Ford has several Linux based systems in place, from what I know of people that work in the Ford corporate office (which just happens to be on my way home from work).. and they've hired a LOT of Linux developers.
The girl that I am seeing these days is hot, sexy, available, female, and scored higher on the Geek Test than I did.. although she scored in virtually every category, but had an almost ZERO score in computers, and I scored nearly every single computer question, but had a zero score for almost all other categories.
She says the difference between nerds and geeks are that geeks get laid.
And i'm guessing that you found that they did things in the generally proper fashion.
Really, though, until the person in question informs them that he is or is not the person that they want to find, are they ever going to stop? probably not.
However, if the company that is owed money originally, has a business relationship with you that has your CELL # listed as your contact number, then of course the collections agency can use it -- as that is the known point of contact. So could the original company.\
This means that you owe them money (because someone else you owe money has transferred that to them).
This means that you have a business relationship with them (because your debt was transferred from a company that you did have a business relationship with) and they can call your cell phone.
Note: Verizon cannot block the call because it's not CID available. If it were to show on CID, it could quite probably be blocked at the service level - but it can't.
On the other hand: If it is NOT you that they are looking for (I got to deal with this quite a bit when I first got my new cell phone, with it's new #), such as in the case where you have just received a new cell number, then they don't have a right to call you, however, you need to identify yourself to them before they can discover that!
So, if you're not identifying yourself to them because you're trying to avoid the collections agency, you're gonna continue to get phone calls. If you're not the person that they are wanting to collect from, then you have to identify yourself to them, so that they will stop calling you.
I had every utility company in this state calling my cell phone trying to reach the guy that used to have the number.. and it took a good 3 or 4 months of sending calls to voicemail, with a message saying "This is NO LONGER THE PHONE NUMBER FOR -former owner's name-. If you are looking for him, please do not call back.".. probably 3 or 4 calls a week.
Certainly, but should you really be running 30-40MB into the swapper, after starting just one graphical application?
Answer: not the way Linux memory management is.
Under OS/2, that would be fine and dandy.. but under Linux, that is just plain not acceptable to be constantly in the swap file with 256MB RAM and jack and shit running for processes.
Hopefully this version has undergone some serious memory and speed enhancements, as currently, with my system running debian, X, and GNOME 2.2, with 256mb RAM.. nothing else running to speak of.. I have 0 normal RAM free, and the system has cut about 20-30MB into the swap file.
Any comments on RAM usage? I have to use fvwm because KDE and GNOME are so damn HUGE these days..
Why does this even make any news space -on- slashdot? I mean, if they had just said "2.6.0-test5 is out." that might've been fine.. but that whole tutorial is a complete waste of time.
It's just like all other patches.. the way the article sounds, it's like some sensational new upgrade path, that must be done.. like someone made a major sysctl interface change or something, and it requires a whole new set of modutil, binutil, et al..
Ah, yes, I remember the early days of Linux 0.99w/NET2+SLIP.. i remember my first real coding in linux was the constant hacking that I had to do every time the SLIP (this was all user mode then) driver crashed.. to get it back running, and keep it going for a little longer.. than having to do the exact same thing once someone got SLIP into the kernel.. ugh!!!
I can tell you for sure, that 'vi' definitely predates 'unix system iii' which was the first one i used, several years before there was a linux.. in fact, all the GNU tools were available. I don't think the GNU people have written a single new tool in 20 years...
I used to have to UUENCODE the tar.gz images, download them using ASCII CAPTURE on my freaking TERMINAL PROGRAM at 1200 or 2400bps.. then UUDECODE them on my home machine, and go from there... LOL!!!!!!
Dude, my first computer with Linux was a 386sx/16 with 2MB RAM, 512K of which was not available. so, 1.5MB RAM on a 16MHz computer.. and I ran it through a SLIP connection to the Internet, and ran a MUD with it.
Never bothered to try X on it (though this was the same hardware that people WERE running X on.. though mostly the people with the blinding speed 33 MHz 386's, and with at least -4- MB RAM) simply because downloading X at 2400bps was insane.
FreeSCO (Free ciSCO.. not free SCO...) I didn't need any of my Linux experience to get a firewall/router up and running in about 30 minutes.
I did use a lot of my experience with Linux when I got it installed onto hard drive, and turned my Tandy Sensation I into the web server and email server for my domain, though.
According to this story virtually anyone can build a nuclear reactor.. therefore, point is mostly irrelevant. Build that thing on a bigger scale, and then send it off, and Boom! there goes half a state. Great for the Fourth of July!
Doubt it - how many millions of things would one figure have been invented that would probably seriously affect the income of electrical companies, oil companies, telephone companies, and other "required" utilities.. that are now locked away in some super top secret vault by those companies? I'd be willing to bet a LOT.
Remember, those who are in power, want to maintain the status quo -- they don't want to give ANYONE the opportunity to beat them!
Exactly. When Some big software vendor tries to violate someone's nether regions, because they "violated" the "eula", then maybe there will be some sort of decision on wether or not it's legal. Much like the GPL, no one's ever really tried it in court.
I would also like to bring up the sodomy laws that were rather recently put down as unconstitutional. So, it took a couple of gay men actually getting ARRESTED for having gay sex in their gay home, for the laws to get fixed!
Also, the article that was pointed to in the main article here, was a local newspaper to the incident, wasn't it? I'd expect that ANY case of ANYONE letting their kid run around in a car and die from it is GOING to make local news rags, and it's GOING to make some national short story! I'm surprised I haven't at least seen it on the CNN Headline News Ticker.. really..
Like the dumbass chick that left her 3 kids locked in their car near Detroit a few years ago while she went into the hair salon and had her hair done.. for 4 hours.. in 100+degree heat.. I don't remember what exactly happened.. I think 2 were dead and 1 dying by the time someone realised what was going on.. don't remember the total outcome..
I would like to say, that, although the other 7 messages here are absolutely correct -- EverQuest is not at DIRECT fault for this woman's child's death -- it is NOT the fault of the video game...
However... Read the post that she made, referenced in the original article, from LAST October. There's just as much TRUTH in that article, as there is rambling from the mind of a psychological addict -- The game is designed to attract those with seriously psychoaddictive personality issues.
Think about THAT message, in relation to all of this. Massive fore-shadowing, in a very sad fashion:(
We all know there's massive quantities of EQ junkies, we know there's MUD junkies, we know there's TV junkies, and Pool junkies, and arcade junkies, and Golden Tee Golf Junkies, and there's code-junkies and web-browsing junkies, and porn junkies, and so on, and so on, and so on..
But rather than concentrating on why the media picked it up (not a whole heck of a lot of media yet, either, and it's been quite some time), why not discuss something more useful?
I wouldn't just dismiss this as "the parents suck".. Obviously the parents realised BEFORE hand that they had problems.. but were unable to solve that problem.. and that led to the death of her child.. and that's just not right.
Rather than talk about dumb ass stupid shit, why can't we all, as nerds, talk about things that might help someone?
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Ford has several Linux based systems in place, from what I know of people that work in the Ford corporate office (which just happens to be on my way home from work) .. and they've hired a LOT of Linux developers.
lol.. I make no exclusive commitments, and do not expect her to do so, either.
although between hanging with me and her school schedule she doesn't have time to be available really. lol
The girl that I am seeing these days is hot, sexy, available, female, and scored higher on the Geek Test than I did.. although she scored in virtually every category, but had an almost ZERO score in computers, and I scored nearly every single computer question, but had a zero score for almost all other categories.
She says the difference between nerds and geeks are that geeks get laid.
Hmm..
And i'm guessing that you found that they did things in the generally proper fashion.
Really, though, until the person in question informs them that he is or is not the person that they want to find, are they ever going to stop? probably not.
However, if the company that is owed money originally, has a business relationship with you that has your CELL # listed as your contact number, then of course the collections agency can use it -- as that is the known point of contact. So could the original company.\
As everyone says:
.. probably 3 or 4 calls a week.
NCO is a collections agency.
This means that you owe them money (because someone else you owe money has transferred that to them).
This means that you have a business relationship with them (because your debt was transferred from a company that you did have a business relationship with) and they can call your cell phone.
Note: Verizon cannot block the call because it's not CID available. If it were to show on CID, it could quite probably be blocked at the service level - but it can't.
On the other hand: If it is NOT you that they are looking for (I got to deal with this quite a bit when I first got my new cell phone, with it's new #), such as in the case where you have just received a new cell number, then they don't have a right to call you, however, you need to identify yourself to them before they can discover that!
So, if you're not identifying yourself to them because you're trying to avoid the collections agency, you're gonna continue to get phone calls. If you're not the person that they are wanting to collect from, then you have to identify yourself to them, so that they will stop calling you.
I had every utility company in this state calling my cell phone trying to reach the guy that used to have the number.. and it took a good 3 or 4 months of sending calls to voicemail, with a message saying "This is NO LONGER THE PHONE NUMBER FOR -former owner's name-. If you are looking for him, please do not call back."
the screenshots look great. I can't wait to get home from work and download this baby.
Certainly, but should you really be running 30-40MB into the swapper, after starting just one graphical application?
Answer: not the way Linux memory management is.
Under OS/2, that would be fine and dandy.. but under Linux, that is just plain not acceptable to be constantly in the swap file with 256MB RAM and jack and shit running for processes.
Hopefully this version has undergone some serious memory and speed enhancements, as currently, with my system running debian, X, and GNOME 2.2, with 256mb RAM.. nothing else running to speak of.. I have 0 normal RAM free, and the system has cut about 20-30MB into the swap file.
Any comments on RAM usage? I have to use fvwm because KDE and GNOME are so damn HUGE these days..
Why does this even make any news space -on- slashdot? I mean, if they had just said "2.6.0-test5 is out." that might've been fine.. but that whole tutorial is a complete waste of time.
It's just like all other patches.. the way the article sounds, it's like some sensational new upgrade path, that must be done.. like someone made a major sysctl interface change or something, and it requires a whole new set of modutil, binutil, et al..
sensationalism sucks.
So, by Google auto-decryptying the text contained on those old newsposts, it is now in violation of the DMCA.
All your Google are belong to us.
Ah, yes, I remember the early days of Linux 0.99w/NET2+SLIP .. i remember my first real coding in linux was the constant hacking that I had to do every time the SLIP (this was all user mode then) driver crashed.. to get it back running, and keep it going for a little longer.. than having to do the exact same thing once someone got SLIP into the kernel.. ugh!!!
I can tell you for sure, that 'vi' definitely predates 'unix system iii' which was the first one i used, several years before there was a linux.. in fact, all the GNU tools were available. I don't think the GNU people have written a single new tool in 20 years...
I used to have to UUENCODE the tar.gz images, download them using ASCII CAPTURE on my freaking TERMINAL PROGRAM at 1200 or 2400bps .. then UUDECODE them on my home machine, and go from there... LOL!!!!!!
Dude, my first computer with Linux was a 386sx/16 with 2MB RAM, 512K of which was not available. so, 1.5MB RAM on a 16MHz computer.. and I ran it through a SLIP connection to the Internet, and ran a MUD with it.
Never bothered to try X on it (though this was the same hardware that people WERE running X on.. though mostly the people with the blinding speed 33 MHz 386's, and with at least -4- MB RAM) simply because downloading X at 2400bps was insane.
FreeSCO (Free ciSCO .. not free SCO...) I didn't need any of my Linux experience to get a firewall/router up and running in about 30 minutes.
I did use a lot of my experience with Linux when I got it installed onto hard drive, and turned my Tandy Sensation I into the web server and email server for my domain, though.
According to this story virtually anyone can build a nuclear reactor.. therefore, point is mostly irrelevant. Build that thing on a bigger scale, and then send it off, and Boom! there goes half a state. Great for the Fourth of July!
Doubt it - how many millions of things would one figure have been invented that would probably seriously affect the income of electrical companies, oil companies, telephone companies, and other "required" utilities .. that are now locked away in some super top secret vault by those companies? I'd be willing to bet a LOT.
Remember, those who are in power, want to maintain the status quo -- they don't want to give ANYONE the opportunity to beat them!
How do I get this funny feeling that someone's been hacked?
In any case, I'd be pretty pissed off if I had paid to see this story early.
I've got a friend who's family lives in West Virginia. I can't understand them. At all. but at least now I know what the hell a poke is!
Exactly. When Some big software vendor tries to violate someone's nether regions, because they "violated" the "eula", then maybe there will be some sort of decision on wether or not it's legal. Much like the GPL, no one's ever really tried it in court.
I would also like to bring up the sodomy laws that were rather recently put down as unconstitutional. So, it took a couple of gay men actually getting ARRESTED for having gay sex in their gay home, for the laws to get fixed!
Also, the article that was pointed to in the main article here, was a local newspaper to the incident, wasn't it? I'd expect that ANY case of ANYONE letting their kid run around in a car and die from it is GOING to make local news rags, and it's GOING to make some national short story! I'm surprised I haven't at least seen it on the CNN Headline News Ticker.. really..
Like the dumbass chick that left her 3 kids locked in their car near Detroit a few years ago while she went into the hair salon and had her hair done.. for 4 hours.. in 100+degree heat.. I don't remember what exactly happened.. I think 2 were dead and 1 dying by the time someone realised what was going on.. don't remember the total outcome..
I would like to say, that, although the other 7 messages here are absolutely correct -- EverQuest is not at DIRECT fault for this woman's child's death -- it is NOT the fault of the video game...
... Read the post that she made, referenced in the original article, from LAST October. There's just as much TRUTH in that article, as there is rambling from the mind of a psychological addict -- The game is designed to attract those with seriously psychoaddictive personality issues.
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.. Obviously the parents realised BEFORE hand that they had problems.. but were unable to solve that problem.. and that led to the death of her child.. and that's just not right.
However
Think about THAT message, in relation to all of this. Massive fore-shadowing, in a very sad fashion
We all know there's massive quantities of EQ junkies, we know there's MUD junkies, we know there's TV junkies, and Pool junkies, and arcade junkies, and Golden Tee Golf Junkies, and there's code-junkies and web-browsing junkies, and porn junkies, and so on, and so on, and so on
But rather than concentrating on why the media picked it up (not a whole heck of a lot of media yet, either, and it's been quite some time), why not discuss something more useful?
I wouldn't just dismiss this as "the parents suck"
Rather than talk about dumb ass stupid shit, why can't we all, as nerds, talk about things that might help someone?
Something that seems to be missing from the first 500 posts or so:
Osiru is NOT SPEWS. SPEWS and Osiru are entirely different.