Not that I know of, but then again, I deal with IT, not HR. Drop your resume off at McIntyre or email it to jobs@matrixgaming.(TLD FOR CANADA) anyway - we keep all resumes on file for when we hire.
You hit the nail on the head. That's EXACTLY why we open in those neighbourhoods.
As for the Bawls, they're not overpriced considering how much each case costs us to have shipped from Calgary:)
I'm rather ignorant in such matters - how did you trace that number to 01 Comunnications? If these types of scams take off, it would probably come in handy to know how to do that. Was it just a 'call the phone company and ask' sort of thing?
Happens in Canada, too. Just this past week I had my bank call me to discuss "important banking information" with me, and asked for my mailing address, postal code and date of birth. They've called me before, and asked for different information. I used to work for this bank, and I know why they do it - because the person they reach may know some information about someone, but not all. So they're supposed to mix it up a little. Make it hard to predict what info the bank will ask for.
When I told the guy I don't give my info to someone who just calls me and asks me for it, he said something like "but I'm with the bank, I can see that information in front of me already". I told him I had no idea if that was true, because he could be damn near anybody pretending to be with the bank. Then he told me that they'd just send out a letter with the information he wanted to give me, which is what I prefer anyway.
Turns out I had missed a credit card payment (I was in the hospital at the time and rather drugged up), and the problem had been sorted out by itself anyway, but I didn't know that the guy on the other end of the phone was who he pretended to be.
There's lots of companies that are trying to incorporate technology that they don't really understand and wind up getting things really, really wrong. Just after the bank, I worked for a group insurance provider. They had a strict "no personal information inquiries from customers over email" policy, which I liked. There's no way to verify who sent the email, or who will read it. Well, one day, corporate decides that any customer who wants their medical, dental and payment history can make the request over email provided the email address has the customer's name. Ooh, goody.
I showed my boss exactly how easy I can get an email address with her name, and then request her information using that same email address. She told me that if I showed that to anyone else, I'd be fired. That company has since been bought out and the policy changed, but it was still scary as hell.
I got one this morning. 1-530-204-6800 - google tells me it's based in Sacramento, CA. Didn't call them, but I'm tempted to just to see what's on the other end. I'm wondering if these aren't just like those free voicemail services. I have a free voicemail number set up on an area code that points to, IIRC, Tacoma, WA. Takes faxes and voice calls, incomming only. I set up the outgoing message, and when someone calls, the message they leave is forwarded to an email address - for me, Gmail. Now, I've never been anywhere near Tacoma, WA, but with a voicemail and fax line there (2 separate numbers), I can (and often do) convince people that I have an office there (I like to bait scammers).
Didn't cost me anything, and they didn't ask any personal information. Signup was real easy, took 5 minutes.
There's lots of similar services out there that will let you pick damn near any area code you want, but ask for some billing information should you go beyond the trial period. They don't actually try to bill you for anything unil you owe them money, which leaves you with a month to have as many people punch in their credit card numbers after the beep before the bogus credit card number you enter blows causes your account to be killed.
If you've ever been to Kipling, Sask, you'd know that two red paperclips would be worth more than a farmhouse there. There's actually a bit of a fad in Saskatchewan lately - towns giving away old houses and property that they normally couldn't pay people to take. It's usually tied in to some sort of gimicky contest, frequently related to a TV show called Corner Gas.
Yes, we have VERY strict privacy laws. One of those laws requires that companies disclose WHAT information they're gathering, WHY they're gathering it, and WHO they're gathering it for. That same law requires that unless there is a court order, that company is not allowed to disclose that information to a 3rd party for any reason unless they have your express, written permission. IE, them saying "well, we added in to our contract a clause that lets us sell or give away your information to anyone we want" is not allowed. I worked for a bank that tried that and got slapped hard.
Basically, Bell is doing this to comlpy with the privacy laws. They're keeping your http logs (like every ISP out there), and now they're just following through on their obligation to tell their customers why they're doing it and who could possibly see it. Should they ever actually release your information, they still have to have a court order, OR your signature on a contract that specifically says who you're authorizing the release of information to, and what that third party intends to do with your information.
It was called the SideWinder Freestyle. I used it, and I hated it. IIRC, it only had roll & pitch, but no yaw. It had massive sensitivity issues, and the ergonomics just weren't there, either.
Actually, it's very easy to defeat the CD checks for Battlefield 2 (and most other games - the only exception is StarForce protected games), assuming the disc image is made properly. Check out a program called 'CureRom'. First, use A-ray scanner to determine the copy protection that is on the disc. Then, use the appropriate copy protection profile in Alcohol 120 to make the image. Then, use the CureRom profile editor to create a game profile (which specifies the location of the CD image, the executable to run along with command line parameters, plus a few other misc. options). Once the profile is created, just double-click the profile to have CureRom load the image on to the virtual drive and launch the game.
I do that all the time - I'm the sysadmin for a chain of LAN centers. We run Battlefield 2 (along with dozens of other games) using such a setup. Changing out discs is not an option for us, so if we can't use software emulated optical drives and image files to run the game, we just don't run the game - period.
Granted, it doesn't solve the assinine "you need the CD!" mentality some game publishers have, but it works.
My apologies, I should have included them in my list.
Oh...and pedophiles are bad people.
So are terrorists, but neither one are lurking on every corner and website waiting to blow up/molest people's children. I would argue that pedophiles, while a much more likely threat than terrorists, have been somewhat overblown by the people who make money and/or power by having the general poplulace afraid of things.
At this point, not much. However, there have been attempts at legally enforcing ESRB ratings. To my knowledge, most of them have been unsucessful (at least in the US). There is at least one law that I know for sure is an attempt to legally enforce the ESRB ratings, but it's in Canada. Bill 30 is the province of Saskatchewan's attempt to make it illegal to even advertise or display a game where someone under the ERSB rated age could see it. It doesn't have much opposition at the moment, as the government is playing the lame-assed "you want our children to see PORNOGRAPHIC VIDEO GAMES?!?" card to anyone who speaks up against it. While it isn't shutting me up, it kills almost any support I manage to cull.
1) I'm pretty sure you're referencing the DMCA. This was a product not of the Bush administration, but the Clinton administration.
2) Considering how most people seem to enjoy the concept of a nanny-state where their government will protect its citizens from "the bad people" (which may be Communists, terrorists, Socialists, homosexuals, hippies, pedophiles, athiests, intellectuals, liberals, etc), I'm pretty sure many people would enjoy living in a totalitarian regime that protects everone from being offended or shocked. Those who would not enjoy such a fate would likely be branded one of "the bad people".
I see them on TV all the time. I saw one on TV earlier today, in fact. I thought it was a stupid-ass one, but I think the same thing about almost every commercial.
You don't even have to have the machine with the tuner hooked up to ANY display. I've got one running in a closet (the drives & fans make too much noise to be in the same room as a TV), with the frontend running on a modded Xbox. If I wanted to, I could put in more tuners and have multiple frontends all watching different shows on live TV, or browsing through what has been built up to be a rather considerable library. I'd like to add the Torrentocracy plugin, but I can't seem to get it to work with 0.19.
I hate to ask this, but I guess my front-line tech support reflex will never really go away.
When you did these tests, was MSOffice still taking up a metric assload of resources in the background? I've never had any of those problems with OOo (save the pre-loader related ones, as I hate and never use pre-loaders).
Yeah, right about the time of Office 97 is where I thought to myself "Hmm... how much more could I ever use in an office suite?". Since then, MS hasn't been able to introduce a single feature into Office that hasn't made me wonder why I should care. Mind you, I really never used Office 97, since Office 6 was pretty much good enough for me. Now, it's all OOo, since it's easier to find binary installers for OOo than my old Office 6 floppies.
I know it's a pain, but you can add "-site:about.com" to your search query to filter out all results from them. Hell, wouldn't surprise me if there was a firefox extension that would let you add that automatically.
Here's another vote for OneOrZero. I'm a sysadmin for a small 3 location retail company, and it's great. Simple enough that it takes almost no training to use, and it does the job. It looks really professional, too.
MythTV, when playing live TV, has a "Minimum Buffer" setting. Video won't play until the buffer has that minimum amount, then it starts playing at the beginning of the buffer. In 18.1, the default is 50 megs (I leave mine at the default). This is what causes the delay.
In a situation where an employee is allergic to glass, then I would imagine the Americans with Disabilities Act would come in to play. Any dime-school lawyer should be able to make a convincing case. As for breakage, your bicep should be filled with enough squishy stuff to absorb any shock. It would be possible to hit it hard enough, or in just the right way to cause it to break. In that situation, you better be within 10 seconds of a hospital.
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Based on your spelling and grammar, I'd have to agree.
Not that I know of, but then again, I deal with IT, not HR. Drop your resume off at McIntyre or email it to jobs@matrixgaming.(TLD FOR CANADA) anyway - we keep all resumes on file for when we hire.
You hit the nail on the head. That's EXACTLY why we open in those neighbourhoods. As for the Bawls, they're not overpriced considering how much each case costs us to have shipped from Calgary :)
I'm rather ignorant in such matters - how did you trace that number to 01 Comunnications? If these types of scams take off, it would probably come in handy to know how to do that. Was it just a 'call the phone company and ask' sort of thing?
Happens in Canada, too. Just this past week I had my bank call me to discuss "important banking information" with me, and asked for my mailing address, postal code and date of birth. They've called me before, and asked for different information. I used to work for this bank, and I know why they do it - because the person they reach may know some information about someone, but not all. So they're supposed to mix it up a little. Make it hard to predict what info the bank will ask for.
When I told the guy I don't give my info to someone who just calls me and asks me for it, he said something like "but I'm with the bank, I can see that information in front of me already". I told him I had no idea if that was true, because he could be damn near anybody pretending to be with the bank. Then he told me that they'd just send out a letter with the information he wanted to give me, which is what I prefer anyway.
Turns out I had missed a credit card payment (I was in the hospital at the time and rather drugged up), and the problem had been sorted out by itself anyway, but I didn't know that the guy on the other end of the phone was who he pretended to be.
There's lots of companies that are trying to incorporate technology that they don't really understand and wind up getting things really, really wrong. Just after the bank, I worked for a group insurance provider. They had a strict "no personal information inquiries from customers over email" policy, which I liked. There's no way to verify who sent the email, or who will read it. Well, one day, corporate decides that any customer who wants their medical, dental and payment history can make the request over email provided the email address has the customer's name. Ooh, goody.
I showed my boss exactly how easy I can get an email address with her name, and then request her information using that same email address. She told me that if I showed that to anyone else, I'd be fired. That company has since been bought out and the policy changed, but it was still scary as hell.
I got one this morning. 1-530-204-6800 - google tells me it's based in Sacramento, CA. Didn't call them, but I'm tempted to just to see what's on the other end. I'm wondering if these aren't just like those free voicemail services. I have a free voicemail number set up on an area code that points to, IIRC, Tacoma, WA. Takes faxes and voice calls, incomming only. I set up the outgoing message, and when someone calls, the message they leave is forwarded to an email address - for me, Gmail. Now, I've never been anywhere near Tacoma, WA, but with a voicemail and fax line there (2 separate numbers), I can (and often do) convince people that I have an office there (I like to bait scammers). Didn't cost me anything, and they didn't ask any personal information. Signup was real easy, took 5 minutes.
There's lots of similar services out there that will let you pick damn near any area code you want, but ask for some billing information should you go beyond the trial period. They don't actually try to bill you for anything unil you owe them money, which leaves you with a month to have as many people punch in their credit card numbers after the beep before the bogus credit card number you enter blows causes your account to be killed.
If you've ever been to Kipling, Sask, you'd know that two red paperclips would be worth more than a farmhouse there. There's actually a bit of a fad in Saskatchewan lately - towns giving away old houses and property that they normally couldn't pay people to take. It's usually tied in to some sort of gimicky contest, frequently related to a TV show called Corner Gas.
Yes, we have VERY strict privacy laws. One of those laws requires that companies disclose WHAT information they're gathering, WHY they're gathering it, and WHO they're gathering it for. That same law requires that unless there is a court order, that company is not allowed to disclose that information to a 3rd party for any reason unless they have your express, written permission. IE, them saying "well, we added in to our contract a clause that lets us sell or give away your information to anyone we want" is not allowed. I worked for a bank that tried that and got slapped hard.
Basically, Bell is doing this to comlpy with the privacy laws. They're keeping your http logs (like every ISP out there), and now they're just following through on their obligation to tell their customers why they're doing it and who could possibly see it. Should they ever actually release your information, they still have to have a court order, OR your signature on a contract that specifically says who you're authorizing the release of information to, and what that third party intends to do with your information.
It was called the SideWinder Freestyle. I used it, and I hated it. IIRC, it only had roll & pitch, but no yaw. It had massive sensitivity issues, and the ergonomics just weren't there, either.
I do that all the time - I'm the sysadmin for a chain of LAN centers. We run Battlefield 2 (along with dozens of other games) using such a setup. Changing out discs is not an option for us, so if we can't use software emulated optical drives and image files to run the game, we just don't run the game - period.
Granted, it doesn't solve the assinine "you need the CD!" mentality some game publishers have, but it works.
At this point, not much. However, there have been attempts at legally enforcing ESRB ratings. To my knowledge, most of them have been unsucessful (at least in the US). There is at least one law that I know for sure is an attempt to legally enforce the ESRB ratings, but it's in Canada. Bill 30 is the province of Saskatchewan's attempt to make it illegal to even advertise or display a game where someone under the ERSB rated age could see it. It doesn't have much opposition at the moment, as the government is playing the lame-assed "you want our children to see PORNOGRAPHIC VIDEO GAMES?!?" card to anyone who speaks up against it. While it isn't shutting me up, it kills almost any support I manage to cull.
2 points:
1) I'm pretty sure you're referencing the DMCA. This was a product not of the Bush administration, but the Clinton administration.
2) Considering how most people seem to enjoy the concept of a nanny-state where their government will protect its citizens from "the bad people" (which may be Communists, terrorists, Socialists, homosexuals, hippies, pedophiles, athiests, intellectuals, liberals, etc), I'm pretty sure many people would enjoy living in a totalitarian regime that protects everone from being offended or shocked. Those who would not enjoy such a fate would likely be branded one of "the bad people".
I see them on TV all the time. I saw one on TV earlier today, in fact. I thought it was a stupid-ass one, but I think the same thing about almost every commercial.
You don't even have to have the machine with the tuner hooked up to ANY display. I've got one running in a closet (the drives & fans make too much noise to be in the same room as a TV), with the frontend running on a modded Xbox. If I wanted to, I could put in more tuners and have multiple frontends all watching different shows on live TV, or browsing through what has been built up to be a rather considerable library. I'd like to add the Torrentocracy plugin, but I can't seem to get it to work with 0.19.
I hate to ask this, but I guess my front-line tech support reflex will never really go away. When you did these tests, was MSOffice still taking up a metric assload of resources in the background? I've never had any of those problems with OOo (save the pre-loader related ones, as I hate and never use pre-loaders).
Yeah, right about the time of Office 97 is where I thought to myself "Hmm... how much more could I ever use in an office suite?". Since then, MS hasn't been able to introduce a single feature into Office that hasn't made me wonder why I should care. Mind you, I really never used Office 97, since Office 6 was pretty much good enough for me. Now, it's all OOo, since it's easier to find binary installers for OOo than my old Office 6 floppies.
Chuck Norris doesn't take the bus - he takes off his shirt and flexes his pectoral muscles fast enough to generate lift, allowing him to fly.
I know it's a pain, but you can add "-site:about.com" to your search query to filter out all results from them. Hell, wouldn't surprise me if there was a firefox extension that would let you add that automatically.
Trolls can't sodomize. Their penises are too small.
Here's another vote for OneOrZero. I'm a sysadmin for a small 3 location retail company, and it's great. Simple enough that it takes almost no training to use, and it does the job. It looks really professional, too.
The RSS + bittorrent thing sounds pretty cool - got a link to how you did that?
MythTV, when playing live TV, has a "Minimum Buffer" setting. Video won't play until the buffer has that minimum amount, then it starts playing at the beginning of the buffer. In 18.1, the default is 50 megs (I leave mine at the default). This is what causes the delay.
In a situation where an employee is allergic to glass, then I would imagine the Americans with Disabilities Act would come in to play. Any dime-school lawyer should be able to make a convincing case. As for breakage, your bicep should be filled with enough squishy stuff to absorb any shock. It would be possible to hit it hard enough, or in just the right way to cause it to break. In that situation, you better be within 10 seconds of a hospital.