From article: "A telemarketer could beam a coupon for a can of soup to the cell phone of a person the system has spotted outside a grocery store."
...said person then promptly walks into aforementioned grocery store/Star Bucks/Auto Store etc, then proceeds to berate the employees & throttle the manager. Not a good idea.
Just a quick question on their experiment that produced the big gapping whole in the test wing that was supposed to reflect what could have happened on the shuttle. They shot the foam at the wing going 530 mph.
Was the foam that fell off the rocket really going 530 mph compared to the shuttle when it hit. Or was it just going 530 mph compared to the Earth.
... basking in the waves of the newly installed WiFi system a poor subsistence farmer bangs a stick on a rock hoping to eek out an e-mail his brother in the next town over.
...or maybe we should avoid that whole problem and buy them all laptops while we are at it....
... Subsistence Farmer #1 "I think the battery is dead." Subsistence Farmer #2 "That's OK. I'll just plug it into my... my... uh... never mind." Subsistence Farmer picks stick & starts banging the laptop.
...or maybe we have installed all of their WiFi access points to all of the remote locations, given them all laptops, and laid out a grid of power lines so they can actually power the things up (gee, as long as we were wiring up the power we might as well have put up some land lines too) and now to everyone's horror suddenly all of our decent paying programming jobs will start going to all of the young cheap programming kids... don't worry. They'll all be DEAD by the time the reach 10 if they are lucky from starvation or disease.
...Lagos, Nigeria.
Attention: The President/CEO
Dear Sir,
Confidential Business Proposal
Having consulted with my colleagues and based on the information gathered from the Nigerian Chambers Of Commerce And Industry, I have the privilege to request your assistance to transfer the sum of 47,500,000 WiFi cards to the United States...
...now everyone in the third world even in the rural areas can be gainfully employed as 419 e-mail scam artists!
Before: Hundreds of millions of starving third world people After: Hundreds of millions of starving third world people surfing porn
...Who can blame them gosh-darn-it. It's every world citizen's right to serf porn on the internet! And if it takes installing WiFi in their countries they by-golly were going to give it too them.
"Come here my beautiful wife. See you are just as lovely as these american models."
OK... that should have finished off any remaining karma points I may have had.
Seriously though, they already have a cheep work force. What they really need are a stable safe government so businesses will ship work over there.
I got tired of this too. I bagged them a couple of months ago for that & lousy "I don't give a sh*t" customer service" and subscribed to Walmart's DVD selection.
Currently I am getting a 1 week turn around (from my mailbox to the new movies back in my mail box) which I think is pretty cool and what I expected. Walmart receives & ships movies on Saturdays. Also they claim that "The USPS will track return envelopes. When we receive information from the USPS that it has received a return envelope from your account, we will ship you the next title"
Not that I am wildly pro Walmart but Netflix evidently is growing too fast bringing in new customers to give a squat about their current customers.
-Cable Jumper Me: "So when when I mark a movie as bad what do you do? Do you run a scan check on them or toss them in to see if they just start up?" Customer Support: "I can't tell you want we do it's a trade secret." Me: "So basically what you are telling me is that you send the movie back out to the next poor shmuck to see if he marks it as bad & if he's too lazy to mark it as bad you just keep on sending out the bad movie." Customer Support: "Just don't mark the movies as bad anymore."
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From article: "A telemarketer could beam a coupon for a can of soup to the cell phone of a person the system has spotted outside a grocery store."
...said person then promptly walks into aforementioned grocery store/Star Bucks/Auto Store etc, then proceeds to berate the employees & throttle the manager. Not a good idea.
I know everyone out there saying how bad this is for the dawn of big brother are really dying to build one for themselves.
OK. So this software automatically installs itself on your computer without your knowledge or permission. Isn't this HIGHLY ILLEGAL!?!?!
Somebody should start a class action lawsuit against this company before this type of activity becomes run of the mill.
Only a true procrastinator would research ways to stop procrastinating in order to avoid the task at hand.
The dawn of machines.
Just a quick question on their experiment that produced the big gapping whole in the test wing that was supposed to reflect what could have happened on the shuttle. They shot the foam at the wing going 530 mph.
Was the foam that fell off the rocket really going 530 mph compared to the shuttle when it hit. Or was it just going 530 mph compared to the Earth.
Attention: The President/CEO
Dear Sir,
Confidential Business Proposal
Having consulted with my colleagues and based on the information gathered from the Nigerian Chambers Of Commerce And Industry, I have the privilege to request your assistance to transfer the sum of 47,500,000 WiFi cards to the United States...
Before: Hundreds of millions of starving third world people
After: Hundreds of millions of starving third world people surfing porn
"Come here my beautiful wife. See you are just as lovely as these american models."
OK... that should have finished off any remaining karma points I may have had.
Seriously though, they already have a cheep work force. What they really need are a stable safe government so businesses will ship work over there.
I got tired of this too. I bagged them a couple of months ago for that & lousy "I don't give a sh*t" customer service" and subscribed to Walmart's DVD selection.
Currently I am getting a 1 week turn around (from my mailbox to the new movies back in my mail box) which I think is pretty cool and what I expected. Walmart receives & ships movies on Saturdays. Also they claim that "The USPS will track return envelopes. When we receive information from the USPS that it has received a return envelope from your account, we will ship you the next title"
Not that I am wildly pro Walmart but Netflix evidently is growing too fast bringing in new customers to give a squat about their current customers.
-Cable Jumper
Me: "So when when I mark a movie as bad what do you do? Do you run a scan check on them or toss them in to see if they just start up?"
Customer Support: "I can't tell you want we do it's a trade secret."
Me: "So basically what you are telling me is that you send the movie back out to the next poor shmuck to see if he marks it as bad & if he's too lazy to mark it as bad you just keep on sending out the bad movie."
Customer Support: "Just don't mark the movies as bad anymore."
Got about 30 people on my list, 4 girls, 26 guys
And I suspect most of the 30 people you ran into were slashdotters who just downloaded the program.
I>several more years before Gecko tape is made commercially available
The stuff already grows naturally on Geckos. Who wants to start a joint venture Gecko farm with me!
Whoooo. Thanks! Now I can go back to sleep... now where did I put those 2 tons of ice cubes.
That's great for you but what about those to have cryogenically frozen themselves waiting for technology to develop far enough to revive them!
I think blog is an appropriate term.
Blog is short for Boring LOG.