Yes, but please not on the back of society at large.
I promise you there are multiple published phone numbers that will get you to a live person working or affiliated with Google who can escalate the issue internally to the right person.
Great! Can you post some of these numbers? Most numbers unfortunately connect to some helpless receptionist who doesn't understand any technical question, much less knows whom to escalate it to internally.
Call the Google Apps Premiere sales line idiot.
Can you give me the phone number of this "sales line idiot"? Will he be able to help me, or will he just pretend that my request is not worth following up because "You're the first customer having a problem of this kind" or other such excuse?
I'd hate to waste my money on a expensive international call and then get the run-around. At least e-mail is free.
Nope, no contact addresses in there. Just a pointer to the FAQ covering 3 frequently encountered issues (which unfortunately didn't address the question that I had), and without any further addresses.
Good point. Fairness would be to first ask google for a position, maybe it was indeed just a rogue individual, or a mistake or whatever.
but then comes the first question: how would one actually accomplish this feat, i.e. to "approach" google. Complaint addresses are exceedingly difficult to find, and those that are there don't seem to be manned. So it seems to me, the only solution does indeed be to skip the "let's discuss this first" step, and go directly to the press. Google, if you don't like this, then please become more "approachable", and people will approach you before badmouthing you in public.
The difference is the shop clerk needs a shop to operate out of.
The recycling companies won't set up shops extra for this, but instead partner with existing shops. So, the newsstand, the photo shop, or the place where you buy new phones also takes used phones on the side.
Advantage:
no need for extra space (apart from the actual storage bin where the used phones go)
no need to pay a clerk full time for maybe 3 phones per day...
That said, most operators will flag an IMEI as stolen quite quickly
These machines will be found in shopping malls. What if the thief tries to fence the phone to a machine in the same mall as where he "found" it in a handbag? The victim may not yet know that her phone is gone, much less made a deposition at the police station and listed the IMEI...
but after a few batches would fail to get sold for much, the signs suddenly become an even better deterant than the actual cable.
... at which point facilities owners will start posting these signs even when they are actually using normal cables, and eventually thieves realize that most of these signs are just blufff...
It's worth noting also that he's not mentioned trying to get a response from Google (and if he's tried he's not included their response).
What response? Did you ever try to ask Google anything? First, any e-mail adresses of Google are surprisingly difficult to find... And second, if you do manage to find one, there will never be any response (even from those addresses that don't bounce).
If you've got a google address that responds, I'd be interested. Indeed, I'd like to discuss with them about their way of interpreting links into plain text (which short-circuits any rel="nofollow"), and also spams web server logs due to shorted http://server/.../page.html links.
And then, I'd like to ask how to make spam from google groups stop (apart from putting them into a Teergrube... but even that only cures the symptoms, as during the rare times where our Teergrube goes down, google groups spams still trickles through!)
Can you point us to a report that backs that up or we're just supposed to believe an Anonymous Coward?;)
And even if there were "reports"... nothing is easier than to set up a small spiderweb of blogs referencing each other claiming whatever you want in whatever "flowery" and buzzword-laden language you want.
Heck, he web is full of reports that claim that horde-blinkers are good for websites or other such nonsense.
Same installers who can't diagnose a loose and/or misaligned dish when they come to see why your TV gets crappy picture. Now take this state of facts and instead of an ordinary dish they can't point to a geostationary satellite, give them one of those funny dishes that move in weird patterns and come in strange shapes and see what you get.
Phased array dishes don't move. The pointing is done electronically. And if the technology is any good, it will know where it is pointed to, and if misaligned, will be able to compensate for it. So it will actually be easier to install.
A phased array antenna, however, has LOTS of moving parts
Maybe you don't quite understand how a phased array works... No physical movement is needed for repointing the antenna, but an apparent movement is done by introducing phase shifts between the various parts of the antenna surface. These phase shifts are introduced electronically, no physical movement needed.
It also costs anywhere between $5000 and $30000 depending on your specifics
Although such antennas are more expensive than normal fixed antennae (due to the additional electronics), the difference is nowhere as big as you make it.
Some satellite providers are designing such phased array antennae right now, for the purpose of receiving from multiple orbital positions (formerly this has been done either by multiple antennae, or one dish with multiple LNBs). So, the technology can't be that expensive (once it is mass-produced), or else it would never be able to compete with multi-LNB dishes.
especially given that you need to bump up the transmitter power vs. an equivalent GEO radio to get equivalent data rate
A LEO satellite will be much nearer, thus less loss due to distance, so you'd actually need less transmitter power rather than more.
Top that off with the fact that you're going to lose your connection everytime the LEO bird your dish was tracking goes over the horizon and it needs to lock onto a different satellite.
Make it so that your system can lock on to several satellites at once, and you can start looking for the next satellite long before the previous one goes under the horizon.
Never mind that I'm unaware of any commercial LEO data systems available today that provide greater than 9.6 kbps data rates...
Probably, this has more to do with the fact that there are no mass-market LEO constellations available yet, and the few fringe players have to save costs due to their small user base.
Once a major player gets into this market, prices will drop, and bitrates will go up.
I wank my self off for ten minutes each day. If I do it faster I could come five minutes earlier
But who wants a sore dick? And it's more enjoyable to draw it out, so stop rubbing when you feel you're near the climax, and the go on again when it starts to become flaccid.
If you've got dark windows in your car, you can also do it while stuck in a traffic jam or at a red light. So you do get to make good use of those 5 extra minutes that you spend more due to fuel efficient driving... And you get to look at the handsome pedestrians and bikers!
Just don't do it when on the way to do a date, or you might arrive full-handed but empty-balled...
Either way, this is why most businesses over a certain size have entire teams of people that scour the web for unfavorable comments about their business and try to find ways to resolve the situation amicably.
Ironically enough, google itself doesn't do this, and they don't even have a mail address for complaints against their mail infrastructure (if google groups spams you) or search engine (if it picks up stuff which are not links, or clearly marked rel="nofollow", giving an incentive to spammers to vandalize wikis)
I was going to suggest something similar: remove their physical footprint from that bizarre regime's jurisdiction & put a 'Sorry' page up in place of Google.fr.
Google would be flirting with another law-suit if they did so. Indeed, in France, according to the Loi Toubon it would have to say "Excusez-nous".
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Yes, but please not on the back of society at large.
I promise you there are multiple published phone numbers that will get you to a live person working or affiliated with Google who can escalate the issue internally to the right person.
Great! Can you post some of these numbers? Most numbers unfortunately connect to some helpless receptionist who doesn't understand any technical question, much less knows whom to escalate it to internally.
Call the Google Apps Premiere sales line idiot.
Can you give me the phone number of this "sales line idiot"? Will he be able to help me, or will he just pretend that my request is not worth following up because "You're the first customer having a problem of this kind" or other such excuse?
I'd hate to waste my money on a expensive international call and then get the run-around. At least e-mail is free.
Nope, no contact addresses in there. Just a pointer to the FAQ covering 3 frequently encountered issues (which unfortunately didn't address the question that I had), and without any further addresses.
Well, you could start with the whois data for the domain.
yeah right. Has that ever worked for you?
On occasion it has. Even with some Indian and Chinese domains. But not for google.
email abuse@example.domain.com
Well, except that abuse@google.com is not manned, and you merely get back of form letter without any followup whatsoever.
That makes you the wanker, and a cunt.
Please explain: how to you wank a cunt? Or are you accusing her of being a stirrer?
Oh, and no cup of chocolate ice-cream either!
Do NOT click the 2nd link, people !
Great, now I HAVE to click it! Stupid reverse psychology...
It's only a boring old electronics shop. No goat, no bathtub, no lemons, no nothing. Please move along.
...without approaching Google at all...
Good point. Fairness would be to first ask google for a position, maybe it was indeed just a rogue individual, or a mistake or whatever.
but then comes the first question: how would one actually accomplish this feat, i.e. to "approach" google. Complaint addresses are exceedingly difficult to find, and those that are there don't seem to be manned. So it seems to me, the only solution does indeed be to skip the "let's discuss this first" step, and go directly to the press. Google, if you don't like this, then please become more "approachable", and people will approach you before badmouthing you in public.
Have they fixed applet permission granting UI yet in OpenJDK 1.7? This trivial oversight is what breaks many banking site applets on OpenJDK6
Sleeping with serial killers saves lives!
... but not necessarily yours...
The difference is the shop clerk needs a shop to operate out of.
The recycling companies won't set up shops extra for this, but instead partner with existing shops. So, the newsstand, the photo shop, or the place where you buy new phones also takes used phones on the side.
Advantage:
That said, most operators will flag an IMEI as stolen quite quickly
These machines will be found in shopping malls. What if the thief tries to fence the phone to a machine in the same mall as where he "found" it in a handbag? The victim may not yet know that her phone is gone, much less made a deposition at the police station and listed the IMEI...
It's sad that she wasted so much time of her short life on this stuff...
but after a few batches would fail to get sold for much, the signs suddenly become an even better deterant than the actual cable.
... at which point facilities owners will start posting these signs even when they are actually using normal cables, and eventually thieves realize that most of these signs are just blufff...
It's worth noting also that he's not mentioned trying to get a response from Google (and if he's tried he's not included their response).
What response? Did you ever try to ask Google anything? First, any e-mail adresses of Google are surprisingly difficult to find... And second, if you do manage to find one, there will never be any response (even from those addresses that don't bounce).
If you've got a google address that responds, I'd be interested. Indeed, I'd like to discuss with them about their way of interpreting links into plain text (which short-circuits any rel="nofollow"), and also spams web server logs due to shorted http://server/.../page.html links.
And then, I'd like to ask how to make spam from google groups stop (apart from putting them into a Teergrube... but even that only cures the symptoms, as during the rare times where our Teergrube goes down, google groups spams still trickles through!)
...an invisible keyboard for your smartphone or tablet...
Looks more like an invisible webserver to me...
... would make a potato a good AV solution.
Yes, my pet potato is my best friend and protector. I call him Balthazar...
Can you point us to a report that backs that up or we're just supposed to believe an Anonymous Coward? ;)
And even if there were "reports"... nothing is easier than to set up a small spiderweb of blogs referencing each other claiming whatever you want in whatever "flowery" and buzzword-laden language you want.
Heck, he web is full of reports that claim that horde-blinkers are good for websites or other such nonsense.
Welcome back, sanity! Finally, we'll again be able to use extensions!
Same installers who can't diagnose a loose and/or misaligned dish when they come to see why your TV gets crappy picture. Now take this state of facts and instead of an ordinary dish they can't point to a geostationary satellite, give them one of those funny dishes that move in weird patterns and come in strange shapes and see what you get.
Phased array dishes don't move. The pointing is done electronically. And if the technology is any good, it will know where it is pointed to, and if misaligned, will be able to compensate for it. So it will actually be easier to install.
A phased array antenna, however, has LOTS of moving parts
Maybe you don't quite understand how a phased array works... No physical movement is needed for repointing the antenna, but an apparent movement is done by introducing phase shifts between the various parts of the antenna surface. These phase shifts are introduced electronically, no physical movement needed.
It also costs anywhere between $5000 and $30000 depending on your specifics
Although such antennas are more expensive than normal fixed antennae (due to the additional electronics), the difference is nowhere as big as you make it.
Some satellite providers are designing such phased array antennae right now, for the purpose of receiving from multiple orbital positions (formerly this has been done either by multiple antennae, or one dish with multiple LNBs). So, the technology can't be that expensive (once it is mass-produced), or else it would never be able to compete with multi-LNB dishes.
especially given that you need to bump up the transmitter power vs. an equivalent GEO radio to get equivalent data rate
A LEO satellite will be much nearer, thus less loss due to distance, so you'd actually need less transmitter power rather than more.
Top that off with the fact that you're going to lose your connection everytime the LEO bird your dish was tracking goes over the horizon and it needs to lock onto a different satellite.
Make it so that your system can lock on to several satellites at once, and you can start looking for the next satellite long before the previous one goes under the horizon.
Never mind that I'm unaware of any commercial LEO data systems available today that provide greater than 9.6 kbps data rates...
Probably, this has more to do with the fact that there are no mass-market LEO constellations available yet, and the few fringe players have to save costs due to their small user base.
Once a major player gets into this market, prices will drop, and bitrates will go up.
I wank my self off for ten minutes each day. If I do it faster I could come five minutes earlier
But who wants a sore dick? And it's more enjoyable to draw it out, so stop rubbing when you feel you're near the climax, and the go on again when it starts to become flaccid.
If you've got dark windows in your car, you can also do it while stuck in a traffic jam or at a red light. So you do get to make good use of those 5 extra minutes that you spend more due to fuel efficient driving... And you get to look at the handsome pedestrians and bikers!
Just don't do it when on the way to do a date, or you might arrive full-handed but empty-balled...
Either way, this is why most businesses over a certain size have entire teams of people that scour the web for unfavorable comments about their business and try to find ways to resolve the situation amicably.
Ironically enough, google itself doesn't do this, and they don't even have a mail address for complaints against their mail infrastructure (if google groups spams you) or search engine (if it picks up stuff which are not links, or clearly marked rel="nofollow", giving an incentive to spammers to vandalize wikis)
I was going to suggest something similar: remove their physical footprint from that bizarre regime's jurisdiction & put a 'Sorry' page up in place of Google.fr.
Google would be flirting with another law-suit if they did so. Indeed, in France, according to the Loi Toubon it would have to say "Excusez-nous".
Strange. Usually I'm not in favor of monopolies abusing their position...
But for google, we'll do everything :-)