I press 2 when it gives me the option... I did notice on one though, if you press 2, and then wait, about 30 seconds to a minute later a voice said "you will now be removed, please stand by" another 30 seconds or so "you have now been removed from our list" I suspect they were betting that people will just press 2 and hang up and not wait to be removed.
either way though, it doesn't seem to have reduced the number of these scam calls...
the phone company does sell that service, all calls from a blocked number are sent to a prompt where the caller has the choice of giving up, or pressing a number to reveal their phone number.... it does cost extra though...
somewhat related... I once worked as a network admin for a small company, as part of my job I was responsible for making sure all important data was properly backed up, We had network shares that were automatically backed up, and all work was supposed to be stored on those, however I knew full well that the president of the company never used the network shares, and had lots of important information scattered around his hard drive. Now had it been anyone else in the company I would have considered it his problem, as I had made it quite clear, many times, that anything to be backed up HAD to be on the network shares. Problem is, I also knew full well that if he lost any data, he would hold me personally responsible. So I had to go through his machine and figure out what stuff required backing up, and what did not (we were pretty tight on space for the backups, and I wasn't going to come in to the office at 3am to change the tapes!) looking through his hard drive in amongst videos of him doing training presentations and such, I came across videos of his wife (who also happened to be the VP and therefore my boss)... yes, THOSE videos... the ones without clothing, and with occasional whipped cream and cherries... I have to say, it was very difficult to look at her the same way after that!
There is of course a different way to deal with this...
I think that all evidence, no matter how it was obtained, should be admissible.
I also believe that anyone caught obtaining evidence in an illegal manner should be prosecuted.
It's insane to let someone go free when you know, beyond any reasonable doubt, that they committed a crime (say that an illegal search of a suspect's home reveals DNA evidence of the crime, the murder weapon, and a video of the act, and it's the ONLY evidence you have that links the person to the crime). Under current law none of that is admissible and the criminal goes free. I think that suspect SHOULD be convicted. However, the police officers responsible for the illegal search should also be personally liable for the illegal search, and charged with the appropriate crimes (B&E, trespass, and theft, possibly other crimes such as unlawful confinement if they held you illegally while performing the illegal search) You could even use their evidence presented in the other trial as evidence of their crime.
I believe that this would solve the problem of illegally obtained evidence just as well as (or possibly better than) our system does now, with the added benefit of putting away a few more scumbags in the process.
It runs better on my Nokia N810 than it ever did on the 386 I had when I first played it way back when, in fact the stylus input is extremely responsive, I quite like it, my only complaint with the game is that I wish it were doom2 instead of the original...
At least with casinos some people do occasionally come out ahead.... Not the majority, but as far as I can tell, in Scientology only the house ever wins.
They are trying to invalidate plagarism detection software by proving that you can still manage to plagarise in a way it won't detect (false negative). The thing is, this isn't the problem with plagarism software, the real problem is where it detects plagarism when none in fact took place (false positive). This will happen in a few ways:
1) There have been several highly publicized incidents where students have been in big trouble for plagarising their own work. This is ludicrous, they wrote it in the first place!
2) A large enough database of phrases, paragraphs, etc. will eventually encompass the majority of ways of phrasing a particular idea, therefore when discussing an existing idea the odds of saying something that has been said before will eventually approach certainty. Now this wouldn't necessarilly apply if you were inventing a whole new concept, but in most classes that is not what you are being asked to do, instead you are asked to research how something has already been done. There is bound to be duplication here, especially as the database grows. This doesn't mean you plagarised something, merely that someone else has worded something similarily in the past. (For it to be plagarism you would have had to have seen and copied that earlier work, in this case you may not even know about it.)
I used to report all my spam by emailing it to spamcop, and by emailing it to uce@ftc.gov, until my ISP actually disconnected my account (without warning) for sending spam (their filters detected email originating from my connection that looked like spam (because it WAS spam that I had recieved and was forwarding to addresses that WANTED to recieve it!))
I applaud their initiative, but I wish they wouldn't disconnect your account without a complaint from someone who has recieved spam from you!!
I did the upgrade from Kubuntu 8.10 to Kubuntu 9.04 The upgrade went smoother than any Linux install/upgrade I've ever done...
That said, it "forgot" that I had a network card for some reason (Had to manually add eth0 to the config scripts) It also arbitrarily rearranged the connection points for my hard drives (sda became sdd, sdc became sda, etc which resulted in my/pub directory being mounted on/home, my cd drive mounted on/bak,/bak mounted on/mnt/cdrom and my home directory not being mounted at all) It also decided to uninstall several programs i use regularly such as gimp and kpdf
Despite all that, I had my system back to useable in only a couple hours, normally an upgrade/new install of a linux distro takes me days to make useable again. I was especially impressed that after the upgrade I could still use my dual monitor setup (that is one of the things that usually takes me days to get right, and in fact I've often found no working graphical modes at all after upgrades) and that I still had sound (this one is usually a quick fix, but the fact that I didn't have to fix it at all was nice)
I love Kubuntu, and I have recommended it to friends, however I have to admit that the idea of most of them having to go through the install process to get it is a bit disturbing, once installed though I find it "just works" in ways that no windows OS ever does.
Currently automotive engines use a radiator to get rid of excess heat (internal combustion engines generate quite a bit of unwanted heat) usually the combination of a fan, and the movement of the car through the air, serve to cool the radiator so that it can accept more heat from the engine. Without a radiator the car would quickly overheat, which can cause (among other issues) cracked heads and/or engine blocks.
The alternator currently makes the engine work slightly harder (using more fuel and generating even more heat) to create electricity. By replacing it with a device like this which does not require the work of an alternator, and using the abundant "waste" heat, a vehicle would be more fuel efficient, and as an added bonus, the cooling system would be more efficient.
The bigger question than whether the engine will be more efficient or not, is whether the extra efficiency gained outweighs the extra costs and complications, and whether the new system can generate enough electricity to power all the accessories and charge the battery, especially on short trips on cold days where it takes longer for the engine to warm up (and therefore start producing electricity) and where the load demanded to start the engine drains the battery further.
Ah, but there's the difference, the PROMOTION model works, the DISTRIBUTION model is dead.
In the short term this actually serves to prop up the existing, entrenched, players. However if you look longer term, if they can't make money on it, their promotion model will eventually die too. The end result would be a level playing field.
The green movement, silly or not, creates jobs rather than takes jobs away.
I wish I could believe this, it most certainly SHOULD be the case, but the green movement often spends so much time saying that EVERYTHING is bad that they don't allow the real "green" technologies to develop either:
Nuclear - Radiation! Wind - Birds! Hydro - Fish! Land! Solar - Pollution/Energy used in production!
The only jobs they seem to proactively create are lobbyists...
I've been using my Nokia N810 touch screen for almost a year now, and I have never calibrated it, and I can't detect any noticeable drift. And this is over a wide range of temperatures/pressures/humidity levels/etc.
The real solution to spam is to get people to stop buying things from advertisements in email, and stop falling for scams in emails. If it didn't work at least a little bit, they wouldn't be doing it. Spam is only a symptom of that problem. But good luck solving that one.:-/
Actually, I suspect it is worse than that, spam will likely continue even if nobody buys anything, and if nobody falls for it. The reason is that there will always be someone who THINKS that someone else will buy something or fall for something.
Even more important than affecting the actual profitability of spam is to affect the PERCEIVED profitability (or the perceived risk, this is why heavily publicized arrests are good, even if they have little real effect)
I got several cases of dimmables on Ebay a couple years ago, and they work just great, on my normal dimmers. Don't remember the brand, but I could get it for you at home if you need it.
I need the brand/model info.
I bought the only dimmable CFLs available in this city (there are several stores that carry them, but they are all the same bulb (Phillips "Marathon" Dimmable))
They have 2 major problems: 1) they don't fit in any light fixture (they're the largest CFLs I've ever seen)
2) they don't actually dim... well they go from 100% output down to maybe 80% before shutting off... not what I'm looking for!
So if you can point me to some that fit in normal light fixtures and dim as well as incandescents, I'm all over it! (the dimmable bulbs are the only incandescent bulbs left in my house)
One of my biggest problems with "global warming" is that it has become such a religion that we're no longer able to reduce emissions for any other reason.
If you decide you want a car that uses less fuel it must be to "reduce your carbon footprint" it can't possibly be because you're tired of paying so much for gas.
If you decide to insulate your house better it is to "help stop climate change", not because you're tired of feeling the draft when you sit beside your windows and doors, or don't enjoy the constant drone of your furnace running 24/7.
If you support "green" products, it must be to "prevent the ice caps from melting" it can't be because you want to be able to breathe outside without smelling pollution...
And worst of all, if you don't believe in global warming you MUST be an oil company shill who wants to encourage consumption and pollution!
Why can't we disagree with global warming without getting told how evil we are? Why can't we "save the planet" for our own reasons? What is wrong with looking at real and current problems and addressing them, without having to bow down to the Global Warming Gods?
Would it be possible for cable lines the length of those needed in North America to carry those higher speeds reliably? If not, the solution is irrelevant.
Secondly, can it run over the quality of lines in North America? If not, you're left re-running lines anyway, so you might as well go fibre.
The company is unlikely to purposely choose the more expensive option, they make more money if they save money in the process. But I suspect there's a good reason not to go there, and my suspicion is that the answer is in the length and quality of the lines.
Population density makes a huge difference in broadband roll-outs, this is why many parts of rural North America are stuck on dial-up, it's just not cost effective to do anything about it. And when you look at the population density of urban areas, the Japanese would be amazed at the amount of empty space (2-4 people living on a 500 square foot (46 square metres) lot, and that doesn't count roads wider than anywhere else on earth, back alleys, large green spaces, etc)
A solution that was easy in Japan may be completely impossible in North America.
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I press 2 when it gives me the option... I did notice on one though, if you press 2, and then wait, about 30 seconds to a minute later a voice said "you will now be removed, please stand by" another 30 seconds or so "you have now been removed from our list"
I suspect they were betting that people will just press 2 and hang up and not wait to be removed.
either way though, it doesn't seem to have reduced the number of these scam calls...
the phone company does sell that service, all calls from a blocked number are sent to a prompt where the caller has the choice of giving up, or pressing a number to reveal their phone number.... it does cost extra though...
Transmit power management is disabled. Cell phones go to full power in emergency mode. (Yes, battery drain goes up.)
(emphasis mine)
And this is considered a GOOD idea??? the last thing I want happening in an emergency is my battery going dead FASTER than it would normally!
somewhat related... I once worked as a network admin for a small company, as part of my job I was responsible for making sure all important data was properly backed up, We had network shares that were automatically backed up, and all work was supposed to be stored on those, however I knew full well that the president of the company never used the network shares, and had lots of important information scattered around his hard drive. Now had it been anyone else in the company I would have considered it his problem, as I had made it quite clear, many times, that anything to be backed up HAD to be on the network shares. Problem is, I also knew full well that if he lost any data, he would hold me personally responsible.
So I had to go through his machine and figure out what stuff required backing up, and what did not (we were pretty tight on space for the backups, and I wasn't going to come in to the office at 3am to change the tapes!)
looking through his hard drive in amongst videos of him doing training presentations and such, I came across videos of his wife (who also happened to be the VP and therefore my boss)... yes, THOSE videos... the ones without clothing, and with occasional whipped cream and cherries...
I have to say, it was very difficult to look at her the same way after that!
There is of course a different way to deal with this...
I think that all evidence, no matter how it was obtained, should be admissible.
I also believe that anyone caught obtaining evidence in an illegal manner should be prosecuted.
It's insane to let someone go free when you know, beyond any reasonable doubt, that they committed a crime (say that an illegal search of a suspect's home reveals DNA evidence of the crime, the murder weapon, and a video of the act, and it's the ONLY evidence you have that links the person to the crime). Under current law none of that is admissible and the criminal goes free. I think that suspect SHOULD be convicted. However, the police officers responsible for the illegal search should also be personally liable for the illegal search, and charged with the appropriate crimes (B&E, trespass, and theft, possibly other crimes such as unlawful confinement if they held you illegally while performing the illegal search) You could even use their evidence presented in the other trial as evidence of their crime.
I believe that this would solve the problem of illegally obtained evidence just as well as (or possibly better than) our system does now, with the added benefit of putting away a few more scumbags in the process.
It runs better on my Nokia N810 than it ever did on the 386 I had when I first played it way back when, in fact the stylus input is extremely responsive, I quite like it, my only complaint with the game is that I wish it were doom2 instead of the original...
At least with casinos some people do occasionally come out ahead.... Not the majority, but as far as I can tell, in Scientology only the house ever wins.
They are trying to invalidate plagarism detection software by proving that you can still manage to plagarise in a way it won't detect (false negative). The thing is, this isn't the problem with plagarism software, the real problem is where it detects plagarism when none in fact took place (false positive). This will happen in a few ways:
1) There have been several highly publicized incidents where students have been in big trouble for plagarising their own work. This is ludicrous, they wrote it in the first place!
2) A large enough database of phrases, paragraphs, etc. will eventually encompass the majority of ways of phrasing a particular idea, therefore when discussing an existing idea the odds of saying something that has been said before will eventually approach certainty.
Now this wouldn't necessarilly apply if you were inventing a whole new concept, but in most classes that is not what you are being asked to do, instead you are asked to research how something has already been done. There is bound to be duplication here, especially as the database grows. This doesn't mean you plagarised something, merely that someone else has worded something similarily in the past. (For it to be plagarism you would have had to have seen and copied that earlier work, in this case you may not even know about it.)
I used to report all my spam by emailing it to spamcop, and by emailing it to uce@ftc.gov, until my ISP actually disconnected my account (without warning) for sending spam (their filters detected email originating from my connection that looked like spam (because it WAS spam that I had recieved and was forwarding to addresses that WANTED to recieve it!))
I applaud their initiative, but I wish they wouldn't disconnect your account without a complaint from someone who has recieved spam from you!!
you'd rather be in the open where there's nothing to protect you from the "large, flaming fragments?"
I did the upgrade from Kubuntu 8.10 to Kubuntu 9.04
The upgrade went smoother than any Linux install/upgrade I've ever done...
That said, it "forgot" that I had a network card for some reason (Had to manually add eth0 to the config scripts) /pub directory being mounted on /home, my cd drive mounted on /bak, /bak mounted on /mnt/cdrom and my home directory not being mounted at all)
It also arbitrarily rearranged the connection points for my hard drives (sda became sdd, sdc became sda, etc which resulted in my
It also decided to uninstall several programs i use regularly such as gimp and kpdf
Despite all that, I had my system back to useable in only a couple hours, normally an upgrade/new install of a linux distro takes me days to make useable again.
I was especially impressed that after the upgrade I could still use my dual monitor setup (that is one of the things that usually takes me days to get right, and in fact I've often found no working graphical modes at all after upgrades) and that I still had sound (this one is usually a quick fix, but the fact that I didn't have to fix it at all was nice)
I love Kubuntu, and I have recommended it to friends, however I have to admit that the idea of most of them having to go through the install process to get it is a bit disturbing, once installed though I find it "just works" in ways that no windows OS ever does.
Currently automotive engines use a radiator to get rid of excess heat (internal combustion engines generate quite a bit of unwanted heat) usually the combination of a fan, and the movement of the car through the air, serve to cool the radiator so that it can accept more heat from the engine. Without a radiator the car would quickly overheat, which can cause (among other issues) cracked heads and/or engine blocks.
The alternator currently makes the engine work slightly harder (using more fuel and generating even more heat) to create electricity. By replacing it with a device like this which does not require the work of an alternator, and using the abundant "waste" heat, a vehicle would be more fuel efficient, and as an added bonus, the cooling system would be more efficient.
The bigger question than whether the engine will be more efficient or not, is whether the extra efficiency gained outweighs the extra costs and complications, and whether the new system can generate enough electricity to power all the accessories and charge the battery, especially on short trips on cold days where it takes longer for the engine to warm up (and therefore start producing electricity) and where the load demanded to start the engine drains the battery further.
Ah, but there's the difference, the PROMOTION model works, the DISTRIBUTION model is dead.
In the short term this actually serves to prop up the existing, entrenched, players. However if you look longer term, if they can't make money on it, their promotion model will eventually die too. The end result would be a level playing field.
The green movement, silly or not, creates jobs rather than takes jobs away.
I wish I could believe this, it most certainly SHOULD be the case, but the green movement often spends so much time saying that EVERYTHING is bad that they don't allow the real "green" technologies to develop either:
Nuclear - Radiation!
Wind - Birds!
Hydro - Fish! Land!
Solar - Pollution/Energy used in production!
The only jobs they seem to proactively create are lobbyists...
"Indeed, it need merely be capable of substantial non-infringing uses."
I believe TPB is quite CAPABLE of substantial non-infringing uses.
It strikes me that the Sony decision was substantially mis-used in the Grokster decision.
All this aside from the fact that the US supreme court is rather lacking in Swedish Jurisdiction...
I remember a time, not that long ago, when you couldn't use any search engine without adding "-sex -nude" to the end of every search you did.
Recently though Google seems to filter pretty well, so unless you specifically search for something it's not likely to appear unexpectedly.
I've been using my Nokia N810 touch screen for almost a year now, and I have never calibrated it, and I can't detect any noticeable drift. And this is over a wide range of temperatures/pressures/humidity levels/etc.
It CAN be done.
The real solution to spam is to get people to stop buying things from advertisements in email, and stop falling for scams in emails. If it didn't work at least a little bit, they wouldn't be doing it. Spam is only a symptom of that problem. But good luck solving that one. :-/
Actually, I suspect it is worse than that, spam will likely continue even if nobody buys anything, and if nobody falls for it. The reason is that there will always be someone who THINKS that someone else will buy something or fall for something.
Even more important than affecting the actual profitability of spam is to affect the PERCEIVED profitability (or the perceived risk, this is why heavily publicized arrests are good, even if they have little real effect)
I got several cases of dimmables on Ebay a couple years ago, and they work just great, on my normal dimmers. Don't remember the brand, but I could get it for you at home if you need it.
I need the brand/model info.
I bought the only dimmable CFLs available in this city (there are several stores that carry them, but they are all the same bulb (Phillips "Marathon" Dimmable))
They have 2 major problems:
1) they don't fit in any light fixture (they're the largest CFLs I've ever seen)
2) they don't actually dim... well they go from 100% output down to maybe 80% before shutting off... not what I'm looking for!
So if you can point me to some that fit in normal light fixtures and dim as well as incandescents, I'm all over it! (the dimmable bulbs are the only incandescent bulbs left in my house)
5) wants to be able to use dimmers (I've tried dimmable CFL, they are 4 times the size of a traditional light bulb, and don't actually DIM!)
One of my biggest problems with "global warming" is that it has become such a religion that we're no longer able to reduce emissions for any other reason.
If you decide you want a car that uses less fuel it must be to "reduce your carbon footprint" it can't possibly be because you're tired of paying so much for gas.
If you decide to insulate your house better it is to "help stop climate change", not because you're tired of feeling the draft when you sit beside your windows and doors, or don't enjoy the constant drone of your furnace running 24/7.
If you support "green" products, it must be to "prevent the ice caps from melting" it can't be because you want to be able to breathe outside without smelling pollution...
And worst of all, if you don't believe in global warming you MUST be an oil company shill who wants to encourage consumption and pollution!
Why can't we disagree with global warming without getting told how evil we are? Why can't we "save the planet" for our own reasons? What is wrong with looking at real and current problems and addressing them, without having to bow down to the Global Warming Gods?
sure you can do online banking, because your bank has paid the filtering company to be on the whitelist...
They can however arbitrarily assume all encrypted data to be hostile and filter accordingly...
but is it really that simple?
Would it be possible for cable lines the length of those needed in North America to carry those higher speeds reliably? If not, the solution is irrelevant.
Secondly, can it run over the quality of lines in North America? If not, you're left re-running lines anyway, so you might as well go fibre.
The company is unlikely to purposely choose the more expensive option, they make more money if they save money in the process. But I suspect there's a good reason not to go there, and my suspicion is that the answer is in the length and quality of the lines.
Population density makes a huge difference in broadband roll-outs, this is why many parts of rural North America are stuck on dial-up, it's just not cost effective to do anything about it. And when you look at the population density of urban areas, the Japanese would be amazed at the amount of empty space (2-4 people living on a 500 square foot (46 square metres) lot, and that doesn't count roads wider than anywhere else on earth, back alleys, large green spaces, etc)
A solution that was easy in Japan may be completely impossible in North America.
and what if the first isn't until 14.0? does that make it impossible?