In the real world, by the way, you see banks adopting the same strategy -- Bank of America invests boatloads of cash in getting its name out in the various Hispanic communities, which are typically underserved when it comes to banking services.
He used to like to call people from the men's room and talk to them while doing his business.
I remember when an executive came into a bathroom, and proceeded to enter the stall next to me while still chatting on his phone. About 5 seconds after he started doing his business, his formerly-animated conversation turned into, "Hello? Hello?" as the other party figured out what he was doing and hung up on him.:)
I think it's incredibly rude to make or receive calls while using the toilet. It's a security risk, too, if you're in a public bathroom, and you're talking shop.
There need to be additional deterrants, in case whoever finds the site later is too stupid, too greedy, or too malevolent to keep away from the site.
This may sound cruel, but I really think some attractively shiny sealed containers with neurotoxins or simple, stable, chemical poisons should be added in another layer under the surface. Perhaps they already plan to do this, and just don't want to make the information public. But would you rather a few people die on the surface, reinforcing the idea that the site is full of death, or let those people dig down and extract some of that waste, before expiring and leaving it out in the open on the surface, later? That would surely end up having a more catastrophic effect on local life.
[from Agent Ace$Thugg:] And then he asked me if I had a child at home, and if I knew any children. Curious about his line of questioning, I asked him what he was getting at. He said he noticed that I was in the children's section for a long time and it was making him uncomfortable.
Are people really that scared of single adult males, now? Because it probably wasn't to do with his appearance...
More importantly, the technology of information exchange is developed in the western world. They're saying that the technology of oppression is developed here, and sure that's true enough, but then what they're trying to suppress wouldn't even be out there if not for the communications technology that we developed. I think the net delta in unfettered exchange of information is positive.
The image that first sprang to mind was that of the "fax networks" many of them used to use, and probably still do. Rather hard to implement without fax machines:)
(Oops, now that I've let that cat out of the bag, I'm sure Homeland Security will ban them here, since terrorists might use them, too.)
After doing some research, I found out that MySpace lives in a single Class C IP block, (This may change over time, but as of now this info is accurate.) Simply add this to your firewall rules to block and your set! MySpace IP Block: ------------------ 63.208.226.0/24 - -Ponga
Even better: teach them not to leave personally identifying information lying around in public view. That's a lot better than trying to play catch-up and block each new social site in turn.
Tom Reilly is running for governor, in a campaign where his first choice for lieutenant governor turned out to have not paid federal taxes, state taxes, property taxes or parking tickets for the last several years, and then dropped out of the race to spend more time with her family, all within 24 hours of being picked. (She's still a state rep, and on the Ways and Means Committee, no less, but apparently you don't need to pay taxes to hold that position.) Anyway, thus Tom Reilly's sudden concern about MySpace...
Let's make parents responsible for what their kids do and see online, and see how that works. In fact, let's have ISPs make subscribers sign hold-harmless clauses, promoting this idea. OMG, don't tell me... that would intrude on the rights of parents, or something, wouldn't it?
MySpace may present an attractive nuisance, but it's not because kids can sneak past the age verification. (If so, merely raising it won't do a thing, anyway) It's because kids have not been taught to not to leave personally identifying information lying around. MySpace just makes it easier to do, the latest in a line stretching back through the blog hosts to personal website hosts like Geocities, et al.
Now, do we teach the kids, or do we restrict businesses further, because we can't be bothered? Hint: the internet routes around damage, and we can't legislate in the US against what companies in other countries do on their servers in those countries.
The worst thing about a Toyota Camry is an engineering flaw IMHO. When the Camry is stopped and shifted into park every damned door unlocks automatically. It's a car jackers dream.
Mine doesn't. If it did it by default, then I'm sure I disabled it the first day, when I read my manual.
It's conspicuously showing off the ability to exploit physical properties so that they appear to go against the laws, but don't really. I don't think they are showing contempt for the laws, just showing that things aren't as simple as they seem.
When I started on the bottom rung of the ISP ladder in the 90s, I was doing dialup support. We only supported helping customers set up their DUN (or PPP or SLIP, etc.), DNS, install a web browser from FTP if they didn't have one and didn't want us to mail them a CD, and set up any one of a small palette of email clients to get mail from our servers. We later expanded it to tell people how to upload to their web space, when we added that. Oh, and the name of our NNTP server, if they asked. Officially, that was it.
Of course, ignoring the rules and accepting the calls from clueless clients on dialup who also had T3s with us, handed off by our veeps and prez, were how I climbed the ladder, started supporting broadband before getting trained, and eventually became a "customer engineer" (network engineer):)
However, times have changed. You're an ISP, not their personal tech support. If it's not related directly to their connectivity through you, it's not your problem. Seriously. People aren't totally clueless about the boundaries of support any more (I'm not sure most of my "special issues" ever really were) and you've hit the nail on the head about the margins being such that it's not really worth it. If you don't have calls waiting, and the customer is really nice, sure, be the hero, and feel better for it afterwards. But don't let anyone demand or guilt you into anything your company hasn't promised. I've even encountered people who have done serious damage to their systems, and wanted me to help them outside official bounds, with their intent being that they would later claim that we wrecked their systems, and should pay their consultants for them. Just another thing to remember, when someone asks you to support their horrendously complicated issue:)
Now have you got an XP driver for me that will read/write HFS+ extended (jourmaled) and HFS+ extended (case-sensitive, journaled)? Or an OSX driver that will let me read/write NTFS?
Why were you charged for the previous occupants' usage at all?
The one time I had an apartment, I was in Portland, and they had me start an electric account with PGE before moving in (I was moving across country) so they could switch the billing over. But the billing was to the house account between the prior occupants and me. And when I moved out, I had to settle up with PGE, and got one last bill a month after I moved out, for like 5 days' worth of usage.:)
But it's a mail in rebate:P Who wants to deal with the hassle of all that? And sometimes you mysteriously don't receive the rebate check, and even when you do you have to wait like 10 weeks (about 2-3 credit card payments in between...) Is it really worth the hassle just to save $330k?
Yah, but it'd be worth it just to see the look on his face, when you walk up to him with kitchen scissors and tell him to strip so you can collect the proof-of-purchase bits. Especially when you say afterwards, "oh, wait, that's right, they said a Xerox would be acceptable. Hah."
Or do I have to cross my fingers and only step out in front of cars built by Jaguar?
And what logical progression would have you walking out in front of any cars, rather than waiting and watching?
Also, this sounds like a good idea, but what if someone is suicidal, and steps in front of your car on purpose, but instead of dying, he turns into a quadriplegic, and sues you and the car manufacturer for medical treatment and living expenses?
I predict more people will be killed/mangled if more of these safety systems are put in place. When people feel safer, they tend to be less cautious in their driving. This is why traffic fatalities, at least of pedestrians, increased when seatbelts became required. Everyone started driving a lot faster, figuring they were safer.
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Nice. Do you have details or references for this?
get a cell phone repeater. $500 or so, maybe.
I'm not so sure about Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, but what about Beaker?
If you lay off more than a certain number of people at one time, different rules are in effect.
:)
There's a federal law called WARN, and California has a stricter version.
p.s. WARN would be a great Wikipedia article, if someone wants to make one
I remember when an executive came into a bathroom, and proceeded to enter the stall next to me while still chatting on his phone. About 5 seconds after he started doing his business, his formerly-animated conversation turned into, "Hello? Hello?" as the other party figured out what he was doing and hung up on him.
I think it's incredibly rude to make or receive calls while using the toilet. It's a security risk, too, if you're in a public bathroom, and you're talking shop.
Legal Torrents. :)
Note that you could have used Google for that one.
And if you want to call SXSW a community, here is a link to their free MP3 archive torrent for 2006. There's a 2005 you can Google for, too.
My head asploded just thinking about that.
There need to be additional deterrants, in case whoever finds the site later is too stupid, too greedy, or too malevolent to keep away from the site.
This may sound cruel, but I really think some attractively shiny sealed containers with neurotoxins or simple, stable, chemical poisons should be added in another layer under the surface. Perhaps they already plan to do this, and just don't want to make the information public. But would you rather a few people die on the surface, reinforcing the idea that the site is full of death, or let those people dig down and extract some of that waste, before expiring and leaving it out in the open on the surface, later? That would surely end up having a more catastrophic effect on local life.
Are people really that scared of single adult males, now? Because it probably wasn't to do with his appearance...
The image that first sprang to mind was that of the "fax networks" many of them used to use, and probably still do. Rather hard to implement without fax machines
(Oops, now that I've let that cat out of the bag, I'm sure Homeland Security will ban them here, since terrorists might use them, too.)
Well, don't act so sur- hey, you're sneaky
Even better: teach them not to leave personally identifying information lying around in public view. That's a lot better than trying to play catch-up and block each new social site in turn.
Oh, and it's "you're set," not "your set."
So, in other words, wag that little doggie?
Let's make parents responsible for what their kids do and see online, and see how that works.
In fact, let's have ISPs make subscribers sign hold-harmless clauses, promoting this idea.
OMG, don't tell me... that would intrude on the rights of parents, or something, wouldn't it?
MySpace may present an attractive nuisance, but it's not because kids can sneak past the age verification. (If so, merely raising it won't do a thing, anyway) It's because kids have not been taught to not to leave personally identifying information lying around. MySpace just makes it easier to do, the latest in a line stretching back through the blog hosts to personal website hosts like Geocities, et al.
Now, do we teach the kids, or do we restrict businesses further, because we can't be bothered? Hint: the internet routes around damage, and we can't legislate in the US against what companies in other countries do on their servers in those countries.
Mine doesn't. If it did it by default, then I'm sure I disabled it the first day, when I read my manual.
It's conspicuously showing off the ability to exploit physical properties so that they appear to go against the laws, but don't really. I don't think they are showing contempt for the laws, just showing that things aren't as simple as they seem.
Disney bought the Winnie-the-Pooh franchise, and decided to kill Christopher Robin.
Thats right: They're replacing him with a girl!
Disney is evil, and this is just incontrovertible proof. If they get Pixar to do a film with the girl, Pixar is evil, too.
When I started on the bottom rung of the ISP ladder in the 90s, I was doing dialup support. We only supported helping customers set up their DUN (or PPP or SLIP, etc.), DNS, install a web browser from FTP if they didn't have one and didn't want us to mail them a CD, and set up any one of a small palette of email clients to get mail from our servers. We later expanded it to tell people how to upload to their web space, when we added that. Oh, and the name of our NNTP server, if they asked. Officially, that was it.
:)
:)
Of course, ignoring the rules and accepting the calls from clueless clients on dialup who also had T3s with us, handed off by our veeps and prez, were how I climbed the ladder, started supporting broadband before getting trained, and eventually became a "customer engineer" (network engineer)
However, times have changed. You're an ISP, not their personal tech support. If it's not related directly to their connectivity through you, it's not your problem. Seriously. People aren't totally clueless about the boundaries of support any more (I'm not sure most of my "special issues" ever really were) and you've hit the nail on the head about the margins being such that it's not really worth it. If you don't have calls waiting, and the customer is really nice, sure, be the hero, and feel better for it afterwards. But don't let anyone demand or guilt you into anything your company hasn't promised. I've even encountered people who have done serious damage to their systems, and wanted me to help them outside official bounds, with their intent being that they would later claim that we wrecked their systems, and should pay their consultants for them. Just another thing to remember, when someone asks you to support their horrendously complicated issue
Now have you got an XP driver for me that will read/write HFS+ extended (jourmaled) and HFS+ extended (case-sensitive, journaled)? Or an OSX driver that will let me read/write NTFS?
Why were you charged for the previous occupants' usage at all?
:)
The one time I had an apartment, I was in Portland, and they had me start an electric account with PGE before moving in (I was moving across country) so they could switch the billing over. But the billing was to the house account between the prior occupants and me. And when I moved out, I had to settle up with PGE, and got one last bill a month after I moved out, for like 5 days' worth of usage.
Yah, but it'd be worth it just to see the look on his face, when you walk up to him with kitchen scissors and tell him to strip so you can collect the proof-of-purchase bits. Especially when you say afterwards, "oh, wait, that's right, they said a Xerox would be acceptable. Hah."
I keep forgetting Starbuck's a female, now.
I wonder if this will finally make my props from the original series go up in value...
And what logical progression would have you walking out in front of any cars, rather than waiting and watching?
Also, this sounds like a good idea, but what if someone is suicidal, and steps in front of your car on purpose, but instead of dying, he turns into a quadriplegic, and sues you and the car manufacturer for medical treatment and living expenses?
I predict more people will be killed/mangled if more of these safety systems are put in place.
When people feel safer, they tend to be less cautious in their driving.
This is why traffic fatalities, at least of pedestrians, increased when seatbelts became required. Everyone started driving a lot faster, figuring they were safer.