[] an admin who sets up an unsecure wireless network should be convicted for stupidity.
Interesting concept... So lets say someone leaves there front door unlocked, should they go to jail if someone breaks in? Perhaps the front door is locked, but the dog door is unlocked? What if the the windows don't have bars on them?
What bugs me is that the guy illegally accessed the computer but was not successfull in retreiving credit card information. Is such a long term warranted? What about the Corporate crime bosses who bilk millions or billions from people via fraud - they never get this level of sentence.
Support: This is Gas Bag Networks, how my I help you? Customer; Yeah, the Internet went down. Support: Can you describe the problem? Customer: The &!#!&#$ blimp crashed into my livingroom!
Support: Sir, the network appears to be fine. We have not received any reports of trouble from your area. Customer: I can see the blimp smoldering in my living room. Support: We require several people in your area to report a problem before we can open a ticket for you. Custumer: The blimp has crashed through my living room ceiling, I need help. Support: Sir, what operating system are you running? Customer: Why does that matter, the blimb is down. Please send someone. Support: Sir, are you using a router? Customer: Uh, yes. Support: Sir, could you please reset your router by unplugging it, waiting 30 seconds, and then powering it on. Please tell me when you have done this. Customer: What does my router have to do with the blimp crashing!! Support: Sir, lets try disconnecting your router completely and plugging your network directly into the BlimpoNIC. Customer: Listen here buddy, there is nothing wrong with my computer. Your blimp has crashed into my living room! Support: Sir, let me connect you to our public relations department. Before I do so, is there anything else I can help you with today? Customer: No! Support: I'm transferring you now sir.
The technical facts are:
(*) houses and commercial buildings have a very long valuable lifetime, which is why you can get a 30 year mortgage, and why you need to.
Just like you can get automotive financing for 5-7 years now. The mortgage term bears no relation to the longevity of the property. Buy a 30 year old house and you can still get 30 year financing.
But before he could do that the head of IT called him in for using too much bandwidth. My friend was a little worried because our college had pretty strict bandwidth policies and he stood to lose his account permanently. But when he went in, the first thing this guy (who makes >$150k) says is "Son, do you know you're using 13 megabits of bandwidth?" On a 10 megabit connection. Right. My friend stopped worrying after that.
If your 'friend' was paying attention in class instead of trading warez he might have learned that a 10megabit connection provides 10mb in each direction on a full duplex connection. You could be using 8mb in one direction and 5mb in the other. If your 'friend' paid attention in math he might realize that 8+5==13.
Nextel caters to anybody who's actually trying to get work done
Nextel caters to self absorbed individuals who think 'getting their work done' is so importatnt that they can walkie talkie their converstation anywhere and everywhere. Blasting their two-way conversation to everyone in the area. Even when they are driving alone, you'll pass them as they drive 10 miles under the speed limit in the fast lane hunchbacked over the steering wheel conversing with their Nextel walkie-talkie. I put Nextel users who behave this wasy one step above SPAMMERS and smokers.
Nope, still wrong. Try this: 50 to 150 latex ballons ranging in diameter from 4' to 7'. However, I dont see the diameter mentioned in the article.
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I have "unlimited" night and weekend minutes and "unlimited" mobile to mobile minutes on my Cingular plan. When I looked at my usage online a few months ago, it turns out that I indeed did not have truly unlimited airtime: I had 99999 N/W and 99999 M2M minutes each month.
Are you sure the 99999 isn't just a 'special number' used in the billing system database to designate unlimited. Most likely those fields in the database are numeric versus text so 99999 probably denotes unlimited. The software could just as easily do the following 'if M2M==99999 then dont subtract minutes; else subtract mins'. This would truly be unlimited versus your suggestion that 99999 is actually a real cap.
I hope you enjoy the packets we are sending you. This is a not SPAM. Previously you opted-in for these packets. If you would like to be removed from our packet list, please turn off your machine. Thank you.
Thats the American Way (tm). Over here we have a government run and taxpayer paid for judicial system whose case results become the copyrighted 'compilation' property of a private LexisNexis who charges high fees to show you the data.
The FACT act says that people in western states can get this now but some states, specifically Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Vermont, have required credit bureaus to do this for a while.
I'm suspicious of this. This reminds me of the congressional power grap over SPAM laws (which nullified California SPAM law). Can anyone tell me if the FACT act invalidates state laws on the issue. The State of Maryland law required a free credit report each year (two I believe). Basically you would go to the credit agency website and during the request process certains states were not 'ripped off' $9.95 to view data that I should be considered the owner of. The FACT law doesn't require Maryland (East Coast) reports to be available on the website until December 1 2005. Is there a gap now?
The whole 'charge the consumer' for their credit report enrages me. Its like the phone company selling your information to telemarketers and coming along with a 'Call Blocking' or 'Unpublished Number' feature that they charge you to protect you their actions.
The Big Three do not distinguish between you asking for your credit report and anyone else asking for it
Bzzt. Wrong. The credit agencies distinguish between a credit report pulled from the consumer versus a creditor. Futhermore, creditors that pull your report for 'promotional' reasons such as determining eligibility for 'pre-approved' credit cards don't count either.
Let me quote from Experian site: http://www.experian.com/credit_score_basics/credit _scores.html 'Certain types of inquiries (requests for your credit report). The score does not count "consumer disclosure inquiry" requests you have made for your credit report in order to check it. It also does not count "promotional inquiry" requests made by lenders in order to make a "pre-approved" credit offer - or "account review inquiry" requests made by lenders to review your account with them. Finally, inquiries for employment purposes are not counted.'
That's not competition, that's a tax-funded program. How is verizon (or any other carrier) supposed to compete against that? Verizon can't take the money from you against your will, like the government can. Verizon can't force you to be a customer.
Have you lost sight of the fact that Verizon is just not some private sector company? The government(s) have given the phone company MONOPOLY status. This same Verizon has done everything in its lobbying power to prevent other private companies from competing with them. I think there is a pretty long history that demonstrates Verizon has no interest in serving the public in a broad approach; they just want to skim the 'cheaper to service' customers. The PA initiative is visionary--like rural electrification. It realizes, to use the words of the business person, that in order to be competitive in todays global enconomy in an information age, residents of the city need to be part of the information haves, not have nots.
Remember that Verizon fought tooth and nail in the states it 'serves' to prevent ISDN (and later DSL) from being considering a non-discretionary service subject to public utility regulation which I think would have resulted in much broader roll-out. Now that a city realizes that Verizon has no plans to roll out service to everyone, they want to provide it themselves as an infrastructure.
Philly is just trying to be competitive. Its just like how cities/states give tax incentives for people to move their businesses there.
The monolopy Verizon has is absurd. Here in Maryland, a long time ago, Verizon upgraded from analog to digital switches (SS7). The cost of that upgrade was allowed to be pass on to the rate payer with promises of new digital features for POTS and ISDN capability. Despite the ratepayer paying for the SS7 infrastructue, Verizon started charging outrageous fees ($3.50 for Caller ID per month, etc) for software capabilities we had to pay for. Verizon has no real interest in serving all the people in Philly--they would much rather implement 'caller ringtones' that they can charge $2 bucks a month for. I wish I had a money machine like that.
How is it up to the Chinese people? They live under a Communist system. It is not a Democracy. There is a difference between 'imposing our views' and human rights. For those of us in the US who voted for 'Moral Values' as a significant issues in the recent election...think....
Its pretty sad. It seems most businesses are willing to look the other way, deal with a communist regime, and even lobby for China--all in the name of 'getting a foot in the door of the largest growth market opportunity'. What I think these folks are missing is that China doesn't care. They'll use us for a time, but in the end they will control things internally the way they want.
First, the article says they changed the formulation of the plastic case/cover to be more biodegradeable. Fair enough. Those cases can be diverted during the recycling process.
However also from the the article:
"Secondly the engineers at the University of Warwick have created a small transparent window in the case or cover in which they can embed a seed. The seed is visible to the environmentally aware mobile phone user but will not germinate until the phone cover or case is recycled. [...] For the first prototype telephones they have used dwarf sunflower seeds."
Huh? Since this waste needs to be diverted, could'nt the recycler add the seeds? On the funny side, can you imagine if you spilled you bottom of designer water on this phone. Later in the day you are walking around with a 'flower phone'. I can just imagine a corporate macho type in his convertable beamer cut me off in traffic. As he passes, something that looks like a sunflower is sprouting from his ear.
I buried my Windows PC and it 'sprouted'
a pile of shit. I've had been turning that into fertilizer for years. Unfortunately I was sued for copyright infringment -- something about a derivative work.
Let's please have legitimate uses for P2P so that the greedy fuckers at RIAA and MPAA can't run around trying to ban P2P on the basis that it only has detrimental uses.
It use is only detrimental because they refuse to adapt. P2P can be a transformational technology. Part of the ever increasing problem with the larger and larger movie studios is their reliance on blockbuster movie production. By adopting a P2P architecture they could lessen the revenue needed to break even. Many more movies would be available and the barrier to entry for smaller productions would be lowered. A whole new market would open up. Unfortunately, with transformation comes job shifting. Many of the middle men of today will not be needed--so they fight this. Since the members of the RIAA/MPAA own and control the content P2P is a solution looking for a problem.
And millions of years from now the aliens invezstigating the comet will scratch their heads thinking 'why is there a piece of copper the size of a bathtub on this comet'. Far greater amusement factor.
More than likely some other civilization will send a 'rover' to investigate the comet. Upon finding the bathtub sized piece of copper--there will be widespread debate on the origins of the comet and if there was life on the comet. Employment oppurtunities will be generated for thousands for many years. The final conclusion will be that life must have existed on the comet which must have been a planet. The inhabitants became extinct when their copper ran out. Warring factions battle over the last chunk of copper causing their ultimate destruction.
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...poorly regulated capitalism doesn't work...
What a bunch of BS. What ya want -- communism?
Ah come on. Because I would prefer some checks and balances in the form of effective regulation on a trillion dollar credit card industry that makes me a supporter of communism?
The article was about an industry claiming 10.2 billion is losses due to fraud. My response was because the industry is poorly regulated, that inefficiency is allowed to be passed onto the consumer. The competition among the card companies has not created effecive solutions to the problem.
I do have a credit card, but I carefully keep track of my expenditures (computers are great for this) and pay it off before the due date and therefore pay NO interest
Good for you. We share something in common, I do the same. Even with great discipline I have not been immune from the credit company schenanigans - incorrectly claiming they didn't receive a bill payment until 1 day late and charging a $25 fee (on a $100 bill - wow 25% penalty).
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[] an admin who sets up an unsecure wireless network should be convicted for stupidity.
Interesting concept... So lets say someone leaves there front door unlocked, should they go to jail if someone breaks in? Perhaps the front door is locked, but the dog door is unlocked? What if the the windows don't have bars on them?
What bugs me is that the guy illegally accessed the computer but was not successfull in retreiving credit card information. Is such a long term warranted? What about the Corporate crime bosses who bilk millions or billions from people via fraud - they never get this level of sentence.
Support: This is Gas Bag Networks, how my I help you? Customer; Yeah, the Internet went down. Support: Can you describe the problem? Customer: The &!#!&#$ blimp crashed into my livingroom!
Support: Sir, the network appears to be fine. We have not received any reports of trouble from your area.
Customer: I can see the blimp smoldering in my living room.
Support: We require several people in your area to report a problem before we can open a ticket for you.
Custumer: The blimp has crashed through my living room ceiling, I need help.
Support: Sir, what operating system are you running?
Customer: Why does that matter, the blimb is down. Please send someone.
Support: Sir, are you using a router?
Customer: Uh, yes.
Support: Sir, could you please reset your router by unplugging it, waiting 30 seconds, and then powering it on. Please tell me when you have done this.
Customer: What does my router have to do with the blimp crashing!!
Support: Sir, lets try disconnecting your router completely and plugging your network directly into the BlimpoNIC.
Customer: Listen here buddy, there is nothing wrong with my computer. Your blimp has crashed into my living room!
Support: Sir, let me connect you to our public relations department. Before I do so, is there anything else I can help you with today?
Customer: No!
Support: I'm transferring you now sir.
Click...DIALTONE
The technical facts are: (*) houses and commercial buildings have a very long valuable lifetime, which is why you can get a 30 year mortgage, and why you need to.
Just like you can get automotive financing for 5-7 years now. The mortgage term bears no relation to the longevity of the property. Buy a 30 year old house and you can still get 30 year financing.
Perhaps they would be justified. See http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=132478&cid=110 64348
But before he could do that the head of IT called him in for using too much bandwidth. My friend was a little worried because our college had pretty strict bandwidth policies and he stood to lose his account permanently. But when he went in, the first thing this guy (who makes >$150k) says is "Son, do you know you're using 13 megabits of bandwidth?" On a 10 megabit connection. Right. My friend stopped worrying after that.
If your 'friend' was paying attention in class instead of trading warez he might have learned that a 10megabit connection provides 10mb in each direction on a full duplex connection. You could be using 8mb in one direction and 5mb in the other. If your 'friend' paid attention in math he might realize that 8+5==13.
... to someone with a neurological disease like MS...
/. too long when you read the above as a Microsoft slam.
You know you've been reading
Motorized vehicles (horseless carriages) kill the horse and buggy industry! Story continues on page A5.
Nextel caters to anybody who's actually trying to get work done
Nextel caters to self absorbed individuals who think 'getting their work done' is so importatnt that they can walkie talkie their converstation anywhere and everywhere. Blasting their two-way conversation to everyone in the area. Even when they are driving alone, you'll pass them as they drive 10 miles under the speed limit in the fast lane hunchbacked over the steering wheel conversing with their Nextel walkie-talkie. I put Nextel users who behave this wasy one step above SPAMMERS and smokers.
The link is http://www.dvdfile.com/software/eggs/trilogy.html
It requries ActiveX install to work--so only those willing to risk IE need apply.
Try this: 50 to 150 4' by 7' diameter balloons.
Nope, still wrong. Try this: 50 to 150 latex ballons ranging in diameter from 4' to 7'. However, I dont see the diameter mentioned in the article.
I have "unlimited" night and weekend minutes and "unlimited" mobile to mobile minutes on my Cingular plan. When I looked at my usage online a few months ago, it turns out that I indeed did not have truly unlimited airtime: I had 99999 N/W and 99999 M2M minutes each month.
Are you sure the 99999 isn't just a 'special number' used in the billing system database to designate unlimited. Most likely those fields in the database are numeric versus text so 99999 probably denotes unlimited. The software could just as easily do the following
'if M2M==99999 then dont subtract minutes; else subtract mins'. This would truly be unlimited versus your suggestion that 99999 is actually a real cap.
Dear Spammer,
I hope you enjoy the packets we are sending you. This is a not SPAM. Previously you opted-in for these packets. If you would like to be removed from our packet list, please turn off your machine. Thank you.
For all the years of good service we've had from google, who are we to question the removal of features?
Mark my words...All the useful stuff that they are removing now will appear in a subscription based service.
Thats the American Way (tm). Over here we have a government run and taxpayer paid for judicial system whose case results become the copyrighted 'compilation' property of a private LexisNexis who charges high fees to show you the data.
The FACT act says that people in western states can get this now but some states, specifically Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Vermont, have required credit bureaus to do this for a while.
I'm suspicious of this. This reminds me of the congressional power grap over SPAM laws (which nullified California SPAM law). Can anyone tell me if the FACT act invalidates state laws on the issue. The State of Maryland law required a free credit report each year (two I believe). Basically you would go to the credit agency website and during the request process certains states were not 'ripped off' $9.95 to view data that I should be considered the owner of. The FACT law doesn't require Maryland (East Coast) reports to be available on the website until December 1 2005. Is there a gap now?
The whole 'charge the consumer' for their credit report enrages me. Its like the phone company selling your information to telemarketers and coming along with a 'Call Blocking' or 'Unpublished Number' feature that they charge you to protect you their actions.
The Big Three do not distinguish between you asking for your credit report and anyone else asking for it
t _scores.html
Bzzt. Wrong. The credit agencies distinguish between a credit report pulled from the consumer versus a creditor. Futhermore, creditors that pull your report for 'promotional' reasons such as determining eligibility for 'pre-approved' credit cards don't count either.
Let me quote from Experian site: http://www.experian.com/credit_score_basics/credi
'Certain types of inquiries (requests for your credit report). The score does not count "consumer disclosure inquiry" requests you have made for your credit report in order to check it. It also does not count "promotional inquiry" requests made by lenders in order to make a "pre-approved" credit offer - or "account review inquiry" requests made by lenders to review your account with them. Finally, inquiries for employment purposes are not counted.'
That's not competition, that's a tax-funded program. How is verizon (or any other carrier) supposed to compete against that? Verizon can't take the money from you against your will, like the government can. Verizon can't force you to be a customer.
Have you lost sight of the fact that Verizon is just not some private sector company? The government(s) have given the phone company MONOPOLY status. This same Verizon has done everything in its lobbying power to prevent other private companies from competing with them. I think there is a pretty long history that demonstrates Verizon has no interest in serving the public in a broad approach; they just want to skim the 'cheaper to service' customers. The PA initiative is visionary--like rural electrification. It realizes, to use the words of the business person, that in order to be competitive in todays global enconomy in an information age, residents of the city need to be part of the information haves, not have nots.
Remember that Verizon fought tooth and nail in the states it 'serves' to prevent ISDN (and later DSL) from being considering a non-discretionary service subject to public utility regulation which I think would have resulted in much broader roll-out. Now that a city realizes that Verizon has no plans to roll out service to everyone, they want to provide it themselves as an infrastructure.
Philly is just trying to be competitive. Its just like how cities/states give tax incentives for people to move their businesses there.
The monolopy Verizon has is absurd. Here in Maryland, a long time ago, Verizon upgraded from analog to digital switches (SS7). The cost of that upgrade was allowed to be pass on to the rate payer with promises of new digital features for POTS and ISDN capability. Despite the ratepayer paying for the SS7 infrastructue, Verizon started charging outrageous fees ($3.50 for Caller ID per month, etc) for software capabilities we had to pay for. Verizon has no real interest in serving all the people in Philly--they would much rather implement 'caller ringtones' that they can charge $2 bucks a month for. I wish I had a money machine like that.
How is it up to the Chinese people? They live under a Communist system. It is not a Democracy. There is a difference between 'imposing our views' and human rights. For those of us in the US who voted for 'Moral Values' as a significant issues in the recent election...think....
Its pretty sad. It seems most businesses are willing to look the other way, deal with a communist regime, and even lobby for China--all in the name of 'getting a foot in the door of the largest growth market opportunity'. What I think these folks are missing is that China doesn't care. They'll use us for a time, but in the end they will control things internally the way they want.
Of course you forgot the most important step of all!
5) Profit!
First, the article says they changed the formulation of the plastic case/cover to be more biodegradeable. Fair enough. Those cases can be diverted during the recycling process.
However also from the the article:
"Secondly the engineers at the University of Warwick have created a small transparent window in the case or cover in which they can embed a seed. The seed is visible to the environmentally aware mobile phone user but will not germinate until the phone cover or case is recycled. [...] For the first prototype telephones they have used dwarf sunflower seeds."
Huh? Since this waste needs to be diverted, could'nt the recycler add the seeds? On the funny side, can you imagine if you spilled you bottom of designer water on this phone. Later in the day you are walking around with a 'flower phone'. I can just imagine a corporate macho type in his convertable beamer cut me off in traffic. As he passes, something that looks like a sunflower is sprouting from his ear.
I buried my Windows PC and it 'sprouted' a pile of shit. I've had been turning that into fertilizer for years. Unfortunately I was sued for copyright infringment -- something about a derivative work.
Let's please have legitimate uses for P2P so that the greedy fuckers at RIAA and MPAA can't run around trying to ban P2P on the basis that it only has detrimental uses.
It use is only detrimental because they refuse to adapt. P2P can be a transformational technology. Part of the ever increasing problem with the larger and larger movie studios is their reliance on blockbuster movie production. By adopting a P2P architecture they could lessen the revenue needed to break even. Many more movies would be available and the barrier to entry for smaller productions would be lowered. A whole new market would open up. Unfortunately, with transformation comes job shifting. Many of the middle men of today will not be needed--so they fight this. Since the members of the RIAA/MPAA own and control the content P2P is a solution looking for a problem.
And millions of years from now the aliens invezstigating the comet will scratch their heads thinking 'why is there a piece of copper the size of a bathtub on this comet'. Far greater amusement factor.
More than likely some other civilization will send a 'rover' to investigate the comet. Upon finding the bathtub sized piece of copper--there will be widespread debate on the origins of the comet and if there was life on the comet. Employment oppurtunities will be generated for thousands for many years. The final conclusion will be that life must have existed on the comet which must have been a planet. The inhabitants became extinct when their copper ran out. Warring factions battle over the last chunk of copper causing their ultimate destruction.
What a bunch of BS. What ya want -- communism?
Ah come on. Because I would prefer some checks and balances in the form of effective regulation on a trillion dollar credit card industry that makes me a supporter of communism?
The article was about an industry claiming 10.2 billion is losses due to fraud. My response was because the industry is poorly regulated, that inefficiency is allowed to be passed onto the consumer. The competition among the card companies has not created effecive solutions to the problem.
I do have a credit card, but I carefully keep track of my expenditures (computers are great for this) and pay it off before the due date and therefore pay NO interest
Good for you. We share something in common, I do the same. Even with great discipline I have not been immune from the credit company schenanigans - incorrectly claiming they didn't receive a bill payment until 1 day late and charging a $25 fee (on a $100 bill - wow 25% penalty).