This is exactly what I will be doing, at least as much as possible. Unfortunately there are so many J&J products on the market, hell there are a bunch in my house that I did not even know where J&J products. On the bright side, my fiance is a huge fan or organics and natural products, of which I do not think J&J make any. Apparently there is a brand called Method (we get ours at target.. and I hate target...) that has most household and personal cleaners that are all natural (or so my fiance tells me) to replace J&J products..
ps... this is not a shameless plug, personally, I buy whats cheapest on the shelves.. but I will be looking to avoid any J&J stuff now.
Could not have said it better myself. We do not need any new laws dictating how parents should raise their kids. We already have those, and in an ideal situation, where the parent is not doing a proper job of raising their kids, we have social services to resolve the issue (again, in an ideal world were social services is not a screwed up entity)
Are they even taking into account bulk purchasing??? Obviously the manufacturer is buying the parts in bulk, if the estimated cost of the parts is based on the cost of each part individually, then the total cost of the iphones parts may be significantly less when those parts are purchased in bulk.
Of course the cost of the parts does not take into account assembly, or the research and development that went into the iphone, which if you ask me, those R&D folks should be canned for making so many obvious mistakes and omissions on the released product, but thats just my opinion.
They are doing this to prevent people from buying the phone, and not setting up an account with ATT, otherwise all you have is a over priced glorified ipod. ATT/Apple are pulling out all the stops to prevent people from buying the phone and going to another carrier, since the price is not subsidized, and many people want the phone, and are willing to pay a fortune for it, there is nothing stopping someone from signing up when buying the phone, and then paying the $175 early termination fee, essentially getting the iphone for 600, +175 etf, and going to tmobile.... I imagine there will be plenty of iphones on ebay for $1k and up...
The problem here is that the iphone is not subsidized. You are correct about the contract issue though, they offer subsidies and significant discounts to entice you to sign a contract. If you have no noticed, all the iphone ads and posters appear to have removed the 2 year requirement statement.
No one really knows for sure whats happening, and we will find out on the 29th, and I am sure the iphone sales will be phenomenal, but I also suspect a backlash when people find out their paying $100 a month, and the phone lacks some functionality that many people may want (navigation for one).
Additionally, Cingular.. sorry the new att's network is severely overtaxed, and oversubscribed. The least dropped calls in their ads are correct, only due to the fact they have the least connected calls. Many people are having problems calling, and in some cases have to redial constantly to get a call to connect. When you suddenly add 3 million iphones to the network, I suspect it will melt down.
Actually, I believe there are laws about creditors harassing people, you should only have to notify them, and provide proof that you are not the individual they are looking for, if they continue, you can take legal action against them. Is it worth the money, probably not as the lawyer fees will probably be sky high...
As for the article, although the user wants her myspace account back, I believe the bigger picture is that myspace is going to share the database of sex offenders (or those they atleast thing are, whether or not they are correct) with the state attorneys general. This, in the long run, could come back and cause serious problems for an individual who is in fact not a sex offender, and never was.
Looking at the comparison between the open source version, and the commercial versions, much of the functionality that exchange excells in (namely corperate enterprise messeging), is not available in the OS version. The big glaring ones being outlook support and mobile support (atleast for me anyways). Although it is pretty slick, unless your paying for additional functionality, it is no exchange killer. However, I suspect licensing is significantly cheaper then exchange's licensing.
Yahoo and google etc are not clueless, just over worked. I have worked security for large ISPs, UUNET (prior to MCI getting involved), AOL Time Warner, and a couple of others. They get far too many complaints to be able to respond to each, so you are lucky if you get an autoresponce, but don't expect them to contact you, there is just no time for it. The attachment problem is due to the fact that in many cases, complaints are placed into a tracking system, so instead of an attachment, you end up with uuencoded text, its a pain to have to reassemble that manually for every complaint, and if you hit up the security pages of those websites, they clearly state not to use attachments.
Unless the botnet has caused more then $5k in proven damages, with tangible evidence, law enforcement will not get involved, this is at the federal level, not sure about state and local, as they rarely deal with cyber crimes of this type, they prefer to deal with cyber stalking and threats to individuals in their localities. If you must report a botnet, report it to USCERT (run by DHS), they may not be able to get to the root if its in one of those countries listed, but they can research it, and they are capable, and if something can be done, it will be done in the background.
You are correct, if they supply the equipment, then they are entitled to recoup their costs. I will not argue with you there.
When it comes to cell phone service however, I disagree, I have not owned a subsidized phone in years, my last 6 phones, all after market unlocked, 3 of them well over $600 each. I still have to pay $170 to cancel my service. Thats not recouping costs, thats blackmailing the consumer. Sure I signed the agreement, what choice did I have, they all have the same agreement, stay with us or we fuck you up the ass. Well, I am about to tear cingular a new one and refusing to pay the ETF, I am leaving because of shoddy service and I use my phone for business purposes, its not reliable, so I will switch, and damn if I will give them a cent, I will spend $500 an hour on lawyers to screw them out of 2 lines at $170 each.
I can definately tell the difference.. I leave SD broadcasts with the side and top/bottom bars, otherwise it looks crappy. I also disabled my tivo's upscale to 1080i function, and left it in the shows native format, otherwise it gets blocky.. although right now we are doing renovations in the TV room, so the 56" giant 1080p samsung is sitting 4 feet from the futon in my spare bedroom.. that does not help the viewing either:P
Last I checked, other then HD/BR DVD players, and normal DVD players that upscale to 1080p, there are no sources from cable or satellite that broadcast in anything other then 720, so its kind of a moot point. I have heard rumours verizon fios tv will have a few 1080p channels in a few months, but nothing substantial... and last I checked, there boxes do not do 1080p (I could be wrong about the boxes statement though)
I have a series3 tivo though, which only supports up to 1080i:(
Actually, I could care less about who knows what I am doing, I am not doing anything illegal, I am not looking at porn (it just does not have the same affect anymore after looking at it for 2 years on a daily basis for 8 or 9 hours a day as part of my job enforcing an ISP AUP). What I do have a problem with are entities using my information for profit, and I really do not need the gov or any other private entity knowing what I am doing. If they want to know, they can ask me. Back to the proffit issue, if anyone is going to make money selling my viewing/buying habbits (which many sites do), its going to be me. I do not need those damn statistics sites that almost every damn web page has selling my info....
I never said he did not say it, what I said is it would not happen, atleast not in the forseeable future. You have no idea how much trouble I had just trying to get a copy of RH EE purchased at one point for a DB, since Oracle will not support anything other then RHEE n the linux side of things. (It will run on other flavours, but will not, or would not have been at the time, about 4 years ago). However, Dave Bowen is not the ultimate decision for the entire FAA, although they do operate independantly from the DOT in many cases, they still have many sub agencies, and those agencies are extremely teritorial, and do not always listen to the FAA or DOT CIO's office.
No, Actually I work for the CIO's office, who Dave Bowen is accountable to. Linux is used extremely sparingly, and mostly for specialty applications. The same goes for the DOT. As for Macs, there are a number of them, they are in the imagining department, and a few select people high in the chain of command.
I work within the DOT, there has been no discussion of linux or Mac replacing windows, the discussions are about not upgrading to Vista and Office 2007/IE7 due to inconsistancies with the custom applications, and much of the hardware would need to be replaced, not even upgraded, but totally replaced.
Mine are hacked, I have 2 directivos and 1 sa, and I am very dissapointed in what dtv with the way they setup the tivo's. However, the new DTV DVR's, whatever they are based on, are total crap, I equate them to the same shit that Motorola and Scientific Atlanta make.
If you are fired, you are not entitled to severence, and if you went to apply for unemployment, they can contest it. However, in this case, it appears he has a wrongful termination suit he could file. Getting fired after giving your 2 weeks notice, if you did nothing wrong, is illegal. That being said, a company can always find some reason to terminate the employment agreement, but you usually end up with severance at that point.
Just like verizon.. they must use the same management training seminars..
I hate ALL cable companies, I have had to deal with 3 in my 10 years in the DC area, Adelphia, TW (I actually worked at Roadrunner for a short while) and Comcast.. I despise them all, I also hate verizon, but I hate them slightly less then I hate the cable companies. I am happy with my SDTV directv, customer service is good, and I like my directivo:) The fact that they no longer use said boxes is dissapointing. Whats even more dissapointing is that the cable companies (and verizon FIOS TV is adamant about it) refuse to enable the ports on there set top boxes, which means I have to use the slow and unreliable IR blaster to use my stand alone tivo (I have 3 tivos, 2 directv and 1 stand alone). This is not acceptable. Atleast with FIOS TV, they support cable card (although you have to argue with them for hours to get them to agree to send the cards to you), for $3 or $4 a month per card, which will work with the overpriced series 3 tivo. Essentially what the cable companies provide in a set top box, HD or non HD, are total crap, gimped crap at that, and you dont have any options as of yet to force them to comply with customer needs.
Fortunately in the DC area, the cable companies (cox and comcast depending on the area you are in) carry all the channels. Verizon also just entered the market with FIOS. I hate Verizon, but I hate comcast even more.. granted this is slightly off topic since I am talking from an internet standpoint. I get my TV through Directv. But you will find that regardless of whether its Cox, Verizon, or Comcast, they all provide horrible service, and hire the dumbest techs/sales people who do not seem to understand there own services.. I mean come on.. who the fuck includes G4TV with the damn sports package (verizon fios TV), if you want G4TV (granted, usually nothing on it, but still not the point), you have to spend the $30 to whatever amount for the sports package.
I still have my old 36" non flat screen old ass CRT. I think the most advanced input I have is an svideo cable:) Its not that I dont want one, its that the room with the TV has wall to wall windows, leaving me only space above the fireplace mantle, or walling up the windows. That and they are still somewhat too expensive for me, granted if I stopped buying bicycles (I have 4 mtn bikes, each well over $2k), I may be able to afford one:)
But only if the Gov wants to regulate the reporting industry to make sure they have the correct information. The reporting companies have the power to totally destroy someones life, yet they have no inclination to verify that information is correct, and when it is found to be wrong, it takes an act of god for them to fix it. If the Gov wants to pull my information and use that for any reason other then providing me with financial services, then they should also make the reporting companies liable for any misinformation. I think execution by firing squad on public TV for reporting company execs would be a great deterant.
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This is exactly what I will be doing, at least as much as possible. Unfortunately there are so many J&J products on the market, hell there are a bunch in my house that I did not even know where J&J products. On the bright side, my fiance is a huge fan or organics and natural products, of which I do not think J&J make any. Apparently there is a brand called Method (we get ours at target.. and I hate target...) that has most household and personal cleaners that are all natural (or so my fiance tells me) to replace J&J products..
ps... this is not a shameless plug, personally, I buy whats cheapest on the shelves.. but I will be looking to avoid any J&J stuff now.
Could not have said it better myself. We do not need any new laws dictating how parents should raise their kids. We already have those, and in an ideal situation, where the parent is not doing a proper job of raising their kids, we have social services to resolve the issue (again, in an ideal world were social services is not a screwed up entity)
Are they even taking into account bulk purchasing??? Obviously the manufacturer is buying the parts in bulk, if the estimated cost of the parts is based on the cost of each part individually, then the total cost of the iphones parts may be significantly less when those parts are purchased in bulk.
Of course the cost of the parts does not take into account assembly, or the research and development that went into the iphone, which if you ask me, those R&D folks should be canned for making so many obvious mistakes and omissions on the released product, but thats just my opinion.
Slightly confusing.. wtf...
Maybe an employee joke?
Umm no, not correct.
They are doing this to prevent people from buying the phone, and not setting up an account with ATT, otherwise all you have is a over priced glorified ipod. ATT/Apple are pulling out all the stops to prevent people from buying the phone and going to another carrier, since the price is not subsidized, and many people want the phone, and are willing to pay a fortune for it, there is nothing stopping someone from signing up when buying the phone, and then paying the $175 early termination fee, essentially getting the iphone for 600, +175 etf, and going to tmobile.... I imagine there will be plenty of iphones on ebay for $1k and up...
The problem here is that the iphone is not subsidized. You are correct about the contract issue though, they offer subsidies and significant discounts to entice you to sign a contract. If you have no noticed, all the iphone ads and posters appear to have removed the 2 year requirement statement.
No one really knows for sure whats happening, and we will find out on the 29th, and I am sure the iphone sales will be phenomenal, but I also suspect a backlash when people find out their paying $100 a month, and the phone lacks some functionality that many people may want (navigation for one).
Additionally, Cingular.. sorry the new att's network is severely overtaxed, and oversubscribed. The least dropped calls in their ads are correct, only due to the fact they have the least connected calls. Many people are having problems calling, and in some cases have to redial constantly to get a call to connect. When you suddenly add 3 million iphones to the network, I suspect it will melt down.
They used a private company's database, which probably just pulls the information off of the many public sex offender registries.
Actually, I believe there are laws about creditors harassing people, you should only have to notify them, and provide proof that you are not the individual they are looking for, if they continue, you can take legal action against them. Is it worth the money, probably not as the lawyer fees will probably be sky high...
As for the article, although the user wants her myspace account back, I believe the bigger picture is that myspace is going to share the database of sex offenders (or those they atleast thing are, whether or not they are correct) with the state attorneys general. This, in the long run, could come back and cause serious problems for an individual who is in fact not a sex offender, and never was.
Looking at the comparison between the open source version, and the commercial versions, much of the functionality that exchange excells in (namely corperate enterprise messeging), is not available in the OS version. The big glaring ones being outlook support and mobile support (atleast for me anyways). Although it is pretty slick, unless your paying for additional functionality, it is no exchange killer. However, I suspect licensing is significantly cheaper then exchange's licensing.
Yahoo and google etc are not clueless, just over worked. I have worked security for large ISPs, UUNET (prior to MCI getting involved), AOL Time Warner, and a couple of others. They get far too many complaints to be able to respond to each, so you are lucky if you get an autoresponce, but don't expect them to contact you, there is just no time for it. The attachment problem is due to the fact that in many cases, complaints are placed into a tracking system, so instead of an attachment, you end up with uuencoded text, its a pain to have to reassemble that manually for every complaint, and if you hit up the security pages of those websites, they clearly state not to use attachments.
Unless the botnet has caused more then $5k in proven damages, with tangible evidence, law enforcement will not get involved, this is at the federal level, not sure about state and local, as they rarely deal with cyber crimes of this type, they prefer to deal with cyber stalking and threats to individuals in their localities. If you must report a botnet, report it to USCERT (run by DHS), they may not be able to get to the root if its in one of those countries listed, but they can research it, and they are capable, and if something can be done, it will be done in the background.
Unfortunately, you are incorrect, they can terminate the contract for any reason and still charge you the termination fee....
You are correct, if they supply the equipment, then they are entitled to recoup their costs. I will not argue with you there.
When it comes to cell phone service however, I disagree, I have not owned a subsidized phone in years, my last 6 phones, all after market unlocked, 3 of them well over $600 each. I still have to pay $170 to cancel my service. Thats not recouping costs, thats blackmailing the consumer. Sure I signed the agreement, what choice did I have, they all have the same agreement, stay with us or we fuck you up the ass. Well, I am about to tear cingular a new one and refusing to pay the ETF, I am leaving because of shoddy service and I use my phone for business purposes, its not reliable, so I will switch, and damn if I will give them a cent, I will spend $500 an hour on lawyers to screw them out of 2 lines at $170 each.
I can definately tell the difference.. I leave SD broadcasts with the side and top/bottom bars, otherwise it looks crappy. I also disabled my tivo's upscale to 1080i function, and left it in the shows native format, otherwise it gets blocky.. although right now we are doing renovations in the TV room, so the 56" giant 1080p samsung is sitting 4 feet from the futon in my spare bedroom.. that does not help the viewing either :P
Last I checked, other then HD/BR DVD players, and normal DVD players that upscale to 1080p, there are no sources from cable or satellite that broadcast in anything other then 720, so its kind of a moot point. I have heard rumours verizon fios tv will have a few 1080p channels in a few months, but nothing substantial... and last I checked, there boxes do not do 1080p (I could be wrong about the boxes statement though)
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I have a series3 tivo though, which only supports up to 1080i
Actually, I could care less about who knows what I am doing, I am not doing anything illegal, I am not looking at porn (it just does not have the same affect anymore after looking at it for 2 years on a daily basis for 8 or 9 hours a day as part of my job enforcing an ISP AUP). What I do have a problem with are entities using my information for profit, and I really do not need the gov or any other private entity knowing what I am doing. If they want to know, they can ask me.
Back to the proffit issue, if anyone is going to make money selling my viewing/buying habbits (which many sites do), its going to be me. I do not need those damn statistics sites that almost every damn web page has selling my info....
I never said he did not say it, what I said is it would not happen, atleast not in the forseeable future. You have no idea how much trouble I had just trying to get a copy of RH EE purchased at one point for a DB, since Oracle will not support anything other then RHEE n the linux side of things. (It will run on other flavours, but will not, or would not have been at the time, about 4 years ago). However, Dave Bowen is not the ultimate decision for the entire FAA, although they do operate independantly from the DOT in many cases, they still have many sub agencies, and those agencies are extremely teritorial, and do not always listen to the FAA or DOT CIO's office.
No, Actually I work for the CIO's office, who Dave Bowen is accountable to. Linux is used extremely sparingly, and mostly for specialty applications. The same goes for the DOT. As for Macs, there are a number of them, they are in the imagining department, and a few select people high in the chain of command.
I work within the DOT, there has been no discussion of linux or Mac replacing windows, the discussions are about not upgrading to Vista and Office 2007/IE7 due to inconsistancies with the custom applications, and much of the hardware would need to be replaced, not even upgraded, but totally replaced.
The switch to MPEG4 is for HD content, those of us still stuck in the SD stoneage will not be affected by the switch.
Mine are hacked, I have 2 directivos and 1 sa, and I am very dissapointed in what dtv with the way they setup the tivo's. However, the new DTV DVR's, whatever they are based on, are total crap, I equate them to the same shit that Motorola and Scientific Atlanta make.
If you are fired, you are not entitled to severence, and if you went to apply for unemployment, they can contest it. However, in this case, it appears he has a wrongful termination suit he could file. Getting fired after giving your 2 weeks notice, if you did nothing wrong, is illegal. That being said, a company can always find some reason to terminate the employment agreement, but you usually end up with severance at that point.
Just like verizon.. they must use the same management training seminars..
:) The fact that they no longer use said boxes is dissapointing. Whats even more dissapointing is that the cable companies (and verizon FIOS TV is adamant about it) refuse to enable the ports on there set top boxes, which means I have to use the slow and unreliable IR blaster to use my stand alone tivo (I have 3 tivos, 2 directv and 1 stand alone). This is not acceptable. Atleast with FIOS TV, they support cable card (although you have to argue with them for hours to get them to agree to send the cards to you), for $3 or $4 a month per card, which will work with the overpriced series 3 tivo. Essentially what the cable companies provide in a set top box, HD or non HD, are total crap, gimped crap at that, and you dont have any options as of yet to force them to comply with customer needs.
I hate ALL cable companies, I have had to deal with 3 in my 10 years in the DC area, Adelphia, TW (I actually worked at Roadrunner for a short while) and Comcast.. I despise them all, I also hate verizon, but I hate them slightly less then I hate the cable companies. I am happy with my SDTV directv, customer service is good, and I like my directivo
Fortunately in the DC area, the cable companies (cox and comcast depending on the area you are in) carry all the channels. Verizon also just entered the market with FIOS. I hate Verizon, but I hate comcast even more.. granted this is slightly off topic since I am talking from an internet standpoint. I get my TV through Directv. But you will find that regardless of whether its Cox, Verizon, or Comcast, they all provide horrible service, and hire the dumbest techs/sales people who do not seem to understand there own services.. I mean come on.. who the fuck includes G4TV with the damn sports package (verizon fios TV), if you want G4TV (granted, usually nothing on it, but still not the point), you have to spend the $30 to whatever amount for the sports package.
Not everyone bought an HDTV :P
:) Its not that I dont want one, its that the room with the TV has wall to wall windows, leaving me only space above the fireplace mantle, or walling up the windows. That and they are still somewhat too expensive for me, granted if I stopped buying bicycles (I have 4 mtn bikes, each well over $2k), I may be able to afford one :)
I still have my old 36" non flat screen old ass CRT. I think the most advanced input I have is an svideo cable
But only if the Gov wants to regulate the reporting industry to make sure they have the correct information. The reporting companies have the power to totally destroy someones life, yet they have no inclination to verify that information is correct, and when it is found to be wrong, it takes an act of god for them to fix it. If the Gov wants to pull my information and use that for any reason other then providing me with financial services, then they should also make the reporting companies liable for any misinformation. I think execution by firing squad on public TV for reporting company execs would be a great deterant.