Doesn't work if the call comes from outside of Canada. I got those at times and the CRTC told me to take it up with the telcos. The telcos said it came out of country and they couldn't do a thing. I ended up going to the FTC and FCC and leaving a note there, but, nothing has happened so far.
Legit number or not they can spoof anything. I routinely get 000-000-0000 from telemarketers spoofing the NPA. They just picked a number and put that in. The thing is that the telcos should not allow this except for legit reasons (ie women shelters, police).
Keep the education as general as possible so that when the student know what they want to do after high school that they have the basic skills.
Some of us were blessed in that we knew what we wanted to do early in high school. I was one of those, I loved computers and took business courses until grade 13. I also took welding, machine shop, shop for small engines (marine, snowmobile etc), physics, biology and chemistry, typing along with the all of the math, geography, history and english courses. I had a very well rounded education so that if I did change my mind I had the education to change careers totally. Those skills are still used today as I can weld/braze things, I can use machinery to make metal items and tools and I can strip and rebuild small engines with my eyes shut. When people ask me what I do for a living it sometimes freaks them out that a 'computer geek' can hold a welding torch without burning down the building.
When our children leave high school they should know
The basics about our history.
The basics about our government and the role society is expected to play.
Be able to write an essay that is gramatically correct with little or no spelling errors.
Be able to handle basic math problems.
Know the basics about geography and the countries that are around us.
I play Runescape along with my daughter. The real problem is that there are hundreds of these 'farmers' all over sucking up resources and leaving little to the real players. They make it difficult and some places impossible to play as you cannot get the item(s) you need for getting the level for finishing off a quest. It also annoys me that some idiot with a bit of cash can buy his way to the front of the line and get all of the stuff without lifting a finger to get it.
I was reading a section for here in Ontario (Canada) on telemarketing and they may qualify under that provision. Check the tarrif pages for your telco as it may apply. For Ontario:
What is Telemarketing and how can I get it to stop?
Telemarketing refers to the use of telecommunications facilities to make unsolicited calls for the purpose of solicitation. Solicitation is defined as the selling or promoting of a product or service, or the soliciting of money or money's worth, whether directly or indirectly, and whether on behalf of another party. This includes solicitation of donations by or on behalf of charitable organizations but does not include calls where there is no attempt to solicit, such as calls received to collect an overdue account or for market or survey research.
Persons placing unsolicited live voice or facsimile calls to solicit must respect a call recipient's request not to be called again by placing the recipient's phone number on their "Do Not Call" list and removing the recipient's name and telephone number from their calling lists within 7 days of a request for unsolicited facsimile calls and 30 days of the request for unsolicited live voice calls. A "Do Not Call" request is to remain active for three years.
Check with the terms of service with your telco with the lawyer. It is a possibility that they could be considered harrassing calls and a note to the telco will probably trigger a note to the recruiters to stop of lose their telephones. Several years ago I got a series of calls from a marketing firm and while it was legal it was harrassing us, a short note to the telco stopped it very quickly.
I know that where I work we run a Disaster Recovery (DR) exercise every time we do either a hardware or software upgrade to prove that everything still works. If nothing has changed one is done every second year. We actually pull our off-site production tapes and restore to a new machine that is not in the same city where the current production machine resides. It may be over-kill for them, but, a test of that for them (or any other business) would be a fruitful exercise in that they prove that the backups are good and they can restore from a given point and carry on with a minimal loss of work.
For one of our server apps we actually have two laptops configured with all of the required software and we do restore production data from backups on a regular basis as we use that for our system testing on projects. This happens several times a year so we know that the backup and restore procedures truly work. It is also very cool walking in to the client site, plug in the laptop and show them that in an emergency they have a working machine very quickly. Not as fast as a server, but, it gets them a working machine until the replacement server arrives.
My spam volume is staying about the same. I have my family use my Yahoo account to register anything so our personal accounts don't get much spam. I track the volume daily and the following is the summary below. I use this as an example to friends and family on why they should protect their personal email ids and use disposable accounts when registering anything that asks for their email id.
Month Legit Phish UCE Porn Scam all spam TOT % legit January 165 21 53 116 31 221 386 42.7% February 121 3 52 59 9 123 244 49.6% March 141 13 147 59 8 227 368 38.3% April 131 13 221 189 33 456 587 22.3% May 141 9 569 1,027 21 1,626 1,767 8.0% June 153 13 485 288 21 807 960 15.9% July 125 5 346 60 7 418 543 23.0% August 152 6 382 43 2 433 585 26.0% September 141 2 329 60 4 395 536 26.3% October 140 5 295 11 11 322 462 30.3% November 134 2 376 24 18 420 554 24.2% December 110 3 299 32 16 350 460 23.9% YTD 2006 1,654 95 3,554 1,968 181 5,798 7,452 22.2%
For me the real bad month was in May. The only thing I have noticed in the last few weeks is that the Yahoo filters are missing more of the spam and putting it in the inbox. Not a problem in that I report it as spam so their filters get better. Besides going after the spammers maybe the authorities go after those who purchase the services.
What would it have taken them to run on the ground with the computer set to December 31st and see what happens?
The second test would be for a leap year. February 29
The last test for December 31st on a leap year. Set the clock to December 30th and then let it cycle through operations until January 1st.
I know it is obvious, but, what happened to them trying this out? I do this on programs where we depend on dates and it is part of our normal unit test if we touch the date logic. The client then verifies this on their validation test runs.
We now know who was the ghost writer of SCOs press releases and who was the mentor of the former Iraqi information minister.
The guy needs to take some serious meds, look around and then admit that he lost. Both sides presented what they consider to be facts to an impartial arbiter of fact (judge). The judge made a decision and Thompson lost. If he was worried about our children...
1. Watch TV sometimes, the images are quite graphic. 2. Go to the library and check out the books there, they are even more graphic and some may (horrors) have nudity and sex.
From my view it is wrong. They presented something for a public vote and the public will say yay/nay to the wording. She doesn't like the wording and wants to change it only after a vote. If it was that critical why didn't she present the alternate wording before the vote? In my not so humble opinion once the group votes she has to live with the results unless she brings forward the new wording to the group to vote on again.
Also get a credit check on yourself now so that if they try to screw around with that you can dispute it. If the money is important you don't need a lawyer, do the small claims court thing.
DOCUMENT everything, who you were talking to, when, what was discussed, EVERYTHING.
When in doubt check with a lawyer, the money spent will be well worth it.
Nothing beats experience on estimates, but, there are a few things I do on my calculations:
1. I assume that a rookie is doing the coding. 2. Time for a high level specification for the user to review. 3. Time for the review. 4. Time for a detailed design where you specify the low level rules for the coder. 5. Time for a review of the detailed design. 6. Time to write a document on how you will test, what you will test and under what conditions the code will pass. 7. Time to set up a testing environment. 8. Time to set up a Client acceptance test environment. 9. Time to write a document on the client acceptance environment, test conditions and under what conditions the client should sign off on the code. 10. Time to walk the client through the CAT document. 11. Time to walk through the CAT results. 12. Time to document how the code will be released, who is to be informed, what resources required, etc. 13. Time to walkthrough the release doc. 14. Document everything, if the client wants a change it is easier to do it at the design stage. After that do a Change request and make sure the client knows what happens to time/effort and the schedule.
A few rule of thumbs I work with on hours -> 1. Every hour of any document = 1/4 day walkthrough with the client. 2. Every hour of code should require a minimum of 2 hours testing (simple code). 3. Time for designing tests and the documents = time required to code. 4. Every hour of walkthrough with the client = 1/4 hour doing the walkthrough report.
If it is leveled by any portion of the government and you don't have a choice about paying it is a tax. You can call it a 'levy' or 'fee', but, it is a tax!
Unless it is written into the law that you cannot prevent them from going in then it is allowed. Hopefully someone will get the lawmakers a clue bat and let them know that a third party has complete access to all of the lawmakers private and confidential information on their computers. The third party won't even need to be security cleared, that third party can grab anything and do anything without letting the person know.
The only difference is that of technology. The students will still have their heads buried in paper furiously trying to write down everything she says and there will still be no contact. If the students are fairly proficient typers they can watch her while typing. If she was truly worried about making them think then she should ban all writing tools and at the end hand out speaker notes where they can pen in their thoughts/ideas.
Protecting their clients from spam, unless of course they get their cut of the action. They figure if the spammers can make money they should be getting a bit of that too, if you don't pay AOL then too bad.
1. Cool down the centre during the night when hydro is at its cheapest. 2. During the day raise the thermostat so the AC does not kick in too soon. 3. If you have windows use the blinds on the sunny side. Thermal load is a royal pain. Where I work it hit 27c inside even though it was -14c outside. The north side was running at about 21c. 4. Put all non-essential equipment on powerbars and turn off the bars. Most monitors and other electronics still draw a bit of current for 'instant on'. That takes hydro and dumps more heat for the AC to handle.
In the last seven days I had to attend 17 meetings/calls. And they wonder why I get real bitchy at the end of a long day when one call goes from 09:00 to 17:00. I am also expected to keep my projects on schedule too.
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Doesn't work if the call comes from outside of Canada. I got those at times and the CRTC told me to take it up with the telcos. The telcos said it came out of country and they couldn't do a thing. I ended up going to the FTC and FCC and leaving a note there, but, nothing has happened so far.
Legit number or not they can spoof anything. I routinely get 000-000-0000 from telemarketers spoofing the NPA. They just picked a number and put that in. The thing is that the telcos should not allow this except for legit reasons (ie women shelters, police).
Some of us were blessed in that we knew what we wanted to do early in high school. I was one of those, I loved computers and took business courses until grade 13. I also took welding, machine shop, shop for small engines (marine, snowmobile etc), physics, biology and chemistry, typing along with the all of the math, geography, history and english courses. I had a very well rounded education so that if I did change my mind I had the education to change careers totally. Those skills are still used today as I can weld/braze things, I can use machinery to make metal items and tools and I can strip and rebuild small engines with my eyes shut. When people ask me what I do for a living it sometimes freaks them out that a 'computer geek' can hold a welding torch without burning down the building.
When our children leave high school they should know
I play Runescape along with my daughter. The real problem is that there are hundreds of these 'farmers' all over sucking up resources and leaving little to the real players. They make it difficult and some places impossible to play as you cannot get the item(s) you need for getting the level for finishing off a quest. It also annoys me that some idiot with a bit of cash can buy his way to the front of the line and get all of the stuff without lifting a finger to get it.
Telemarketing refers to the use of telecommunications facilities to make unsolicited calls for the purpose of solicitation. Solicitation is defined as the selling or promoting of a product or service, or the soliciting of money or money's worth, whether directly or indirectly, and whether on behalf of another party. This includes solicitation of donations by or on behalf of charitable organizations but does not include calls where there is no attempt to solicit, such as calls received to collect an overdue account or for market or survey research.
Persons placing unsolicited live voice or facsimile calls to solicit must respect a call recipient's request not to be called again by placing the recipient's phone number on their "Do Not Call" list and removing the recipient's name and telephone number from their calling lists within 7 days of a request for unsolicited facsimile calls and 30 days of the request for unsolicited live voice calls. A "Do Not Call" request is to remain active for three years.
Check with the terms of service with your telco with the lawyer. It is a possibility that they could be considered harrassing calls and a note to the telco will probably trigger a note to the recruiters to stop of lose their telephones. Several years ago I got a series of calls from a marketing firm and while it was legal it was harrassing us, a short note to the telco stopped it very quickly.
I know that where I work we run a Disaster Recovery (DR) exercise every time we do either a hardware or software upgrade to prove that everything still works. If nothing has changed one is done every second year. We actually pull our off-site production tapes and restore to a new machine that is not in the same city where the current production machine resides. It may be over-kill for them, but, a test of that for them (or any other business) would be a fruitful exercise in that they prove that the backups are good and they can restore from a given point and carry on with a minimal loss of work.
For one of our server apps we actually have two laptops configured with all of the required software and we do restore production data from backups on a regular basis as we use that for our system testing on projects. This happens several times a year so we know that the backup and restore procedures truly work. It is also very cool walking in to the client site, plug in the laptop and show them that in an emergency they have a working machine very quickly. Not as fast as a server, but, it gets them a working machine until the replacement server arrives.
My spam volume is staying about the same. I have my family use my Yahoo account to register anything so our personal accounts don't get much spam. I track the volume daily and the following is the summary below. I use this as an example to friends and family on why they should protect their personal email ids and use disposable accounts when registering anything that asks for their email id.
Month Legit Phish UCE Porn Scam all spam TOT % legit
January 165 21 53 116 31 221 386 42.7%
February 121 3 52 59 9 123 244 49.6%
March 141 13 147 59 8 227 368 38.3%
April 131 13 221 189 33 456 587 22.3%
May 141 9 569 1,027 21 1,626 1,767 8.0%
June 153 13 485 288 21 807 960 15.9%
July 125 5 346 60 7 418 543 23.0%
August 152 6 382 43 2 433 585 26.0%
September 141 2 329 60 4 395 536 26.3%
October 140 5 295 11 11 322 462 30.3%
November 134 2 376 24 18 420 554 24.2%
December 110 3 299 32 16 350 460 23.9%
YTD 2006 1,654 95 3,554 1,968 181 5,798 7,452 22.2%
For me the real bad month was in May. The only thing I have noticed in the last few weeks is that the Yahoo filters are missing more of the spam and putting it in the inbox. Not a problem in that I report it as spam so their filters get better. Besides going after the spammers maybe the authorities go after those who purchase the services.
What would it have taken them to run on the ground with the computer set to December 31st and see what happens?
The second test would be for a leap year. February 29
The last test for December 31st on a leap year. Set the clock to December 30th and then let it cycle through operations until January 1st.
I know it is obvious, but, what happened to them trying this out? I do this on programs where we depend on dates and it is part of our normal unit test if we touch the date logic. The client then verifies this on their validation test runs.
We now know who was the ghost writer of SCOs press releases and who was the mentor of the former Iraqi information minister.
The guy needs to take some serious meds, look around and then admit that he lost. Both sides presented what they consider to be facts to an impartial arbiter of fact (judge). The judge made a decision and Thompson lost. If he was worried about our children...
1. Watch TV sometimes, the images are quite graphic.
2. Go to the library and check out the books there, they are even more graphic and some may (horrors) have nudity and sex.
From my view it is wrong. They presented something for a public vote and the public will say yay/nay to the wording. She doesn't like the wording and wants to change it only after a vote. If it was that critical why didn't she present the alternate wording before the vote? In my not so humble opinion once the group votes she has to live with the results unless she brings forward the new wording to the group to vote on again.
It should get their attention.
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http://www.crtc.gc.ca/RapidsCCM/Register.asp?lang
Also get a credit check on yourself now so that if they try to screw around with that you can dispute it. If the money is important you don't need a lawyer, do the small claims court thing.
DOCUMENT everything, who you were talking to, when, what was discussed, EVERYTHING.
When in doubt check with a lawyer, the money spent will be well worth it.
I have been keeping tally on one of my 'freebie' accounts since June last year.
2005:
Porn = 651
Legit = 1,017
Spam = 302
Phishing = 59
So for for 2006:
Porn = 1,587
Legit = 870
Spam = 1,713
Phishing = 74
Nothing beats experience on estimates, but, there are a few things I do on my calculations:
1. I assume that a rookie is doing the coding.
2. Time for a high level specification for the user to review.
3. Time for the review.
4. Time for a detailed design where you specify the low level rules for the coder.
5. Time for a review of the detailed design.
6. Time to write a document on how you will test, what you will test and under what conditions the code will pass.
7. Time to set up a testing environment.
8. Time to set up a Client acceptance test environment.
9. Time to write a document on the client acceptance environment, test conditions and under what conditions the client should sign off on the code.
10. Time to walk the client through the CAT document.
11. Time to walk through the CAT results.
12. Time to document how the code will be released, who is to be informed, what resources required, etc.
13. Time to walkthrough the release doc.
14. Document everything, if the client wants a change it is easier to do it at the design stage. After that do a Change request and make sure the client knows what happens to time/effort and the schedule.
A few rule of thumbs I work with on hours ->
1. Every hour of any document = 1/4 day walkthrough with the client.
2. Every hour of code should require a minimum of 2 hours testing (simple code).
3. Time for designing tests and the documents = time required to code.
4. Every hour of walkthrough with the client = 1/4 hour doing the walkthrough report.
If it is leveled by any portion of the government and you don't have a choice about paying it is a tax. You can call it a 'levy' or 'fee', but, it is a tax!
Unless it is written into the law that you cannot prevent them from going in then it is allowed. Hopefully someone will get the lawmakers a clue bat and let them know that a third party has complete access to all of the lawmakers private and confidential information on their computers. The third party won't even need to be security cleared, that third party can grab anything and do anything without letting the person know.
Hmmm.... Hangman, tic-tac-toe, paper planes with notes.
I wonder if she should allow Palm pilots? You could use the Note pad and write your notes and formulas and annotations. It doesn't make much noise.
The only difference is that of technology. The students will still have their heads buried in paper furiously trying to write down everything she says and there will still be no contact. If the students are fairly proficient typers they can watch her while typing. If she was truly worried about making them think then she should ban all writing tools and at the end hand out speaker notes where they can pen in their thoughts/ideas.
for each piece of mail that leaves their system to us?
Protecting their clients from spam, unless of course they get their cut of the action. They figure if the spammers can make money they should be getting a bit of that too, if you don't pay AOL then too bad.
If you do nothing the problem will not go away. I don't know if reporting it will help, but, I keep hoping.
A few addresses I keep ->
abuse@bankofamerica.com
internetsecurity@barclays.co.uk
spoof@ebay.com
abuse@msn.com
spoof@paypal.com
identitytheft@skifi.com
1. Cool down the centre during the night when hydro is at its cheapest.
2. During the day raise the thermostat so the AC does not kick in too soon.
3. If you have windows use the blinds on the sunny side. Thermal load is a royal pain. Where I work it hit 27c inside even though it was -14c outside. The north side was running at about 21c.
4. Put all non-essential equipment on powerbars and turn off the bars. Most monitors and other electronics still draw a bit of current for 'instant on'. That takes hydro and dumps more heat for the AC to handle.
In the last seven days I had to attend 17 meetings/calls. And they wonder why I get real bitchy at the end of a long day when one call goes from 09:00 to 17:00. I am also expected to keep my projects on schedule too.