Where I live the locking of phones is forbidden. So wether you have a contract or not, you can swap out your phone with any other phone and use that one. As if the contract is not related to the phone itself.
Oh and we also have number transfer that actualy works. I have had the same number for (I think) 10 years and have changed providers several times. I just fill out a form, send that in (as they need a signature) and that's it.
This is not the first time an agency lied. It worked out great for them so he probably thought "Why lie about it?" Very soon these agencies will use it as bragging rights and will so so publicly.
First they hide it. Then they lie about it. Then they laugh in your face. Then they win.
So the REAL question is what WILL stop it. Saying that "This one is a bad person and did nothing to change it" doesn't work. Saying "The previous one did nothing to change it" doesn't work. Voting for "The other party" doesn't work.
No, I do not have the answer, because if I did I would be giving it.
At least you see a movie. I have not been able to see one on/. because of Module Error each time. As I can see videos on any other site, I don't even bother to find out why.
People get back to a paper that was written a few hundred years ago, The Constitution, but unless you enfrce it, it is just that: a piece of paper. Or for the more modern person: The constituaton: use it or loose it.
As sdomebody living in Belgium where locking is (for now) forbidden, this confuses the hell out of me. The phone is identical to all providers. Sure, some services might not be available, but you can buy any phone and use it on any nwetwork.
If I want a new phone I just go to the store, buy one and transfer the data. You can letthe store do it for you. You can buy a phone where you are locked in, which means you will have to pay the provider for a certain amount of time. They are shortening (or already jhave?) to one year. You are still free to use any phone you desire.
Oh. They are also working on removing roaming costs completely in Europe and have a universal power supply.
It is as if they are listening to the people, not the companies. Silly socialists.
No, you give the makers of TOR a reason to make it better. The fact that you might get money for this bug-reporting is a bonus. The same reason you should be telling the people that there are security leaks in any other software.
1st. Left? What left? 2nd. Created under right and the left hated it, extended under left and the right hated it. So you still think you have some say in this?
Only a fool will think that if you do the same thing over and over again, you will get a different result. Voting R one time and D the next time and then R again and back to D is not doing things differently. Building a guilotine and off with their heads if they do not perform as promissed is doing things differently.
"Lost all credibility?" I have seen Fox-News reporters that were better informed. You can not loose something that you don't have. I am not sure if there are ANY countries that have some credibility left when it comes to politics.
Do want to shut/. down? Because that is how you shut it down> This is a discusion site. Discussions have by default speculations.
And welcome to (world) politics where people are pawns in a game they have no part in. (Although sometimes they tell you you do by 'voting'.)
Yes, speculation can easily be confused with facts by some peopel. Also think that if there was no speculation, many times there would also no be any incentive to bring up any proof. Speculate what would have happend in this case: Everybody is waiting for evidence. Nobody does any staements and speculates who-dun-it.
The result would be that nobody would be willing to look into it.
Businesses are not one person. You can do this, because it is important to you. For companies there is a difference. Many people are involved. Perhaps over several IT departments in different continents. Thos epeople get sick, have holidays and leave the company for several reasons.
First what often happens is that there is no group email adress like dnsadmin@example.com, but rather john.doe@example.com. Then they might split up the company and first just for tax purposes.
Oh and sometimes they need a domain NOW while no IT people are available, so they do it quicly and will do the the transfer later.
And then you have those domains that you do not realy use anymore.
So it is normal that things get forgotten. So here is an idea for allthose who say that never happens to them: Make a business case out of it and sell the service to companies. You can inlcude gthe service of doing their worldwide DNS service and deal with each local company and department. You can inlcude everything that is included in DNS.
All others are basically looking for technical solutions for a social problem.
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The call agent was just true to what Comcast told him to do. To be SURE everything has been done possible. Fun thing is that when you go up one level to http://customer.comcast.com/he... you won't find the information on how to cancel. In fact I needed google to find the page.
Listening to it, it clearly is a management issue. The call agent probably will loose his job over this, becayuse he was the one that got taped, while management was pushing them to do this. Somewhere it will be written that call agents should not be doing this, but get payed for retention and are trained to do it that way. If bonusses are directed towards retention, then retention is what they will do, no matter what. These agents do what most people would do. See how they can make the most money. That is why they get incentives for retention, because that is what the management thinks is important. If they would not think that is important, they would not put the money there.
Obviously the 'quick action' will be firing this guy. However what is actualy needed is not a quick action, but rather a slow action. This means first looking what your priorities are and what your goals are as management and be seriosu about it. If it is money, OK, then do this and back up the people on the phone. Tell them he did a great job.
If it is customer service, find what you think actualy IS good customer service, without forgetting you also want to make money. (Yes, you can do both.) Good service (or Quality for most managers) is something where if you ask 5 people, you get 6 opinions, so you need to have the definition ready that everybody in higher management will defend.
Next work your way down. This might need a complete change of mindset for the company and will take 2 to 4 years for a company the size of Comcast IF management agrees on it.
Told you what is needed was a slow action.
If _I_ were Comcast, I would go for the money and buy a couple of new houses. Much easier to fire a call agent, his trainer and is supervisor than doing this change your mind shit for 4 years.
It is paranoid if you THINK you are being spied on. They KNOW they are being spied on. Thi is not paranoid. This is common sense. Paranoid would be to think that every person is a criminal and therefore you need to know everything about everybody.
I never use a dryer. I just let nature take its course. I use a community washer/dryer, so in the first place it is cheaper not to use it. This also makes me use the washer when I have a full load, not for just three socks. The thing is that it was first money driven and later I started to realize how stoopid I used energy. An electric toothbrush? Seriously? I do not buy bottled water, bvecause tab water in the western world is good. Not just good enough. I also worry about climate change. Yet I still take my car to work, while public transport would be possible AND cheaper, just less convinient. I also worry about my weight, yet I do not do any sports. I know people who had their father die of lungcancer and worry about that and light one up at the funeral.
I can see policy like this bringing current globalization trend to a screeching halt as companies would split to have daughter companies incorporated and operating only in certain countries to shield them against this kind of abuse.
Halt it? Do you think that the different taxes laws in different countriea halted the companies? If anything, the companies will find a way around it. Just like banks now say 'We will help you by putrring your money in a differnt country." There will be companies who will help companies do the same, if they are unable to do so yourself.
So you will find an IT Kayman Island. This will the be used a a selling point. "Our servers are placed in country X that wil not alow the US to see your data."
Different price ranges might aply to different countries. e.g. EU places might be more expensive, unless it is the UK. I could see e.g. The Netherlands, Germany and Finland as countries that might be more privacy minded.
So do not worry about companies splitting because of this reason. They already do this for tax purposes and there other places in the world. Many companies can live with the lag placing your data somewhere else.
The EU did something similar when they went from local paper to the EURO paper (The EURO was already in place. People just did not see it)
People who has black money in cash were spending it ASAP. These were not large amounts. People a few thousand EURO. People with a lot more already has and have their black money in a bank.
Also in the past changing bills and leaving a certain amount of time to change them is not uncommon in Europe. In Belgium you can still go to the National bank and change Belgian Frank bills of 100 BEF and upwards. They will have stopped to be legal tender.
I personally would prefer to have everything on ne side, including the SD slot. That way you can close off three side, which is much easier when you want to place it behind e.g. a tv and still be able to access it, whithout too much trouble.
All cables on one side just seems a logical choice for me.
But is is already much better, especially the mounting points.
The whole issue is who gets to decide if the clain is false or not. In Belgium the comany I used to work for we received several claims from SABAM for people uploading things through e.g. napster and other sharing programs (So this dates back a while) asking first for the name and address of the people doing this. Legal told me to caugh it up and I told them no, because of the law on privacy. They must come with a legal order, otherwise WE would be punishable as a company. That was something they did not want to do. Next SABAM asked us to block the sharing of content, to which we said no as well (unless court order).
The idea behind all this was that I, nor anybody in the company can legaly determine if there was a copyright infrindgement or not. I culd have a legal document of being allowed to stream Metallica's music and they just don't like that I have that.
It is similar to saying "I do not like that you park in front of my driveway." and I say "But that isn't your driveway. It is illgal poured asphalt." If we can not figure it out, we go to court, but untill then, I park there.
It obviously helped that at that time I read an official letter from the court letter that as long as no money was involed. e.g. people sharing music, SABAM should not bother the legal system. The moment money would be involved (e.g. burn CDs and sell them) they would be happy to help.
The courts should decide who is right and who is wrong (not commercial entity like e.g. Judge Judy
This is dated information. If you take legal advice from me, you owe me 10 quadrillian Euro.
What they can do is to force the closing of one or two US Army intalations in Germany. Although no real impact if they pick carefully, it would send an extremely serious message on a political level.
Sounds like you woke up from a coma and think it still is the 20th century. If that is the case : Times have changed, my friend. Times have changed and not into the direction of flying cars.
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Where I live the locking of phones is forbidden.
So wether you have a contract or not, you can swap out your phone with any other phone and use that one. As if the contract is not related to the phone itself.
Oh and we also have number transfer that actualy works. I have had the same number for (I think) 10 years and have changed providers several times. I just fill out a form, send that in (as they need a signature) and that's it.
This is not the first time an agency lied. It worked out great for them so he probably thought "Why lie about it?" Very soon these agencies will use it as bragging rights and will so so publicly.
First they hide it. Then they lie about it. Then they laugh in your face. Then they win.
So the REAL question is what WILL stop it. Saying that "This one is a bad person and did nothing to change it" doesn't work. Saying "The previous one did nothing to change it" doesn't work.
Voting for "The other party" doesn't work.
No, I do not have the answer, because if I did I would be giving it.
At least you see a movie. I have not been able to see one on /. because of Module Error each time.
As I can see videos on any other site, I don't even bother to find out why.
People get back to a paper that was written a few hundred years ago, The Constitution, but unless you enfrce it, it is just that: a piece of paper.
Or for the more modern person:
The constituaton: use it or loose it.
As sdomebody living in Belgium where locking is (for now) forbidden, this confuses the hell out of me. The phone is identical to all providers. Sure, some services might not be available, but you can buy any phone and use it on any nwetwork.
If I want a new phone I just go to the store, buy one and transfer the data. You can letthe store do it for you. You can buy a phone where you are locked in, which means you will have to pay the provider for a certain amount of time. They are shortening (or already jhave?) to one year. You are still free to use any phone you desire.
Oh. They are also working on removing roaming costs completely in Europe and have a universal power supply.
It is as if they are listening to the people, not the companies. Silly socialists.
No, you give the makers of TOR a reason to make it better. The fact that you might get money for this bug-reporting is a bonus.
The same reason you should be telling the people that there are security leaks in any other software.
1st. Left? What left?
2nd. Created under right and the left hated it, extended under left and the right hated it.
So you still think you have some say in this?
Only a fool will think that if you do the same thing over and over again, you will get a different result.
Voting R one time and D the next time and then R again and back to D is not doing things differently. Building a guilotine and off with their heads if they do not perform as promissed is doing things differently.
That same Capitalism, where everybody is not just allowed, but encouraged to do whatever other people are willing to pay for, will solve that problem
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Is it that capitalism you are talking about?
"Lost all credibility?" I have seen Fox-News reporters that were better informed.
You can not loose something that you don't have. I am not sure if there are ANY countries that have some credibility left when it comes to politics.
Do want to shut /. down? Because that is how you shut it down>
This is a discusion site. Discussions have by default speculations.
And welcome to (world) politics where people are pawns in a game they have no part in. (Although sometimes they tell you you do by 'voting'.)
Yes, speculation can easily be confused with facts by some peopel. Also think that if there was no speculation, many times there would also no be any incentive to bring up any proof. Speculate what would have happend in this case:
Everybody is waiting for evidence. Nobody does any staements and speculates who-dun-it.
The result would be that nobody would be willing to look into it.
Businesses are not one person. You can do this, because it is important to you. For companies there is a difference. Many people are involved. Perhaps over several IT departments in different continents.
Thos epeople get sick, have holidays and leave the company for several reasons.
First what often happens is that there is no group email adress like dnsadmin@example.com, but rather john.doe@example.com. Then they might split up the company and first just for tax purposes.
Oh and sometimes they need a domain NOW while no IT people are available, so they do it quicly and will do the the transfer later.
And then you have those domains that you do not realy use anymore.
So it is normal that things get forgotten. So here is an idea for allthose who say that never happens to them:
Make a business case out of it and sell the service to companies. You can inlcude gthe service of doing their worldwide DNS service and deal with each local company and department. You can inlcude everything that is included in DNS.
All others are basically looking for technical solutions for a social problem.
The deenition of news is "Mad bites dog." If common sense becomes the news, you know that things are messed up.
From their website at http://customer.comcast.com/he...
If you are looking to completely cancel your XFINITY service, we ask that you call us at 1-800-XFINITY (1-800-934-6489). We want to make sure weâ(TM)ve done everything we can to give you the best experience, price and package. We would also love to hear any feedback you have so that we can improve our service.
The call agent was just true to what Comcast told him to do. To be SURE everything has been done possible.
Fun thing is that when you go up one level to http://customer.comcast.com/he... you won't find the information on how to cancel. In fact I needed google to find the page.
Listening to it, it clearly is a management issue. The call agent probably will loose his job over this, becayuse he was the one that got taped, while management was pushing them to do this.
Somewhere it will be written that call agents should not be doing this, but get payed for retention and are trained to do it that way.
If bonusses are directed towards retention, then retention is what they will do, no matter what. These agents do what most people would do. See how they can make the most money. That is why they get incentives for retention, because that is what the management thinks is important.
If they would not think that is important, they would not put the money there.
Obviously the 'quick action' will be firing this guy. However what is actualy needed is not a quick action, but rather a slow action. This means first looking what your priorities are and what your goals are as management and be seriosu about it. If it is money, OK, then do this and back up the people on the phone. Tell them he did a great job.
If it is customer service, find what you think actualy IS good customer service, without forgetting you also want to make money. (Yes, you can do both.)
Good service (or Quality for most managers) is something where if you ask 5 people, you get 6 opinions, so you need to have the definition ready that everybody in higher management will defend.
Next work your way down. This might need a complete change of mindset for the company and will take 2 to 4 years for a company the size of Comcast IF management agrees on it.
Told you what is needed was a slow action.
If _I_ were Comcast, I would go for the money and buy a couple of new houses. Much easier to fire a call agent, his trainer and is supervisor than doing this change your mind shit for 4 years.
It is paranoid if you THINK you are being spied on. They KNOW they are being spied on. Thi is not paranoid. This is common sense.
Paranoid would be to think that every person is a criminal and therefore you need to know everything about everybody.
On the plus side, it is good to see that the governement stands behind the ones they represent. Ok, it is not the gereral public, but still.
I never use a dryer. I just let nature take its course. I use a community washer/dryer, so in the first place it is cheaper not to use it.
This also makes me use the washer when I have a full load, not for just three socks.
The thing is that it was first money driven and later I started to realize how stoopid I used energy. An electric toothbrush? Seriously?
I do not buy bottled water, bvecause tab water in the western world is good. Not just good enough.
I also worry about climate change.
Yet I still take my car to work, while public transport would be possible AND cheaper, just less convinient. I also worry about my weight, yet I do not do any sports. I know people who had their father die of lungcancer and worry about that and light one up at the funeral.
Halt it? Do you think that the different taxes laws in different countriea halted the companies?
If anything, the companies will find a way around it.
Just like banks now say 'We will help you by putrring your money in a differnt country." There will be companies who will help companies do the same, if they are unable to do so yourself.
So you will find an IT Kayman Island. This will the be used a a selling point. "Our servers are placed in country X that wil not alow the US to see your data."
Different price ranges might aply to different countries. e.g. EU places might be more expensive, unless it is the UK. I could see e.g. The Netherlands, Germany and Finland as countries that might be more privacy minded.
So do not worry about companies splitting because of this reason. They already do this for tax purposes and there other places in the world.
Many companies can live with the lag placing your data somewhere else.
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No idea about quality. No idea if any of them will work for you.
The EU did something similar when they went from local paper to the EURO paper (The EURO was already in place. People just did not see it)
People who has black money in cash were spending it ASAP. These were not large amounts. People a few thousand EURO. People with a lot more already has and have their black money in a bank.
Also in the past changing bills and leaving a certain amount of time to change them is not uncommon in Europe. In Belgium you can still go to the National bank and change Belgian Frank bills of 100 BEF and upwards. They will have stopped to be legal tender.
I personally would prefer to have everything on ne side, including the SD slot. That way you can close off three side, which is much easier when you want to place it behind e.g. a tv and still be able to access it, whithout too much trouble.
All cables on one side just seems a logical choice for me.
But is is already much better, especially the mounting points.
The whole issue is who gets to decide if the clain is false or not.
In Belgium the comany I used to work for we received several claims from SABAM for people uploading things through e.g. napster and other sharing programs (So this dates back a while) asking first for the name and address of the people doing this.
Legal told me to caugh it up and I told them no, because of the law on privacy. They must come with a legal order, otherwise WE would be punishable as a company. That was something they did not want to do.
Next SABAM asked us to block the sharing of content, to which we said no as well (unless court order).
The idea behind all this was that I, nor anybody in the company can legaly determine if there was a copyright infrindgement or not. I culd have a legal document of being allowed to stream Metallica's music and they just don't like that I have that.
It is similar to saying "I do not like that you park in front of my driveway." and I say "But that isn't your driveway. It is illgal poured asphalt." If we can not figure it out, we go to court, but untill then, I park there.
It obviously helped that at that time I read an official letter from the court letter that as long as no money was involed. e.g. people sharing music, SABAM should not bother the legal system. The moment money would be involved (e.g. burn CDs and sell them) they would be happy to help.
The courts should decide who is right and who is wrong (not commercial entity like e.g. Judge Judy
This is dated information. If you take legal advice from me, you owe me 10 quadrillian Euro.
What they can do is to force the closing of one or two US Army intalations in Germany. Although no real impact if they pick carefully, it would send an extremely serious message on a political level.
Sounds like you woke up from a coma and think it still is the 20th century.
If that is the case : Times have changed, my friend. Times have changed and not into the direction of flying cars.