I once worked in a tech company that employed a large overseas staff. The requests I would get involved large lists of IP addresses, port numbers, and host names. The host names were never anything you could even pronounce. They looked like random alpha-numerics due to names being dictated by a formula. For some reason, my peers from India always insisted on making a phone call, instead of just putting the request into an email from which I could copy/paste the names/IPs/ports into the queries and commands I needed to execute the request.
It got so bad that I just stopped answering my phone, and let every call go to vmail. Then I would check the vmail periodically, and email the senders, telling them to put the request into an email. Sometimes they would email back that they really needed to *talk* on the phone. So I would call them back and they would attempt to rattle off the initial vmail over again. And I would interrupt them to explain that I do not take dictation; If they want the request done, they need to put it in an email.
Is there a reason you add it to your Contacts list, instead of just blocking the number itself?
I don't have an iPhone, but according to Apple Support, you can go to your call log (called "Recents") and block the number without having to add it. Apparently you click on the "i" icon and scroll to the bottom.
With an Android phone, you can go into your call log, long press the number you want to block and then select the block option.
I just checked that and see you are correct. I have been using the blocked contact method for over 3 years. It is possible the direct blocking ability was added in an iOS update at some point. Thanks for the tip!
> Several calls a week? I'm envious. I get a minimum of several a day.
Here is my solution to deal with those shenanigans:
* Every spam call you get, counterintuitively, ADD it to your Contacts under "Spam" BUT append a number.
You didn't mention what phone you have. I do the same thing on my iPhone, but I have noticed the block seems to take effect with the numbers in the contact at the time the block is applied. i.e. when I add a phone number to the "Spam" contact, I need to unblock "Spam" momentarily, then reapply the block, to ensure the new number is blocked.
This. Attributes of my den: Comfortable seat. No loudmouths. Feet don't stick to the floor. Pause button. Clean bathroom. Fast-forward button for the trailers. Movie starts whenever I damn well please. Food at grocery store prices. Liquor. If the movie turns out to be crap, I can abandon it without spoiling my wife's enjoyment. Attributes of a theater: Big screen.
You forgot one more attribute of your den: Control over the volume button.
The last time I went to a theater, (and I do mean the LAST time!), the morons had the volume cranked so high that not only was it painful to the ears, the amplifiers were well up into the distortion range, making half the dialog unintelligible.
Where on earth would a subwoofer go on a pair of headphones?
Well, the main purpose of headphones is portability, and since the subwoofer is there to give that deep thumping sound you can feel in the seat of your pants...
Forgot to mention another point on buy backs: If the company issues dividends (TMUS does), a buyback normally increases the dividend/share because the money alotted to the dividend is divided among a smaller pool. That is the other half of why a buyback usually drives stock price up.
Because one share is not much (too little to sell, really) I think many costumers will end up buying more shares, especially since they already have a connection to the company (own what you know). This might be enough to pump up the stock price beyond what T-mobile could have managed by just buying and retiring shares.
When a company buys back shares, all of the metrics based on "per share", (e.g. earnings/share), go up because there are now fewer shares. That increases the value per share.
What T-Mobile is doing keeps the share count unchanged, so all they are effectively doing is giving away cash. That should actually depress the stock price.
The is just scare tactic garbage from an attorney who wants to bait the waters before she takes on the appeal and charges Oracle millions of dollars for the privilege.
This could cost Oracle millions? So what is the downside?
Problem is humans are at the core selfish assholes, which is why we have traffic lights.
Agreed. In the excellent book "Traffic", (by Tom Vanderbilt), he cites studies showing that in comparison to traffic lights, roundabouts: - Move a lot more traffic. - Have a fraction of the accidents. - Have much less severe accidents, resulting in a fraction of the fatalities.
The classical way would be work through a coinop car wash or laundromat partner and then launder it through them by inflating the sales over a few years.
I knew a married couple who were doing that. Walt & Skyler were really nice people!
I was a little kid when I saw that show, and even then, it was obvious it was a piece of crap.
The bottom of the barrel, we scrape it here.
What next, "My Mother, the Car"?
A quote from director John Huston: "There is a willful lemming-like persistence in remaking past successes time after time. They can't make them as good as they are in our memories, but they go on doing them and each time it's a disaster. Why don't we remake some of our bad pictures - I'd love another shot at 'Roots of Heaven' - and make them good?"
I also remember seeing "Lost in Space" when I was a kid. Yes, it sucked badly, so if any show ever needed to be remade, (and fixed), that was it.
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I once worked in a tech company that employed a large overseas staff. The requests I would get involved large lists of IP addresses, port numbers, and host names. The host names were never anything you could even pronounce. They looked like random alpha-numerics due to names being dictated by a formula. For some reason, my peers from India always insisted on making a phone call, instead of just putting the request into an email from which I could copy/paste the names/IPs/ports into the queries and commands I needed to execute the request.
It got so bad that I just stopped answering my phone, and let every call go to vmail. Then I would check the vmail periodically, and email the senders, telling them to put the request into an email. Sometimes they would email back that they really needed to *talk* on the phone. So I would call them back and they would attempt to rattle off the initial vmail over again. And I would interrupt them to explain that I do not take dictation; If they want the request done, they need to put it in an email.
Is there a reason you add it to your Contacts list, instead of just blocking the number itself?
I don't have an iPhone, but according to Apple Support, you can go to your call log (called "Recents") and block the number without having to add it. Apparently you click on the "i" icon and scroll to the bottom.
With an Android phone, you can go into your call log, long press the number you want to block and then select the block option.
I just checked that and see you are correct.
I have been using the blocked contact method for over 3 years.
It is possible the direct blocking ability was added in an iOS update at some point.
Thanks for the tip!
Try this...it works for me: https://www.nomorobo.com/
I don't work for them, so I don't know how trustworthy they are.
I just checked out that site.
It works only on VOIP.
POTS & cellular not supported.
> Several calls a week? I'm envious. I get a minimum of several a day.
Here is my solution to deal with those shenanigans:
* Every spam call you get, counterintuitively, ADD it to your Contacts under "Spam" BUT append a number.
You didn't mention what phone you have.
I do the same thing on my iPhone, but I have noticed the block seems to take effect with the numbers in the contact at the time the block is applied. i.e. when I add a phone number to the "Spam" contact, I need to unblock "Spam" momentarily, then reapply the block, to ensure the new number is blocked.
This. Attributes of my den:
Comfortable seat.
No loudmouths.
Feet don't stick to the floor.
Pause button.
Clean bathroom.
Fast-forward button for the trailers.
Movie starts whenever I damn well please.
Food at grocery store prices.
Liquor.
If the movie turns out to be crap, I can abandon it without spoiling my wife's enjoyment.
Attributes of a theater:
Big screen.
You forgot one more attribute of your den: Control over the volume button.
The last time I went to a theater, (and I do mean the LAST time!), the morons had the volume cranked so high that not only was it painful to the ears, the amplifiers were well up into the distortion range, making half the dialog unintelligible.
What crimes would those be? Seriously, I'm curious. What crimes have been revealed by the DNC emails that were released?
Violations of campaign finance law: http://www.rollingstone.com/po...
Where on earth would a subwoofer go on a pair of headphones?
Well, the main purpose of headphones is portability, and since the subwoofer is there to give that deep thumping sound you can feel in the seat of your pants...
Forgot to mention another point on buy backs:
If the company issues dividends (TMUS does), a buyback normally increases the dividend/share because the money alotted to the dividend is divided among a smaller pool. That is the other half of why a buyback usually drives stock price up.
Because one share is not much (too little to sell, really) I think many costumers will end up buying more shares, especially since they already have a connection to the company (own what you know). This might be enough to pump up the stock price beyond what T-mobile could have managed by just buying and retiring shares.
When a company buys back shares, all of the metrics based on "per share", (e.g. earnings/share), go up because there are now fewer shares.
That increases the value per share.
What T-Mobile is doing keeps the share count unchanged, so all they are effectively doing is giving away cash.
That should actually depress the stock price.
"You get a share! You get a share! Everybody gets a share!"
The is just scare tactic garbage from an attorney who wants to bait the waters before she takes on the appeal and charges Oracle millions of dollars for the privilege.
This could cost Oracle millions?
So what is the downside?
The good news: We just made all your prescription drugs affordable.
The bad news...
Problem is humans are at the core selfish assholes, which is why we have traffic lights.
Agreed. In the excellent book "Traffic", (by Tom Vanderbilt), he cites studies showing that in comparison to traffic lights, roundabouts:
- Move a lot more traffic.
- Have a fraction of the accidents.
- Have much less severe accidents, resulting in a fraction of the fatalities.
I saw him say this on "60 Minutes" years ago: https://books.google.com/books...
...its new cloaking technology.
The classical way would be work through a coinop car wash or laundromat partner and then launder it through them by inflating the sales over a few years.
I knew a married couple who were doing that. Walt & Skyler were really nice people!
Google Image search of "birdstrike aircraft": https://www.google.com/search?...
Now explain to all those birds that they should have been deflected around the aircraft.
Would not the fans on a drone go into autorotation just like a helicopter if the propulsion failed?
Auto-rotation requires changing the collective pitch from positive to negative.
How many drones are on sale with variable-pitch propellors?
First I read about seized iPhone may hold “dormant cyber pathogen” http://arstechnica.com/tech-po... , and now, this new idiot.
The stupidity is strong here.
That iPhone may also hold the latitude/longitude of Jimmy Hoffa's body, and the identity of the Zodiac Killer.
...as exciting as watching Geraldo Rivera opening Al Capone's vault!
http://www.newyorker.com/humor... ;-)
I don't think they exist.
I was a little kid when I saw that show, and even then, it was obvious it was a piece of crap.
The bottom of the barrel, we scrape it here.
What next, "My Mother, the Car"?
A quote from director John Huston: "There is a willful lemming-like persistence in remaking past successes time after time. They can't make them as good as they are in our memories, but they go on doing them and each time it's a disaster. Why don't we remake some of our bad pictures - I'd love another shot at 'Roots of Heaven' - and make them good?"
I also remember seeing "Lost in Space" when I was a kid. Yes, it sucked badly, so if any show ever needed to be remade, (and fixed), that was it.
So the height/weight is designed to match the typical American proportions?
They must have been friends of that snake-oil salesman Dr. Oz.
We also have a snake-oil salesman running for POTUS right now.
Here he is doing a commercial for Mannatech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...