Having tried to get Sky while not in the UK... I have a couple of additional insight
1) Don't ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, even THINK about calling B-SKY-B for whatever reason... they track all the calls, and will shut down service for your card if you are not calling from inside the UK
2) Better have a friend in the UK call with all of your information to activate the service
3) Be careful about who you tell that you have Sky in continental Europe... B-Sky-B can be pain the the arses when it comes to tracking down people outside of the UK
the reason: They don't have broadcast rights in the rest of europe, so if they get caught with subscribers outside of the UK, they get slapped with huge-freaking fines.
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I agree with you in principle, but working my (Minimum wage) Sales job I have a few things to add about what customers/consumers/marks should do
1) SIGN YOUR GOD-DAMNED CARD ALREADY!!! You see there where it says "Not Valid Unless Signed"? Sign the card. If you want me to check for ID, Append your signature, (Or write over it with sharpie) "Check Photo ID"
2) Only use your own card! not your wife's, not your parent's, yours. and if it's not yours, expect to either have it a) Rejected by the teller, or b) Confiscated, and destoryed
3) Be polite to the teller when they ask for ID, ask to see the card, etc. they are doing it for your own protection, not to be a pain in the ass.
Now... as for the stores that accept the cards 1) Check signatures... if an associate doesn't check the signature... Fire them. If the signature doesn't match, Check ID, and write on the slip the ID information
2) Make sure the name matches, if it doesn't Confiscate and destroy the card, then report it to the credit card company
3) Make sure that your policies on accepting plastic is clearly posted for both employees and customers.
Now for the credit card companies 1) Enforce your damn policies!
2) Perform random checks on merchants to make sure that policies are being followed... if not, revoke permissions to accept your card.
3) Perform random checks on customers at random merchants, ensure that cards have been signed, if not, confiscate, and destroy, cards.
I know I'm not going to make very many friends with this... hell, some of you probably hate me for saying this... but with credit/debit cards being used more and more these days, and fraud being such a problem SOMETHING needs to be done
1) Monthly a full backup (Level 0) 2) Weekly run a mid-level backup (Level 3) 3) daily run a low level backup (level 5)
it can use multisession CDs, so for your daily backups, Unless you have a very busy computer, you can just use the same CD for all daily backups
how it works is each level backs up any files that have changed since the last highest level backup
Level 0 backs up everything level 3 would back up everything that has changed since the last level 2, but since level 2 doesn't exist, it checks for a level 1, and then finds the level 0, so it backs up everything that has changed since the level 0, level 5 performs the same type of opperation, and backs up everything that has chagned since the level 3
Another almost standard scheme is: Monthly level 0 Every Sunday and wednesday Level 3 Every other day level 5
Serious Questions: When are they going to release it to the public? How much is it going to cost per CD/DVD? How easy is it going to be to apply to a CD/DVD?
I work for Movie Gallery, and this stuff would be wonderful... we lose quite a few disks to damage such as scratches on a daily basis.
ob: views expressed are mine and only mine, yadda yadda
quoth Larry Niven in moonfall: You put a battle ship on top of a large hemispherical steel plate, and you light a nuke off under it's ass; I gauntee you that sucker will MOVE
The fact that a) it's 22:17 EST and the side is still up and running fine; b) the main site is the "security bullitin"; and c) the instructions don't instruct people to verify the gpg signature is all kind of scary
forgotten OB: The opinions expressed are soley my private opinions, and do not in any way shape or form indicate or imply the opinions of any member of management or staff at Movie Gallery.
The previous post has also not been approved by Movie Gallery, and I have to take full responsability for it.
Movie Gallery appears to have sold it's corperate soul to AOL/Time Warner, and for a while we were required to both run AOL adds, and provide free AOL disks. Now we are only required to run the *freaking annoying ads*, but instead of AOL internet service disks, we have to provide "Netscape Internet Access" Disks, which are designed to be a price competetor with juno/net-zero
The netscape name is far from dead. People still have this idea that netscape is smaller and faster, and that idea can be worth a lot of money
I was buying a gift card at best buy for my father in law, and the cashier was kind of cute. She of course asked for my phone number to which my response was "How about you give me yours, and I'll call you instead"... That shut her up nicely
yeah, I know one of these days my big mouth will get me in trouble
I Haven't tried it, but I have been driving the limit more and more these days for a different reason: Fuel Economy... Measured Values Average Speed Miles/Gallon 80 Miles/H 20 75 Miles/H 23 70 Miles/H 25.5 65 Miles/H 28 ~55 Miles/H >30 (The average speed wasn't well recorded, so take this one with a grain of salt)
I don't have internet access at home... but that's mostly because of the $[2|6]00 startup cost associate with either Microwave High-speed or Satalite high speed internet access... that being what is available in my area
We have a phone line, but dialup over our phone lines only gets us 28.8 on a *very* good day... usually it's around 14.4
Working in a movie rental store with an X-sentive adult collection... you'd be dissapointed, there really isn't much "Hot federal agentette on federal agentette action"... it's more the "Male Marine/Cop on Male Marine/Cop" that exists
For the females on female... it's pretty much all "Barley Legal", "just 18"... you get the general idea
I personally block specific domains, not TLDs, and as for dynamic IP space, for the msot part, yes, but I've still had a few people complain about that.
Okay... why is it that people always assume that anything coming from a.biz is spam?
my personal e-mail address is @starwolf.biz, and let me tell you. StarWolf.biz has a very stringent anti-spam policy (BTW: abuse@starwolf.biz ends up being dealt with by me.)
Blocking a whole tld just seems stupid to me...
It's not a TLD, but maybe I should just block @yahoo.com and @hotmail.com, just becuase so much spam seems to be coming from them...
Slashdot Mirror
Preserving logs for a short while is useful, it lets you keep track of problems.
and get general trends
Having tried to get Sky while not in the UK... I have a couple of additional insight
1) Don't ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, even THINK about calling B-SKY-B for whatever reason... they track all the calls, and will shut down service for your card if you are not calling from inside the UK
2) Better have a friend in the UK call with all of your information to activate the service
3) Be careful about who you tell that you have Sky in continental Europe... B-Sky-B can be pain the the arses when it comes to tracking down people outside of the UK
the reason: They don't have broadcast rights in the rest of europe, so if they get caught with subscribers outside of the UK, they get slapped with huge-freaking fines.
Or to quote Robert A. Heinlein
The babble Box
The Goddammned-noisy-box
or as it often used
the "Boob Tube"
I agree with you in principle, but working my (Minimum wage) Sales job I have a few things to add about what customers/consumers/marks should do
1) SIGN YOUR GOD-DAMNED CARD ALREADY!!! You see there where it says "Not Valid Unless Signed"? Sign the card. If you want me to check for ID, Append your signature, (Or write over it with sharpie) "Check Photo ID"
2) Only use your own card! not your wife's, not your parent's, yours. and if it's not yours, expect to either have it a) Rejected by the teller, or b) Confiscated, and destoryed
3) Be polite to the teller when they ask for ID, ask to see the card, etc. they are doing it for your own protection, not to be a pain in the ass.
Now... as for the stores that accept the cards
1) Check signatures... if an associate doesn't check the signature... Fire them. If the signature doesn't match, Check ID, and write on the slip the ID information
2) Make sure the name matches, if it doesn't Confiscate and destroy the card, then report it to the credit card company
3) Make sure that your policies on accepting plastic is clearly posted for both employees and customers.
Now for the credit card companies
1) Enforce your damn policies!
2) Perform random checks on merchants to make sure that policies are being followed... if not, revoke permissions to accept your card.
3) Perform random checks on customers at random merchants, ensure that cards have been signed, if not, confiscate, and destroy, cards.
I know I'm not going to make very many friends with this... hell, some of you probably hate me for saying this... but with credit/debit cards being used more and more these days, and fraud being such a problem SOMETHING needs to be done
If you are running AFS on WinXP, Don't do SP2... it breaks massively, and won't boot.
enjoy
Working for RPI Help desk back in the day,
:-)
"If you make backups, odds are you won't need them, but if you don't make backups, you'll wish that you had"
Usually after people lost their first HDD without having backed things up, they started doing regular backups
I love cdbkup. http://cdbkup.sourceforge.net/
1) Monthly a full backup (Level 0)
2) Weekly run a mid-level backup (Level 3)
3) daily run a low level backup (level 5)
it can use multisession CDs, so for your daily backups, Unless you have a very busy computer, you can just use the same CD for all daily backups
how it works is each level backs up any files that have changed since the last highest level backup
Level 0 backs up everything
level 3 would back up everything that has changed since the last level 2, but since level 2 doesn't exist, it checks for a level 1, and then finds the level 0, so it backs up everything that has changed since the level 0,
level 5 performs the same type of opperation, and backs up everything that has chagned since the level 3
Another almost standard scheme is:
Monthly level 0
Every Sunday and wednesday Level 3
Every other day level 5
Serious Questions:
When are they going to release it to the public?
How much is it going to cost per CD/DVD?
How easy is it going to be to apply to a CD/DVD?
I work for Movie Gallery, and this stuff would be wonderful... we lose quite a few disks to damage such as scratches on a daily basis.
ob: views expressed are mine and only mine, yadda yadda
It also works very well at american Post Offices, where they tell you "Austria is not a valid abreviation for Australia"
And yes, this is a first hand story, I lived in Austria for 18 years. during a trip to the US, in boston I had a Postal Worker tell me that.
quoth Larry Niven in moonfall:
You put a battle ship on top of a large hemispherical steel plate, and you light a nuke off under it's ass; I gauntee you that sucker will MOVE
The fact that
a) it's 22:17 EST and the side is still up and running fine;
b) the main site is the "security bullitin";
and
c) the instructions don't instruct people to verify the gpg signature
is all kind of scary
forgotten OB:
The opinions expressed are soley my private opinions, and do not in any way shape or form indicate or imply the opinions of any member of management or staff at Movie Gallery.
The previous post has also not been approved by Movie Gallery, and I have to take full responsability for it.
okay, now the MG lawers can be happy
Don't be so sure...
disclaimer: I work for Movie Gallery
Movie Gallery appears to have sold it's corperate soul to AOL/Time Warner, and for a while we were required to both run AOL adds, and provide free AOL disks. Now we are only required to run the *freaking annoying ads*, but instead of AOL internet service disks, we have to provide "Netscape Internet Access" Disks, which are designed to be a price competetor with juno/net-zero
The netscape name is far from dead. People still have this idea that netscape is smaller and faster, and that idea can be worth a lot of money
For now anyways it's illegal for them to call cell phones in most places... because you have to pay for the call (in minutes used)
If one does call you, the first thing you should say is "This is a cell phone"... they'll hang right up on you most of the time
ob: YMMV
here's the obligitory sexist comment:
I was buying a gift card at best buy for my father in law, and the cashier was kind of cute. She of course asked for my phone number to which my response was "How about you give me yours, and I'll call you instead"... That shut her up nicely
yeah, I know one of these days my big mouth will get me in trouble
My name is 208.233.36.254, and I, and the rest of the N people with that IP address at the Maine Community College system approve this message...
Gotta love NAT
the JPEGs were created useing the GIMP... but they really really really really look like they were created using excel.
I Haven't tried it, but I have been driving the limit more and more these days for a different reason: Fuel Economy...
Measured Values
Average Speed Miles/Gallon
80 Miles/H 20
75 Miles/H 23
70 Miles/H 25.5
65 Miles/H 28
~55 Miles/H >30 (The average speed wasn't well recorded, so take this one with a grain of salt)
and this is in a 1996 Chevy Lumina
Sad But true:
It's been lower, and the've still managed to come back for more
does this "New exploit" remind anybody else about the venerable kakworm? which was discovered in december 1999
you'd think microsoft would have learned by now
I don't have internet access at home... but that's mostly because of the $[2|6]00 startup cost associate with either Microwave High-speed or Satalite high speed internet access... that being what is available in my area
We have a phone line, but dialup over our phone lines only gets us 28.8 on a *very* good day... usually it's around 14.4
can't quite afford the setup cost
Working in a movie rental store with an X-sentive adult collection... you'd be dissapointed, there really isn't much "Hot federal agentette on federal agentette action"... it's more the "Male Marine/Cop on Male Marine/Cop" that exists
For the females on female... it's pretty much all "Barley Legal", "just 18"... you get the general idea
If I had mod-points, I'd mod you insightful.
I personally block specific domains, not TLDs, and as for dynamic IP space, for the msot part, yes, but I've still had a few people complain about that.
It's all give and take.
I like SpamAssassin, and it works well for me
How about this for an alternate suggestion then... .biz or .info/.us address to give a +1 or +0.5 score on a SpamAssassin test.
set a
That is often times enough to push undetected spam over the detection edge, but not enough to hit a flase positive
Okay... why is it that people always assume that anything coming from a
my personal e-mail address is @starwolf.biz, and let me tell you. StarWolf.biz has a very stringent anti-spam policy (BTW: abuse@starwolf.biz ends up being dealt with by me.)
Blocking a whole tld just seems stupid to me...
It's not a TLD, but maybe I should just block @yahoo.com and @hotmail.com, just becuase so much spam seems to be coming from them...
okay, I'm done ranting
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