I'm not suprised in the least that AT&T got tagged for violating their own (not the FCC) DNC list. They are one of the most relentless telemarketers.
I was getting about a call a week from them when I finally demanded to be placed on their DNC list. Immediately sfter the request, they began calling 2-3 times a week.
When I asked why they kept calling, they lamely said it took 6-8 weeks for the DNC request to be propagated throughout all of their call lists. Only after roughly 8 weeks (and my launching into a profanity laced tirade on each call) did the calls cease.
If it's a big Republican conspiracy, then how come CA and the chad-riddled counties in FL are leading the charge in implementing e-voting systems?
Also, remember it was a Davis backed lawsuit that the recall be postponed so that even more e-voting machines could be installed. Last I checked CA was not a hotbed of pro-Republican sentiment (yes I know Arnie is an R, but that was more about anti-Davis the bonehead than pro-Arnie).
Considering that Europe is light years ahead of the US in wireless phone ownership. When a 'study' reports that Europe will lead the US in WiFi deployment, all I can say is
IANAL, but isn't Luskin a public figure?
As such doesn't the standard of "actual malice" apply here? That being just because the published work was untrue, it is not libel unless the publisher a) knew it wasn't the untruth, and b) published it with the intent of harming the reputation of Luskin.
Without this legal standard, the National Enquirer and it's ilk would have been sued into oblivion long ago.
If the carriers instead charged by usage for the shared part of their network,
And they'd soon be out of business, because their customers would flock to the flat-rate priced competition (with its warts and all).
Case study: In the 1980s and early 90s CompuServe was the undisputed online service provider king. It's pricing model was based on connection speed (faster modems payed higher rates), and time spent online. Along comes AOL with it's "all you can eat" flat rate pricing model.
CompuServe said, "That'll never work! They have connection problems (busy signals, drops). Customers will flock to our steady, reliable, self-regulated model." A few short years later, CompuServe became a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL.
The unwashed masses didn't give a rats arse if they could only connect 1 time in 10 attempts. They didn't care if connections were dropped. All they cared about was a constant 20-odd bucks a month.
And they don't care if effective throughput sucks. All they want is an 'always on' broadband connection for ~$45 a month. They don't want to spend $20 this month and $120 next month.
For instance, thanks to the innumerable advances in creating genetically-engineered plants, we will soon see the day where the characteristics of interest in plants such as cannabis, coca, psilocybin, and opium are capable of being integrated within such ordinary plants as grass, seaweed, ferns, etc
Carl Spackler is already way ahead of the curve on this one. He patented "Carl Spackler Bent" circa 1980 (Hybrid of Kentucky Bluegrass, Featherbed Bent, and Northern California Sinsemilla).
Students are expected to be responsible enough to be entrusted with a laptop at taxpayer expense, so expecting them to keep track of their RFID is no big deal.
Let me get this straight. YOU sell software and source to customers. Customers are allowed to modify source as they see fit but MUST give YOU the modified source. Customer is not allowed to give their modified code to non-customers. Only YOU can sell the modified code to new customers (aka free R&D from your customers).
This is a pretty sweet deal for 'YOU' but leaves your customers in no better situation than if they had a source licence from YOU.
To those who think that Google will turn into a mindless profit-driven machine once it IPOs, here is the current board of directors for Google Inc.
Dr. Eric E. Schmidt, Google Inc. Chairman of the Board
Sergey Brin, Google Inc.
Larry Page, Google Inc.
John Doerr, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Michael Moritz, Sequoia Capital
Ram Shriram, private investor
The sole reason that Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, and Mr. Shriram are represented on the board is that they invested millions in Google. I sincerely doubt that they do not want a return on that investment (especially with the millions they likely lost when the bubble burst). Google had already sold out long ago.
Not that wanting an ROI is a bad thing (that is what make the US economy great). But assuming that a privately held company is any more or less profit driven than a publically held one is a very bad assumption indeed.
Just because Google is privately held does not mean that they do not have investors. From Google's own site:
Google is a privately held company with primary financial backing from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital, which together led an equity round of $25 million in June 1999. Google also has benefited from several other high-profile investors, including Stanford University, Andy Bechtolsheim (co-founder of Sun Microsystems and current vice president of engineering of the Gigabit Switching Group at Cisco Systems), and Ram Shriram, an entrepreneur who previously held senior executive positions at Netscape, Junglee and Amazon.com.
I've worked for several VC funded private firms and the VCs all demanded a ROI. VCs can be just as GREEDY and unreasonable in making demands to become profitable as the unwashed masses trading common stock on NASDAQ
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In other news the Hubble telescope has picked up a large, black, domino shaped object near the sun whose dimensions are 1x4x9
Arthur C. Clarke was off by 1000 years.
I for one welcome our MAC-tracing overlords.
I'm not suprised in the least that AT&T got tagged for violating their own (not the FCC) DNC list. They are one of the most relentless telemarketers.
I was getting about a call a week from them when I finally demanded to be placed on their DNC list. Immediately sfter the request, they began calling 2-3 times a week.
When I asked why they kept calling, they lamely said it took 6-8 weeks for the DNC request to be propagated throughout all of their call lists. Only after roughly 8 weeks (and my launching into a profanity laced tirade on each call) did the calls cease.
From Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall, to Chicago's Daly, to hanging chads, rigging elections is the American Way.
To suggest they become anything else is, well, un-American.
But then I'll have to drive around town until I find a polling place that won't charge me a $3.00 service fee for voting on another bank's network.
If it's a big Republican conspiracy, then how come CA and the chad-riddled counties in FL are leading the charge in implementing e-voting systems?
Also, remember it was a Davis backed lawsuit that the recall be postponed so that even more e-voting machines could be installed. Last I checked CA was not a hotbed of pro-Republican sentiment (yes I know Arnie is an R, but that was more about anti-Davis the bonehead than pro-Arnie).
Considering that Europe is light years ahead of the US in wireless phone ownership. When a 'study' reports that Europe will lead the US in WiFi deployment, all I can say is
No Duh!
The number 1 most popular job for neo-pagans is "unemployed, still living with parents"
re: don't need perfect code to be secure
Linux code is not perfect and is secure.
That maybe, just maybe the statement was made to generate press? aka increase ratings for both shows.
The only bad press is being caught in bed with a dead woman or a live boy.
1. Make tinfoil hats 2. Set off Solar flares 3. ??? 4. Profit!
Just because a restaraunt is physically located in Britain, does not mean that it serves traditional British food.
Without this legal standard, the National Enquirer and it's ilk would have been sued into oblivion long ago.
Neither is of any importance to very many people and neither is really any good anyway.
Sound: jet engines
Distance: football fields
Mass: Volkswagons (a 16" gun can shoot a volkswagon 20 miles).
Amount of data: Number of Library of Congresses.
The proof? There isn't any proof. And we all know that the lack of proof is prima facia evidence that there is a conspiracy (and that it is working).
And they'd soon be out of business, because their customers would flock to the flat-rate priced competition (with its warts and all).
Case study: In the 1980s and early 90s CompuServe was the undisputed online service provider king. It's pricing model was based on connection speed (faster modems payed higher rates), and time spent online. Along comes AOL with it's "all you can eat" flat rate pricing model.
CompuServe said, "That'll never work! They have connection problems (busy signals, drops). Customers will flock to our steady, reliable, self-regulated model." A few short years later, CompuServe became a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL.
The unwashed masses didn't give a rats arse if they could only connect 1 time in 10 attempts. They didn't care if connections were dropped. All they cared about was a constant 20-odd bucks a month.
And they don't care if effective throughput sucks. All they want is an 'always on' broadband connection for ~$45 a month. They don't want to spend $20 this month and $120 next month.
Carl Spackler is already way ahead of the curve on this one. He patented "Carl Spackler Bent" circa 1980 (Hybrid of Kentucky Bluegrass, Featherbed Bent, and Northern California Sinsemilla).
AOL is by far the worst piece of spyware ever devised by man.
And yes, the IBEX is much more robust than the Antelope given it is designed for operation in harsh mountain terrain.
Students are expected to be responsible enough to be entrusted with a laptop at taxpayer expense, so expecting them to keep track of their RFID is no big deal.
On Star Trek, finding someone is as simple as asking "Computer, where is Ensign Expendable currently located?"
Let me get this straight. YOU sell software and source to customers. Customers are allowed to modify source as they see fit but MUST give YOU the modified source. Customer is not allowed to give their modified code to non-customers. Only YOU can sell the modified code to new customers (aka free R&D from your customers).
This is a pretty sweet deal for 'YOU' but leaves your customers in no better situation than if they had a source licence from YOU.
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Dr. Eric E. Schmidt, Google Inc. Chairman of the Board
- Sergey Brin, Google Inc.
- Larry Page, Google Inc.
- John Doerr, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
- Michael Moritz, Sequoia Capital
- Ram Shriram, private investor
The sole reason that Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, and Mr. Shriram are represented on the board is that they invested millions in Google. I sincerely doubt that they do not want a return on that investment (especially with the millions they likely lost when the bubble burst). Google had already sold out long ago.Not that wanting an ROI is a bad thing (that is what make the US economy great). But assuming that a privately held company is any more or less profit driven than a publically held one is a very bad assumption indeed.
Google is a privately held company with primary financial backing from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital, which together led an equity round of $25 million in June 1999. Google also has benefited from several other high-profile investors, including Stanford University, Andy Bechtolsheim (co-founder of Sun Microsystems and current vice president of engineering of the Gigabit Switching Group at Cisco Systems), and Ram Shriram, an entrepreneur who previously held senior executive positions at Netscape, Junglee and Amazon.com.
I've worked for several VC funded private firms and the VCs all demanded a ROI. VCs can be just as GREEDY and unreasonable in making demands to become profitable as the unwashed masses trading common stock on NASDAQ