One of the first things a scammer does is get you to install a remote assistance application to give administrative access to Windows. No VM means the scammer can use syskey.exe to apply a boot password you don't know or otherwise completely wreck it.
My favorite was when one guy asked me to open a link "in chrome", I agree. 3 mins later he is asking "whats going on now?"
So your strategy appears to involve stalling the scammer to keep him from even getting to the LogMeIn or GoToMyPC or TeamViewer step. Are there videos of that strategy?
If you don't have a signal inside a store, and you forget to sign in to the captive portal, incoming calls will go straight to voice mail. It's even worse with stores that make the in-store hotspot available only to paid subscribers to the store's discount club.
Another question: If a Mac can run Mac-exclusive applications, Linux-exclusive applications, and Windows-exclusive applications, but computers from other computers can run only Linux-exclusive applications and Windows-exclusive applications, then how do other companies sell computers at all?
You could waste their time, upload the waste of time to YouTube, and possibly even make a little money on ads. It works for the Scammer Sub Lounge partners.
It also means you have plenty of time to prepare a Windows 98 VM and set up a Skype account to call them with.
The scammers have become wise to this. They refuse to deal with Windows 98 and Windows XP on grounds that Microsoft has announced their end of support.
Someone needs to make a VM with randomly generated user data and a virtual user who wastes the scammer's time
Someone needs to go on YouTube and watch Lewis's Tech, Thunder Tech, Each&Everything, etc. do exactly this.
But then don't you have to open a web browser, agree to the terms that the captive portal presents, and convince the party on the other end to install the same VoIP app you're using, if it's even available for his or her computer or smartphone?
Maybe but the public is fickle and changes quickly
Even though it is "quickly" relative to other things, it still isn't "quickly" enough for each recording artist to make a living on endorsements. Only those at the very top of the industry have even the slightest chance of that.
Wait hold up, what? It costs more for a landline subscriber to call a cell phone than to call a local landline?
Because calls from one landline to another in the same city have long been toll-free in the United States, the pricing model for its cellular market is to charge for airtime on each leg of the call so that a landline user doesn't incur unexpected tolls when calling a cell phone. For example, if a cellular carrier's voice toll is ten cents per minute, a call from a landline to a cell phone or vice versa costs the cell phone subscriber ten cents per minute, and a call from a cell phone to another cell phone costs each subscriber ten cents per minute, or a total of twenty cents per minute between the two of them. An SMS is billed as one minute of airtime. (Source: T-Mobile USA's pay-as-you-go plan) The next step up from pay-as-you-go is usually unmetered voice and SMS, both outgoing and incoming, but that costs hundreds of dollars per year.
If neither side has a monthly unmetered SMS plan, a text message from one cell phone in the United States costs twenty cents, split evenly between the sender and recipient. If only one side has a monthly unmetered SMS plan, only the other side pays its ten cent toll. If both sides have a monthly unmetered SMS plan, there is no toll.
A viewer would still 1. have to switch from his or her preferred browser to Firefox if the command-line youtube-dl script doesn't support the video; 2. have to wait for a download over a slow ISP; 3. have to pay overage fees for a download over a capped ISP; and 4. remain unable to skim or Ctrl+F.
What is better, to make a little money or build a brand?
There is room for only so many "brands," or celebrities with the power to increase sales of a product by endorsing it, in a particular market.
Think of how many musicians crossover into movies
Ought these movies also to be produced to "build a brand"? Or in what way is a "money only/first strategy" appropriate for them and not for recorded music?
How exactly is data sitting on a server in silicon valley "at the border" just because the person who created that data is at the border?
The persistent identification cookie on the laptop, tablet computer, or smartphone that a traveler carries allows access. But it's difficult to extract said cookies because of the design of operating systems and web browsers for those devices. As a substitute for a means of exporting cookies, they ask for enough information to replicate the identification cookies stored on the device.
If a copyright owner does not consent to the digital single market, it would have to withdraw its works from all streaming services across the European Union. I am not privy to the contracts between copyright owners and streaming services in order to determine whether they allow a copyright owner to perform such a withdrawal.
Then why do copyright owners tend not to restrict availability or charge different prices within a single sovereign country, such as in Wyoming vs. California?
Region-restricted work B is based on an underlying work A whose author has been dead for more than 50 but less than 100 years. Copyright in work A has expired in the countries where work B is available but still subsists in other countries. If the publisher of work B were to make work B available in countries where copyright in work A subsists, the publisher of work A would sue the publisher of work B and win.
Or a work has an age rating in one country but is Refused Classification in another.
Or a work has an age rating in one country, and the other country requires all commercially available works in that medium to be age rated for that country, but the publisher has no evidence of enough interest in the work in the other country to justify the cost of submitting it to the other country's age rating board.
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its easier to not setup a VM
One of the first things a scammer does is get you to install a remote assistance application to give administrative access to Windows. No VM means the scammer can use syskey.exe to apply a boot password you don't know or otherwise completely wreck it.
My favorite was when one guy asked me to open a link "in chrome", I agree. 3 mins later he is asking "whats going on now?"
So your strategy appears to involve stalling the scammer to keep him from even getting to the LogMeIn or GoToMyPC or TeamViewer step. Are there videos of that strategy?
True, but software engineering employment and autism spectrum disorder are still correlated.
If you don't have a signal inside a store, and you forget to sign in to the captive portal, incoming calls will go straight to voice mail. It's even worse with stores that make the in-store hotspot available only to paid subscribers to the store's discount club.
Or, you can run WINE on a MacBook.
I don't see how, seeing as Fitbit is rated "Garbage" in Wine AppDB.
Another question: If a Mac can run Mac-exclusive applications, Linux-exclusive applications, and Windows-exclusive applications, but computers from other computers can run only Linux-exclusive applications and Windows-exclusive applications, then how do other companies sell computers at all?
You could waste their time, upload the waste of time to YouTube, and possibly even make a little money on ads. It works for the Scammer Sub Lounge partners.
It also means you have plenty of time to prepare a Windows 98 VM and set up a Skype account to call them with.
The scammers have become wise to this. They refuse to deal with Windows 98 and Windows XP on grounds that Microsoft has announced their end of support.
Someone needs to make a VM with randomly generated user data and a virtual user who wastes the scammer's time
Someone needs to go on YouTube and watch Lewis's Tech, Thunder Tech, Each&Everything, etc. do exactly this.
Are any of the popular tech support scam baiters on YouTube based out of Australia or New Zealand?
But then don't you have to open a web browser, agree to the terms that the captive portal presents, and convince the party on the other end to install the same VoIP app you're using, if it's even available for his or her computer or smartphone?
When a call drops because the subscriber left the service area during the call, does that count as a "dropped call" for this statistic?
Maybe but the public is fickle and changes quickly
Even though it is "quickly" relative to other things, it still isn't "quickly" enough for each recording artist to make a living on endorsements. Only those at the very top of the industry have even the slightest chance of that.
A judge, or even a bunch of judges, deciding to "consider" something reasonable does not make it reasonable.
People with guns don't care whether something is reasonable. They care whether it is considered reasonable.
Wait hold up, what? It costs more for a landline subscriber to call a cell phone than to call a local landline?
Because calls from one landline to another in the same city have long been toll-free in the United States, the pricing model for its cellular market is to charge for airtime on each leg of the call so that a landline user doesn't incur unexpected tolls when calling a cell phone. For example, if a cellular carrier's voice toll is ten cents per minute, a call from a landline to a cell phone or vice versa costs the cell phone subscriber ten cents per minute, and a call from a cell phone to another cell phone costs each subscriber ten cents per minute, or a total of twenty cents per minute between the two of them. An SMS is billed as one minute of airtime. (Source: T-Mobile USA's pay-as-you-go plan) The next step up from pay-as-you-go is usually unmetered voice and SMS, both outgoing and incoming, but that costs hundreds of dollars per year.
If neither side has a monthly unmetered SMS plan, a text message from one cell phone in the United States costs twenty cents, split evenly between the sender and recipient. If only one side has a monthly unmetered SMS plan, only the other side pays its ten cent toll. If both sides have a monthly unmetered SMS plan, there is no toll.
That's fine for those people who use only desktop computers. But not everyone has backpack space to carry both a MacBook and a Windows laptop.
A viewer would still 1. have to switch from his or her preferred browser to Firefox if the command-line youtube-dl script doesn't support the video; 2. have to wait for a download over a slow ISP; 3. have to pay overage fees for a download over a capped ISP; and 4. remain unable to skim or Ctrl+F.
The visitor could instead notify his carrier to put SMS on hold before leaving the country.
EU has fairly unified copyright rules.
But a work available outside the EU might not be available in the EU because of said "unified copyright rules."
What is better, to make a little money or build a brand?
There is room for only so many "brands," or celebrities with the power to increase sales of a product by endorsing it, in a particular market.
Think of how many musicians crossover into movies
Ought these movies also to be produced to "build a brand"? Or in what way is a "money only/first strategy" appropriate for them and not for recorded music?
How exactly is data sitting on a server in silicon valley "at the border" just because the person who created that data is at the border?
The persistent identification cookie on the laptop, tablet computer, or smartphone that a traveler carries allows access. But it's difficult to extract said cookies because of the design of operating systems and web browsers for those devices. As a substitute for a means of exporting cookies, they ask for enough information to replicate the identification cookies stored on the device.
Do cellular subscribers outside the United States still receive messages without charge even when roaming in the United States?
If a copyright owner does not consent to the digital single market, it would have to withdraw its works from all streaming services across the European Union. I am not privy to the contracts between copyright owners and streaming services in order to determine whether they allow a copyright owner to perform such a withdrawal.
Then why do copyright owners tend not to restrict availability or charge different prices within a single sovereign country, such as in Wyoming vs. California?
Region-restricted work B is based on an underlying work A whose author has been dead for more than 50 but less than 100 years. Copyright in work A has expired in the countries where work B is available but still subsists in other countries. If the publisher of work B were to make work B available in countries where copyright in work A subsists, the publisher of work A would sue the publisher of work B and win.
Or a work has an age rating in one country but is Refused Classification in another.
Or a work has an age rating in one country, and the other country requires all commercially available works in that medium to be age rated for that country, but the publisher has no evidence of enough interest in the work in the other country to justify the cost of submitting it to the other country's age rating board.
At the border, any and all "searches and seizures" are considered "reasonable" for purposes of the Fourth Amendment. See Border search exception.
Enjoy paying 10 cents to your carrier to receive an SMS every time you log in.