I guess this would be a bad time to mention that Video Games hadn't been invented yet when I was in school. Actually, that's not true. My neighbors had an Atari 2600. But sheesh man, I was already out of college and running my own business by the time the SNES was available.
Every few years the so-called "deadline" keeps getting pushed back. Looks like I can keep my regular old TV set for a few more years.
And what makes this more hysterical is that the early adopters got screwed, buying plasma TVs only to find out they didn't support HD. Then the next set of adopters bought HDTVs, only to find out they were not HDMI compatible, and therefore, couldn't run HD content.
So, this new push-back of the deadline gives the content makers and the hardware companies more time to develop a whole new DRM scheme to screw those of you who just bought HDMI compatible equipment.
The guarantee is that every 5 years, you need to spend 10 grand on another entertainment setup.
So, this study wouldn't be valid in say... Canada?
You know, there are republicans who may be liberal and democrats who may be conservative. Being one doesn't necessarily mean being the other, like, being chaotic-neutral in D&D.
Also, how does this study work when there's more than just two parties? How are Socialist people different from the Worker Party? How's this make the Green Party Candidate? And what about in countries where there isn't any kind of democracy?
Somehow, I just can't buy this "study".. Is this some kind of Sept 11th joke, like April Fools pranks to celebrate that?
Various companies make thin clients that run Windows CE as the OS. These thin terminals have a standard Windows interface, but without the bells and whistles.
Most of the modern ones have a basic version of IE built-in, and can be configured to boot up from their flash disk and just run as an Internet browser. All you need to provide is a DHCP server so they can obtain an IP address and they can immediately surf the web from any network.
I have one at home for friends to "check their email" when I don't want them browsing my personal PC for my pr0n.
The good news is that you can find these suckers pretty cheap on eBay and the like. Keyboards, Mice and screens can be had for little or no money if you know where to look. All they need is electricity and a network. And there's little for them to screw-up as it's all ROM-based. Any "crash" or problem is solved by a power cycle, and you're back where you started.
Usually it's the dumber people who have all the weapons. Ride the subway in NYC and you'll understand this concept. It doesn't take any brains whatsoever to kill someone. In fact, having less brains makes it easier, since you're less likely to consider the consequences *before* pulling the trigger.
And frankly, the bigger the weapons, the less brains behind them. With King George W. the least brainy of all, with the most firepower.
And this is the way it's been since man walked the Earth. Mankind will never make it to the stars. We're destined to destroy ourselves first.
I wonder if this is why we've never found intelligent life in the universe yet.
Let me get this straight... Microsoft operates a central server, a single point of failure, that, when it goes down, will lock out thousands, perhaps millions of people from their computers?
How is this not the subject of every denial of service attack out there?
How is this not a target for terrorism, either cyber-wise, or physical (aka, blow up the building the server is in or just cut the wires)...
It seems to me that if taking out this single point will grind the American economy, or perhaps the global economy to a halt, then perhaps this needs to come under the auspices of Homeland Security and not be run by Microsoft.
at some point you have to take responsibility for your own information.
And how exactly am *I* supposed to do that? There are hundreds, perhaps thousands of companies who are continuously buying and selling information about *me*. And you can bet that when these companies sell someone else information they have collected about me, I am the last person on the notification list.
Furthermore, these companies actively resist you being able to contact them. Thanks to modern voice-mail trees, it's pretty much impossible to speak to a human at any of these companies, and assuming that you can make contact with some of the smaller ones, you can bet the first question they ask is "What's your social security number?", which, is information you're not supposed to give out over the phone if you want to protect your identity!
So far, the only way I have ever seen to have these companies take you seriously is to sue them. But you can't sue them if you're not sure they even have information about you. And it's very difficult to find out if they information about you unless you sue them.
I once recieved a letter from a collection agency I never heard of claiming I owed $28 for an AOL account, and unless I sent them a check, it would go into my credit report that I was delinquent. I called the company, and the first thing I was asked by the rude person over the phone was to give them my social security number. I refused to give this person a number since I felt this was a scam - I've never been and never will be an AOL customer. They hung up on me. So I called back, asking to speak to a supervisor. Again, I was asked for my social. I refused. They hung up.
So, I contacted AOL. AOL claimed I had an account that was unpaid. I told them I've never been an AOL customer. They said I had to fill out a form claiming that, and they needed my address. I pointed out that they should already have my address, since they were able to give that info to the collection agency.
In the end, I wound up sending complaints to AOL, the State Attouney General and Better Business, but, as far as I know, it did get resolved. But the point is, I have no idea how AOL got my information, and I only found out I had an AOL account after I was asked by a collection agency for money. AOL never once contacted me.
So exactly how am I supposed to "secure" and be responsible for my information, when I can't even tell who's got what about me?
What's worse is the amount of time I spent on this, because two dumbass companies can't even get their information about me straight. If AOL had contacted me FIRST, for example, it could have been resolved with one phone call. Instead, they just shuffled it off to a collection agency, which made the whole thing much more complicated.
Steve Ballmer is sitting in his office (played by Zero Mostel), when Bill Gates (played by Gene Wilder) comes into the office and the two come to the realization that they can make more money if the Operating System is a flop than if it were successful...
So they seek out the worst programmers they can find, and make all the wrong decisions regarding human interface design, and target the resultant system at such high-end hardware that no one can run it, saddling it with intrusive DRM and zillions of modal dialogs.
The thing is, we the audience haven't erroniously come to the conclusion that it's a comedy. So, Bill and Steve are partying with Oola, and getting away scott-free.
It's an interesting take on "The Producers", perhaps someone should film that?
Actually no, they sleep with incredibly sexy, supermodel blondes, because these guys are loaded with cash, and as you probably are well aware, most middle-aged super-wealthy usually have some kind of 20-something ultra-attractive, but vapid eye-candy in the passenger seat of the convertible Corvette.
Consider that, aside from police cars and taxis, most cars spend most of the time PARKED, either in a parking lot at work, or a driveway at home. The average car's lifespan is mostly spent at rest, with about a 1/2 hr drive to work and a 1/2 hr drive home.
Why is it NOT prudent to build a solar panel into the roof and/or engine hood to help recharge the batteries while the damn thing spends 8 hrs per day parked in the sunshine?
Hell, if we could take the heat that builds up inside the car on a hot summer day and convert that into electricity, I bet I could drive home just on that!
For those of you who do not remember the Tompkins Square Park Police Riot, here's the Wikipedia link. Police clubbed people on the head, regardless of who they were (even the press were beaten, there only to report on the incident).
Were it not for amateur videographers, it would have been the victims word alone versus the cops, and everyone knows the judge will side with the cops.
They will twist this law to confiscate any cell-phone, video camera, ipod, or other device that might bear witness to the over-reaching authority of the police-state of NY. Cops will have the ability to harass, beat, or otherwise abuse anyone they please, and no one will be able to bring in their evidence, because the shooting of such incident did not have a "permit".
The first human in space was piloting an X-15 while the rocket program was still producing some rather impressive fireworks displays.
Thank You. It's nice to see that I'm not the only human on planet earth that thinks that way. We could be colonizing other solar systems by now had we continued the simple space-plane concept instead of trying to beat the Russians at putting men ontop of missiles. What a collossal waste of time and money. Notice that Burt Rutan opted for an X-15 style system of mothership and dropship to win the X-Prize. Everyone else trying to build a "rocket" hasn't lifted off the ground yet.
I was wondering why it seemed like the amount of spam I was getting DOUBLED this weekend. Usually I get about 50 or 60 spams per day, now I seems like I'm getting 120 or 130 per day. Really freaking annoying. I'm ready to spam myself, but I want to spam an uber destructive virus that'll force the world to do something about spammers. Only after email has been rendered useless will the world do anything about spam.
#1) The perp in question was a drug smuggler with a van full of drugs #2) The perp was armed with a gun #3) The perp had already assaulted agent Compean and was fleeing the crime scene #4) Ramos shot him in the butt in an attempt to keep him from escaping
As a result of this case, the NATIONAL GUARD now backs off when armed drug smugglers cross our border. So, essentially, we've given up and any Mexican with a gun can hold the entire nation hostage.
Really good border security. It's a wonder we don't have 9/11 type events every fucking day in this country with security like that.
You can't tell me that Libby deserved to go to jail for "obstructing" an investigation
Sure the hell I can! Do you have any idea how many people are currently serving sentences for "obstruction of justice"? It's a very common way to end up in the slammer. Just ask Martha Stewart.
If it had been you or me lying to a Federal Grand Jury, our asses would be in jail for YEARS. What the fuck makes Libby so special to YOU that you think he deserves a different standard of justice than you or I would get?
If you follow the NRA's logic, then everyone in Iraq is "free" because they all have guns (and bombs). So therefore, we should be able to leave Iraq TODAY, because it's "free".
Unless you're incredibly stupid, guns don't equal freedom, and I just hope the NRA members realize this. Otherwise, there's no hope for America at all.
Frankly, the time for the Second Amendment is close at hand, as, while Bush hasn't declared himself emperor, he and Cheney come very close to insinuating that they are above the law and not representing the will of the American people. I have a friend who claims that Bush will nullify the 2008 election on the basis that he wasn't elected twice (the first time he was appointed).
So the question is: Are you willing to pick up your gun and fight to take back your country if Bush decides that term-limits are "quaint", much like the Geneva Conventions, Habeous Corpus, the consitiution, the rule of law?
Personally, I think the revolution is coming in 2009, when big business takes our TV away and there are no more bread and circuses. However, it might come sooner if Bush/Rove/Cheney/Norquist decide they want 4 more years to continue looting America.
Obviously, you've confused the meaning of the term "taken care of".
By "taken care of", he didn't mean in a way that meant justice. He meant he'd give the guy a party, welcome him into the fold and probably give him a medal.
Dick Cheney has frequently alluded that he is above the law in every respect, do you really think that his aides are any different? More proof that rich white guys almost never go to jail.
And Bush commutes his measley 30 months in jail while still doing nothing for Ramos and Compean who are serving 11 and 12 year sentences for DOING THEIR JOBS as border patrol agents.
What a crock justice is in the country. I have no respect for the law at all anymore.
I had Comcast when I lived in Jersey City. I was one of their first broadband customers in that area. I was also one of their first "Digital" customers in that area.
#1) I often had to go for months without internet service. #2) More than half of my digital channels didn't work.
I had to buy a new phone every month because their customer service (or lack thereof) had me so frustrated, I would throw the phone against the wall, and I would scream so loudly, my neighbors would call an ambulance.
I eventually returned their "Digital" box, and told the rep that their service wasn't ready for prime-time. The nail in the coffin for me was when most of the channels showed up as pixelated blocky bits with no sound. It was a waste of time.
The internet problems, as well as the Digital TV problems, all turned out to be a lack of signal coming into my building. I repeatedly had technicians come over, determine the signal was bad, and proceed to clip the cable coming out of my wall another inch shorter and then leave.
Finally, they couldn't make the cable any shorter.
I called Comcast time after time to explain to them that the problem wasn't the short cable in my wall, we'd been through that already. I wanted them to run another cable in from the street, since the cable from the street split 20 ways after it came into my building.
After about 2 or 3 years of this back and forth issue, a guy came by with an amplifier that sat under my couch to try and amplify the 1/20th of a signal I was getting. That worked for about a week and then I couldn't get the internet.
A technician replaced my cable modem. That worked for a week, and then stopped.
Then I was told that they'd have to replace the wiring in the building. That was unfeasible.
So, again I complained. By this time, I was seriously considering moving.
By the time they installed the amplifier in the basement as well to amplify the signal before it was split 20 times, I was house hunting (I needed a garage anyhow, and I'd outgrown the condo).
That worked for a while. But not long.
I can only wonder if they EVER ran a second line into my building. All I know is that I now have Verizon DSL and Direct TV.
The only way I'd ever go back to Comcast is if they paid me. I spent more time teaching their tech support people how to do basic networking than I spent at my own job. Frankly, I should send Comcast a bill for $72,000 for consulting.
They are possibly the WORST corporation I have ever had to deal with. How they got so big with such crappy service I cannot understand. They make Verizon look competent, and that's saying a lot.
eBay's system of who you can trust and who you cannot doesn't work. Generally, even theives have a good feedback rating on ebay, and worst of all, the average joe who isn't an eBay powerseller or doesn't have his own ebay "store" is likely to get shafted because eBay only cares about fees, not feedback.
For example, a user with a feedback of 1 can buy something from a seller with a feedback of 450, and then complain to ebay. The user of with the feeback of 1 can have the seller's account suspended despite the vast chasm of difference between the seller's feedback and the buyers, and ebay makes NO distinction over which party has the better reputation.
It all comes down to who files the dispute first. Either that or eBay just assumes the seller is always at fault.
Ebay's dirty little secret is that you can create an account, buy something, and essentially get it for free from the seller because the only way the seller has to resolve the suspended account is to refund the payment. There is NO other recourse.
And "reputation" means nothing to ebay. You could have created the buyer's account a week ago, and take down a seller who has been a good seller on ebay for years.
And when Ebay gets wise to you, create a new email account on yahoo, start again, buy something, register a complaint and get it for free, because the seller has to refund your money.
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I guess this would be a bad time to mention that Video Games hadn't been invented yet when I was in school. Actually, that's not true. My neighbors had an Atari 2600. But sheesh man, I was already out of college and running my own business by the time the SNES was available.
Now that probably dates me.
Wow, I thought I was the last idiot in the world running an FC BBS on a Mac. Congrats!
I tried to use Google translate to put this in Russian, but Slashdot didn't want to let me cut-'n-paste it in.
Comrade Dave: Open ze Pod Bay Doors, HAL.
Comrade HAL: Nyet Comrade Dave, I cannot do that.
I wonder how you sing "Daisy Daisy" in Russian?
Every few years the so-called "deadline" keeps getting pushed back. Looks like I can keep my regular old TV set for a few more years.
And what makes this more hysterical is that the early adopters got screwed, buying plasma TVs only to find out they didn't support HD. Then the next set of adopters bought HDTVs, only to find out they were not HDMI compatible, and therefore, couldn't run HD content.
So, this new push-back of the deadline gives the content makers and the hardware companies more time to develop a whole new DRM scheme to screw those of you who just bought HDMI compatible equipment.
The guarantee is that every 5 years, you need to spend 10 grand on another entertainment setup.
Isn't that fun?
So, this study wouldn't be valid in say... Canada?
You know, there are republicans who may be liberal and democrats who may be conservative. Being one doesn't necessarily mean being the other, like, being chaotic-neutral in D&D.
Also, how does this study work when there's more than just two parties? How are Socialist people different from the Worker Party? How's this make the Green Party Candidate? And what about in countries where there isn't any kind of democracy?
Somehow, I just can't buy this "study".. Is this some kind of Sept 11th joke, like April Fools pranks to celebrate that?
Various companies make thin clients that run Windows CE as the OS. These thin terminals have a standard Windows interface, but without the bells and whistles.
Most of the modern ones have a basic version of IE built-in, and can be configured to boot up from their flash disk and just run as an Internet browser. All you need to provide is a DHCP server so they can obtain an IP address and they can immediately surf the web from any network.
I have one at home for friends to "check their email" when I don't want them browsing my personal PC for my pr0n.
The good news is that you can find these suckers pretty cheap on eBay and the like. Keyboards, Mice and screens can be had for little or no money if you know where to look. All they need is electricity and a network. And there's little for them to screw-up as it's all ROM-based. Any "crash" or problem is solved by a power cycle, and you're back where you started.
TTYL
Brian C.
Usually it's the dumber people who have all the weapons. Ride the subway in NYC and you'll understand this concept. It doesn't take any brains whatsoever to kill someone. In fact, having less brains makes it easier, since you're less likely to consider the consequences *before* pulling the trigger.
And frankly, the bigger the weapons, the less brains behind them.
With King George W. the least brainy of all, with the most firepower.
And this is the way it's been since man walked the Earth.
Mankind will never make it to the stars. We're destined to destroy ourselves first.
I wonder if this is why we've never found intelligent life in the universe yet.
Let me get this straight... Microsoft operates a central server, a single point of failure, that, when it goes down, will lock out thousands, perhaps millions of people from their computers?
How is this not the subject of every denial of service attack out there?
How is this not a target for terrorism, either cyber-wise, or physical (aka, blow up the building the server is in or just cut the wires)...
It seems to me that if taking out this single point will grind the American economy, or perhaps the global economy to a halt, then perhaps this needs to come under the auspices of Homeland Security and not be run by Microsoft.
TTYL
Brian C.
Oh god, I wish I had mod points. I haven't laughed this hard since Tuesday.
at some point you have to take responsibility for your own information.
And how exactly am *I* supposed to do that? There are hundreds, perhaps thousands of companies who are continuously buying and selling information about *me*. And you can bet that when these companies sell someone else information they have collected about me, I am the last person on the notification list.
Furthermore, these companies actively resist you being able to contact them. Thanks to modern voice-mail trees, it's pretty much impossible to speak to a human at any of these companies, and assuming that you can make contact with some of the smaller ones, you can bet the first question they ask is "What's your social security number?", which, is information you're not supposed to give out over the phone if you want to protect your identity!
So far, the only way I have ever seen to have these companies take you seriously is to sue them. But you can't sue them if you're not sure they even have information about you. And it's very difficult to find out if they information about you unless you sue them.
I once recieved a letter from a collection agency I never heard of claiming I owed $28 for an AOL account, and unless I sent them a check, it would go into my credit report that I was delinquent. I called the company, and the first thing I was asked by the rude person over the phone was to give them my social security number. I refused to give this person a number since I felt this was a scam - I've never been and never will be an AOL customer. They hung up on me. So I called back, asking to speak to a supervisor. Again, I was asked for my social. I refused. They hung up.
So, I contacted AOL. AOL claimed I had an account that was unpaid. I told them I've never been an AOL customer. They said I had to fill out a form claiming that, and they needed my address. I pointed out that they should already have my address, since they were able to give that info to the collection agency.
In the end, I wound up sending complaints to AOL, the State Attouney General and Better Business, but, as far as I know, it did get resolved. But the point is, I have no idea how AOL got my information, and I only found out I had an AOL account after I was asked by a collection agency for money. AOL never once contacted me.
So exactly how am I supposed to "secure" and be responsible for my information, when I can't even tell who's got what about me?
What's worse is the amount of time I spent on this, because two dumbass companies can't even get their information about me straight. If AOL had contacted me FIRST, for example, it could have been resolved with one phone call. Instead, they just shuffled it off to a collection agency, which made the whole thing much more complicated.
SO lemme get this straight....
Steve Ballmer is sitting in his office (played by Zero Mostel), when Bill Gates (played by Gene Wilder) comes into the office and the two come to the realization that they can make more money if the Operating System is a flop than if it were successful...
So they seek out the worst programmers they can find, and make all the wrong decisions regarding human interface design, and target the resultant system at such high-end hardware that no one can run it, saddling it with intrusive DRM and zillions of modal dialogs.
The thing is, we the audience haven't erroniously come to the conclusion that it's a comedy. So, Bill and Steve are partying with Oola, and getting away scott-free.
It's an interesting take on "The Producers", perhaps someone should film that?
TTYL
Brian C.
Can they even sleep with themselves?
Actually no, they sleep with incredibly sexy, supermodel blondes, because these guys are loaded with cash, and as you probably are well aware, most middle-aged super-wealthy usually have some kind of 20-something ultra-attractive, but vapid eye-candy in the passenger seat of the convertible Corvette.
And no, I'm not bitter at all.
....
So, run this by me again;...
Consider that, aside from police cars and taxis, most cars spend most of the time PARKED, either in a parking lot at work, or a driveway at home. The average car's lifespan is mostly spent at rest, with about a 1/2 hr drive to work and a 1/2 hr drive home.
Why is it NOT prudent to build a solar panel into the roof and/or engine hood to help recharge the batteries while the damn thing spends 8 hrs per day parked in the sunshine?
Hell, if we could take the heat that builds up inside the car on a hot summer day and convert that into electricity, I bet I could drive home just on that!
TTYL
Brian C.
For those of you who do not remember the Tompkins Square Park Police Riot, here's the Wikipedia link. Police clubbed people on the head, regardless of who they were (even the press were beaten, there only to report on the incident).
Were it not for amateur videographers, it would have been the victims word alone versus the cops, and everyone knows the judge will side with the cops.
They will twist this law to confiscate any cell-phone, video camera, ipod, or other device that might bear witness to the over-reaching authority of the police-state of NY. Cops will have the ability to harass, beat, or otherwise abuse anyone they please, and no one will be able to bring in their evidence, because the shooting of such incident did not have a "permit".
I'm moving to Canada.
The first human in space was piloting an X-15 while the rocket program was still producing some rather impressive fireworks displays.
Thank You. It's nice to see that I'm not the only human on planet earth that thinks that way. We could be colonizing other solar systems by now had we continued the simple space-plane concept instead of trying to beat the Russians at putting men ontop of missiles. What a collossal waste of time and money. Notice that Burt Rutan opted for an X-15 style system of mothership and dropship to win the X-Prize. Everyone else trying to build a "rocket" hasn't lifted off the ground yet.
It might hit Ellen Muth in the head. Yet another Russian toilet seat to be killing someone.
I was wondering why it seemed like the amount of spam I was getting DOUBLED this weekend. Usually I get about 50 or 60 spams per day, now I seems like I'm getting 120 or 130 per day. Really freaking annoying. I'm ready to spam myself, but I want to spam an uber destructive virus that'll force the world to do something about spammers. Only after email has been rendered useless will the world do anything about spam.
Stop drinking the Kool-Aid;
#1) The perp in question was a drug smuggler with a van full of drugs
#2) The perp was armed with a gun
#3) The perp had already assaulted agent Compean and was fleeing the crime scene
#4) Ramos shot him in the butt in an attempt to keep him from escaping
As a result of this case, the NATIONAL GUARD now backs off when armed drug smugglers cross our border. So, essentially, we've given up and any Mexican with a gun can hold the entire nation hostage.
Really good border security.
It's a wonder we don't have 9/11 type events every fucking day in this country with security like that.
You can't tell me that Libby deserved to go to jail for "obstructing" an investigation
Sure the hell I can! Do you have any idea how many people are currently serving sentences for "obstruction of justice"? It's a very common way to end up in the slammer. Just ask Martha Stewart.
If it had been you or me lying to a Federal Grand Jury, our asses would be in jail for YEARS. What the fuck makes Libby so special to YOU that you think he deserves a different standard of justice than you or I would get?
If you follow the NRA's logic, then everyone in Iraq is "free" because they all have guns (and bombs). So therefore, we should be able to leave Iraq TODAY, because it's "free".
Unless you're incredibly stupid, guns don't equal freedom, and I just hope the NRA members realize this. Otherwise, there's no hope for America at all.
Frankly, the time for the Second Amendment is close at hand, as, while Bush hasn't declared himself emperor, he and Cheney come very close to insinuating that they are above the law and not representing the will of the American people. I have a friend who claims that Bush will nullify the 2008 election on the basis that he wasn't elected twice (the first time he was appointed).
So the question is: Are you willing to pick up your gun and fight to take back your country if Bush decides that term-limits are "quaint", much like the Geneva Conventions, Habeous Corpus, the consitiution, the rule of law?
Personally, I think the revolution is coming in 2009, when big business takes our TV away and there are no more bread and circuses. However, it might come sooner if Bush/Rove/Cheney/Norquist decide they want 4 more years to continue looting America.
Obviously, you've confused the meaning of the term "taken care of".
By "taken care of", he didn't mean in a way that meant justice.
He meant he'd give the guy a party, welcome him into the fold and probably give him a medal.
Dick Cheney has frequently alluded that he is above the law in every respect, do you really think that his aides are any different? More proof that rich white guys almost never go to jail.
And Bush commutes his measley 30 months in jail while still doing nothing for Ramos and Compean who are serving 11 and 12 year sentences for DOING THEIR JOBS as border patrol agents.
What a crock justice is in the country. I have no respect for the law at all anymore.
signed;
A disgusted citizen of a corrupt nation.
I had Comcast when I lived in Jersey City. I was one of their first broadband customers in that area. I was also one of their first "Digital" customers in that area.
#1) I often had to go for months without internet service.
#2) More than half of my digital channels didn't work.
I had to buy a new phone every month because their customer service (or lack thereof) had me so frustrated, I would throw the phone against the wall, and I would scream so loudly, my neighbors would call an ambulance.
I eventually returned their "Digital" box, and told the rep that their service wasn't ready for prime-time. The nail in the coffin for me was when most of the channels showed up as pixelated blocky bits with no sound. It was a waste of time.
The internet problems, as well as the Digital TV problems, all turned out to be a lack of signal coming into my building. I repeatedly had technicians come over, determine the signal was bad, and proceed to clip the cable coming out of my wall another inch shorter and then leave.
Finally, they couldn't make the cable any shorter.
I called Comcast time after time to explain to them that the problem wasn't the short cable in my wall, we'd been through that already. I wanted them to run another cable in from the street, since the cable from the street split 20 ways after it came into my building.
After about 2 or 3 years of this back and forth issue, a guy came by with an amplifier that sat under my couch to try and amplify the 1/20th of a signal I was getting. That worked for about a week and then I couldn't get the internet.
A technician replaced my cable modem. That worked for a week, and then stopped.
Then I was told that they'd have to replace the wiring in the building. That was unfeasible.
So, again I complained. By this time, I was seriously considering moving.
By the time they installed the amplifier in the basement as well to amplify the signal before it was split 20 times, I was house hunting (I needed a garage anyhow, and I'd outgrown the condo).
That worked for a while. But not long.
I can only wonder if they EVER ran a second line into my building. All I know is that I now have Verizon DSL and Direct TV.
The only way I'd ever go back to Comcast is if they paid me. I spent more time teaching their tech support people how to do basic networking than I spent at my own job. Frankly, I should send Comcast a bill for $72,000 for consulting.
They are possibly the WORST corporation I have ever had to deal with. How they got so big with such crappy service I cannot understand. They make Verizon look competent, and that's saying a lot.
Sue.. Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers. ... Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers.
Sue
(Grit teeth, pound hands) Sue.. Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers!
thank you.
eBay's system of who you can trust and who you cannot doesn't work. Generally, even theives have a good feedback rating on ebay, and worst of all, the average joe who isn't an eBay powerseller or doesn't have his own ebay "store" is likely to get shafted because eBay only cares about fees, not feedback.
For example, a user with a feedback of 1 can buy something from a seller with a feedback of 450, and then complain to ebay. The user of with the feeback of 1 can have the seller's account suspended despite the vast chasm of difference between the seller's feedback and the buyers, and ebay makes NO distinction over which party has the better reputation.
It all comes down to who files the dispute first. Either that or eBay just assumes the seller is always at fault.
Ebay's dirty little secret is that you can create an account, buy something, and essentially get it for free from the seller because the only way the seller has to resolve the suspended account is to refund the payment. There is NO other recourse.
And "reputation" means nothing to ebay. You could have created the buyer's account a week ago, and take down a seller who has been a good seller on ebay for years.
And when Ebay gets wise to you, create a new email account on yahoo, start again, buy something, register a complaint and get it for free, because the seller has to refund your money.
So; how exactly does eBay's system "work"?