Same thing happened to me. I eventually asked them to just disable the data service for my plan because I'd decided to never use it the way they kept screwing me over. I still kept getting the charge even though I'd called and had the service 'disabled' on the account... several times.
Screw Verizon. I'm with Sprint now and never intend to use Verizon again.
* have been residing in the United States subsequent to a lawful admission for permanent residence for at least 15 years and are over 55 years of age;
* have been residing in the United States subsequent to a lawful admission for permanent residence for at least 20 years and are over 50 years of age; or
* have a medically determinable physical or mental impairment, where the impairment affects the applicant's ability to learn English.
Patient H.M. was never able to regain the ability to form new long term memories, so your argument of how well-known "rewiring" of the brain is, is directly counter to what H.M. showed us.
In short, your arguments are nonsensical and uninformed. You should leave this to those who work in neurosciences.
Patient H.M.'s brain was NOT physically the same as all other brains. There were known changes made to it, and effects from that change that helped us do extensive mapping of brain activity which would have been difficult to do otherwise. That's the whole point of why patient H.M. was so important.
Yeah, a shocker that a software company (microsoft) would want to make you use their software, while a (mainly) hardware company (apple) would just want to make you buy their hardware.
Could you expand on that for those of us from elsewhere? Here in the U.S., you can get married by a judge or by other non-religious ways, and it's legally considered the same as a church marriage. What's different about it there?
No one barged into anyone's office at a moment's notice. They notified us months before that this would be coming down, and gave a few more months to install the scanning software. Why is everyone on the other side of the conversation so out of touch with reality?
Yes it does include professors. As a Ph.D. doing medically related research at a university, I've got some PHI data I need to include in some studies. It's encrypted and stored on secured servers. That's the way it's supposed to be. All the scanning software does is make sure you have it encrypted and not just lying around. THAT'S A GOOD THING.
Other reasons professors who aren't working with medical research need to do it.. Some of our departments used to use student SSNs for a lot of things. Data tends to just accumulate over the years and most of them didn't think a thing of it. Then some desktops/laptops with that data on it got stolen. Suddenly the University found it had to send out letters to LOTS of alumni (you know, those folks they rely on for donations) telling them that their SSNs and other personal data was stolen, and they were now at risk for identity theft. Lots of those alum then said they would never donate to the university again till it was ensured that couldn't happen to them or anyone else so easily again. Hence the big push this year to secure data that should have been secured years ago.
If you worked at our university and decided to 'be less than forthcoming about the number and location of computers in your group', you would soon find yourself looking for another university to employ you.
That's pretty dumb. Removable storage just means some bad guy can walk away with the data on the external drive.
What Identityfinder does (our university mandated putting it on all faculty and staff computers at the beginning of the year) is force you to decide to either remove the data from the machine, or *encrypt it*.
Your comment kinda reminds me of those who say "analog television frequencies aren't being used any more". And then they suggest using them for cellular phones/internet. But the reality is that those frequencies ARE being used: By digital television (channels 2-51) and Emergency Radio (52-59) and cellphones (60-69)(approximately). Every inch of space is assigned.
Umm, NO. Thin slices of the same spectrum are being used by digital TVs. LOTS of the space, though not contiguous, are not being used by it. That's why the FCC is going to allow others to use that unused 'white space' between the thin slices used by digital TV btoadcasts.
Sorry, but the Republicans haven't been fiscally conservative since before Regan started the deficit ramp up. Calling the last Republican administration's policy 'fiscally conservative' is laughable. More like 'bat shit insane'. Long ago the Republican's were fiscally conservative, and I agreed with most of their fiscal policies. That was long, long ago.
Ohhhh, they minded their own business for thousands of years before WWII? Really?
You might want to inform the Koreans that they weren't really invaded by Japan in 1592 and part of their country wasn't under Japanese control for years subsequently.
If it had only a very few features, I would understand it. If it had a lousy looking color scheme, bad fonts and other style issues, I would understand it. If it has an unintuitive GUI that only a programmer would love/tolerate, I would understand it. If the few features it did have were buggy and tended to give error pages routinely, I would understand it. But the whole thing was based/promoted because it was going to be SECURE. It's got horrible design flaws in the only single thing it was supposed to be good at. That's where the hate is coming from.
Replacing a used airbag costs about a grand. Do you want to spend that for the passenger airbag when you didn't have a passenger riding in the car during the accident? Only enabling the airbags when the safety belt is locked is a good thing for multiple reasons.
Psst. You are forgetting where that money goes. Want to compare how much a Brit vs as U.S.ian pays for medical insurance, or treatment when they get sick?
Don't be fooled too much by the numbers. Sprints loses are mainly coming from defection of old Nextel customers who are moving on after their contract is up. That happens a lot after acquisitions. Sprint's own customer base is pretty stable or growing, and the numbers look good after the bleeding stops from the Nextel buyout.
Really? That's why it was broken up? It was too socialist? Wow. Thanks for that informative info Mr. AC. And here I was thinking because they were horribly abusing their monopoly power. Why, I guess I didn't realize that and I really should have loved having to pay rent on every phone in my house because you weren't allowed to own your own phone. You had to rent ALL your equipment from them.
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We design offices so we like them.
You and I have worked in *vastly* different offices.
Same thing happened to me. I eventually asked them to just disable the data service for my plan because I'd decided to never use it the way they kept screwing me over. I still kept getting the charge even though I'd called and had the service 'disabled' on the account... several times.
Screw Verizon. I'm with Sprint now and never intend to use Verizon again.
I think a factor you are missing is that an episode of Haven is*MUCH* cheaper to produce than an episode of Caprica.
exceptions:
* have been residing in the United States subsequent to a lawful admission for permanent residence for at least 15 years and are over 55 years of age;
* have been residing in the United States subsequent to a lawful admission for permanent residence for at least 20 years and are over 50 years of age; or
* have a medically determinable physical or mental impairment, where the impairment affects the applicant's ability to learn English.
Actually I do. And you'd understand why Patient H.M. being such an exception was so important to research if you did.
All the Amish schools I know of around here teach German as their primary language.
The fact that you can't think of one has no bearing on what actually exists.
Patient H.M. was never able to regain the ability to form new long term memories, so your argument of how well-known "rewiring" of the brain is, is directly counter to what H.M. showed us.
In short, your arguments are nonsensical and uninformed. You should leave this to those who work in neurosciences.
Patient H.M.'s brain was NOT physically the same as all other brains. There were known changes made to it, and effects from that change that helped us do extensive mapping of brain activity which would have been difficult to do otherwise. That's the whole point of why patient H.M. was so important.
You don't appear to get anything.
Yeah, a shocker that a software company (microsoft) would want to make you use their software, while a (mainly) hardware company (apple) would just want to make you buy their hardware.
Insightful? What are the mods smoking tonight?
Could you expand on that for those of us from elsewhere? Here in the U.S., you can get married by a judge or by other non-religious ways, and it's legally considered the same as a church marriage. What's different about it there?
No one barged into anyone's office at a moment's notice. They notified us months before that this would be coming down, and gave a few more months to install the scanning software. Why is everyone on the other side of the conversation so out of touch with reality?
Yes it does include professors. As a Ph.D. doing medically related research at a university, I've got some PHI data I need to include in some studies. It's encrypted and stored on secured servers. That's the way it's supposed to be. All the scanning software does is make sure you have it encrypted and not just lying around. THAT'S A GOOD THING.
Other reasons professors who aren't working with medical research need to do it.. Some of our departments used to use student SSNs for a lot of things. Data tends to just accumulate over the years and most of them didn't think a thing of it. Then some desktops/laptops with that data on it got stolen. Suddenly the University found it had to send out letters to LOTS of alumni (you know, those folks they rely on for donations) telling them that their SSNs and other personal data was stolen, and they were now at risk for identity theft. Lots of those alum then said they would never donate to the university again till it was ensured that couldn't happen to them or anyone else so easily again. Hence the big push this year to secure data that should have been secured years ago.
If you worked at our university and decided to 'be less than forthcoming about the number and location of computers in your group', you would soon find yourself looking for another university to employ you.
That's pretty dumb. Removable storage just means some bad guy can walk away with the data on the external drive.
What Identityfinder does (our university mandated putting it on all faculty and staff computers at the beginning of the year) is force you to decide to either remove the data from the machine, or *encrypt it*.
Larry Niven's outsiders and star seeds could probably hear the sounds of the collision.
Your comment kinda reminds me of those who say "analog television frequencies aren't being used any more". And then they suggest using them for cellular phones/internet. But the reality is that those frequencies ARE being used: By digital television (channels 2-51) and Emergency Radio (52-59) and cellphones (60-69)(approximately). Every inch of space is assigned.
Umm, NO. Thin slices of the same spectrum are being used by digital TVs. LOTS of the space, though not contiguous, are not being used by it. That's why the FCC is going to allow others to use that unused 'white space' between the thin slices used by digital TV btoadcasts.
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=14497
Not nearly every bit of the spectrum is being used, or assigned.
Sorry, but the Republicans haven't been fiscally conservative since before Regan started the deficit ramp up. Calling the last Republican administration's policy 'fiscally conservative' is laughable. More like 'bat shit insane'. Long ago the Republican's were fiscally conservative, and I agreed with most of their fiscal policies. That was long, long ago.
Mod parent up.
Ohhhh, they minded their own business for thousands of years before WWII? Really?
You might want to inform the Koreans that they weren't really invaded by Japan in 1592 and part of their country wasn't under Japanese control for years subsequently.
If it had only a very few features, I would understand it.
If it had a lousy looking color scheme, bad fonts and other style issues, I would understand it.
If it has an unintuitive GUI that only a programmer would love/tolerate, I would understand it.
If the few features it did have were buggy and tended to give error pages routinely, I would understand it.
But the whole thing was based/promoted because it was going to be SECURE.
It's got horrible design flaws in the only single thing it was supposed to be good at.
That's where the hate is coming from.
Replacing a used airbag costs about a grand. Do you want to spend that for the passenger airbag when you didn't have a passenger riding in the car during the accident? Only enabling the airbags when the safety belt is locked is a good thing for multiple reasons.
Yeah, I guess that's why mine is rated a 4 and yours is a 1. Sumbdumass is a good nic for you.
Psst. You are forgetting where that money goes. Want to compare how much a Brit vs as U.S.ian pays for medical insurance, or treatment when they get sick?
Don't be fooled too much by the numbers. Sprints loses are mainly coming from defection of old Nextel customers who are moving on after their contract is up. That happens a lot after acquisitions. Sprint's own customer base is pretty stable or growing, and the numbers look good after the bleeding stops from the Nextel buyout.
You and I have been looking at vastly different sets of benchmarks.
Some go better at 64 bit. Many others do worse.
Really? That's why it was broken up? It was too socialist? Wow. Thanks for that informative info Mr. AC. And here I was thinking because they were horribly abusing their monopoly power. Why, I guess I didn't realize that and I really should have loved having to pay rent on every phone in my house because you weren't allowed to own your own phone. You had to rent ALL your equipment from them.