(5) Any breakable container which contains a flammable liquid with a flashpoint of 150 degrees Fahrenheit or less and has a wick or similar device capable of being ignited, other than a device which is commercially manufactured primarily for the purpose of illumination. (6) Any sealed device containing dry ice (CO2) or other chemically reactive substances assembled for the purpose of causing an explosion by a chemical reaction.
Hmm. I guess I'm going to have to quit putting dry ice in pop bottles. I had no idea.
And don't forget, no matter what brand of printer you eventually get, some office supply stores will give you free reams of paper or a small store credit for each empty cartridge you return, because most of these cartridges are specifically designed to be recycled and reused, to the point where the stores bank on making a profit returning these. PLEASE do this, not just for the free paper, but because of the environmental impact...
I tried, but they wouldn't take them. I reused my cartridges till they wouldn't print anymore. (8-12 refills). They don't want to recycle the materials, they want to reuse the working cartridge. Don't be fooled. It has nothing to do with landfill. When they don't work, they still go to the landfill. Why else wouldn't they recycle my old HP cartridges?
I believe you can get a telco to restrict a line to only outbound calls.
They usualy do for call centers which leads me to believe this story might be fiction. When setting up a call center you have the option of using a COME (customer owned and maintained) PBX (Private Branch Exchange) system. They often have trunked lines from the telco. This is NOT your typical home or small office POTS line. There are two sets of lines in a trunked service for a PBX. The trunked incomming lines are DID (Direct Inward Dial). A typical use may be a hotel with 20 incomming lines on the trunk or call center with incomming calls to the same number ringing the next free operator. Any DID line can be routed to any room. The 21st caller gets a busy. Outgoing calls can not be placed on DID lines. Repeat... Outgoing calls can not be placed on DID lines. Outgoing trunk lines work the same way, but outgoing. Someone in the hotel picks up a phone and dials 9 to get one of the outgoing lines. You can not dial in on an outgoing trunk line. Telemarketing call center outgoing calls are routed by the autodialer to the next free outbound trunk line. With the use of an inbound DID trunk and an outbound trunk, There is no way to call in and catch an outbound call off the outbound trunk. You call will never get routed to any of the outbound lines.
There is a slim chance if the story is true, the telemarketer had a real small operation (home business) running a PC with a autodialer program on a POTS line & voicemodem. POTS lines are not typicaly used by telemarketers.
Actualy, the better idea is to put their info on the web so it could be found in a search for their product. I never buy anything from anyone who called me. It's my personal fraud protection step. If I want something, I research it on the web. I find a reputable source (verified brick and moarter listing) that has reasonable offers. Seldom do the telemarkerters have the volume for the labor to have the best prices. They have to pay for the one-on-one sales force. When I wanted refill info for my printer, I searched for it and info on how to reset the estimated ink levels. Found the info online and bulk ink is sizes from 1/2 pint to 55 gallon drum. I found the pro's. (no shameless plugs) Service was great. I could buy kits, parts including blunt needles, or just the ink in bulk. I'm on my second order. An unknown calling me can't come close to the value I found online. If telemarketers were reputable, they would have their product online and fully researchable and have no reason to call me. I would find them when I am ready to buy.
I remember when PBS was boring. Sometimes I'll watch Nova, Yankee Workshop & This Old House but not much else. I watch more DVD's than I watch TV.
With the high prices for DTV, and not being a Pay TV subscriber, the FCC change to all digital television will leave me in the dark. I can't see spending several hundred dollars for a TV upgrade in the near future. I can extend the life of my existing equipment with pre-recorded stuff. There just isn't the content to motivate the upgrade. Maybe after all TV's are required to have it (like when UHF was added to TV''s in the 60's) the volume will get the price down on a TV with a tuner for digital TV. Right now my choices are DTV ready monitor $500 or more + DTV tuner/antenna for another simular chunk of discresionary spending, or analog 27 inch set for under $200.00 + DVD for under $60.00. The digital upgrade is over 5X the cost. The content does not justify the upgrade. A nice LCD 17 inch TV is under $500. Too bad there is no DTV solution for under $500.
If you know of a DTV (including the tuner built-in, digital TV not NTSC & not a set top box) for under $300 in any size, please reply to this post!
Many places in the boonies don't have cell reception. Other places don't have GPS reception (my sofa ground floor). I hope the thing has instructions to place it outside somewhere that can get both cell and GPS coverage. Most of my hiking areas don't have coverage of one or the other service. GPS dead spots are common under heavy forest canopy along streams in canyons. Cell is commonly dead in the same places. I think it would be funny to get the winning can on a cross country flight. Hmm, it just reported in near Dallas going 600 MPH NE. Can you catch it in your van?
Basically, I don't care whether the hero reaches for a Dasani or an Aquafina as long as it's unobtrusive, realistic for the character, non-distracting, and so on. If the audience consciously notices the item as being plugged, the advertising was too conspicuous.
I agree. The best example I can mention is the movie ET. The alien is enticed with small candies. The script called for a diffrent product vendor than the one used in the film. The Mars company wouldn't pay for the placement so Reeces company got the placement instead. (somehow the irony of aliens and Mars not getting the placement hit me as funny)
The advertising, while annoying, effectively reduces the price you as a consumer pay for those services. Um, no I wouldn't pay more. They may raise the price, but it will still go unsold. The price is a balance of what the market will bear. Cable came out (many years ago), they advertised as a way to not see the advertisements. It has lost it's vision (blinded by the money). Pay TV is not a requirent for life. It's a disposable income entertainment choice. Cable already priced me out of the market. I dropped it when the rate went up 15 years ago (almost doubled), the number of basic channels with content went down, and NONE of them were commercial free (except PBS which I get off an antenna). Many useless channels of computer graphic static pages, channels of nothing but advertising (QVC HSN etc.), and the overbearing Time Life/Sports Ilustrated advertising was too much cost for too little low value content. The commercial free stuff is either PPV or premium. You have to pay for the junk (basic) to get the premium. No thanks! Ask how much your provider will charge just for the Disney channel, HBO, Discovery, and the digital music... Betcha they will tell you you also have to have basic to get it. They won't sell you just HBO for $6/month. See what you can get for $20/month. It's either just what you can get over the air, or NOTHING.
Maybe they are trying to stop TV from becomming dead. All the lowest common denominatior stuff out now filled with drivel has just about killed TV for me. Other than pay-TV, there is nothing on is the rule. I generaly watch less then 3 hours of TV/week. There is much more interesting things to do. Geocaching, home shop, computer stuff, digital photography, MIDI music (Keyboard and sequencing), Open Source, charity IT services (MS exploits - need I say more?), etc. Teen sex/shock TV just doesn't have the content to compete with all the good interesting things to do in life.
My dad has a small wind turbine. Ever seen it's output graph? Solar is more reliable. It's easier to predict when the batteries will get recharged. Some places may have more reliable wind, but for most folks in most places, wind isn't reliable. It's like hydro. There are a few spots with lots of relable amounts of water falling, but for most places, it's not in sufficient ammounts most of the time. Somehow I don't expect to find a large hydro plant in Iraq or a large wind farm near Miami Florida.
You missed the next step. When fuel costs were high causing operation at a loss is the time to shut down for maitnance. When the fuel price comes down or demand finaly fixes the artificialy low product price, then the plants can be restarted/built/funded/etc. to get generation up to demand. Lack of online capacity and undersize distribution for long haul (to make up for missing local production) caused instability of the system. It's simple for you to figure out yourself. You can buy a generator, maintain it and fuel it. You can't produce power as reliably cheaper than you can buy it off the grid. If the price was artificialy too high, and fuel prices were low, than more people would generate their own power localy. On a bigger scale, nobody wants to do the investment into a large gen plant only to face high fuel prices and low prices for the juice. That is a quick recipe for a capacity shortage California style.
A new portable digital music player from iRiver is cool and all, but can it play ogg.... wait... never mind.
Unfortunately the line in will only real time encode to MP3's. Rats.... I hope it does a reasonable job encoding. Getting church programs for distrubition on CD's just got simpler. The device shows up on USB like an external drive.. Nice! Archos has a competitor.
maybe in the next upgrade they will have an OGG encoder....
Compile it and compare the binary? Same source and compiler should give very simular binary output. There may be some timestamp diffrences, but other than that, most should match.
I think they are not looking into making a language change to Windows. I think they are looking at adding Windows API's into their home brew OSS. That way they can run all the popular apps without the MS tax, BSA, Viruses, Exploits, etc.
Think about it. Who wouldn't want a Linux that would run nice Win apps natively, but had all the exploits left out? I would love to run the software that came with my GPS, Digital Camera, TOPO maps etc on my Linux box. It would be even better if at the same time, it couldn't run VBS, Outlook, & IE exploits. I wish Windows had IP chains and other security. Windows 98 SE won't even let you use Dial up, then seamlesly transfer to a LAN and back. Configuring the LAN to use the router gateway breaks the dialer. I have to unconfigure the Gateway on the LAN to dial up my ISP. Why does the dialer use some of the LAN adaptor settings? Buggy... To repeat, would love to ditch Windows bugs, but keep some of the favorite applications.
That's why I have 2 machines side by side with a keyboard/monitor/mouse switch.
Using a GPS to find South or North isn't hard. Put down a mark. Set it as a waypoint. Set the waypoint as a destination. Wander off in any direction. Move till your destination waypoint is due North/South. Draw a line.. It's very close to NS. Be sure to use the True, not magnetic refrence.
Tweaking the the last 1/2 degree isn't hard from there.
Actualy they don't need your $50. Let me explain, if they offered a $35 downgraded service, they would loose more as people downgraded then they lost for the $50 they are not getting from you. How many would take $15 off their bill right away if it was offered, compared to the number of new subscribers it would attract. They fine tune the price not to get everyone to be a subscriber, but priced for the maximum income. This will leave some people as non-subscribers (including me) but it leaves the price up for the subscribers without a low price broad band option.
I hope you enjoy it in ASCII. This does not include a graphical interface.;-)
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You may find on some items, the tag contains the serial number and is required for warranty. It will cut out much of the retailers fraud. Returns will require the sales slip and a working tag. Last year's item can't be returned on last weeks sales slip.
My POP account comes with a WEB interface also. I pull up a browser, check all the junk (not downloaded) and delete them off the server. Then I open an e-mail client and send/receive the rest. I don't waste the bandwidth retreiving the junk. I only see the headers and attachment names. It's the easy to keep a mailbox with a 10 Meg limit cleaned out.
Change e-mail clients if this is a problem. Get one that can receive header information only. Delete the ones with 143K attachments on the server instead of downloading. My policy is even simpler, delete all executibles and HTML. Loosing a pretty style sheet doesn't make the message hard to read. Most of the time it makes it easier.
Ummm you set your IP and MAC to one in use, but don't connect it until they drop off (shut down for the night, then go live taking the assigned connection. You need to be on the same cable segment to do it. I've not done it, but I've heard about it by someone needing to hide identity...FYI. I'm not connected to cable. No wire is in place to the house.
Why change out your hard drive? Just make sure each sector is zeroed out in its entirety so that the empty space in allocation units is wiped, then reinstall.
Would look too much like a cover-up with old drive/new install. Easier to claim the HD fried so you replaced the dinky drive with a bigger new drive. The old drive is in the landfill. For charges of the cost of my house per song, ditching the old drive and all wireless gear is very cheap insurance.
Time for full disclosure.. I'm still on dial-up and don't own any wireless gear. DSL is still not avaliable and the cable tax for not having a TV subscription makes the cable too expensive. Slashdot without extensive graphics works fine on dial-up. Not running Kazza or other sharing program except e-mail which can send attachments. I run a LAN but it's all hardwire. I put it in before wireless. It's Cat5. The coax was replaced.;-)
NO WAY IN HELL they can bust down all her neighbors doors.
True, but if the neighbor is dumb enough to keep leaching her Wi-Fi, a van parked out front can certanly locate the Kazza machine next door and then get another supena for her and her neighbor. It's called further investigation. Listing her in the news may have blown the investigation if the neighbor pulls the plug right away and vanishes.
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(5) Any breakable container which contains a flammable liquid with a flashpoint of 150 degrees Fahrenheit or less and has a wick or similar device capable of being ignited, other than a device which is commercially manufactured primarily for the purpose of illumination.
(6) Any sealed device containing dry ice (CO2) or other chemically reactive substances assembled for the purpose of causing an explosion by a chemical reaction.
Hmm. I guess I'm going to have to quit putting dry ice in pop bottles. I had no idea.
And don't forget, no matter what brand of printer you eventually get, some office supply stores will give you free reams of paper or a small store credit for each empty cartridge you return, because most of these cartridges are specifically designed to be recycled and reused, to the point where the stores bank on making a profit returning these. PLEASE do this, not just for the free paper, but because of the environmental impact...
I tried, but they wouldn't take them. I reused my cartridges till they wouldn't print anymore. (8-12 refills). They don't want to recycle the materials, they want to reuse the working cartridge. Don't be fooled. It has nothing to do with landfill. When they don't work, they still go to the landfill. Why else wouldn't they recycle my old HP cartridges?
I believe you can get a telco to restrict a line to only outbound calls.
They usualy do for call centers which leads me to believe this story might be fiction. When setting up a call center you have the option of using a COME (customer owned and maintained) PBX (Private Branch Exchange) system. They often have trunked lines from the telco. This is NOT your typical home or small office POTS line. There are two sets of lines in a trunked service for a PBX. The trunked incomming lines are DID (Direct Inward Dial). A typical use may be a hotel with 20 incomming lines on the trunk or call center with incomming calls to the same number ringing the next free operator. Any DID line can be routed to any room. The 21st caller gets a busy. Outgoing calls can not be placed on DID lines. Repeat... Outgoing calls can not be placed on DID lines. Outgoing trunk lines work the same way, but outgoing. Someone in the hotel picks up a phone and dials 9 to get one of the outgoing lines. You can not dial in on an outgoing trunk line. Telemarketing call center outgoing calls are routed by the autodialer to the next free outbound trunk line. With the use of an inbound DID trunk and an outbound trunk, There is no way to call in and catch an outbound call off the outbound trunk. You call will never get routed to any of the outbound lines.
There is a slim chance if the story is true, the telemarketer had a real small operation (home business) running a PC with a autodialer program on a POTS line & voicemodem. POTS lines are not typicaly used by telemarketers.
Actualy, the better idea is to put their info on the web so it could be found in a search for their product. I never buy anything from anyone who called me. It's my personal fraud protection step. If I want something, I research it on the web. I find a reputable source (verified brick and moarter listing) that has reasonable offers. Seldom do the telemarkerters have the volume for the labor to have the best prices. They have to pay for the one-on-one sales force. When I wanted refill info for my printer, I searched for it and info on how to reset the estimated ink levels. Found the info online and bulk ink is sizes from 1/2 pint to 55 gallon drum. I found the pro's. (no shameless plugs) Service was great. I could buy kits, parts including blunt needles, or just the ink in bulk. I'm on my second order. An unknown calling me can't come close to the value I found online. If telemarketers were reputable, they would have their product online and fully researchable and have no reason to call me. I would find them when I am ready to buy.
I remember when PBS was boring. Sometimes I'll watch Nova, Yankee Workshop & This Old House but not much else. I watch more DVD's than I watch TV.
With the high prices for DTV, and not being a Pay TV subscriber, the FCC change to all digital television will leave me in the dark. I can't see spending several hundred dollars for a TV upgrade in the near future. I can extend the life of my existing equipment with pre-recorded stuff. There just isn't the content to motivate the upgrade. Maybe after all TV's are required to have it (like when UHF was added to TV''s in the 60's) the volume will get the price down on a TV with a tuner for digital TV. Right now my choices are DTV ready monitor $500 or more + DTV tuner/antenna for another simular chunk of discresionary spending, or analog 27 inch set for under $200.00 + DVD for under $60.00. The digital upgrade is over 5X the cost. The content does not justify the upgrade. A nice LCD 17 inch TV is under $500. Too bad there is no DTV solution for under $500.
If you know of a DTV (including the tuner built-in, digital TV not NTSC & not a set top box) for under $300 in any size, please reply to this post!
Many places in the boonies don't have cell reception. Other places don't have GPS reception (my sofa ground floor). I hope the thing has instructions to place it outside somewhere that can get both cell and GPS coverage. Most of my hiking areas don't have coverage of one or the other service. GPS dead spots are common under heavy forest canopy along streams in canyons. Cell is commonly dead in the same places. I think it would be funny to get the winning can on a cross country flight. Hmm, it just reported in near Dallas going 600 MPH NE. Can you catch it in your van?
Basically, I don't care whether the hero reaches for a Dasani or an Aquafina as long as it's unobtrusive, realistic for the character, non-distracting, and so on. If the audience consciously notices the item as being plugged, the advertising was too conspicuous.
I agree. The best example I can mention is the movie ET. The alien is enticed with small candies. The script called for a diffrent product vendor than the one used in the film. The Mars company wouldn't pay for the placement so Reeces company got the placement instead. (somehow the irony of aliens and Mars not getting the placement hit me as funny)
Actualy with the number of households tuning out of the network TV thing, a few hundred thousand PVR owners is probably a majority of their audiance.
The advertising, while annoying, effectively reduces the price you as a consumer pay for those services.
Um, no I wouldn't pay more. They may raise the price, but it will still go unsold. The price is a balance of what the market will bear. Cable came out (many years ago), they advertised as a way to not see the advertisements. It has lost it's vision (blinded by the money). Pay TV is not a requirent for life. It's a disposable income entertainment choice. Cable already priced me out of the market. I dropped it when the rate went up 15 years ago (almost doubled), the number of basic channels with content went down, and NONE of them were commercial free (except PBS which I get off an antenna). Many useless channels of computer graphic static pages, channels of nothing but advertising (QVC HSN etc.), and the overbearing Time Life/Sports Ilustrated advertising was too much cost for too little low value content. The commercial free stuff is either PPV or premium. You have to pay for the junk (basic) to get the premium. No thanks! Ask how much your provider will charge just for the Disney channel, HBO, Discovery, and the digital music... Betcha they will tell you you also have to have basic to get it. They won't sell you just HBO for $6/month. See what you can get for $20/month. It's either just what you can get over the air, or NOTHING.
Maybe they are trying to stop TV from becomming dead. All the lowest common denominatior stuff out now filled with drivel has just about killed TV for me. Other than pay-TV, there is nothing on is the rule. I generaly watch less then 3 hours of TV/week. There is much more interesting things to do. Geocaching, home shop, computer stuff, digital photography, MIDI music (Keyboard and sequencing), Open Source, charity IT services (MS exploits - need I say more?), etc. Teen sex/shock TV just doesn't have the content to compete with all the good interesting things to do in life.
My dad has a small wind turbine. Ever seen it's output graph? Solar is more reliable. It's easier to predict when the batteries will get recharged. Some places may have more reliable wind, but for most folks in most places, wind isn't reliable. It's like hydro. There are a few spots with lots of relable amounts of water falling, but for most places, it's not in sufficient ammounts most of the time. Somehow I don't expect to find a large hydro plant in Iraq or a large wind farm near Miami Florida.
You missed the next step. When fuel costs were high causing operation at a loss is the time to shut down for maitnance. When the fuel price comes down or demand finaly fixes the artificialy low product price, then the plants can be restarted/built/funded/etc. to get generation up to demand. Lack of online capacity and undersize distribution for long haul (to make up for missing local production) caused instability of the system. It's simple for you to figure out yourself. You can buy a generator, maintain it and fuel it. You can't produce power as reliably cheaper than you can buy it off the grid. If the price was artificialy too high, and fuel prices were low, than more people would generate their own power localy. On a bigger scale, nobody wants to do the investment into a large gen plant only to face high fuel prices and low prices for the juice. That is a quick recipe for a capacity shortage California style.
A new portable digital music player from iRiver is cool and all, but can it play ogg.... wait... never mind.
Unfortunately the line in will only real time encode to MP3's. Rats.... I hope it does a reasonable job encoding. Getting church programs for distrubition on CD's just got simpler. The device shows up on USB like an external drive.. Nice! Archos has a competitor.
maybe in the next upgrade they will have an OGG encoder....
Compile it and compare the binary? Same source and compiler should give very simular binary output. There may be some timestamp diffrences, but other than that, most should match.
I think they are not looking into making a language change to Windows. I think they are looking at adding Windows API's into their home brew OSS. That way they can run all the popular apps without the MS tax, BSA, Viruses, Exploits, etc.
Think about it. Who wouldn't want a Linux that would run nice Win apps natively, but had all the exploits left out? I would love to run the software that came with my GPS, Digital Camera, TOPO maps etc on my Linux box. It would be even better if at the same time, it couldn't run VBS, Outlook, & IE exploits. I wish Windows had IP chains and other security. Windows 98 SE won't even let you use Dial up, then seamlesly transfer to a LAN and back. Configuring the LAN to use the router gateway breaks the dialer. I have to unconfigure the Gateway on the LAN to dial up my ISP. Why does the dialer use some of the LAN adaptor settings? Buggy... To repeat, would love to ditch Windows bugs, but keep some of the favorite applications.
That's why I have 2 machines side by side with a keyboard/monitor/mouse switch.
Using a GPS to find South or North isn't hard. Put down a mark. Set it as a waypoint. Set the waypoint as a destination. Wander off in any direction. Move till your destination waypoint is due North/South. Draw a line.. It's very close to NS. Be sure to use the True, not magnetic refrence.
Tweaking the the last 1/2 degree isn't hard from there.
Actualy they don't need your $50. Let me explain, if they offered a $35 downgraded service, they would loose more as people downgraded then they lost for the $50 they are not getting from you. How many would take $15 off their bill right away if it was offered, compared to the number of new subscribers it would attract. They fine tune the price not to get everyone to be a subscriber, but priced for the maximum income. This will leave some people as non-subscribers (including me) but it leaves the price up for the subscribers without a low price broad band option.
I hope you enjoy it in ASCII. This does not include a graphical interface. ;-)
You may find on some items, the tag contains the serial number and is required for warranty. It will cut out much of the retailers fraud. Returns will require the sales slip and a working tag. Last year's item can't be returned on last weeks sales slip.
The tinfoil hat group isn't going to like this. They will need something a little stronger to protect themselves from these. ;-)
My POP account comes with a WEB interface also. I pull up a browser, check all the junk (not downloaded) and delete them off the server. Then I open an e-mail client and send/receive the rest. I don't waste the bandwidth retreiving the junk. I only see the headers and attachment names. It's the easy to keep a mailbox with a 10 Meg limit cleaned out.
Spam, delete before reading.
Change e-mail clients if this is a problem. Get one that can receive header information only. Delete the ones with 143K attachments on the server instead of downloading. My policy is even simpler, delete all executibles and HTML. Loosing a pretty style sheet doesn't make the message hard to read. Most of the time it makes it easier.
Ummm you set your IP and MAC to one in use, but don't connect it until they drop off (shut down for the night, then go live taking the assigned connection. You need to be on the same cable segment to do it. I've not done it, but I've heard about it by someone needing to hide identity. ..FYI. I'm not connected to cable. No wire is in place to the house.
Why change out your hard drive? Just make sure each sector is zeroed out in its entirety so that the empty space in allocation units is wiped, then reinstall.
;-)
Would look too much like a cover-up with old drive/new install. Easier to claim the HD fried so you replaced the dinky drive with a bigger new drive. The old drive is in the landfill. For charges of the cost of my house per song, ditching the old drive and all wireless gear is very cheap insurance.
Time for full disclosure.. I'm still on dial-up and don't own any wireless gear. DSL is still not avaliable and the cable tax for not having a TV subscription makes the cable too expensive. Slashdot without extensive graphics works fine on dial-up. Not running Kazza or other sharing program except e-mail which can send attachments. I run a LAN but it's all hardwire. I put it in before wireless. It's Cat5. The coax was replaced.
NO WAY IN HELL they can bust down all her neighbors doors.
True, but if the neighbor is dumb enough to keep leaching her Wi-Fi, a van parked out front can certanly locate the Kazza machine next door and then get another supena for her and her neighbor. It's called further investigation. Listing her in the news may have blown the investigation if the neighbor pulls the plug right away and vanishes.