This may be posted further down, but the one thing this guards against is the people who buy multiple iPhones to resell. AT&T won't let you sign a new contract for a number of months (year?) after you cancel one. So you'll only get to buy, cancel and resell one phone per SSN.
Allstate Insurance, mid-90s, manually transferring policy information from their vast paper archives into an in-house database, that required a save after each entry, not just each policy, but each field. Someone decided it would be safer that way.
SuperValu, late-90s, manually entering holiday candy orders from individual stores. I sat at a terminal in a dark warehouse, with a stack of faxes that were sometimes barely legible, and entered them into another in-house ordering database. The kicker was that my shift was 6PM to 2AM, and the dress code was business formal. That means it was just me and the janitor, with me in a shirt and tie doing data entry.
I don't know if you want to count data entry as a tech job, but they undeniably sucked.
Why do these companies get to use this spectrum for free, when the telcos, cable operators, Paul Allen, etc. are currently bidding billions for similar frequencies? That last sentence should read:
A key advantage of white space wireless technology, compared to the combination of WiFI and WiMAX, is its TV-like ability to cover broad areas and penetrate walls and trees, using relatively low power levels for free."
Isn't that basically what the upcoming spectrum auction is about, transmitting data over unused TV licenses? Except in this case, of course, the FCC doesn't get to collect $billions for the privilege, and Microsoft et al get a free pass to use basically the same resources that the teclos are getting ready to write big checks for. Sounds like the FCC is not meeting its fiduciary responsibility to its shareholders, uh, I mean constituents.
"'It's also impossible for the true damages to be calculated, according to the brief, because it's unknown how many other users accessed the files in the KaZaA share in question and committed further acts of copyright infringement.'
So the damages are incalculable, I say they should either be infinite or nothing.
"Heck, cell phones didn't even work here until January. "
Sign up for an unlimited data plan with whoever offers the best connection speed and use a PC/notebook card. Even EDGE should be faster than your current connection.
and you can have it removed by a single request to customer service.
What a non-issue. Of course, if detailed billing wasn't offered by default, I'm sure there would be people whining that they're not being told where their charges are coming from.
I didn't read TFA, so it's probably stated right in there, but what about incoming calls? Will I have to listen to a 10-second ad for home security if ADT calls me to tell me my house is on fire? Will ADT have to listen to the same thing to call me?
Google has offered to bid at least $4.6 billion on wireless airwaves being auctioned off by the federal government, as long as certain conditions are met.
Well I'm willing to bid $100 Billion dollars, as long as certain conditions are met. Namely, I receive a $99.99 Billion tax refund to "develop my new wireless business". Google's promise to bid raises the floor for the spectrum auction, but is just about as self-serving. In the end, consumers will pay no matter what the rules are. As long as they're naming their own conditions, you can bet on that.
...everybody tries to blame everything on new technology going from cancer to depression, blamed on cell phones to video games. Yet, they don't bother looking or trying to understand the deeper reasons...
Amen to that. Check out this article where a woman passes off her psychosomatic illness as an allergy to technology.
I don't care who buys it. I'll never see a DoubleClick ad again as long as Adblock Plus can be set to *doubleclick* . Whoever gets them gets a losing business model.
Usually a Wii story has 50,000 replies before I get to see it, it's such a popular subject. Now I only see 15 after 20 minutes; I wonder where everyone's gone?
I know the brand has taken it on the chin for the last....uh....decade, but it's got to be worth at least as much as Heinz or Wrigley? I'd imagine we may see a resurgence in the next decade.
Unfortunately PVL isn't diagnosed until weeks or months after the initial brain injury. We did not know this would happen until after he was born, and there was no way to "let him die" without letting him die slowly of starvation and thirst.
After he was born, he fought so hard to stay alive there was no way we would not honor his will to live. He stayed in the hospital for seven months, had many severe complications, but each time recovered by what can only be described as sheer determination to live, even despite all of his doctors' predictions.
Besides, would you really want to wake up 20 years older, with years of rehabilitation to look forward to?
My son developed Periventricular leukomalacia (PVL) soon after he was born. PVL is usually characterized by large cysts in the brain that affect particular functions. In my son's case, the PVL was diffuese and spread throughout his brain in small, rice-grain sized cysts and affects his general functionality. We're not "keeping him alive" in a medical sence, but he does seemed destined to spend the rest of his life in a "minimally conscious state".
He's four years old now, and I would love if my son, at any age, woke up one day and started to learn the things he's missed (talking, crawling and then walking, etc). My wife and I read a lot about brain injury and the possibility of his recovery. The nature of his injury always gives me hope that because the damaged areas are so small, it may be easier for his brain to compensate.
Unfortunately, because of the state of medical research in the USA (stem cell especially), My family is probably going to have to travel to another country to take advantage of any treatments that may be developed in the next few years.
I agree for the most part with everything listed above, except the assertion that we are only left with at&t and SBC. I would still throw Verizon in there; and there are more non-traditional triple- or quadruple-threat players out there, like Comcast or even Google and Apple. Throw in Sprint, which looks to become the pure-wireless provider, and there's still a lot of competition for the last mile of voice and data.
Everyone knows that aluminum did not exist before 1992. It was at that time that the Reynolds corporation made a bid to take over the US Government. Reynolds, an alliance between the city of Marina Del Rey and Tom Arnold (look it up, I don't use Google because they track my searches) began producing "anti Illuminati medium" or a-lumin-um by extracting the "conductivity" from steel, a naturally occuring mineral.
Reynolds knew that the CIA and FBI were using mind control through the "cable networks" to persuade the population to upgrade to HBO, the mouthpiece for the Masonic Order of the Illuminati.
You all just think you remember aluminum existing before 1992 because you do not wear your beanies, and have been influenced by HBO. Still need proof? Consider these facts:
1. If you travel outside the US, you will find that no other countries use or have heard of aluminum. (England has something similar called aluminium, which was developed in tandem by Margaret Thatcher's shadow government.)
2. If you travel to another country and they say that they have aluminum, you have not actually travelled to another country, but are on a HBO-enduced mind control trip.
3. Aluminum does not get hot in the oven. I've made thousands of fish sticks in the years after 1992, and no matter how badly I burn them, I can always lift them by the corners of the aluminum foil I placed them on.
You can always use RootkitRevealer. I have not tried this myself, but it looks like a good tool. I was also poking around looking for rootkit information when I found this.
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This may be posted further down, but the one thing this guards against is the people who buy multiple iPhones to resell. AT&T won't let you sign a new contract for a number of months (year?) after you cancel one. So you'll only get to buy, cancel and resell one phone per SSN.
Allstate Insurance, mid-90s, manually transferring policy information from their vast paper archives into an in-house database, that required a save after each entry, not just each policy, but each field. Someone decided it would be safer that way. SuperValu, late-90s, manually entering holiday candy orders from individual stores. I sat at a terminal in a dark warehouse, with a stack of faxes that were sometimes barely legible, and entered them into another in-house ordering database. The kicker was that my shift was 6PM to 2AM, and the dress code was business formal. That means it was just me and the janitor, with me in a shirt and tie doing data entry. I don't know if you want to count data entry as a tech job, but they undeniably sucked.
My favorite: http://www.tirami.su/ Mmmm...too bad the link doesn't actually go to any dessert sites. Just some dork and his dalmatian.
Isn't that basically what the upcoming spectrum auction is about, transmitting data over unused TV licenses? Except in this case, of course, the FCC doesn't get to collect $billions for the privilege, and Microsoft et al get a free pass to use basically the same resources that the teclos are getting ready to write big checks for. Sounds like the FCC is not meeting its fiduciary responsibility to its shareholders, uh, I mean constituents.
So the damages are incalculable, I say they should either be infinite or nothing.
and you can have it removed by a single request to customer service. What a non-issue. Of course, if detailed billing wasn't offered by default, I'm sure there would be people whining that they're not being told where their charges are coming from.
I didn't read TFA, so it's probably stated right in there, but what about incoming calls? Will I have to listen to a 10-second ad for home security if ADT calls me to tell me my house is on fire? Will ADT have to listen to the same thing to call me?
...to eat dinner with everyone up-lit like Citizen Kane. The tech is cool, but I could think of better uses. Sheets, anyone?
I don't care who buys it. I'll never see a DoubleClick ad again as long as Adblock Plus can be set to *doubleclick* . Whoever gets them gets a losing business model.
AdBlock Plus filter set to *doubleclick.net*? Yes. Purchase away Microsoft.
Boxen is a perfectly cromulent word.
Usually a Wii story has 50,000 replies before I get to see it, it's such a popular subject. Now I only see 15 after 20 minutes; I wonder where everyone's gone?
Oh, wait.
Drops laptop, runs to store.
I'm rooting for the giant parking parking robot. (joke)
I know the brand has taken it on the chin for the last....uh....decade, but it's got to be worth at least as much as Heinz or Wrigley? I'd imagine we may see a resurgence in the next decade.
Unfortunately PVL isn't diagnosed until weeks or months after the initial brain injury. We did not know this would happen until after he was born, and there was no way to "let him die" without letting him die slowly of starvation and thirst.
After he was born, he fought so hard to stay alive there was no way we would not honor his will to live. He stayed in the hospital for seven months, had many severe complications, but each time recovered by what can only be described as sheer determination to live, even despite all of his doctors' predictions.
He's four years old now, and I would love if my son, at any age, woke up one day and started to learn the things he's missed (talking, crawling and then walking, etc). My wife and I read a lot about brain injury and the possibility of his recovery. The nature of his injury always gives me hope that because the damaged areas are so small, it may be easier for his brain to compensate.
Unfortunately, because of the state of medical research in the USA (stem cell especially), My family is probably going to have to travel to another country to take advantage of any treatments that may be developed in the next few years.
I agree for the most part with everything listed above, except the assertion that we are only left with at&t and SBC. I would still throw Verizon in there; and there are more non-traditional triple- or quadruple-threat players out there, like Comcast or even Google and Apple. Throw in Sprint, which looks to become the pure-wireless provider, and there's still a lot of competition for the last mile of voice and data.
I posted this the last time aluminum foil hats was brought up.
Everyone knows that aluminum did not exist before 1992. It was at that time that the Reynolds corporation made a bid to take over the US Government. Reynolds, an alliance between the city of Marina Del Rey and Tom Arnold (look it up, I don't use Google because they track my searches) began producing "anti Illuminati medium" or a-lumin-um by extracting the "conductivity" from steel, a naturally occuring mineral.
Reynolds knew that the CIA and FBI were using mind control through the "cable networks" to persuade the population to upgrade to HBO, the mouthpiece for the Masonic Order of the Illuminati.
You all just think you remember aluminum existing before 1992 because you do not wear your beanies, and have been influenced by HBO. Still need proof? Consider these facts:
1. If you travel outside the US, you will find that no other countries use or have heard of aluminum. (England has something similar called aluminium, which was developed in tandem by Margaret Thatcher's shadow government.)
2. If you travel to another country and they say that they have aluminum, you have not actually travelled to another country, but are on a HBO-enduced mind control trip.
3. Aluminum does not get hot in the oven. I've made thousands of fish sticks in the years after 1992, and no matter how badly I burn them, I can always lift them by the corners of the aluminum foil I placed them on.
You can always use RootkitRevealer. I have not tried this myself, but it looks like a good tool. I was also poking around looking for rootkit information when I found this.
You may also want to check out this interesting story from Mark Russinovich, Sony Music CDs installing DRM rootkit.