This is common place with call centers these days.
It's handy when I call TELUS Mobility (my cellular provider), I've rarely waited more then a minute to speak to someone, and I always get someone who has been there for at least a year. My account has three phones, and a number of profitable extras on my phone (wireless web, we rarely go near our minute caps, etc) so I'm definitely a profitable account.
A friend of mine called to swap phones once, waited on hold 30 minutes. He was still on hold when I got to his house, so I got to wait for him while he waited for his call to be answered.
I called, got through in about 2 minutes while he was still on hold, so they definitely do prioritize calls.
Most call centers tell you this, something like "Your call has been placed in priority sequence" rather then "Your call will be answered in the order it was received"
If best buy is sick of people using rebates, then stop offering them
They're not pissed at the rebates themselves.
They're sick of people abusing the rebate program, returning the product after submitting the rebate.
Personally, I'm not sure how people get away with this, whenever I've returned a product that was missing parts (usually a manual or something) I've been dinged a 10%-30% "restocking fee"
If the product is no longer in original condition (the UPC barcode removed, for instance) then what's the problem?
They can refuse a SALE, sure. However, they cannot refuse a refund since by that time the customer and the retailer have a contract with a return policy spelled out.
I think some of the OEM installations weren't that bad, but it was probably dependant on the hardware.
I've usually built quality hardware for myself, although I've had a couple budget-limited upgrades -- On the other hand, I was able to get my budget-limited machines to run without ever seeing a bluescreen on W2K too.
Posting a/etc/shadow from any machine other then the IP you're using at the moment would probably be relatively safe.
Beyond that, you don't submit a/etc/shadow to the site, you just submit a hash -- So they'd only have your password, they don't know what username you submitted, or if the hash is even a password, you might have generated a test string.
Here's a hint: They'll be exposed to whatever you try to shelter them from eventually, be it at school, or when they get out into the world.
Rather then forcing them to deal with concepts they aren't prepared to handle, sit down with your offspring (or whatever else you call whatever you spawned) and discuss the issue (whatever the issue at hand may be), let them learn and understand the good and the bad in the world, and maybe even become a force for good.
When you see rascism or prejudice on TV, when the show is over, talk to your kids. Teach them that what they saw was wrong, and why.
They'll learn to say bad words. Sometimes they'll put them in sentances (although in lowerclass areas only the explicit content is actually learned)
From there, their lingustic skills will ultimately lead them to unrewarding and unproductive careers which create a drag on society as a whole.
Examples such as: homeless beggers/bag people, squeegee people, reality TV cast+crew, the commander in chief, and rap "artists" are the natural result, seperated only by their adult choice to maintain their childhood learned sentance structures vs to go on in life choking on pretzles and mispronouncing nuclear.
While I can agree that you want/need to have some relative anonymity in life in general (from a stalker, from an employer), I'm not sure why it's specifically required for a democracy.
In other words, it should be possible to have a democracy, and to maintain all of your other civil rights if you are only required to show ID to police officers.
Just because you are required to show ID does not mean the police can randomly arrest you, for example.
That being said, I'm not supporting this concept, mostly just playing devils advocate. People tend to lump "show ID" in with random arrest, lack of due process, lack of access to lawyers and various other civil rights, when in reality there is no reason that they need to be directly linked -- It just so happens that the best examples of a requirement to show your ID at any time are in countries which did not have the other civil rights to which americans are accustomed.
It depends on the motivation for the rewrite, and the skills of the developers involved.
Assuming it is rewritten with security as a primary goal, and interpretting bad code and automatically loading plugins as a secondary goal, it may well be a better product in the end.
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Sure. However, if you force the issue (yelling how they won't honour their return policy will do wonders for getting management to honour it.
Failing that, it's likely that an arbitrary return policy would not survive a challenge in small claims court.
If you walked into a store and were sold a product that the store didn't own, the actual owner can take action against the store.
Is this any different? If you copy the movie, wouldn't this give the distributor a cause of action against Michael Moore?
This is common place with call centers these days.
It's handy when I call TELUS Mobility (my cellular provider), I've rarely waited more then a minute to speak to someone, and I always get someone who has been there for at least a year. My account has three phones, and a number of profitable extras on my phone (wireless web, we rarely go near our minute caps, etc) so I'm definitely a profitable account.
A friend of mine called to swap phones once, waited on hold 30 minutes. He was still on hold when I got to his house, so I got to wait for him while he waited for his call to be answered.
I called, got through in about 2 minutes while he was still on hold, so they definitely do prioritize calls.
Most call centers tell you this, something like "Your call has been placed in priority sequence" rather then "Your call will be answered in the order it was received"
They're sick of people abusing the rebate program, returning the product after submitting the rebate.
Personally, I'm not sure how people get away with this, whenever I've returned a product that was missing parts (usually a manual or something) I've been dinged a 10%-30% "restocking fee"
If the product is no longer in original condition (the UPC barcode removed, for instance) then what's the problem?
What about it?
They can refuse a SALE, sure. However, they cannot refuse a refund since by that time the customer and the retailer have a contract with a return policy spelled out.
So? That's a flaw in a business model. The company can stop doing that if they feel they are losing more money then they're making.
Drives don't need to be in a live RAID configuration, it could be an occasional mirror.
AFAIK you are correct, there are no known conflicts. However, simple math indicates that there ARE conflicts, we just haven't encountered them yet.
I think some of the OEM installations weren't that bad, but it was probably dependant on the hardware.
I've usually built quality hardware for myself, although I've had a couple budget-limited upgrades -- On the other hand, I was able to get my budget-limited machines to run without ever seeing a bluescreen on W2K too.
Yes, yes it is. I'm a Windows guy, but even I won't go near ME...
Posting a /etc/shadow from any machine other then the IP you're using at the moment would probably be relatively safe.
/etc/shadow to the site, you just submit a hash -- So they'd only have your password, they don't know what username you submitted, or if the hash is even a password, you might have generated a test string.
Beyond that, you don't submit a
Well lets see. An MD5 hash is 32 bytes long. You can input a string longer then 32 bytes.
Simple logic indicates that if
# of possible inputs > # of possible outputs
Then yes, duplicate outputs can and will occur. In practice, I'm not aware of anyone having discovered an actual dupliacte yet.
They have?
C:\WINDOWS>ver
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
C:\WINDOWS>cd..
C:\>
Here's a hint: They'll be exposed to whatever you try to shelter them from eventually, be it at school, or when they get out into the world.
Rather then forcing them to deal with concepts they aren't prepared to handle, sit down with your offspring (or whatever else you call whatever you spawned) and discuss the issue (whatever the issue at hand may be), let them learn and understand the good and the bad in the world, and maybe even become a force for good.
When you see rascism or prejudice on TV, when the show is over, talk to your kids. Teach them that what they saw was wrong, and why.
They'll learn to say bad words. Sometimes they'll put them in sentances (although in lowerclass areas only the explicit content is actually learned)
From there, their lingustic skills will ultimately lead them to unrewarding and unproductive careers which create a drag on society as a whole.
Examples such as: homeless beggers/bag people, squeegee people, reality TV cast+crew, the commander in chief, and rap "artists" are the natural result, seperated only by their adult choice to maintain their childhood learned sentance structures vs to go on in life choking on pretzles and mispronouncing nuclear.
Go down to the RIAA's offices with a newspaper.
Say whatever you need to say to sit down with someone employeed by the RIAA. Lie a little if needed.
Roll up the newspaper, smack them over the head and say "No! Bad RIAA!"
Leave. Never buy another RIAA product again.
How do you figure? Paid users get 2GB of space...
But yet they still limit your ability to add filters to only a couple fields. Why is is to hard to allow user-defined headers?
[quote]Once free speech is stifled[/quote]
Didn't Ashcroft already cancel free speech?
[quote]the rest of the Bill of Rights might as well be used as toilet paper.[/quote]
You mean it isn't?
While I can agree that you want/need to have some relative anonymity in life in general (from a stalker, from an employer), I'm not sure why it's specifically required for a democracy.
In other words, it should be possible to have a democracy, and to maintain all of your other civil rights if you are only required to show ID to police officers.
Just because you are required to show ID does not mean the police can randomly arrest you, for example.
That being said, I'm not supporting this concept, mostly just playing devils advocate. People tend to lump "show ID" in with random arrest, lack of due process, lack of access to lawyers and various other civil rights, when in reality there is no reason that they need to be directly linked -- It just so happens that the best examples of a requirement to show your ID at any time are in countries which did not have the other civil rights to which americans are accustomed.
Okay, that's a reason to keep VOTES anonymous. That doesn't address why a functioning democracy needs anonymity anywhere else though.
Really? Which user? And what hardware? A $200 bucket-of-bolts made from whatever chewing gum you had on your work bench, or good hardware?
I've yet to see a BSOD on any of the systems I built in W2K or XP other then from bad (or really cheap) hardware, or the wrong drivers.
I would highly recommend running memtest86 on any machine which is bluescreening though, and check or replace the power supply.
It depends on the motivation for the rewrite, and the skills of the developers involved.
Assuming it is rewritten with security as a primary goal, and interpretting bad code and automatically loading plugins as a secondary goal, it may well be a better product in the end.
Sure... And if I mail them a letter with similar terms on the envelope, would they be legally bound by such terms?