I can't believe this got modded up to +5 Funny. Any true nerd on Slashdot knows that blue is at a higher frequency than red. So if something blue moves faster (increases in frequency) it is going to shift into ultraviolet and beyond.
The same reason it is unreasonable to ask you to give up your cell phone. TTY's are anicent technology from the 70's. They are cumbersome and outdated. It is much nicer to just pop open a new window on your desktop when you need to make a call to find out when your car would be ready for pick up. Also great for emergencies - you might find yourself needing a tow truck in the middle of nowhere... you could open up your t-mobile sidekick, go to the ip relay site and call for a tow truck. Hearing people take so much for granted that it's unbelievable to a deaf person. Just when we deaf people finally get technology that doesn't keep us in the stone age, the evil Nigerians come by and shovel crap on it.
Congratulations - this is EXACTLY what should have been done. You did not discriminate against deaf people. You merely avoided being a victim of scam. Now if you get a relay call in the future I hope you will take the call and if the person sounds legit that you would treat the deaf customer like any other customer you have.
Relay calls are inherently slower than direct calls - this is simply due to having a third party translator. But an hour??! Something else was going on - he was probably using some web based translator to translate Nigerian to English and vice versa.
I hope to god you become deaf one day and have to suffer with being treated daily like you were no longer a contributing member of society. For you it should become so difficult to do what others take for granted like ordering pizza. Then maybe you will begin to realize how stupid your comment was.
Slashdot blows up whenever there is a minor privacy issue but if it concerns deaf people, oh screw them. Keep logs of all their conversation and to hell with their privacy.
Government does not hand out handicapped permits to everyone who asks... but neither do they record the actual usage (location, time, etc) of those permits.
If you really want think text logs of conversations are ok then you are perfectly fine with the government also transcribing hearing people's phone conversations. After all, we want to make sure you are not planning terrorist attacks using your cell phone.
It works the other way around. Most TTY's can emulate modems. The native speed for TTY's is 45 bits per second. No real computer modem can go this slow - most have 300 bits per second as their lower limit. But many TTY's have built in ASCII modems that operate at 300 bits per second. What the parent poster is saying is that you can use your computer modem to connect to the relay service using this ASCII mode (300 bits per second).
I am legiminately deaf. I have never had a problem ordering things and I use the relay 50-75 times a year. Only once did was a call refused and that was by Ultimate Electronics. I simply proceeded to complain to the headquarters at the shoddy customer service and they promptly apologized and rolled out the red carpet. My family is all deaf as are most of my friends. Your "Legit deaf people can't order things via TTY anymore" is a fallacy.
Land line telephones existed before cell phones so why not just cut the cell phones out? Oh that's right, only the hearing people are allowed to move forward in technology while us retarded cripped poor deaf people need to stay in the stone ages. I keep forgetting my place in society.
Modem as TTY terminal? I don't have a modem. I have broadband. What about IP relay via my sidekick pager? The service isn't broken - it works great for me. What's broken is your thinking.
This is an internet service that is being abused. This service is supposed to be used only by residents of the United States. Would it be so difficult to do a reverse DNS lookup on the caller and making sure they are connecting to the service from inside the USA? Or at least make sure they are not coming from Nigeria or whatever. Anyone?
For me, weather is not a problem. Rain fade affects me perhaps a few hours every year. I have friends who have had their cable knocked out for longer than that. Just as long as you have your dish well aimed, you will not have a problem with clean signal.
But the _real_ selling point for me is that with Sattelite TV *ALL* channels are digital. This means no noise in the picture. Sure you can get digital cable... but even with digital cable only _some_ of the channels are digital. The rest are still plain old analog along with noise. Currently I get High Definition DirecTV (5 channels HD) with the rest of my HD content off-the-air (local channels) and this setup gives me a better picture than anybody else I know, even people with Digital Cable (COX).
Now when HD DirecTV with Tivo comes out, I would be completely content.
This is not a matter of base-10 vs base-2... a base-10 number is written as "2875" for example. A base-2 number is written as "10100110". A base-16 number is written as "8A3F0"...
This is a matter of UNITS used - like inches vs. feet, or in this case GiB vs GB.
in order to ruin computer-compressed pirated copies of films
WTF? These supersized cap codes have nothing to do with *ruining* copies of the film. Rather they are used to *identify* the person responsible for leaking the film. These films go to the projection houses long before their release dates and are often seen on the internet often before opening day. So obviously some houses have evil employees capturing the movie into computer video formats and leaking them via P2P networks. All the MPAA has to do is download and look at a pirated movie and look for the cap codes and bam, they have ID'ed the projection house responsible for leaking the film. These cap codes have been in film forever - but only recently have they been enlarged enough so that they show up in low resolution computer encoded video.
GeForce 2/3 graphics? Are you insane? The chipset is somewhere between a GeForce 3 and 4, not 2 and 3 like you say. For a linux server, you don't need no fancy graphics card... but this isn't what the Xbox was designed for. It was designed for pure gaming joy... hence, GeForce "3.5" graphics, Dolby Digital 5.1, High Definition (1080i) video, etc... try putting a machine that does all that together for less than $200...
I wasn't going to comment on your post because you were right about the "box" being not too useful as a linux server, but you just HAD to throw in "GeForce 2/3" and used it as a negative factor in your comment... for a linux server a generic VGA card would do.
These 200+ people (12 year old included) currently being sued by the RIAA are not elible for the Amnesty program. They will either have to settle or go through the court process.
Actually strcmp would have problems - real names tend to be properly capitalized while ID's tend to have names in all upper case. So the better string compare function to use is stricmp. Then there would be problems with leading/trailing spaces - inept ticket counter employees, you know. So run the names through ltrim( rtrim( ) ) first...
Linux 9.0? Good god - while the rest of us here are tooling around in Linux 2.4, you must have somehow invented a time machine, went into the year 2025, and grabbed yourself a copy of Linux 9.0......of course, you probably MEANT Redhat 9.0...
Not all Cable companies require the $10 surcharge if you dont get basic cable. For example, Cable America and Starpower do not. Back when I lived in the DC area I had DirectTV for TV entertainment and Starpower for internet connectivity. No special surcharges.
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I personally don't care which is technologically better (Cable or DSL). In the precise location of where I live, I do not qualify for DSL. End of story.
I have cable and it rocks. I get about 4.2 to 5.7 megabits per second downstream from my ISP which is on an internet backbone and it never dips below that. My ping times are also rock bottom - I play Battlefield 1942 on EA's servers and get ping times of low 60's. My cable provider is Cable America. The time from when I requested service to the time I actually had service was probably 30 hours. It cost me nothing (no install fees) and I pay monthly (no forced yearly agreement). So to sum up: I have static ip, 4.0+ mbps downstream, 512 kbps upstream, all for $35 a month.
DSL? I can't even get it, and even if I could, I'd be paying a hell of a lot more for the same speeds.
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Hmm... somehow it doesn't have the same ring...
"It seems that acting can lead to the highest offices in places other than California"
Absolutely. Forgotten about our 40th president of the United States, have we?
"After Iran's first attempt to launch a satellite on Sunday fell noticeably short of the Earth's atmosphere"
And we all know how hard it is to reach the Earth's atmosphere!
4 is a power of 2. 2^2 = 4.
I can't believe this got modded up to +5 Funny. Any true nerd on Slashdot knows that blue is at a higher frequency than red. So if something blue moves faster (increases in frequency) it is going to shift into ultraviolet and beyond.
The same reason it is unreasonable to ask you to give up your cell phone. TTY's are anicent technology from the 70's. They are cumbersome and outdated. It is much nicer to just pop open a new window on your desktop when you need to make a call to find out when your car would be ready for pick up. Also great for emergencies - you might find yourself needing a tow truck in the middle of nowhere... you could open up your t-mobile sidekick, go to the ip relay site and call for a tow truck. Hearing people take so much for granted that it's unbelievable to a deaf person. Just when we deaf people finally get technology that doesn't keep us in the stone age, the evil Nigerians come by and shovel crap on it.
Congratulations - this is EXACTLY what should have been done. You did not discriminate against deaf people. You merely avoided being a victim of scam. Now if you get a relay call in the future I hope you will take the call and if the person sounds legit that you would treat the deaf customer like any other customer you have.
Relay calls are inherently slower than direct calls - this is simply due to having a third party translator. But an hour??! Something else was going on - he was probably using some web based translator to translate Nigerian to English and vice versa.
I hope to god you become deaf one day and have to suffer with being treated daily like you were no longer a contributing member of society. For you it should become so difficult to do what others take for granted like ordering pizza. Then maybe you will begin to realize how stupid your comment was.
Keep text logs of the conversation?
Slashdot blows up whenever there is a minor privacy issue but if it concerns deaf people, oh screw them. Keep logs of all their conversation and to hell with their privacy.
Government does not hand out handicapped permits to everyone who asks... but neither do they record the actual usage (location, time, etc) of those permits.
If you really want think text logs of conversations are ok then you are perfectly fine with the government also transcribing hearing people's phone conversations. After all, we want to make sure you are not planning terrorist attacks using your cell phone.
Actually this is wrong.
It works the other way around. Most TTY's can emulate modems. The native speed for TTY's is 45 bits per second. No real computer modem can go this slow - most have 300 bits per second as their lower limit. But many TTY's have built in ASCII modems that operate at 300 bits per second. What the parent poster is saying is that you can use your computer modem to connect to the relay service using this ASCII mode (300 bits per second).
I am legiminately deaf. I have never had a problem ordering things and I use the relay 50-75 times a year. Only once did was a call refused and that was by Ultimate Electronics. I simply proceeded to complain to the headquarters at the shoddy customer service and they promptly apologized and rolled out the red carpet. My family is all deaf as are most of my friends. Your "Legit deaf people can't order things via TTY anymore" is a fallacy.
Land line telephones existed before cell phones so why not just cut the cell phones out? Oh that's right, only the hearing people are allowed to move forward in technology while us retarded cripped poor deaf people need to stay in the stone ages. I keep forgetting my place in society.
Modem as TTY terminal? I don't have a modem. I have broadband. What about IP relay via my sidekick pager? The service isn't broken - it works great for me. What's broken is your thinking.
This is an internet service that is being abused. This service is supposed to be used only by residents of the United States. Would it be so difficult to do a reverse DNS lookup on the caller and making sure they are connecting to the service from inside the USA? Or at least make sure they are not coming from Nigeria or whatever. Anyone?
For me, weather is not a problem. Rain fade affects me perhaps a few hours every year. I have friends who have had their cable knocked out for longer than that. Just as long as you have your dish well aimed, you will not have a problem with clean signal.
But the _real_ selling point for me is that with Sattelite TV *ALL* channels are digital. This means no noise in the picture. Sure you can get digital cable... but even with digital cable only _some_ of the channels are digital. The rest are still plain old analog along with noise. Currently I get High Definition DirecTV (5 channels HD) with the rest of my HD content off-the-air (local channels) and this setup gives me a better picture than anybody else I know, even people with Digital Cable (COX).
Now when HD DirecTV with Tivo comes out, I would be completely content.
This is not a matter of base-10 vs base-2... a base-10 number is written as "2875" for example. A base-2 number is written as "10100110". A base-16 number is written as "8A3F0"...
This is a matter of UNITS used - like inches vs. feet, or in this case GiB vs GB.
Geez, get the terminiology right...
in order to ruin computer-compressed pirated copies of films
WTF? These supersized cap codes have nothing to do with *ruining* copies of the film. Rather they are used to *identify* the person responsible for leaking the film. These films go to the projection houses long before their release dates and are often seen on the internet often before opening day. So obviously some houses have evil employees capturing the movie into computer video formats and leaking them via P2P networks. All the MPAA has to do is download and look at a pirated movie and look for the cap codes and bam, they have ID'ed the projection house responsible for leaking the film. These cap codes have been in film forever - but only recently have they been enlarged enough so that they show up in low resolution computer encoded video.
C++ is a superset of C. You could code an entire program in C and it would also be valid C++...
GeForce 2/3 graphics? Are you insane? The chipset is somewhere between a GeForce 3 and 4, not 2 and 3 like you say. For a linux server, you don't need no fancy graphics card... but this isn't what the Xbox was designed for. It was designed for pure gaming joy... hence, GeForce "3.5" graphics, Dolby Digital 5.1, High Definition (1080i) video, etc... try putting a machine that does all that together for less than $200...
I wasn't going to comment on your post because you were right about the "box" being not too useful as a linux server, but you just HAD to throw in "GeForce 2/3" and used it as a negative factor in your comment... for a linux server a generic VGA card would do.
These 200+ people (12 year old included) currently being sued by the RIAA are not elible for the Amnesty program. They will either have to settle or go through the court process.
Actually strcmp would have problems - real names tend to be properly capitalized while ID's tend to have names in all upper case. So the better string compare function to use is stricmp. Then there would be problems with leading/trailing spaces - inept ticket counter employees, you know. So run the names through ltrim( rtrim( ) ) first...
Linux 9.0? Good god - while the rest of us here are tooling around in Linux 2.4, you must have somehow invented a time machine, went into the year 2025, and grabbed yourself a copy of Linux 9.0... ...of course, you probably MEANT Redhat 9.0...
Not all Cable companies require the $10 surcharge if you dont get basic cable. For example, Cable America and Starpower do not. Back when I lived in the DC area I had DirectTV for TV entertainment and Starpower for internet connectivity. No special surcharges.
I personally don't care which is technologically better (Cable or DSL). In the precise location of where I live, I do not qualify for DSL. End of story.
I have cable and it rocks. I get about 4.2 to 5.7 megabits per second downstream from my ISP which is on an internet backbone and it never dips below that. My ping times are also rock bottom - I play Battlefield 1942 on EA's servers and get ping times of low 60's. My cable provider is Cable America. The time from when I requested service to the time I actually had service was probably 30 hours. It cost me nothing (no install fees) and I pay monthly (no forced yearly agreement). So to sum up: I have static ip, 4.0+ mbps downstream, 512 kbps upstream, all for $35 a month.
DSL? I can't even get it, and even if I could, I'd be paying a hell of a lot more for the same speeds.
You've never heard of loss leaders, have you?