It's a two way street. Governments are slow to adopt streamlined purchasing systems because they're spending tax dollars and so everything has to be accounted for and purchases authorized in various different and often complex ways. Many vendors are more then happy to put up with all the inane purchasing requirements BS the government will throw at them in exchange for a high-volume and usually exclusive contract with higher prices then retail consumers would pay.
Quite simply, the Federal government had no power to do so. Since they didn't have the Constitutional authority to regulate spectrum, they didn't have the power to negotiate or agree to a treaty, making it null and void. I think maybe you should brush up on your constitutional law before making a claim like that.
Has anyone out there compiled a list of what phones have and don't have the mandated E911-GPS sending capability?
I've got an old Nokia 5190 that I know won't last forever. I refuse to get any phone that has the GPS locating "feature" built in, so that limits me to older phone models... but I've seen some phones that Nextel has been shipping with GPS capabilities already.
Someone's going to make a fortune in 2005 by buying up all the old cell phones they can, and selling them at a huge markup to all of us...
The post office changed the rules a few years ago, the forms you fill out to get a PMB at a mailbox place are the same as the ones you would fill out for a PO BOX down at the local post office.
If you're using the box for "business with the public" (and check the appropriate box on the form), then the USPS will give out your box info to anyone who asks. For private customers they have restrictions on who can get it.
After all, China has never done anything that even remotely hints at censoring communication from the outside world that the government deems "subversive" and a threat to the Communist party...
If this is the list of servers they admit to blocking, just imagine what the list they aren't showing the world looks like.
I can't believe you didn't make a link to the google url with the search terms we can't believe someone didn't go to google and search for in the first place!
Who on earth is running a browser earlier than 4.x?
The Helpdesk at Portland State University only officially supports and installs Netscape 4.7 for faculty/staff that want to use Netscape instead of IE6.
You have to prove residency when getting a drivers license, usually with a utility bill showing your address. I don't think a PO Box would count, unless you can prove you have an actual street address along with a PO Box in the same state.
Oregon State University has both orst.edu and oregonstate.edu. They used to use orst.edu for as long as I can remember, and then within the past year or so they suddenly switched to oregonstate.edu.
The same thing happened to me, when I tried to get a Voicestream cellular phone. Since I have absolutely no good nor bad credit (being a college student sucks!) they wanted a $500 deposit to even begin the process.. The worst part was they couldn't even give me a reason as to how they came up with the $500 figure. "That's what the computer came back with" was all I could get.
I got even with them though.. got someone with excellent credit to get the phone in their name and let me use it. take that, voicestream!
I always heard that you should keep batteries in your freezer if you are going to store them long-term? Is this just a myth, or does freezing the batteries actually do something with the chemicals inside them
I hit 3 radio shacks in so far, and plan to make another surprise attack on radio shack. I've got a collection of my favorite receipts and the aliases I've used there located at http://www.aaroncity.com/radioshack.
Definitly. I've got 4 of them and I plan on getting more. Once I've amassed a stockpile of cuecat barcode scanners, I'll hook them up to a bunch of old 386s, and use the combined laser power to carve my initials in the moon.. muahaha!
Take a free CueCat, sign an agreement that you will send everything that you scan to their server, along with the CueCat's serial number which was also scanned at Radio Shack and linked to your name and address.
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It's a two way street. Governments are slow to adopt streamlined purchasing systems because they're spending tax dollars and so everything has to be accounted for and purchases authorized in various different and often complex ways. Many vendors are more then happy to put up with all the inane purchasing requirements BS the government will throw at them in exchange for a high-volume and usually exclusive contract with higher prices then retail consumers would pay.
Not if they take government bailout money! Then they can afford 100 domains!
Protip: Missouri v. Holland
The only place that does is Ashland, which has a "prepared food" tax that's basically a sales tax on restaurant/pre-cooked food.
Are you kidding? Portland was home to the KKK well into the 20s and 30s, and had a prety big skinhead population that peaked in the 80s...
Because a whatever.city.state.us domain is usually free.
Has anyone out there compiled a list of what phones have and don't have the mandated E911-GPS sending capability?
I've got an old Nokia 5190 that I know won't last forever. I refuse to get any phone that has the GPS locating "feature" built in, so that limits me to older phone models... but I've seen some phones that Nextel has been shipping with GPS capabilities already.
Someone's going to make a fortune in 2005 by buying up all the old cell phones they can, and selling them at a huge markup to all of us...
So where can one buy an infamous "red phone" like you might see in the Pentagon?
Or, preferably, one that blinks and goes "beep beep beep" like the Bat-Phone in stately Wayne Manor.
The post office changed the rules a few years ago, the forms you fill out to get a PMB at a mailbox place are the same as the ones you would fill out for a PO BOX down at the local post office.
If you're using the box for "business with the public" (and check the appropriate box on the form), then the USPS will give out your box info to anyone who asks. For private customers they have restrictions on who can get it.
If this is the list of servers they admit to blocking, just imagine what the list they aren't showing the world looks like.
They claim Portland is the the most un-wired city in the USA.
I can't believe you didn't make a link to the google url with the search terms we can't believe someone didn't go to google and search for in the first place!
Well, drat. There goes my Fun with the Shack website.
The Helpdesk at Portland State University only officially supports and installs Netscape 4.7 for faculty/staff that want to use Netscape instead of IE6.
I thought cars in Alaska rusted away into nothingness long before anyone could get into a wreck with them...
You have to prove residency when getting a drivers license, usually with a utility bill showing your address. I don't think a PO Box would count, unless you can prove you have an actual street address along with a PO Box in the same state.
Can't imagine why..
I got even with them though.. got someone with excellent credit to get the phone in their name and let me use it. take that, voicestream!
I'd go. Sure it's a broken down deathtrap, but I'd be willing to overlook that to have a chance to go up into space.
Just do what I do, give them fake information. I've got quite the collection of fake names located at http://www.aaroncity.com/radioshack/