I work for CollabNet's engineering team for TeamForge -- CollabNet does provide a yum server for updates and current versions of subversion for TeamForge users. While CentOS (What our VMWare image uses) is at 5.x, we stay with that version so that companies get the benefits of having a stable release (as far as underlying software versions go) with security updates (through the upstream).
Feel free to email me and if you have any questions, or any additional feedback about our installer or the product in general, I'd love to have it.
And to think, this is being reported from a company whose stock ticker is LNUX, who doesn't do Linux hardware (or software) any more, that specializes in Online Media.
I recently took my RHCE for RHEL5. Passed the first time. I went to the ER the night before for pneumonia, and was totally doped up on cough syrup with Codeine and other goodies. I really thought that I failed it, but, surprisingly enough, I didn't.
What I don't like about the RHCE is how you can't even talk about what's on the test, even with the guys who you're testing with. It seems a little odd that to protect the test/certification for future test takers, you can't even talk about the test to the guys who are taking the test with you.
I didn't do the best...I barely passed the RHCT portion, but scored a 95 on the RHCE portion. I would have been pissed if I didn't get the E because of not getting all of the T portion correct.
While the SKA is kinda neat, there is a group of radio astronomers from "Big Ear" who are working on something very similar to SKA, but, is up and functional with at least 20 elements right now.
The group is NAAPO and it includes Dr. Bob Dixon as well as Jerry Ehman -- both of Big Ear Fame -- do have somewhat active roles within the organization. Their Argus project is very similar in the SKA, with the exception is that it's already running, and you can see the live data on the web and do your 'own observing,' and it can see the entire hemisphere at any given time. When I was living in Columbus, I volunteered there (I saw Big Ear right before it was destroyed and turned into a fairway); a great group of guys working on a great project.
She's a hairdresser, runs ubuntu, and is getting FiOS installed next week. She also doesn't care that I work insane hours, have an on-call schedule, am in CA a few weeks a month, and tend to be antisocial to just about everyone.
She even had t-shirts from thinkgeek from before we started dating.
Unfortunately, before her, I met a total whack job who after getting in a nasty fight with, threw razor blades at me while I was asleep (to prevent her from cutting herself, so she says).
Use Network Booting if all of your POS Terminals have the same or similar hardware. This will keep costs down.
Someone already mentioned TinyPOS. TinyPOS is a nice POS for Windows systems (and since you're trying to use Linux, maybe that's not the best idea.) I ended up using SQL-Ledger on the Back-End and writing my own application for the client-side which supported cash drawers, magnetic card readers, and a receipt printer.
The only issue that you may have is running the credit card transactions through. I did a horrible "hack job" by essentially queuing the Credit Card transactions up to a central server, that sent them out the web-gateway for authorization, however, I'm sure it could have been done better.
You can write a web-based application with a touch screen, however, you're either going to have to mess with the ELO drivers to send double clicks, or, tweak your application to use single clicks when logging in or making selections.
Good Luck!
Re:I am seeing red lights, alarms, sirens, the WOR
on
Managed ASP Web Hosts?
·
· Score: 1
I'd stay away from 1and1 like the plague.
They completely lost one of my colocated servers, and pretty much told me to go screw myself in the process.
Then, had the audacity to send my account to collections because I didn't pay for the month of service that I didn't use.
I know of a guy who used to work for a cable company that did something like this already. He would drive around the neighborhoods with a GPS and a laptop, that would send specially-crafted web requests to a web server that the cable company owns. As long as the request comes from their IP block, they would send the customer a cute little letter.
Cable Companies have been doing this as "revenue protection" for a while.
Law Enforcement and higher education seem to have been clashing odds for a while. I used to be a PBX guy at a college, and I know that there was at least two occasions while I was there that we had a member of the local PD come in and ask for subscriber information. Unless they had a subponea, we pretty much showed them the door. The only real reason that anyone really looked at the information was for billing purposes, or if we were doing testing on the line (DCONX, anyone?).
PBX means just that: Private Branch Exchange. PBX != "Telephone Company"
The minute they start 'bitpooling' traffic to specific hosts, they should lose their common carrier status. End of story. It's already been said a hundred times in this particular discussion that it's like the telco's trying to charge for the same thing again...it's typical telco ideology.
Even when I was a phone guy (a few years ago), I remembered that we billed by the minute to our clients, but were charged by the second. We handled 1-800 traffic on the same page...even taking the campus that makes outgoing 1-800 numbers and putting them on a different T-1 where we were given a 'payphone' tarrif for handling the traffic a different way (that paid for the T-1 and associated linecard).
If they're saying that their current infastructure can't handle this and they need the money for 'capital improvement,' I find this very blurry. When we installed a digital phone (D-Term for you NEC phreaks), we billed that specific department *up front* the cost of: the D-Term phone ($100), 1/16th of a line card ($1200 for a line card), then charged them an additional n dollars a month because of the limited upgradability of a D-Term (you couldn't assign the LENS to a spot in a different cabinet if you wanted the ability to pick up that line or see that specific status, and since the cards take up analog line space, blah blah blah). If a small college can have the insight to do this in 2000, why couldn't a major telco do it in 2006?
Maybe they're seeing this from a different way:
What happens when all of our subscribers already are subscribing to a high-speed package and we're getting the maximum amount of market saturation that we can allow? We've already laid off enough of our workforce that we can't really afford that to take one too many hits, and we (middle management/execs) don't want to lose our jobs or take a pay cut, so, let's bill them for something again! Cha-Ching!
The fact that this score has an Insightful Moderation is scary...I've got Karma to burn, so let me speak my mind.
We should have a reasonable expectation of privacy in our everyday lives, even if the constitution doesn't have a "de facto" privacy clause in it. Remember that crazy court Case Roe v. Wade? The court didn't say that "abortion was legal," the Court declared that laws prohibiting abortion represented a violation of a women's right to privacy. While the right to privacy does to exist as such in the Constitution it has long been interpreted to exist as an umbrella created by the first 5 amendments in the Bill of Rights.
It really bothers me in a multitude of ways that our civil liberties are being torn down under the guise of terrorism. It really bothers me that many people are letting their guards down and just allowing these rights to just be walked on like nothing matters. Is it just me or am I the only one who sees a problem here?
As a former PBX Administrator for a private university, I can say with some certanity that making sure that ensuring that they're getting the right information and monitoring the right person is not as easy as it seems. About five years ago, we had a situation where one of the janitors was downloading child pr0n onto campus computers. The Feebies brought their "Carnivore" system in, then we set up the proper configuration on the cisco gear. They asked us to change the disks daily, and they sent a courier to pick the Zip disks up every evening.
I have also had instances where drug task force officers have 'stormed in' to the switch room and demanded the information of someone who called a campus extension. These requests were met with resistance on my part (they never had a warrant), until they left -- university policy was if we were asked for something specific we were to look it up without their presence, then forward the information to the legal department who would turn it over if a search warrant or subponea was issued for the information. Law enforcement also attempted to pressure the university into letting them wiretap all of the public phones on campus (again, to try to curb drug-related activity), however, the university resisted and finally they gave up on trying to get such a broad scope of phones wiretapped (they did manage to get one phone wiretapped for a month; the interesting factoid of that was that the phone was only used 4 times that month, all dialing campus security to help them get back into their locked car -- the law enforcement types were quite livid at the end of their wiretap and they didn't have anything)
I can see where CMU has issues with this (isn't their campus network totally fiber-optic gigE? that will run the cost up), and I can also see where the professional side of me would want more university insight to make sure that the law enforcement types are doing this on the up-and-up.
This really isn't meant to be anything, but, after the whole TurboTax fiasco last year, do you expect anything else from these clowns?
Now, for the M$ folks out there, there are only two 'mainstream' options -- M$ Money, and Quicken. Neither of which are that appealing. There's GnuCash, however, if you're not running a free operating system, you're probably not going to get very far.
Personally, I use GnuCash, and I'm quite happy with it. I haven't had any real issues with it, nor have I had any real complaints. (Printing would be one, but, I manage).
It's never suprising to see a company use whatever tactics it can do in order to keep its customers buying it's newest stuff. I keep on the old saying, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Why they decided to break their own application is a decision that's left to the reader.
Actually, while it was in the "Members only" phase, it seemed to go down, but the google cache of this stuff has the info as well as the cached files (and the HTML files for those who don't like to read PDF files).
Maybe they pulled it before it got too much attention? The big media companies would never do that. Never.
I've had one for about 6 months now, and now, one of my friends picked one up as a Christmas gift.
I'm completely dissapointed in these devices. You can't control the streams, can't control any of the functions without having a Windows Client, and my attempts on breaking the protocol don't seem to work at all.
The stream listings on it go away (One of my favorite classical streams on this device was WBHM out of Birmingham, Alabama. They moved the streaming location, or moved to WMP, and then it borked. Went to Mostly Classical from Digitally Imported...worked for about a month, then borked). I noticed that they tried to push their own streaming service, but, I didn't sign up for it.
Once you do get it working, the sound quality isn't that bad. It even has optical outs, but I'm not sure how those work -- haven't tested them yet.
I use gentoo on a few different computers for a few different roles. One is my 'testbed' for whatever I decide I'm going to roll out on the rest of my network. The other is a vmware machine on my laptop.
My Linksys firewall had recently died, so I wanted to conver a Dell Optiplex with three NIC's in it to be my new firewall, running gentoo and chillispot. I tried hooking the Optiplex up, but, for some odd reason, it wouldn't take.
I then took the hard drive out of one optiplex and moved it into a different one to attempt to install it there. Installed, emerge'd, and life was good.
Moved it back....and now nothing really works. I'll get it to boot up, but with only one network card functional, and when I try to emerge e1000 (for my gig-e nic) I get nothing. I try to build a genkernel, and initrd fails.
My project for this week is to either beat the box with a 5 pound sledge, run it over with a backhoe, or install NetBSD on the box in an attempt to get it to work.
Needless to say, i'm no longer impressed with gentoo. At any rate, it was a good learning experience for me.
Personally? I'm running linux in my bus. Headless, attached to my GPS, wardriving, and pulling status information about my engine, and a few other things.
I'm not sure how putting an XM and a Sirius together really helps.
I know this because I own both units and have them both installed in my work vehicle (I'm a field tech, so 40% of my work week is spent on the road). There are a lot of things that are different about the two. Sirius, has no "commercials." They put PSA's and their own ads in for their shows in the spots where commercials should air, however, that gets old fast (Case in Point, I'm so tired of hearing that Greg Brady is doing a show on the 70's channel today that I kept my XM on the Left Channel instead of listening to Air America Radio on the Sirius). Another nice thing about the sirius is that you can set it to remind you when a song or a show comes on.
XM has a better selection of dance/trance music, and the sound is much bolder coming out of the receiver -- Compared to Sirius, the AAR/Left Feeds shound tinney on Sirius, but they EQ it different on the XM.
I like both, work for neither; but each one has their positive points. Never had signal problems with either of them, and enjoy listening to both of them.
[snip] The backlash against Star38 is the type of friction that can arise between for-profit software companies and hackers who resent the commercialization of technology they believe should remain free.
"In most countercultures, there is an aspect of selling out," said Caleb Sima, co-founder of Spi Dynamics, an online security company. "People who make money off technology are deemed to have sold out. Anyone who has a unique idea and is making money is going to get badgered." [/snip]
No, I think it's that people don't like it when people use technology for slimy things, and want to get paid for the slimy things [pr0n aside]. I have no problems with Asterisk...I use it in my house, and have openly recommended it to some 'phone guy' co workers that like messing around with routing and stuff at home.
I know that caller ID can't be trusted...but that's only the first step in the puzzle. You've already got call ID block Block on your phones...so telemarketers decided to start putting 800 numbers and things like 555-555-5555 in as numbers on their outgoing CallerID.
I'm sure some people were upset. Legally, [IANAL], I think they could be on some shady ground, especially, if they're trying to represent someone else, when they're attempting to collect a debt.
I currently work anywhere from 60 to 90 hours every week. This is on-the-clock time, not including time I spend doing paperwork, reading and studying for certifications, and answering calls from technicians that are in the field that have questions.
The first month it was hard getting myself into that schedule and way of life...now, if I take a day off in the week, my body wants to go and do things....
It's really sad...at one point in time, I worked to relieve stress....and now my secondary stress reliever is stressing me out.
Slashdot Mirror
I work for CollabNet's engineering team for TeamForge -- CollabNet does provide a yum server for updates and current versions of subversion for TeamForge users. While CentOS (What our VMWare image uses) is at 5.x, we stay with that version so that companies get the benefits of having a stable release (as far as underlying software versions go) with security updates (through the upstream).
Feel free to email me and if you have any questions, or any additional feedback about our installer or the product in general, I'd love to have it.
Sourceforge.net uses Lucene for searching, I believe. They seem to get it right.
And to think, this is being reported from a company whose stock ticker is LNUX, who doesn't do Linux hardware (or software) any more, that specializes in Online Media.
I really think that the 30% pass rate is BS.
I recently took my RHCE for RHEL5. Passed the first time. I went to the ER the night before for pneumonia, and was totally doped up on cough syrup with Codeine and other goodies. I really thought that I failed it, but, surprisingly enough, I didn't.
What I don't like about the RHCE is how you can't even talk about what's on the test, even with the guys who you're testing with. It seems a little odd that to protect the test/certification for future test takers, you can't even talk about the test to the guys who are taking the test with you.
I didn't do the best...I barely passed the RHCT portion, but scored a 95 on the RHCE portion. I would have been pissed if I didn't get the E because of not getting all of the T portion correct.
While the SKA is kinda neat, there is a group of radio astronomers from "Big Ear" who are working on something very similar to SKA, but, is up and functional with at least 20 elements right now.
The group is NAAPO and it includes Dr. Bob Dixon as well as Jerry Ehman -- both of Big Ear Fame -- do have somewhat active roles within the organization. Their Argus project is very similar in the SKA, with the exception is that it's already running, and you can see the live data on the web and do your 'own observing,' and it can see the entire hemisphere at any given time. When I was living in Columbus, I volunteered there (I saw Big Ear right before it was destroyed and turned into a fairway); a great group of guys working on a great project.
Yup.
I've found success/insanity on okcupid as well.
She's a hairdresser, runs ubuntu, and is getting FiOS installed next week. She also doesn't care that I work insane hours, have an on-call schedule, am in CA a few weeks a month, and tend to be antisocial to just about everyone.
She even had t-shirts from thinkgeek from before we started dating.
Unfortunately, before her, I met a total whack job who after getting in a nasty fight with, threw razor blades at me while I was asleep (to prevent her from cutting herself, so she says).
YMMV.
Some Ideas:
Use Network Booting if all of your POS Terminals have the same or similar hardware. This will keep costs down.
Someone already mentioned TinyPOS. TinyPOS is a nice POS for Windows systems (and since you're trying to use Linux, maybe that's not the best idea.) I ended up using SQL-Ledger on the Back-End and writing my own application for the client-side which supported cash drawers, magnetic card readers, and a receipt printer.
The only issue that you may have is running the credit card transactions through. I did a horrible "hack job" by essentially queuing the Credit Card transactions up to a central server, that sent them out the web-gateway for authorization, however, I'm sure it could have been done better.
You can write a web-based application with a touch screen, however, you're either going to have to mess with the ELO drivers to send double clicks, or, tweak your application to use single clicks when logging in or making selections.
Good Luck!
I'd stay away from 1and1 like the plague.
They completely lost one of my colocated servers, and pretty much told me to go screw myself in the process.
Then, had the audacity to send my account to collections because I didn't pay for the month of service that I didn't use.
I know of a guy who used to work for a cable company that did something like this already. He would drive around the neighborhoods with a GPS and a laptop, that would send specially-crafted web requests to a web server that the cable company owns. As long as the request comes from their IP block, they would send the customer a cute little letter.
Cable Companies have been doing this as "revenue protection" for a while.
Law Enforcement and higher education seem to have been clashing odds for a while. I used to be a PBX guy at a college, and I know that there was at least two occasions while I was there that we had a member of the local PD come in and ask for subscriber information. Unless they had a subponea, we pretty much showed them the door. The only real reason that anyone really looked at the information was for billing purposes, or if we were doing testing on the line (DCONX, anyone?).
PBX means just that: Private Branch Exchange. PBX != "Telephone Company"
Doesn't common carrier status still exist?
The minute they start 'bitpooling' traffic to specific hosts, they should lose their common carrier status. End of story. It's already been said a hundred times in this particular discussion that it's like the telco's trying to charge for the same thing again...it's typical telco ideology.
Even when I was a phone guy (a few years ago), I remembered that we billed by the minute to our clients, but were charged by the second. We handled 1-800 traffic on the same page...even taking the campus that makes outgoing 1-800 numbers and putting them on a different T-1 where we were given a 'payphone' tarrif for handling the traffic a different way (that paid for the T-1 and associated linecard).
If they're saying that their current infastructure can't handle this and they need the money for 'capital improvement,' I find this very blurry. When we installed a digital phone (D-Term for you NEC phreaks), we billed that specific department *up front* the cost of: the D-Term phone ($100), 1/16th of a line card ($1200 for a line card), then charged them an additional n dollars a month because of the limited upgradability of a D-Term (you couldn't assign the LENS to a spot in a different cabinet if you wanted the ability to pick up that line or see that specific status, and since the cards take up analog line space, blah blah blah). If a small college can have the insight to do this in 2000, why couldn't a major telco do it in 2006?
Maybe they're seeing this from a different way:
What happens when all of our subscribers already are subscribing to a high-speed package and we're getting the maximum amount of market saturation that we can allow? We've already laid off enough of our workforce that we can't really afford that to take one too many hits, and we (middle management/execs) don't want to lose our jobs or take a pay cut, so, let's bill them for something again! Cha-Ching!
Freakin Greedy Bastards, anyway.
Nope. Not any more.
HIIBEL V. SIXTH JUDICIAL DIST. COURT OF NEV.,HUMBOLDT CTY. (03-5554) 542 U.S. 177 (2004) 118 Nev. 868, 59 P.2d 1201, affirmed.) "Papers please" is here in the US.
The fact that this score has an Insightful Moderation is scary...I've got Karma to burn, so let me speak my mind.
We should have a reasonable expectation of privacy in our everyday lives, even if the constitution doesn't have a "de facto" privacy clause in it. Remember that crazy court Case Roe v. Wade? The court didn't say that "abortion was legal," the Court declared that laws prohibiting abortion represented a violation of a women's right to privacy. While the right to privacy does to exist as such in the Constitution it has long been interpreted to exist as an umbrella created by the first 5 amendments in the Bill of Rights.
To be quite honest with you, I know cops who have problems with the way that today's society is going. They don't want to have to worry about carrying an ID when they're walking down the street to buy a gallon of milk. (HIIBEL V. SIXTH JUDICIAL DIST. COURT OF NEV.,HUMBOLDT CTY. (03-5554) 542 U.S. 177 (2004) 118 Nev. 868, 59 P.2d 1201, affirmed.)
It really bothers me in a multitude of ways that our civil liberties are being torn down under the guise of terrorism. It really bothers me that many people are letting their guards down and just allowing these rights to just be walked on like nothing matters. Is it just me or am I the only one who sees a problem here?
As a former PBX Administrator for a private university, I can say with some certanity that making sure that ensuring that they're getting the right information and monitoring the right person is not as easy as it seems. About five years ago, we had a situation where one of the janitors was downloading child pr0n onto campus computers. The Feebies brought their "Carnivore" system in, then we set up the proper configuration on the cisco gear. They asked us to change the disks daily, and they sent a courier to pick the Zip disks up every evening.
I have also had instances where drug task force officers have 'stormed in' to the switch room and demanded the information of someone who called a campus extension. These requests were met with resistance on my part (they never had a warrant), until they left -- university policy was if we were asked for something specific we were to look it up without their presence, then forward the information to the legal department who would turn it over if a search warrant or subponea was issued for the information. Law enforcement also attempted to pressure the university into letting them wiretap all of the public phones on campus (again, to try to curb drug-related activity), however, the university resisted and finally they gave up on trying to get such a broad scope of phones wiretapped (they did manage to get one phone wiretapped for a month; the interesting factoid of that was that the phone was only used 4 times that month, all dialing campus security to help them get back into their locked car -- the law enforcement types were quite livid at the end of their wiretap and they didn't have anything)
I can see where CMU has issues with this (isn't their campus network totally fiber-optic gigE? that will run the cost up), and I can also see where the professional side of me would want more university insight to make sure that the law enforcement types are doing this on the up-and-up.
This really isn't meant to be anything, but, after the whole TurboTax fiasco last year, do you expect anything else from these clowns?
Now, for the M$ folks out there, there are only two 'mainstream' options -- M$ Money, and Quicken. Neither of which are that appealing. There's GnuCash, however, if you're not running a free operating system, you're probably not going to get very far.
Personally, I use GnuCash, and I'm quite happy with it. I haven't had any real issues with it, nor have I had any real complaints. (Printing would be one, but, I manage).
It's never suprising to see a company use whatever tactics it can do in order to keep its customers buying it's newest stuff. I keep on the old saying, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Why they decided to break their own application is a decision that's left to the reader.
It's down already.
Actually, while it was in the "Members only" phase, it seemed to go down, but the google cache of this stuff has the info as well as the cached files (and the HTML files for those who don't like to read PDF files).
Maybe they pulled it before it got too much attention? The big media companies would never do that. Never.
I've had one for about 6 months now, and now, one of my friends picked one up as a Christmas gift.
I'm completely dissapointed in these devices. You can't control the streams, can't control any of the functions without having a Windows Client, and my attempts on breaking the protocol don't seem to work at all.
The stream listings on it go away (One of my favorite classical streams on this device was WBHM out of Birmingham, Alabama. They moved the streaming location, or moved to WMP, and then it borked. Went to Mostly Classical from Digitally Imported...worked for about a month, then borked). I noticed that they tried to push their own streaming service, but, I didn't sign up for it.
Once you do get it working, the sound quality isn't that bad. It even has optical outs, but I'm not sure how those work -- haven't tested them yet.
I use gentoo on a few different computers for a few different roles. One is my 'testbed' for whatever I decide I'm going to roll out on the rest of my network. The other is a vmware machine on my laptop.
My Linksys firewall had recently died, so I wanted to conver a Dell Optiplex with three NIC's in it to be my new firewall, running gentoo and chillispot. I tried hooking the Optiplex up, but, for some odd reason, it wouldn't take.
I then took the hard drive out of one optiplex and moved it into a different one to attempt to install it there. Installed, emerge'd, and life was good.
Moved it back....and now nothing really works. I'll get it to boot up, but with only one network card functional, and when I try to emerge e1000 (for my gig-e nic) I get nothing. I try to build a genkernel, and initrd fails.
My project for this week is to either beat the box with a 5 pound sledge, run it over with a backhoe, or install NetBSD on the box in an attempt to get it to work.
Needless to say, i'm no longer impressed with gentoo. At any rate, it was a good learning experience for me.
Hold the right Control Key and Press Scroll Lock twice.
Oh. Save your work before you do this.
Crash on Command.
This may be better suited for something else, but this guy works at M$ and modded his Jeep to run Windows XP.
http://www.jpstewart.net/CarBlog/ -- for his info on how he did it.
Personally? I'm running linux in my bus. Headless, attached to my GPS, wardriving, and pulling status information about my engine, and a few other things.
I'm not sure how putting an XM and a Sirius together really helps.
I know this because I own both units and have them both installed in my work vehicle (I'm a field tech, so 40% of my work week is spent on the road). There are a lot of things that are different about the two. Sirius, has no "commercials." They put PSA's and their own ads in for their shows in the spots where commercials should air, however, that gets old fast (Case in Point, I'm so tired of hearing that Greg Brady is doing a show on the 70's channel today that I kept my XM on the Left Channel instead of listening to Air America Radio on the Sirius). Another nice thing about the sirius is that you can set it to remind you when a song or a show comes on.
XM has a better selection of dance/trance music, and the sound is much bolder coming out of the receiver -- Compared to Sirius, the AAR/Left Feeds shound tinney on Sirius, but they EQ it different on the XM.
I like both, work for neither; but each one has their positive points. Never had signal problems with either of them, and enjoy listening to both of them.
Mambo
This site is temporarily unavailable.
Please notify the System Administrator.
Did their servers catch on fire from the subscribers?
Anyone have a cache?
[snip]
The backlash against Star38 is the type of friction that can arise between for-profit software companies and hackers who resent the commercialization of technology they believe should remain free.
"In most countercultures, there is an aspect of selling out," said Caleb Sima, co-founder of Spi Dynamics, an online security company. "People who make money off technology are deemed to have sold out. Anyone who has a unique idea and is making money is going to get badgered."
[/snip]
No, I think it's that people don't like it when people use technology for slimy things, and want to get paid for the slimy things [pr0n aside]. I have no problems with Asterisk...I use it in my house, and have openly recommended it to some 'phone guy' co workers that like messing around with routing and stuff at home.
I know that caller ID can't be trusted...but that's only the first step in the puzzle. You've already got call ID block Block on your phones...so telemarketers decided to start putting 800 numbers and things like 555-555-5555 in as numbers on their outgoing CallerID.
I'm sure some people were upset. Legally, [IANAL], I think they could be on some shady ground, especially, if they're trying to represent someone else, when they're attempting to collect a debt.
I currently work anywhere from 60 to 90 hours every week. This is on-the-clock time, not including time I spend doing paperwork, reading and studying for certifications, and answering calls from technicians that are in the field that have questions.
The first month it was hard getting myself into that schedule and way of life...now, if I take a day off in the week, my body wants to go and do things....
It's really sad...at one point in time, I worked to relieve stress....and now my secondary stress reliever is stressing me out.
What would TLS Add?
Much more money in the pockets of Verisign, et al., keepers of the ever-coveted root certificates.