If you give your CC to somebody then they have the right to charge it for services or goods sold. Period. If a pricing error caused those goods to appear to be less than they are at the time of sale, that doesn't change the fact that they can still charge the correct amount for it later.
Not quite. When you give a company your CC, you also are agreeing to allow the company to charge your card for the advertised price. A company cant just decide a week later 'oh, we didnt make any profit on X customer, lets charge their card another 200% to make a profit'. Now I will agree, companies make mistakes, and it is all within degree to contact the customer, and try to correct the error, but unauthorized transactions are just that, UNAUTHORIZED.
Many examples could be made, but I will relate directly to the article. A person who makes this purchase, knowing there is a mistake is being dishonest, and deserves being charged the full amount, but unfortunately, there is no way from the companies end to know if they knowingly did it or not, aside from them admitting the mistake, and authorizing the full amount to be charged. Because of this, it doesnt leave the company with many options, if the customer accepts that amazon has made an error, but cant afford to pay the full price, fine, amazon will accept a merchandise return, but that is all fine and dandy unless that merchandise was a gift, and is halfway across the country now.
"Uncle Dave, those DVD's I sent you... yeah... well, Amazon made a mistake on the way the pricing computed on the website, and its ending up costing me more than I cant afford, could you please mail tham back to me unopened so I can ship them back to Amazon. Thanks a bunc.... you WHAT, you opened them?? GREAT! Thanks, now I owe Amazon $60 that I dont have."
Obviously a little overkill, but I thought a bit of humor could be added to the story. Of course at the same time, this could be a real scenario for someone...
Three-pronged plug grounded ones remove this problem.
Even if three pronged plugs solve the problem, there is still a fault, as no device should be sending stray voltage onto the ground wire. The ground wire in electrical circuits is a last resort escape for wiring faults to protect the user. If the laptop is sending stray voltage out the ground conductor, it would prevent you from plugging it into any GFI protected outlet, as the GFI is going to see a fault, and disconnect it.
In situations like this, I believe companies do this on purpose. If apple ensures the itunes wont run on vista, it makes microsoft look bad, because their OS is breaking things. Them apple eventually releases an update to make all happy, but still disgruntled with MSes incompatibility, possibily resulting in a OS switch. Thats the first thought that comes to my mind, I welcome your replies, I am curious as to if anyone elses sees it from my standpoint.
The article quotes "...as it approaches the Sun" so I dont think we have to worry about it hitting earth. But my question is what do you think is going to happen when it hits the sun?
But seriously, as someone else said, I wish there was better news coverage on it. I saw the tail of it a couple of nights ago, and didnt even think twice to take a closer look at what might have been a comet.
Everything you are looking for, and more you will find here.
Goto the "Temp Control" section, they have all sorts of sensors, and transmitters, and there are flood sensors on there too.
"The real question is... without the need for landlines anymore, what are we geeks to do with the PBX's installed in our houses?"
Simple, all you have to do is replace all your landlines with VoIP lines! And you will even save a bit while you're at it. Nothing greater than having hold music on my VoIP lines!
He meant 2.95 per minute, not dollars. You would have known this if you would have taken the time to follow the URL he had provided. And in what companies right mind would charge $2.95 per minute? Use common sense, I dont even think any phone company charges more than $1 per minute for calling anywhere short of the moon.
"doesnt work on any other broswer though"
Maybe thats because every other browser has been designed signifigantly not to tolerate lame scripts like these
I tell you, if you put a small PBX/voicemail system in your home, not only is it cool, but loads of fun. First off, if its only a PBX, its not going to slow down the telmarketers, but the hold music is great. If it has a voicemail/autoattendant on it, then simply record a message "To speak with (your name here) press One" In my cases, all telemarketers hang up, I have yet to have one actually press one, and be passed into my internal phone to ring me. The best thing, is putting them on hold with music-on-hold setup with your phone system. There is no greater feeling then when a telemarketer calls, and asks for me, I say, 'yeah, hang on just a second' press the dandy hold button which loops 45 seconds of horrid elevator muzak. It is almost always guaranteed they will hang up within the first minute, although i must admit, I had one caller stay on hold for a whopping 57 minutes. Talk about a waste of time.
TELEmarking is not the only form of marketing. They'll find another, and maybe even a more honest way of selling their product, instead of a bunch of lies promising get rich quick schemes, or actually saying "ok, have a good day" after you said your not interested, instead of the bastards who ramble on for an hour, trying to persuade you that you are indeed interested. That is rude, annoying, and immature pratice of the business market, I believe you are the one who should be calling yourself an idiot.
It is kind of difficult to grab them if they just left messages on your machine. And about the only way to do it when you have them on the phone, is to get them off the phone, the reason being, because they will usually never fork up the information. The second you get them off the phone, call your operator, and tell them you would like to file a complaint of harrassment on the last phone call you just received. They have the ability to trace the call, and if you so choose to, you may take legal action.
Do you feel really good for making the first post? You really couldnt post something related to the story could you? And I know I will get modded down for talking off-topic as well *sigh* But at least I feel releived for flaming at the troll...
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I would say this is the first prototype to them. Only a matter of time before they can incorporate this technology into someones eyewear.
Only downside to this, is that mobile phones disconnect their data session when a phone call comes in.
I work at Radio Shack you insensitive clod!
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http://www.donotcall.gov/
Thats a federal website isnt it?
If you give your CC to somebody then they have the right to charge it for services or goods sold. Period. If a pricing error caused those goods to appear to be less than they are at the time of sale, that doesn't change the fact that they can still charge the correct amount for it later.
Not quite. When you give a company your CC, you also are agreeing to allow the company to charge your card for the advertised price. A company cant just decide a week later 'oh, we didnt make any profit on X customer, lets charge their card another 200% to make a profit'. Now I will agree, companies make mistakes, and it is all within degree to contact the customer, and try to correct the error, but unauthorized transactions are just that, UNAUTHORIZED.
Many examples could be made, but I will relate directly to the article. A person who makes this purchase, knowing there is a mistake is being dishonest, and deserves being charged the full amount, but unfortunately, there is no way from the companies end to know if they knowingly did it or not, aside from them admitting the mistake, and authorizing the full amount to be charged. Because of this, it doesnt leave the company with many options, if the customer accepts that amazon has made an error, but cant afford to pay the full price, fine, amazon will accept a merchandise return, but that is all fine and dandy unless that merchandise was a gift, and is halfway across the country now.
"Uncle Dave, those DVD's I sent you... yeah... well, Amazon made a mistake on the way the pricing computed on the website, and its ending up costing me more than I cant afford, could you please mail tham back to me unopened so I can ship them back to Amazon. Thanks a bunc.... you WHAT, you opened them?? GREAT! Thanks, now I owe Amazon $60 that I dont have."
Obviously a little overkill, but I thought a bit of humor could be added to the story. Of course at the same time, this could be a real scenario for someone...
Three-pronged plug grounded ones remove this problem.
Even if three pronged plugs solve the problem, there is still a fault, as no device should be sending stray voltage onto the ground wire. The ground wire in electrical circuits is a last resort escape for wiring faults to protect the user. If the laptop is sending stray voltage out the ground conductor, it would prevent you from plugging it into any GFI protected outlet, as the GFI is going to see a fault, and disconnect it.
In situations like this, I believe companies do this on purpose. If apple ensures the itunes wont run on vista, it makes microsoft look bad, because their OS is breaking things. Them apple eventually releases an update to make all happy, but still disgruntled with MSes incompatibility, possibily resulting in a OS switch. Thats the first thought that comes to my mind, I welcome your replies, I am curious as to if anyone elses sees it from my standpoint.
The article quotes "...as it approaches the Sun" so I dont think we have to worry about it hitting earth. But my question is what do you think is going to happen when it hits the sun? But seriously, as someone else said, I wish there was better news coverage on it. I saw the tail of it a couple of nights ago, and didnt even think twice to take a closer look at what might have been a comet.
Everything you are looking for, and more you will find here. Goto the "Temp Control" section, they have all sorts of sensors, and transmitters, and there are flood sensors on there too.
Suprisingly, I've found RG-6 to work extremely well with 2.4Ghz, with only 18db of loss per 100ft
"The real question is... without the need for landlines anymore, what are we geeks to do with the PBX's installed in our houses?" Simple, all you have to do is replace all your landlines with VoIP lines! And you will even save a bit while you're at it. Nothing greater than having hold music on my VoIP lines!
I also ment "2.95 cents" in the previous post. Apparently slashdot doesnt allow the cent symbol.
He meant 2.95 per minute, not dollars. You would have known this if you would have taken the time to follow the URL he had provided. And in what companies right mind would charge $2.95 per minute? Use common sense, I dont even think any phone company charges more than $1 per minute for calling anywhere short of the moon.
"doesnt work on any other broswer though" Maybe thats because every other browser has been designed signifigantly not to tolerate lame scripts like these
It will just be easier for me to hang up on them... "I'm sorry your breaking up, bad signal, czzzhh! *End*"
I tell you, if you put a small PBX/voicemail system in your home, not only is it cool, but loads of fun. First off, if its only a PBX, its not going to slow down the telmarketers, but the hold music is great. If it has a voicemail/autoattendant on it, then simply record a message "To speak with (your name here) press One" In my cases, all telemarketers hang up, I have yet to have one actually press one, and be passed into my internal phone to ring me. The best thing, is putting them on hold with music-on-hold setup with your phone system. There is no greater feeling then when a telemarketer calls, and asks for me, I say, 'yeah, hang on just a second' press the dandy hold button which loops 45 seconds of horrid elevator muzak. It is almost always guaranteed they will hang up within the first minute, although i must admit, I had one caller stay on hold for a whopping 57 minutes. Talk about a waste of time.
TELEmarking is not the only form of marketing. They'll find another, and maybe even a more honest way of selling their product, instead of a bunch of lies promising get rich quick schemes, or actually saying "ok, have a good day" after you said your not interested, instead of the bastards who ramble on for an hour, trying to persuade you that you are indeed interested. That is rude, annoying, and immature pratice of the business market, I believe you are the one who should be calling yourself an idiot.
It is kind of difficult to grab them if they just left messages on your machine. And about the only way to do it when you have them on the phone, is to get them off the phone, the reason being, because they will usually never fork up the information. The second you get them off the phone, call your operator, and tell them you would like to file a complaint of harrassment on the last phone call you just received. They have the ability to trace the call, and if you so choose to, you may take legal action.
Oh trust me, it works, I've done it, and had it done to me, its plenty loud on the other end.
Well Microsoft sues its unloyal customers. And unfortunately they seem to have a winning business strategy
HIS book
Do you feel really good for making the first post? You really couldnt post something related to the story could you? And I know I will get modded down for talking off-topic as well *sigh* But at least I feel releived for flaming at the troll...
You're supposed to change your tire air seasonally???