I once lived in a small isolated town (population of about 10,000) that had its own natural gas wells, power plant, water system, and sewer system. The city did a great job of providing natural gas, electricity, sewer, water, and trash removal service at prices lower than in major cities in the state. I know that the city utilities did not lose or make money on the services, although there may have been some cross-subsidization.
Old fashioned long distance charges have always been able to make a shocking phone bill. People used to be careful with their long distance and cell phone usage to help prevent these sorts of bills.
Some cell companies have credit limits and will either warn or cut off the phone if the charges go over the credit limit. Sprint has sent me notices a few times letting me know that my credit limit had been raised, the last notice that I remember seeing said that my credit limit was something like $1,000.
From what somebody else has posted, it appears that about 1 GB of data was sent, and the data rates from Canada are posted on AT&T's web site.. This does not sound like obscene roaming charges, it sounds like somebody wasn't very smart in sending a GB of video using a cell phone.. There is probably no need to declare bankruptcy, they should be able to pay that off in about three years.
I like Unbox (which I think that they are talking about) for renting a movie, but I would never buy a movie through it. I can browse and buy movies on my TiVo or computer. A movie rental costs between $1.99 and $3.99, and some rentals have been free. We rent maybe one or two movies a week, and feel that the cost is insignificant. The quality is very good, although it isn't quite DVD quality.
I normally hate DRM, but for a rental that I watch on my TiVo, I don't give a shit. There isn't anything to return and we have up to a month to start watching the movie. It can be kept on TiVo for a month without playing it, and it expires 24 hours after it is first played.
Digital cameras and printers are the real threats. If they didn't have digital cameras they would have to take the film to Wall-Mart to get it developed and the photo lab techs will notify law enforcement if they see somebody with pictures of Medeco keys.
For me there is no competition to satellite radio. XM and Sirius works in my car, internet radio doesn't -- and terrestrial radio sucks. I don't mind paying a reasonable subscription fee for satellite radio, but allowing them to become an unregulated monopoly is a very bad thing.
For applications such as refrigerator lights, the warm up delay of a CFL is unacceptable (if it will even start). The LEDs in my refrigerator also look cool.
I call tech companies quite frequently and have never had to pay for a premium rate call, especially to get an RMA for a defective unit. I have had to pay long distance rates to get warranty returns. I very seldom buy equipment from the manufacturer, I almost always go through an on-line retailer. I recently made an exception and purchased a Dell LCD display from Dell; I just verified that I can get in-warranty service via a toll free number (if I were to need it).
By "toll number" I presume that you mean a toll call or "long distance". If anybody is paying more than a dime a minute for a US domestic toll call they seriously need to find a new plan. The only way I can see that a phone call within the US would cost a dollar a minute would be cell roaming, going over the plan minutes, or some funky pay phone.
For my cell phone I pay $30/mo for 500 "any time" minutes, and it is free from 7PM to 7AM M-F and all day Sat and Sun (it would be $100/mo for unlimited usage). For my wired home phone, it is $50/month with unlimited long distance.
They did fire him -- they fired him and never asked any questions. The investigation was by the prosecutor, not his employer. I wonder if he will be hired back with back pay.
I run several RHEL 4 and 5 servers at work. I have called Red Hat support a couple of times and got excellent support. I would say that Red Hat telephone support was as good as or better than Sun support is. The email support is pretty good, but it is from India.
It all depends upon the state, and in some cases how the sheriff and judge are feeling that day. Most states require signs and/or fences, but in some areas you are trespassing if you don't have explicit permission to be there. ALL property in the US is owned by somebody or some entity. Even if the property is publicly owned, it doesn't mean that the public has a right to be there.
Although there might not be a legal distinction, to most landowners there is a big difference between an individual person walking across his property and a group of uninvited people converging on his property.
I used to live in a sparsely populated area and nobody would care if you were walking across their property (even if the property had a cattle fence) unless you walked on cultivated land or got close to the house or outbuildings. If a group of people came from nowhere, the property owner would likely get a bit nervous; and those property owners have guns.
Many places require that "No Trespassing" or similar signs be posted, but that is not a universal requirement. In many cases, fences, or even just a chain across a road can be as good or better than "No Trespassing" signs.
It would depend upon the policies of the entity that owns the land. Area 51 is owned by the US government as are National Forests -- and they have vastly different public access policies. National Parks are public, although many charge a usage fee of some sort and they have several rules and regulations. All land in the US is owned by somebody or some entity.
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I can't see a Pentagon spokesman saying "honour our demands", i would think that he would say "honor our demands".
I once lived in a small isolated town (population of about 10,000) that had its own natural gas wells, power plant, water system, and sewer system. The city did a great job of providing natural gas, electricity, sewer, water, and trash removal service at prices lower than in major cities in the state. I know that the city utilities did not lose or make money on the services, although there may have been some cross-subsidization.
Old fashioned long distance charges have always been able to make a shocking phone bill. People used to be careful with their long distance and cell phone usage to help prevent these sorts of bills.
Some cell companies have credit limits and will either warn or cut off the phone if the charges go over the credit limit. Sprint has sent me notices a few times letting me know that my credit limit had been raised, the last notice that I remember seeing said that my credit limit was something like $1,000.
From what somebody else has posted, it appears that about 1 GB of data was sent, and the data rates from Canada are posted on AT&T's web site.. This does not sound like obscene roaming charges, it sounds like somebody wasn't very smart in sending a GB of video using a cell phone.. There is probably no need to declare bankruptcy, they should be able to pay that off in about three years.
I like Unbox (which I think that they are talking about) for renting a movie, but I would never buy a movie through it. I can browse and buy movies on my TiVo or computer. A movie rental costs between $1.99 and $3.99, and some rentals have been free. We rent maybe one or two movies a week, and feel that the cost is insignificant. The quality is very good, although it isn't quite DVD quality.
I normally hate DRM, but for a rental that I watch on my TiVo, I don't give a shit. There isn't anything to return and we have up to a month to start watching the movie. It can be kept on TiVo for a month without playing it, and it expires 24 hours after it is first played.
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That is totally amazing. If the test is misleading, then it shouldn't be used at all.
Digital cameras and printers are the real threats. If they didn't have digital cameras they would have to take the film to Wall-Mart to get it developed and the photo lab techs will notify law enforcement if they see somebody with pictures of Medeco keys.
For me there is no competition to satellite radio. XM and Sirius works in my car, internet radio doesn't -- and terrestrial radio sucks. I don't mind paying a reasonable subscription fee for satellite radio, but allowing them to become an unregulated monopoly is a very bad thing.
I see a problem with censoring music lyrics on any channel, not just the XL channels.
For applications such as refrigerator lights, the warm up delay of a CFL is unacceptable (if it will even start). The LEDs in my refrigerator also look cool.
All of the Optiplexes I looked at said "Genuine Windows Vista Downgrade Rights Service (Windows Vista Bonus options)" -- which means XP
A sys admin didn't make the decision to use Windows in power plants and military applications.
I call tech companies quite frequently and have never had to pay for a premium rate call, especially to get an RMA for a defective unit. I have had to pay long distance rates to get warranty returns. I very seldom buy equipment from the manufacturer, I almost always go through an on-line retailer. I recently made an exception and purchased a Dell LCD display from Dell; I just verified that I can get in-warranty service via a toll free number (if I were to need it).
By "toll number" I presume that you mean a toll call or "long distance". If anybody is paying more than a dime a minute for a US domestic toll call they seriously need to find a new plan. The only way I can see that a phone call within the US would cost a dollar a minute would be cell roaming, going over the plan minutes, or some funky pay phone.
For my cell phone I pay $30/mo for 500 "any time" minutes, and it is free from 7PM to 7AM M-F and all day Sat and Sun (it would be $100/mo for unlimited usage). For my wired home phone, it is $50/month with unlimited long distance.
They did fire him -- they fired him and never asked any questions. The investigation was by the prosecutor, not his employer. I wonder if he will be hired back with back pay.
I run several RHEL 4 and 5 servers at work. I have called Red Hat support a couple of times and got excellent support. I would say that Red Hat telephone support was as good as or better than Sun support is. The email support is pretty good, but it is from India.
It all depends upon the state, and in some cases how the sheriff and judge are feeling that day. Most states require signs and/or fences, but in some areas you are trespassing if you don't have explicit permission to be there. ALL property in the US is owned by somebody or some entity. Even if the property is publicly owned, it doesn't mean that the public has a right to be there.
Although there might not be a legal distinction, to most landowners there is a big difference between an individual person walking across his property and a group of uninvited people converging on his property.
I used to live in a sparsely populated area and nobody would care if you were walking across their property (even if the property had a cattle fence) unless you walked on cultivated land or got close to the house or outbuildings. If a group of people came from nowhere, the property owner would likely get a bit nervous; and those property owners have guns.
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Many places require that "No Trespassing" or similar signs be posted, but that is not a universal requirement. In many cases, fences, or even just a chain across a road can be as good or better than "No Trespassing" signs.
http://public.findlaw.com/http//realestate.findlaw.com/trespassing/select-state-laws-on-trespassing.html
It would depend upon the policies of the entity that owns the land. Area 51 is owned by the US government as are National Forests -- and they have vastly different public access policies. National Parks are public, although many charge a usage fee of some sort and they have several rules and regulations. All land in the US is owned by somebody or some entity.
They weren't in Sweden, the laws and history are much different here.
They need to do far more than make an attempt to contact the landowner, they need to get permission from the landowner.
The ISP side of Verizon does not have Common Carrier status. Blocking newsgroups is not censoring content.
They hate gays.