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The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - The Tertiary Phase Part 1 of 6 - "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - The Tertiary Phase Part 1 of 6.mp3" (01/11) 25.3 MBytes yEnc
I work for a small jeweler in new england, and we're fed-up with ups loosing packages.
We make sure that anthing that goes out ups gets packed tripple, inside two boses... believe me, I've seen what happens when a package gets returned to us that's been through hell and back, the only thing that is recognisable is the ups label...
I would not want ups doing this crap with toshiba, having a rack mounted server a few years ago shipped to 7 different counteries, yes I kid you not, and ending up completly destroyed, and ups is going to handle parts etc for toshiba... ok, I must be dreaming... !
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Actually, writing "ask for id" on the back of most CC (V/MC/AM/D) makes the card "invalid".
Read the back of your card... it is very plainly printed on the back "not valid unless signed", and if you ever read the "t&c" that come with your card it's also listed there.
Also, some CC makers (Visa for one, MC used to...), actually guarantee your privacy, so asking for an ID when you present your card is actually breaking the merchant's contract with Visa (the one that allows them to accept transactions and put the visa logo on their storefront), where visa guarantee your privacy, no ID will ever be needed to use the card.
I used to work for a major retailer, who had a store policy where if someone purchased an expensive watch from certain vendors, they were also to ask for the customers driving license... When I pointed this out to the store (that it was breaking visa's rules on privacy), they said that it was a store policy along with the vendors, and go away. Well, one customer took offense to this policy whilst purchasing a watch, ended up not getting the watch and beinf rather angry when they left the store. Unknown to the store, the customer was a lawyer for a CC processing center, raked the president of the company over the coals on the phone later, so much so that the policy was NEVER enformed again... if someone refused to give their driving license over, it was never questioned and the purchase went on as if the question was never asked.
I know that in the UK, chip and pin is being implemented, and has to be fully done by 31st Dec 2004, otherwise the banks/cc are saying any fraud is on your heads. The banks are trying to change all those CC swipe machines into ones that are chip and pin enabled, small retailers are being given them in exchange for their old swipe unit... CC companies are replacing cards with chip and pin versiosn as quick as they can (forcing new exp dates etc...)
Has any group of people done any research into whether there is any watermarking or identification contained within the cleaned AAC files... ?
IE, two or more users buy the same song, use PlayFair to strip and clean the AAC, and then compare the resulting AAC files... is there any differences ?
I used to work for a major retailer in Boston, and I can tell you, editing people's time punches was common practice, whether it was on the computer, or in a "manual" fashion.
Management were fed up with paying overtime for non-exempt employee's (us 'managers" were worked like slaves!) [on a side note, if the new non-exempt laws gets passed, most of the staff in the company would then not need a time card, which PLEASED the company very much!). so initiated a new "unwritten" policy... to STOP employee's getting overtime, PERIOD.
I know of employee's who were told off sternly, for having 5 minutes of overtime, so much so, employee's started monitoring their own in/out times to ensure they did not get a warning, scare tactics were actually the name of the game.
Department heads were given access to the E-Time system (I had to install the Terminal Session access on their desktops!), and were given the task to monitor in/out swipes daily, for anyone accumulating time which could lead to ovetime being paid sometime in the future. This would lead to the employee being told to leave early so their time would be less, or told to come in at a specific time the next work day so not to go over their regulation 40hr week/80 hours per pay period..
Employee's were also told to swipe in/out at pre-defined times, so to further the collection of possible overtime hours, thus employee's would actually wait at the time clock (like a cackle of hens) for 8:30am and then swipe in!
Editing of punch times was so easy, granted E-Time has audit logs, but those logs are notas detailed as would be required to prove real changes. When I suggested putting better passwords and controls, those suggestions were overlooked.
Upper management would do whatever they wanted (provided they had a lower manager to blame!), and with screwed up time clock policy and the infamous holiday pay "use or loose it" situation, they slowly got rid of lower managers with their own selections, so to further control the game, plenty of people in lower levels to take the blame, take praise when it was warranted, pass the buck when the shit hit the fan!
In my estimation, keeping accurate records of your work hours only benefits YOU... DON'T trust time clocks, as with computers, they are only as good as the information put into them... which can be "fiddled" by a human at the end of the day, and this idea of rounding worked time to 15min blocks, certainly in Mass is illegal, if you work in Mass, regardless of who does the calculation of wages (could be an out-of-state contractor), you still worked in a company in Mass so the company has to obey the state laws!
As to proof of clocking in at specific times... I agree, some sort of receipt when you punch out would be extremly beneficial, although this would only be useful to the employee, not the employer so they are not likely to add something that does not benefit THEM!
I got laid off at the end of 2003, my sysadmin position in a small company was eliminated to cut costs, when a 22yr old (who can jump higher!) can do the same job for 1/2 the pay, it pays to get rid of the pro!
In the past two months of job searching it's been tough... sending resume's, posting on job sites, checking job sites, sending emails, follow-up phone calls.
I've gotten a few interviews, both first and second level... still nothing.
I've been asking all my tech buddies and friends to keep their eyes and ears open. The interviews I've been on were from jobs NOT obtained from job sites.
Here's my personal "pet peeves" list of things that make me sick...
--- Agencies calling to get you to come to their office (Boston downtown), for jobs that I later find DO NOT EXIST, they just want your resume/name on their system so they can have more chance of landing the commission from getting someone a job or to keep quota's up.
--- Not getting some kind of response (whether you were successful) when you have interviewed for a position and you have to call to find out that the job has been filled! Or better still, you find out that a diversity policy was in place so it would not have mattered one way or another, they just wanted to have numbers to show that they "followed" proper hiring procedure.
--- Recruitment agencies, I've not a good word to say about them. Most of the jobs they promote, they get from online postings on Monster/careerbuilder etc... It's actually rare that a recruiter will be contacted by an employer in my experience. When I asked recruiters if they are attempting to fill the position on behalf of the employer, they would try to wriggle out of the question, with even more bull!
--- The Mass DET is of no help. They basically tell you to do what i do, network with family and friends, and check online.
I've got a few leads at the moment, all were from referrals from friends of friends who know that jobs are in the pipeline with companies or someone has left to fill a new position at another company etc...
It's extremely discouraging, day after day for the past few months, some light at the end of the tunnel, but not with job boards or recruiters.
I've gotten like hundreds of SPAM emails from the email address I used on job boards in the few short months (throwaway emails are good!). Most calls I've taken, apart from one, from being part of the online boards scene were recruiters saying that I was the perfect candidate for a position they had etc... You know the score from then on!
YES, the job market is very tough out there, I can testify to that personally. But it would be not half as bad, searching for jobs online, IF the actual jobs existed. I had one phone call from an employer, who just wanted to feel me out as to who was out there in the job scene, when I asked if there was a job offering, he eventually said that we was "doing some research" and hung up. I've had more than one of theses types of calls in the past few weeks.
I know of people who have gone from Corp A to Corp B, Corp A needs to fill their position so someone from Corp C fills that position, then Corp C needs to fill theirs, and on and on. It's a vicious circle, looking in from the outside, hard to break in.
Job boards are a bunch of hype, from my own experiences in the past few months.
I also dug up a diagram for a cable to connect an amiga floppy drive to a PC's parallel port, and a program to use with it, but i cannot seem to locate it...:(
Only other method is to get an amiga up and running, and save the files in PCDOS format, which can be read by PC's, or use a term proggy and transfer that way, or connect to a network. but since my access to my A4000 was terminated by fire and brimstone my options are limited.
Does anyone know of a good way of reading AmigaDOS floppies on a PC. I've got some work on old floppies and A4000 that I had access to went poof in the night! Literally!
Otherwise I'm gonna see if I can get an old A500 and use a null modem cable to get the files to my PC.
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... when corporate america backlashes and tells microsoft that this kind of upgrade will just not fly!
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(The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Tertiary Phase - e01 - 160/44) yEnc - "BBC Radio 4 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Tertiary Phase - e01 - 21-09-2004 18-30.mp3" (01/87)
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The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - The Tertiary Phase Part 1 of 6 - "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - The Tertiary Phase Part 1 of 6.mp3" (01/11) 25.3 MBytes yEnc
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Good to hear it once again on radio (abet via the net!).
Thank you Douglas Adams, you will be sadly missed... 42 over and out.
Aint Real Alternative great..
:)
The sound isn't half bad, considering i'm on the other side of the pond, hope the bbc's servers keep up to this...
It's excellent so far...
127.0.0.1 itxt.vibrantmedia.com
:)
and hey presto, they disappear!
or you could always install a much larger hosts file which takes care of quite a few nasties
I work for a small jeweler in new england, and we're fed-up with ups loosing packages.
We make sure that anthing that goes out ups gets packed tripple, inside two boses... believe me, I've seen what happens when a package gets returned to us that's been through hell and back, the only thing that is recognisable is the ups label...
I would not want ups doing this crap with toshiba, having a rack mounted server a few years ago shipped to 7 different counteries, yes I kid you not, and ending up completly destroyed, and ups is going to handle parts etc for toshiba... ok, I must be dreaming... !
photo of launch from foxnews
Actually, writing "ask for id" on the back of most CC (V/MC/AM/D) makes the card "invalid".
Read the back of your card... it is very plainly printed on the back "not valid unless signed", and if you ever read the "t&c" that come with your card it's also listed there.
Also, some CC makers (Visa for one, MC used to...), actually guarantee your privacy, so asking for an ID when you present your card is actually breaking the merchant's contract with Visa (the one that allows them to accept transactions and put the visa logo on their storefront), where visa guarantee your privacy, no ID will ever be needed to use the card.
I used to work for a major retailer, who had a store policy where if someone purchased an expensive watch from certain vendors, they were also to ask for the customers driving license... When I pointed this out to the store (that it was breaking visa's rules on privacy), they said that it was a store policy along with the vendors, and go away. Well, one customer took offense to this policy whilst purchasing a watch, ended up not getting the watch and beinf rather angry when they left the store. Unknown to the store, the customer was a lawyer for a CC processing center, raked the president of the company over the coals on the phone later, so much so that the policy was NEVER enformed again... if someone refused to give their driving license over, it was never questioned and the purchase went on as if the question was never asked.
I know that in the UK, chip and pin is being implemented, and has to be fully done by 31st Dec 2004, otherwise the banks/cc are saying any fraud is on your heads. The banks are trying to change all those CC swipe machines into ones that are chip and pin enabled, small retailers are being given them in exchange for their old swipe unit... CC companies are replacing cards with chip and pin versiosn as quick as they can (forcing new exp dates etc...)
Never knew that the place was such a thriving pirate haven... ;)
Just a quick question...
Has any group of people done any research into whether there is any watermarking or identification contained within the cleaned AAC files... ?
IE, two or more users buy the same song, use PlayFair to strip and clean the AAC, and then compare the resulting AAC files... is there any differences ?
I used to work for a major retailer in Boston, and I can tell you, editing people's time punches was common practice, whether it was on the computer, or in a "manual" fashion.
Management were fed up with paying overtime for non-exempt employee's (us 'managers" were worked like slaves!) [on a side note, if the new non-exempt laws gets passed, most of the staff in the company would then not need a time card, which PLEASED the company very much!). so initiated a new "unwritten" policy... to STOP employee's getting overtime, PERIOD.
I know of employee's who were told off sternly, for having 5 minutes of overtime, so much so, employee's started monitoring their own in/out times to ensure they did not get a warning, scare tactics were actually the name of the game.
Department heads were given access to the E-Time system (I had to install the Terminal Session access on their desktops!), and were given the task to monitor in/out swipes daily, for anyone accumulating time which could lead to ovetime being paid sometime in the future. This would lead to the employee being told to leave early so their time would be less, or told to come in at a specific time the next work day so not to go over their regulation 40hr week/80 hours per pay period..
Employee's were also told to swipe in/out at pre-defined times, so to further the collection of possible overtime hours, thus employee's would actually wait at the time clock (like a cackle of hens) for 8:30am and then swipe in!
Editing of punch times was so easy, granted E-Time has audit logs, but those logs are notas detailed as would be required to prove real changes. When I suggested putting better passwords and controls, those suggestions were overlooked.
Upper management would do whatever they wanted (provided they had a lower manager to blame!), and with screwed up time clock policy and the infamous holiday pay "use or loose it" situation, they slowly got rid of lower managers with their own selections, so to further control the game, plenty of people in lower levels to take the blame, take praise when it was warranted, pass the buck when the shit hit the fan!
In my estimation, keeping accurate records of your work hours only benefits YOU... DON'T trust time clocks, as with computers, they are only as good as the information put into them... which can be "fiddled" by a human at the end of the day, and this idea of rounding worked time to 15min blocks, certainly in Mass is illegal, if you work in Mass, regardless of who does the calculation of wages (could be an out-of-state contractor), you still worked in a company in Mass so the company has to obey the state laws!
As to proof of clocking in at specific times... I agree, some sort of receipt when you punch out would be extremly beneficial, although this would only be useful to the employee, not the employer so they are not likely to add something that does not benefit THEM!
I got laid off at the end of 2003, my sysadmin position in a small company was eliminated to cut costs, when a 22yr old (who can jump higher!) can do the same job for 1/2 the pay, it pays to get rid of the pro!
In the past two months of job searching it's been tough... sending resume's, posting on job sites, checking job sites, sending emails, follow-up phone calls.
I've gotten a few interviews, both first and second level... still nothing.
I've been asking all my tech buddies and friends to keep their eyes and ears open. The interviews I've been on were from jobs NOT obtained from job sites.
Here's my personal "pet peeves" list of things that make me sick...
--- Agencies calling to get you to come to their office (Boston downtown), for jobs that I later find DO NOT EXIST, they just want your resume/name on their system so they can have more chance of landing the commission from getting someone a job or to keep quota's up.
--- Not getting some kind of response (whether you were successful) when you have interviewed for a position and you have to call to find out that the job has been filled! Or better still, you find out that a diversity policy was in place so it would not have mattered one way or another, they just wanted to have numbers to show that they "followed" proper hiring procedure.
--- Recruitment agencies, I've not a good word to say about them. Most of the jobs they promote, they get from online postings on Monster/careerbuilder etc... It's actually rare that a recruiter will be contacted by an employer in my experience. When I asked recruiters if they are attempting to fill the position on behalf of the employer, they would try to wriggle out of the question, with even more bull!
--- The Mass DET is of no help. They basically tell you to do what i do, network with family and friends, and check online.
I've got a few leads at the moment, all were from referrals from friends of friends who know that jobs are in the pipeline with companies or someone has left to fill a new position at another company etc...
It's extremely discouraging, day after day for the past few months, some light at the end of the tunnel, but not with job boards or recruiters.
I've gotten like hundreds of SPAM emails from the email address I used on job boards in the few short months (throwaway emails are good!). Most calls I've taken, apart from one, from being part of the online boards scene were recruiters saying that I was the perfect candidate for a position they had etc... You know the score from then on!
YES, the job market is very tough out there, I can testify to that personally. But it would be not half as bad, searching for jobs online, IF the actual jobs existed. I had one phone call from an employer, who just wanted to feel me out as to who was out there in the job scene, when I asked if there was a job offering, he eventually said that we was "doing some research" and hung up. I've had more than one of theses types of calls in the past few weeks.
I know of people who have gone from Corp A to Corp B, Corp A needs to fill their position so someone from Corp C fills that position, then Corp C needs to fill theirs, and on and on. It's a vicious circle, looking in from the outside, hard to break in.
Job boards are a bunch of hype, from my own experiences in the past few months.
I also dug up a diagram for a cable to connect an amiga floppy drive to a PC's parallel port, and a program to use with it, but i cannot seem to locate it... :(
Only other method is to get an amiga up and running, and save the files in PCDOS format, which can be read by PC's, or use a term proggy and transfer that way, or connect to a network. but since my access to my A4000 was terminated by fire and brimstone my options are limited.
Otherwise I'm gonna see if I can get an old A500 and use a null modem cable to get the files to my PC.