Remember Granny had a Mac, she couldn't have been running kazaa (she was sued for sharing mp3s on kazaa). If an anti trust exemption was passed, they would be able to sue people who coudln't possibly have done what they claim with impunity since you never could sue them to get them to stop.
Recorded telephone calls are generally illegal. Get their phone number and report them. There are also specific rules about what hours they can call in if they are legal.
This is federal law btw. Google it for more info.
The federal regulation about this doesn't specify a time limit from what I remember. However it DOES specify that they only get 2 or 3 total "grace" calls after you ask them to get on the list. So they definately went over the line. If you kept a log of the dates/times and stuff you might be able to complain to FCC about it.
Corrent amount of paste is as thing as you can get. Remember the paste is only to help the low spots in the CPU make contact with the bottom of the hopefully smooth heatsink. A good guide, use a business card to scrape off nearly everything but a very thin layer. The reason? Thermal paste is not as efficient at transfering heat as the metal. The more you put in (past a certain small amount) the LESS heat transfer you get. And if you overflow the actual CPU squre itself you can get problems since the paste is usually conductive and there are little wire things on the surface of AMD cpus that (not sure about intel) that determine voltage and clock speed.
Last July 16th, the FCC said that telephone companies can now sell/trade your CPNI (Customer Proprietary Network Information) to other companies. This information includes any personally identifiable information such as, what numbers you dial every month, for how long did you talk to them, what services you subscribe too, how much you pay, and ANY other information on your phone bill. If you don't wish this information to be sold call your telephone company and tell them they cannot sell your CPNI.
References:
Epics page:
http://www.epic.org/privacy/cpni/
fcc gov, check under 2002 headlines, july 16th. http://www.fcc.gov
Basically what happened is that the FCC said that instead of being an opt-in thing (they had to ask for your express permission to sell this stuff), its now opt-out (you have to tell them not to, or else they can). Several phone companies actually mailed thier customers about this and said if you dont tell us, we will sell it (see epics page).
Basically this is stuff you need a police warrant for, able to be sold to nearly anyone. Bad Bad stuff.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/06/23/apple.new.reut/index.html
According to that news story, Al Gore joined Jobs. The man who invented the internet says that the new apple computer is worlds fastest PC. I really trust, him I do.
Remember that phone companies can ALREADY sell information on who you call including the numbers you dial, when you call, where they are etc. And WITHOUT asking your permission. This was from a FCC ruling last July.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/18/124520 2
You need to call up your phone companie and request that they dont share your CPNI (customer proprietary network infomation). You can still opt out of them doing this. But whats changed is that you MUST opt out, or else they can go ahead and sell that info.
All very good points. However, the FCC has the stuff for VERY easy access on thier webpage (2nd item down on main page), and its an easy place to go to. Plus the the press release makes it clear exactly what will happen (phone companies marketing your information to 3rd party agent who are "communications related"). I think more people will be able to identify with a FCC ruling than a court decision. When I submitted the story I thought the FCC was at fault, but after reading the press release better and seeing the section about the court decision, I realize its not thier fault. Still though, its good place to get info. And contacting the court isn't going to do anything unless tons of people contact them. Otherwise the only thing left is to contact senators and congressmen and have THEM do something about it.
There is a federal law about this. If you log the information about who they are and what company and the time they called, etc, you can get them for up to $500 paid to YOU for each time they call you after you say put me on your do not call list. They are allowed one or two "mistake" calls though.
There's a neat little program that allows you to keep a log of this stuff and at the same time shows the appropriate laws to quote to demand the information from the caller like who he's calling from. I haven't used it very much yet, since I dont get many telemarketers calling but I plan to, if I'm near a computer when they call that is:)
Its better to start logging calls from telemarketers and asking them to put you on do not call lists. Why? Because you can get money out of them if you do that:) Federal law, $500 per violation paid to you (they are allowed one or two "mistake" calls after you tell them do not call)
But this selling your info thing... I mean do you really want anyone to be able to buy information on what phone numbers you call each month?
Oh also, when I called up FCC I asked them what "communications-related" meant. At first she said something about cell phone companies, wireless, etc. Then I asked her how about radio shack, they sell phones. She said yeah, that could be one.
Does this mean if I buy a used phone at a garage sale and offer it for sale on ebay, that I'm now in a communications related business? Heck, anyone could be "communications" related. Isn't TV a communications medium? How about people who advertise on it? Are they "communications" related?
I just wanted to post some further information about this, after I submitted the story to slashdot, I wanted to do some more research.
First, some quotes from the
press release from FCC (I'm going to try and look up the full detail of the ruling, so far I'm having trouble finding it. I called FCC and asked about the ruling, and they can't find FCC-02-214 document thats mentioned at the bottom of the press release, strange, they claim it hasn't been uploaded to thier document managing system yet). Gonna stop in at the library and see if I can find it in the federal register.
"Opt-Out- Use of CPNI by carriers or disclosure to their affiliated entities providing communications-related services, as well as third-party agents and joint venture partners provided providing communications-related services, requires a customers' knowing consent in the form of notice and opt-out approval. Carriers have the choice to use either opt-in or opt-out in this context."
Emphasis added Out of all the "big news" web sites, the only one that even has a small story is msnbc.
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Remember Granny had a Mac, she couldn't have been running kazaa (she was sued for sharing mp3s on kazaa). If an anti trust exemption was passed, they would be able to sue people who coudln't possibly have done what they claim with impunity since you never could sue them to get them to stop.
Recorded telephone calls are generally illegal. Get their phone number and report them. There are also specific rules about what hours they can call in if they are legal. This is federal law btw. Google it for more info.
The federal regulation about this doesn't specify a time limit from what I remember. However it DOES specify that they only get 2 or 3 total "grace" calls after you ask them to get on the list. So they definately went over the line. If you kept a log of the dates/times and stuff you might be able to complain to FCC about it.
Corrent amount of paste is as thing as you can get. Remember the paste is only to help the low spots in the CPU make contact with the bottom of the hopefully smooth heatsink. A good guide, use a business card to scrape off nearly everything but a very thin layer. The reason? Thermal paste is not as efficient at transfering heat as the metal. The more you put in (past a certain small amount) the LESS heat transfer you get. And if you overflow the actual CPU squre itself you can get problems since the paste is usually conductive and there are little wire things on the surface of AMD cpus that (not sure about intel) that determine voltage and clock speed.
Last July 16th, the FCC said that telephone companies can now sell/trade your CPNI (Customer Proprietary Network Information) to other companies. This information includes any personally identifiable information such as, what numbers you dial every month, for how long did you talk to them, what services you subscribe too, how much you pay, and ANY other information on your phone bill. If you don't wish this information to be sold call your telephone company and tell them they cannot sell your CPNI. References: Epics page: http://www.epic.org/privacy/cpni/ fcc gov, check under 2002 headlines, july 16th. http://www.fcc.gov Basically what happened is that the FCC said that instead of being an opt-in thing (they had to ask for your express permission to sell this stuff), its now opt-out (you have to tell them not to, or else they can). Several phone companies actually mailed thier customers about this and said if you dont tell us, we will sell it (see epics page). Basically this is stuff you need a police warrant for, able to be sold to nearly anyone. Bad Bad stuff.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/06/23/apple.new .reut/index.html
According to that news story, Al Gore joined Jobs. The man who invented the internet says that the new apple computer is worlds fastest PC. I really trust, him I do.
I submitted this story about 3 times right around when the first security focus article came out. All 3 got rejected. Dangit.
Remember that phone companies can ALREADY sell information on who you call including the numbers you dial, when you call, where they are etc. And WITHOUT asking your permission. This was from a FCC ruling last July. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/18/124520 2
You need to call up your phone companie and request that they dont share your CPNI (customer proprietary network infomation). You can still opt out of them doing this. But whats changed is that you MUST opt out, or else they can go ahead and sell that info.
All very good points. However, the FCC has the stuff for VERY easy access on thier webpage (2nd item down on main page), and its an easy place to go to. Plus the the press release makes it clear exactly what will happen (phone companies marketing your information to 3rd party agent who are "communications related"). I think more people will be able to identify with a FCC ruling than a court decision. When I submitted the story I thought the FCC was at fault, but after reading the press release better and seeing the section about the court decision, I realize its not thier fault. Still though, its good place to get info. And contacting the court isn't going to do anything unless tons of people contact them. Otherwise the only thing left is to contact senators and congressmen and have THEM do something about it.
There is a federal law about this. If you log the information about who they are and what company and the time they called, etc, you can get them for up to $500 paid to YOU for each time they call you after you say put me on your do not call list. They are allowed one or two "mistake" calls though. There's a neat little program that allows you to keep a log of this stuff and at the same time shows the appropriate laws to quote to demand the information from the caller like who he's calling from. I haven't used it very much yet, since I dont get many telemarketers calling but I plan to, if I'm near a computer when they call that is :)
Its better to start logging calls from telemarketers and asking them to put you on do not call lists. Why? Because you can get money out of them if you do that :) Federal law, $500 per violation paid to you (they are allowed one or two "mistake" calls after you tell them do not call)
But this selling your info thing... I mean do you really want anyone to be able to buy information on what phone numbers you call each month?
Oh also, when I called up FCC I asked them what "communications-related" meant. At first she said something about cell phone companies, wireless, etc. Then I asked her how about radio shack, they sell phones. She said yeah, that could be one. Does this mean if I buy a used phone at a garage sale and offer it for sale on ebay, that I'm now in a communications related business? Heck, anyone could be "communications" related. Isn't TV a communications medium? How about people who advertise on it? Are they "communications" related?
Its at the bottom of the press release, check the link to it on the story :)
"Wireline Competition Bureau Staff Contact:Marcy Greene"
I just wanted to post some further information about this, after I submitted the story to slashdot, I wanted to do some more research.
First, some quotes from the press release from FCC (I'm going to try and look up the full detail of the ruling, so far I'm having trouble finding it. I called FCC and asked about the ruling, and they can't find FCC-02-214 document thats mentioned at the bottom of the press release, strange, they claim it hasn't been uploaded to thier document managing system yet). Gonna stop in at the library and see if I can find it in the federal register.
"Opt-Out- Use of CPNI by carriers or disclosure to their affiliated entities providing communications-related services, as well as third-party agents and joint venture partners provided providing communications-related services, requires a customers' knowing consent in the form of notice and opt-out approval. Carriers have the choice to use either opt-in or opt-out in this context."
Emphasis added
Out of all the "big news" web sites, the only one that even has a small story is msnbc.