do YOU really want that 20TW of microwave energy radiating down on you? I understand it would be exacted to a pinpoint location, but what happens when there's a problem and something gets knocked off course? Cooked city.
It's called a timeclock, dumbass. We've got one at work, although I don't use my palm, I use a userID and password. Why? I'm PAID HOURLY. Think my boss is gonna let us tell him "yeah, we all worked 8 hours today" without some sort of proof?
I hereby yeild using mod points to simply responding to the rant!
I smoke. I'm not a moron.
Why? Addiction. Moderation. I fucking like the taste.
So, I'm probably gonna die a few years sooner than every other non-smoker just because I chose a disgusting (to some), expensive habit. Big deal.
If it were discovered tomorrow that bananas were deadly, we'd still be eating them. McDonald's food is unhealthy, but the parking lot is still packed and the drive-thru is backed up every lunch hour of every day. It all depends how you look at it. Someone likes McDick's, so they eat there, even if they know it's gonna make them a fat fuck. They just look at it as being (semi) tasty and quick, not deadly. I like smoking, I like the social part of smoking, so I quietly overlook the it's-gonna-kill-me part.
Do you drive? I don't suppose you avoid travelling because you might sometime be met with a 65MPH head-on collision with a tractor trailer.
Perl would now be allowed to work until midnight on school nights, and 1AM on Fridays and Saturdays. Perl could also work up to 44 hours a week, and his employers would probably take full advantage of this.
However, even though Perl can work until midnight or 1AM, he can't drive for another six months.
He's now completely legal in PA. If he ever decides to hookup with C, it's all OK.
Still no booze, smokes, or voting. Gotta wait for that.
... Except that my EZPass is linked to MY VEHICLE ONLY, and prepaid, whereas my SpeedPass IS tied to my bank account, but nothing else. Have the transponder, have the account. That's it.
While it doesn't excuse their incompetence, AT&T truly HAS been having computer problems for quite a while. GSM is very new to them, and they are in the process of moving their TDMA side of things over to Siebel. Their contractors, well, screwed up bigtime, and nothing quite works right. Even if I wanted to call in and order something (ie, give them money), I couldn't do it, due to the Siebel problems.
I got (when I threatened to leave): Free phone (that was advertised as $50) 100 free minutes (brought me to 350) free long distance in exchange for a loss of 1000 minutes of night/weekends. That's it.
Company A. has a rather crap network, but to make up for it, they give you tons of minutes cheap.
Company B has a very, very robust network, and they now offer some very competitive plans if you sign up for a 2 year contract. SO, you port your number over.
2 years down the line, Company A's network has vastly improved, and you always though their customer service was better, anyway. So, you jump back over to Company A, and keep the same number.
Then, you get a promotion, you never have to leave the office, that's now someone else's job. So, you port your number to your office landline. As long as you keep porting it, you never lose your number. It's a giant pain in the ass to give out the new number to everyone.
My computer has always been in my room, since age 6 (I'm 17)... way back when it was a Columbia Data Products 8086. I got the internet around 9 or 10 or so.
My parents pretty much left me alone. Rules are stupid. Kids will get around them. I've gotten in trouble with the school before for disabling FoolProof (it turns off right-clicking on applications on the taskbar! it's annoying!) and their monitoring software.
GIve them their freedom, don't watch them. They'll figure out if you are, and be/extremely/ upset. When I am not in my room, my Win2K session is locked.
Of course they could do it. They've got the money and access to the equipment.
However, any competent defense attorney would jump on them so quick that they would wish they never took the time to listen in. Even still, GSM and especially CDMA phones are quite difficult to listen in on, CDMA being near impossible.
The US government may be secretive and always less trusting of its citizens, but things like this are pretty cut and dry, as it would be rather stupid for a prosecutor to say "well, we listened in here without a warrant."
I'm not so worried about them doing it without the telephone company knowing about it, it's not like Verizon would call me and tell me "oh, by the way, the feds tapped your line"
GSM is encrypted, although the encryption has been cracked. Still very hard and expensive for someone to listen in.
CDMA is nearly impossible due to the way it works (every phone yammering away at the same frequency, with a "code" attached to each packet, and the power tuned to the microwatt - very heavily encoded/secured)
TDMA would be the easiest, but would still require much more than a simple analog reciever. (Phones take turns speaking on the same channel). The equipment to monitor this is not availabile to the public.
There are laws enacted that say the same steps to tap a land line must be used to tap a cell phone.
We have a few around here in PA. The ones that change if you "flash to pass randomly" usually have a camera-like thinger near the light itself. And yes, if you're lucky enough, you can sometimes get the right frequency to get it to change.
true. But what I am saying is not that they would win, but that nobody has the money to fight a corporation full of lawyers, except a larger corporation full of lawyers.
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do YOU really want that 20TW of microwave energy radiating down on you? I understand it would be exacted to a pinpoint location, but what happens when there's a problem and something gets knocked off course? Cooked city.
Speak from experience?
Uh, no, that's not how it works.
My brother has ADHD. He absolutely cannot pay attenion in class. He gets himself into trouble. He can barely play a video game and pay attention.
Parents tried therapy, I tried the "big brother" sense, nothing worked. They put him on amphetamines, and most of the problems disappeared.
and who they are?!
OMG!!! PRIVACY!!! BIG BROTHER!!! CALL THE UCLA!!
It's called a timeclock, dumbass. We've got one at work, although I don't use my palm, I use a userID and password. Why? I'm PAID HOURLY. Think my boss is gonna let us tell him "yeah, we all worked 8 hours today" without some sort of proof?
Even easier than that: Wash your hands.
When I enlisted in the Army, I was fingerprinted on a scanner. If your hands aren't COMPLETELY dry, they come out as a big black blotch with no data.
I hereby yeild using mod points to simply responding to the rant!
I smoke. I'm not a moron.
Why? Addiction. Moderation. I fucking like the taste.
So, I'm probably gonna die a few years sooner than every other non-smoker just because I chose a disgusting (to some), expensive habit. Big deal.
If it were discovered tomorrow that bananas were deadly, we'd still be eating them. McDonald's food is unhealthy, but the parking lot is still packed and the drive-thru is backed up every lunch hour of every day. It all depends how you look at it. Someone likes McDick's, so they eat there, even if they know it's gonna make them a fat fuck. They just look at it as being (semi) tasty and quick, not deadly. I like smoking, I like the social part of smoking, so I quietly overlook the it's-gonna-kill-me part.
Do you drive? I don't suppose you avoid travelling because you might sometime be met with a 65MPH head-on collision with a tractor trailer.
Perl would now be allowed to work until midnight on school nights, and 1AM on Fridays and Saturdays. Perl could also work up to 44 hours a week, and his employers would probably take full advantage of this.
However, even though Perl can work until midnight or 1AM, he can't drive for another six months.
He's now completely legal in PA. If he ever decides to hookup with C, it's all OK.
Still no booze, smokes, or voting. Gotta wait for that.
Wow, I'd hate to see the look on your face when you found out they had a christmas party.
It's a joke, and it probably took then 10 minutes to whip up, buddy. Get a sense of humor.
... Except that my EZPass is linked to MY VEHICLE ONLY, and prepaid, whereas my SpeedPass IS tied to my bank account, but nothing else. Have the transponder, have the account. That's it.
They take a picture of your license plate, and they mail you a letter. They charge you $20 for the mistake, too, except if it's your first time.
:P
I did it once when I didn't have cash for the toll
While it doesn't excuse their incompetence, AT&T truly HAS been having computer problems for quite a while. GSM is very new to them, and they are in the process of moving their TDMA side of things over to Siebel. Their contractors, well, screwed up bigtime, and nothing quite works right. Even if I wanted to call in and order something (ie, give them money), I couldn't do it, due to the Siebel problems.
Holy cow.
I got (when I threatened to leave):
Free phone (that was advertised as $50)
100 free minutes (brought me to 350)
free long distance in exchange for a loss of 1000 minutes of night/weekends. That's it.
You use your phone for business.
Company A. has a rather crap network, but to make up for it, they give you tons of minutes cheap.
Company B has a very, very robust network, and they now offer some very competitive plans if you sign up for a 2 year contract. SO, you port your number over.
2 years down the line, Company A's network has vastly improved, and you always though their customer service was better, anyway. So, you jump back over to Company A, and keep the same number.
Then, you get a promotion, you never have to leave the office, that's now someone else's job. So, you port your number to your office landline. As long as you keep porting it, you never lose your number. It's a giant pain in the ass to give out the new number to everyone.
$12 much smaller?
Jesus, here we pay something like $18 for basic service.
I'm 17.
I currently pay municipal tax, county tax, state tax, federal tax, social security, medicare, and workman's compensation.
I do not recieve much of it back come return time.
I also cannot vote. But you don't see all the 14-17 year olds who can't vote making a revolution.
My computer has always been in my room, since age 6 (I'm 17)... way back when it was a Columbia Data Products 8086. I got the internet around 9 or 10 or so.
/extremely/ upset. When I am not in my room, my Win2K session is locked.
My parents pretty much left me alone. Rules are stupid. Kids will get around them. I've gotten in trouble with the school before for disabling FoolProof (it turns off right-clicking on applications on the taskbar! it's annoying!) and their monitoring software.
GIve them their freedom, don't watch them. They'll figure out if you are, and be
Of course they could do it. They've got the money and access to the equipment.
However, any competent defense attorney would jump on them so quick that they would wish they never took the time to listen in.
Even still, GSM and especially CDMA phones are quite difficult to listen in on, CDMA being near impossible.
The US government may be secretive and always less trusting of its citizens, but things like this are pretty cut and dry, as it would be rather stupid for a prosecutor to say "well, we listened in here without a warrant."
I'm not so worried about them doing it without the telephone company knowing about it, it's not like Verizon would call me and tell me "oh, by the way, the feds tapped your line"
GSM is encrypted, although the encryption has been cracked. Still very hard and expensive for someone to listen in.
CDMA is nearly impossible due to the way it works (every phone yammering away at the same frequency, with a "code" attached to each packet, and the power tuned to the microwatt - very heavily encoded/secured)
TDMA would be the easiest, but would still require much more than a simple analog reciever. (Phones take turns speaking on the same channel). The equipment to monitor this is not availabile to the public.
There are laws enacted that say the same steps to tap a land line must be used to tap a cell phone.
We have a few around here in PA. The ones that change if you "flash to pass randomly" usually have a camera-like thinger near the light itself. And yes, if you're lucky enough, you can sometimes get the right frequency to get it to change.
How does it NOT run out of ink?
true. But what I am saying is not that they would win, but that nobody has the money to fight a corporation full of lawyers, except a larger corporation full of lawyers.
Could be seen as libel.
Always liked these guys. Only gave me wrong directions once, but they got me within a mile of where I needed to be.
Try being a smoker!
I registered on the PA Do Not Call list last September.
Since then, I have not recieved ONE telemarketing call.