It does sound made up but there are certainly tourists like that. I have met quite a few. But certainly the US don't hold the monopoly on annoying tourists.
One that springs to mind. I was at CeBit years ago and I am waiting for a Tram to get to the conference. Beside me is an American couple. The husband is loud and going on as the previous poster mentioned how "Everything is better where we live". He is complaining about tickets for the tram.
I mention to him it is a prepay system and he needs to buy a ticket from a shop. He complains loudly about how backward that is. I have a book of tickets for the week so I give him two.
They cost about 50c each (at that time). He says thanks and then gives me $20. I tell him that is way too much money and I really don't want any money for them but he goes on about how its not that much money in his country and how worthless European money is. Felt a bit insulted after that.
Kidnapping Americans. Sometimes you grab a European and they get all whiney about it. Now you only have to scan for an RFID tag and hey presto you can pick yourself up an American with a lot less hassle.
They have their own base station within the movie room. So any phone trying to ring goes through that exchange. The exchange blocks everything except emergency calls.
After that you block any frequencies getting into the room.
That may not be how it works, but it is how I would set it up.
I had my credit card number stolen about 4 years ago. The people who stole it used it in such just a system to purchase tons of stuff from Amazon though thousands of mini orders. Actually I almost died when the Amazon support person said "OMG There are thousands of orders!... oh wait they are not all to you". As far as I know Amazon put a system in place to catch this from happening again (easily).
Money laundering seems to be the in thing for the net these days. Ebay aside, my friend almost got caught out by Jobfastfind.org scam.
Most of online Irish people use 56k modems. Some of the new adware stuff actually actively attacks protection programs, and/or stops the user from downloading the tools required to repair their machine.
So I don't think it is all that extreme. If you read the article you will see that a lot of the countries listed don't even have a real population there.
Argh! I hate replying to myself. Stupid submit button.:/ Here it is formatted.
I fixed a few machines with dialers on them for friends and family (I am also in Ireland). Some of them had phone bills of over 600 euros to these countries. I am happy they are doing this. It is a long time coming.
I also heard about eircom collecting money to pay fraudsters. I am surprised they were allowed do this.
The actual document by the way is here (PDF). Here are submissions from the various telcos.
I fixed a few machines with dialers on them for friends and family (I am also in Ireland). Some of them had phone bills of over 600 euros to these countries.
I am happy they are doing this. It is a long time coming.
I also heard about eircom collecting money to pay fraudsters. I am surprised they were allowed do this.
The actual document by the way is here..
http://www.comreg.ie/_fileupload/publications/ComR eg0499.pdf
Here are submissions from the various telcos.
http://www.comreg.ie/_fileupload/publications/ComR eg0499a.zip
That makes no sense? Why would people outsource the cheap paying jobs?
Also graduates would be at the bottom of the scale in the salaries band for the company (some exceptions).
If your a graduate. But good luck getting a raise if you are a long term employee. Where I work they are hiring grads on starting wages close to what they were nine years ago.
They are only recently giving them a slight raise because they realise how crap the wages they are giving them, and a number of them have left to much better pay and what doesn't require having to take a second job to live.
But it is a farce anyway. We have Grads being advertised as the next big thing and being put in areas they simply do not have the experience in.
Anyone complains, they don't care they would much prefer the longer term employees leave as they can get 2-3 grads for the price.
Certainly there is. But that is not the point I am trying to get across. Google News which is a portal with a search engine, shows up what supposedly the current trend of news in the US. If this is correct it gives you a good indicator of what the US general population are seeing in regards to news. To an outsider (or anyone who bothers to dig) you can see a lot of news stories are not being reported. It used to be easier in google, but now it seems to be harder to find the stories on google.
It is hard to define it as censorship, more of not reporting stuff which may conflict with the agenda.
For a company I worked for. It worked great, but they ended up scrapping it. Not sure why. I still have it sitting in a drawer years later still spewing numbers.
I suppose if someone was out to get you then they could steal the ID code generator.
If you could of just installed firefox and not have to worry about them.
I installed SP2 and my machines speed was the same but it literally took 15 minutes to get to my desktop at every boot up.
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It does sound made up but there are certainly tourists like that. I have met quite a few. But certainly the US don't hold the monopoly on annoying tourists. One that springs to mind. I was at CeBit years ago and I am waiting for a Tram to get to the conference. Beside me is an American couple. The husband is loud and going on as the previous poster mentioned how "Everything is better where we live". He is complaining about tickets for the tram. I mention to him it is a prepay system and he needs to buy a ticket from a shop. He complains loudly about how backward that is. I have a book of tickets for the week so I give him two. They cost about 50c each (at that time). He says thanks and then gives me $20. I tell him that is way too much money and I really don't want any money for them but he goes on about how its not that much money in his country and how worthless European money is. Felt a bit insulted after that.
Or even worse what if they start making mimes who are just waiting for an American passport to walk by! :-O
I would of thought the metal strip in the cash would be the part to cause a spark and ignite in a microwave.
> pick Americans out of a crowd.
I wonder if it would make a person more liable to getting mugged as American Passports are certainly worth selling.
Kidnapping Americans. Sometimes you grab a European and they get all whiney about it. Now you only have to scan for an RFID tag and hey presto you can pick yourself up an American with a lot less hassle.
I would be intrested to know how you would do this.
Currently all software defines things that are private that are.
1) encrypted.
2) Access control handed over by the operating system.
Anything other then that is fair game. The problem isn't google. It is the software on a public machine or the user who doesn't know better.
Here is how I Think it works.
They have their own base station within the movie room. So any phone trying to ring goes through that exchange. The exchange blocks everything except emergency calls.
After that you block any frequencies getting into the room.
That may not be how it works, but it is how I would set it up.
Reminds me of GameSpy. I stopped using that when they wanted me to start paying for it.
What do need to imitate though is the security. It is what made me switch. I am more likely to switch to another browser then to switch back to IE.
Money laundering seems to be the in thing for the net these days. Ebay aside, my friend almost got caught out by Jobfastfind.org scam.
Deus Ex was not open ended exploration. It was actually a fixed path but gave you the feeling it was open ended.
> There is a patch coming, but it's not available yet.
However in light of some IE exploits "yet" tends to mean 3-6 months.
When you declared the war in Iraq over, was it you or Donald who forgot to tell the Iraqis?
Most of online Irish people use 56k modems. Some of the new adware stuff actually actively attacks protection programs, and/or stops the user from downloading the tools required to repair their machine.
So I don't think it is all that extreme. If you read the article you will see that a lot of the countries listed don't even have a real population there.
I fixed a few machines with dialers on them for friends and family (I am also in Ireland). Some of them had phone bills of over 600 euros to these countries. I am happy they are doing this. It is a long time coming.
I also heard about eircom collecting money to pay fraudsters. I am surprised they were allowed do this.
The actual document by the way is here (PDF). Here are submissions from the various telcos.
I fixed a few machines with dialers on them for friends and family (I am also in Ireland). Some of them had phone bills of over 600 euros to these countries. I am happy they are doing this. It is a long time coming. I also heard about eircom collecting money to pay fraudsters. I am surprised they were allowed do this. The actual document by the way is here.. http://www.comreg.ie/_fileupload/publications/ComR eg0499.pdf
Here are submissions from the various telcos.
http://www.comreg.ie/_fileupload/publications/ComR eg0499a.zip
That makes no sense? Why would people outsource the cheap paying jobs? Also graduates would be at the bottom of the scale in the salaries band for the company (some exceptions).
If your a graduate. But good luck getting a raise if you are a long term employee. Where I work they are hiring grads on starting wages close to what they were nine years ago.
They are only recently giving them a slight raise because they realise how crap the wages they are giving them, and a number of them have left to much better pay and what doesn't require having to take a second job to live.
But it is a farce anyway. We have Grads being advertised as the next big thing and being put in areas they simply do not have the experience in.
Anyone complains, they don't care they would much prefer the longer term employees leave as they can get 2-3 grads for the price.
Certainly there is. But that is not the point I am trying to get across. Google News which is a portal with a search engine, shows up what supposedly the current trend of news in the US. If this is correct it gives you a good indicator of what the US general population are seeing in regards to news. To an outsider (or anyone who bothers to dig) you can see a lot of news stories are not being reported. It used to be easier in google, but now it seems to be harder to find the stories on google.
It is hard to define it as censorship, more of not reporting stuff which may conflict with the agenda.
But certainly the news portal itself seems either biased, or US news really is that bad.
I have noticed if I search for a story I will find it, but the google portal does give a good indication of what the US is seeing.
For example Bushes war records. You check the news/search engine all you find is about the CBS documents.
However if you were to dig more you would find that a judge has ordered the release of the originals (ref: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6022115/).
I've wondered if this is a new system of polluting the news on the net. As it is harder to control stories but easy to bury them.
For a company I worked for. It worked great, but they ended up scrapping it. Not sure why. I still have it sitting in a drawer years later still spewing numbers.
I suppose if someone was out to get you then they could steal the ID code generator.
They don't have the majority of the market from making good software.
Visual Age? Wow how long have you been away? WSAD, WebSphere and Lotus/Tivoli/Rational Applications.
Imagine having the printer print out that it requires repairing and to ring a number which you have to pay $1 a second (or whatever).
If you could of just installed firefox and not have to worry about them. I installed SP2 and my machines speed was the same but it literally took 15 minutes to get to my desktop at every boot up.