Not exactly. You'll still be able to log in and request a password change, which then uses your email for authentication. So as long as your email isn't also compromised, you'll be fine.
How is this any different from all of the games (PS3, X-Box, and PC) that let you use real dollars to purchase avatars, skins, and other in-game add-ons?
I'm also fairly sure that some simulation games let you put real money in for game money, though their names don't come to mind.
So the only news here is that Target is becoming a middle-man. Oh, and we get to ridicule FarmVille.
But what if the entire movement is defined by its most extreme elements (i.e. Intelligent Design, limiting homosexual rights, and scoffing at the environment)?
12) Jetson's car 13) UFO hovering 14) The kid going "vroom vroom" 15) Bicycle w/ Bell 16) Radar bleeps circa 1950s submarine 17) Old man yelling "Outta my way!" 18) Theme from Benny Hill 19) Train 20) Space Shuttle
I was recently at a Kohl's Department Store (similar to Ross, JC Penny, and Sears) and was impressed by the rather large in-store kiosk they had.
It was very modern looking with a giant 27" touch display, portrait orientation, with a barcode scanner, credit card reader, and even cash taker like an ATM machine.
For software, it was basically just a custom browser over their in-store catalog, and they did a pretty decent job of making it a good experience.
In the end though, some glitch kept coming up that would foul the touch screen and cause input when there was none. And, I was rather upset that in order to place an order for homem delivery I had to give them my email address.
But aside from those two errors, the rest of the experience and the look of the kiosk was very quite cool.
I realize that many of their part-time instructors have other full-time jobs. But when a student is paying about $2000-3000 for a class (through loans or otherwise), I think they can expect a little more than the experience they're getting.
The classes I were enrolled in (quite a while ago) all had between 10-20 people.
Wow, there's a lot of information there. Click on the "Response from Colleges" link for all sorts of stuff.
This reading is going to make me very upset, I can tell already.
I would love to see a class-action suit brought against these schools for their practices. I'm just not sure there was anything illegal about what they did.
Oh, and something I forgot to mention in my original post: very few of their classes are transferrable if you ever decide to move your credits to another university.
At the insistence of my employer, I enrolled in online classes at University of Phoenix about 8 years ago. I was aiming for their MBA program. At the time, the classes were 5 weeks long, with a decent amount of weekly work and plenty of reading. Everything was online, including the mandatory newsgroup-style discussions.
After about three classes, it became clear to me that I wasn't learning much at all. I was also able to get by barely doing any of the reading, and just turning in a few well-written essays and keeping my virtual attendance up. In other words, I wasn't forced to think to earn my grades. There were no tests in any of the classes I had. For all they know, I could have been paying someone to take the class for me.
The instructors were nothing more than babysitting facilitators. They'd answer a question if you had one, and they'd grade your paper, but they were not instructing. They doled out assignments from plans that other people had written. Not once did they engage in a discussion or challenge you to think.
It wasn't until my fourth class when I realized the mistake I had made. The instructor was on vacation. Yes, vacation. For the five week class, he was literally gone and unavailable for the middle three weeks with the exception of one day (in 21) when he checked his email (to tell us he was on vacation). Yet the class continued on.
When the class ended, I complained about the level of "instruction" I was being given. They ignored me for weeks, and it wasn't until I encouraged about a dozen of the other students in the same class to stand up and say something. Finally, they wrote back and told me that I would be refunded for the class if I was willing to lose the grade that I had been given. Gee, thanks. And, only those students who asked were given that choice.
That was my last class, and I'm glad. A few weeks later I spoke candidly to the HR director and he told me he was glad I stopped taking them. He told me that when people come in with degrees from University of Phoenix he just tosses them to the bottom of the pile. He recognizes them as a diploma mill, and a BA from there is less valuable than a GED.
I've spoken with others who have attended University of Phoenix online and they all have similar stories.
University of Phoenix has employees whose job is to recruit students, and they earn commission for enrolling you. Their focus appears to be to get students through financial aid so that they have no problem getting their money. Once you're enrolled, and paid for, you're just a student ID.
Sadly I paid that "school" about $6000 of my own cash before realizing any of this, but hopefully others can learn from my mistake.
Have they improved since my experience? I sure hope so.
This reminds me of a scene from some movie where students at a high school wanted to create a traffic jam in front of their school.
So about 100 of them started walking in a long line in front of their school, to the building across the street, which had a service tunnel back to the school, and looped ad infinum.
Actually yes. My first Dell was a Latitude and I bought it with the recommended warranty (next-day on-site) which didn't cost that much more than the phone-only warranty.
When my video card was overheating, after a five minute phone call they had a guy out the following day (at my home) to replace the motherboard and video card. He also left me with several rubber "feet" and said "yours will probably fall off within the year, so here's some extras".
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There is a setting in Facebook that, when activated, will send you a text and/or email whenever "you" log in from a new computer.
Not exactly. You'll still be able to log in and request a password change, which then uses your email for authentication. So as long as your email isn't also compromised, you'll be fine.
How is this any different from all of the games (PS3, X-Box, and PC) that let you use real dollars to purchase avatars, skins, and other in-game add-ons?
I'm also fairly sure that some simulation games let you put real money in for game money, though their names don't come to mind.
So the only news here is that Target is becoming a middle-man. Oh, and we get to ridicule FarmVille.
Then he should have said that, instead of claiming $800 for the laptop rental.
But what if the entire movement is defined by its most extreme elements (i.e. Intelligent Design, limiting homosexual rights, and scoffing at the environment)?
It says he sued to get back $800 (AU), which was the cost of renting a laptop for some unspecified period of time.
He should have sued for the retail price of the PS3.
That's the sort of joke I'd expect from Slashdot.
For all we know, corporations ARE paying his paycheck.
Just not in the documented, legal way that we're all accustomed to.
Except that in a settlement, both parties agree to the resolution.
If either one doesn't like the proposed settlement, they have every right to say "Um, no. We're going to court."
The terms of the settlement COULD be to admit wrong doing, should the other party insist on it and the accused party agree to it.
I think if both parties are willing to come to an agreement, without wasting any more tax dollars, then that's a great thing.
And if you don't like it, but felt that you too were damaged by the outcome, then you have every right to sue someone about it. :)
12) Jetson's car
13) UFO hovering
14) The kid going "vroom vroom"
15) Bicycle w/ Bell
16) Radar bleeps circa 1950s submarine
17) Old man yelling "Outta my way!"
18) Theme from Benny Hill
19) Train
20) Space Shuttle
... now I'm going to have to rearrange my entire schedule.
Bastards.
Actually, 100% of all documented zombie outbreaks have failed.
The pH of the water was tested at 7. SEVEN!!
And we all know that 7 is the most acidic that an alkali can possibly be. OUTRAGEOUS!
I was recently at a Kohl's Department Store (similar to Ross, JC Penny, and Sears) and was impressed by the rather large in-store kiosk they had.
It was very modern looking with a giant 27" touch display, portrait orientation, with a barcode scanner, credit card reader, and even cash taker like an ATM machine.
For software, it was basically just a custom browser over their in-store catalog, and they did a pretty decent job of making it a good experience.
In the end though, some glitch kept coming up that would foul the touch screen and cause input when there was none. And, I was rather upset that in order to place an order for homem delivery I had to give them my email address.
But aside from those two errors, the rest of the experience and the look of the kiosk was very quite cool.
No, it's the prologue to Heroes: The Reality Series.
I realize that many of their part-time instructors have other full-time jobs. But when a student is paying about $2000-3000 for a class (through loans or otherwise), I think they can expect a little more than the experience they're getting.
The classes I were enrolled in (quite a while ago) all had between 10-20 people.
Yeah, a little miscommunication there between my manager and the HR department.
Wow, there's a lot of information there. Click on the "Response from Colleges" link for all sorts of stuff.
This reading is going to make me very upset, I can tell already.
I would love to see a class-action suit brought against these schools for their practices. I'm just not sure there was anything illegal about what they did.
Oh, and something I forgot to mention in my original post: very few of their classes are transferrable if you ever decide to move your credits to another university.
At the insistence of my employer, I enrolled in online classes at University of Phoenix about 8 years ago. I was aiming for their MBA program. At the time, the classes were 5 weeks long, with a decent amount of weekly work and plenty of reading. Everything was online, including the mandatory newsgroup-style discussions.
After about three classes, it became clear to me that I wasn't learning much at all. I was also able to get by barely doing any of the reading, and just turning in a few well-written essays and keeping my virtual attendance up. In other words, I wasn't forced to think to earn my grades. There were no tests in any of the classes I had. For all they know, I could have been paying someone to take the class for me.
The instructors were nothing more than babysitting facilitators. They'd answer a question if you had one, and they'd grade your paper, but they were not instructing. They doled out assignments from plans that other people had written. Not once did they engage in a discussion or challenge you to think.
It wasn't until my fourth class when I realized the mistake I had made. The instructor was on vacation. Yes, vacation. For the five week class, he was literally gone and unavailable for the middle three weeks with the exception of one day (in 21) when he checked his email (to tell us he was on vacation). Yet the class continued on.
When the class ended, I complained about the level of "instruction" I was being given. They ignored me for weeks, and it wasn't until I encouraged about a dozen of the other students in the same class to stand up and say something. Finally, they wrote back and told me that I would be refunded for the class if I was willing to lose the grade that I had been given. Gee, thanks. And, only those students who asked were given that choice.
That was my last class, and I'm glad. A few weeks later I spoke candidly to the HR director and he told me he was glad I stopped taking them. He told me that when people come in with degrees from University of Phoenix he just tosses them to the bottom of the pile. He recognizes them as a diploma mill, and a BA from there is less valuable than a GED.
I've spoken with others who have attended University of Phoenix online and they all have similar stories.
University of Phoenix has employees whose job is to recruit students, and they earn commission for enrolling you. Their focus appears to be to get students through financial aid so that they have no problem getting their money. Once you're enrolled, and paid for, you're just a student ID.
Sadly I paid that "school" about $6000 of my own cash before realizing any of this, but hopefully others can learn from my mistake.
Have they improved since my experience? I sure hope so.
You've mistaken Facebook for MySpace.
This reminds me of a scene from some movie where students at a high school wanted to create a traffic jam in front of their school.
So about 100 of them started walking in a long line in front of their school, to the building across the street, which had a service tunnel back to the school, and looped ad infinum.
I haven't RTFM, but couldn't he have taken the money and donated it to further advance math?
Give it to some school or program for children? Or started a non-profit of his own with some good seed money?
I dunno.
I used AT&T voicemail (now I have a third-party voicemail service).
And I don't recall ever having to set a password, let alone dial my password every time I'd check my voicemail.
How many people even know to put a password on their cellphone voicemail?
I wouldn't expect to need to, since I was never asked for one in the first place nor did any instructions or guidance tell me otherwise.
Actually yes. My first Dell was a Latitude and I bought it with the recommended warranty (next-day on-site) which didn't cost that much more than the phone-only warranty.
When my video card was overheating, after a five minute phone call they had a guy out the following day (at my home) to replace the motherboard and video card. He also left me with several rubber "feet" and said "yours will probably fall off within the year, so here's some extras".
And that is why I have always bought Dell since.