The telcos willingly pass through the charges to you because they receive about 1/3 of the revenue. The telcos need to be punished as well. They basically want to act like a credit card which always gives the benefit of the doubt to the company that put the charge on the bill. I say, if they want to be like a credit card, then they need to abide by the regulations of the credit industry. In the credit industry, if you question a charge, they immediately place it into a suspect status, and you don't have to pay it until it is resolved. With the telcos, if you call and question it, they give you the runaround, and even if they do agree to investigate, you still have to pay the charge until they make their decision on the charge, and if you don't then they will cancel your phone service and report you to the credit bureaus and collection agencies.
Taxation is used to subsidize public infrastructure and services that private industry can't provide profitably or at all, or that requires an across the board service level that private industries wouldn't be able to consistently meet.
This is different because it subsidizes an industry and not the public good. Even subsidizing an industry, such as aviation, can be a public good because it enhances commerce and tourism which ultimately (hopefully) brings in more dollars than the subsidy cost.
Subsidizing the recording industry is definitely not a public good. If the recording industry crashed it wouldn't hurt the economy much. Heck, I could imagine it might even be better for the artists. At least they would be more in control of their own destiny.
Of all the animals you had to pick from you went with cows and whales?
Well, this makes some sense. Scientists believe that whales and cows descended from a common ancestor. Evolution detractors use this as a point to mock scientists, since whale tails move up and down while cow tails move side to side, and cows breathe through their mouth while whales have a blowhole on top of their head. It IS pretty apocryphal that two species could vary so much in only 40 to 50 million years in a species that goes decades between generations.
As is, a black box weights 25lbs or more easily... It contains tons of instruments...
That IS quite impressive. Using black box material, I wonder if there is a way to make the plane weigh only a few thousand pounds while carrying hundreds of tons of cargo.
I mean anthropology can be interesting and all, but this seems like an underwhelming crossover into "news for nerds."
No, but it makes for some good flamewars, which is a source of amusement to the slashdot mods.
But does the plumbing infrastructure need to be redone every few years?
Yes. If you try to "right size" your plumbing infrastructure, you will have to redo it every few years and it will cost you much more in the long run.
When will this be on Dirty Jobs
Never, because only one of these jobs actually involved dirt in the sense that Mike Rowe deals with. The rest were just trials and tribulations of a typical IT person, and one or two about IT workers with questionable ethics.
Come on by my salon in Norman, Oklahoma and enjoy free wireless, or go back behind us to the Burger King to use theirs or across the street to B. Dalton to use theirs.
Back to the subject: I don't believe that mobile phone internet has the slightest chance of pushing out free wireless hotspots unless and until they can manage to make data rates both faster and cheaper. I have no data plan on my phone and WILL NOT get one until they come up with an unlimited plan with 54Mbps transfer rates for about $20 a month. With the threat earlier today that, due to the interfaces on these mobile devices, the internet will now become even MORE image-based, the data rates on these phones are going to have to play catch-up in order to display the web pages built for their use.
Search for prevailing wage: this would be you 'going rate'.
Prevailing wage according to who? Salary surveys are all skewed because programmers who make a lot of money aren't called programmers anymore. HR only allows programmers to make X. So to prevent a good candidate from leaving, they have to call him a team lead or manager, even if he has no reports. So the average person doing programming makes a lot more than the average person whose TITLE is programmer. And it's a feedback loop as well, because HR looks at those same salary surveys and believes that they are consistent with the industry in setting the salary range for programmers where they have. This feedback loop causes job titles to be distanced from responsibilities and causes industry wages to be depressed and allows H1Bs to be paid lower than others with similar duties.
I even had an interview for a job in which the description and what I am doing were virtually identical.
Lucky you. I once found a job posting where they had copied several paragraphs out of my online resume and listed that as job requirements. I mean it was word for word. They didn't even change the syntax to make it sound like job requirements. It read like a resume, because, well, it was.
I contacted them seeing as how I felt I fit the bill, but I never even got a call back, let alone an interview.
In the U.S. most of the time, there is only one sewer line, and whether it be from the toilet or from your sink, it all is treated the same. I am told that in the U.K. there are gray water and black water lines and they are treated separately. Most Recreational Vehicles are set up this way as well.
My first job out of college was programming in Fortran-66 (1966 standard), which had no IF blocks and WHILE loops, only GOTO's. The company didn't want to pay for a newer compiler.
Don't hold back, tell us what year that was.
My first programming job was while I was still IN college, in 1989, converting Fortran 66 code into the state of the art Fortran 77, if you can consider 11 years old to be state of the art. It was kind of comparable to running Windows 95 today.
I went to University of Illinois in Chicago. I was in Electrical Engineering. I occasionally went to study groups for studying, but I always did my own homework. If someone couldn't do their homework, I helped them understand how to do their homework, I didn't help them to do their homework, and I certainly didn't just give them the answers.
That being said, a good test will immediately weed out the people who obviously don't know the material, so copying homework is irrelevant. It is cheating, but the person it cheats is whoever copies the homework.
It is slightly faster to fly from London to Glasgow than to take the train. Train probably takes about 5 hours. Plane will take about 3 hours including check-in times and travel to/from the airport.
Not anymore. With fingerprinting, it will take much longer to get through security. They'll probably want you at the airport three to four hours prior to departure.
Ryerson should outlaw any form of study group, because it's just as easy to share answers when you're meeting with others in the library or talking about it at a party with an upperclassman who took the class three years ago.
Perhaps the language is different from when I was in college, but back then a "Study Group" was for studying for quizzes, tests etcetera. That is not a problem. This case deals with doing homework together, which has always been against the rules unless the professor indicated that you could work together.
Yeah, but many sellers charge for signature service shipping, but only send it by regular mail, then complain that they can't track whether the customer actually got it.
As an online retailer (I don't use e-bay), I've gotten burned a few times using USPS parcel post, and had to resend products again. Luckily our orders tend to be usually in the $20-$60 range, so it doesn't kill us. However, if we have to resend, we ALWAYS use a service that will require a signature. Also, if the delivery address is not the billing address, we always require a signature, and if the delivery address is an apartment we always require a signature.
I once had a bogus charge on my local bill. It was for a sports hotline. I have not interest in sports, so obviously did not call it. I called and complained to the phone company, who said they could not remove the charge (why not. you put it there.) They said I had to call the company directly. Why? I have no relationship with them. So I called them and they said that basically computers don't make mistakes and if it says I called then I called. I told them I wouldn't pay, and they said that they would put it on my credit record and give it to a collections bureau. So essentially, any company can put a charge on your phone line and without proof demand payment, and if you don't pay it, they will ruin your credit.
The landlines are bad, but the cell phones are worse, because they don't see any problem sending text messages to kids, and if the kid sends a message back then they are signed up for monthly recurring charges, even though they are underage and can't enter into a contract. I think it should be illegal for a third party to bill through the phone company , whether land based or cell based.
So the judgement amounts to, "Give it all back and promise never to do it again"?
No, it's "Give it all to the government and promise never to do it again." Meanwhile, the people who were scammed are still out $30 million.
Let's send a small herd of Slashdotters and South Korean gamers to live on Mars for the StarCraft finals. And let them stay. I'll be happy as long as I can get my/. and ISOs.
I don't think they'd notice the scenery change.
"One town's very like another when your heads down over your pieces, brother."
months and god knows how many $$ to send a few humans to Mars and then bring them back.
I think I see an easy way to save half the time, and probably more than half the money.
...you're supposed to get your ideas of which brand of product to buy by reading blogs? Even ones apparently run by a valley girl? Wow! I have been truly been barking up the wrong tree.
I agree. Besides I don't need a phishing filter. What I need is something that jumps out at me and says "Caution! This might be legitimate." I almost instinctively trashed Paypals ToS last time they sent one out.
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The telcos willingly pass through the charges to you because they receive about 1/3 of the revenue. The telcos need to be punished as well. They basically want to act like a credit card which always gives the benefit of the doubt to the company that put the charge on the bill. I say, if they want to be like a credit card, then they need to abide by the regulations of the credit industry. In the credit industry, if you question a charge, they immediately place it into a suspect status, and you don't have to pay it until it is resolved. With the telcos, if you call and question it, they give you the runaround, and even if they do agree to investigate, you still have to pay the charge until they make their decision on the charge, and if you don't then they will cancel your phone service and report you to the credit bureaus and collection agencies.
Taxation is used to subsidize public infrastructure and services that private industry can't provide profitably or at all, or that requires an across the board service level that private industries wouldn't be able to consistently meet.
This is different because it subsidizes an industry and not the public good. Even subsidizing an industry, such as aviation, can be a public good because it enhances commerce and tourism which ultimately (hopefully) brings in more dollars than the subsidy cost.
Subsidizing the recording industry is definitely not a public good. If the recording industry crashed it wouldn't hurt the economy much. Heck, I could imagine it might even be better for the artists. At least they would be more in control of their own destiny.
Of all the animals you had to pick from you went with cows and whales?
Well, this makes some sense. Scientists believe that whales and cows descended from a common ancestor. Evolution detractors use this as a point to mock scientists, since whale tails move up and down while cow tails move side to side, and cows breathe through their mouth while whales have a blowhole on top of their head. It IS pretty apocryphal that two species could vary so much in only 40 to 50 million years in a species that goes decades between generations.
As is, a black box weights 25lbs or more easily...
It contains tons of instruments...
That IS quite impressive. Using black box material, I wonder if there is a way to make the plane weigh only a few thousand pounds while carrying hundreds of tons of cargo.
I mean anthropology can be interesting and all, but this seems like an underwhelming crossover into "news for nerds."
No, but it makes for some good flamewars, which is a source of amusement to the slashdot mods.
But does the plumbing infrastructure need to be redone every few years?
Yes. If you try to "right size" your plumbing infrastructure, you will have to redo it every few years and it will cost you much more in the long run.
it was supposed to be a joke
And my post was supposed to be a criticism of the article.
When will this be on Dirty Jobs
Never, because only one of these jobs actually involved dirt in the sense that Mike Rowe deals with. The rest were just trials and tribulations of a typical IT person, and one or two about IT workers with questionable ethics.
Each carrier does not maintain their own individual towers. They lease space from each other on each other's towers.
Come on by my salon in Norman, Oklahoma and enjoy free wireless, or go back behind us to the Burger King to use theirs or across the street to B. Dalton to use theirs.
Back to the subject: I don't believe that mobile phone internet has the slightest chance of pushing out free wireless hotspots unless and until they can manage to make data rates both faster and cheaper. I have no data plan on my phone and WILL NOT get one until they come up with an unlimited plan with 54Mbps transfer rates for about $20 a month. With the threat earlier today that, due to the interfaces on these mobile devices, the internet will now become even MORE image-based, the data rates on these phones are going to have to play catch-up in order to display the web pages built for their use.
Search for prevailing wage: this would be you 'going rate'.
Prevailing wage according to who? Salary surveys are all skewed because programmers who make a lot of money aren't called programmers anymore. HR only allows programmers to make X. So to prevent a good candidate from leaving, they have to call him a team lead or manager, even if he has no reports. So the average person doing programming makes a lot more than the average person whose TITLE is programmer. And it's a feedback loop as well, because HR looks at those same salary surveys and believes that they are consistent with the industry in setting the salary range for programmers where they have. This feedback loop causes job titles to be distanced from responsibilities and causes industry wages to be depressed and allows H1Bs to be paid lower than others with similar duties.
I even had an interview for a job in which the description and what I am doing were virtually identical.
Lucky you. I once found a job posting where they had copied several paragraphs out of my online resume and listed that as job requirements. I mean it was word for word. They didn't even change the syntax to make it sound like job requirements. It read like a resume, because, well, it was.
I contacted them seeing as how I felt I fit the bill, but I never even got a call back, let alone an interview.
In the U.S. most of the time, there is only one sewer line, and whether it be from the toilet or from your sink, it all is treated the same. I am told that in the U.K. there are gray water and black water lines and they are treated separately. Most Recreational Vehicles are set up this way as well.
My first job out of college was programming in Fortran-66 (1966 standard), which had no IF blocks and WHILE loops, only GOTO's. The company didn't want to pay for a newer compiler.
Don't hold back, tell us what year that was.
My first programming job was while I was still IN college, in 1989, converting Fortran 66 code into the state of the art Fortran 77, if you can consider 11 years old to be state of the art. It was kind of comparable to running Windows 95 today.
I went to University of Illinois in Chicago. I was in Electrical Engineering. I occasionally went to study groups for studying, but I always did my own homework. If someone couldn't do their homework, I helped them understand how to do their homework, I didn't help them to do their homework, and I certainly didn't just give them the answers.
That being said, a good test will immediately weed out the people who obviously don't know the material, so copying homework is irrelevant. It is cheating, but the person it cheats is whoever copies the homework.
It is slightly faster to fly from London to Glasgow than to take the train. Train probably takes about 5 hours. Plane will take about 3 hours including check-in times and travel to/from the airport.
Not anymore. With fingerprinting, it will take much longer to get through security. They'll probably want you at the airport three to four hours prior to departure.
End the dependence of the western world on mid-east oil.
You're right. Without airports, there would be no need for fingerprinting at airports.
Ryerson should outlaw any form of study group, because it's just as easy to share answers when you're meeting with others in the library or talking about it at a party with an upperclassman who took the class three years ago.
Perhaps the language is different from when I was in college, but back then a "Study Group" was for studying for quizzes, tests etcetera. That is not a problem. This case deals with doing homework together, which has always been against the rules unless the professor indicated that you could work together.
Yeah, but many sellers charge for signature service shipping, but only send it by regular mail, then complain that they can't track whether the customer actually got it.
As an online retailer (I don't use e-bay), I've gotten burned a few times using USPS parcel post, and had to resend products again. Luckily our orders tend to be usually in the $20-$60 range, so it doesn't kill us. However, if we have to resend, we ALWAYS use a service that will require a signature. Also, if the delivery address is not the billing address, we always require a signature, and if the delivery address is an apartment we always require a signature.
I once had a bogus charge on my local bill. It was for a sports hotline. I have not interest in sports, so obviously did not call it. I called and complained to the phone company, who said they could not remove the charge (why not. you put it there.) They said I had to call the company directly. Why? I have no relationship with them. So I called them and they said that basically computers don't make mistakes and if it says I called then I called. I told them I wouldn't pay, and they said that they would put it on my credit record and give it to a collections bureau. So essentially, any company can put a charge on your phone line and without proof demand payment, and if you don't pay it, they will ruin your credit.
The landlines are bad, but the cell phones are worse, because they don't see any problem sending text messages to kids, and if the kid sends a message back then they are signed up for monthly recurring charges, even though they are underage and can't enter into a contract. I think it should be illegal for a third party to bill through the phone company , whether land based or cell based.
So the judgement amounts to, "Give it all back and promise never to do it again"?
No, it's "Give it all to the government and promise never to do it again." Meanwhile, the people who were scammed are still out $30 million.
Let's send a small herd of Slashdotters and South Korean gamers to live on Mars for the StarCraft finals. And let them stay. I'll be happy as long as I can get my /. and ISOs.
I don't think they'd notice the scenery change.
"One town's very like another when your heads down over your pieces, brother."
months and god knows how many $$ to send a few humans to Mars and then bring them back.
I think I see an easy way to save half the time, and probably more than half the money.
...you're supposed to get your ideas of which brand of product to buy by reading blogs? Even ones apparently run by a valley girl? Wow! I have been truly been barking up the wrong tree.
I agree. Besides I don't need a phishing filter. What I need is something that jumps out at me and says "Caution! This might be legitimate." I almost instinctively trashed Paypals ToS last time they sent one out.