Yea but with more cell phones and less POTS, you're more likely to see the number via caller id and so ignore the call. With POTS, you don't always have the option to see the number, and may have to pay for the privilege if it is even available.
Actually I do. I get multiple spam calls from mainly home security companies. They're all under two entries (I filled the list for 'Spammers' last year so I have a 'Spammers2' list) so it'll pop up as one or the other when they call.
I also identify as spammers the local marketing companies that try to get me to subscribe to the paper, increase my subscription to the paper from weekends to all week, add cable channels to my subscription, increase my cable subscription (the Xfinity spam calls to add voip and dvr), and whatever other local marketing or long distance marketing folks try.
I will do a google search on the number and for a majority of the unknown numbers, there's an entry in the 800notes site with several entries identifying the number. Once it's identified, I add it to 'Spammers2' and forget about it. There are a couple that turn out to be numbers for folks I actually want to talk to. Once I identify them, I create an entry and accept their calls from then on (or ignore them; like Bonfils the blood mobile folks; they are persistent).
See, you have to nip these things in the bud. Use $5,000 of that award to send someone to get your head (or your boss's head).:)
You're not going to easily outsmart my simply not answering the phone if the number isn't in my contact list. And even if you did, it would only work once as I'd immediately blacklist the number.
Don't know. I'll have to try it some time when I have my XP VM up. For my desktop, I have my good old IBM Model M keyboard. It doesn't even have a caps lock light.:)
I've investigated engineering and being a solutions architect. I "fell back" to being a Unix admin. I'm pretty good at my job I guess and have been making 6 figures, doing it since around 2000 (I actually received a "golden handcuffs" certificate from my manager at the time when I went over 6 figures:) ). I've changed jobs 5 times since then if you include a short consulting gig over seas back in 2004.
I'm constantly learning new skills including programming and data base administration. For personal projects and some work stuff. I automate tasks and create documentation and encourage my coworkers to do the same. Heck, in large part due to my scripting and documentation we're managing a bit over 1,000 systems (virtual and physical) with just 5 sysadmins (2 open spots though; anyone looking for a job?).
On the other hand though, I have put in a bit too many long days (this week in particular has been a bad one) and have been married and divorced twice but I think the personality that makes me a good admin also makes relationships difficult. Maybe. At least experience suggests it.
I currently have a pair of nVidia 560's driving 4 monitors which have a video driver not responding issue pretty regularly and the system gets lost periodically (spinning cursor and can't get to the other monitors). Occasionally I'll come back and find the system has rebooted for no apparent reason.
Prior to that, I had a pair of AMD 4xxx (4870? don't remember for sure now) cards also driving the 4 monitors. During boot, the system would blue screen on the ati driver pretty much every time I turned on the system. It would take several reboots before the system stabilized enough to get to the login screen. Once up though, it stayed up with no errors. Rebooting it might cause it to go through the ati blue screen process again though. Once I had the left monitor get flaky. It did this when I just had the one card driving 2 monitors as well and I sent it back to DiamondMM but it was returned as technically fine so the drivers were crap.
I'm tempted to put the AMD cards back in the system since at least once it was up it'd stay up.
This was a Windows XP Pro system when I built it in 2008 then I installed Windows 7 but the blue screens continued. It's annoying enough that I mostly use my iPad vs turning on the computer or my old Mac G4 laptop.
The unfortunate software house where the dev teams are broken up after a project is complete. Then approvals are denied to patch systems because there are no devs to correct for any problems that occur due to the patch.
Uptime is all I have.
(FreeBSD box with 3,196 day uptime running internal DNS).
USB support is free last time I checked (a few weeks ago). When I needed to read a tape off of my Sony, I had to install Windows XP in VirtualBox and then load the software. USB support is an extra but it's free.
It's unlikely earbuds give tinnitus as they're just dead plastic bits and don't make any noise. It's the sound volume that does it. Keep the decibels down and save your hearing.
Yea, I got scammed into purchasing a plan on match.com[0]. I created a profile a couple of months back basically to check out the site[1] and within a week or so I got notified that someone had added my profile to their favorites list. But you can't go to a specific profile without paying, so I dropped a few bucks down so I could see the profile and found it didn't exist. This has happened pretty often since then where someone comes up in the 'like/skip' listing but if you try to go to the actual profile, it doesn't exist.
I didn't know okcupid was bought by match.com though.
[John]
[0] At least it felt like a bait and switch type scam. [1] I did the same thing on okcupid. I've since deleted the okcupid account though and will delete the match.com one once the time I paid for is up.
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Yea but with more cell phones and less POTS, you're more likely to see the number via caller id and so ignore the call. With POTS, you don't always have the option to see the number, and may have to pay for the privilege if it is even available.
[John]
Damnit:
sed -e "s/Just do /Just don't/g"
[John]
Since these things are typically some recorded message, blowing whistles is pretty pointless. Just do answer the stupid phone.
[John]
Actually I do. I get multiple spam calls from mainly home security companies. They're all under two entries (I filled the list for 'Spammers' last year so I have a 'Spammers2' list) so it'll pop up as one or the other when they call.
I also identify as spammers the local marketing companies that try to get me to subscribe to the paper, increase my subscription to the paper from weekends to all week, add cable channels to my subscription, increase my cable subscription (the Xfinity spam calls to add voip and dvr), and whatever other local marketing or long distance marketing folks try.
I will do a google search on the number and for a majority of the unknown numbers, there's an entry in the 800notes site with several entries identifying the number. Once it's identified, I add it to 'Spammers2' and forget about it. There are a couple that turn out to be numbers for folks I actually want to talk to. Once I identify them, I create an entry and accept their calls from then on (or ignore them; like Bonfils the blood mobile folks; they are persistent).
[John]
See, you have to nip these things in the bud. Use $5,000 of that award to send someone to get your head (or your boss's head). :)
You're not going to easily outsmart my simply not answering the phone if the number isn't in my contact list. And even if you did, it would only work once as I'd immediately blacklist the number.
[John]
If you're not in my contact list, leave a message.
If you are in my contact list already identified as a spammer, don't even bother to leave a message.
[John]
Don't know. I'll have to try it some time when I have my XP VM up. For my desktop, I have my good old IBM Model M keyboard. It doesn't even have a caps lock light. :)
[John]
I've investigated engineering and being a solutions architect. I "fell back" to being a Unix admin. I'm pretty good at my job I guess and have been making 6 figures, doing it since around 2000 (I actually received a "golden handcuffs" certificate from my manager at the time when I went over 6 figures :) ). I've changed jobs 5 times since then if you include a short consulting gig over seas back in 2004.
I'm constantly learning new skills including programming and data base administration. For personal projects and some work stuff. I automate tasks and create documentation and encourage my coworkers to do the same. Heck, in large part due to my scripting and documentation we're managing a bit over 1,000 systems (virtual and physical) with just 5 sysadmins (2 open spots though; anyone looking for a job?).
On the other hand though, I have put in a bit too many long days (this week in particular has been a bad one) and have been married and divorced twice but I think the personality that makes me a good admin also makes relationships difficult. Maybe. At least experience suggests it.
[John]
Ahh. It's harder because I don't have a "Windows Key" on my keyboard.
Sticking with Windows 7 on my desktop and my MacBook Pro.
[John]
I currently have a pair of nVidia 560's driving 4 monitors which have a video driver not responding issue pretty regularly and the system gets lost periodically (spinning cursor and can't get to the other monitors). Occasionally I'll come back and find the system has rebooted for no apparent reason.
Prior to that, I had a pair of AMD 4xxx (4870? don't remember for sure now) cards also driving the 4 monitors. During boot, the system would blue screen on the ati driver pretty much every time I turned on the system. It would take several reboots before the system stabilized enough to get to the login screen. Once up though, it stayed up with no errors. Rebooting it might cause it to go through the ati blue screen process again though. Once I had the left monitor get flaky. It did this when I just had the one card driving 2 monitors as well and I sent it back to DiamondMM but it was returned as technically fine so the drivers were crap.
I'm tempted to put the AMD cards back in the system since at least once it was up it'd stay up.
This was a Windows XP Pro system when I built it in 2008 then I installed Windows 7 but the blue screens continued. It's annoying enough that I mostly use my iPad vs turning on the computer or my old Mac G4 laptop.
[John]
The unfortunate software house where the dev teams are broken up after a project is complete. Then approvals are denied to patch systems because there are no devs to correct for any problems that occur due to the patch.
Uptime is all I have.
(FreeBSD box with 3,196 day uptime running internal DNS).
[John]
Don't know where you are but there are no blinking crosswalks here that I'm aware of.
[John]
USB support is free last time I checked (a few weeks ago). When I needed to read a tape off of my Sony, I had to install Windows XP in VirtualBox and then load the software. USB support is an extra but it's free.
[John]
Can we fucking kill this meme right now?
[John]
Not if Lenovo buys it.
[John]
"How did he type **carrier lost**"
"Perhaps he was dictating it."
"Shut-up"
[John]
In hearing all the horror stories about prison life, I imagine "not taking me alive" might be the best solution when looking at 35 years.
[John]
It's unlikely earbuds give tinnitus as they're just dead plastic bits and don't make any noise. It's the sound volume that does it. Keep the decibels down and save your hearing.
[John]
Yea, keep the volume down if you must use earbuds.
[John]
Yea, that's what I was going to say. And remove scar tissue from busted ear drums.
[John]
Wait, aren't they already in their parent's basement? Playing violent video games?
[John]
Yea, I got scammed into purchasing a plan on match.com[0]. I created a profile a couple of months back basically to check out the site[1] and within a week or so I got notified that someone had added my profile to their favorites list. But you can't go to a specific profile without paying, so I dropped a few bucks down so I could see the profile and found it didn't exist. This has happened pretty often since then where someone comes up in the 'like/skip' listing but if you try to go to the actual profile, it doesn't exist.
I didn't know okcupid was bought by match.com though.
[John]
[0] At least it felt like a bait and switch type scam.
[1] I did the same thing on okcupid. I've since deleted the okcupid account though and will delete the match.com one once the time I paid for is up.
It's cheaper in the long run to head for The Chicken Ranch regularly.
[John]
Posting AC for obvious reasons...
No, no you're not. :)
[John]
Bazinga!
[John]