1)Gives the FBI other people to go after, besides modem uncappers in Toledo, OH. If the FBI is going to take computers, let them take computers owned by a fucking SPAMMER, not people that uncap cable modems and *don't* spam.
2)Go after jerks like this guy.. and that other "spam queen." Seize their assets. This is the second story in as many weeks telling how spammers have these nice 1/2 million dollar homes and stuff. Makes it seem rather glorious, doesn't it? Perhaps a law in place would make them look like what they are - thieving criminals that care about nothing but money.
Call 611.. and depending on who you talk to, you might be in luck. Just mention that you did purchase the phone, and whoever you spoke with before mentioined that they could probably give you a discount of some sort. Do be aware that a lot of reps are limited to only a $50 credit.. but hey, that's better than $0.:-)
Your points are good. However, I'd like to add one:
Imagine the billing & customer service nightmares. People already call their phone company and say stuff like "I never made that 2 minute call. Credit me." and the parents call and say "My kids made that call, I demand you credit me."
People will nickel & dime whoever they can to death. They will abuse the system. Seems that whatever system is available will get abused. Blah.
Ahh.. I have a good percentage of my wardrobe thanks to LinuxWorld Expo.:-)
Funny how those dumb bastards at Dell always showed up with friggin *medium t-shirts* - morons. They should know that fat lazy programmers need a XXL size at least.
SuSE had cool shirts too!
And I still get stupid comments about my "I'm a member!" shirt from the OSDN. All that I went through to get a t-shirt and a CD of "The Sounds of Slashdot." I actually pondered making mp3s out of that CD and putting everything on Napster, too. heh.
See, when I worked there, I had people call with similar situations.
You can always buy a new phone, but to get a phone at a discount, they require a 12mo service agreement. You didn't mention what kind of phone you got or how much it was. chances are, you would have freaked out about the price - the "non-contract extension" prices are the full retail price of the phone. AT&T subsidizes the phone prices for customers.
The ordering system is what adjusts the contract date. People also normally do NOT like having their promotions automatically extended. you'd be surprised how pissed off people get when stuff like that happens. Promotions change *all the time* - a lot of the pre-2002 promotions were valid for only 1 year. The newer promotions had no expiration date, and are valid for the life of your calling plan. Change your calling plan, risk losing the promotions.
I'd hardly call it "greed" These policies are written in so many locations that it's not even funny. They're on the phone bill, the website, available at stores, 611 reps will send you information, and it's also on the box the phones ship in. Twice, sometimes.
What did I usually do? Depends. If you were a customer that didn't always call in asking for credits, you usually paid your bill on time, and you were cool to me on the phone, I'd discount the hell out of the phone for you. It might require the 12mo agreement (very hard to get around that for reps) but you'd probably get that $299 Motorola v60 (prices vary) for $9.99 only.
Personally, I think that all of the call center reps should have been just like me. Usually the company makes it up in 1-2 months of service. Too bad the focus was on "customer service" instead of "solving the goddamn problem." *shrug*
Wrong. You're still responsible for the early termination fee. It's still applicable.
I recently quit my job at AT&T Wireless (Customer Care rep) - people would try that gig *all the time*
The account will auto-terminate after it's been suspended for 30 days, and will automatically bill the ETF. Even when you suspend your service for vacation/seasonal, it doesn't remove the ETF. It simply moves your service agreement end date. This is something you agree to (and should be explained to you) when you voluntarily suspend your service.
You want to know what may very well be the only way around the ETF? Have someone else call and verify your information and claim that you have died. They'll ask if you want to do a "change of financial responsibility," of course. Simply refuse, and state that you need to cancel the service because the account holder has died. The policy is to waive the ETF in such a case.
The company does NOT like it when reps waive the ETF and usually comes down hard on them. I told management to get stuffed on more than one occasion because I waived an ETF for a customer because I agreed with them - they were misled, and were getting screwed over.
So much for being an honest employee. They'd rather have people that can "empathize" and put on a fake happy face and act like they give a shit. Too bad many call center environments are like that.
I've got 3 desktop machines attached to a KVM. I use whatever one I happened to be using at the time to read Slashdot. Sometimes I was playing with the XP box to work out issues with Mac OS X Server/Samba.. I'll browse from that box for a while. Sometimes I'll play with Mozilla on the SuSE box. Other times I'll be using the Mac OS X box to goof around with.
But honestly, the reason I use XP these days is because it's on the fastest machine I own. A blazing 1.3ghz.
Mac OS X on a beige G3/233 with 192mb RAM and stock video is..well, it's kind of like smacking yourself with a shovel, except a bit less painful.
Anybody want to add to the "Buy Jon a new G4 fund? PayPal me sum cash at drstein@mac.com!":P
procmail filters, SpamAssassin, AND the new Mozilla spam filters.. can we make a law that will make it legal to find the spammers and execute them in public?
Companies might just pour millions into Microsoft's own services. After all, Microsoft has pledged to make security its #1 priority these days.
Microsoft may just sell companies its own security and consulting services, or companies will simply hire any one of the thousands of unemployed paper MCSE drones that are now floating around.
Cool.. then I want "Sinistar" back. It's too damn hard to play with a MAME setup. Crazy ass game..
I wish there was an arcade in the Bay Area that had that game.
Retro games are cool, until you play them as an adult and realize "This game sucks!" I can think of 2 good examples: "720" and "Gauntlet." I thought Gauntlet was cool until I grew up and learned it was just a quarter-eater. 720 was cool until I grew up and realized that the game would send those damn bees after you when it wanted to get rid of you. I hate those bees...
with AMS? Check out the Mac OS X Server mailing list (at lists.apple.com) archives. The vast majority of users have replaced it with Communigate Pro or Postfix/uw-imap/ipop3d
*spam filtering is too limited *pitiful support for multiple domains *no logical way to add server-side mail filtering, like procmail or spamassassin. *handles mail like ASIP used to.
It's fine for a small office, and I have my OS X Server getting mail for 1 subdomain that I've had for years, but now that they're touting it as they are, the mail server could definately use an upgrade.
And you can still use pico on the zone files!;) Like I said, I'm pretty sure they'll add some sort of GUI to the DNS server. It's a commonly requested feature and honestly, I can't think of a reason why they wouldn't take a stab at it with the next rev of OS X Server. I'm surprised that 10.2 Server didn't get an upgrade in that realm. At least 10.2 Server got webmail built in.:-)
This has to be one of the stupidest house ideas I've ever seen. I've seen aircraft being turned into diners, railroad cars being added on to places, but to use an old 727 as a house/windvane? It's hideous! Your neighbors would probably hate you. Birds would fear your house. And god forbid you live in a place that gets hurricanes. Yipes! On the other hand, their other auction is pretty cool.
Just today, Pac Bell told me that they screwed up and installed my T1 circuit at the wrong address. If it was up, i'd link to photos.. but I just moved, and my girlfriend decided that having all of the computers in the living room just wasn't going to fly at the new place. Now I have 2 full 60" racks in my kitchen. They're right by the fridge, so I can grab beer while I re-cable stuff. In the racks.. 1 Power Macintosh G3/300 Beige Desktop 1 Power Macintosh 7200 3 Sparc 5/110 1 Power Macintosh 6100/66 wth a G3/250 card 1 Duron 750 1 USR TOTALSwitch with 2x8 10bT blades and 2x2 100bT blades 1 24 port 10/100 Foundry ServerIron 1 HP Vectra PII/350 1 Duron 950 1 Athlon 700 (netsaint/internal dns/dhcp/ntp) 1 Sparc LX 1 Athlon 700 (Windows 2000 Server) 1 Celeron 366 (junk box) 1 Celeron 300 1 PIII/533 (web server)
The other machines are scattered about the house. My choices were "make the machines look like they belong there or I kick your ass" so down the artistic road we went..
There's also a few more Sparc 5s, Power Mac 6100s, 8100s, HP Vectras, and another homebrew box and gawd knows how much cable strewn about the living room. I'm sure I'll find a way to "decorate" the place with that stuff as well.:-)
"Mr. Runner, 55, of 4561 Westbourne Ct., Sylvania, resigned as Waterville solicitor in March, 2001, after a covert police surveillance operation videotaped him stealing coffee, creamer, and paper from village supplies."
So, they also spent gawd knows how many hours tailing this guy so they could watch him steal office supplies.
Great. I've got a few pens & a stapler at home that I stole from work. I guess I have to worry about being tailed by the FBI now too.
The Microsoft reference releases are unstable enough, why the hell would you want to use a BETA? Oh, so if it crashes, you can just say "hey, it's a beta" or something, right?:P
Slashdot Mirror
WTF?? Please, people - stop hosting websites on 56k modems. Sheesh.
Anyway, I'm sure this is a cool thing, and hopefully one of the 9 people that saw the site mirrored it somewhere.
Or..wait.. were they using the xbox as the server?
...find why the provider is letting the asshole HAVE the T1, knowing that he's using it for SPAM.
1)Gives the FBI other people to go after, besides modem uncappers in Toledo, OH. If the FBI is going to take computers, let them take computers owned by a fucking SPAMMER, not people that uncap cable modems and *don't* spam.
2)Go after jerks like this guy.. and that other "spam queen." Seize their assets. This is the second story in as many weeks telling how spammers have these nice 1/2 million dollar homes and stuff. Makes it seem rather glorious, doesn't it? Perhaps a law in place would make them look like what they are - thieving criminals that care about nothing but money.
...waiting for my new Voodoo 5 5500 drivers, damn it! %$#!@
:P
C'mon, ATI, throw me a bone here!
Call 611.. and depending on who you talk to, you might be in luck. Just mention that you did purchase the phone, and whoever you spoke with before mentioined that they could probably give you a discount of some sort. Do be aware that a lot of reps are limited to only a $50 credit.. but hey, that's better than $0. :-)
Your points are good. However, I'd like to add one:
Imagine the billing & customer service nightmares.
People already call their phone company and say stuff like "I never made that 2 minute call. Credit me." and the parents call and say "My kids made that call, I demand you credit me."
People will nickel & dime whoever they can to death. They will abuse the system. Seems that whatever system is available will get abused. Blah.
It's been getting smaller and smaller as time goes on, and the free stuff has been getting sparse, too.
It's not just Comdex.
Ahh.. I have a good percentage of my wardrobe thanks to LinuxWorld Expo. :-)
Funny how those dumb bastards at Dell always showed up with friggin *medium t-shirts* - morons. They should know that fat lazy programmers need a XXL size at least.
SuSE had cool shirts too!
And I still get stupid comments about my "I'm a member!" shirt from the OSDN. All that I went through to get a t-shirt and a CD of "The Sounds of Slashdot." I actually pondered making mp3s out of that CD and putting everything on Napster, too. heh.
See, when I worked there, I had people call with similar situations.
You can always buy a new phone, but to get a phone at a discount, they require a 12mo service agreement. You didn't mention what kind of phone you got or how much it was. chances are, you would have freaked out about the price - the "non-contract extension" prices are the full retail price of the phone. AT&T subsidizes the phone prices for customers.
The ordering system is what adjusts the contract date. People also normally do NOT like having their promotions automatically extended. you'd be surprised how pissed off people get when stuff like that happens. Promotions change *all the time* - a lot of the pre-2002 promotions were valid for only 1 year. The newer promotions had no expiration date, and are valid for the life of your calling plan. Change your calling plan, risk losing the promotions.
I'd hardly call it "greed" These policies are written in so many locations that it's not even funny. They're on the phone bill, the website, available at stores, 611 reps will send you information, and it's also on the box the phones ship in. Twice, sometimes.
What did I usually do? Depends. If you were a customer that didn't always call in asking for credits, you usually paid your bill on time, and you were cool to me on the phone, I'd discount the hell out of the phone for you. It might require the 12mo agreement (very hard to get around that for reps) but you'd probably get that $299 Motorola v60 (prices vary) for $9.99 only.
Personally, I think that all of the call center reps should have been just like me. Usually the company makes it up in 1-2 months of service. Too bad the focus was on "customer service" instead of "solving the goddamn problem." *shrug*
Wrong. You're still responsible for the early termination fee. It's still applicable.
I recently quit my job at AT&T Wireless (Customer Care rep) - people would try that gig *all the time*
The account will auto-terminate after it's been suspended for 30 days, and will automatically bill the ETF. Even when you suspend your service for vacation/seasonal, it doesn't remove the ETF. It simply moves your service agreement end date. This is something you agree to (and should be explained to you) when you voluntarily suspend your service.
You want to know what may very well be the only way around the ETF? Have someone else call and verify your information and claim that you have died. They'll ask if you want to do a "change of financial responsibility," of course. Simply refuse, and state that you need to cancel the service because the account holder has died. The policy is to waive the ETF in such a case.
The company does NOT like it when reps waive the ETF and usually comes down hard on them. I told management to get stuffed on more than one occasion because I waived an ETF for a customer because I agreed with them - they were misled, and were getting screwed over.
So much for being an honest employee. They'd rather have people that can "empathize" and put on a fake happy face and act like they give a shit. Too bad many call center environments are like that.
1)We hope you got paid.. either cash, some hot lovin from the cute interns, or you at least walked out with a router or something.
2)Bill them appropriately.
3)Contact your old boss and see if things are still up & running. Never hurts to keep up somewhat decent relations with the old employer.
Not sure if this is just a troll or not.. but if you already had an iTools account, it was only $49.99.
.Mac features.
The $99 price is for brand new users.
Yahoo may be free, but most certainly doesn't include the
I've got 3 desktop machines attached to a KVM. I use whatever one I happened to be using at the time to read Slashdot.
:P
Sometimes I was playing with the XP box to work out issues with Mac OS X Server/Samba.. I'll browse from that box for a while.
Sometimes I'll play with Mozilla on the SuSE box.
Other times I'll be using the Mac OS X box to goof around with.
But honestly, the reason I use XP these days is because it's on the fastest machine I own. A blazing 1.3ghz.
Mac OS X on a beige G3/233 with 192mb RAM and stock video is..well, it's kind of like smacking yourself with a shovel, except a bit less painful.
Anybody want to add to the "Buy Jon a new G4 fund? PayPal me sum cash at drstein@mac.com!"
procmail filters, SpamAssassin, AND the new Mozilla spam filters.. can we make a law that will make it legal to find the spammers and execute them in public?
Pleeeease??
* It'll run Lindows.
* Company founded by a co-founder of e-machines.
* Crusoe processor.
Geez, this thing is just FULL of quality, ain't it?
I honestly can't think of any use for a tablet PC, other than warehousing. I'm sure there are some, but I'd still prefer a normal ol' laptop.
Companies might just pour millions into Microsoft's own services. After all, Microsoft has pledged to make security its #1 priority these days.
Microsoft may just sell companies its own security and consulting services, or companies will simply hire any one of the thousands of unemployed paper MCSE drones that are now floating around.
Sometimes claiming "I gotta go, my battery is about to die!" is the only way you'll get a chatty friend off the phone.
I'm just too much of a sucker to hang up on people sometimes, I guess...
Cool.. then I want "Sinistar" back. It's too damn hard to play with a MAME setup. Crazy ass game..
I wish there was an arcade in the Bay Area that had that game.
Retro games are cool, until you play them as an adult and realize "This game sucks!" I can think of 2 good examples: "720" and "Gauntlet." I thought Gauntlet was cool until I grew up and learned it was just a quarter-eater. 720 was cool until I grew up and realized that the game would send those damn bees after you when it wanted to get rid of you. I hate those bees...
with AMS? Check out the Mac OS X Server mailing list (at lists.apple.com) archives. The vast majority of users have replaced it with Communigate Pro or Postfix/uw-imap/ipop3d
;) Like I said, I'm pretty sure they'll add some sort of GUI to the DNS server. It's a commonly requested feature and honestly, I can't think of a reason why they wouldn't take a stab at it with the next rev of OS X Server. I'm surprised that 10.2 Server didn't get an upgrade in that realm. At least 10.2 Server got webmail built in. :-)
*spam filtering is too limited
*pitiful support for multiple domains
*no logical way to add server-side mail filtering, like procmail or spamassassin.
*handles mail like ASIP used to.
It's fine for a small office, and I have my OS X Server getting mail for 1 subdomain that I've had for years, but now that they're touting it as they are, the mail server could definately use an upgrade.
And you can still use pico on the zone files!
I'd much rather they spend the time and make Apple Mail Server not suck. Maybe replace it with a GUI for Postfix or something. ;)
The DNS service works ok, you just need to tinker with vi & the zone files.
I'm sure they'll add a GUI to DNS eventually. It's been a commonly requested feature for quite a while now.
This has to be one of the stupidest house ideas I've ever seen. I've seen aircraft being turned into diners, railroad cars being added on to places, but to use an old 727 as a house/windvane? It's hideous! Your neighbors would probably hate you. Birds would fear your house. And god forbid you live in a place that gets hurricanes. Yipes!
On the other hand, their other auction is pretty cool.
Just today, Pac Bell told me that they screwed up and installed my T1 circuit at the wrong address. If it was up, i'd link to photos.. but I just moved, and my girlfriend decided that having all of the computers in the living room just wasn't going to fly at the new place.
:-)
Now I have 2 full 60" racks in my kitchen. They're right by the fridge, so I can grab beer while I re-cable stuff. In the racks..
1 Power Macintosh G3/300 Beige Desktop
1 Power Macintosh 7200
3 Sparc 5/110
1 Power Macintosh 6100/66 wth a G3/250 card
1 Duron 750
1 USR TOTALSwitch with 2x8 10bT blades and 2x2 100bT blades
1 24 port 10/100 Foundry ServerIron
1 HP Vectra PII/350
1 Duron 950
1 Athlon 700 (netsaint/internal dns/dhcp/ntp)
1 Sparc LX
1 Athlon 700 (Windows 2000 Server)
1 Celeron 366 (junk box)
1 Celeron 300
1 PIII/533 (web server)
The other machines are scattered about the house. My choices were "make the machines look like they belong there or I kick your ass" so down the artistic road we went..
There's also a few more Sparc 5s, Power Mac 6100s, 8100s, HP Vectras, and another homebrew box and gawd knows how much cable strewn about the living room. I'm sure I'll find a way to "decorate" the place with that stuff as well.
"Mr. Runner, 55, of 4561 Westbourne Ct., Sylvania, resigned as Waterville solicitor in March, 2001, after a covert police surveillance operation videotaped him stealing coffee, creamer, and paper from village supplies."
So, they also spent gawd knows how many hours tailing this guy so they could watch him steal office supplies.
Great. I've got a few pens & a stapler at home that I stole from work. I guess I have to worry about being tailed by the FBI now too.
The Microsoft reference releases are unstable enough, why the hell would you want to use a BETA? :P
Oh, so if it crashes, you can just say "hey, it's a beta" or something, right?
It didn't wash off. Some people used paint in places.
I believe IBM had to pay quite a large sum for cleanup..