But it holds true to at extent still - Some people I work with have to get there at 8:00, I have to be there at 8:30, some others at 10:00, etc. When was the last time you had to be at work for 8:23? If you do 1 hour after login, you're still going to have surges on the hour and half hour, because thats when people have to be at work. Thats what people are saying.
Where I work, there is no phone policy, but we usually answer something like this:
Good (morning|afternoon), , how may I help you
Or sometimes
, , how may I help you
Our receptionist answers with nothing more than .
My high school has something like this. Out by our football feild is just a peice of wood sticking up from the groud. All the sports teams go there on occasion and paint it with things such as 'football rocks' or 'freshman suck'. The school doesn't technically sanction it, but turns a blind eye. This helps keep the graffiti off the school, where they do in fact contact the authorities. Everyone has their fun, no one gets in trouble.
In CT, at least in the bank I work at, checks become dead after 6 months. Our policy is to not cash them, and tell the person cashing the check to get the issuer to write a new check.
At least here in CT, we can get Optimum Voice, which is phone service through our cable lines. $34.95/month unlimited local and long distance, you can still use a normal phone. I've also heared of very good things about Optimum online, which is our main cable internet service. I've had great luck (I can't remember any downtime at all) with SBC here as well.
I pay for hosting, and I still do backups at least once/week (mainly for the database backups). Anyone who keeps anything on the 'net should know that its an unstable place, and thing can dissapear at a moment's notice. I don't trust anything to be kept securely to the web, and no one else should either.
I used to play Asheron's Call (AC), and I too found myself addicted. That kind of a game is really fun, but while I didn't (and don't currently) have a SO, I found my schoolwork slipping and myself spending like all my time playing that video game. I had no social life outside of it, almost no friends, I just locked myself in my room and played. Once I started getting bored of AC, I began to realise just how addicted to it I was, and how unhealthy I was. Now the only kinds of video games that I play are an occasional RTS (Starcraft mostly) or a FPS. These kinds of games I can just put down at any time and go out and do something. I found that with AC, I couldn't just leave, I always had to get to the next level, or find the next item, do the next quest, etc. Once a game of SC is over, I can just leave. FPSes are great games, as there is no time commitment. I can log in, have my fragging fun, and log out as many times as I want and it won't effect anything in the game.
Once I saw how unhealthy that was, I decided that I would NEVER let myself be drawn into a game like that again. I probably won't play another MMORPG (even though WoW looks so awesome) for fear of it ruining my social life again.
I'm talking about using my modem to interface with the POTS network, not through the internet. All I know is that I've been talking through my modems since around 1995, and have never had any duplex problems. Whatever undocumented APIs there are must be understood quite well.
T-Mobile hotspot is NOT $30/month. T-Mobile offers unlimited internet anywhere from a cell phone for $30 a month, or $20/month if you also have voice service from them.
Hotspot plans are $4.99/month or $9.99/month, depending on features. Both have unlimited useage.
It wouldn't be an end all be all answer to where the person is/was, but you could call up the map and see where people have and haven't been, and not bother searching for people in an area in which no one has been to in 2 weeks.
My camera (an Olympus 2020z) is constantly doing apature(sp?) and shutter adjustments, so those are ready when I'm ready to take the picture, the only thing it has to do is focus. The nice thing about this camera (in addition to being an awesome consumer level camera), is I can hold the button halfway and it focuses, and the rest of the way so I get an instant picture. There is also no delay if I put it into manual focus mode. I can also set it to manual apature, shutter, and ISO mode, or any combination of auto/manual. This was excelent for me to recently get some great night shots in London, that no one, including consumer level film cameras could capture.
I've found that booting to a Knoppix CD, then connecting to a proxy on my webserver through an SSH tunnel is a very good way to avoid being monitored. NetOp (basically VNC) won't work, VNC won't work, watching my history won't work, and the server logs won't work. All the data is encrypted, with nothing running client side to monitor me. Only way is for someone to look over my shoulder.
Last time I checked, it was news for nerds. Not everyone who browses Slashdot likes linux and hates MS. A good amount of them do, but that doesn't make slashdot a linux advocacy site.
Yep, that used to happen to me a ton. Someone would send me an instant message, asking me how I am and whatnot, and withen the first 5 lines, there would be a computer question. They never talked to me unless they needed computer help, at which point they would become all buddy buddy so I would help them. I'm too damned nice to just tell them to screw off, so they just started getting alot of "I don't knows", as where the people that pay me, or my real friends (people who like me for reasons other than the fact that I can fix their computer), get plenty of answers and house calls no problem.
You'd think, but I'm just a teller, I don't have a say in those things. There are quite a few stupid things in our system, that will probably never get changed. I shouldn't go into details though, bank security and secrecy and all (yeah, its paranoid, but if on the off chance something did happen, and it came back to me, I could be in a heap of trouble).
Banks get notified of tons of things like this every day (I work in one), and all the tellers should know of the scams. Before you do anything involving your bank account, call your bank!
We also get memos telling us NOT to let Bin Laden or Saddam open accounts... allong with a list of the US Government's top 100 most wanted. I'm still not quite sure how we're suppossed to memorize all those names...
I do tech at my HS (sound), and we have both clearcoms and those cheap radio shack things. The radio shack wireless system sits in the boxes, unless we absolutely need another headset. The clearcoms work excelently, no interference. Only thing is they're like $500 per beltpack & headset, so it can get costly. Our sound system was installed with one in the sound booth, light booth, and stage left. I later added one for stage right/pit (in a musical).
Right now I'm working on getting the school to shell out the $7000 I want for wireless microphones...
$10,000 might stick out in your mind, as this is the magic number in bank deposits and the IRS. If you deposit/withdrawl $10,000.01 to/from a bank on a single day, the bank is obligated to file a CTR (currency transaction report) on you, which gets sent to the IRS.
FYI, its not just one person/one account.
Person A and B can both deposit $6,000 into account C, and a CTR will be filed.
Person A deposits $6,000 to account C and $6,000 to account D. CTR is still filed.
Banks can also file a SAR (suspicious activity report) if they think that you're depositing your money specifically to avoid having a CTR filed on you.
You could possibly have 2 buttons, an emergency override button and a disable emergency override button. With the extra security measures in place today, I would think that piolits have at least a 10 second warning that someone is trying to break down the cockpit door, in which time they could disable the emrgency override, or even possibly force the plane to autopiolit twards some landing strip that doesn't have a city around it, and the autopiolit wouldn't turn off until right before the plane was about to land, and it would kick in again if the plane tried to fly away from the deserted airstrip.
It has always seemed to me that the internet isn't all that de-centralized, but a few major companies ran most of the backbones. Since it isn't a huge ad-hoc network, most of the data for an area probably goes out through no more than 5 connections. Especially in rual areas, I wouldn't doubt that at least one routing station in each of those chains doesn't have good long term backup facilities.
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But it holds true to at extent still - Some people I work with have to get there at 8:00, I have to be there at 8:30, some others at 10:00, etc. When was the last time you had to be at work for 8:23? If you do 1 hour after login, you're still going to have surges on the hour and half hour, because thats when people have to be at work. Thats what people are saying.
Yes... because my home DSL connection can upload a 2 MB/sec. Hosting the site yourself at a reasonable speed is not an option for most people.
Where I work, there is no phone policy, but we usually answer something like this: Good (morning|afternoon), , how may I help you Or sometimes , , how may I help you Our receptionist answers with nothing more than .
My high school has something like this. Out by our football feild is just a peice of wood sticking up from the groud. All the sports teams go there on occasion and paint it with things such as 'football rocks' or 'freshman suck'. The school doesn't technically sanction it, but turns a blind eye. This helps keep the graffiti off the school, where they do in fact contact the authorities. Everyone has their fun, no one gets in trouble.
In CT, at least in the bank I work at, checks become dead after 6 months. Our policy is to not cash them, and tell the person cashing the check to get the issuer to write a new check.
At least here in CT, we can get Optimum Voice, which is phone service through our cable lines. $34.95/month unlimited local and long distance, you can still use a normal phone. I've also heared of very good things about Optimum online, which is our main cable internet service. I've had great luck (I can't remember any downtime at all) with SBC here as well.
I pay for hosting, and I still do backups at least once/week (mainly for the database backups). Anyone who keeps anything on the 'net should know that its an unstable place, and thing can dissapear at a moment's notice. I don't trust anything to be kept securely to the web, and no one else should either.
I used to play Asheron's Call (AC), and I too found myself addicted. That kind of a game is really fun, but while I didn't (and don't currently) have a SO, I found my schoolwork slipping and myself spending like all my time playing that video game. I had no social life outside of it, almost no friends, I just locked myself in my room and played. Once I started getting bored of AC, I began to realise just how addicted to it I was, and how unhealthy I was. Now the only kinds of video games that I play are an occasional RTS (Starcraft mostly) or a FPS. These kinds of games I can just put down at any time and go out and do something. I found that with AC, I couldn't just leave, I always had to get to the next level, or find the next item, do the next quest, etc. Once a game of SC is over, I can just leave. FPSes are great games, as there is no time commitment. I can log in, have my fragging fun, and log out as many times as I want and it won't effect anything in the game. Once I saw how unhealthy that was, I decided that I would NEVER let myself be drawn into a game like that again. I probably won't play another MMORPG (even though WoW looks so awesome) for fear of it ruining my social life again.
I'm talking about using my modem to interface with the POTS network, not through the internet. All I know is that I've been talking through my modems since around 1995, and have never had any duplex problems. Whatever undocumented APIs there are must be understood quite well.
I've been talking over modems on occasion for many many years, and I've never had a single problem with half duplex or compatability problems.
T-Mobile hotspot is NOT $30/month. T-Mobile offers unlimited internet anywhere from a cell phone for $30 a month, or $20/month if you also have voice service from them. Hotspot plans are $4.99/month or $9.99/month, depending on features. Both have unlimited useage.
It wouldn't be an end all be all answer to where the person is/was, but you could call up the map and see where people have and haven't been, and not bother searching for people in an area in which no one has been to in 2 weeks.
My camera (an Olympus 2020z) is constantly doing apature(sp?) and shutter adjustments, so those are ready when I'm ready to take the picture, the only thing it has to do is focus. The nice thing about this camera (in addition to being an awesome consumer level camera), is I can hold the button halfway and it focuses, and the rest of the way so I get an instant picture. There is also no delay if I put it into manual focus mode. I can also set it to manual apature, shutter, and ISO mode, or any combination of auto/manual. This was excelent for me to recently get some great night shots in London, that no one, including consumer level film cameras could capture.
I've found that booting to a Knoppix CD, then connecting to a proxy on my webserver through an SSH tunnel is a very good way to avoid being monitored. NetOp (basically VNC) won't work, VNC won't work, watching my history won't work, and the server logs won't work. All the data is encrypted, with nothing running client side to monitor me. Only way is for someone to look over my shoulder.
Here is a very partial mirror, but my webserver is downloading more as time goes on (currently at .5 k/s).
Last time I checked, it was news for nerds. Not everyone who browses Slashdot likes linux and hates MS. A good amount of them do, but that doesn't make slashdot a linux advocacy site.
Yep, that used to happen to me a ton. Someone would send me an instant message, asking me how I am and whatnot, and withen the first 5 lines, there would be a computer question. They never talked to me unless they needed computer help, at which point they would become all buddy buddy so I would help them. I'm too damned nice to just tell them to screw off, so they just started getting alot of "I don't knows", as where the people that pay me, or my real friends (people who like me for reasons other than the fact that I can fix their computer), get plenty of answers and house calls no problem.
You'd think, but I'm just a teller, I don't have a say in those things. There are quite a few stupid things in our system, that will probably never get changed. I shouldn't go into details though, bank security and secrecy and all (yeah, its paranoid, but if on the off chance something did happen, and it came back to me, I could be in a heap of trouble).
Banks get notified of tons of things like this every day (I work in one), and all the tellers should know of the scams. Before you do anything involving your bank account, call your bank!
We also get memos telling us NOT to let Bin Laden or Saddam open accounts... allong with a list of the US Government's top 100 most wanted. I'm still not quite sure how we're suppossed to memorize all those names...
I do tech at my HS (sound), and we have both clearcoms and those cheap radio shack things. The radio shack wireless system sits in the boxes, unless we absolutely need another headset. The clearcoms work excelently, no interference. Only thing is they're like $500 per beltpack & headset, so it can get costly. Our sound system was installed with one in the sound booth, light booth, and stage left. I later added one for stage right/pit (in a musical). Right now I'm working on getting the school to shell out the $7000 I want for wireless microphones...
$10,000 might stick out in your mind, as this is the magic number in bank deposits and the IRS. If you deposit/withdrawl $10,000.01 to/from a bank on a single day, the bank is obligated to file a CTR (currency transaction report) on you, which gets sent to the IRS. FYI, its not just one person/one account. Person A and B can both deposit $6,000 into account C, and a CTR will be filed. Person A deposits $6,000 to account C and $6,000 to account D. CTR is still filed. Banks can also file a SAR (suspicious activity report) if they think that you're depositing your money specifically to avoid having a CTR filed on you.
You could possibly have 2 buttons, an emergency override button and a disable emergency override button. With the extra security measures in place today, I would think that piolits have at least a 10 second warning that someone is trying to break down the cockpit door, in which time they could disable the emrgency override, or even possibly force the plane to autopiolit twards some landing strip that doesn't have a city around it, and the autopiolit wouldn't turn off until right before the plane was about to land, and it would kick in again if the plane tried to fly away from the deserted airstrip.
Cingular's wireless internet express offers unlimited data for $75/month, and that can be hooked to a computer or used from a phone.
It has always seemed to me that the internet isn't all that de-centralized, but a few major companies ran most of the backbones. Since it isn't a huge ad-hoc network, most of the data for an area probably goes out through no more than 5 connections. Especially in rual areas, I wouldn't doubt that at least one routing station in each of those chains doesn't have good long term backup facilities.
CT dosn't require you to know how either, and I don't know how (well I've never really done it).