You all are making a very big deal about this, which I don't think is necessary. For the record I own several rifles and shotguns. When you install parental control software (which Norton Internet Security features) it will *ALWAYS* come with a pre-defined list of whats acceptable and whats not. You may or may not agree with that pre-defined list so you can tailor it to your needs. If it bothers you so much don't use it.
It was always my understanding that the code they borrowed and modified needed to be released as source. Anything that they make that's not the essentially the same program, could be kept closed if they choose. I definetly could be wrong but that was always my understanding.
You admit to owing them money, and when they explain it was a mistake and no harm was done you are going to leave them? Seems like if anyone is to blame it's mostly you.
I can almost gurantee that about 95% of all AOL users will be thrilled. I'm a supervisor for a broadband services department and we often get customer's who switch from AOL only to find that spam/pop-ups/porn/etc on the unfiltered internet is so anonying that they want to go back to AOL immediately. Those people love to have their hand held through everything and want AOL to protect them from the internet. Almost anyone that actually uses net send probably isn't on AOL, they have a true ISP.
Sure you can mess up a Windows system easily. I could just as easily compile some code without reading every line of the source and have my entire home directory wiped out, which contains all my settings and documents, you know the important stuff. Every system can be damaged, the extent will vary, but you still need to be careful regardless of the OS you use.
Well the people making sales calls most likely don't have any computer experience. It's unfortunate and I wish we could have some better educated sales employees. However, when 2/3rds of the job is getting screamed at by customers the turn-over rate is pretty high.
Welchia took out my entire division wear I work ~about 1500 users. The firewalls were doing a good job of blocking the viruses until one of the upper management decided to take their laptop home and plug it into an open internet connection and get infected with it. After the returned to work it spread across the unpatched systems and caused so much network traffic that everything was down for days (some areas didn't have IT on sight to clean up the problems). Really makes you think just how vunerable you are to these.
I'm in Oshkosh, WI and I've had one for about 4 months now. Overall it's great, but there's little things that I wish they would iron out with a firmware upgrade. When you choose to record all episodes of a show it records all occurances, so you might record the same show 5 times in the same day if it's aired multiple times on multiple channels. It also has a tendency to crash once in a while and need to be factory reset. The AV inputs and the firewire connectors can't be used right now. But overall it's a great box, and well worth the money. I work 2nd shift and it lets me catch all the shows I miss during primetime and the ability to pause live tv is especially useful when my wife (seriously I have mod points and I got a wife) is feeling extra emotional. I work for Charter and I'm still waiting to see the DVR they have rolling out this fall in Minnesota.
on what the call center does. I'm sure it would work fine for dealing with customer accounts. However, many call centers are software support. It wouldn't make a lot of sense to put linux on a machine when you are supporting Windows or a Windows application. Credit card, insurance, and similiar industries probably could move to linux easily with the exception of required office applications. OpenOffice might be able to fill in that role though, and it would significantly reduce overall cost.
Even if this turns out to be true, the copy scheme is likaly to be so difficult that the vast majority of people will not be able to burn there own games.
If you look up the domain name of the name server he mentioned it points to lop.com if you do a google on lop.com you will see that they are notorious for their spyware that hijacks web browsers.
With all due respect, this has to be the dumbest 'Ask Slashdot' topic I've ever read. Of course you don't NEED telco's or ISPs. Unless of course you want internet and phone service. Since the majority of people who have internet are still on dialup I think your are atleast 10 years to early for a global wireless solution where everyone peers off each other, if this ever happens at all.
This really helps networks that have smaller circuits and lots of clients doing various tasks on them. Not such a big help for a home user but great for corporations.
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You all are making a very big deal about this, which I don't think is necessary. For the record I own several rifles and shotguns. When you install parental control software (which Norton Internet Security features) it will *ALWAYS* come with a pre-defined list of whats acceptable and whats not. You may or may not agree with that pre-defined list so you can tailor it to your needs. If it bothers you so much don't use it.
It was always my understanding that the code they borrowed and modified needed to be released as source. Anything that they make that's not the essentially the same program, could be kept closed if they choose. I definetly could be wrong but that was always my understanding.
You admit to owing them money, and when they explain it was a mistake and no harm was done you are going to leave them? Seems like if anyone is to blame it's mostly you.
Holy shit! I hope I never get trapped in a space storm that traps me in the same city as John Carpenter and Kurt Russell.
I can almost gurantee that about 95% of all AOL users will be thrilled. I'm a supervisor for a broadband services department and we often get customer's who switch from AOL only to find that spam/pop-ups/porn/etc on the unfiltered internet is so anonying that they want to go back to AOL immediately. Those people love to have their hand held through everything and want AOL to protect them from the internet. Almost anyone that actually uses net send probably isn't on AOL, they have a true ISP.
Sure you can mess up a Windows system easily. I could just as easily compile some code without reading every line of the source and have my entire home directory wiped out, which contains all my settings and documents, you know the important stuff. Every system can be damaged, the extent will vary, but you still need to be careful regardless of the OS you use.
Actually for as long as I've worked for them (2 years) customer service/protection has been a very high priority.
Well the people making sales calls most likely don't have any computer experience. It's unfortunate and I wish we could have some better educated sales employees. However, when 2/3rds of the job is getting screamed at by customers the turn-over rate is pretty high.
They aquired several companies. @home and HSA were both included in these.
Welchia took out my entire division wear I work ~about 1500 users. The firewalls were doing a good job of blocking the viruses until one of the upper management decided to take their laptop home and plug it into an open internet connection and get infected with it. After the returned to work it spread across the unpatched systems and caused so much network traffic that everything was down for days (some areas didn't have IT on sight to clean up the problems). Really makes you think just how vunerable you are to these.
My original 17" gets warm but definetly not hot. I had a toshiba laptop that got a 3x as hot.
that living gas blobs exist, just watch the Anna Nicole Smith show.
It was June 2002 actually. The webcam is currently down :)
I'm in Oshkosh, WI and I've had one for about 4 months now. Overall it's great, but there's little things that I wish they would iron out with a firmware upgrade. When you choose to record all episodes of a show it records all occurances, so you might record the same show 5 times in the same day if it's aired multiple times on multiple channels. It also has a tendency to crash once in a while and need to be factory reset. The AV inputs and the firewire connectors can't be used right now. But overall it's a great box, and well worth the money. I work 2nd shift and it lets me catch all the shows I miss during primetime and the ability to pause live tv is especially useful when my wife (seriously I have mod points and I got a wife) is feeling extra emotional. I work for Charter and I'm still waiting to see the DVR they have rolling out this fall in Minnesota.
on what the call center does. I'm sure it would work fine for dealing with customer accounts. However, many call centers are software support. It wouldn't make a lot of sense to put linux on a machine when you are supporting Windows or a Windows application. Credit card, insurance, and similiar industries probably could move to linux easily with the exception of required office applications. OpenOffice might be able to fill in that role though, and it would significantly reduce overall cost.
Even if this turns out to be true, the copy scheme is likaly to be so difficult that the vast majority of people will not be able to burn there own games.
You rock, I found this info out by googling also.
If you look up the domain name of the name server he mentioned it points to lop.com if you do a google on lop.com you will see that they are notorious for their spyware that hijacks web browsers.
I work for Charter... The dude has C2 media spyware installed.
Yeah I was just going to post that he's infected with spyware.
They would be bluffing and trying to buy their way out.
is that he can fit it in his garage.
With all due respect, this has to be the dumbest 'Ask Slashdot' topic I've ever read. Of course you don't NEED telco's or ISPs. Unless of course you want internet and phone service. Since the majority of people who have internet are still on dialup I think your are atleast 10 years to early for a global wireless solution where everyone peers off each other, if this ever happens at all.
This really helps networks that have smaller circuits and lots of clients doing various tasks on them. Not such a big help for a home user but great for corporations.