Time Warner did this again recently. About two weeks ago (early January) the Roadrunner market (at least in Florida) bumped the speeds up. As I type, I'm d/l at 595k from a premium news server.
My dslreports speed tests shows 5Mbps d/l and 350+Kbps Up. I'm paying $35 a month (university rate) and I am happy. Tampa (where I live) is one of the testbeds for Verizon FIOS (fiber) services, so the speed bump was to compete with them and prevent people from shifting. When your speed is about as close and you don't have to change email addresses, then why switch?
I routinely pull 120-180GB a month from the line and have never received any complaints from RR or noticed any caps. I understand some companies (Comcast?) send nastygrams if you pull in more than some unpublished limit. I'm not sure how Verizon FIOS will be (they probably will not complain for a while as you get used to their service), but until I have a need to seek other options, I'll stay with what I have now.
If the 17yo is doing it for you, then he is acting as your agent. you are thus responisble the acts committed by another that is acting on your behalf with your authorization.
The mini-series pilot was released in Canada in summer 2003. atings were good enough to make a series out of it. Because of the expense, a British station helped fund the show on the condition that they air it first.
In December 2003, the pilot showed in the US and UK. Starting in January, the mini-series episodes (of which 13 have been produced) started airing.
Last weekend, NBC aired an edited (cut from 4 hours to 3) pilot at primetime. The Sci-Fi channel (owned by Universal [which owns NBC as well]) is showing in two parts, the origional, full pilot. It is also showing old episodes of the original show. The new version is going to start being aired in the US now as mentioned in the story.
The producers made a plea on one of the Sci-fi Channel web forums to not download the show since the survival of the series (i.e. Season 2) of course depends on ratings. Even with a business degree, I simply cannot understand why companies stagger the release dates on movies, music, or software so much. Let both sides of the pond see the series at the same time and you'll get the viewers and won't screw yourself since people will get the content they want anyway. In the binary newsgroups (alt.binaries.dvdr) someone has posted 3 DVDs of the series (each containing 3 episodes) with some pretty good menus. I've watched them and think it is a well done series, and think '33' is a good first episode. Even after seeing it, I will have my TIVO pick up the episodes since I know TIVO collects anonymous statistics for the ratings systems. To make sure the show is recorded as being played, I'll just start the episode before turning off my TV for the day, ensuring that it gets marked as being watched, with even commercials being displayed at normal speed!
At least the studio talking heads are not pulling some bonehead move like they did with 'Firefly' in that the episodes were all resead out of order, thus cunfusing the initial audience and obviously causing an untimely death. Maybe with the movie, the series might have a new chance at life if it does well.
GPS - $200-250 External Antenna on ebay - $40 Ability to download track into GPS - Free (or one copy of software used by manufacture)
My Garmin GPSMap76 will donload months of tracks...it just needs to stay on when vehicle is in motion. Heck, it would cost less to buy a few hundred of these things than it would to fund a full stake-out for a couple of weeks in terms of manpower, fuel, etc.
Now they definitely will have to get a warrant if they need to tie the GPS into your power system. When getting a warrant to bug a home, police typically have to get special permission to use your electricity to do it else maintain their own power supply. There was a story several weeks ago somewhere about someone tracking their cheating spouse by simply placing the GPS in the back of the car and later downloading the track, so it isn't that hard.
Apparently the cops can now do the same thing as can general consumer electronics. Have they ever had to have a warrant to tail (follow) a suspect in public? I don't think so.
If they can place GPS on your vehicle without a warrant, then how long before they can start using the GPS on our phones? Getting all James-Bondish, how long before devices are minature enough to be placed on our clothing or in food to be injested and tracked. It would not surprise me if CIA or other entities have had this for years (decades?). Storing data like this doesn't cost anything. The tracks take up very little space and one save the tracks of a few hundred suspects on the memory most of use have on the keychain flash drive.
The people that do this kind of behavior often have the same personality traits in real life, though the anonymous nature of the net often brings it out more. If particular players are becoming real jerks, then they can be taken down by using their own techniques and illict behavior against them.
For example take some player called Ceciliantas. Apparently this person has been a jerk to the entire community in several online games. So recently he was caught in a cyber sex session in EQ2 with a character he thought was a female that turned out to be a male. the whole thing was a setup with the entire session and chat log archived and then posted to a discussion forum (http://www.eq2permafrost.com/forum/viewtopic.php? t=216&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 the forum has been down several times aready due to server load {especially after being posted on Fark}, so please be kind). To show the mentality of thses cretins, this person first lied (and continues to do so) and then made baseless legal threats against everyone. This isn't quite as big as the 'Star Wars Kid', but is still very widespread now. Heck, there is name an urban dictionary entry for the act of being caught cybering (http://www.urbandictionary.com/confirm.php/956579/4130c4cec1/ack).
It is just really pathetic to see how people conduct themselves, and this Cecil character is a prime example of the kind of person that the community needs to be rid of. http://www.thedauntless.com/cecil.html
Do privacy rights still apply? Let us say that you die in a car accident, should your medical records and all of your personal information be available to family members? Can this not, at some point be abused by providing fake information in order to gain access to an account? If I want my family members to have access to something, then I will either tell them now, or have that data in my will or other document to be distributed by my legal representative upon my death.
If this family wants to keep the messages, then they should save them from their side of the chain. I think Yahoo is in the right in that they should not be made to give out password to those that do not control the account. They would have to deal with the expense of handling a lot of requests if even a single exception was acknowledged.
"Lycos state that this is not a DDOS" "though you might need to lie about what country you are from."
While I'm all for taking down the illegal scammers, making this a battle of dirty tactics doens't really seem to have an upside. Seems like it is too easy to backfire as spammers have already showing lack of morals in pairing with virus and trojan writers. This is like two armies of zombies fighting each other as the master's watch from afar. I think I have seen this on a TV show one. The side of evil believes the conflict makes is stronger while the side of light also manipulates the lessers. How will this all end? "In fire!"
Intil consumers have a private right of action as one exists in the telemarketing laws (Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 47 USC 227) then the CAN-SPAM or anything else will be toothless. The TCPA gives consumers the right to sue in small claims court for violations of the law and subsequent federal regulations. I have another hearing soon sgainst a local mortgage company that made a single, prerecorded call to my residential line. I have demanded a total of $5000 in damages (statutory damages of $500 per violation [with 6 violations] and trebled due to defendants willful or knowingly violation of the law) since that is my local court limit as well as will be demanding an injunction. This is just one person's action. If just a few more people knew their rights and enforced them, the mortgage could be taken out of business for even a single illegal telemarketing campaign or until they declare bankruptcy. Serves them right I feel, IMHO.
No, but the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (yes, over a decade old) is supposed to protect you of that. If you get an unsolicated, commercial call from some entity with whom you do NOT have a pre-established business relationship nor had you given them EXPRESS permission to contact you in that way, then you can sue. You have an immediate cause of action and can sue for not only merely initiating the call (even if you did not answer the phone), but also other aspects, such as failure to PROPERLY identify tehmselves, failure to send a copy of their company policy, etc.
I had a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) company (Traffic-Power.com) call my cellular phone trying to sell services to get my website listed higher in search engine rankings. Though I have not desposed them yet, (my pre-trial hearing is set for Aug 5), I assume they got my number from my website whois. None of the websites that I won are cimmercial in anyway. They cannot call me merely because my number is in some directory. It is their responsibility for them to determine if my exchange is connected with a cellular company (easy by even using a web service [http://www.fonefinder.net/index.php]).
Because they failed to ID themselves, ailed to send a copy of the policy, failed to properly train their telemarketing staff, and placed the call to my cellulr phone, I have filed for a sum of $5000 (the limit for my small claims court).
Because of some good laws (telephone cunsumer protection act of 1991; 47 usc 227), consumers have tools to go after those that use illegal telemarketing practices such as prerecorded solicitations, junk faxes, etc. However finding the people responsible is often the hard part. It is very common for these people to intentionall make as unavailable or private their numbers so that they cannot easily be traced. Most people that would complain about such calls (if they are on a state or national DNC list) now cannot since they won't make the extended effort to ID the perps. Thus without some serious legwork, perps gets fewer complaints.
Another trick (though not new) is to cause the caller ID to display some message and a number. The message can be "Great offers", "National Prize Line", or some other enticement. The systems will simply dial a number just long enough to be displayed on the CID. Someone curious about the strange looking display will call and will get hit by some prerecorded ad. The problem is that FCC regulations now require automatic dialers to not have naything more than 3% dropped calls (when not transferred to a live marketer) and in any case must ID the company placing the call. I'm not aware, however, of any previous actions regarding this, but it is coming.
I don't want to necessarily spoof a number, but I definitely want to be able to track these kind of numbers used by illegal telemarketers. The biggest complaint about Vonage is that they do not offer some kind of call tracing, so if a call comes in that I cannot ID based on info in the call or legit CID info, then I cannot enforce my rights and seek damages against the company as allowed by law.
Plot hole: Harry tells Doc Ock that in order to find Spider-Man he must find Peter first. Doc Ock finds Peter with Mary Jane in the cafe and throws a car through the window straight at them. Any normal man would've been killed instantly, and Doc Ock doesn't know that Peter is Spider-Man. Given that Peter is his only lead on Spider-Man, it makes no sense that Doc Ock would effectively try to kill him.
Continuity: When Peter arrives at his aunt's home at the beginning of the movie, it's night. He talks to Harry in the kitchen a few minutes later, and look at the purple balloon by Peter's head, it reflects a window with lots of light coming through it.
Continuity: During the final conversation between Spider-Man and Doc Ock, the rips in Spider-Man's suit keep changing. For instance, there is a tear on his right shoulder; for most of the scene, there is a single piece of black webbing left holding the rip together, but when Doc Ock grabs Spider-Man's arm, the rip now has two pieces of black webbing. Then it goes back to one.
Continuity: When Peter and Mary Jane are together in his apartment at the end of the film, the collar of Peter's t-shirt keeps changing positions underneath his sweater. Sometimes it is fully visible all the way around, sometimes it's higher on the left or right side, and during the closer shots it isn't visible at all.
Factual error: In the scene where Peter is saving the children from the burning building, there is no smoke from the fire. Black smoke would be bellowing out the windows. He wouldn't be able to just stand up and walk through the building.
Visible crew/equipment: On the way to the theater Peter Parker intercepts policeman chasing a couple of bad guys. At the end of that scene one of the police cars has a tremendous wreck that swings the car sideways. There is a clear shot of the driver with a black helmet on.
Continuity: During the train scene, Spider-man's mask had gone partially black. We also see it when Spidey puts his mask back on. Yet when Doc brings him to Harry, we don't even see a patch of darkness on his mask.
Continuity: Doc Ock pulls the giant sun ball and its support down onto himself, so he should be under it as they descend, yet in the final shot of him sinking into the ocean, the ball is below him and he is falling after it.
Audio problem: It's clear that due to the tentacles' heaviness, they have to made some kind of sound when moving. But yet when Doc Ock takes the tritium from Harry in his house, he leaves without making any sound at all.
Factual error: Nobody would dare to cut a metal piece with a saw without eye protection, much less in a surgical room, like the surgeon that wanted to remove Doc Ock's tentacles.
Revealing: In the scene where Doc Ock comes out of the hospital and throws a car onto another one, you can tell the man in there is just a dummy. He has no reaction what so ever. He just sits there as if nothing happened.
Revealing: In the scene at the end where Spider-Man and Mary Jane are in the big web, there is a close-up which shows the webbing behind them. We can blatantly see that it's wire wrapped in plastic of some kind to make it look like web.
Factual error: Dr. Octavius says his fusion relies on tritium and that there is only 25 pounds of the substance in the world. In reality, tritium is merely an isotope of hydrogen and is a good deal more common than that. For example, there is a large region of the North Pacific that contains tritium-rich salt water. Submitted by Phoenix
Continuity: Peter has a small horseshoe-shaped scar on his right cheek. In Dr. Octopus's lab, as Octopus is destroying the fusion reactor, they share a meaningful look and the scar has switched cheeks.
Factual error: Considering the brightness of the fusion process, Dr. Octavius has to wear special goggles to be able to see it. Yet no one else in the room is wearing such goggles or seem hurt by watching the whole process, just as at the en
Finally they can all put to rest the Babylon 5 vs Star Trek geek battles. If we could then just bring in Star Wars with a few Star Destroyers we can hve the epic battle a la the five armies battles in 'The Hobbit'.
As a matter of fact, I plugged in today and did indeed have a few hiccups. I could not get the MAC address to register and it took two calls to tech support to find out why. the first call ended in disconnect when the CSR placed me on hold and the second tech had to research the problem. It seems that my MAC was never registered in their inventory, so the system had to understand that my hardware existed. After a few hours (at least when I tried again) the sign-up went well. Once signed up, did a reboot and had a signal.
So far, I'm impressed with the features. Voicemail (you can set it so that new messages are emailed to you in.wav format), email notification of new messages, call forwarding, call ID, call waiting, call return (*69), caller Id block, busy redial, and 3-way calling.
One feature I have enjoyed already is detailed billing. I like the features of cell phones where it will often show detail of the called numbers as well as sometimes even incoming calls. Since I have to sometimes file suit against telemarketers for violation of the TCPA, it is highly beneficial that I have a detailed listing of when calls were made.
You can place the hardware either inside or outside the firewall (if inside open ports 50605061, 53, 69, and 10000-20000 on UDP protocol). If you plug the device into a wall outlet in the house (making *sure* to disconnect the house from the street connection) you can use any other phone in the house as you normally would. Ad of course another last advantage is being able to take the device with you so that you can plug it in and use the phone whenever on a broadband connection. If you make a lot of calls to someone in another country, you could even try purchasing another device and sending it to them so they can take calls as if they were local (to you). I wonder how ling it will be before scammers, spammers, and other scum use this to appear local or in the states, yet be running things from Nigeria or other safe harbor.
Right now Best Buy has a pretty decent sale. I used a 10% off Memorial Day coupon to bring the price to 81 and then it comes with a mail-in rebate. If you use their rewards program ($10 a year) you get 50,000 bonus points for purchasing this item (which equates to 4 $5 Gift Cards). Circuit City has it for 79-50 MIR if you want to go that route.
But of course, we could not have anyone chosing a better, more considered, and streamlined system (Linux, Open Office) over the status quo (Windows, Office XP). That kind of open thinking instead of a "we've always done it this way" just wouldn't work. What was I thinking?
"If you forget to exhale on ascent from 60 feet then when you get to the surface you have a few atmospheres of air in your lungs and they literally explode inside of your body. Since ther is a bubble of air around your head there is no time when you would feel like holding your breath. This machine automatically passively equalizes the air pressure for you as you ascend (your nose is also exposed too)."
Actually, just a few feet can cuase this, even in a place like a pool. You go from 60' to the surface, you lungs will expand to 3 times the current size if hold a full breath and no exhalation. Lung overexpansion injury (specifically AGE) is still a problem. This thing is not a pressurized suit at 1 ata (atmosphere of pressure). If you were to hold you breath while ascending in this thing, it would have the same affect as if you held your breath while on SCUBA. If someone were to bail out of this thing (due to panic) then the same problem occurs. The problem with the 'tank going empty' isn't lack of air, it would be the hunge increase in carbon dioxide retention due to rebreathing the same gasses. The machine does not 'passsively equalize the pressure as you ascend. This is pretty much just a upside down bucket that is clear. Fill it at depth and bring it up, air will come out (Boyle's Law = as pressure decreases, volume will increase [inflexible container]). So just ascending, the sstem has to do little as the air will simply bubble out. You have some of the basic principles down, just not applying them precisely enough.
These things have been around for a while..geck History Channel's "Guts and Bolts' had an episode on this a long time ago..the only hting new is some marketing comparison to a segway. What bored news editor thought that this was something worthy of being published when it had been around for several years.
these things have been around for a while, and I think they are a bad idea. I am a current SCUBA instructor as well as a pretty experienced cave and technical diver. There are so many limitations to this thing that makes it completely impractical. Transport is one issue in terms of getting it into and out of the water.
for one thing, inexperienced pilot will have this hard bodied device with which to crash into delicate coral. this will have to be used in a body of water with typically little current, else it become quite easy to lose the group.
It cannot go deep for long since it is still open to ambient pressure, so decompression comes into play as well as gas supply. For every 33 feet (10m) one descends, the pressure increases by one atmosphere. If that tank were to last the diver 60 minutes on the surface, then at 33 feet it would last only 30 minutes, at 60 feet it would be 20 minutes, and so forth.
It might be ok for a few shallow water, shore-based resorts that can charge the units at the dock. Even a fairly cheap diver scooter will be just around 800-1200, and those can only go to about 100-150 feet if you're lucky. In order to go more deep, you have to get more specialized units (www.gavinscooters.com) that can handle the pressure (I've taken mine to 350) and has the battery burn time. Even those units only cost ~$3500. These units are simply torpedo looking devices that tow the diver. The biggest advantage is that it reduces the workload for the diver, thus dropping air consumption and helping one cover more ground.
This device has no similarities other than someone trying to compare two unlike things with a vague attempt at seeming technologically advanced.
A likewise analogy is when a victim of illegal (Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 - 47 USC 227) telemarketing tactics (such as the use of precorded commercial messages sues in their local small claims court. I have filed suit against a Texas company in my local court for an illegal precrecord, won (by dafault though) and got paid and am about to sile against traffic-power.com for a telemarketing call to my cellular phone.
I have brought about suits against telemarketers under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991. Part of the process before filing is attempting to reach settlement because going through court takes a lot of time, effort, and finances for both parties. More often than not, when I send a demand letter, I hear terms like 'extortion' or 'cottage industry' etc. It is not extortion. When I can get up to $1500 for each violation of the law, I state that I may be willing to settle for a lesser amount. I do not say 'pay me or I will sue' and simply state 'the statutory damages are $1500, I am willing though to settle for less than tha amount'.
I do not see the case against the RIAA going very far. Extortion is typically a criminal offense and I know not of any civil rights where one can sue. I simply cannot sue someone that I witness throwing trash on the highway, the government has not given me that right. There are several laws though that do provide a private right of action, like the TCPA, where one can become a personal attorney general.
Great. Now I have to shift through about one million pages with the term 'Hello World" in order to find the one I need. It is going to take me like 5 hours to find this when I could write it in a span of 3 minutes. There goes my afternoon.
Nothing but posts supporting his product. I just get bad vibes from this product/guy for some reason, and this post somewhat confirmed what I was thinking: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=92802&cid=7973 109
Get a jacket from the local surplus store and be done with it.
I've already mirrored the information on my meager ISP webspace: http://web.tampabay.rr.com/mblitch/bf2003/
Other mirrors are up. Use the example of bittorrent and help spread the load and information. I have not seen nor read any complaints from Best Buy, so I do not know what their issue may be.
Slashdot Mirror
I just sent the guy $5. I'll drink one less premium beer tonight and toast to the spam fighter with the others.
http://spamlawsuit.spamshield.org/
Time Warner did this again recently. About two weeks ago (early January) the Roadrunner market (at least in Florida) bumped the speeds up. As I type, I'm d/l at 595k from a premium news server.
My dslreports speed tests shows 5Mbps d/l and 350+Kbps Up. I'm paying $35 a month (university rate) and I am happy. Tampa (where I live) is one of the testbeds for Verizon FIOS (fiber) services, so the speed bump was to compete with them and prevent people from shifting. When your speed is about as close and you don't have to change email addresses, then why switch?
I routinely pull 120-180GB a month from the line and have never received any complaints from RR or noticed any caps. I understand some companies (Comcast?) send nastygrams if you pull in more than some unpublished limit. I'm not sure how Verizon FIOS will be (they probably will not complain for a while as you get used to their service), but until I have a need to seek other options, I'll stay with what I have now.
If the 17yo is doing it for you, then he is acting as your agent. you are thus responisble the acts committed by another that is acting on your behalf with your authorization.
The mini-series pilot was released in Canada in summer 2003. atings were good enough to make a series out of it. Because of the expense, a British station helped fund the show on the condition that they air it first.
In December 2003, the pilot showed in the US and UK. Starting in January, the mini-series episodes (of which 13 have been produced) started airing.
Last weekend, NBC aired an edited (cut from 4 hours to 3) pilot at primetime. The Sci-Fi channel (owned by Universal [which owns NBC as well]) is showing in two parts, the origional, full pilot. It is also showing old episodes of the original show. The new version is going to start being aired in the US now as mentioned in the story.
The producers made a plea on one of the Sci-fi Channel web forums to not download the show since the survival of the series (i.e. Season 2) of course depends on ratings. Even with a business degree, I simply cannot understand why companies stagger the release dates on movies, music, or software so much. Let both sides of the pond see the series at the same time and you'll get the viewers and won't screw yourself since people will get the content they want anyway. In the binary newsgroups (alt.binaries.dvdr) someone has posted 3 DVDs of the series (each containing 3 episodes) with some pretty good menus. I've watched them and think it is a well done series, and think '33' is a good first episode. Even after seeing it, I will have my TIVO pick up the episodes since I know TIVO collects anonymous statistics for the ratings systems. To make sure the show is recorded as being played, I'll just start the episode before turning off my TV for the day, ensuring that it gets marked as being watched, with even commercials being displayed at normal speed!
At least the studio talking heads are not pulling some bonehead move like they did with 'Firefly' in that the episodes were all resead out of order, thus cunfusing the initial audience and obviously causing an untimely death. Maybe with the movie, the series might have a new chance at life if it does well.
Cost? Hardly.
GPS - $200-250
External Antenna on ebay - $40
Ability to download track into GPS - Free (or one copy of software used by manufacture)
My Garmin GPSMap76 will donload months of tracks...it just needs to stay on when vehicle is in motion. Heck, it would cost less to buy a few hundred of these things than it would to fund a full stake-out for a couple of weeks in terms of manpower, fuel, etc.
Now they definitely will have to get a warrant if they need to tie the GPS into your power system. When getting a warrant to bug a home, police typically have to get special permission to use your electricity to do it else maintain their own power supply. There was a story several weeks ago somewhere about someone tracking their cheating spouse by simply placing the GPS in the back of the car and later downloading the track, so it isn't that hard.
Apparently the cops can now do the same thing as can general consumer electronics. Have they ever had to have a warrant to tail (follow) a suspect in public? I don't think so.
If they can place GPS on your vehicle without a warrant, then how long before they can start using the GPS on our phones? Getting all James-Bondish, how long before devices are minature enough to be placed on our clothing or in food to be injested and tracked. It would not surprise me if CIA or other entities have had this for years (decades?). Storing data like this doesn't cost anything. The tracks take up very little space and one save the tracks of a few hundred suspects on the memory most of use have on the keychain flash drive.
The people that do this kind of behavior often have the same personality traits in real life, though the anonymous nature of the net often brings it out more. If particular players are becoming real jerks, then they can be taken down by using their own techniques and illict behavior against them.
? t=216&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 the forum has been down several times aready due to server load {especially after being posted on Fark}, so please be kind). To show the mentality of thses cretins, this person first lied (and continues to do so) and then made baseless legal threats against everyone. This isn't quite as big as the 'Star Wars Kid', but is still very widespread now. Heck, there is name an urban dictionary entry for the act of being caught cybering (http://www.urbandictionary.com/confirm.php/956579 /4130c4cec1/ack).
For example take some player called Ceciliantas. Apparently this person has been a jerk to the entire community in several online games. So recently he was caught in a cyber sex session in EQ2 with a character he thought was a female that turned out to be a male. the whole thing was a setup with the entire session and chat log archived and then posted to a discussion forum (http://www.eq2permafrost.com/forum/viewtopic.php
It is just really pathetic to see how people conduct themselves, and this Cecil character is a prime example of the kind of person that the community needs to be rid of.
http://www.thedauntless.com/cecil.html
Do privacy rights still apply? Let us say that you die in a car accident, should your medical records and all of your personal information be available to family members? Can this not, at some point be abused by providing fake information in order to gain access to an account? If I want my family members to have access to something, then I will either tell them now, or have that data in my will or other document to be distributed by my legal representative upon my death.
If this family wants to keep the messages, then they should save them from their side of the chain. I think Yahoo is in the right in that they should not be made to give out password to those that do not control the account. They would have to deal with the expense of handling a lot of requests if even a single exception was acknowledged.
"Lycos state that this is not a DDOS"
"though you might need to lie about what country you are from."
While I'm all for taking down the illegal scammers, making this a battle of dirty tactics doens't really seem to have an upside. Seems like it is too easy to backfire as spammers have already showing lack of morals in pairing with virus and trojan writers. This is like two armies of zombies fighting each other as the master's watch from afar. I think I have seen this on a TV show one. The side of evil believes the conflict makes is stronger while the side of light also manipulates the lessers. How will this all end? "In fire!"
Intil consumers have a private right of action as one exists in the telemarketing laws (Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 47 USC 227) then the CAN-SPAM or anything else will be toothless. The TCPA gives consumers the right to sue in small claims court for violations of the law and subsequent federal regulations. I have another hearing soon sgainst a local mortgage company that made a single, prerecorded call to my residential line. I have demanded a total of $5000 in damages (statutory damages of $500 per violation [with 6 violations] and trebled due to defendants willful or knowingly violation of the law) since that is my local court limit as well as will be demanding an injunction. This is just one person's action. If just a few more people knew their rights and enforced them, the mortgage could be taken out of business for even a single illegal telemarketing campaign or until they declare bankruptcy. Serves them right I feel, IMHO.
Regulation http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/0 7/1817224&tid=103&tid=160
No, but the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (yes, over a decade old) is supposed to protect you of that. If you get an unsolicated, commercial call from some entity with whom you do NOT have a pre-established business relationship nor had you given them EXPRESS permission to contact you in that way, then you can sue. You have an immediate cause of action and can sue for not only merely initiating the call (even if you did not answer the phone), but also other aspects, such as failure to PROPERLY identify tehmselves, failure to send a copy of their company policy, etc.
- not-call.com/
I had a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) company (Traffic-Power.com) call my cellular phone trying to sell services to get my website listed higher in search engine rankings. Though I have not desposed them yet, (my pre-trial hearing is set for Aug 5), I assume they got my number from my website whois. None of the websites that I won are cimmercial in anyway. They cannot call me merely because my number is in some directory. It is their responsibility for them to determine if my exchange is connected with a cellular company (easy by even using a web service [http://www.fonefinder.net/index.php]).
Because they failed to ID themselves, ailed to send a copy of the policy, failed to properly train their telemarketing staff, and placed the call to my cellulr phone, I have filed for a sum of $5000 (the limit for my small claims court).
Resources:
www.tcpalaw.com
www.junkfax.org
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(*Yes I know the subject line was spelled poorly. I wanted to get that into the subject line since a lot of people wouldn't read the message body.)
Because of some good laws (telephone cunsumer protection act of 1991; 47 usc 227), consumers have tools to go after those that use illegal telemarketing practices such as prerecorded solicitations, junk faxes, etc. However finding the people responsible is often the hard part. It is very common for these people to intentionall make as unavailable or private their numbers so that they cannot easily be traced. Most people that would complain about such calls (if they are on a state or national DNC list) now cannot since they won't make the extended effort to ID the perps. Thus without some serious legwork, perps gets fewer complaints.
Another trick (though not new) is to cause the caller ID to display some message and a number. The message can be "Great offers", "National Prize Line", or some other enticement. The systems will simply dial a number just long enough to be displayed on the CID. Someone curious about the strange looking display will call and will get hit by some prerecorded ad. The problem is that FCC regulations now require automatic dialers to not have naything more than 3% dropped calls (when not transferred to a live marketer) and in any case must ID the company placing the call. I'm not aware, however, of any previous actions regarding this, but it is coming.
I don't want to necessarily spoof a number, but I definitely want to be able to track these kind of numbers used by illegal telemarketers. The biggest complaint about Vonage is that they do not offer some kind of call tracing, so if a call comes in that I cannot ID based on info in the call or legit CID info, then I cannot enforce my rights and seek damages against the company as allowed by law.
Plot hole: Harry tells Doc Ock that in order to find Spider-Man he must find Peter first. Doc Ock finds Peter with Mary Jane in the cafe and throws a car through the window straight at them. Any normal man would've been killed instantly, and Doc Ock doesn't know that Peter is Spider-Man. Given that Peter is his only lead on Spider-Man, it makes no sense that Doc Ock would effectively try to kill him.
Continuity: When Peter arrives at his aunt's home at the beginning of the movie, it's night. He talks to Harry in the kitchen a few minutes later, and look at the purple balloon by Peter's head, it reflects a window with lots of light coming through it.
Continuity: During the final conversation between Spider-Man and Doc Ock, the rips in Spider-Man's suit keep changing. For instance, there is a tear on his right shoulder; for most of the scene, there is a single piece of black webbing left holding the rip together, but when Doc Ock grabs Spider-Man's arm, the rip now has two pieces of black webbing. Then it goes back to one.
Continuity: When Peter and Mary Jane are together in his apartment at the end of the film, the collar of Peter's t-shirt keeps changing positions underneath his sweater. Sometimes it is fully visible all the way around, sometimes it's higher on the left or right side, and during the closer shots it isn't visible at all.
Factual error: In the scene where Peter is saving the children from the burning building, there is no smoke from the fire. Black smoke would be bellowing out the windows. He wouldn't be able to just stand up and walk through the building.
Visible crew/equipment: On the way to the theater Peter Parker intercepts policeman chasing a couple of bad guys. At the end of that scene one of the police cars has a tremendous wreck that swings the car sideways. There is a clear shot of the driver with a black helmet on.
Continuity: During the train scene, Spider-man's mask had gone partially black. We also see it when Spidey puts his mask back on. Yet when Doc brings him to Harry, we don't even see a patch of darkness on his mask.
Continuity: Doc Ock pulls the giant sun ball and its support down onto himself, so he should be under it as they descend, yet in the final shot of him sinking into the ocean, the ball is below him and he is falling after it.
Audio problem: It's clear that due to the tentacles' heaviness, they have to made some kind of sound when moving. But yet when Doc Ock takes the tritium from Harry in his house, he leaves without making any sound at all.
Factual error: Nobody would dare to cut a metal piece with a saw without eye protection, much less in a surgical room, like the surgeon that wanted to remove Doc Ock's tentacles.
Revealing: In the scene where Doc Ock comes out of the hospital and throws a car onto another one, you can tell the man in there is just a dummy. He has no reaction what so ever. He just sits there as if nothing happened.
Revealing: In the scene at the end where Spider-Man and Mary Jane are in the big web, there is a close-up which shows the webbing behind them. We can blatantly see that it's wire wrapped in plastic of some kind to make it look like web.
Factual error: Dr. Octavius says his fusion relies on tritium and that there is only 25 pounds of the substance in the world. In reality, tritium is merely an isotope of hydrogen and is a good deal more common than that. For example, there is a large region of the North Pacific that contains tritium-rich salt water. Submitted by Phoenix
Continuity: Peter has a small horseshoe-shaped scar on his right cheek. In Dr. Octopus's lab, as Octopus is destroying the fusion reactor, they share a meaningful look and the scar has switched cheeks.
Factual error: Considering the brightness of the fusion process, Dr. Octavius has to wear special goggles to be able to see it. Yet no one else in the room is wearing such goggles or seem hurt by watching the whole process, just as at the en
Finally they can all put to rest the Babylon 5 vs Star Trek geek battles. If we could then just bring in Star Wars with a few Star Destroyers we can hve the epic battle a la the five armies battles in 'The Hobbit'.
If a packet is dropped at the firewall, and there isn't an open port to hear it, does it make a sound?
As a matter of fact, I plugged in today and did indeed have a few hiccups. I could not get the MAC address to register and it took two calls to tech support to find out why. the first call ended in disconnect when the CSR placed me on hold and the second tech had to research the problem. It seems that my MAC was never registered in their inventory, so the system had to understand that my hardware existed. After a few hours (at least when I tried again) the sign-up went well. Once signed up, did a reboot and had a signal.
.wav format), email notification of new messages, call forwarding, call ID, call waiting, call return (*69), caller Id block, busy redial, and 3-way calling.
So far, I'm impressed with the features. Voicemail (you can set it so that new messages are emailed to you in
One feature I have enjoyed already is detailed billing. I like the features of cell phones where it will often show detail of the called numbers as well as sometimes even incoming calls. Since I have to sometimes file suit against telemarketers for violation of the TCPA, it is highly beneficial that I have a detailed listing of when calls were made.
You can place the hardware either inside or outside the firewall (if inside open ports 50605061, 53, 69, and 10000-20000 on UDP protocol). If you plug the device into a wall outlet in the house (making *sure* to disconnect the house from the street connection) you can use any other phone in the house as you normally would. Ad of course another last advantage is being able to take the device with you so that you can plug it in and use the phone whenever on a broadband connection. If you make a lot of calls to someone in another country, you could even try purchasing another device and sending it to them so they can take calls as if they were local (to you). I wonder how ling it will be before scammers, spammers, and other scum use this to appear local or in the states, yet be running things from Nigeria or other safe harbor.
Right now Best Buy has a pretty decent sale. I used a 10% off Memorial Day coupon to bring the price to 81 and then it comes with a mail-in rebate. If you use their rewards program ($10 a year) you get 50,000 bonus points for purchasing this item (which equates to 4 $5 Gift Cards). Circuit City has it for 79-50 MIR if you want to go that route.
But of course, we could not have anyone chosing a better, more considered, and streamlined system (Linux, Open Office) over the status quo (Windows, Office XP). That kind of open thinking instead of a "we've always done it this way" just wouldn't work. What was I thinking?
Typical AC commentary.
"If you forget to exhale on ascent from 60 feet then when you get to the surface you have a few atmospheres of air in your lungs and they literally explode inside of your body. Since ther is a bubble of air around your head there is no time when you would feel like holding your breath. This machine automatically passively equalizes the air pressure for you as you ascend (your nose is also exposed too)."
Actually, just a few feet can cuase this, even in a place like a pool. You go from 60' to the surface, you lungs will expand to 3 times the current size if hold a full breath and no exhalation. Lung overexpansion injury (specifically AGE) is still a problem. This thing is not a pressurized suit at 1 ata (atmosphere of pressure). If you were to hold you breath while ascending in this thing, it would have the same affect as if you held your breath while on SCUBA. If someone were to bail out of this thing (due to panic) then the same problem occurs. The problem with the 'tank going empty' isn't lack of air, it would be the hunge increase in carbon dioxide retention due to rebreathing the same gasses. The machine does not 'passsively equalize the pressure as you ascend. This is pretty much just a upside down bucket that is clear. Fill it at depth and bring it up, air will come out (Boyle's Law = as pressure decreases, volume will increase [inflexible container]). So just ascending, the sstem has to do little as the air will simply bubble out. You have some of the basic principles down, just not applying them precisely enough.
These things have been around for a while..geck History Channel's "Guts and Bolts' had an episode on this a long time ago..the only hting new is some marketing comparison to a segway. What bored news editor thought that this was something worthy of being published when it had been around for several years.
these things have been around for a while, and I think they are a bad idea. I am a current SCUBA instructor as well as a pretty experienced cave and technical diver. There are so many limitations to this thing that makes it completely impractical. Transport is one issue in terms of getting it into and out of the water.
for one thing, inexperienced pilot will have this hard bodied device with which to crash into delicate coral. this will have to be used in a body of water with typically little current, else it become quite easy to lose the group.
It cannot go deep for long since it is still open to ambient pressure, so decompression comes into play as well as gas supply. For every 33 feet (10m) one descends, the pressure increases by one atmosphere. If that tank were to last the diver 60 minutes on the surface, then at 33 feet it would last only 30 minutes, at 60 feet it would be 20 minutes, and so forth.
It might be ok for a few shallow water, shore-based resorts that can charge the units at the dock. Even a fairly cheap diver scooter will be just around 800-1200, and those can only go to about 100-150 feet if you're lucky. In order to go more deep, you have to get more specialized units (www.gavinscooters.com) that can handle the pressure (I've taken mine to 350) and has the battery burn time. Even those units only cost ~$3500. These units are simply torpedo looking devices that tow the diver. The biggest advantage is that it reduces the workload for the diver, thus dropping air consumption and helping one cover more ground.
This device has no similarities other than someone trying to compare two unlike things with a vague attempt at seeming technologically advanced.
A likewise analogy is when a victim of illegal (Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 - 47 USC 227) telemarketing tactics (such as the use of precorded commercial messages sues in their local small claims court. I have filed suit against a Texas company in my local court for an illegal precrecord, won (by dafault though) and got paid and am about to sile against traffic-power.com for a telemarketing call to my cellular phone.
I do not see the case against the RIAA going very far. Extortion is typically a criminal offense and I know not of any civil rights where one can sue. I simply cannot sue someone that I witness throwing trash on the highway, the government has not given me that right. There are several laws though that do provide a private right of action, like the TCPA, where one can become a personal attorney general.
Great. Now I have to shift through about one million pages with the term 'Hello World" in order to find the one I need. It is going to take me like 5 hours to find this when I could write it in a span of 3 minutes. There goes my afternoon.
http://slashdot.org/~Scott%20Jordan
Nothing but posts supporting his product. I just get bad vibes from this product/guy for some reason, and this post somewhat confirmed what I was thinking: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=92802&cid=797
Get a jacket from the local surplus store and be done with it.
I've already mirrored the information on my meager ISP webspace: http://web.tampabay.rr.com/mblitch/bf2003/
a sp ?id=home
Other mirrors are up. Use the example of bittorrent and help spread the load and information. I have not seen nor read any complaints from Best Buy, so I do not know what their issue may be.
http://www.andy-akb.com/bf/
http://www.uswebstreet.com/~cmptrdude1/default.
http://cpanel19.gzo.com/~every/blackfriday/
http://www.quepons.com/blackfriday.html