What's the point of bitching and moaning if you don't help the next guy avoid dealing with these blood suckers?
I imagine it wasn't www.crucial.com.
I've been very happy with them so far - they once sent me some replacement sticks, no charge. When they also failed to work, the senior tech (nice guy) showed me it was my mistake in installing them. Still, no extra charge, no hassle. They have my business...
For those not often used to bidding at major auction houses - the estimates are always very conservative. An auction is judged to be succesful if many items beat their estimates.
As another post in this thread indicates, they surely weren't - the virus most probably entered via an accidentally infected laptop connected directly to the ATM by a maintenance technician.
Pretty soon, they'll have a cheap blood test for cancer. Since they'll throw it in with a blood donation, people who donate blood regularly will get early warning of cancer.
They'll drop by the doctor's office for a virus shot, lay up for two days with the above-referenced bad head cold, and go back to work.
Let's remember that this sort of thing has probably happened (at a guess) dozens of times in the past, at different places around the country.
What's different here?
We heard about it!
Why?
The article doesn't say, but it's at least possible that the hospital went public with the information. It's certainly clear that they're being upfront and aboveboard about what happened, and what they plan to do to prevent this from happening again.
This sort of openness is uncommon in this litigious society, and should be commended, not criticized.
Their lawyers probably would have advised the hospital to prevent that subcontractor from talking to the press under any circumstances - but she did speak to the reporter, and her story rings somewhat true.
Good news - I sent it priority (comes with $100 of insurance)!:-)
First part was pretty smooth - it only took 3 weeks to get them to agree it was lost, and refund the postage.
Now I want them to pay up the value of the item.
It's been 15 months, and I'm still waiting. But there's no one to call - you have to correspond by (get this:-) the mail. That's right, the international insurance department (unlike the domestic insurance department) doesn't take phone calls.
How much effort can I afford to spend to get back the ~ $50 ??
My advice? Never use the Post Office if it's worth more than ten or twenty bucks.
>Wish I'd saved my Compuserve logs of this stuff, but I couldn't afford the floppies, $5 each at the time.:-)
$5.00 ??? Where were you buying your floppies?
I remember back in college (Yeshiva University, 1986) - a few geeks got together and ordered floppies in bulk - ~ $100 + shipping for 100 units, bulk packaged with no sleeves.
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I'll take your word for all of this - it sounds plausible.
But each of your points apply to today's technology.
Moore's law tells us range will increase, size and cost will decrease, storage will increase, etc. etc.
So the sky isn't falling today - but tomorrow - that's another story.
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What's the point of bitching and moaning if you don't help the next guy avoid dealing with these blood suckers?
I imagine it wasn't www.crucial.com.
I've been very happy with them so far - they once sent me some replacement sticks, no charge. When they also failed to work, the senior tech (nice guy) showed me it was my mistake in installing them. Still, no extra charge, no hassle. They have my business...
For those not often used to bidding at major auction houses - the estimates are always very conservative. An auction is judged to be succesful if many items beat their estimates.
As another post in this thread indicates, they surely weren't - the virus most probably entered via an accidentally infected laptop connected directly to the ATM by a maintenance technician.
No, thanks.
Pretty soon, they'll have a cheap blood test for cancer. Since they'll throw it in with a blood donation, people who donate blood regularly will get early warning of cancer.
They'll drop by the doctor's office for a virus shot, lay up for two days with the above-referenced bad head cold, and go back to work.
OK, I'm an optimist. :-)
What's different here?
We heard about it!
Why?
The article doesn't say, but it's at least possible that the hospital went public with the information. It's certainly clear that they're being upfront and aboveboard about what happened, and what they plan to do to prevent this from happening again.
This sort of openness is uncommon in this litigious society, and should be commended, not criticized.
Their lawyers probably would have advised the hospital to prevent that subcontractor from talking to the press under any circumstances - but she did speak to the reporter, and her story rings somewhat true.
Please.
I sold a DSL modem on Ebay, shipped it to Canada.
Never arrived.
Good news - I sent it priority (comes with $100 of insurance)! :-)
First part was pretty smooth - it only took 3 weeks to get them to agree it was lost, and refund the postage.
Now I want them to pay up the value of the item.
It's been 15 months, and I'm still waiting. But there's no one to call - you have to correspond by (get this :-) the mail. That's right, the international insurance department (unlike the domestic insurance department) doesn't take phone calls.
How much effort can I afford to spend to get back the ~ $50 ??
My advice? Never use the Post Office if it's worth more than ten or twenty bucks.
$5.00 ??? Where were you buying your floppies?
I remember back in college (Yeshiva University, 1986) - a few geeks got together and ordered floppies in bulk - ~ $100 + shipping for 100 units, bulk packaged with no sleeves.
But each of your points apply to today's technology.
Moore's law tells us range will increase, size and cost will decrease, storage will increase, etc. etc.
So the sky isn't falling today - but tomorrow - that's another story.