AT&T will do nothing that would reduce monthly revenue. Hence all those iPhone users at $30/month for data, if half of them fit into a lower tiered plan, they'd be out major bucks. It just won't happen.
AT&T's only option under the OP's plan therefore is to leave the $30/month plan but set a limit to it and then charge higher rates for people over it. That is the only way their revenue would grow with same base, and that's all they care about.
In summary, original poster needs to eat rat poison and die a horrible death for suggesting it!
I've seen a huge increase of phishing emails to my users to get their credentials, then use those credentials to send out spam through our email server.
It's a real pain, and we send out repeated notices to our 50,000 users that we'll never ask them for their password, but inevitably there's always a few that respond anyway.
And since our system can handle 400 errors just fine, it gets past greylisting -- but sites that greylist actually help us out because I can look at the outgoing mail queue and catch many stuck waiting and then work backwards to figure out the compromised account and whack it.
This doesn't work for religious-based or other similar scenarios where the total destruction of earth is believed to bring about a desired spiritual event. If someone wants to destroy the planet, there is no deterrent.
Wow. Tithead moment on my part. I meant the plaintiff attorneys tossed me.
It was clear who because each side was asked separately and we were told after each challenge. Not the reason just a thank you.
Thx for posting so I could see how badly I botched my comment.:-(
People on juries are people with a strong sense of social responsibility and people too stupid to get out of it.
I was picked to be a juror on a civil "slip and fall" case. I wanted to serve. The defense attorneys used their peremptory challenges to remove all educated people on the jury, including myself.
Also, back to the story topic, jurors were not allowed any type of electronic device in the entire courthouse either.
So I'm reading a lot about this is no big deal because most places have it firewalled off, or most people are behind NAT, etc, etc...
OK, well, tell that to a place like a college that has 50,000 student accounts who all need access to file servers to get their files. You can't just turn off file sharing or block them on the firewall. All it takes is for one 1337 user to show off his mighty hacker skillz by BSOD'ing the servers to ruin things.
At least where I work we are still at 2003 Server -- thankfully.
A TS gateway sits in a DMZ zone to allow connections from outside a firewall. It also provides several other advancements, like enforcing only clients with up-to-date virus software can connect. VPN in might work unless the TS gateway is required for internal machines as well, which is the case at some companies.
The Mac version of MS terminal server client is horrible -- it lacks ability to connect to a corporate TS gateway. Yet another limited app to make it appear Macs are not pro-business.
So can Apple do up one of those as well? Please?
I don't mind working in the middle of the night if nagios wakes me up because something went wrong. Sure beats having to deal with it first thing in the morning. But what ticks me off is when I roll into work 30 minutes "late" the next day and it's like "Oh look, weave is rolling in late again."
But the big scam is comp time. Work after hours? Gotta take comp time. But then there's never an opportunity to use it, and if you do manage to use comp time, you don't get a chance to use all of your vacation time, and at the end of the year you lose unused vacation time. If you insist and take all of your comp time and vacation time, people are whining that you're always on leave and never around and then when projects don't get done, you get dinged on your performance eval.
You said the following statement is not true and no longer true. "Ah, it's true. Because they need to remain competitive. If a business voluntarily spends a boatload of money to clean up emissions and their competitors don't, they'll go out of business. That's why, at least, environmental regulations level the playing field among competitors (which falls apart when this doesn't happen in other countries though)."
Tell me how a business can remain competitive if it introduces costs associated with voluntary emission limits when its competitors don't have to, and thereby can then undercut them and eventually drive them out of business.
So the environmental regs passed 30-40 years ago that Republicans were against are no longer needed now because the air is better and because industry will just do the right thing voluntarily now even though they didn't 30-40 years ago. Yeah. OK.
Actually, the message was that all factories pollute and all CEO's investors whatever are out to destroy the planet if they can make a dollar.
Ah, it's true. Because they need to remain competitive. If a business voluntarily spends a boatload of money to clean up emissions and their competitors don't, they'll go out of business. That's why, at least, environmental regulations level the playing field among competitors (which falls apart when this doesn't happen in other countries though).
I'm also old enough to remember when cap and trade was a conservative answer to prohibitive environmental regulations. It would give incentives to companies to voluntarily cut emissions so they could sell unused credits to pollute to other companies on the open market that might not be able to do that sort of clean up. The government would just set an overall target level.
Seems that now Democrats are pushing the idea, it's suddenly evil (although I suspect some of that comes from classifying carbon dioxide as a pollutant, but the conservative groups should say that instead of billing the "cap and trade" concept as flawed -- it *was* their own creation after all)
Yeah, this and the other comments are all good, but seriously, how often does that happen? The vast majority of claims are result in on road accidents I bet.
Insurance, parking, registration, maintenance, etc. That's not to mention the initial purchase price of the car. Some costs are sunk no matter whether you drive your vehicle 10% of the time, or 90% of the time.
Now there's the real scam. Why, if one person owns two vehicles do they have to pay insurance for both vehicles? You can only drive one at a time. I had the same deal for a time there when I owned two motorcycles. Oh boy, I think I got a 10% discount for the second motorcycle. The risk to the insurer is the same for two as one. Price it at the higher vehicle and the second should be free. There's no way I can wreck both vehicles at the same time.
There are cities on the US/Canadian border that you can pick up Canadian towers, and they will indeed charge you for roaming.
That can work the other way as well. There's been times I've been just inside Mexico in a border town and able to place calls using a U.S. tower on the other side of the border and not have to worry about roaming.
Instead of linking to a blog that talks about another blog that refers to and links to the original story, why not just link to the original source to save us from 5 click throughs and give the original authors credit as well?
About time they remembered Druid travel form during this adjust. Originally it was obtainable at 30 and riding at 40. When they dropped riding to 30, travel form remained a 30 skill so it had no real benefit.
Gessh, her blog is getting insane traffic levels. Use the publicity to grow your reader base and stop whining about it.
I'm not justifying the pic theft, but if she was smart she'd turn it into an opportunity. Loads of sites would kill for that kind of publicity and traffic boost.
I usually blog about technical things that I think might help people out. I don't care if I'm famous, and I leave personal stuff to Facebook where friends and family that might care can read it.
My blog gets about 50-75 hits a day, all from search engines searching for items I write about. Of course they aren't going to come back and read me every day, and that's not why I write it. I do it mainly to give back a little, since I've been helped so often from googling (er, I mean blinging) for info whenever I get into a jam.
And I'm not even going to link to my blog from here just to prove I'm not an attention whore!
register at another top domain, create a brand for yourself, if things work out fine then trademark that brand, then go ahead and seize any domain violating your trademark.
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I've owned a domain name in.org that is my cat's name. It's been a personal domain since then. Someone registered the.net variant of it and then trademarked the name. The.com variant was parked for years by a third party. I did a backorder on the.com and got it, and registered it.
About a year later the guy with the.net started to threaten me because he got a trademark on the name and wanted both the.org and.com. I offered to turn over the.com at no profit to myself because I didn't really need it nor was using it, but then he starts to insist I also turn over the.org variant as well.
I stood my ground and threatened to fight him as much as it took in court if necessary and sent him numerous cases where trademark doesn't mean ownership of the corresponding domain, especially if that domain is in active use and was around before the trademark.
He eventually dropped his demand for the.org.
And to think I just let him have the.com at my cost as well. I should have just let it get snapped up by a squatter and he'd have spent thousands for it.
I bought 20k gold in WoW from a real-life friend so I could get a tundra mount.
The guy is under-employed yet has loads of time to play WoW. I'm in a well-playing job that saps a lot of my allegedly off time. So we both have what the other needs. An ideal situation. He needed real-life money to pay his car insurance. I got to help a guy out without the person feeling the shame of begging for a handout, and I got a cool mount that says I'm in-game rich (or in-game foolish)
What I find interesting is Second Life. In that "game" real-life to linden dollar exchanges happen all the time and it's sanctioned -- and there's not a lot of rich people in that world. Most people are still in-world poor because they don't want to spend real-life money on it. I'm amazed at how many people will camp in a place for one linden dollar for 15 minutes. My wife has a "job" as a night-club hostess that pays $75 linden an hour. The current exchange rate is around $260 lindens to a real US dollar!
Your statement doesn't make sense. If the players are undercutting mat prices then that drives the cost for them down, not the crafted items.
But it is aggravating to me that a crafted item sells for less than the mats to make it. I think that is you have a lot of people rolling Death Knights simply to use them to learn new professions without having to grind up a normal alt. They then go to the AH and buy up all the low level mats simply to level up professions quickly.
Copper ore is about 1g a pop on my server. That's insane. I've told new people that just start to take up mining until they get about level 20 and then switch to whatever profession you want. They all make a decent chunk of gold right away. When I started, getting 100g for my first level 40 mount was very difficult. It came down to either spending money for training or my ride -- kinda like real life, actually!
Gizmo5.com allows you to pay $4 a year to set your caller ID to whatever you want on outgoing calls, else it's whatever your last call-in number purchased was. I'm a US resident but my last call-in number I got from them was a UK number so every call I make has a caller ID that shows the UK country code and the rest of the numbers. People in U.S. have no clue what that mess of numbers mean and I doubt telemarketers are going to call a UK number to reach me, and if they do they are going to have to navigate my telemarketer-annoyance dialplan in Asterisk.
OK, not for everyone but hey, this is a site for nerds, remember?!
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In summary, original poster needs to eat rat poison and die a horrible death for suggesting it!
I've seen a huge increase of phishing emails to my users to get their credentials, then use those credentials to send out spam through our email server.
It's a real pain, and we send out repeated notices to our 50,000 users that we'll never ask them for their password, but inevitably there's always a few that respond anyway.
And since our system can handle 400 errors just fine, it gets past greylisting -- but sites that greylist actually help us out because I can look at the outgoing mail queue and catch many stuck waiting and then work backwards to figure out the compromised account and whack it.
This doesn't work for religious-based or other similar scenarios where the total destruction of earth is believed to bring about a desired spiritual event. If someone wants to destroy the planet, there is no deterrent.
I'd love to have one of those small LCD picture frames to run a live "buzzing right now" display from Twitscoop.
Wow. Tithead moment on my part. I meant the plaintiff attorneys tossed me. It was clear who because each side was asked separately and we were told after each challenge. Not the reason just a thank you. Thx for posting so I could see how badly I botched my comment. :-(
I was picked to be a juror on a civil "slip and fall" case. I wanted to serve. The defense attorneys used their peremptory challenges to remove all educated people on the jury, including myself.
Also, back to the story topic, jurors were not allowed any type of electronic device in the entire courthouse either.
So I'm reading a lot about this is no big deal because most places have it firewalled off, or most people are behind NAT, etc, etc...
OK, well, tell that to a place like a college that has 50,000 student accounts who all need access to file servers to get their files. You can't just turn off file sharing or block them on the firewall. All it takes is for one 1337 user to show off his mighty hacker skillz by BSOD'ing the servers to ruin things.
At least where I work we are still at 2003 Server -- thankfully.
Nope.
A TS gateway sits in a DMZ zone to allow connections from outside a firewall. It also provides several other advancements, like enforcing only clients with up-to-date virus software can connect. VPN in might work unless the TS gateway is required for internal machines as well, which is the case at some companies.
The Mac version of MS terminal server client is horrible -- it lacks ability to connect to a corporate TS gateway. Yet another limited app to make it appear Macs are not pro-business. So can Apple do up one of those as well? Please?
Oooo, an opportunity to whine! I'll start.
I don't mind working in the middle of the night if nagios wakes me up because something went wrong. Sure beats having to deal with it first thing in the morning. But what ticks me off is when I roll into work 30 minutes "late" the next day and it's like "Oh look, weave is rolling in late again."
But the big scam is comp time. Work after hours? Gotta take comp time. But then there's never an opportunity to use it, and if you do manage to use comp time, you don't get a chance to use all of your vacation time, and at the end of the year you lose unused vacation time. If you insist and take all of your comp time and vacation time, people are whining that you're always on leave and never around and then when projects don't get done, you get dinged on your performance eval.
You said the following statement is not true and no longer true. "Ah, it's true. Because they need to remain competitive. If a business voluntarily spends a boatload of money to clean up emissions and their competitors don't, they'll go out of business. That's why, at least, environmental regulations level the playing field among competitors (which falls apart when this doesn't happen in other countries though)."
Tell me how a business can remain competitive if it introduces costs associated with voluntary emission limits when its competitors don't have to, and thereby can then undercut them and eventually drive them out of business.
So the environmental regs passed 30-40 years ago that Republicans were against are no longer needed now because the air is better and because industry will just do the right thing voluntarily now even though they didn't 30-40 years ago. Yeah. OK.
Ah, it's true. Because they need to remain competitive. If a business voluntarily spends a boatload of money to clean up emissions and their competitors don't, they'll go out of business. That's why, at least, environmental regulations level the playing field among competitors (which falls apart when this doesn't happen in other countries though).
I'm also old enough to remember when cap and trade was a conservative answer to prohibitive environmental regulations. It would give incentives to companies to voluntarily cut emissions so they could sell unused credits to pollute to other companies on the open market that might not be able to do that sort of clean up. The government would just set an overall target level.
Seems that now Democrats are pushing the idea, it's suddenly evil (although I suspect some of that comes from classifying carbon dioxide as a pollutant, but the conservative groups should say that instead of billing the "cap and trade" concept as flawed -- it *was* their own creation after all)
Yeah, this and the other comments are all good, but seriously, how often does that happen? The vast majority of claims are result in on road accidents I bet.
Now there's the real scam. Why, if one person owns two vehicles do they have to pay insurance for both vehicles? You can only drive one at a time. I had the same deal for a time there when I owned two motorcycles. Oh boy, I think I got a 10% discount for the second motorcycle. The risk to the insurer is the same for two as one. Price it at the higher vehicle and the second should be free. There's no way I can wreck both vehicles at the same time.
That can work the other way as well. There's been times I've been just inside Mexico in a border town and able to place calls using a U.S. tower on the other side of the border and not have to worry about roaming.
Instead of linking to a blog that talks about another blog that refers to and links to the original story, why not just link to the original source to save us from 5 click throughs and give the original authors credit as well?
Original story: Domestic robots with a taste for flesh
About time they remembered Druid travel form during this adjust. Originally it was obtainable at 30 and riding at 40. When they dropped riding to 30, travel form remained a 30 skill so it had no real benefit.
Gessh, her blog is getting insane traffic levels. Use the publicity to grow your reader base and stop whining about it. I'm not justifying the pic theft, but if she was smart she'd turn it into an opportunity. Loads of sites would kill for that kind of publicity and traffic boost.
I usually blog about technical things that I think might help people out. I don't care if I'm famous, and I leave personal stuff to Facebook where friends and family that might care can read it.
My blog gets about 50-75 hits a day, all from search engines searching for items I write about. Of course they aren't going to come back and read me every day, and that's not why I write it. I do it mainly to give back a little, since I've been helped so often from googling (er, I mean blinging) for info whenever I get into a jam.
And I'm not even going to link to my blog from here just to prove I'm not an attention whore!
Resisting urge to curse
I've owned a domain name in .org that is my cat's name. It's been a personal domain since then. Someone registered the .net variant of it and then trademarked the name. The .com variant was parked for years by a third party. I did a backorder on the .com and got it, and registered it.
About a year later the guy with the .net started to threaten me because he got a trademark on the name and wanted both the .org and .com. I offered to turn over the .com at no profit to myself because I didn't really need it nor was using it, but then he starts to insist I also turn over the .org variant as well.
I stood my ground and threatened to fight him as much as it took in court if necessary and sent him numerous cases where trademark doesn't mean ownership of the corresponding domain, especially if that domain is in active use and was around before the trademark.
He eventually dropped his demand for the .org.
And to think I just let him have the .com at my cost as well. I should have just let it get snapped up by a squatter and he'd have spent thousands for it.
I bought 20k gold in WoW from a real-life friend so I could get a tundra mount.
The guy is under-employed yet has loads of time to play WoW. I'm in a well-playing job that saps a lot of my allegedly off time. So we both have what the other needs. An ideal situation. He needed real-life money to pay his car insurance. I got to help a guy out without the person feeling the shame of begging for a handout, and I got a cool mount that says I'm in-game rich (or in-game foolish)
What I find interesting is Second Life. In that "game" real-life to linden dollar exchanges happen all the time and it's sanctioned -- and there's not a lot of rich people in that world. Most people are still in-world poor because they don't want to spend real-life money on it. I'm amazed at how many people will camp in a place for one linden dollar for 15 minutes. My wife has a "job" as a night-club hostess that pays $75 linden an hour. The current exchange rate is around $260 lindens to a real US dollar!
Your statement doesn't make sense. If the players are undercutting mat prices then that drives the cost for them down, not the crafted items.
But it is aggravating to me that a crafted item sells for less than the mats to make it. I think that is you have a lot of people rolling Death Knights simply to use them to learn new professions without having to grind up a normal alt. They then go to the AH and buy up all the low level mats simply to level up professions quickly.
Copper ore is about 1g a pop on my server. That's insane. I've told new people that just start to take up mining until they get about level 20 and then switch to whatever profession you want. They all make a decent chunk of gold right away. When I started, getting 100g for my first level 40 mount was very difficult. It came down to either spending money for training or my ride -- kinda like real life, actually!
Gizmo5.com allows you to pay $4 a year to set your caller ID to whatever you want on outgoing calls, else it's whatever your last call-in number purchased was. I'm a US resident but my last call-in number I got from them was a UK number so every call I make has a caller ID that shows the UK country code and the rest of the numbers. People in U.S. have no clue what that mess of numbers mean and I doubt telemarketers are going to call a UK number to reach me, and if they do they are going to have to navigate my telemarketer-annoyance dialplan in Asterisk.
OK, not for everyone but hey, this is a site for nerds, remember?!
At least you didn't say that Facebook has nuked the fridge.
Thanks for that.