The wife and I had continued using my Note7 up until yesterday, because I figured 1) the chances were pretty small(ish) that our phones were affected and 2) we hadn't yet had an official response from what Verizon was going to do. When I got the Samsung email yesterday, I decided that we should at least go to the local corporate Verizon store and see what they said.
An hour later, we walked out with "loaner" phones (I got the s7, the wife got the s7 edge) and the promise that we would receive notification (text or email) when the fixed Note7s were going to be available. It wasn't too much hassle; they simply treated it as an exchange (they put the difference in taxes paid for the Note7 verses for the S7s on a gift card, which we'll use to pay that difference again when we get the Note7s) and I can't really see how they could have done much different. We're keeping all the accessories for the Note7, so we don't have to worry about any returns, and the rep we spoke to said the Zagg screen/back covers we bought would be replaced under the lifetime warranty Zagg offers.
It's not a great situation, but I'm happy with the Samsung and Verizon responses.
Non-carbonated, non-alcoholic and beef flavored (or infused, if you must.) Sounds like I could accomplish the same thing with a pot of water and a bouillon cube. It's broth, right?
and I'm sure someone has pointed this out already, but of course there is no expectation of privacy when you are in the public square. So why do people get all up in arms about "privacy violations" when municipalities want to put up cameras in public areas for safety/security? It works both ways, right?
FROM PARENT: did you ever wonder why we can't point to a living creature TODAY that is transitionary?... a law that says all transitionary anmials have to go extinct?
YOUR RESPONSE: We can't tell it something is transitionary until its gone - to be transitionary it has to turn into something else - meaning it's not here anymore.
I enjoy most of the response you gave the parent, but I believe he made a point above that your answer didn't adequately address. I believe the point he was making is that there aren't any creatures that are what another creature is transitioning from. For instance, modern humans and Neanderthals probably co-existed for a time, and may have even lived side-by-side in various locations. Why do we not see any instances of this today? There's no reason why the species that another species is transitioning from must be gone first.
However, I'm not sure that isn't the case, at least to an extent. It's entirely possible that the different species of canines (wolves, foxes) or the many types of felines (mountain lions, cougars) are examples of one species transitioning to another. And in the insect world, there are so many species that any of them could be transitionaries.
Rob Miles
Re:Not quite "live"
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Google Calendar
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Except that the poster said his class meets Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, which indeed isn't there. [old fart]I never had a class schedule like that[/old fart], but it should be pretty simple to add seven boxes labelled Sunday-Saturday and a "Repeat every..." header, and then it'd be all set. Hop to it, Google!
I gotta say, though, for my and my partner's needs, it may be just about perfect. We can each have a seperate calendar under one login so that we can immediatly see what we have scheduled, but more importantly I can add/edit client events for him and he can add/edit them for me. No other basic or free calendar has met these needs for us, so this may be exactly what we've been looking for.
Yes I do believe what I wrote. You are either incredibly cynical to believe that the "mundane reasons" people join the armed forces are the only reason they join, or you hang with a pretty sorry bunch of people. You and Ted would get along famously, I bet.
This comment is rated insightful? I would have gone with troll, unless there is a "pretty fucking stupid" rating.
Hey, nimrod, the average American Marine is a young adult who cares about his or her country enough to put themselves on the line defending it and its principles. What the fuck have you done in your sorry life that allows you to pass this kind of sanctimonious judgement on them?
Sorry lowlife but it's no secret that people like you are a "tad" worthless. And for those who rated the comment as insightful, you're just as bad.
Wait, what? In all that talk about how Clinton's and Carter's acts made it legal to spy on American citizens without a court order, you find the word "foreign" and think that makes all the difference? My god, you hypocritical "do-anything-to-bash-Bush" idiots don't even pretend anymore, do you?
For christ's sakes, there is enough to complain about when it comes to the Bush administration, and this wire-tapping thing is a legitimate area to investigate, in my opinion. But you liberal wienies with your ridiculous agenda of taking any molehill you find and making some huge mountain out of it keep shooting yourselves in your left-leaning feet, because the middle of the roaders you're trying to convert get sick and tired of your bullshit.
And to top it all off, when it turns out that the latest "horrible violation of human rights" was also done by past Presidents, you come up with some bullshit about how it wasn't the same, when it so clearly was exactly the same.
No, wait, that's not quite right. When it turns out that it was done by past Democrats, it's okay because it wasn't the same. If it was past Republicans, THEN it shows just how corrupt they were, but Democrats were just looking out for our best interests.
It's highly unlikely that Slashdot comments changed Microsoft's strategy, because Techdirt (where I originally read the story) had posted the "it's a hoax" follow up a couple of hours before Slashdot had even posted the first story.
Oh, I know you were being sarcastic. I just wanted to use this opportunity to point out that Slashdot is increasingly getting behind the curve on these tech stories. They can't even keep up with the retractions.
I won't mention again how you're talking about a completely different PC World (oh, wait...)
Anyway, sometimes extended warranties are worth it. For instance, a new battery for my laptop costs more than the 3 year extended warranty did, and it covers new batteries without limiting the number of replacements I can get.
I will agree with another poster in this thread, though, that it depends on what it is. If it's a stationary piece of equipment, don't bother (unless it's really expensive and the warranty cost is 5% or less.)
To those of you replying to the above poster, no you aren't a dumbass for living in the boonies. You're a dumbass if you live in the boonies and consistently drive in a manner that gets your license suspended. Driving is a privalege, and no one has the right to continue driving when they continuously disregard traffic laws (speeding, reckless driving, running red lights, etc).
Where has this been shown? When I was stationed in Germany (15 years ago), red light cameras were used at most intersections. They weren't hidden at all, everyone knew about them, and few people ran red lights. And I never saw anyone "panic brake" at a traffic light because of this.
Personally, I'm all for red light cameras and those speeding cameras they used in Germany. Sure, it's a bummer to be cruising along at night and see the "lightening" of a camera recording you driving 100 Km/h in an 80 Km/h zone, but you learned quick to watch your speed in the areas that are limited.
As for the objection about someone else driving your car (someone above raised that concern), there is a very simple solution: don't let someone borrow your car. If you do let someone borrow your car and later get a ticket because of something he or she did, don't let that person borrow your car again.
And while I'm at it, I think the idea of "innocent until proven guilty" is a non-issue when it comes to traffic enforcement. You are only presumed innocent until compelling evidence of your guilt is presented. Like it or not, the implied testimony of a police officer issuing you a ticket for a traffic violation is pretty compelling evidence, and you are now responsible for presenting compelling evidence that you are in fact innocent.
There may be some vast conspiracy of cops out to get you, all of whom are issuing you bogus tickets, but you're going to have to show that this is likely before the traffic court will buy into the theory.
If something as minor as a relatively small hole in a relatively small comet can cause such problems, wouldn't the discovery of a new moon orbiting around a planet in our solar system pretty much invalidate each and every prediction made before that discovery? What about the discovery of whole new planets? And wouldn't you have to take each of the comet-sized (and bigger) chunks in the asteroid belt into account?
Astrology may not be exactly like a religion (as some other poster stated) but it's just as looney.
Logic does NOT exist outside of the human mind. "Logic" is a human construct based on properties of the physical universe as we know it, and as we understand them. Logic doesn't exist outside of the human mind anymore than language or the laws of nature exist outside of the human mind.
Brave words for someone posting as an anonymous coward and not listing a website:-)
I haven't read all 800+ messages here, but..
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The Saga of Katie.com
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· Score: 5, Interesting
Has anyone else written an email to the supposed lawyer? I did, and this is the answer I received (including the text of my message below it):
*********
Rob, we never tried to take katie.com, Katie Jones is doing all of this for
publicity. We were always using katiesplace.org. I am also not Katie's
lawyer or anyone's lawyer and Jone's knows that.
I donate 90% of my time to running a charity that protects people online.
But replying only feeds Jone's hidden agenda here.
For that reason, I request that you not share this without my advance
permission.
.and if you look at parryaftab.blogspot.com you'll see the whole post about
our intentions on this all-volunteer organization website, katiesplace.org.
I have always taught children not to believe whatever they read online, too
bad adults don't follow that rule.:-(
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Miles [mailto:rmiles@theskepticalreview.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 2:42 PM
To: parry@aftab.com
Subject: Katie Jones and katie.com
Please stop your campaign to force Katie Jones to give up HER domain,
katie.com. Even since the book by the came out, she has dealt with unwanted
and unwarranted attention. Maybe this all started as a mistake or an
oversight, but to plan to release additional material under that same name
(as reported by Ms. Jones on 7/30/04) is certainly mean-spirited at this
point.
As of 7/27/04 your site lists a new venture with Katie Tarbox named
katiesplace.org. If this means that you have in fact given up on trying to
force Ms. Jones to give up her rightful domain, then I apologize for the
above and offer you my deepest appreciation.
***********
For the record, I consider any email sent to me to be my own property, regardless of any request or disclaimer saying otherwise.
Re:Don't knock Piers Anthony
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Singularity Sky
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· Score: 1
Sexist and ultimately unbelievable I'll not argue (though I don't agree), but shallow? Maybe (maybe) in the Xanth books, but few of his other characters could reasonably be considered shallow.
Unless you have a different definition of shallow than what is usually meant by the term.
Re:Don't knock Piers Anthony
on
Singularity Sky
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· Score: 1
That doesn't make Piers a child pornographer anymore than it makes the author of a book that has one character killing another a murderer. Piers writes about stuff that happens in real life, and often even his "villians" are people for whom one can feel sympathy.
So as a Jew, you'd rather believe in a god that orders his chosen people to kill men, women and children, everything that breathes, because of something their ancestors did 400 years prior? Doesn't sound like much of an improvement to me.
I'm probably in a distinct minority here, especially among/. readers, but GTA3 pretty much turned me off of FPSs altogether. Don't get me wrong, technically it's a great game. But after 3 straight hours of dealing, stealing and killing (for the 4th day in a row) I realized that I just couldn't play the game anymore. I tried going back to Unreal and Team Fortress, but even online I just can't enjoy any shooters. Which is a shame, because I had just recently bought Castle Wolfenstein 3D.
Now if I have any time at all to play games, I stick to sports related ones like Links, Motocross Madness, or Tony Hawk. I doubt this is what the original poster was looking for, but GTA 3 definitely affected me. Or maybe I've just become an old fart (38).
Oh great, someone else who displays an utter lack of knowledge of what the evolutionary theory is. Anyone who uses the "man evolved from apes" example has just taken themselves out of the equation, in terms of saying anything important.
(For those of you who don't know, humans and apes evolved from the same historical lineage.)
Slashdot Mirror
The wife and I had continued using my Note7 up until yesterday, because I figured 1) the chances were pretty small(ish) that our phones were affected and 2) we hadn't yet had an official response from what Verizon was going to do. When I got the Samsung email yesterday, I decided that we should at least go to the local corporate Verizon store and see what they said. An hour later, we walked out with "loaner" phones (I got the s7, the wife got the s7 edge) and the promise that we would receive notification (text or email) when the fixed Note7s were going to be available. It wasn't too much hassle; they simply treated it as an exchange (they put the difference in taxes paid for the Note7 verses for the S7s on a gift card, which we'll use to pay that difference again when we get the Note7s) and I can't really see how they could have done much different. We're keeping all the accessories for the Note7, so we don't have to worry about any returns, and the rep we spoke to said the Zagg screen/back covers we bought would be replaced under the lifetime warranty Zagg offers. It's not a great situation, but I'm happy with the Samsung and Verizon responses.
Now people will have to act like adults and simply say "no, thank you."
Non-carbonated, non-alcoholic and beef flavored (or infused, if you must.) Sounds like I could accomplish the same thing with a pot of water and a bouillon cube. It's broth, right?
and I'm sure someone has pointed this out already, but of course there is no expectation of privacy when you are in the public square. So why do people get all up in arms about "privacy violations" when municipalities want to put up cameras in public areas for safety/security? It works both ways, right?
Oh, that was "prion"? I was trying to figure out how cows were getting "pron", and why we'd want to take it away from them anyway.
YOUR RESPONSE: We can't tell it something is transitionary until its gone - to be transitionary it has to turn into something else - meaning it's not here anymore.
I enjoy most of the response you gave the parent, but I believe he made a point above that your answer didn't adequately address. I believe the point he was making is that there aren't any creatures that are what another creature is transitioning from. For instance, modern humans and Neanderthals probably co-existed for a time, and may have even lived side-by-side in various locations. Why do we not see any instances of this today? There's no reason why the species that another species is transitioning from must be gone first. However, I'm not sure that isn't the case, at least to an extent. It's entirely possible that the different species of canines (wolves, foxes) or the many types of felines (mountain lions, cougars) are examples of one species transitioning to another. And in the insect world, there are so many species that any of them could be transitionaries.
Rob Miles
I gotta say, though, for my and my partner's needs, it may be just about perfect. We can each have a seperate calendar under one login so that we can immediatly see what we have scheduled, but more importantly I can add/edit client events for him and he can add/edit them for me. No other basic or free calendar has met these needs for us, so this may be exactly what we've been looking for.
Hey, nimrod, the average American Marine is a young adult who cares about his or her country enough to put themselves on the line defending it and its principles. What the fuck have you done in your sorry life that allows you to pass this kind of sanctimonious judgement on them?
Sorry lowlife but it's no secret that people like you are a "tad" worthless. And for those who rated the comment as insightful, you're just as bad.
Rob Miles
For christ's sakes, there is enough to complain about when it comes to the Bush administration, and this wire-tapping thing is a legitimate area to investigate, in my opinion. But you liberal wienies with your ridiculous agenda of taking any molehill you find and making some huge mountain out of it keep shooting yourselves in your left-leaning feet, because the middle of the roaders you're trying to convert get sick and tired of your bullshit.
And to top it all off, when it turns out that the latest "horrible violation of human rights" was also done by past Presidents, you come up with some bullshit about how it wasn't the same, when it so clearly was exactly the same.
No, wait, that's not quite right. When it turns out that it was done by past Democrats, it's okay because it wasn't the same. If it was past Republicans, THEN it shows just how corrupt they were, but Democrats were just looking out for our best interests.
Pathetic!
Rob Miles
Wow! No wonder the Democrats like the UN so much.
Oh, I know you were being sarcastic. I just wanted to use this opportunity to point out that Slashdot is increasingly getting behind the curve on these tech stories. They can't even keep up with the retractions.
I will agree with another poster in this thread, though, that it depends on what it is. If it's a stationary piece of equipment, don't bother (unless it's really expensive and the warranty cost is 5% or less.)
Rob Miles
Personally, I'm all for red light cameras and those speeding cameras they used in Germany. Sure, it's a bummer to be cruising along at night and see the "lightening" of a camera recording you driving 100 Km/h in an 80 Km/h zone, but you learned quick to watch your speed in the areas that are limited.
As for the objection about someone else driving your car (someone above raised that concern), there is a very simple solution: don't let someone borrow your car. If you do let someone borrow your car and later get a ticket because of something he or she did, don't let that person borrow your car again.
And while I'm at it, I think the idea of "innocent until proven guilty" is a non-issue when it comes to traffic enforcement. You are only presumed innocent until compelling evidence of your guilt is presented. Like it or not, the implied testimony of a police officer issuing you a ticket for a traffic violation is pretty compelling evidence, and you are now responsible for presenting compelling evidence that you are in fact innocent.
There may be some vast conspiracy of cops out to get you, all of whom are issuing you bogus tickets, but you're going to have to show that this is likely before the traffic court will buy into the theory.
Rob Miles
Astrology may not be exactly like a religion (as some other poster stated) but it's just as looney.
Logic does NOT exist outside of the human mind. "Logic" is a human construct based on properties of the physical universe as we know it, and as we understand them. Logic doesn't exist outside of the human mind anymore than language or the laws of nature exist outside of the human mind.
*********
Rob, we never tried to take katie.com, Katie Jones is doing all of this for publicity. We were always using katiesplace.org. I am also not Katie's lawyer or anyone's lawyer and Jone's knows that.
I donate 90% of my time to running a charity that protects people online. But replying only feeds Jone's hidden agenda here.
For that reason, I request that you not share this without my advance permission.
-----Original Message----- From: Rob Miles [mailto:rmiles@theskepticalreview.com] Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 2:42 PM To: parry@aftab.com Subject: Katie Jones and katie.com
Please stop your campaign to force Katie Jones to give up HER domain, katie.com. Even since the book by the came out, she has dealt with unwanted and unwarranted attention. Maybe this all started as a mistake or an oversight, but to plan to release additional material under that same name (as reported by Ms. Jones on 7/30/04) is certainly mean-spirited at this point.
As of 7/27/04 your site lists a new venture with Katie Tarbox named katiesplace.org. If this means that you have in fact given up on trying to force Ms. Jones to give up her rightful domain, then I apologize for the above and offer you my deepest appreciation.
***********
For the record, I consider any email sent to me to be my own property, regardless of any request or disclaimer saying otherwise.
Unless you have a different definition of shallow than what is usually meant by the term.
That doesn't make Piers a child pornographer anymore than it makes the author of a book that has one character killing another a murderer. Piers writes about stuff that happens in real life, and often even his "villians" are people for whom one can feel sympathy.
So as a Jew, you'd rather believe in a god that orders his chosen people to kill men, women and children, everything that breathes, because of something their ancestors did 400 years prior? Doesn't sound like much of an improvement to me.
Hey, are you this guy?
I'm probably in a distinct minority here, especially among /. readers, but GTA3 pretty much turned me off of FPSs altogether. Don't get me wrong, technically it's a great game. But after 3 straight hours of dealing, stealing and killing (for the 4th day in a row) I realized that I just couldn't play the game anymore. I tried going back to Unreal and Team Fortress, but even online I just can't enjoy any shooters. Which is a shame, because I had just recently bought Castle Wolfenstein 3D.
Now if I have any time at all to play games, I stick to sports related ones like Links, Motocross Madness, or Tony Hawk. I doubt this is what the original poster was looking for, but GTA 3 definitely affected me. Or maybe I've just become an old fart (38).
Rob Miles
http://www.theskepticalreview.com
Oh great, someone else who displays an utter lack of knowledge of what the evolutionary theory is. Anyone who uses the "man evolved from apes" example has just taken themselves out of the equation, in terms of saying anything important.
(For those of you who don't know, humans and apes evolved from the same historical lineage.)