Whether or not that's a good idea, it hardly qualifies as "Orwellian".
agreed... but
Software Secure Inc., based in Cambridge, Mass., developed the device with $1.1-million in seed money from Troy [University]. In return, the university gets the first 10,000 Securexams that the company produces. If it sells more than that, the university receives a share of the proceeds.
I bet the students are pretty psyched to see their tuition going towards spy camera development... with the students being the presumed targets of the cameras.
One of the bigger efforts to make Beijing more reasonable for the olympics ?
Adding "luxury items" soap and toilet paper to the bathrooms.
http://www.news24.com/News24/Sport/Olympics2008/0,,2-9-2370_2351873,00.html
We could complain, but the olympic committee won't be able to hear us while they're swimming in their scrooge mcduck-like money vaults.
Next time, maybe we could pick a location that already has those "luxury items" in place ?
+4 for this, seriously ?
If you're lashing out at people who buy goods over the internet and don't file use tax, you may want to start with "A" in the phone book and go from there.
I live in the Philadelphia suburbs. Comcast is our only high-speed option (No DSL, no Fios).
Late last year, we got a call from Comcast's legal department. They were basically whining that we were in the "top 10%" of bandwidth users in our area, and that if we didn't reduce our bandwidth immediately we'd lose service for 12 months. I knew what it was in reference to - we'd had a massive download spree a few months earlier, then stopped.
A few MONTHS.
Thing is, if we'd continued on that same mass-downloading using our "unlimited" bandwidth, and stopped the day we got the call, we would have been terminated a month later - because the legal department calls lag several months behind the actual bandwidth logging.
Comcast is the ultimate example of a massively bloated company in which department subsection A has no idea what's going on in department subsection B - even if they're the same large department.
Up until last Friday, our internet had been down for 2 weeks straight. TWO WEEKS. It's not 1996.
We recently added Comcast's Digital voice service (not because we needed it, but because it made our overall bill cheaper).
This began an utterly bizarre sequence of modem confusion, tech support chaos, and raw seething anger (on my end) at the complete uselessness of EVERY SINGLE PERSON I talked to at Comcast. I know this has been beaten to death, but this experience was something that shocked me even with my basement-level expectations.
The first few calls went as they usually do. "TRY REBOOTING YOUR MODEM". "TRY UNPLUGGING THE COAX AND LEAVING IT OUT FOR LIKE... HALF AN HOUR." I went along, although I already knew the modem was getting a garbage IP address and nothing on my end was going to resolve it. Eventually, the ticket got escalated to "Tier 1.5".
Then it got escalated to "Tier 2.5"
Then it got escalated to the "Engineering queue".
5 or 6 days later, I got an explanation. There was a "database duplication issue" which was causing our Cable modem not to be authenticated on Comcast's network. it was "very complicated and a known glitch". (I'm a DBA. I wasn't very impressed or confused.) All we could do was wait until they called us and told it the problem was resolved (3-5 business days), and I couldn't talk to anyone in the engineering department (No matter HOW much I yelled or escalated, BELIEVE ME). Fine.
Saturday (Day 8) Comcast calls us. The problem is fixed and our internet should be fine !
It wasn't.
Begin again. "TRY REBOOTING YOUR MODEM". "JUST WAIT AND SEE IF IT COMES BACK UP." "LET'S TRY REBUILDING YOUR TCP/IP STACK" ( I love this one, it's like using a jackhammer to get your computer case open... PASS.)
so I get another ticket. At this point, my patience is offically gone. it's day 9 of no internet.
i get escalated to "tier 1.5" and get put on hold for a long-ass time.
Tech support champion man comes back and says,
There's a "database duplication issue" which was causing our Cable modem not to be authenticated on Comcast's network. it was "very complicated and a known glitch", and has to be escalated to engineering which could take 3-5 days to fix.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME ?
At this point, I flipped out and then "calmly" explained that we had already been through this a week earlier. I tried being nice, yelling, whatever it took to get to talk to person X's supervisor until i finally got the head of regional tech support on the phone. She sounded like a 55 year old woman with no technical knowledge whatsoever, of course. At that point, i couldn't get anywhere. She actually told me there was NO ONE IN THE COUNTRY that I could be transferred to who could fix the problem, and we would just have to wait 3-5 days for it to be fixed.
Disgusted and thoroughly furious, I gave up and unplugged the modem.
Friday (Day 14) comcast calls. Your internet is fixed ! I fell for this one before. Wasn't too optimistic.
There's a brief glimpse of the Nintendog, and an introduction to the mentioned new characters. It IS nice to see Pit back in action after all this time. I'm not familiar with the Kirby enemy guy.
This is really on-target.
These 18 year old girls will put things like "I work weekends at Target in Conshohocken, PA".
That's ALL it takes. Every interested lunatic now has a picture and a place of employment, which is a half-step from home address.
ESPN HD has been driving me mad with this. It seems like 70% of the sporting events aren't actually in HD, especially the basketball games. What's the point of the channel if you're gonna show SD all the time ?
Seriously, is their goal to sue every single person in America ? That doesn't seem like a good long-term business model. I'm generally less likely to buy things from companies that have taken legal action against me.
I couldn't believe the examples given. It shows a complete lack of care on the part of the people doing this. Half-assed is generous. You could do a dozen times better with a handful of programs (virtualdub, avisynth, tmpg) and a little bit of practice.
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Whether or not that's a good idea, it hardly qualifies as "Orwellian".
agreed... but
Software Secure Inc., based in Cambridge, Mass., developed the device with $1.1-million in seed money from Troy [University]. In return, the university gets the first 10,000 Securexams that the company produces. If it sells more than that, the university receives a share of the proceeds.
I bet the students are pretty psyched to see their tuition going towards spy camera development... with the students being the presumed targets of the cameras.
One of the bigger efforts to make Beijing more reasonable for the olympics ? Adding "luxury items" soap and toilet paper to the bathrooms. http://www.news24.com/News24/Sport/Olympics2008/0,,2-9-2370_2351873,00.html We could complain, but the olympic committee won't be able to hear us while they're swimming in their scrooge mcduck-like money vaults. Next time, maybe we could pick a location that already has those "luxury items" in place ?
If one of the group members DOES get killed while texting and driving, are the others compelled to remove him/her posthumously ?
+4 for this, seriously ? If you're lashing out at people who buy goods over the internet and don't file use tax, you may want to start with "A" in the phone book and go from there.
He's a dick.
Traffic James *IS* a dick.
but the article is interesting, then re-write the submission and keep the article link. That submission looks like it was written by a 3rd grader.
I live in the Philadelphia suburbs. Comcast is our only high-speed option (No DSL, no Fios).
Late last year, we got a call from Comcast's legal department. They were basically whining that we were in the "top 10%" of bandwidth users in our area, and that if we didn't reduce our bandwidth immediately we'd lose service for 12 months. I knew what it was in reference to - we'd had a massive download spree a few months earlier, then stopped.
A few MONTHS.
Thing is, if we'd continued on that same mass-downloading using our "unlimited" bandwidth, and stopped the day we got the call, we would have been terminated a month later - because the legal department calls lag several months behind the actual bandwidth logging.
Comcast is the ultimate example of a massively bloated company in which department subsection A has no idea what's going on in department subsection B - even if they're the same large department.
Up until last Friday, our internet had been down for 2 weeks straight. TWO WEEKS. It's not 1996.
We recently added Comcast's Digital voice service (not because we needed it, but because it made our overall bill cheaper).
This began an utterly bizarre sequence of modem confusion, tech support chaos, and raw seething anger (on my end) at the complete uselessness of EVERY SINGLE PERSON I talked to at Comcast. I know this has been beaten to death, but this experience was something that shocked me even with my basement-level expectations.
The first few calls went as they usually do. "TRY REBOOTING YOUR MODEM". "TRY UNPLUGGING THE COAX AND LEAVING IT OUT FOR LIKE... HALF AN HOUR."
I went along, although I already knew the modem was getting a garbage IP address and nothing on my end was going to resolve it. Eventually, the ticket got escalated to "Tier 1.5".
Then it got escalated to "Tier 2.5"
Then it got escalated to the "Engineering queue".
5 or 6 days later, I got an explanation. There was a "database duplication issue" which was causing our Cable modem not to be authenticated on Comcast's network. it was "very complicated and a known glitch". (I'm a DBA. I wasn't very impressed or confused.) All we could do was wait until they called us and told it the problem was resolved (3-5 business days), and I couldn't talk to anyone in the engineering department (No matter HOW much I yelled or escalated, BELIEVE ME). Fine.
Saturday (Day 8) Comcast calls us. The problem is fixed and our internet should be fine !
It wasn't.
Begin again. "TRY REBOOTING YOUR MODEM". "JUST WAIT AND SEE IF IT COMES BACK UP." "LET'S TRY REBUILDING YOUR TCP/IP STACK" ( I love this one, it's like using a jackhammer to get your computer case open... PASS.)
so I get another ticket. At this point, my patience is offically gone. it's day 9 of no internet.
i get escalated to "tier 1.5" and get put on hold for a long-ass time.
Tech support champion man comes back and says,
There's a "database duplication issue" which was causing our Cable modem not to be authenticated on Comcast's network. it was "very complicated and a known glitch", and has to be escalated to engineering which could take 3-5 days to fix.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME ?
At this point, I flipped out and then "calmly" explained that we had already been through this a week earlier. I tried being nice, yelling, whatever it took to get to talk to person X's supervisor until i finally got the head of regional tech support on the phone. She sounded like a 55 year old woman with no technical knowledge whatsoever, of course. At that point, i couldn't get anywhere. She actually told me there was NO ONE IN THE COUNTRY that I could be transferred to who could fix the problem, and we would just have to wait 3-5 days for it to be fixed.
Disgusted and thoroughly furious, I gave up and unplugged the modem.
Friday (Day 14) comcast calls. Your internet is fixed ! I fell for this one before. Wasn't too optimistic.
I plug everything back
There's a brief glimpse of the Nintendog, and an introduction to the mentioned new characters. It IS nice to see Pit back in action after all this time. I'm not familiar with the Kirby enemy guy.
http://media.revolution.ign.com/media/748/748545/v ids_1.html
BLAM ! BLAM !
Aol: Ahhh ! My other foot !
This is really on-target. These 18 year old girls will put things like "I work weekends at Target in Conshohocken, PA". That's ALL it takes. Every interested lunatic now has a picture and a place of employment, which is a half-step from home address.
ESPN HD has been driving me mad with this. It seems like 70% of the sporting events aren't actually in HD, especially the basketball games. What's the point of the channel if you're gonna show SD all the time ?
we call it "every day || week" around these parts.
You can't sue *EVERYONE*.
Seriously, is their goal to sue every single person in America ? That doesn't seem like a good long-term business model. I'm generally less likely to buy things from companies that have taken legal action against me.
Wow. Nicely done.
else you will wake up to find 24 hours porn programming on all TV stations. With a bare-breasted Janet Jackson doing the weather.
What WONDERFUL religion is this you speak of ?!
You're absolutely right.
I couldn't believe the examples given. It shows a complete lack of care on the part of the people doing this. Half-assed is generous. You could do a dozen times better with a handful of programs (virtualdub, avisynth, tmpg) and a little bit of practice.
The first one I got was "Spider-man denies relationship with Kevin Mitnick".
worried about being typecast ? I couldn't pick this guy out of a lineup. Maybe he should worry about that first.
Free copies of gigli for all !
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I had sex with 1 hot blue Syreen bitch.
I usually go with "thisismypassword".
What did I ever do to you ?
Computer geeks are so egomaniacal. Do you see the mafia making shows about how they pull off crimes ? And no, "growing up gotti" doesn't count.