur they get bigger headlines just for their rarity. Even so, that does not stop more road building.
Unlike in the USA, UK railways are fenced, even in remote areas, and fencing is orders of magnitude less expensive than tunnels or tracks on stilts (like Hyperloop). In any case, no new railway would be built in the UK with any at-grade crossings. As for making a "barrier", you are just not conscious of railways as barriers in the UK, and I believe that half the population are scarcely aware that the railways even exist.
We simply can't improve our rail connections between cities at the surface level.
USA outlook again. Funny that the rest of the world is improving rail connections all the time, even from a starting point well in advance of the USA's present position. The UK's High Speed 2. for example.
There was a Monty Python bit where a man hijacks a bus and orders it to take him to Cuba, for example.
... which comes at the end of a sketch (Here) where a man tries to hijack a plane flying to Cuba to divert it to Luton :-
One day soon someone will realise that this info is not worth what it is purported to. It is only worth "billions" (we are assured) because Facebook (and their like) can find buyers who will pay billions for it, and they buy it because they can find further buyers who will pay billions for it, and so on until in the end the info is provided as a service or retailed to smaller businesses who collectively pay even more billions for it.
But whether it brings value to those end users anywhere near what they pay for it is another matter. No-one can really tell, it is just assumed.
This info is really the stuff of a pyramid scheme, looking for some mug at the bottom to buy it.
My dad was quite upset when he called from his million dollar home ..[and] customer service representative suggested that the poor reception might be from the metal roof on his mobile home... You see he lived his life paying everything in cash or with store credit.. He never had a credit card because he never needed one. When he got a cell phone they had no credit history ..
Someone once did a spoof of the Duke of Edinburgh applying for a credit card. He was refused because :
Unemployed
Lives on state support
Status depends on wife
Doesn't own a home [state provides one - or several actually]
No fixed address [moves between different castles and palaces]
No previous credit card
And no spending history whatsoever [his flunkies do his purchases]
Now I feel even better I have never had a Facebook account of any kind.
I feel even better in that I once opened an account (in order to communicate with someone at the time) with entirely false information. The only thing they might have had right was my IP address but that has changed twice since then.