First off, cellphones are in the 800 Mhz. band, "A" and "B" segments, I am not going to cover those portions here.
Pagers operate at several bands, most notably here are the VHF band/s at 150 Mhz., UHF band/s at 450 Mhz., and the 900 Mhz. band, like 929.7375 and so on.
I have never seen ANY pager on the 220 band in my state, so I can't claim they do not exist, but since the 220 band is carved up into business land mobile use, amateur radio and other government "services", suffice it to say that cellphones are not bothered by pagers or any device/s in the 220 band segment either, so designing a "jammer" for those frequencies would be a waste of money and time.
Now your cell jammer would have to be designed to be fully autonomous in nature, tri-banded and use antennas that are designed for tri-band phones so the effective radiated power is not wasted heating the coax, but is actually being radiated by the antenna.
Simple procedure if you are desirous of interrupting AMPS phones, but GSM, PCS and all TDMA, CDMA modulation types will take high cost equipment to "cheat" the built-in logic of the hardware, this is not a simple diode snip of a scanner here, but full-blown engineering challenge/s to the not so faint-of-heart.
My IFR 1200 super S does not have all I would need to even begin the process, but I can scan the control channels of AMPS towers and get the block assignments of those towers so I can punch in the frequencies, attach my 4 stage PA to the output and have at it, but why, for what gain do you achieve here?
Does anybody really think that the temporary blockage of a call is going to do anything here? If you do succeed, they will just try again, and probably at a time even more dangerous to those around them!
People are too self important to think about their neighbors, they assume the world revolves around them alone, hence "your" courtesy is "supposed" to be for them, and them alone.
Simple solution; slow down in front of the car phone user, and if slowing to 40 doesn't get their attention, try some other form of rolling barricade, it works for the police. Have your buddies go with and look for those cellphone users and then motion for everybody in the group to box in and slow down, that driver until they hang up the phone and pay attention!
Sure, they'll probably call the cops, but YOUR plea will be for the safety of ALL the vehicles on the road, you were simply attempting to prove to one driver that they are too distracted and you were simply trying to make them pay attention to the road(which you too are on).
If that doesn't work, file a complaint with the officer, state she/he was driving erraticly and you wanted to "assist" with keeping the roadways safe by gaining his/her attention, maybe the cop might thank you for being a "concerned" motorist and even win you a few "brownie points" as well.
In conclusion, jammers are not worth the money, time and effort for simply stopping a call, it's a burden on your resources, not the caller's.
You could also buy an ESN reader and clone the ESN and set them up to autodial all over the county, but this is again, an AMPS thing, not TDMA, CDMA or GSM, PCS "solution".
*CNN today reported that there is a new fad hitting the highways: CELLPHONE WAR DRIVING is the rage in California as drivers are trying to jam stupid cellphone users distracted by their use of their phone while enroute to work, school or soccer practice. Motorists are modifying their phones so they can transmit a signal that will jam the other motorist's cellphone during a call.
This is VERY simply done! My wife was handed a blatantly falsified court document concerning her divorce, her EX being a sheriff deputy, he decided to serve me through his girlfriend, with papers that "appeared" valid as they had the docket number, judges name and plaintiff/respondent in the header. He also faked the seal, signed the document and his girlfriend then drove 70 miles to serve me with it.
We made contact with the D.A. who read the faked papers, then told us that anybody can do that, it's not illegal, when in fact, forging ANY document is fraud, and IS a criminal act. But the D.A. told my wife he was not going to pursue any charges. Again, we know, because her EX is a sheriff deputy, and you know they NEVER do anything illegal</sarcasm>!
We retained the papers in either respect, because it WILL be used against him in our upcoming case against him. Documented child abuse by a doctor and a registered nurse are all we need to have him jailed.
Happy days will be seeing a cop in jail for criminal acts against those he is sworn to protect..YIPPEE!!
Considering the vastness of "word" programs, I would suggest that should this somehow become the defacto standard for process serving/s, then every court that makes use of this type of service be regulated to use ONE standard text format, font and style, no others would be allowed, plus an encrypted signature along with a digital signature must also accompany the E-poena.
This way, every court system has their own unique method of authentication, it allows all the court systems to identify every jurisdiction in the nation, where it originated and by whom, and for what cause/reason.
Watermarking legal documents are another method of authenticating the sender to the recipient/s, why stop this method?
E-mail is NOT foolproof, it requires that only one person has access to the computer and the mail server, when more people are introduced into this "equation" the level of security falls dramatically so that being "served" can NOT make absolute that the intended person or parties were indeed, served.
All court/legal documents should be so "airtight" as to make abuses and omissions absolutely "impossible" to occur, and the ability to forge a fraudulent paper all but impossible(see U.S. mint)as well.
If this is ever allowed to stand up in any court as "valid", then I see every EULA for software also become valid....make your choices carefully!
This is just a small step, but, like all branches of government, they get bigger and more intrusive over time from lack of actions on OUR part, this too, WILL become law, and after that, you can forget having it obliterated from the law books.
What you allow in one part, has the ability to also make allowances for still more "inclusions" into that one law, and without anybody ever knowing the difference, nor wil we ever be told of such changes, they will just "happen", then it's too late to rid ourselves of it, forever.
I would love for any company to attempt to circumvent the notion that what you did in the past, BEFORE becoming an employee would somehow belong to the corporation. The courts WOULD strike that out as nonenforceable due to the differenc in dating. Prior "art" supercedes ALL employment contracts, and no court can legally assign ownership, copyright/s or prior art to anybody simply because it was "required" prior to employment.
Verizon had such verbage in theri documents, I struck out the offending statements stating that my personal creations, thoughts and ideas and inventions are wholly mine, in full right and title, and shall remain so for as long as I shall live. Upon my death, all rights to my work/s shall be transferred in full to my legal heirs whom are named in my will.
I agree to the company's assertion/s that work performed on company time and with their property is theirs in full, but I decline acceptance of the notion that any work I perform, invent, design or create also becomes the property of Verizon, especially if my personal work/s are done on MY time and not on company time. I retain all rights to all my work forever and shall not resign my rights to anybody, corporation, company or person or persons, and to do such, in light of pre-employment, signifies a willful intention to coerce me in a negative way, that which would benefit the corporation and it's employees while restricting me from gaining from my own lawful creations. My work/s in the past, present and future are my personal property and none of the corporation's business, in whole and in part.
I maintain full ownership of my work and shall not be coerced into transferring my property to another without prior agreement/s and just compensation for my work or works. To expect me to transfer my property to the corporation without my willingness to do so creates coersion on my part and invalidates all portions of all contracts, in past, present and future with myself and the corporation, and the corporation's board of directors, attorneys agree in full to pay me for tort damages, incidental and collateral,and all legal fees that I accrue while bringing my case to court. This document supercedes all previous documents and is valid in all 50 states.
I also include statements of copyright on every resume I send out, restricting the flow of my personal information within a company.
I also set limitations and demands if not hired. The company that accepts my resume also agrees to turn over upon demand, all papers, documents and all information that identifies myself, including applications, drug testing agreements and of course, MY resume.
Radio Shack has NDAs and property assignments. R.S. wants you to sign over to "them", all right and title to any work or works you arrive at while under their employ, this means ANYTHING you think of, including designs, artwork and hardware! R.S "assumes" you arrived at these designs while working for them, and could not have come up with them if you did not work for them, so they automatically "assume" your brain belongs to Radio Shack.
By the way, Radio Shack uses AVERT to collect YOUR information, and that includes EVERYTHING in your history too! Contact AVERT at: 301 Remington Street, Fort Collins, CO. 80524 800.367.5933(Tel.) 800.237.4011(Fax)
Go ahead, TRY taking me to court! It's public information placed on an envelope and MAILED to me. It is NOT a trade secret that I KNOW your company is full of shitheads, like Radio Shack......SCREW YOU!
Need parts.....call me! 512K EPROMS for sale: $1.50/ea.
Bibles on sale too; slightly charred, used, only.50c each.
I agree with the majority of what you typed, EXCEPT the comment about Fords.
Fords might be okay in California, but in snow country, where salt is used as well as sand; Fords die from rust FASTER than any other U.S. auto maker. I have a 1990 Chevy Corsica that is PRISTINE and has NEVER been garaged, I also have a 1990 Plymouth Acclaim, same thing, mint condition, no garage. 1986 Ford escort, garaged, floor pans rusted through, body eaten away, door skins separated, and the list goes on and on....
The escort is named the garbage can(because it's rusted out like many of those cans you see at curbside) and the fact that Fords DO have the worst life expectancy of just about every auto maker there is, barring of course, Daewoo and Hyundai.
By the way, Escort is exactly what it needs to be...ESCORTED to the junk yard.
Ford ASPIRE; Great name for a pillbox on wheels that ASPIRES to be called a "car".
Geo; Geo-what? Short for G. Dubya perhaps?
WHY do auto makers give STUPID names to cars?
Suszuki SAMURAI; What happens when this model dies; does it commit Hari Kari or what?
Geo METRO; METRO-politan, Metro-police...HUH?
Ford TAURUS; WHY name a car that's translated into BULL in Spanish?...Ford BULL..Yep, that's right folks, we BULLshit you into buying another rusty pile of scrap known as Ford!
Mercury VILLAGER; as in H. Clinton's "It takes a Village/r"? Now vans are named like towns now?
Ford TOWN & COUNTRY; Oh joy, since the 60s we've been inundated with crap names from Ford and more, for what logical reason?
Ford PROBE; GEE boys and girls, THIS one's got to be a hit with the little green men of Roswell, right? What moron decided that a car should be named a PROBE anyhow? Probing for what...a buyer perhaps?
Well folks, the stupid car names list is growing longer and getting even worse with each passing year...time to get some new ideas fro names now!
*IBM's "GXP" brand of hard drives assumes everybody wants a data fracturing time bomb ticking inside their computer*
Conner drives have been extremely well lived drives, I have yet to have ANY Conner drive die, from the 20 meg ones all the way up to the gig. level. Also, you missed Rodime from just before the 90s, it was the early 80s that they "boomed" and died, too bad though as my HUGE 5 meg(yep, that's FIVE megabytes!0 drive was a damned tank!
Micropolis was a great drive as well. Maxtor has made some very rugged drives, but I have had a few that failed in under a year.
Seagate, like those ST-225s, ST-251Rs and so on, just keep on going, but their early 80 meg drives failed 2 out of 5, but that failure rate was short lived, and I have used many since the '225 days. The ST-157A drive I still use to this day in a swappable XT 386 machine, along with the above '225s and 251s.
The WORST GARBAGE EVER is WD! Almost every damned CAVIAR drive from the 1170 on up has failed quickly, and the errors that show up CHANGE from time to time on the same drive..go figure?! The WD Caviar line is HORSESHIT and I will never buy another WD drive! Controllers go bad quite often, they lose their ROM settings and the platter motor goes bad(slows, speeds up, stops and then makes a whining sound before the controller shuts down).
My Conner Cabo Stingray(CFS1081A) is my "E" drive for swapping files, and it runs 24/7 along with this PII-200 box. The Conner drive in this(Conner, 4 gig) is a vintage 1996 mfg. and has well over 50,000 hours on it, still spinning and NO errors found on monthly defrags and clean scans. Performance like this keps me buying Conner drives!
Fujitsu; well, those drives aren't really very popular where I am, and never were. i can't give any good/bad reports on Fujitsu.
Toshiba, well, my three laptops(Compaq, Toshiba) all use Toshiba drives(1.2, and 500 Mb) have been solid performers since new. My Compaqs are both Mfg. 1997, and the Toshiba 486-75 is....I forgot, but it was PRE 1995 either way. I never had any problems with Toshiba drives, and my 486s 1/2 gig drive has GLASS, yes, glass platters, and it too has taken a few table to floor falls without breaking, now THAT'S a tough drive in anybody's book!
I have used a few Quantum drives years ago, but those had good and bad production runs as well, but since I buy Conner drives, and have since 1992, I don't have anything to add about in the way of reliability or life(MTBF).
I never owned a "real" IBM drive, every drive I had that was inside my 486-50 Thinkpad, was a Toshiba drive, and even that was a puny 280 meg unit, but absolutely reliable. IBM, like every OEM outsources their drives from another maker and relabels them under the IBM moniker. Who actually makes these horrible XP drives anyhow? I have yet to see one come across my bench yat, but I would love to do a burn-in on one to see what fails, take it apart and see what failed.
No wonder I stay with Conner! I get great service should I need it, fast delivery on new orders, and best of all; NO D.O.As to deal with since day-1!
Send a REGISTERED letter to MS with YOUR statement disallowing ALL EULAs in their entirety, and enclose INSIDE that letter; the line about: *The opening, reading and transferring to another, this letter and its contents, you hereby DISOLVE FOREVER, all licenses, EULAs, CALs and ALL restrictive licensing practices of Microsoft, it's B.O.D, chairman, and C.O.O from forever attempting to force, by license, agreement, click-through, hidden or subjective or by any and all currently known efforts of control, either locally, remotely or by lawyer forever restrained from contact with myself, organization, business, partners or any person or persons even remotely associated with me. You hereby agree to hold harmless forever, any claims of loss of profits, damages or suits of tort against (insert your name here) from attempting to coerce any financial gain, whether by direct or indirect contact or contacts, for the life of the above named person, party or individual.
This agreement supercedes any and all contracts and previous licenses for the duration of the life of(insert your name here)and shall be legally binding upon you the moment this letter is opened and read. The contents of this letter is copyrighted and protected by federal law. Disclosure to any person or persons outside of Microsoft shall constitute a violation of the D.M.C.A and D.R.M as prescribed under federal statute/s for the protection of copyrighted material.
Oh boy, I love knowing MS has a "need" to track my useage and what I am doing with a product they sold!
Does anybody see the frivolity and possible illegal actions MS uses to "legitimize" tracking anybody AFTER they sold the product to the end user? WHY does MS "need" to track anything at all? Since when has it become a necessity for any business to track their sold product/s, what other company does this, or feels the need to do this?
Why do all the software companies take the same, lame excuse route hands down?
I don't give a damn what is enclosed in ANY EULA, and since it's already paid for prior to knowing about any EULAs, they are NOT enforceable upon me in the slightest! Whatever is written for a EULA, I disregard it every time.
My license is my money used to BUY XP, and once that task is done, what happens to the OS is totally up to ME alone.
I'll use whatever OS I want, and in any way, method or instance of my choosing, NOT MSs way. Should I wish to use dual boot, and XP is that second boot, too damn bad for MS, since I already PAID for what's on MY computer, HOW I make use of it is, again, totally up to ME alone!
Any fool that buys ANY software suite and then pays even MORE money for some dumb-assed paperwork for permission to use HIS/HER software on more than one machine is absolutely ABSURD!
Just how in hell can or could MS even find out you or I or anybody for that matter might be using XP on more than one box to begin with? Or did you tell MS you were doing this in the first place when you asked permission for the key to enable XP to run after installation?
Gee, paying good money for a garbage OS that needs a permission level grant from the manufacturer in order for the OS to even begin being useful!
Just think if the auto makers did this with cars! Term licenses available for "your" new car...Gee, what a fresh idea in the world of "free enterprise", buy a car, buy a term license BEFORE you can even drive the car, would YOU go for this tactic as well?
Let's have a law passed that makes EULAs, click-throughs and hidden licenses a crime, maybe even a felony for that matter, then let's see how fast MS goes after us!
Why would you want to have a tube classification number as a UID?
Anyway, the 2.4 Ghz. S-band is EASILY filtered using stripline filtering found in just about ALL downconverters, pre-amps, and power amplifiers. I wonder just what SIRIUS thinks that such a wide bandwidth can't be filtered easily, are they nuts or what? Cheap filters are available from Murata for one, not to mention several from other firms that offer filtering products that cover a wide range of R.F. frequencies(Microwave Filter Co. for one). To make such a stupid statement by what I "assume" to be a reputable company, is absolutely ludicrous!
Filtering products can be designed using a multitude of software suites that have been on the market for over 15 years, so there's no excuse to make statements as dumb as this.
R.F. lighting....Hmmm, now you have to make a small, yet high powered device capable of being enclosed in a relatively snall enclosure, and also couple the output of the "device" to the lamp's electrodes and also ensure the R.F does not impinge upon the main power entering the assembly.
What a waste of resources this will be if it makes it into production. It'll be good for the company that makes the devices, but bad for the folks that have to maintain such devices in the real world situations that will undoubtedly arise from such a stupid endeavor.
I hope they are able to keep the stry R.F low enough as to stay within the F.C.C guidelines for S.A.R(Specific Absorption Rate), not to mention the supposed W.B.R(Whole Body Resonance) that deals with ocular damage to the workers replacing the lamps when they burn out, which they will, but the R.F generating device will still be operational regardless(due to cheap manufacturing, the safety disconnects would never be implemented).
AMSAT members use the 2.4 Ghz. band to uplink their ground based stations to the OSCAR satellite/s that currently orbit the earth in both LEO and eliptical orbits.
S-band has applications for SERIOUS implementation, not for nonsense junk pet projects of some dipwad company to request the F.C.C to deny all others from its use above and beyond what SIRIUS plans on using the band for.
Disregard their business edict as being non-implementable, and NOT economically viable for the masses, so it WILL fail to pass muster of an F.C.C investigation as it provides NO socially beneficial reasons to exist in the first place.
I have TWO Osbornes, both in perfect condition and in both model "formats"...ribbon cable to keyboard and the newer coiled cord. Both have dual 360K floppies, 3" B/W CRT and a 300 baud modem.
I am saving these for my posterity, or for the cash they'll garner being in perfect condition.
Either way, I'll not market these until the "demand" for them reaches the multi-kilobuck level.
Damn, I would LOVE to have a gunfight with a gun toting crook, I bet he can't do a clean double tap to the head in less than.34 seconds like I do at the club!
Race guns ARE the way to beat theft!
I carry one on every trip to the "big city" and feel safer than having a dumb cellphone in my pocket, not to mention that my trigger finger is faster at the draw than speed dial, and 100% faster and safer then having 20 stupid nazis show up with blank stares.
COP: Let's diallo that S.O.B first, then we'll find out who did what.....someday!
The nazis loved the sound the M1s clip made when that last round was fired and the clip ejected from the rifle, in fact, many in a firefight fired and listened for the clatter of that M1 clip on a hard surface....pop up, fire at the GI and that was the end of the GI. Later, many got smart and left a round chambered, reloaded a fresh clip and waited for nazi boy to pop up and BANG! nazi boy went down. The clatter from those clips caused many deaths of our fighting men in WWII, and after many wised up, they would toss an empty clip onto a rock to "force" the enemy to show his face because he heard that familiar sound, and he would be shot dead because he "assumed" the GI was out of ammo.
Implanted inside the body as "undected"? Can you even think? I suppose a fresh SCAR doesn't give that away? No wonder so many people blindly bend over and take it up the tailpipe just to have a seat on a plane!
Stupid morons really amaze me at the levels of intrusive actions they'll endure for speed of travel!
BOYCOTT every airport no matter how much you might need to get there last night! Show some cajones and STOP taking the blind stupidity of government mouths!
I hope some poor person dies from this amount of intrusive security checks, maybe if a few hundred suits climb into the billions for damages and injurious claims, MAYBE some butthead will take notice and put a halt to unnecessary searches for pseudo bombs and anything that "appears" to not be "right" with a person's posessions, no matter what they may be, or located for that matter!
Sue the airports out of business! Sue the security guards for damages in the millions! Sue the police for violating YOUR rights! Sue everybody who feels the "need" to do a body cavity search!
But, like the majority of people, you'll simply buy a larger tupe of Prep. "H" and CONTINUE to get butt reamed, and just mutter about how you all "hate" being humiliated!
Photon, Proton, Electron, Negatron, Positron, Quark, Red shift, Blue shift, Void, Binary, Spiral galaxy, Nebula, Neutrino, Ion, Corona(not the beer), Scorpius, Cygnus, NASA(hub), Hermes and so on....
Use differing names for a feeling of "security" if you will, but hardened attacks will get in and gain access. No matter what you name the machines, they will only be known to the employees, and I doubt outsiders can even dream up specifics if they tried, but would give up the attempt in short order if access was not forthcoming.
*I've been there, and it's not really worth talking about; really*!
Almost all of the "corporate" cards AMEX, VISA and the like have to go after the name on the card's face, NOT the person that signed the receipt. If you are the holder of that card, then it is your responsibility to make certain the payments are made, not the signer(if different).
I have had corporate cards where I am both the business AND the signer, which, of course, means that I am solely responsible for the bill/s. If I "owned" the card, but my employee signed for merchandise, it would be no different as the owner of the card is solely responsible, not the employee that signed the statement.
IANAL, but the card companies CAN'T go after the signer, only the owner of the card that is embossed on the plastic; they are the only ones legally responsible for all debts incurred on said card/s.
*Work like an elephant all your life, and all you have to show for your efforts is peanut husks*!
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yep! Try a Toshiba 1200, mono display, 8088 CPU and a decent battery life, with a 20 Meg. H.D, 3-1/2" F.D and normal keyboard. The mouse thingy wasn't an option then, and IF you located one, it was for a Crapple.
I have two other OLD Osbornes; the "original" with the flat keyboard(ribbon) cable and the "newer" version with the coiled cord. Both had 360 KB drives, a 3" B/W CRT PLUS, a 300 baud modem all built in no less..}}:-
*Good computers are always needed, and laptops will always be sold for more than their worth*!
Anybody can do ANYTHING if the (sick) desire is there. What happens to the person or company that decides to take it upon themselves and interfere with your privacy and right to remain "secure" WILL open that company/person/s to a HUGE civil and criminal suit.
I doubt your job is on "the line" for what you do IF AOL-TW or MS or ANYBODY for that matter would even ATTEMPT to violate the law just to "snitch" on you...too risky for THEIR bottom line, so, nope, it'll NOT take place.
Search my IP as to where I go...so what, who cares! Now, if these "folks" decided that browsing gave them some misguided "right" to violate my home...out come the BIG guns, and I will shed no tears for the sad shithead that wears my mental target on their forehead. The two are entirely different, why make them "appear" similar, they're not.
I disable almost ALL those nice check boxes in win-dump ver. XXX, why do I need "auto-complete" or anything I seldom use or access?
Hell, even my name is NOT me, but a television show android's...Now, HOW is AOL et al going to find out just WHO I am, really?
My IP does NOT contain street addresses, telephone numbers or social insecurity numbers, so how can they locate and track me when they have no base info to use to accomplish this task?
I have used NS 4.5 since '95 and see no reason to get MORE bloatware!
I also use IE 5 as well, dual browsers, both used, but for different "things"....
*Being invisible AND retarded makes you too stupid to know where you are going nor where you have been, and also who you are or where you are*!
I'm not going to beat down any main board mfr. here, but my personal experience has been with ASUS since my '486 days. I have 4 desktops running ASUS boards, and my old 100 Mhz. ASUS board has NEVER crapped out, locked up or anything. Same goes for my much newer boards; ALL from ASUS.
The one board I have on my PII-200 has the TXpro chipset, and AMI BIOS, this board locks up eveery time; daily, with video splits and fatal exception errors(that blue screen of death act).
I use this board for net surfing only since that's all it's good for. Garbage surfing and mail. Yes, it's also a windope box but so what, the OS was a freebie from a VAR.
I sure would love to see MS die fast and with painful throes of agony!
The more money you have, the less you have to abide by the law!
MS = software genocide by pure monopolistic practices backed with blessing of the D.O.J and the supreme court.
No speedpass in Northern WI. it doesn't come with a ball attached to it, so no interest(does that come with a "G" for "my team"?).
The upper half of WI. is made up of brain dead morons, the remainder is trying!
How many times do I have to explain that my UHF radio is NOT able to receive CB?
Yes, it's a scanner, but it doesn't decode bar codes or images.
McDonalds is the choice of junk yard dogs worldwide!
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Wouldn't the world be a lot better off WITHOUT police radar as well? That "device" emits a high level radiation in both the X, K and Ka bands(10,24 Ghz>) which does cause ionization of the viscous eye fluids and brain tissue!
Not to mention that police radar is pointed at YOU driectly! Would you stick your head inside a 2.45 Ghz. microwave oven? Police radar is 5 to 12 times higher in frequency, which means LESS R.F. is needed to COOK YOUR BRAIN!
Let's start banning police radar on a nationwide scale first, then treat the small time R.F. devices we are so "warm" about these days.
Don't worry about wireless devices that radiate omni-directional patterns with less than 20 dBm signal levels, that's not a problem, since that level is "normally" more than a meter or more distant from your body(namely, the eyes), so the R.F. that does get absorbed will be of absolutely no consequence to your safety whatsoever.
I work daily with R.F. from VHF through 30 Ghz. and my monitor has yet to go off warning me of any harmful stray radiation(It's a Narda radiation monitor). The last site I serviced was a 150 watt, 5 Ghz. point to point relay station, and I was up at the 200' level and within 1/2 meter from the main radiating element of the dish(a grid parabola), and I had to run my tests powered. R.F. at the antenna was 126.219 Watts, but the 27 dB. dish would have placed the radiated power well over the kilowatt range had I been in the main lobe of the dish(NO, I stay far away from danger, than you!).The R.F. monitor never made a sound, so low level S-band radiation emitted from wireless network cards will NOT fry your body, no matter how close you get(but stay away with the eyes though!).
Cellular radio emissions, including GSM, PCS can be hazardous to your brain, the frequency to size ratio is about "right" for near total absorption of PCS signals CAN do damage even at the low level of 200 mW power these devices emit(that level is for max range, not used when close to a tower mind you). Cellsites control the handheld's R.F. power output to minimize site intermod, and increase the "hearing" distance of the site at the same time.
I have 100 CDs AOL sent to me since way back when, I even have a floppy with version 2.0!
They are great targets for my.50AE and my combat pistol matches I hold during the non-winter season.
I even made a holder that is motorized and swings the CD through an arc and you have to aim, shoot and hit the CD for points(breaking it usually).
AOL: Assholes Off Line AOL: American Office of Lesbians AOL: Affectionate Oral Lovers AOL: Anal Orifice Love AOL: Anything On Limpa(bread) AOL: Afghanistan Office of Linguistics AOL: Afghan Orator's Library AOL: Assholes Of Law AOL: Another Obscene Law AOL: Always Object Lawyers AOL: Accept Only Litigation AOL: Acquiesce Or Litigate AOL: I'm tired, you think up a few now....
Business class service? Did copper lines become gold for business "class" or what? If anybody has actually SEEN a CO, and peeked into the boxes, the ones I have seen in 20 years have all been made of copper, and finally, fiber is making inroads to the rural markets as well. Most of all telcos are ancient circuits wired for old phone systems and higher ring voltages. My home and wiring has just passed it's first year, and the connection I have to my telco now runs 172 feet and is wored into that very same old cable run that was laid down over 20 years ago! My line connection is very quiet, I have less than.1dB of noise ingress on my line.
My ISP is also my phone company(Citizens) and their routers/modems/servers are configured horribly, I rarely get a connection on the first attempt, and almost always have to redial 3, 4 and more just to get away from error codes 645, 629, 720 and 650. My speed also fluctuates several Kb if I disconnect and immediately reconnect, from 40K to 44K while being set at a "normal" 42.667K.
Complaining to the consumer protectioan agency just gets "them" asking for the usual whys, how comes and they wait for a letter from the ISP explaining this to the C.P.A, which is always lip service lies to coverup their lousy service!
I sent New North Net E-mails every time I was disconnected in a 7 day period, and looking at how many times I was cut off, the total message load sent to NNN was 43 logged disconnects, 16 "pings" and several "dead" pings to the server that got no reply that port 80, 8080 were even active!
They even billed me for complaining, which I didn't pay. My phone service is reliable, their ISP is NOT! Same company different idiots dealing with lies and excuses. They also have "tech support" available from 7AM to 10PM, which is NOT realisitic as not one human ever answers the phone, but is a recorded message, you leave one, and "maybe" a body might call yopu in two or three days IF they feel like it! Citizen and NNN are a BAD JOKE!
Copper is copper, and the claim for business over residential service is also a cruel attempt to steal money for the SAME SERVICE, not better. Now, if I had a large complex with DID lines and several lines serving me, I sure as hell WOULD expect my bill to be reduced for ANY outage that lasted from 1/2 to a day or more, it's only right to not be billed for service not used or able to be used.
Would anybody pay for four new tires for their car, but actually get three? Of course not, why should I pay for anything I never received? We DO live in a "rural" locale, our biggest "city" is just over 7,000 people, and my town has less than 300, and that includes the deer, bear and cows.
Business and residential line service differs only with the amount of service techs they send out to repair the problem, and how fast they send them out as well. Residential...we'll get there sometime in the next 3 days. Commercial......We'll send a tech out this evening sir.
That's about the ONLY real difference there is, at least in MY locale, this is true.
Paying for service, you should GET service, NOT lame excuses!
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First off, cellphones are in the 800 Mhz. band, "A" and "B" segments, I am not going to cover those portions here.
Pagers operate at several bands, most notably here are the VHF band/s at 150 Mhz., UHF band/s at 450 Mhz., and the 900 Mhz. band, like 929.7375 and so on.
I have never seen ANY pager on the 220 band in my state, so I can't claim they do not exist, but since the 220 band is carved up into business land mobile use, amateur radio and other government "services", suffice it to say that cellphones are not bothered by pagers or any device/s in the 220 band segment either, so designing a "jammer" for those frequencies would be a waste of money and time.
Now your cell jammer would have to be designed to be fully autonomous in nature, tri-banded and use antennas that are designed for tri-band phones so the effective radiated power is not wasted heating the coax, but is actually being radiated by the antenna.
Simple procedure if you are desirous of interrupting AMPS phones, but GSM, PCS and all TDMA, CDMA modulation types will take high cost equipment to "cheat" the built-in logic of the hardware, this is not a simple diode snip of a scanner here, but full-blown engineering challenge/s to the not so faint-of-heart.
My IFR 1200 super S does not have all I would need to even begin the process, but I can scan the control channels of AMPS towers and get the block assignments of those towers so I can punch in the frequencies, attach my 4 stage PA to the output and have at it, but why, for what gain do you achieve here?
Does anybody really think that the temporary blockage of a call is going to do anything here?
If you do succeed, they will just try again, and probably at a time even more dangerous to those around them!
People are too self important to think about their neighbors, they assume the world revolves around them alone, hence "your" courtesy is "supposed" to be for them, and them alone.
Simple solution; slow down in front of the car phone user, and if slowing to 40 doesn't get their attention, try some other form of rolling barricade, it works for the police.
Have your buddies go with and look for those cellphone users and then motion for everybody in the group to box in and slow down, that driver until they hang up the phone and pay attention!
Sure, they'll probably call the cops, but YOUR plea will be for the safety of ALL the vehicles on the road, you were simply attempting to prove to one driver that they are too distracted and you were simply trying to make them pay attention to the road(which you too are on).
If that doesn't work, file a complaint with the officer, state she/he was driving erraticly and you wanted to "assist" with keeping the roadways safe by gaining his/her attention, maybe the cop might thank you for being a "concerned" motorist and even win you a few "brownie points" as well.
In conclusion, jammers are not worth the money, time and effort for simply stopping a call, it's a burden on your resources, not the caller's.
You could also buy an ESN reader and clone the ESN and set them up to autodial all over the county, but this is again, an AMPS thing, not TDMA, CDMA or GSM, PCS "solution".
*CNN today reported that there is a new fad hitting the highways: CELLPHONE WAR DRIVING is the rage in California as drivers are trying to jam stupid cellphone users distracted by their use of their phone while enroute to work, school or soccer practice. Motorists are modifying their phones so they can transmit a signal that will jam the other motorist's cellphone during a call.
Oh well, I can dream of the fun, can't I?
This is VERY simply done!
My wife was handed a blatantly falsified court document concerning her divorce, her EX being a sheriff deputy, he decided to serve me through his girlfriend, with papers that "appeared" valid as they had the docket number, judges name and plaintiff/respondent in the header. He also faked the seal, signed the document and his girlfriend then drove 70 miles to serve me with it.
We made contact with the D.A. who read the faked papers, then told us that anybody can do that, it's not illegal, when in fact, forging ANY document is fraud, and IS a criminal act. But the D.A. told my wife he was not going to pursue any charges. Again, we know, because her EX is a sheriff deputy, and you know they NEVER do anything illegal</sarcasm>!
We retained the papers in either respect, because it WILL be used against him in our upcoming case against him. Documented child abuse by a doctor and a registered nurse are all we need to have him jailed.
Happy days will be seeing a cop in jail for criminal acts against those he is sworn to protect..YIPPEE!!
Considering the vastness of "word" programs, I would suggest that should this somehow become the defacto standard for process serving/s, then every court that makes use of this type of service be regulated to use ONE standard text format, font and style, no others would be allowed, plus an encrypted signature along with a digital signature must also accompany the E-poena.
This way, every court system has their own unique method of authentication, it allows all the court systems to identify every jurisdiction in the nation, where it originated and by whom, and for what cause/reason.
Watermarking legal documents are another method of authenticating the sender to the recipient/s, why stop this method?
E-mail is NOT foolproof, it requires that only one person has access to the computer and the mail server, when more people are introduced into this "equation" the level of security falls dramatically so that being "served" can NOT make absolute that the intended person or parties were indeed, served.
All court/legal documents should be so "airtight" as to make abuses and omissions absolutely "impossible" to occur, and the ability to forge a fraudulent paper all but impossible(see U.S. mint)as well.
If this is ever allowed to stand up in any court as "valid", then I see every EULA for software also become valid....make your choices carefully!
This is just a small step, but, like all branches of government, they get bigger and more intrusive over time from lack of actions on OUR part, this too, WILL become law, and after that, you can forget having it obliterated from the law books.
What you allow in one part, has the ability to also make allowances for still more "inclusions" into that one law, and without anybody ever knowing the difference, nor wil we ever be told of such changes, they will just "happen", then it's too late to rid ourselves of it, forever.
I would love for any company to attempt to circumvent the notion that what you did in the past, BEFORE becoming an employee would somehow belong to the corporation. The courts WOULD strike that out as nonenforceable due to the differenc in dating. Prior "art" supercedes ALL employment contracts, and no court can legally assign ownership, copyright/s or prior art to anybody simply because it was "required" prior to employment.
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Verizon had such verbage in theri documents, I struck out the offending statements stating that my personal creations, thoughts and ideas and inventions are wholly mine, in full right and title, and shall remain so for as long as I shall live. Upon my death, all rights to my work/s shall be transferred in full to my legal heirs whom are named in my will.
I agree to the company's assertion/s that work performed on company time and with their property is theirs in full, but I decline acceptance of the notion that any work I perform, invent, design or create also becomes the property of Verizon, especially if my personal work/s are done on MY time and not on company time. I retain all rights to all my work forever and shall not resign my rights to anybody, corporation, company or person or persons, and to do such, in light of pre-employment, signifies a willful intention to coerce me in a negative way, that which would benefit the corporation and it's employees while restricting me from gaining from my own lawful creations. My work/s in the past, present and future are my personal property and none of the corporation's business, in whole and in part.
I maintain full ownership of my work and shall not be coerced into transferring my property to another without prior agreement/s and just compensation for my work or works. To expect me to transfer my property to the corporation without my willingness to do so creates coersion on my part and invalidates all portions of all contracts, in past, present and future with myself and the corporation, and the corporation's board of directors, attorneys agree in full to pay me for tort damages, incidental and collateral,and all legal fees that I accrue while bringing my case to court. This document supercedes all previous documents and is valid in all 50 states.
I also include statements of copyright on every resume I send out, restricting the flow of my personal information within a company.
I also set limitations and demands if not hired.
The company that accepts my resume also agrees to turn over upon demand, all papers, documents and all information that identifies myself, including applications, drug testing agreements and of course, MY resume.
Radio Shack has NDAs and property assignments.
R.S. wants you to sign over to "them", all right and title to any work or works you arrive at while under their employ, this means ANYTHING you think of, including designs, artwork and hardware! R.S "assumes" you arrived at these designs while working for them, and could not have come up with them if you did not work for them, so they automatically "assume" your brain belongs to Radio Shack.
By the way, Radio Shack uses AVERT to collect YOUR information, and that includes EVERYTHING in your history too!
Contact AVERT at: 301 Remington Street,
Fort Collins, CO. 80524
800.367.5933(Tel.) 800.237.4011(Fax)
Go ahead, TRY taking me to court!
It's public information placed on an envelope and MAILED to me. It is NOT a trade secret that I KNOW your company is full of shitheads, like Radio Shack......SCREW YOU!
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I agree with the majority of what you typed, EXCEPT the comment about Fords.
Fords might be okay in California, but in snow country, where salt is used as well as sand; Fords die from rust FASTER than any other U.S. auto maker.
I have a 1990 Chevy Corsica that is PRISTINE and has NEVER been garaged, I also have a 1990 Plymouth Acclaim, same thing, mint condition, no garage.
1986 Ford escort, garaged, floor pans rusted through, body eaten away, door skins separated, and the list goes on and on....
The escort is named the garbage can(because it's rusted out like many of those cans you see at curbside) and the fact that Fords DO have the worst life expectancy of just about every auto maker there is, barring of course, Daewoo and Hyundai.
By the way, Escort is exactly what it needs to be...ESCORTED to the junk yard.
Ford ASPIRE; Great name for a pillbox on wheels that ASPIRES to be called a "car".
Geo; Geo-what? Short for G. Dubya perhaps?
WHY do auto makers give STUPID names to cars?
Suszuki SAMURAI; What happens when this model dies; does it commit Hari Kari or what?
Geo METRO; METRO-politan, Metro-police...HUH?
Ford TAURUS; WHY name a car that's translated into BULL in Spanish?...Ford BULL..Yep, that's right folks, we BULLshit you into buying another rusty pile of scrap known as Ford!
Mercury VILLAGER; as in H. Clinton's "It takes a Village/r"? Now vans are named like towns now?
Ford TOWN & COUNTRY; Oh joy, since the 60s we've been inundated with crap names from Ford and more, for what logical reason?
Ford PROBE; GEE boys and girls, THIS one's got to be a hit with the little green men of Roswell, right? What moron decided that a car should be named a PROBE anyhow? Probing for what...a buyer perhaps?
Well folks, the stupid car names list is growing longer and getting even worse with each passing year...time to get some new ideas fro names now!
*IBM's "GXP" brand of hard drives assumes everybody wants a data fracturing time bomb ticking inside their computer*
*Click, rattle, screech, clank, groan...LOOK OUT! it's gonna blow*!
I'm through playin' now!
Maxtor and Quantum; Quantor!
Off topic, troll!
Karma? Who cares?
Points? I score 1 no matter what I post!
Conner drives have been extremely well lived drives, I have yet to have ANY Conner drive die, from the 20 meg ones all the way up to the gig. level. Also, you missed Rodime from just before the 90s, it was the early 80s that they "boomed" and died, too bad though as my HUGE 5 meg(yep, that's FIVE megabytes!0 drive was a damned tank!
Micropolis was a great drive as well.
Maxtor has made some very rugged drives, but I have had a few that failed in under a year.
Seagate, like those ST-225s, ST-251Rs and so on, just keep on going, but their early 80 meg drives failed 2 out of 5, but that failure rate was short lived, and I have used many since the '225 days.
The ST-157A drive I still use to this day in a swappable XT 386 machine, along with the above '225s and 251s.
The WORST GARBAGE EVER is WD! Almost every damned CAVIAR drive from the 1170 on up has failed quickly, and the errors that show up CHANGE from time to time on the same drive..go figure?!
The WD Caviar line is HORSESHIT and I will never buy another WD drive! Controllers go bad quite often, they lose their ROM settings and the platter motor goes bad(slows, speeds up, stops and then makes a whining sound before the controller shuts down).
My Conner Cabo Stingray(CFS1081A) is my "E" drive for swapping files, and it runs 24/7 along with this PII-200 box. The Conner drive in this(Conner, 4 gig) is a vintage 1996 mfg. and has well over 50,000 hours on it, still spinning and NO errors found on monthly defrags and clean scans.
Performance like this keps me buying Conner drives!
Fujitsu; well, those drives aren't really very popular where I am, and never were. i can't give any good/bad reports on Fujitsu.
Toshiba, well, my three laptops(Compaq, Toshiba) all use Toshiba drives(1.2, and 500 Mb) have been solid performers since new. My Compaqs are both Mfg. 1997, and the Toshiba 486-75 is....I forgot, but it was PRE 1995 either way. I never had any problems with Toshiba drives, and my 486s 1/2 gig drive has GLASS, yes, glass platters, and it too has taken a few table to floor falls without breaking, now THAT'S a tough drive in anybody's book!
I have used a few Quantum drives years ago, but those had good and bad production runs as well, but since I buy Conner drives, and have since 1992, I don't have anything to add about in the way of reliability or life(MTBF).
I never owned a "real" IBM drive, every drive I had that was inside my 486-50 Thinkpad, was a Toshiba drive, and even that was a puny 280 meg unit, but absolutely reliable. IBM, like every OEM outsources their drives from another maker and relabels them under the IBM moniker. Who actually makes these horrible XP drives anyhow? I have yet to see one come across my bench yat, but I would love to do a burn-in on one to see what fails, take it apart and see what failed.
No wonder I stay with Conner! I get great service should I need it, fast delivery on new orders, and best of all; NO D.O.As to deal with since day-1!
Here's a GREAT way to LEGALLY get by ANY EULA:
Send a REGISTERED letter to MS with YOUR statement disallowing ALL EULAs in their entirety, and enclose INSIDE that letter; the line about: *The opening, reading and transferring to another, this letter and its contents, you hereby DISOLVE FOREVER, all licenses, EULAs, CALs and ALL restrictive licensing practices of Microsoft, it's B.O.D, chairman, and C.O.O from forever attempting to force, by license, agreement, click-through, hidden or subjective or by any and all currently known efforts of control, either locally, remotely or by lawyer forever restrained from contact with myself, organization, business, partners or any person or persons even remotely associated with me. You hereby agree to hold harmless forever, any claims of loss of profits, damages or suits of tort against (insert your name here) from attempting to coerce any financial gain, whether by direct or indirect contact or contacts, for the life of the above named person, party or individual.
This agreement supercedes any and all contracts and previous licenses for the duration of the life of(insert your name here)and shall be legally binding upon you the moment this letter is opened and read. The contents of this letter is copyrighted and protected by federal law. Disclosure to any person or persons outside of Microsoft shall constitute a violation of the D.M.C.A and D.R.M as prescribed under federal statute/s for the protection of copyrighted material.
Oh boy, I love knowing MS has a "need" to track my useage and what I am doing with a product they sold!
Does anybody see the frivolity and possible illegal actions MS uses to "legitimize" tracking anybody AFTER they sold the product to the end user? WHY does MS "need" to track anything at all?
Since when has it become a necessity for any business to track their sold product/s, what other company does this, or feels the need to do this?
Why do all the software companies take the same, lame excuse route hands down?
I don't give a damn what is enclosed in ANY EULA, and since it's already paid for prior to knowing about any EULAs, they are NOT enforceable upon me in the slightest!
Whatever is written for a EULA, I disregard it every time.
My license is my money used to BUY XP, and once that task is done, what happens to the OS is totally up to ME alone.
I'll use whatever OS I want, and in any way, method or instance of my choosing, NOT MSs way.
Should I wish to use dual boot, and XP is that second boot, too damn bad for MS, since I already PAID for what's on MY computer, HOW I make use of it is, again, totally up to ME alone!
Any fool that buys ANY software suite and then pays even MORE money for some dumb-assed paperwork for permission to use HIS/HER software on more than one machine is absolutely ABSURD!
Just how in hell can or could MS even find out you or I or anybody for that matter might be using XP on more than one box to begin with?
Or did you tell MS you were doing this in the first place when you asked permission for the key to enable XP to run after installation?
Gee, paying good money for a garbage OS that needs a permission level grant from the manufacturer in order for the OS to even begin being useful!
Just think if the auto makers did this with cars!
Term licenses available for "your" new car...Gee, what a fresh idea in the world of "free enterprise", buy a car, buy a term license BEFORE you can even drive the car, would YOU go for this tactic as well?
Let's have a law passed that makes EULAs, click-throughs and hidden licenses a crime, maybe even a felony for that matter, then let's see how fast MS goes after us!
*You paid for it, it's YOURS!*
Why would you want to have a tube classification number as a UID?
Anyway, the 2.4 Ghz. S-band is EASILY filtered using stripline filtering found in just about ALL downconverters, pre-amps, and power amplifiers. I wonder just what SIRIUS thinks that such a wide bandwidth can't be filtered easily, are they nuts or what? Cheap filters are available from Murata for one, not to mention several from other firms that offer filtering products that cover a wide range of R.F. frequencies(Microwave Filter Co. for one). To make such a stupid statement by what I "assume" to be a reputable company, is absolutely ludicrous!
Filtering products can be designed using a multitude of software suites that have been on the market for over 15 years, so there's no excuse to make statements as dumb as this.
R.F. lighting....Hmmm, now you have to make a small, yet high powered device capable of being enclosed in a relatively snall enclosure, and also couple the output of the "device" to the lamp's electrodes and also ensure the R.F does not impinge upon the main power entering the assembly.
What a waste of resources this will be if it makes it into production. It'll be good for the company that makes the devices, but bad for the folks that have to maintain such devices in the real world situations that will undoubtedly arise from such a stupid endeavor.
I hope they are able to keep the stry R.F low enough as to stay within the F.C.C guidelines for S.A.R(Specific Absorption Rate), not to mention the supposed W.B.R(Whole Body Resonance) that deals with ocular damage to the workers replacing the lamps when they burn out, which they will, but the R.F generating device will still be operational regardless(due to cheap manufacturing, the safety disconnects would never be implemented).
AMSAT members use the 2.4 Ghz. band to uplink their ground based stations to the OSCAR satellite/s that currently orbit the earth in both LEO and eliptical orbits.
S-band has applications for SERIOUS implementation, not for nonsense junk pet projects of some dipwad company to request the F.C.C to deny all others from its use above and beyond what SIRIUS plans on using the band for.
Disregard their business edict as being non-implementable, and NOT economically viable for the masses, so it WILL fail to pass muster of an F.C.C investigation as it provides NO socially beneficial reasons to exist in the first place.
At least the majority of the world has the damn steering wheel on the CORRECT SIDE of the car, which is the LEFT side!
Hey, wait just a minute here!
.34 seconds like I do at the club!
I have TWO Osbornes, both in perfect condition and in both model "formats"...ribbon cable to keyboard and the newer coiled cord. Both have dual 360K floppies, 3" B/W CRT and a 300 baud modem.
I am saving these for my posterity, or for the cash they'll garner being in perfect condition.
Either way, I'll not market these until the "demand" for them reaches the multi-kilobuck level.
Damn, I would LOVE to have a gunfight with a gun toting crook, I bet he can't do a clean double tap to the head in less than
Race guns ARE the way to beat theft!
I carry one on every trip to the "big city" and feel safer than having a dumb cellphone in my pocket, not to mention that my trigger finger is faster at the draw than speed dial, and 100% faster and safer then having 20 stupid nazis show up with blank stares.
COP: Let's diallo that S.O.B first, then we'll find out who did what.....someday!
The nazis loved the sound the M1s clip made when that last round was fired and the clip ejected from the rifle, in fact, many in a firefight fired and listened for the clatter of that M1 clip on a hard surface....pop up, fire at the GI and that was the end of the GI. Later, many got smart and left a round chambered, reloaded a fresh clip and waited for nazi boy to pop up and BANG! nazi boy went down. The clatter from those clips caused many deaths of our fighting men in WWII, and after many wised up, they would toss an empty clip onto a rock to "force" the enemy to show his face because he heard that familiar sound, and he would be shot dead because he "assumed" the GI was out of ammo.
Implanted inside the body as "undected"? Can you even think? I suppose a fresh SCAR doesn't give that away? No wonder so many people blindly bend over and take it up the tailpipe just to have a seat on a plane!
Stupid morons really amaze me at the levels of intrusive actions they'll endure for speed of travel!
BOYCOTT every airport no matter how much you might need to get there last night! Show some cajones and STOP taking the blind stupidity of government mouths!
I hope some poor person dies from this amount of intrusive security checks, maybe if a few hundred suits climb into the billions for damages and injurious claims, MAYBE some butthead will take notice and put a halt to unnecessary searches for pseudo bombs and anything that "appears" to not be "right" with a person's posessions, no matter what they may be, or located for that matter!
Sue the airports out of business!
Sue the security guards for damages in the millions!
Sue the police for violating YOUR rights!
Sue everybody who feels the "need" to do a body cavity search!
But, like the majority of people, you'll simply buy a larger tupe of Prep. "H" and CONTINUE to get butt reamed, and just mutter about how you all "hate" being humiliated!
TYPICAL SHEEP BEING LED TO THE SLAUGHTER HOUSE!
Photon, Proton, Electron, Negatron, Positron, Quark, Red shift, Blue shift, Void, Binary, Spiral galaxy, Nebula, Neutrino, Ion, Corona(not the beer), Scorpius, Cygnus, NASA(hub), Hermes and so on....
Use differing names for a feeling of "security" if you will, but hardened attacks will get in and gain access.
No matter what you name the machines, they will only be known to the employees, and I doubt outsiders can even dream up specifics if they tried, but would give up the attempt in short order if access was not forthcoming.
*I've been there, and it's not really worth talking about; really*!
Almost all of the "corporate" cards AMEX, VISA and the like have to go after the name on the card's face, NOT the person that signed the receipt. If you are the holder of that card, then it is your responsibility to make certain the payments are made, not the signer(if different).
I have had corporate cards where I am both the business AND the signer, which, of course, means that I am solely responsible for the bill/s.
If I "owned" the card, but my employee signed for merchandise, it would be no different as the owner of the card is solely responsible, not the employee that signed the statement.
IANAL, but the card companies CAN'T go after the signer, only the owner of the card that is embossed on the plastic; they are the only ones legally responsible for all debts incurred on said card/s.
*Work like an elephant all your life, and all you have to show for your efforts is peanut husks*!
Don't forget Leisure suit Larry!
Lounge lizards unite!
Hail the powerful 70's and 80's folks, they were there even when you didn't want them to be.
Polyester and tie dye is for hippies and flower sniffing tree huggers!
*Oh give me a home, where I can wirelessly roam, and I'll surf all night until dawn....
*On slashdot I heard; was a report from some turd, that the....(how about YOU ending the tune now).
yep! Try a Toshiba 1200, mono display, 8088 CPU and a decent battery life, with a 20 Meg. H.D, 3-1/2" F.D and normal keyboard. The mouse thingy wasn't an option then, and IF you located one, it was for a Crapple.
I have two other OLD Osbornes; the "original" with the flat keyboard(ribbon) cable and the "newer" version with the coiled cord. Both had 360 KB drives, a 3" B/W CRT PLUS, a 300 baud modem all built in no less..}}:-
*Good computers are always needed, and laptops will always be sold for more than their worth*!
Anybody can do ANYTHING if the (sick) desire is there. What happens to the person or company that decides to take it upon themselves and interfere with your privacy and right to remain "secure" WILL open that company/person/s to a HUGE civil and criminal suit.
I doubt your job is on "the line" for what you do IF AOL-TW or MS or ANYBODY for that matter would even ATTEMPT to violate the law just to "snitch" on you...too risky for THEIR bottom line, so, nope, it'll NOT take place.
Search my IP as to where I go...so what, who cares! Now, if these "folks" decided that browsing gave them some misguided "right" to violate my home...out come the BIG guns, and I will shed no tears for the sad shithead that wears my mental target on their forehead. The two are entirely different, why make them "appear" similar, they're not.
I disable almost ALL those nice check boxes in win-dump ver. XXX, why do I need "auto-complete" or anything I seldom use or access?
Hell, even my name is NOT me, but a television show android's...Now, HOW is AOL et al going to find out just WHO I am, really?
My IP does NOT contain street addresses, telephone numbers or social insecurity numbers, so how can they locate and track me when they have no base info to use to accomplish this task?
I have used NS 4.5 since '95 and see no reason to get MORE bloatware!
I also use IE 5 as well, dual browsers, both used, but for different "things"....
*Being invisible AND retarded makes you too stupid to know where you are going nor where you have been, and also who you are or where you are*!
I'm not going to beat down any main board mfr. here, but my personal experience has been with ASUS since my '486 days. I have 4 desktops running ASUS boards, and my old 100 Mhz. ASUS board has NEVER crapped out, locked up or anything. Same goes for my much newer boards; ALL from ASUS.
The one board I have on my PII-200 has the TXpro chipset, and AMI BIOS, this board locks up eveery time; daily, with video splits and fatal exception errors(that blue screen of death act).
I use this board for net surfing only since that's all it's good for. Garbage surfing and mail.
Yes, it's also a windope box but so what, the OS was a freebie from a VAR.
I sure would love to see MS die fast and with painful throes of agony!
The more money you have, the less you have to abide by the law!
MS = software genocide by pure monopolistic practices backed with blessing of the D.O.J and the supreme court.
McDonald's?
People actually LIVE after eating that garbage?
Apalling!
No speedpass in Northern WI. it doesn't come with a ball attached to it, so no interest(does that come with a "G" for "my team"?).
The upper half of WI. is made up of brain dead morons, the remainder is trying!
How many times do I have to explain that my UHF radio is NOT able to receive CB?
Yes, it's a scanner, but it doesn't decode bar codes or images.
McDonalds is the choice of junk yard dogs worldwide!
Wouldn't the world be a lot better off WITHOUT police radar as well? That "device" emits a high level radiation in both the X, K and Ka bands(10,24 Ghz>) which does cause ionization of the viscous eye fluids and brain tissue!
Not to mention that police radar is pointed at YOU driectly! Would you stick your head inside a 2.45 Ghz. microwave oven? Police radar is 5 to 12 times higher in frequency, which means LESS R.F. is needed to COOK YOUR BRAIN!
Let's start banning police radar on a nationwide scale first, then treat the small time R.F. devices we are so "warm" about these days.
Don't worry about wireless devices that radiate omni-directional patterns with less than 20 dBm signal levels, that's not a problem, since that level is "normally" more than a meter or more distant from your body(namely, the eyes), so the R.F. that does get absorbed will be of absolutely no consequence to your safety whatsoever.
I work daily with R.F. from VHF through 30 Ghz. and my monitor has yet to go off warning me of any harmful stray radiation(It's a Narda radiation monitor). The last site I serviced was a 150 watt, 5 Ghz. point to point relay station, and I was up at the 200' level and within 1/2 meter from the main radiating element of the dish(a grid parabola), and I had to run my tests powered. R.F. at the antenna was 126.219 Watts, but the 27 dB. dish would have placed the radiated power well over the kilowatt range had I been in the main lobe of the dish(NO, I stay far away from danger, than you!).The R.F. monitor never made a sound, so low level S-band radiation emitted from wireless network cards will NOT fry your body, no matter how close you get(but stay away with the eyes though!).
Cellular radio emissions, including GSM, PCS can be hazardous to your brain, the frequency to size ratio is about "right" for near total absorption of PCS signals CAN do damage even at the low level of 200 mW power these devices emit(that level is for max range, not used when close to a tower mind you). Cellsites control the handheld's R.F. power output to minimize site intermod, and increase the "hearing" distance of the site at the same time.
I have 100 CDs AOL sent to me since way back when, I even have a floppy with version 2.0!
.50AE and my combat pistol matches I hold during the non-winter season.
They are great targets for my
I even made a holder that is motorized and swings the CD through an arc and you have to aim, shoot and hit the CD for points(breaking it usually).
AOL: Assholes Off Line
AOL: American Office of Lesbians
AOL: Affectionate Oral Lovers
AOL: Anal Orifice Love
AOL: Anything On Limpa(bread)
AOL: Afghanistan Office of Linguistics
AOL: Afghan Orator's Library
AOL: Assholes Of Law
AOL: Another Obscene Law
AOL: Always Object Lawyers
AOL: Accept Only Litigation
AOL: Acquiesce Or Litigate
AOL: I'm tired, you think up a few now....
Business class service? Did copper lines become gold for business "class" or what? If anybody has actually SEEN a CO, and peeked into the boxes, the ones I have seen in 20 years have all been made of copper, and finally, fiber is making inroads to the rural markets as well. Most of all telcos are ancient circuits wired for old phone systems and higher ring voltages. My home and wiring has just passed it's first year, and the connection I have to my telco now runs 172 feet and is wored into that very same old cable run that was laid down over 20 years ago! My line connection is very quiet, I have less than .1dB of noise ingress on my line.
My ISP is also my phone company(Citizens) and their routers/modems/servers are configured horribly, I rarely get a connection on the first attempt, and almost always have to redial 3, 4 and more just to get away from error codes 645, 629, 720 and 650. My speed also fluctuates several Kb if I disconnect and immediately reconnect, from 40K to 44K while being set at a "normal" 42.667K.
Complaining to the consumer protectioan agency just gets "them" asking for the usual whys, how comes and they wait for a letter from the ISP explaining this to the C.P.A, which is always lip service lies to coverup their lousy service!
I sent New North Net E-mails every time I was disconnected in a 7 day period, and looking at how many times I was cut off, the total message load sent to NNN was 43 logged disconnects, 16 "pings" and several "dead" pings to the server that got no reply that port 80, 8080 were even active!
They even billed me for complaining, which I didn't pay. My phone service is reliable, their ISP is NOT! Same company different idiots dealing with lies and excuses. They also have "tech support" available from 7AM to 10PM, which is NOT realisitic as not one human ever answers the phone, but is a recorded message, you leave one, and "maybe" a body might call yopu in two or three days IF they feel like it! Citizen and NNN are a BAD JOKE!
Copper is copper, and the claim for business over residential service is also a cruel attempt to steal money for the SAME SERVICE, not better.
Now, if I had a large complex with DID lines and several lines serving me, I sure as hell WOULD expect my bill to be reduced for ANY outage that lasted from 1/2 to a day or more, it's only right to not be billed for service not used or able to be used.
Would anybody pay for four new tires for their car, but actually get three? Of course not, why should I pay for anything I never received?
We DO live in a "rural" locale, our biggest "city" is just over 7,000 people, and my town has less than 300, and that includes the deer, bear and cows.
Business and residential line service differs only with the amount of service techs they send out to repair the problem, and how fast they send them out as well. Residential...we'll get there sometime in the next 3 days.
Commercial......We'll send a tech out this evening sir.
That's about the ONLY real difference there is, at least in MY locale, this is true.
Paying for service, you should GET service, NOT lame excuses!