I get a dozen calls from these idiots a day. only thing is that i don't ever have to answer a single telemarketing call.
i have an PbxInAFlash box (http://pbxinaflash.net) that sits between my pots line and my phone.
When you call, your caller id is looked up against a shared list, much like rbl, and if its blacklisted you get disconnect tones and hang up.
if your not on the list, and you havent been white listed, you must still prove that you are a human by dialing an extension number that changes per call. If you prove your a human by pressing the right extension, you get to talk to me.
There is however always an extension that announces as "if you are a telemarketer please press 1 for immediate service.
pressing 1 or failing to press anything, dumps you into telemarketer hell. an announcement of "your call is important to you, please hold and your call will be ignored in the order in which it was received."
then you get elevator music for a while, and another announcement comes on" please continue to hold, you are number (some large random number) in the cue and the estimated wait time is 99:99 minutes"
evil, but highly effective
no, apple sets a standard for the hardware, and if the manufacturers cant meet the standard, TFB. it wont run.
its a matter of saying, the hardware spec is this, and if you want apple to support OSX on your hardware it has to meet the spec.
Yes, this is precisely why we don't use the alcohol process.. the displays we use are rated for immersion time for the cleaning process.. we just then afterwards bring them up to 100dec C for 2 min to dry
water doesn't hurt electronics contrary to popular belief.. its powering them up when wet that does. and its not even shorting that does the damage when you do.. it electrolysis that kills them by damaging the circuit.
when we assemble printed circuit boards the last step is to wash them in warm water to strip the flux used in the soldering process.
also when i get a gadget thats been dropped in the toilet (pagers are notorious for this) we tell the customer to pull the battery, put it in a bucket of fresh water.. and bring it over to the shop.
i have a 99% success rate reviving drowned electronics this way.
I contract to a major tier 1 provider and was handed a work order to go remove a certain fiber router for routine upgrades. now this is normally not a problem because there is identical fail over equipment that switches over at the first sign of a loss. However.. there was a glitch in the work order, that nobody caught. they had actually already removed the router and not yet reinstalled it. but accidentally issued a work order to remove the fail over so it too could be upgraded..
so off i went work order in hand, unlocked the nondescript site housing the backbone for the entire western network. Read off the serial number on the work order comparing it to the serial on the router.. hmm ok i got the right one.. seems to be abnormal amounts of traffic (usually NOC forces the unit to fail over before removal to prevent any glitches) so i phone the NOC.. they tell me ya go ahead.. it'll be fine..
so i pull the power, and start removing the main STM-64x connection and a dozen OC-48 peer trunks when i receive a phone call on my cell.. On the other end was a frantic tech at the NOC desperately trying to understand what went wrong.. then a few seconds later i swear had to be the entire swat team showed up, and things really got out of hand at that point. apparently someone at monitoring, didn't check with noc first before pushing the panic "the terrorists are attacking the internet" button..
so after the initial kerufule and the police had determined that i was not an immediate threat.. i took my work order and thrust it in the direction of the lead officer and with my best hogans hero's accent stated " I vast only followink orders". (i managed to get a chuckle out of him)
they had of course relieved me of my cell phone and were talking to the NOC on the other end whom im sure was informing them that things are not going to get re-connected whilst i was being "detained".
so after all that, and about 1/2 an hour to reconnect it all, the western portion of the continent had its network connection back.. I made sure i held on to that work order though.. it was the only thing to prove the screw up was not mine and that i was truly "followink orders"..
Well i did go to 3 lawyers, one of which specialized in employment law. I didn't go for the freebie session paying for my time in full each time, and the consensus was unanimous. A company in BC can dismiss an employee without giving any reason. all they have to do is pay severance of 2 weeks or give 2 weeks notice. Unless i got it in writing that the reason i was being dismissed was because i requested family leave, its pretty much impossible to prove. These were the words of the person i called at the BC human rights counsel. Yes its against the law, but the law is unenforceable.
The laptop, well yes that did suck. They were saying that because one of my skills is cryptography (I was hired to work on an encrypted 2 way radio project), that i could be hiding company secrets in my laptop, and there would be no way of telling. It was obvious that they were just trying to screw me around because the only reason the laptop came in the building was because i didn't want to leave it in the car for someone to steal. It never even came out of its case let alone powered up. I had a recent backup of the laptop, so the path of least resistance was to simply let them wipe the drive, otherwise it would probably still be winding its way through the courts, and i would still be out a laptop and a large pile of cash for lawyers.
What i didn't mention, which is the best part of this story, is that a week later after i got my laptop back and restored my resume from backup, i walked over to their competition. Had a chat with the president of that company, told him exactly what happened, and was hired on the spot at 2 times what company "A" was paying me. Plus a much more flexible and family friendly work environment. Things became hilarious when later company a tried to sue my new employers for stealing me away. The judge tossed them out on their a$$ (with prejudice)after listening to the story for about 5 minutes.
So in the end it worked out. I'm working for a much better company, and they treat me like gold. Plus i have much more time to spend with my daughter. but lesson learned, there is no job security in BC unless you are in a union. period..
In British Columbia, it doesn't even take that. I was recently fired for doing the unthinkable.. having children. after my daughter was born, i was informed that my having children was disruptive to the work environment (i requested a week leave to help my wife out with the newborn) and was informed that my services were no longer desired. it took 2 weeks to get my tools back, and my own personal laptop, which i had brought to work so that i could drop it off at the computer shop after work for a ram upgrade, was wiped.
I went to no less than 3 lawyers, who all informed my that the only liability a company has is 2 weeks severance or notice..
so my advise to the OP is, document everything, find another job, and turn them over to the authorities.
I fully expect that they'll eventually just pot the circuit boards in epoxy or something, to keep you from desoldering the chips. Any good hardware hacker, knows that you can remove the epoxy with simple off the shelf chemicals. Ive been doing this for years repairing automotive control modules, on which the manufacturers have spent years perfecting their obscurity techniques.
I think the nail in the coffin attack vector SHOULD be to concentrate on PS3's they account for the majority of hardware players out there. If that was compromised it would be a nightmare for HD DRM
"your browser does not support active X, please download the Micro$oft Internet Explorer to use this download"
Hmm.. given their previous behaviour with there Digital Rights Restiction software, do i really want to run activex components from sony... hmm lets think about this... elapsed time.000000000001 Sec.. NO!!!!.
Telus is probbly the worst example of corporate citizen Canada currently has. Fortunatly they are currently on notice with the CRTC that they have to clean up their act, or loose their licence.. Personally i would preffer the latter. When it takes them 4 months to fix a phone line (personal experience) and another 3 months to install a ADSL connection, they have no business in the telecom market as a monopoly.
they have also done some rather shady things to anyone who even slightly competes aganst them. I know peronally of a WISP who set up in Kaslo bc, Signed a multi year contract (with Telus) for fiber, only to get paved over by Telus installing a DSLAM at a total loss (come on.. a DSLAM for a population of 100.. ya thay will pay for itsself)
(SM)elus should be seized by the government and sold off the the highest bidders, with the money going back into public coffers as compensation for all the $hit they caused..
1) use it to fight software patents. If you want to see linux continue to thrive, this evil must be stopped.
2) use it to fight GPL infringement
3) ?
4) happiness
What we are talking about is Digital Right Restriction (DRR), not DRM, it doesn't allow management of anything, its simply restriction. Given that, would i accept DRR? Perhaps, once i am able to make a decision based off the fact that i may bot be able to do what i want with the digital work, i can place a value on it. eg, i might be willing to pay $2.00 for a song that is unrestricted, but only$0.50 for a restricted one.
Once we start using the correct terminology to describe what we are doing here, it makes more sense..
There isn't a working Canadian I know of that would suffer for 9 more stars on the flag. Let PQ go to france. At least the US had a civil war and solved their indifferences many years ago.
A-Freaking-men.. if America wants to invade canada, they have many well armed(unregistered) canucks(mostly in alberta)across the border ready to join them. Its the only logical choice if we want to keep osama and the rest of the raghead boys out of North America.. anyone who has flown over the rockies near the border, KNOWS that securing that border is impossible..
Interesting, Retailers like bestbuy are constantly trying to race to the bottom by undercutting the competition, and now that they have hit bottom, decide they dont like the clientel.. What did they expect?
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I get a dozen calls from these idiots a day. only thing is that i don't ever have to answer a single telemarketing call. i have an PbxInAFlash box (http://pbxinaflash.net) that sits between my pots line and my phone. When you call, your caller id is looked up against a shared list, much like rbl, and if its blacklisted you get disconnect tones and hang up. if your not on the list, and you havent been white listed, you must still prove that you are a human by dialing an extension number that changes per call. If you prove your a human by pressing the right extension, you get to talk to me. There is however always an extension that announces as "if you are a telemarketer please press 1 for immediate service. pressing 1 or failing to press anything, dumps you into telemarketer hell. an announcement of "your call is important to you, please hold and your call will be ignored in the order in which it was received." then you get elevator music for a while, and another announcement comes on" please continue to hold, you are number (some large random number) in the cue and the estimated wait time is 99:99 minutes" evil, but highly effective
no, apple sets a standard for the hardware, and if the manufacturers cant meet the standard, TFB. it wont run. its a matter of saying, the hardware spec is this, and if you want apple to support OSX on your hardware it has to meet the spec.
Yes, this is precisely why we don't use the alcohol process.. the displays we use are rated for immersion time for the cleaning process.. we just then afterwards bring them up to 100dec C for 2 min to dry
water doesn't hurt electronics contrary to popular belief.. its powering them up when wet that does. and its not even shorting that does the damage when you do.. it electrolysis that kills them by damaging the circuit.
when we assemble printed circuit boards the last step is to wash them in warm water to strip the flux used in the soldering process.
also when i get a gadget thats been dropped in the toilet (pagers are notorious for this) we tell the customer to pull the battery, put it in a bucket of fresh water.. and bring it over to the shop.
i have a 99% success rate reviving drowned electronics this way.
$0.02 from a electronics tech in the field..
I contract to a major tier 1 provider and was handed a work order to go remove a certain fiber router for routine upgrades.
now this is normally not a problem because there is identical fail over equipment that switches over at the first sign of a loss.
However.. there was a glitch in the work order, that nobody caught. they had actually already removed the router and not yet reinstalled it. but accidentally issued a work order to remove the fail over so it too could be upgraded..
so off i went work order in hand, unlocked the nondescript site housing the backbone for the entire western network. Read off the serial number on the work order comparing it to the serial on the router.. hmm ok i got the right one.. seems to be abnormal amounts of traffic (usually NOC forces the unit to fail over before removal to prevent any glitches) so i phone the NOC.. they tell me ya go ahead.. it'll be fine..
so i pull the power, and start removing the main STM-64x connection and a dozen OC-48 peer trunks when i receive a phone call on my cell..
On the other end was a frantic tech at the NOC desperately trying to understand what went wrong.. then a few seconds later i swear had to be the entire swat team showed up, and things really got out of hand at that point. apparently someone at monitoring, didn't check with noc first before pushing the panic "the terrorists are attacking the internet" button..
so after the initial kerufule and the police had determined that i was not an immediate threat.. i took my work order and thrust it in the direction of the lead officer and with my best hogans hero's accent stated " I vast only followink orders". (i managed to get a chuckle out of him)
they had of course relieved me of my cell phone and were talking to the NOC on the other end whom im sure was informing them that things are not going to get re-connected whilst i was being "detained".
so after all that, and about 1/2 an hour to reconnect it all, the western portion of the continent had its network connection back..
I made sure i held on to that work order though.. it was the only thing to prove the screw up was not mine and that i was truly "followink orders"..
Well i did go to 3 lawyers, one of which specialized in employment law. I didn't go for the freebie session paying for my time in full each time, and the consensus was unanimous. A company in BC can dismiss an employee without giving any reason. all they have to do is pay severance of 2 weeks or give 2 weeks notice. Unless i got it in writing that the reason i was being dismissed was because i requested family leave, its pretty much impossible to prove. These were the words of the person i called at the BC human rights counsel. Yes its against the law, but the law is unenforceable.
The laptop, well yes that did suck. They were saying that because one of my skills is cryptography (I was hired to work on an encrypted 2 way radio project), that i could be hiding company secrets in my laptop, and there would be no way of telling. It was obvious that they were just trying to screw me around because the only reason the laptop came in the building was because i didn't want to leave it in the car for someone to steal. It never even came out of its case let alone powered up.
I had a recent backup of the laptop, so the path of least resistance was to simply let them wipe the drive, otherwise it would probably still be winding its way through the courts, and i would still be out a laptop and a large pile of cash for lawyers.
What i didn't mention, which is the best part of this story, is that a week later after i got my laptop back and restored my resume from backup, i walked over to their competition. Had a chat with the president of that company, told him exactly what happened, and was hired on the spot at 2 times what company "A" was paying me. Plus a much more flexible and family friendly work environment.
Things became hilarious when later company a tried to sue my new employers for stealing me away. The judge tossed them out on their a$$ (with prejudice)after listening to the story for about 5 minutes.
So in the end it worked out. I'm working for a much better company, and they treat me like gold. Plus i have much more time to spend with my daughter. but lesson learned, there is no job security in BC unless you are in a union. period..
In British Columbia, it doesn't even take that. I was recently fired for doing the unthinkable.. having children. after my daughter was born, i was informed that my having children was disruptive to the work environment (i requested a week leave to help my wife out with the newborn) and was informed that my services were no longer desired. it took 2 weeks to get my tools back, and my own personal laptop, which i had brought to work so that i could drop it off at the computer shop after work for a ram upgrade, was wiped. I went to no less than 3 lawyers, who all informed my that the only liability a company has is 2 weeks severance or notice.. so my advise to the OP is, document everything, find another job, and turn them over to the authorities.
I think the nail in the coffin attack vector SHOULD be to concentrate on PS3's they account for the majority of hardware players out there. If that was compromised it would be a nightmare for HD DRM
perhaps its the merging of a few billion monolyths
"your browser does not support active X, please download the Micro$oft Internet Explorer to use this download" Hmm.. given their previous behaviour with there Digital Rights Restiction software, do i really want to run activex components from sony... hmm lets think about this... elapsed time .000000000001 Sec.. NO!!!!.
Telus is probbly the worst example of corporate citizen Canada currently has. Fortunatly they are currently on notice with the CRTC that they have to clean up their act, or loose their licence.. Personally i would preffer the latter. When it takes them 4 months to fix a phone line (personal experience) and another 3 months to install a ADSL connection, they have no business in the telecom market as a monopoly. they have also done some rather shady things to anyone who even slightly competes aganst them. I know peronally of a WISP who set up in Kaslo bc, Signed a multi year contract (with Telus) for fiber, only to get paved over by Telus installing a DSLAM at a total loss (come on.. a DSLAM for a population of 100.. ya thay will pay for itsself) (SM)elus should be seized by the government and sold off the the highest bidders, with the money going back into public coffers as compensation for all the $hit they caused..
1) use it to fight software patents. If you want to see linux continue to thrive, this evil must be stopped. 2) use it to fight GPL infringement 3) ? 4) happiness
Masterbation runs rampant among email addicts.. Experts fear future lack of genetic diversity.
Having used the SPA3000 with asterisk and on its own.. all i have to say is.. its a piece of shit!.
If you are going to use it, i hope you like echo's , faint voice levels (to try to get rid of echos) and random disconnects..
better yet.. save your money, go buy a tdm400 for allmost the same money, have perfect audio, and have a phone system that just works.
How about a big Embroidered Rat?
What we are talking about is Digital Right Restriction (DRR), not DRM, it doesn't allow management of anything, its simply restriction.
Given that, would i accept DRR? Perhaps, once i am able to make a decision based off the fact that i may bot be able to do what i want with the digital work, i can place a value on it. eg, i might be willing to pay $2.00 for a song that is unrestricted, but only$0.50 for a restricted one.
Once we start using the correct terminology to describe what we are doing here, it makes more sense..
1) pregnancy 2) barefoot women 3) lots of cooking.
1) pregnancy 2) barefoot women 3) lots of cooking
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There isn't a working Canadian I know of that would suffer for 9 more stars on the flag. Let PQ go to france. At least the US had a civil war and solved their indifferences many years ago.
A-Freaking-men.. if America wants to invade canada, they have many well armed(unregistered) canucks(mostly in alberta)across the border ready to join them. Its the only logical choice if we want to keep osama and the rest of the raghead boys out of North America.. anyone who has flown over the rockies near the border, KNOWS that securing that border is impossible..Interesting, Retailers like bestbuy are constantly trying to race to the bottom by undercutting the competition, and now that they have hit bottom, decide they dont like the clientel.. What did they expect?
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just pay up, get vmware and be done with it.. damm near everything compatibility.. i even got QNX to run on it once..
"may you live in interesting times",isn't that a chinese curse?