And while I am not defending those who owe money, do you have any idea how many college kids get 4 or 5 credit cards, thrown their way. Heck, they hand out t-shirts and phones and cd's for students who sign up. Students should be a little smarter, but it can be hard to resist the free give away.
Crazy as it may sound I went to college and I saw those tables set up all over campus, I got those envelopes in the mailbox in my dorm and off-campus, and I even passed every single one of those T-shirts up. Can you believe that? Self-restraint!
I have no qualms in telling someone that has run themselves into debt because they couldn't pass up a free t-shirt to get a life. I am actually quite disappointed that you would support those kids. Yet another example of no one needs to be responsible for their own actions. It was the fault of the CC companies throwing freebies away! OOOOOOH shiny plastic. Give me a break.
Even if the debt is valid, do you think it resonable for collection agencies to call every day. It stinks of harrasment. Perhaps the credit card companies should be a little more picky with who they grant credit to.
Do you think it is reasonable to go for weeks/months/years without paying off what you owe? You apparently do because you seem to be flatly defending them. Yeah CC's suck and their terms suck. The promise of free money that you don't have is nice but you certainly don't have to give in to the temptations.
Though I am not an attorney, and I don't even play one on television*, the attorney's comments at the end of the article saying that the practice of making up a fake caller ID identity would violate the fair debt practices collection act seem right on. (If you're hounded by creditors, you have a surprisingly large amount of rights, including the ability to tell them to just stop contacting you.)
I have, thankfully, never been hounded by debt collectors but I know someone who does do it for a living. Telling them not to call YOU doesn't mean that they stop. They call your friends, your family, your boss, your co-workers, your babysitters, anyone...
As far as what comes up on Caller ID. His shows up UNKNOWN, ALLIED GROUP (name changed to protect the guilty/innocent), or PRIVATE. I suppose if you knew it was them you could just ignore it and they would just keep calling everyone you know under the sun...
Honestly, if they were calling MY boss daily about having me pay up I'd think twice about letting the answering machine pick that up.
I knew a friend who worked in a courthouse, and she'd call me from the phone in there.
My mom works in a regular old private business. Nothing special about them (in fact they cater mostly to dead people). When you get a call from them it shows up "PRIVATE".
I find it more annoying than anything. I don't know if it is her that is calling and I don't typically pick up the phone when I don't know who it is.
Star38.com claims it will screen subscribers, and initially make the service available only to licensed private investigators and collection agencies. Jepson and his partners believe that collection agencies in particular will find the service invaluable for getting recalcitrant debtors to answer the phone.
Debt collection agencies already mask their online and phone identities pretty well. Using common telephone setups (before the big Asterik "save the children" bullshit) they just appeared as whatever they wanted. In fact their web-presence is generally unknown and they even mask their hostnames to the rest of the world with benign addresses like mta-mailserver.alliedfinancial.com (this is a recreation of an actual NAT host used by a collection agency).
Private Investigators should opt for paying the phone company to offer them a similar service (or better yet don't call from your business phone).
If they are really allowing ANY number it isn't going to make it very far out of the "hype-stages". Think of what this could do to our children and what could happen in the hands of the terrorists!
CallerID: "J. KERRY CAMP. OFF. HQ" Caller: "Hi, I'm calling you to vote for John Kerry via absentee ballot." John_Overseas: "Ok. Count me in. Down with Bush!" Caller: "Done. Thanks for helping Bu...I mean...Kerry win!"
Yeah and there was a specific reason for this... Ad revenue. GMail notifiers don't eliminate as much ad revenue, in fact, they probably create more of a reason for people to visit their GMail accounts...
People don't sit on GMail all day long with it open docked to the corner of their screen like IM clients.
My feeling is that if it's a *FREE* service (meaning you don't pay Google anything to use Gmail) then no, you shouldn't be free to use whatever third party software you choose.
I share your feeling for the most part but I really don't understand their actions. Why not stop wasting your coding time during a beta program stopping third parties from making their experience better and work on adding the things the users want (ie POP3, Opera support, HTML-only, etc?)
Think about never having to pay an utility bill again!
Just like our empty dreams of VoIP causing the untimely death of the telcos I have a feeling that the utility companies would have nothing better to do than find a way to charge us for harnessing the sun's energy and recycling our drinking water.
Now that the money is available an independent group will be set up to examine the requirements for the building and to decide whether to use the SpaceHouse concept as a basis.
Sounds like a waste of more resources than what they are trying to protect.
Umm, this really isn't for people with your typical broken bone. This is for people that need a bone replacement.
It only took seven weeks to grow the replacement jaw-piece and then only four more weeks until it was successfully grown into place.
For some reason I was under the impression that they had grown him an entire new jaw but that was obviously not the case as they only grew him a piece of his jawbone back. He still has no teeth and the doctors claim he can get a set next year.
He doesn't believe he's kidding you no... People seem unable to step into the shoes of the past and look at what the future currently holds. They cannot see progress unless it is instantaneous and perfect. It's the problem with our society. It's the reason we have international problems...
Women and minorities are much better off than they were in years past but people cannot see past the negatives. Always the negatives. Strides towards perfection mean little unless it is already perfect and we are perfecting perfection.
It may very well be that men are more likely to want to be or even make better mathematicians, scientists, or engineers because of something as fundamental as brain structure.
It may very well be that sociaital pressures influence men to excel at certain areas and women to excel at others. I will not even attempt to talk about phsyical strength but as far as mental capacity for various subjects? Give me a break.
You take a relatively minimaly skilled job like Tech support, ship it over seas to even cheaper labor and you get your ass bitten.
Eh, I worked in tech support. The English native speakers are equally as worthless as those that are ESL overseas workers. It's basically a trade off for the most part.
From my personal experience the ESL workers have more technical experience and end up being able to do something for you even if it takes longer for you to get your point across. The native English speakers suck at understanding your point AND they suck at the technical side of things.
$9.00/hr jobs with shitty benefits (if any at all) to put up w/raving assholes bitching at you because your Internet connection is down isn't worth it for most people that have a clue (unless they are college students that need a flexible schedule).
He doesn't ever actually make any points other than showing off at his DVD, music, TV, and movie collections. Honestly I don't give a flying rats ass WHY you were chosen to test something and I certainly don't care about how much music you have...
He said that the UI is fast while loading the songs he put on the device. How long did it take to put those songs on the device? Did you have to load a special driver for it (possible DRM) or did it just use USB mass storage that is standard with more recent Windows versions?
He did mention that the external sound sucks and that the display isn't any good in the daylight. Sounds like a bummer to me. I am not exactly going to be sitting at home watching movies on my portable media player.
I am more concerned with battery life and heat from the 400mhz XScale CPU.
I guess he didn't spend enough time explaining that afterall he did have to type out 204GB several times and count all his tracks in his music collection (44,190).
It does have legitimate uses it's the fucking retards that insist on supporting the RIAA and their bullshit that keep them in business and in the news.
Fucking dump the RIAA and their music. Do not support iTMS, do not support music store sales of garbage CDs, and certainly do not support any radio station that plays their bullshit for money.
Support FREEDOM of music. FurthurNET and various other sources. You might be surprised who you see on that list...
A lot of this story was about moronic kids taking pornographic pictures of themselves or friends and it quickly circulating. No fucking way, porn, spreading fast on the Internet? Who would have thought!
But a growing number of teenagers are learning the hard way that words sent into cyberspace can have more severe consequences than a telephone conversation or a whispered confidence. As ephemeral as they seem, instant messages (better known as I.M.'s) form a written record often wielded as a potent weapon for adolescent betrayal and torment.
NOTHING is worse than the fucking "telephone game". Story starts innocuous enough about Timmy getting reprimanded by the Gym teacher and ends up into some outlandish bullshit about Timmy getting his cock sucked by the male Gym teacher for missing a basket during an important shot in a worthless game during class.
Yeah I suppose the written record could be changed to make people more and more guilty looking but it's most likely getting circulated in tact (I know how stuff is copy/pasted between AIM windows). If the girl said some racial epitaph and it got spread over AIM and her school suggested she leave so be it. She probably lucked out better than if it had been said verbally and stretched...
Kids should be taught the same things we preach... Do not allow anyone to contact you on AIM unless they are on your buddy list or at the very least have it prompt you if you don't have them on your list. At least they can't won't get to fill up your SMS inbox with messages about your stupid behavior.
Have some common sense and don't post pictures of yourself masturbating, don't send messages about how you think of someone else, and don't allow yourself to be video taped by other kids doing sexual things with others.
I'm less concerned about that then what happens after an accident. On the road you are generally only going to move 2D. What happens when you have an accident and you fall X feet to your death?
On Linux I do typically do everything as me, and sudo when I can, but some programs don't work right when you sudo, they need a full root environment.
You have a clue about the importance of doing so. Windows users don't give a fuck about the importance of anything except ease of use. All they want to do is click, download, install, and run. They would prefer to skip all steps except run if they could...
If that means running everything as "super user" then that's what it needs to be. Remember these are the people that use the same passwords for their home, work, ATM, websites, email, and garage door codes.
Close it anyway MSFT or stop the default Admins!
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To spoof the Windows Security Center WMI would require system-level access to a PC. If the user downloads and runs an application that would allow for spoofing of Windows Security Center, they have already opened the door for the hacker to do what they want. In addition, if malware is already on the system, it does not need to monitor WSC to determine a vulnerable point of attack, it can simply shut down any firewall or AV service then attack - no WSC is necessary."
Sadly just about everyone runs shit as Administrator (it is the default mode for XP Home installs) to make life easier and as MSFT has noted they are opening themselves up to the attacks... For those that will mention that Linux is so much better remember that these are the same people that wouldn't like to have to change to root (sudo, su, login, whatever) to install anything and would be opening themselves up to the same vulnerability level as if they had been running Windows.
Basically the problem was in design... They should not have had an open API controlling the "WSC" and thus malware would not be able to detect the presence of the programs' status from a single location. The real problem is that MSFT isn't admitting that it is a serious problem and needs to be changed on a different level... Saying that malware writers are going to use the direct route and disable the firewall/AV outright, while true, doesn't get them off the hook for creating this hole that is more difficult even for a more advanced user to notice.
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And while I am not defending those who owe money, do you have any idea how many college kids get 4 or 5 credit cards, thrown their way. Heck, they hand out t-shirts and phones and cd's for students who sign up. Students should be a little smarter, but it can be hard to resist the free give away.
Crazy as it may sound I went to college and I saw those tables set up all over campus, I got those envelopes in the mailbox in my dorm and off-campus, and I even passed every single one of those T-shirts up. Can you believe that? Self-restraint!
I have no qualms in telling someone that has run themselves into debt because they couldn't pass up a free t-shirt to get a life. I am actually quite disappointed that you would support those kids. Yet another example of no one needs to be responsible for their own actions. It was the fault of the CC companies throwing freebies away! OOOOOOH shiny plastic. Give me a break.
Even if the debt is valid, do you think it resonable for collection agencies to call every day. It stinks of harrasment. Perhaps the credit card companies should be a little more picky with who they grant credit to.
Do you think it is reasonable to go for weeks/months/years without paying off what you owe? You apparently do because you seem to be flatly defending them. Yeah CC's suck and their terms suck. The promise of free money that you don't have is nice but you certainly don't have to give in to the temptations.
How can collection agencies circumvent the law?
Perhaps the people should pay their fucking bills on time and not just ignore them for weeks/months/years?
Though I am not an attorney, and I don't even play one on television*, the attorney's comments at the end of the article saying that the practice of making up a fake caller ID identity would violate the fair debt practices collection act seem right on. (If you're hounded by creditors, you have a surprisingly large amount of rights, including the ability to tell them to just stop contacting you.)
I have, thankfully, never been hounded by debt collectors but I know someone who does do it for a living. Telling them not to call YOU doesn't mean that they stop. They call your friends, your family, your boss, your co-workers, your babysitters, anyone...
As far as what comes up on Caller ID. His shows up UNKNOWN, ALLIED GROUP (name changed to protect the guilty/innocent), or PRIVATE. I suppose if you knew it was them you could just ignore it and they would just keep calling everyone you know under the sun...
Honestly, if they were calling MY boss daily about having me pay up I'd think twice about letting the answering machine pick that up.
I knew a friend who worked in a courthouse, and she'd call me from the phone in there.
My mom works in a regular old private business. Nothing special about them (in fact they cater mostly to dead people). When you get a call from them it shows up "PRIVATE".
I find it more annoying than anything. I don't know if it is her that is calling and I don't typically pick up the phone when I don't know who it is.
Star38.com claims it will screen subscribers, and initially make the service available only to licensed private investigators and collection agencies. Jepson and his partners believe that collection agencies in particular will find the service invaluable for getting recalcitrant debtors to answer the phone.
Debt collection agencies already mask their online and phone identities pretty well. Using common telephone setups (before the big Asterik "save the children" bullshit) they just appeared as whatever they wanted. In fact their web-presence is generally unknown and they even mask their hostnames to the rest of the world with benign addresses like mta-mailserver.alliedfinancial.com (this is a recreation of an actual NAT host used by a collection agency).
Private Investigators should opt for paying the phone company to offer them a similar service (or better yet don't call from your business phone).
If they are really allowing ANY number it isn't going to make it very far out of the "hype-stages". Think of what this could do to our children and what could happen in the hands of the terrorists!
CallerID: "J. KERRY CAMP. OFF. HQ"
Caller: "Hi, I'm calling you to vote for John Kerry via absentee ballot."
John_Overseas: "Ok. Count me in. Down with Bush!"
Caller: "Done. Thanks for helping Bu...I mean...Kerry win!"
Caller: "Another close one Dubya."
Yeah and there was a specific reason for this... Ad revenue. GMail notifiers don't eliminate as much ad revenue, in fact, they probably create more of a reason for people to visit their GMail accounts...
People don't sit on GMail all day long with it open docked to the corner of their screen like IM clients.
It can get all the foothold it likes during the Beta. Once the site is officially live they can block it out.
I still say that working on bugs and features is more important than blocking out what the people want.
My feeling is that if it's a *FREE* service (meaning you don't pay Google anything to use Gmail) then no, you shouldn't be free to use whatever third party software you choose.
I share your feeling for the most part but I really don't understand their actions. Why not stop wasting your coding time during a beta program stopping third parties from making their experience better and work on adding the things the users want (ie POP3, Opera support, HTML-only, etc?)
Think about never having to pay an utility bill again!
Just like our empty dreams of VoIP causing the untimely death of the telcos I have a feeling that the utility companies would have nothing better to do than find a way to charge us for harnessing the sun's energy and recycling our drinking water.
Now that the money is available an independent group will be set up to examine the requirements for the building and to decide whether to use the SpaceHouse concept as a basis.
Sounds like a waste of more resources than what they are trying to protect.
Because it wasn't necessary to remain in his body? I wouldn't exactly want a titanium bulge sticking out of my side if I didn't need it.
Umm, this really isn't for people with your typical broken bone. This is for people that need a bone replacement.
It only took seven weeks to grow the replacement jaw-piece and then only four more weeks until it was successfully grown into place.
For some reason I was under the impression that they had grown him an entire new jaw but that was obviously not the case as they only grew him a piece of his jawbone back. He still has no teeth and the doctors claim he can get a set next year.
Wow.
He doesn't believe he's kidding you no... People seem unable to step into the shoes of the past and look at what the future currently holds. They cannot see progress unless it is instantaneous and perfect. It's the problem with our society. It's the reason we have international problems...
Women and minorities are much better off than they were in years past but people cannot see past the negatives. Always the negatives. Strides towards perfection mean little unless it is already perfect and we are perfecting perfection.
It may very well be that men are more likely to want to be or even make better mathematicians, scientists, or engineers because of something as fundamental as brain structure.
It may very well be that sociaital pressures influence men to excel at certain areas and women to excel at others. I will not even attempt to talk about phsyical strength but as far as mental capacity for various subjects? Give me a break.
You take a relatively minimaly skilled job like Tech support, ship it over seas to even cheaper labor and you get your ass bitten.
Eh, I worked in tech support. The English native speakers are equally as worthless as those that are ESL overseas workers. It's basically a trade off for the most part.
From my personal experience the ESL workers have more technical experience and end up being able to do something for you even if it takes longer for you to get your point across. The native English speakers suck at understanding your point AND they suck at the technical side of things.
$9.00/hr jobs with shitty benefits (if any at all) to put up w/raving assholes bitching at you because your Internet connection is down isn't worth it for most people that have a clue (unless they are college students that need a flexible schedule).
It takes forever to get to the point.
He doesn't ever actually make any points other than showing off at his DVD, music, TV, and movie collections. Honestly I don't give a flying rats ass WHY you were chosen to test something and I certainly don't care about how much music you have...
He said that the UI is fast while loading the songs he put on the device. How long did it take to put those songs on the device? Did you have to load a special driver for it (possible DRM) or did it just use USB mass storage that is standard with more recent Windows versions?
He did mention that the external sound sucks and that the display isn't any good in the daylight. Sounds like a bummer to me. I am not exactly going to be sitting at home watching movies on my portable media player.
I am more concerned with battery life and heat from the 400mhz XScale CPU.
I guess he didn't spend enough time explaining that afterall he did have to type out 204GB several times and count all his tracks in his music collection (44,190).
If you want to legitimatize p2p and bittorrent you need to find another argument.
I don't have to legitimatize P2P and BitTorrent. The circuit court already did that.
People here preach about the horrific wonders of Firefox. I might as well preach about the terrific wonders of freedom of music.
It does have legitimate uses it's the fucking retards that insist on supporting the RIAA and their bullshit that keep them in business and in the news.
Fucking dump the RIAA and their music. Do not support iTMS, do not support music store sales of garbage CDs, and certainly do not support any radio station that plays their bullshit for money.
Support FREEDOM of music. FurthurNET and various other sources. You might be surprised who you see on that list...
At least they didn't claim that the cyberterrorists would have an affect on YOUR CHILDREN!!!!!!!
Yeah I fucked up. I blame AIM! :)
A lot of this story was about moronic kids taking pornographic pictures of themselves or friends and it quickly circulating. No fucking way, porn, spreading fast on the Internet? Who would have thought!
But a growing number of teenagers are learning the hard way that words sent into cyberspace can have more severe consequences than a telephone conversation or a whispered confidence. As ephemeral as they seem, instant messages (better known as I.M.'s) form a written record often wielded as a potent weapon for adolescent betrayal and torment.
NOTHING is worse than the fucking "telephone game". Story starts innocuous enough about Timmy getting reprimanded by the Gym teacher and ends up into some outlandish bullshit about Timmy getting his cock sucked by the male Gym teacher for missing a basket during an important shot in a worthless game during class.
Yeah I suppose the written record could be changed to make people more and more guilty looking but it's most likely getting circulated in tact (I know how stuff is copy/pasted between AIM windows). If the girl said some racial epitaph and it got spread over AIM and her school suggested she leave so be it. She probably lucked out better than if it had been said verbally and stretched...
Kids should be taught the same things we preach... Do not allow anyone to contact you on AIM unless they are on your buddy list or at the very least have it prompt you if you don't have them on your list. At least they can't won't get to fill up your SMS inbox with messages about your stupid behavior.
Have some common sense and don't post pictures of yourself masturbating, don't send messages about how you think of someone else, and don't allow yourself to be video taped by other kids doing sexual things with others.
I'm less concerned about that then what happens after an accident. On the road you are generally only going to move 2D. What happens when you have an accident and you fall X feet to your death?
Do these protoypes "fly" in front of a green screen too?
On Linux I do typically do everything as me, and sudo when I can, but some programs don't work right when you sudo, they need a full root environment.
You have a clue about the importance of doing so. Windows users don't give a fuck about the importance of anything except ease of use. All they want to do is click, download, install, and run. They would prefer to skip all steps except run if they could...
If that means running everything as "super user" then that's what it needs to be. Remember these are the people that use the same passwords for their home, work, ATM, websites, email, and garage door codes.
To spoof the Windows Security Center WMI would require system-level access to a PC. If the user downloads and runs an application that would allow for spoofing of Windows Security Center, they have already opened the door for the hacker to do what they want. In addition, if malware is already on the system, it does not need to monitor WSC to determine a vulnerable point of attack, it can simply shut down any firewall or AV service then attack - no WSC is necessary."
Sadly just about everyone runs shit as Administrator (it is the default mode for XP Home installs) to make life easier and as MSFT has noted they are opening themselves up to the attacks... For those that will mention that Linux is so much better remember that these are the same people that wouldn't like to have to change to root (sudo, su, login, whatever) to install anything and would be opening themselves up to the same vulnerability level as if they had been running Windows.
Basically the problem was in design... They should not have had an open API controlling the "WSC" and thus malware would not be able to detect the presence of the programs' status from a single location. The real problem is that MSFT isn't admitting that it is a serious problem and needs to be changed on a different level... Saying that malware writers are going to use the direct route and disable the firewall/AV outright, while true, doesn't get them off the hook for creating this hole that is more difficult even for a more advanced user to notice.