State and Federal laws are quite clear on the fact that telemarketers CANNOT block their caller ID from showing up on a display or they would face a severe penalty. I've actually tried calling some of the caller ID #'s that have shown up that are a telemarketing contractor or subcontractor and wound up with either a dead-end recording or a busy signal.
So CID #'s are next to useless in the immediate time being, only worthwhile to a person putting together a lawsuit agianst the joker that stacks call upon call upon call to the poor customer.
Was it a Apple MacBook Pro Touch N Dim board? The one where you have to build a fireproof/explosionproof enclosure around the battery and power supply to prevent innocent bystanders from getting fragged when the thing explodes?
Or was it the new Microsoft Xbox360 Digital Porportional Dimmer Board? The one you have to fabricate your own cooling system or the whole thing goes up in smoke?
Not really. He took a brand name that stands for Quality (my grandfather owned a snapper rider, lasted 15 years) and told Wal-Mart that he was not going to let a Big Box store like them drive it into the ground.
Snapper makes their money from the lawn and garden shops owned by Mom and Pop, not the humgosized chains. Thats the strong point of Snapper, Ariens, Grasshopper, Massey Ferguson, to name a few that have withstood the test of time and money against the Big Boxes.
Or else they actually did pay for them to do just that.
You have to understand that Radio Shack is teetering on the edge of self-destruction due to piss poor management tactics and poor product placement. They are shuttering between 400-700 corporate stores (I don't think this will affect franchise owners, but who knows) and reevaulating where they stand on what products they need to be pushing.
The robotics kit was a safe bet to do a little advertising without getting wrecked because of shoddy materials or lousy manuals.
According to the majority of the posts here it's a language issue.
Consider this: politics and how the chinese govermment works. They like control. This new chinese internet is just that, a new control for their government to control the flow of information, keep the dissidents under their collective thumbs and to work the propreganda machine.
With these last few incidents with blogging and the lightning fast movement of the 'net in general, they have taken to isolate their people even further from the outside world.
I personally fear that they may cut the flow of outside information down to a trickle, or worse, mangle what is The Truth.
Had to get out my hip waders just to get past the first paragragh. Another article with lots of Bull$hit Bingo words in it. The fraudsters love to play mind games containing magnetic fields and it's quick flux fixxer-upper. Small wonder that the geomagnetic poles are trying to swap ends, the North Pole has just about had enough of hearing about it, conned the South Pole into thinking that it's place is better.
Even the title reeks of faddish words. Remember last year's warm fusion fraudster? This year is mirroring Cell processors and the tech that it uses.
It makes me wonder who is really submitting these articles to Slashdot.
Let the blade fall again, again, and agian! IF MPAA wants to fall on their own blade, fine, but at least let us crucify the bastards that DARE break their own rules that they consider set in stone.
C'est la Vie sweetheart, now get into the guillotine!
Major fly in the ointment there with your comments. Certain cities and counties have laws in place mandating that ALL public places and businesses MUST! keep their doors unlocked during business hours. Don't get me wrong, but a school is a public place, no? Keeping doors locked like that is considered to be a major fire hazard, considering the arrogant ASSumption of the adminstration that they are relying on automated means to unlock those doors if a fire does break out is stupid to say the least. Reliabilty percentages be dammed if people get trapped behind locked doors with no other way out!
We lost a SS7 branch (no backup this far out on the SS7 system, mind you) down here in south Texas in the Mcallen due to backhoers. Corpus Christi, Robstown, Port Aransas, Aransas Pass, and Rockport lost the ability to run credit cards, make cellular calls, 1/2 of those communities lost long distance functionality, not to mention internet access using that fiber.
The site was well marked with trunk warning flags and markers.
The boss said dig on top of the trunk.
The foreman said dig there.
The workers dug.
8 hours.. Thank god there was a MCI fiber truck nearby when they screwed the pooch.
They got their 5 minutes of fame on the evening news and a fat bill from MCI.
That aint such a bad idea.. Where else would you be able to sell stuff that you can claim that was fired into space, orbited for several years, then captured and returned to be sold to you my fine dear?
What is the biggest threat to the ISS right now, debris from the size of a dime to a dollar bill. This can be dealt with by capturing it and disposal.
One fix is to fire satellites into orbit designed to trap the debris in silica aerogel matricies. The birds in question would have to be built with maneuverbility in mind, the AI to detect the incoming particles, and to maneuver the "Catcher's Mitt" to capture the debris. We are talking about a satellite that would be nearly twice the size of the current record holder commo satellite, the Thaicom 4, due to the fuel supply for the craft would have to change orbits, velocities multiple times during the lifespan of the vehicle.
How big would the mitts be? How accurate would the sensors and software can we design without going overboard? Probably the best design would be the size of a large filing cabinet for a disposable mission, to the Stardust mission sized racket for a "bucket drop" profile.
Now the stickler: what do we do with all the junk that the system has caught? Several ideas come to mind. First we jettison the mitts and let them burn up on reentry. The second is a "bucket drop" or return mission. Seal the mitts in capsules and recover them for later examination to improve our understanding of material interaction with the harsh rigors of space.
How many mitts would be carried along for the ride depends on the satellite chassis itself. The initial design for a sacrifical mission would be a 4 "tennis racket" mitt configuration or 2 large filing cabinet sized mitts for maximum entrapment and disposal of material. The weight savings of not having the return vehicles would be the bonus side. The downside would be no research gained from the lost materials.
The best design of the mitts for capturing the debris, would have to be tne equivalant of many kevlar vests using ceramic plates to be effective in capturing the material. The weight considerations would be very restrictive, but we would have little or no choice in the matter for we are dealing with objects moving at very high velocities. The satellite's speed and agility would be able to deal with most of the fast-moving particles, but I expect that there will be holes put in the mitts from the heavier, faster moving ones.
Insurance write-off. If the contractor cuts a fiber and get's a fat bill for the repair, all they do is write it off on their insurance, reason given, "accident". One fix for this is for the underwriters to lock down these loopholes, forcing the contractor to be more dilligent on where they excavate. Ten to fifty grand for a simple fiber fix is good enough incentive to pay attention where the hell you dig.
You want pnumatic or electrical air dampers with that?:p Residental zone systems are always a pain because of the cost and labor involved. But once they are established, the client trained in it's operation and how to make changes to the system when and if they want to, accolades abound. Zoned systems for large homes are wonderful for they can be adjusted on the fly for occupancy or activities. Zoned systems can be customizable to a degree, but that's it.. There is a size limit at the small residential homes on how much zoning you can do. On the large home end, the sky's the limit, literally!
One option for folks that want to get really crazy is hydronics, IE, chilled water systems. Coupled with a PLCC system, it would be one of the most efficient HVAC system that you ever laid eyes on. There are chiller systems ranging from 1/2 ton units, to 200 tons and beyond. One disadvantage of water chilled system is that you have to deal with the plumbing and maintanence of the system. You can contract out to a HVAC dealer that specializes in the caretaking of chilled systems if you feel uncomfortable dealing with annual cleaning and flushing.
If you geeks ever get into the money and wanna build a dream house, look about getting a chilled water system installed. Your wallet will whimper a bit from the initial cost, but will love you later on when the energy bill comes due. ^.^
The uninstall software that Symantec uses hinges on the fact that the software is intact and was functioning. If the AV or any other feature breaks, then the uninstaller is questionable at best, a system-breaker at worst. This is why I keep a copy of the cleaners on my flash drive if I run across an AV that got compromised because the dummy behind the keyboard didn't know a single thing about updating and maintenance. And a copy of the free version of Avast! Antivirus too.
I meant to hit the Tycho crater with my driver! Oh well, time to go jouncing through the rough to go find my ball.. They didn't mention anything in the warranty about hitting balls in 1/6th gravity..
A Big Blow? It might be the Mike Tyson-style knockout punch that the defendants have been looking for. It will establish a precident for the rest of the "John Doe" lawsuits that the *AA's have slathered all over the nation.
About bloody time someone found a way to cripple these borderline-illegal 'suits once and for all... That is, IF the judge sees it the right way.
iPod was a blowout cuz the battery maker got cheap with their materials in a lousy effort to skil profits. This bit Apple in the butt. Most likely when Apple tears the batteries down and finds the substandard composistions, they will be nailing the ROC factories that skimped.
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State and Federal laws are quite clear on the fact that telemarketers CANNOT block their caller ID from showing up on a display or they would face a severe penalty.
I've actually tried calling some of the caller ID #'s that have shown up that are a telemarketing contractor or subcontractor and wound up with either a dead-end recording or a busy signal.
So CID #'s are next to useless in the immediate time being, only worthwhile to a person putting together a lawsuit agianst the joker that stacks call upon call upon call to the poor customer.
Was it a Apple MacBook Pro Touch N Dim board? The one where you have to build a fireproof /explosionproof enclosure around the battery and power supply to prevent innocent bystanders from getting fragged when the thing explodes?
Or was it the new Microsoft Xbox360 Digital Porportional Dimmer Board? The one you have to fabricate your own cooling system or the whole thing goes up in smoke?
As far as I can throw the SOB back across the Pacific to Japan.
Not really. He took a brand name that stands for Quality (my grandfather owned a snapper rider, lasted 15 years) and told Wal-Mart that he was not going to let a Big Box store like them drive it into the ground.
Snapper makes their money from the lawn and garden shops owned by Mom and Pop, not the humgosized chains. Thats the strong point of Snapper, Ariens, Grasshopper, Massey Ferguson, to name a few that have withstood the test of time and money against the Big Boxes.
Yeah, Ft. Worthless tends to do crap like that.
For more amusement and if you need to get your blood pressure raised you can see what they are up at at http://www.radioshacksucks.com/
Or else they actually did pay for them to do just that.
You have to understand that Radio Shack is teetering on the edge of self-destruction due to piss poor management tactics and poor product placement.
They are shuttering between 400-700 corporate stores (I don't think this will affect franchise owners, but who knows) and reevaulating where they stand on what products they need to be pushing.
The robotics kit was a safe bet to do a little advertising without getting wrecked because of shoddy materials or lousy manuals.
I did a WHOIS search on the links in the article and came up with some not-so surprising results.
TrioTV, brillantbutcancelled are owned by, take a guess? Universal Studios.
Looks like they are trying to push some of their old crap to wring a few dollars more out of the viewing public.
Mod parent up.
According to the majority of the posts here it's a language issue.
Consider this: politics and how the chinese govermment works. They like control.
This new chinese internet is just that, a new control for their government to control the flow of information, keep the dissidents under their collective thumbs and to work the propreganda machine.
With these last few incidents with blogging and the lightning fast movement of the 'net in general, they have taken to isolate their people even further from the outside world.
I personally fear that they may cut the flow of outside information down to a trickle, or worse, mangle what is The Truth.
Had to get out my hip waders just to get past the first paragragh. Another article with lots of Bull$hit Bingo words in it. The fraudsters love to play mind games containing magnetic fields and it's quick flux fixxer-upper. Small wonder that the geomagnetic poles are trying to swap ends, the North Pole has just about had enough of hearing about it, conned the South Pole into thinking that it's place is better.
Even the title reeks of faddish words. Remember last year's warm fusion fraudster? This year is mirroring Cell processors and the tech that it uses.
It makes me wonder who is really submitting these articles to Slashdot.
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XD
(Homer) "Kiss my fat hairy yellow ass" (/homer)
Let the blade fall again, again, and agian! IF MPAA wants to fall on their own blade, fine, but at least let us crucify the bastards that DARE break their own rules that they consider set in stone.
C'est la Vie sweetheart, now get into the guillotine!
Major fly in the ointment there with your comments. Certain cities and counties have laws in place mandating that ALL public places and businesses MUST! keep their doors unlocked during business hours. Don't get me wrong, but a school is a public place, no? Keeping doors locked like that is considered to be a major fire hazard, considering the arrogant ASSumption of the adminstration that they are relying on automated means to unlock those doors if a fire does break out is stupid to say the least. Reliabilty percentages be dammed if people get trapped behind locked doors with no other way out!
We lost a SS7 branch (no backup this far out on the SS7 system, mind you) down here in south Texas in the Mcallen due to backhoers. Corpus Christi, Robstown, Port Aransas, Aransas Pass, and Rockport lost the ability to run credit cards, make cellular calls, 1/2 of those communities lost long distance functionality, not to mention internet access using that fiber.
The site was well marked with trunk warning flags and markers.
The boss said dig on top of the trunk.
The foreman said dig there.
The workers dug.
8 hours.. Thank god there was a MCI fiber truck nearby when they screwed the pooch.
They got their 5 minutes of fame on the evening news and a fat bill from MCI.
That aint such a bad idea.. Where else would you be able to sell stuff that you can claim that was fired into space, orbited for several years, then captured and returned to be sold to you my fine dear?
What is the biggest threat to the ISS right now, debris from the size of a dime to a dollar bill. This can be dealt with by capturing it and disposal.
One fix is to fire satellites into orbit designed to trap the debris in silica aerogel matricies. The birds in question would have to be built with maneuverbility in mind, the AI to detect the incoming particles, and to maneuver the "Catcher's Mitt" to capture the debris. We are talking about a satellite that would be nearly twice the size of the current record holder commo satellite, the Thaicom 4, due to the fuel supply for the craft would have to change orbits, velocities multiple times during the lifespan of the vehicle.
How big would the mitts be? How accurate would the sensors and software can we design without going overboard? Probably the best design would be the size of a large filing cabinet for a disposable mission, to the Stardust mission sized racket for a "bucket drop" profile.
Now the stickler: what do we do with all the junk that the system has caught? Several ideas come to mind. First we jettison the mitts and let them burn up on reentry. The second is a "bucket drop" or return mission. Seal the mitts in capsules and recover them for later examination to improve our understanding of material interaction with the harsh rigors of space.
How many mitts would be carried along for the ride depends on the satellite chassis itself. The initial design for a sacrifical mission would be a 4 "tennis racket" mitt configuration or 2 large filing cabinet sized mitts for maximum entrapment and disposal of material. The weight savings of not having the return vehicles would be the bonus side. The downside would be no research gained from the lost materials.
The best design of the mitts for capturing the debris, would have to be tne equivalant of many kevlar vests using ceramic plates to be effective in capturing the material. The weight considerations would be very restrictive, but we would have little or no choice in the matter for we are dealing with objects moving at very high velocities. The satellite's speed and agility would be able to deal with most of the fast-moving particles, but I expect that there will be holes put in the mitts from the heavier, faster moving ones.
My 2 cents worth
Insurance write-off. If the contractor cuts a fiber and get's a fat bill for the repair, all they do is write it off on their insurance, reason given, "accident". One fix for this is for the underwriters to lock down these loopholes, forcing the contractor to be more dilligent on where they excavate. Ten to fifty grand for a simple fiber fix is good enough incentive to pay attention where the hell you dig.
You want pnumatic or electrical air dampers with that? :p Residental zone systems are always a pain because of the cost and labor involved. But once they are established, the client trained in it's operation and how to make changes to the system when and if they want to, accolades abound. Zoned systems for large homes are wonderful for they can be adjusted on the fly for occupancy or activities. Zoned systems can be customizable to a degree, but that's it.. There is a size limit at the small residential homes on how much zoning you can do. On the large home end, the sky's the limit, literally!
One option for folks that want to get really crazy is hydronics, IE, chilled water systems. Coupled with a PLCC system, it would be one of the most efficient HVAC system that you ever laid eyes on. There are chiller systems ranging from 1/2 ton units, to 200 tons and beyond. One disadvantage of water chilled system is that you have to deal with the plumbing and maintanence of the system. You can contract out to a HVAC dealer that specializes in the caretaking of chilled systems if you feel uncomfortable dealing with annual cleaning and flushing.
If you geeks ever get into the money and wanna build a dream house, look about getting a chilled water system installed. Your wallet will whimper a bit from the initial cost, but will love you later on when the energy bill comes due. ^.^
The uninstall software that Symantec uses hinges on the fact that the software is intact and was functioning. If the AV or any other feature breaks, then the uninstaller is questionable at best, a system-breaker at worst. This is why I keep a copy of the cleaners on my flash drive if I run across an AV that got compromised because the dummy behind the keyboard didn't know a single thing about updating and maintenance. And a copy of the free version of Avast! Antivirus too.
*smack*smack*smack* Bloody capitalists. ;p
No Spot! Don't Chew on the power*ZAP!* %^@!NO TERRIER.
Sorry, had to do that. ^.^
I meant to hit the Tycho crater with my driver! Oh well, time to go jouncing through the rough to go find my ball..
They didn't mention anything in the warranty about hitting balls in 1/6th gravity..
Preferably with a 20lb housewrecking sledge upside the Plaintiff's head.
Defense: OBJECTION! Leading the witness, and badgering.
Judge: Sustained.
A Big Blow? It might be the Mike Tyson-style knockout punch that the defendants have been looking for. It will establish a precident for the rest of the "John Doe" lawsuits that the *AA's have slathered all over the nation.
About bloody time someone found a way to cripple these borderline-illegal 'suits once and for all... That is, IF the judge sees it the right way.
iPod was a blowout cuz the battery maker got cheap with their materials in a lousy effort to skil profits. This bit Apple in the butt. Most likely when Apple tears the batteries down and finds the substandard composistions, they will be nailing the ROC factories that skimped.