I'm not a wikipedia expert, but I know pages can be locked/protected from edits if they are big targets for vandalism (Obama most recently I think) but they're unlikely to lock it for such a small target. And no, they can't lock it against edits from a specific company. Besides, they could just go home and edit it from home etc.
entabiliweb could have just edited the article, and restored their entry, but instead they sued and somehow won Ã25,000.
That would just likely start an edit-war. The action they took ends the problem. And gets them a little "relief" for the hassle and harm done, and a hand-slap on the bad guys to not try it again.
I move large quantities of data around between drives all the time, and it's a PAIN to have to deal with usb. It's always slower. FW800 I can reliably expect 78-79MB/sec. FW400 is 38-39MB/sec. USB2(480) I see anywhere from 8 to 26 usually, but lately new computers and adapters will do 32-36. It's all over the board, and always slower than FW400, and 800 just smokes it.
So far I've seen a grand total of two USB3 devices, and both were being used on USB2 - I have yet to encounter a computer with a USB3 port on it. So I wonder what synthetic substance the GP is smoking telling us firewire has already become obsolete? I'll take FW800 over USB any day, and so will anyone with half a clue.
My opinion of USB may change when I actually get to use USB3, and thunderbolt I have high hopes for. But I've got a few esata devices right now, and they max out the hard drive they're attached to. Admittedly not FAST hard drives, but one for example is a good quad enclosure from macsales, usb2, fw400, fw800, esata. But that makes a great test case. 36 USB2, 39 FW400, 79 FW800, and only 89 esata. But 89 is the practical sustained max from the hard drive. So really, thunderbolt isn't going to be that much more impressive than FW800 unless you're dealing with fast hard drives on both ends. I don't think people are realizing this.
That and I've always had a bitter taste in my mouth from USB since they were sneaky and renamed standards to help manufacturers unload all the USB(12) motherboards collecting dust in the warehouse. You'll recall we HAD "usb1.1"(1.2) and "usb1.2"(12), and nobody would buy mobos with USB 1.2 in them when USB2(480) came out. So they renamed the standard to "usb1.1(1.2), "usb2 full speed"(12) and "usb2 high speed"(480) so when the suckers asked "but does this mobo have USB 1 or USB2 in it?" they got told it has USB2 and bought the crap off their hands. Playing dirty tricks like that on the consumer saves you from losing money from your mistake today at the cost of losing customer confidence tomorrow. I personally will never forgive them for that. I was smart enough not to get burned by it, but I know a number of people that DID get cheated. Remember, USB2 Full Speed moves data around at no faster than about 1mb/sec. How would you like to have that in your computer? All those people then had to run out and buy a USB2 High Speed card after having built their computer with a USB2 motherboard in it. OK my rant's done.
I haven't seen a nickname tossed around for this practice, where someone is paying off their congresscritters to pass laws. Isn't there a nice short little name for this practice, beyond the obvious ones like "bribery" or "purchased legislation" etc?
indeed. the previous versions have all been markers afaik. I wonder how well such a thin line from a ballpoint pen works? They probably had to up the conductivity a lot since when you're drawing a 1/8" line with a marker you don't need super high grade conductivity.
But then again the ballpoint pen probably won't work on nearly as many surfaces as the old markers do.
We used a resist pen when i was in school. But we never got to make anything even slightly complicated.
I make my boards nowadays with a sheet of copperclad board and a dremel. After planning things out on paper, I free draw with a pen where I don't want there to be copper, and then use a small hand dremel with a small metal cutting wheel to remove the marked copper.
Perhaps a little barbaric for some people, and I probably really should be wearing at least a basic paper respirator when I do it (but I don't) but it gets the job done and for very small boards like terminating boards with a few discrete parts on them near a connector, it's perfect and even looks good. Beats dead bug any day. Nice and solid construction. When you have to run a long thick coax to an antenna connector, (two physically large parts) and attach a few bits (such as a pin diode, choke, and resistor) in among them where they meet, it makes a good strong physical arrangement. Cables and antennas getting torqued and twisted after installation can't be allowed to tear things up.
And it's a lot faster than etching, I tried that at home a few times and it never went well and took hours. I seemed to have issued with the timing, one time I wouldn't get all the uncovered copper removed, leaving copper speckles all over the place, and the other half the time my traces would be eaten into. My new dremel method takes minutes and doesn't require nasty chemicals, rubber gloves, or fume hoods.
User DATA, provided it's not the "intelligent" sort like MS Word documents that can have macros in them, should be safe. Nothing executable should be trusted.
You COULD try to checksum all system files, but it's so easy to miss something that seems innocuous that is infected and will just use a zeroday to jimmy its way back into restored binaries when you reboot. You really have to nuke and pave it if it's bad enough, the odds of missing something are just too high.
And with joys like windows registry, that damn thing can't even be considered data - with all the "features" in that you have to handle it as though it's an executable, which indicates the "replace" rule. And by design, it's not really practical to replace the registry, and that forces you to try to disinfect your registry instead of replace it, see above.
I'm surprised no one is tinfoil-hatting the possibility that they hauled him off to a basement cell in gitmo for some round-the-clock torture revenge whilst telling the world he was dumped in the ocean? I mean really, why dump the body in the ocean? There's no logical explanation for it other than to cover for where he really is.
I'm sure they'd absolutely love to patch him up (from getting shot) and then spend several months drugging him up trying to squeeze information out of him. It would really surprise me if this isn't what they're doing. Naturally "the world" wouldn't approve of such treatment, so they'll just cover for it by claiming he's dead and dumped in a place that nobody can verify the body.
They looked at me like I had a dick growing out of my forehead and then informed me that none of the terms were negotiable, and that she's never in her life seen someone do anything like that.
and yet that's precisely the way to do it. Just be sure the person hiring you also signs the form. That makes it a two way agreement.
The 11-page stock option agreement he signed looked to him like boiler plate and suggested a typical "one-year cliff" at which point 25 percent of his four-year option grant would vest. The only mention that the company had the right to buy if he left in less than five years came in a single sentence toward the end of the document that referred him to yet another document, which he never bothered to read.
It's easy to tell someone "be sure to completely read what you sign", until the day someone sets a 45 page or otherwise excessive amount of fine print in front of you, summarizes it, and asks you to sign it. Try buying a house. If you're really going to read the entire stack of morgage papers, you're going to need a few days. And there's no chance in hell you're going to catch anything shady like the above unless you have a lawyer there the entire time, and you can bet that's going to be an expensive few days.
This one pulled a double-shaft on him... the offending bit of legalese wasn't even in the document he signed. It was something like a "this agreement also includes stipulations covered in a different document". He couldn't possibly have caught that even with a lawyer reading over his shoulder, without taking a break and doing research and chasing down the additional paperwork (that he wasn't even provided with at the time of signing) that it was binding him to. That's about as far into "dirty pool" as fine print can get.
Intelligent managers (managers that understand the position they are hiring for, as opposed to PHBs that are looking to fill an empty seat) will understand that experience can be more valuable than education. Four years in an active CS position will teach you more than you're likely to learn in the same amount of time in college.
This does limit your options though - there are going to be PHBs in hiring positions for jobs you may be interested in and very well-suited to, and a lot of them refuse to consider you unless you have that fancy piece of paper to show them that you blew a lot of money on your job hunt. You just need to take this into account when looking for work. Also, just because the opening states it requires that gilded paper doesn't guarantee it's required - if you're really interested, ask them if they'd consider experience and accomplishments on your resume' to be equivalents. A few will.
I know most of my time in college was totally wasted, and I don't mean on beer and parties. It played basically no role whatsoever in my current job. The person that hired me was interested not in my current knowledge, but in my talents and in my ability to learn and adapt/grow. You can't learn that in college, and the smart managers know that.
I just noticed an interesting difference between Apple and the rest of the cell phone market. When Apple announced the iPhone, or announces a new iPhone, it's available the minute the announcement leaves Steve's lips, or at least pre-orders are available for delivery in a few weeks etc. None of this "coming soon" or six months from now or "coming real soon" crap.
People watching the demo know that what they see is exactly what they will get, can get, right now. No vaporware, no feature cuts before launch, no failure to deliver, no cancellations. I wonder why more companies haven't found themselves forced to take on that sort of schedule?
Is it not that important? Are people just willing to take whatever they can get when it actually shows up, and treat announcements like this as teasers? And if a company can keep development under wraps anywhere near as well as Apple usually does, there's none of this sillyness of "no pictures please!"
No pictures? Ya, right. new product press conference and you really don't expect anyone to take pictures? that's a laugh, that was said for show purposes, nobody with two brain cells to rub together actually expected no pictures to be taken, they expected it and just said that to try to stir up hype. Anyone that didn't actually "sneak" a picture or two there was an idiot, that's part of what you were there for.
it probably won't hurt him very much. We have a BofH that works in my area, hopping from place to place, with surprisingly similar behaviors here, and he just keeps finding new jobs. He'll work somewhere 6-24 months, get fired, (and usually try to exact revenge) and then just finds another sucker in no time.
The problem here is so many companies are looking for computer experts because they aren't computer experts, so it's a market ripe for continuous abuse. There's always another sucker in this business, even in a small area like where I live. Simple background and reference checks would put these sorts out of business, but it's just not common enough because enough of the people doing the hiring don't know what to look for, even though it's dead simple.
they'd already won 65mil$, they had plenty of spare money to piss away trying to get a lot more. Even if their lawyers said hey you have about a 2% chance of winning, it'd still be worth the try.
I wonder if zuck will go after legal fees? again that's just a drop in both of their buckets at this point though. As usual, "the only winners are the lawyers".
If a contract allows a party to modify terms, the terms they can modify are outlined in the original contract, and the notification process is specified. One party can't just change contract terms without notifying the other party. And that notification will include the effective date, (usually 30 days, there is a minimum notice allowable but I don't know what it is, probably 30 days?) In most cases it's one of those "if we don't hear from you in writing, these terms become effective in 30 days". Credit cards have a big paragraph on this when they send out new TOS "agreements". (I'd call them more like "notifications", but if you don't respond they are binding, so that makes them agreements) Notifications to changes in TOS must be in writing, and refusal to accept the terms technically has to be in writing also, though a phonecall usually suffices. (if they want to put the screw to you they can take your phonecall for nonacceptance, tell you ok nevermind we'll make you the exception you can ignore that TOS change notice, and then change you anyway and deny you called them)
There's usually one short sentence on what happens if you don't respond. Something like "all of the above changes are effective on xxx", followed by a big ominous confusing paragraph on all the things that happen if you don't want to accept the terms. This usually amounts to you losing the service but still owing on any balance, subject to the prior agreement. It's probably designed to try to shy you away from canceling, but they're required by law to spell out what will happen so you are aware that you have the option. They can lie to you (first tier anyway) on the phone about this but they are required to be straight with you in writing. Careful, they like to sneak these into bills along with the other cruft like upsell and affiliate services junk you normally throw out with the envelope the bill came in. But lately all the TOS I've seen have come in their own envelope, maybe another new consumer protection rule?
I've had to call up credit card companies several times when they tried to feed me the shaft on changes in TOS. ("good news, we're jacking your interest rate from 9.9 to 15.9% for no particular reason, sure do hope you're not reading this tiny print") Read the fine print when they send changes in TOS, the important stuff is usually in bold. (required?) All but once the call ended with "ok we'll keep you under the old terms". (rather than losing your business) The most recent one they just waved goodbye to me as a 20 yr long good-standing customer. *shrug* ymmv
I'm going to bite the bullet and pay the $175 early termination fee.
No you're not. Not if you're smart anyway. The contract you signed gives them the right to modify the terms (limit your unlimited) but at the cost of giving you 30 days to void said contract, including ETF. When they change, call and cancel. They'll try to ETF you, then remind them they changed terms and you are exercising your right to terminate the contract without obligation including ETF.
I've seen several do this, and suspiciously close to 100% of the time the rep you talk with will claim "you can't do that". You usually need to get transferred to someone that either knows the law or has been allowed to admit to it. (I wonder if the level 1's really know what you're asking for is legal, but have been told to attempt to BS you out of exercising your right by claiming you don't have it? That's probably not illegal but it sure should be)
Contract law doesn't allow a contract to stipulate one party can make arbitrary changes without also allowing the other party to say "hell no" and walk away. Remember, all contracts work both ways. You're required to do X, and they're required to do Y. If the contract allows them to change Y, you can't be forced to accept it or be penalized if you refuse. In those cases you can't prevent them from changing Y, and if they do, they can't penalize you for terminating the contract.
it shows up here, under View. Though it's not very compact. You can then drag the vertical divider all the way to the left to completely hide the sidebar. But you can only make what's left of the window so narrow, and each entry still takes up 3/4" of vertical screen space. Gotta love apps that insist on hogging the screen. So close that window and hit apple-3 to view online contacts only. Not ideal but at least makes Skype less of an elephant on the screen.
In addition to things taking up way more space than they need to, the new v5 interface isn't as intuitive as the previous one. Viewing a profile doesn't open a profile window, it CHANGES the current list INTO a profile window, and then you have to click Back. Besides muddying what the window is for, there's no way to for example, have more than one profile open at a time. (ok not that common, but no way to have a profile open while still being able to see the contact list) It's like on one hand they pointlessly waste screen space, and then right after that they're trying to save screen space in a way that damages usability. Makes you wonder if MS had a hand in the design of v5 before they bought skype out? "Hey this has much more of a Windows feel to it now, lets buy it!":(
I think you meant to say "controlling interest"? If say, a company is owned equally by five groups, each with 20% of the stock, you could control the company by acquiring 25% of the stock.
Of course owning 51% guarantees you controlling interest, but strictly speaking, it's not necessary
If mom's past menopause she has no use for it anyway, and that's gotta help with the possibility of not needing to take anti-rejection meds too. Does make one wonder just how well a uterus possibly in its 50's will hold up to pregnancy though? Just because you transplant it into a younger person doesn't make the organ suddenly young again.
I see the exact same thing - it was bad enough when a company went after (anythingclosetomytrademark).(anyTLD), now that second part goes from one-in-100 to a wildcard.
Buy.georgejetson and then try to use pepsi.georgejetson and watch the fireworks. this is just going to create a mess. Look at how crazy they go now if you try to register pepsii.com or a TLD they didn't think to register like pepsi.co
Now companies have to be thinking about unlimited TLDs, not just a handful.
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Fine him? he's a lawyer. disbar him. He's obviously unfit to be legal council.
I'm not a wikipedia expert, but I know pages can be locked/protected from edits if they are big targets for vandalism (Obama most recently I think) but they're unlikely to lock it for such a small target. And no, they can't lock it against edits from a specific company. Besides, they could just go home and edit it from home etc.
That would just likely start an edit-war. The action they took ends the problem. And gets them a little "relief" for the hassle and harm done, and a hand-slap on the bad guys to not try it again.
Sounds like that could be paraphrased as "Cisco has a moral obligation to..."
But Cisco you see, is a company. And companies have no moral obligations, other than greed, on behalf of their shareholders.
Didn't they already try to pull this with ipods?
Sometimes it's called "shameless greed". Other times it's called "doing business".
I move large quantities of data around between drives all the time, and it's a PAIN to have to deal with usb. It's always slower. FW800 I can reliably expect 78-79MB/sec. FW400 is 38-39MB/sec. USB2(480) I see anywhere from 8 to 26 usually, but lately new computers and adapters will do 32-36. It's all over the board, and always slower than FW400, and 800 just smokes it.
So far I've seen a grand total of two USB3 devices, and both were being used on USB2 - I have yet to encounter a computer with a USB3 port on it. So I wonder what synthetic substance the GP is smoking telling us firewire has already become obsolete? I'll take FW800 over USB any day, and so will anyone with half a clue.
My opinion of USB may change when I actually get to use USB3, and thunderbolt I have high hopes for. But I've got a few esata devices right now, and they max out the hard drive they're attached to. Admittedly not FAST hard drives, but one for example is a good quad enclosure from macsales, usb2, fw400, fw800, esata. But that makes a great test case. 36 USB2, 39 FW400, 79 FW800, and only 89 esata. But 89 is the practical sustained max from the hard drive. So really, thunderbolt isn't going to be that much more impressive than FW800 unless you're dealing with fast hard drives on both ends. I don't think people are realizing this.
That and I've always had a bitter taste in my mouth from USB since they were sneaky and renamed standards to help manufacturers unload all the USB(12) motherboards collecting dust in the warehouse. You'll recall we HAD "usb1.1"(1.2) and "usb1.2"(12), and nobody would buy mobos with USB 1.2 in them when USB2(480) came out. So they renamed the standard to "usb1.1(1.2), "usb2 full speed"(12) and "usb2 high speed"(480) so when the suckers asked "but does this mobo have USB 1 or USB2 in it?" they got told it has USB2 and bought the crap off their hands. Playing dirty tricks like that on the consumer saves you from losing money from your mistake today at the cost of losing customer confidence tomorrow. I personally will never forgive them for that. I was smart enough not to get burned by it, but I know a number of people that DID get cheated. Remember, USB2 Full Speed moves data around at no faster than about 1mb/sec. How would you like to have that in your computer? All those people then had to run out and buy a USB2 High Speed card after having built their computer with a USB2 motherboard in it. OK my rant's done.
I haven't seen a nickname tossed around for this practice, where someone is paying off their congresscritters to pass laws. Isn't there a nice short little name for this practice, beyond the obvious ones like "bribery" or "purchased legislation" etc?
Or at least, praying they didn't work anywhere near as well as was advertised
Aside of the question why they had the privileges to actually do any damage, who in his sane mind would do such a thing?
well see, it was actually the CIO that found the flash drive in our parking lot...
indeed. the previous versions have all been markers afaik. I wonder how well such a thin line from a ballpoint pen works? They probably had to up the conductivity a lot since when you're drawing a 1/8" line with a marker you don't need super high grade conductivity.
But then again the ballpoint pen probably won't work on nearly as many surfaces as the old markers do.
We used a resist pen when i was in school. But we never got to make anything even slightly complicated.
I make my boards nowadays with a sheet of copperclad board and a dremel. After planning things out on paper, I free draw with a pen where I don't want there to be copper, and then use a small hand dremel with a small metal cutting wheel to remove the marked copper.
Perhaps a little barbaric for some people, and I probably really should be wearing at least a basic paper respirator when I do it (but I don't) but it gets the job done and for very small boards like terminating boards with a few discrete parts on them near a connector, it's perfect and even looks good. Beats dead bug any day. Nice and solid construction. When you have to run a long thick coax to an antenna connector, (two physically large parts) and attach a few bits (such as a pin diode, choke, and resistor) in among them where they meet, it makes a good strong physical arrangement. Cables and antennas getting torqued and twisted after installation can't be allowed to tear things up.
And it's a lot faster than etching, I tried that at home a few times and it never went well and took hours. I seemed to have issued with the timing, one time I wouldn't get all the uncovered copper removed, leaving copper speckles all over the place, and the other half the time my traces would be eaten into. My new dremel method takes minutes and doesn't require nasty chemicals, rubber gloves, or fume hoods.
User DATA, provided it's not the "intelligent" sort like MS Word documents that can have macros in them, should be safe. Nothing executable should be trusted.
You COULD try to checksum all system files, but it's so easy to miss something that seems innocuous that is infected and will just use a zeroday to jimmy its way back into restored binaries when you reboot. You really have to nuke and pave it if it's bad enough, the odds of missing something are just too high.
And with joys like windows registry, that damn thing can't even be considered data - with all the "features" in that you have to handle it as though it's an executable, which indicates the "replace" rule. And by design, it's not really practical to replace the registry, and that forces you to try to disinfect your registry instead of replace it, see above.
I'm surprised no one is tinfoil-hatting the possibility that they hauled him off to a basement cell in gitmo for some round-the-clock torture revenge whilst telling the world he was dumped in the ocean? I mean really, why dump the body in the ocean? There's no logical explanation for it other than to cover for where he really is.
I'm sure they'd absolutely love to patch him up (from getting shot) and then spend several months drugging him up trying to squeeze information out of him. It would really surprise me if this isn't what they're doing. Naturally "the world" wouldn't approve of such treatment, so they'll just cover for it by claiming he's dead and dumped in a place that nobody can verify the body.
and yet that's precisely the way to do it. Just be sure the person hiring you also signs the form. That makes it a two way agreement.
It's easy to tell someone "be sure to completely read what you sign", until the day someone sets a 45 page or otherwise excessive amount of fine print in front of you, summarizes it, and asks you to sign it. Try buying a house. If you're really going to read the entire stack of morgage papers, you're going to need a few days. And there's no chance in hell you're going to catch anything shady like the above unless you have a lawyer there the entire time, and you can bet that's going to be an expensive few days.
This one pulled a double-shaft on him... the offending bit of legalese wasn't even in the document he signed. It was something like a "this agreement also includes stipulations covered in a different document". He couldn't possibly have caught that even with a lawyer reading over his shoulder, without taking a break and doing research and chasing down the additional paperwork (that he wasn't even provided with at the time of signing) that it was binding him to. That's about as far into "dirty pool" as fine print can get.
Intelligent managers (managers that understand the position they are hiring for, as opposed to PHBs that are looking to fill an empty seat) will understand that experience can be more valuable than education. Four years in an active CS position will teach you more than you're likely to learn in the same amount of time in college.
This does limit your options though - there are going to be PHBs in hiring positions for jobs you may be interested in and very well-suited to, and a lot of them refuse to consider you unless you have that fancy piece of paper to show them that you blew a lot of money on your job hunt. You just need to take this into account when looking for work. Also, just because the opening states it requires that gilded paper doesn't guarantee it's required - if you're really interested, ask them if they'd consider experience and accomplishments on your resume' to be equivalents. A few will.
I know most of my time in college was totally wasted, and I don't mean on beer and parties. It played basically no role whatsoever in my current job. The person that hired me was interested not in my current knowledge, but in my talents and in my ability to learn and adapt/grow. You can't learn that in college, and the smart managers know that.
I just noticed an interesting difference between Apple and the rest of the cell phone market. When Apple announced the iPhone, or announces a new iPhone, it's available the minute the announcement leaves Steve's lips, or at least pre-orders are available for delivery in a few weeks etc. None of this "coming soon" or six months from now or "coming real soon" crap.
People watching the demo know that what they see is exactly what they will get, can get, right now. No vaporware, no feature cuts before launch, no failure to deliver, no cancellations. I wonder why more companies haven't found themselves forced to take on that sort of schedule?
Is it not that important? Are people just willing to take whatever they can get when it actually shows up, and treat announcements like this as teasers? And if a company can keep development under wraps anywhere near as well as Apple usually does, there's none of this sillyness of "no pictures please!"
No pictures? Ya, right. new product press conference and you really don't expect anyone to take pictures? that's a laugh, that was said for show purposes, nobody with two brain cells to rub together actually expected no pictures to be taken, they expected it and just said that to try to stir up hype. Anyone that didn't actually "sneak" a picture or two there was an idiot, that's part of what you were there for.
it probably won't hurt him very much. We have a BofH that works in my area, hopping from place to place, with surprisingly similar behaviors here, and he just keeps finding new jobs. He'll work somewhere 6-24 months, get fired, (and usually try to exact revenge) and then just finds another sucker in no time.
The problem here is so many companies are looking for computer experts because they aren't computer experts, so it's a market ripe for continuous abuse. There's always another sucker in this business, even in a small area like where I live. Simple background and reference checks would put these sorts out of business, but it's just not common enough because enough of the people doing the hiring don't know what to look for, even though it's dead simple.
they'd already won 65mil$, they had plenty of spare money to piss away trying to get a lot more. Even if their lawyers said hey you have about a 2% chance of winning, it'd still be worth the try.
I wonder if zuck will go after legal fees? again that's just a drop in both of their buckets at this point though. As usual, "the only winners are the lawyers".
If a contract allows a party to modify terms, the terms they can modify are outlined in the original contract, and the notification process is specified. One party can't just change contract terms without notifying the other party. And that notification will include the effective date, (usually 30 days, there is a minimum notice allowable but I don't know what it is, probably 30 days?) In most cases it's one of those "if we don't hear from you in writing, these terms become effective in 30 days". Credit cards have a big paragraph on this when they send out new TOS "agreements". (I'd call them more like "notifications", but if you don't respond they are binding, so that makes them agreements) Notifications to changes in TOS must be in writing, and refusal to accept the terms technically has to be in writing also, though a phonecall usually suffices. (if they want to put the screw to you they can take your phonecall for nonacceptance, tell you ok nevermind we'll make you the exception you can ignore that TOS change notice, and then change you anyway and deny you called them)
There's usually one short sentence on what happens if you don't respond. Something like "all of the above changes are effective on xxx", followed by a big ominous confusing paragraph on all the things that happen if you don't want to accept the terms. This usually amounts to you losing the service but still owing on any balance, subject to the prior agreement. It's probably designed to try to shy you away from canceling, but they're required by law to spell out what will happen so you are aware that you have the option. They can lie to you (first tier anyway) on the phone about this but they are required to be straight with you in writing. Careful, they like to sneak these into bills along with the other cruft like upsell and affiliate services junk you normally throw out with the envelope the bill came in. But lately all the TOS I've seen have come in their own envelope, maybe another new consumer protection rule?
I've had to call up credit card companies several times when they tried to feed me the shaft on changes in TOS. ("good news, we're jacking your interest rate from 9.9 to 15.9% for no particular reason, sure do hope you're not reading this tiny print") Read the fine print when they send changes in TOS, the important stuff is usually in bold. (required?) All but once the call ended with "ok we'll keep you under the old terms". (rather than losing your business) The most recent one they just waved goodbye to me as a 20 yr long good-standing customer. *shrug* ymmv
No you're not. Not if you're smart anyway. The contract you signed gives them the right to modify the terms (limit your unlimited) but at the cost of giving you 30 days to void said contract, including ETF. When they change, call and cancel. They'll try to ETF you, then remind them they changed terms and you are exercising your right to terminate the contract without obligation including ETF.
I've seen several do this, and suspiciously close to 100% of the time the rep you talk with will claim "you can't do that". You usually need to get transferred to someone that either knows the law or has been allowed to admit to it. (I wonder if the level 1's really know what you're asking for is legal, but have been told to attempt to BS you out of exercising your right by claiming you don't have it? That's probably not illegal but it sure should be)
Contract law doesn't allow a contract to stipulate one party can make arbitrary changes without also allowing the other party to say "hell no" and walk away. Remember, all contracts work both ways. You're required to do X, and they're required to do Y. If the contract allows them to change Y, you can't be forced to accept it or be penalized if you refuse. In those cases you can't prevent them from changing Y, and if they do, they can't penalize you for terminating the contract.
it shows up here, under View. Though it's not very compact. You can then drag the vertical divider all the way to the left to completely hide the sidebar. But you can only make what's left of the window so narrow, and each entry still takes up 3/4" of vertical screen space. Gotta love apps that insist on hogging the screen. So close that window and hit apple-3 to view online contacts only. Not ideal but at least makes Skype less of an elephant on the screen.
In addition to things taking up way more space than they need to, the new v5 interface isn't as intuitive as the previous one. Viewing a profile doesn't open a profile window, it CHANGES the current list INTO a profile window, and then you have to click Back. Besides muddying what the window is for, there's no way to for example, have more than one profile open at a time. (ok not that common, but no way to have a profile open while still being able to see the contact list) It's like on one hand they pointlessly waste screen space, and then right after that they're trying to save screen space in a way that damages usability. Makes you wonder if MS had a hand in the design of v5 before they bought skype out? "Hey this has much more of a Windows feel to it now, lets buy it!" :(
I think you meant to say "controlling interest"? If say, a company is owned equally by five groups, each with 20% of the stock, you could control the company by acquiring 25% of the stock.
Of course owning 51% guarantees you controlling interest, but strictly speaking, it's not necessary
If mom's past menopause she has no use for it anyway, and that's gotta help with the possibility of not needing to take anti-rejection meds too. Does make one wonder just how well a uterus possibly in its 50's will hold up to pregnancy though? Just because you transplant it into a younger person doesn't make the organ suddenly young again.
I see the exact same thing - it was bad enough when a company went after (anythingclosetomytrademark).(anyTLD), now that second part goes from one-in-100 to a wildcard.
Buy .georgejetson and then try to use pepsi.georgejetson and watch the fireworks. this is just going to create a mess. Look at how crazy they go now if you try to register pepsii.com or a TLD they didn't think to register like pepsi.co
Now companies have to be thinking about unlimited TLDs, not just a handful.