According to statements made to CNN by an AT&T spokesperson, the outage was caused by "a software upgrade". She went on to say the outage "only hit a limited number of customers". Well DUH! If 1 customer is still online and 99.99% of your customers have an outage, thats still a limited number of customers. I love how corporations have these spindoctors who make vague, noncomittal statements that really provide no information.
If you believe what you are doing is right and legal, why would you say "we'll delete xyz torrents if you ask nicely"?
They fact is, a lawsuit has been filed and they have been backed into a corner. They aren't crusading for freedom, they were forced into this fight. Who knows if they would have stopped posting movies if the MPAA had asked as MS did?
What's to say they won't just use the fund to save their own asses, then close shop as other bittorrent sites have done?
It Seems They've Already Caved To MS
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LokiTorrent vs. MPAA
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· Score: 5, Informative
All the sudden they want to stand up for our rights? Why didn't they do so when MS contacted them and demanded they stop tracking MS related torrents?
Any and all Microsoft software and XBOX games are "banned" from the site. Check their upload page.
I'm not particually keen on the PATRIOT act, but I think I read that article differently than you do anyways.
The US doesn't have any "rights" to information on Canandians persay in Canada. However, once the infomation enters the US via US companies (or otherwise), the information is under their jurisdiction. I'm sure the opposite is true regarding info on US citizens entering Canada.
If so, contact your credit card company to initiate a chargeback. For items that you haven't received, you should just have to fill out a form. If the item wasn't as described, you will have to return the item to the seller via insured shipping w/ tracking and indicate the tracking info on the form.
Different credit card companies have different policies, but most of them should be willing to help you out.
No! He knows the practical side of eBay. You are merely repeating their lies.
I have nearly 10,000 eBay transactions under my belt. I don't know of much more practical experience using eBay. Admittedly most of these are as a seller, but all I've ever been taken for is the Lloyd's deductible.
This is a deliberate lie. I was taken, filed the paperwork thorugh Lloyd's of London, and never received a reply. eBay lies when they say they offer protection.
Actually I was referring to the newer Paypal buyer protection program, which is completely seperate. With that said, if I were you, I would contact them again. Resend copies of the paperwork if needed. I highly doubt they received your claim and then disregarded it. Just because once you experienced a problem with the program does not make them liars.
You imply that eBay does get directly involved in disputes between buyers and sellers. This is an outright lie. They provide a few links to worthless companies that should be shut down for being scams.
What is a scam about them? They provide mediation, they aren't enforcing a police state!
More lies! Just because an occasional seller takes returns does not mean that eBay has a uniform return policy.
No lie, you are just reiterating what I already said. On covered items, the buyer protection policy will provide a refund for "Items not received at all or received significantly different than what was described in the listing". Otherwise, it is up to the seller's policy. If returns are important to you, verify the seller's return policy before purchasing.
The bottom line is that on top of the fraud protection, eBay gives you to tools to determine the legitimacy of the seller and how you would be treated should you choose to make a purchase. Check the sellers feedback, policies, past transactions, etc. You can't guarantee that there won't be a problem, but by being thorough and researching the seller before you purchase, you lower the chance of it happening to near nil.
This person is clearly misinformed, so I'll address these one by one.
but with no buyer protection,
Wrong On many listings, Paypal (an eBay company) offers up to $500 of
buyer protection. They even display a protection logo on the search results
page so the listings with coverage are easily identifiable. More info
here.
no seller authentication,
Wrong eBay does have a voluntary seller authentication program.
It is up to the buyer to decide if they want to purchase from a non-verified
seller. More info here.
and no desire to participate in seller-buyer conflicts,
Wrong eBay does work with dispute mediation providers. Their
preferred provider is
Square Trade.
no return policy,
Wrong Although eBay doesn't have a specific policy relating to
returns, they do provide a space for sellers to state their return policy. Also,
returns may be covered by the buyer protection policy, depending on the reason.
Clone Speedpass RFID?
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RFID MasterCard
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· Score: 3, Insightful
Are there any documented cases of Mobil Speedpass RFID's being stolen and
cloned? I do recall reading a
slashdot story
about a product that could be used for this purpose.
There are already millions of these out, and the infrastructure for using them
has already been in place for years (atleast in my neck of the woods).
I dont get it. People here are bitching that the best throughput they see on gigabit ethernet is 400Mbps.
Thats 4x the speed of regular 100Mbps ethernet. 4x still seems like a hell of an improvement, especially when you consider gigabit switches can be had for $100-150.
I'd take a 4x faster HDD, processor, memory, etc anyday! Why snub your noses at at 4x network speed increase?
With all the talk about boycotting RIAA artists, MPAA movies, and other companies, its nice to see a company I can actually support without compromising my ideals.
This is great, especially now that they've moved their tech support operations back to the US.
I used to not be able to understand the operators through their thick accents, and hang up. Now I can actually understand tech support saying "sorry, we don't support that" and then hanging up on me.
I don't understand why cellphones have become such a scapegoat. I can dial without looking at the phone and dont even have to take my eyes off the phone. A comversation with a passenger is just about as distracting.
Personally, I've found myself driving into the other lane a *LOT* more often when playing with the navigation system, or changing CDs in the CD changer.
I don't hear anyone talking about making it illegal to listen to CDs in the car, though.
Remember that @%#! paperclip that pops up in MS Office apps reminding you to save after x amount of minutes?
Yes, I just publicly admitted to having knowledge of MS applications.
Slashdot Mirror
According to statements made to CNN by an AT&T spokesperson, the outage was caused by "a software upgrade".
She went on to say the outage "only hit a limited number of customers". Well DUH! If 1 customer is still online and 99.99% of your customers have an outage, thats still a limited number of customers. I love how corporations have these spindoctors who make vague, noncomittal statements that really provide no information.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/24/tech/web/uverse-outage-att/
BBC reports it sold for 4.2mil, while other sites report the sale at 4.62 million.
They don't control the internet. They only control the ACCESS of the internet by their citizens.
People have been using liquid nitrogen to cool their extremely overclocked off-the-shelf CPUs for years.
Thats exactly what makes me doubt them.
If you believe what you are doing is right and legal, why would you say "we'll delete xyz torrents if you ask nicely"?
They fact is, a lawsuit has been filed and they have been backed into a corner. They aren't crusading for freedom, they were forced into this fight. Who knows if they would have stopped posting movies if the MPAA had asked as MS did?
What's to say they won't just use the fund to save their own asses, then close shop as other bittorrent sites have done?
All the sudden they want to stand up for our rights? Why didn't they do so when MS contacted them and demanded they stop tracking MS related torrents?
Any and all Microsoft software and XBOX games are "banned" from the site. Check their upload page.
http://www.lokitorrent.com/torrents-upload.php
I'm not particually keen on the PATRIOT act, but I think I read that article differently than you do anyways.
The US doesn't have any "rights" to information on Canandians persay in Canada. However, once the infomation enters the US via US companies (or otherwise), the information is under their jurisdiction. I'm sure the opposite is true regarding info on US citizens entering Canada.
Did you pay with your credit card?
If so, contact your credit card company to initiate a chargeback. For items that you haven't received, you should just have to fill out a form. If the item wasn't as described, you will have to return the item to the seller via insured shipping w/ tracking and indicate the tracking info on the form.
Different credit card companies have different policies, but most of them should be willing to help you out.
No! He knows the practical side of eBay. You are merely repeating their lies.
I have nearly 10,000 eBay transactions under my belt. I don't know of much more practical experience using eBay. Admittedly most of these are as a seller, but all I've ever been taken for is the Lloyd's deductible.
This is a deliberate lie. I was taken, filed the paperwork thorugh Lloyd's of London, and never received a reply. eBay lies when they say they offer protection.
Actually I was referring to the newer Paypal buyer protection program, which is completely seperate. With that said, if I were you, I would contact them again. Resend copies of the paperwork if needed. I highly doubt they received your claim and then disregarded it. Just because once you experienced a problem with the program does not make them liars.
You imply that eBay does get directly involved in disputes between buyers and sellers. This is an outright lie. They provide a few links to worthless companies that should be shut down for being scams.
What is a scam about them? They provide mediation, they aren't enforcing a police state!
More lies! Just because an occasional seller takes returns does not mean that eBay has a uniform return policy.
No lie, you are just reiterating what I already said. On covered items, the buyer protection policy will provide a refund for "Items not received at all or received significantly different than what was described in the listing". Otherwise, it is up to the seller's policy. If returns are important to you, verify the seller's return policy before purchasing.
The bottom line is that on top of the fraud protection, eBay gives you to tools to determine the legitimacy of the seller and how you would be treated should you choose to make a purchase. Check the sellers feedback, policies, past transactions, etc. You can't guarantee that there won't be a problem, but by being thorough and researching the seller before you purchase, you lower the chance of it happening to near nil.
This person is clearly misinformed, so I'll address these one by one.
but with no buyer protection,
Wrong On many listings, Paypal (an eBay company) offers up to $500 of buyer protection. They even display a protection logo on the search results page so the listings with coverage are easily identifiable. More info here.
no seller authentication,
Wrong eBay does have a voluntary seller authentication program. It is up to the buyer to decide if they want to purchase from a non-verified seller. More info here.
and no desire to participate in seller-buyer conflicts,
Wrong eBay does work with dispute mediation providers. Their preferred provider is Square Trade.
no return policy,
Wrong Although eBay doesn't have a specific policy relating to returns, they do provide a space for sellers to state their return policy. Also, returns may be covered by the buyer protection policy, depending on the reason.
Are there any documented cases of Mobil Speedpass RFID's being stolen and cloned? I do recall reading a slashdot story about a product that could be used for this purpose.
There are already millions of these out, and the infrastructure for using them has already been in place for years (atleast in my neck of the woods).
"Yoda is still mobile, sexually active and "looking good," said Dr. Richard A. Miller"
Still sexually active? If I could live to the ripe old age of 136, I bet nobody in the world would have sex with me.
But many methods exist to send binary files as ASCII files.
MIME and BinHex are the first to come to mind.
Don't forget the MP3, SVCD, and Warez sites that will also likely exploit the service.
Don't the mods read slashdot anymore?
This is the 2nd time this week Cowboyneal and timothy have posted dupes of each other's articles this week.
I dont get it. People here are bitching that the best throughput they see on gigabit ethernet is 400Mbps. Thats 4x the speed of regular 100Mbps ethernet. 4x still seems like a hell of an improvement, especially when you consider gigabit switches can be had for $100-150. I'd take a 4x faster HDD, processor, memory, etc anyday! Why snub your noses at at 4x network speed increase?
With all the talk about boycotting RIAA artists, MPAA movies, and other companies, its nice to see a company I can actually support without compromising my ideals.
This is great, especially now that they've moved their tech support operations back to the US.
I used to not be able to understand the operators through their thick accents, and hang up. Now I can actually understand tech support saying "sorry, we don't support that" and then hanging up on me.
I don't understand why cellphones have become such a scapegoat. I can dial without looking at the phone and dont even have to take my eyes off the phone. A comversation with a passenger is just about as distracting. Personally, I've found myself driving into the other lane a *LOT* more often when playing with the navigation system, or changing CDs in the CD changer. I don't hear anyone talking about making it illegal to listen to CDs in the car, though.
The 2004 Acura 3.2TL also has this.
Yeah, I can really see a bunch of terrorists hanging out, playing video games, talking about where to hit next.
"Hey, where is that subway in the playstation game?"
Has anyone else noticed that this guy has had over 4 thousand hits as of now, and not even ONE purchase?
Remember that @%#! paperclip that pops up in MS Office apps reminding you to save after x amount of minutes? Yes, I just publicly admitted to having knowledge of MS applications.
P2P file sharing apps work for just that reason. People sharing on their own free will.
What is the reason to share if you are paying for downloads?
Oh, and give them root access too.