Add "t.co" to your Windows Hosts file - this will stop the jibberish text. Although the web interface is still broke. (The interface goes grey, and any click still tries to go to the t.co web page)
> so I politely suggest a different number, or insist on only giving 3-4 digits of it.
I tried this once with Verizon. I was signing up for a new account, in person, at the Verizon store. They wanted my SSN, and I told them I wouldn't take the account if I had to give that out.
They said no problem. The salesman called their credit dept, and handed the phone to me. They asked my name & address, and asked for the last 4 digits of my SSN.
They were searching some database - they found me by last name & address, and they only wanted the last 4 digits to verify that they found me. And I am sure they put my SSN into my account while I was on the phone.
I don't think it helps to keep SSN's from these businesses . . . they can grab them without needing to get them from you.
You can get Earthlink cable internet in Rochester. The pricing isn't as attractive as RoadRunner is now - but maybe it will be after the caps?
http://www.earthlink.net/access/cable.faces
There is one bit of satisfaction with this though - TimeWarner has to allow the Earthlink traffic over their cables . . .
> Has anyone had a chance to play with one of these?
I saw a live demo of the Audio Spotlight (http://www.holosonics.com/) here at work. It works on a similar priciple . . . The technology is amazing.. . . .
"Users of the new EasyShare-One, priced at $599, can send photos directly through a Wi-Fi transmitter at home or work, *or* pay $4.99 per month to connect the camera with any of T-Mobile USA's 6,000 hot spots"
The camera connects using 802.11b . . . Kodak says: "The Kodak EasyShare-One zoom digital camera works on the popular 802.11b wireless standard. It is compatible with any wireless network that supports this standard." http://tinyurl.com/cvoet
If you have your own 802.11 router (at home, or at work, or any other router you have access to) then you can connect for free. If you are out in public and the only hot spot available is a T-Mobile hot spot, well then yeah.. . you'd have to pay.
Line art on a banknote or other security document is slightly changed to effect the encoding of plural-bit digital data (i.e. the banknote is digitally watermarked). When such a banknote is thereafter scanned, the resulting image data can be recognized as corresponding to a banknote by detection of the encoded data. (Alternatively, the image data can be recognized as corresponding to a banknote by machine detection of other forms of watermarking, or by reference to visible structures characteristic of banknotes.) In response to detection of a banknote, the detecting apparatus (e.g., a scanner, photocopier, or printer) can intervene by inserting forensic tracer data (e.g. steganographically encoded binary data) in the image data. The tracer data can memorialize the serial number of the machine that processed the banknote data and/or the date and time such processing occurred. To address privacy concerns, such tracer data is not normally inserted, but is so inserted only when the image data being processed is recognized as corresponding to a banknote. Any printed output from such image data will include the tracer data, permitting identification of equipment used in its reproduction.
This was a better "deal" than the CueDog.. . .
There was an internet startup that was giving away free IBM keyboards, that had a row of orange and green buttons across the top:
http://journal.ocliw.com/2000/0519/keyboard.jpg
If you loaded their software, the extra buttons took you to their sponsors shopping sites.. . .
I never used their driver . . . So, all I got out of the deal was a free keyboard for the PC bench in the basement:-) Actually, it wasn't a bad keyboard.. . .
As a metal, the liquid is both highly thermally conductive and highly electrically conductive. The thermal conductivity makes it ideal for heat removal and dissipation. The electrical conductivity enables the use of electromagnetic pumps to propel the liquid.
One unique benefit of liquid metal is the ability to pump this coolant efficiently with a silent, non-moving parts pump. The electromagnetic pump is located in-line with one of the fluid channels. It consists of magnets, a yoke and two electrodes, again ensuring the simplicity of the solution.
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"Of course my password is the same as my pet's name.
My dog's name was Q47pY!3$H9x, but I change it every 90 days."
Yeah - just saw one with "a.no" .....
Add "t.co" to your Windows Hosts file - this will stop the jibberish text.
Although the web interface is still broke. (The interface goes grey, and
any click still tries to go to the t.co web page)
Add this to your Hosts file:
0.0.0.0 t.co
> so I politely suggest a different number, or insist on only giving 3-4 digits of it.
I tried this once with Verizon. I was signing up for a new account, in person, at the Verizon store. They wanted my SSN, and I told them I wouldn't take the account if I had to give that out.
They said no problem. The salesman called their credit dept, and handed the phone to me. They asked my name & address, and asked for the last 4 digits of my SSN.
They were searching some database - they found me by last name & address, and they only wanted the last 4 digits to verify that they found me. And I am sure they put my SSN into my account while I was on the phone.
I don't think it helps to keep SSN's from these businesses . . . they can grab them without needing to get them from you.
You can get Earthlink cable internet in Rochester. The pricing isn't as attractive as RoadRunner is now - but maybe it will be after the caps? http://www.earthlink.net/access/cable.faces There is one bit of satisfaction with this though - TimeWarner has to allow the Earthlink traffic over their cables . . .
Congratulations, you did it! Thanks for participating, and happy holidays.
2001 numbers, but still impressive:
20,000,000 = Estimated population of people using a Hewlett-Packard
brand printer.
$599,800,000 = Estimated revenue Hewlett-Packard would earn if each
one of those people would buy a single black ink cartridge.
http://www.ars1.com/SpotlightSingle.asp?SpotID=39
Another tidbit of information .....
I believe this is the patent application for the rootkit DRM:
http://tinyurl.com/9vt5v
Have a look at the "Supervisory Program" in section [0047]
Just because they have a patent doesn't mean they are going to use it. Nobody at Sony would be stupid enough to implement this on the PS3.
.. .
.. I mean .. .
They didn't hesitate with the DRM crud they foisted . .
Here is the First4Internet patent application for Sonys DRM:
http://tinyurl.com/ce4qh
Section [0047] talks about their rootkit^h^h^h^h^h^h^h .
"supervisory program" .
> Has anyone had a chance to play with one of these?
I saw a live demo of the Audio Spotlight (http://www.holosonics.com/)
here at work. It works on a similar priciple . . . The technology is
amazing
From TFA, the author says:
.. . you'd have to pay.
"Users of the new EasyShare-One, priced at $599, can send photos directly through a Wi-Fi transmitter at home or work, *or* pay $4.99 per month to connect the camera with any of T-Mobile USA's 6,000 hot spots"
The camera connects using 802.11b . . . Kodak says: "The Kodak EasyShare-One zoom digital camera works on the popular 802.11b wireless standard. It is compatible with any wireless network that supports this standard." http://tinyurl.com/cvoet
If you have your own 802.11 router (at home, or at work, or any other router you have access to) then you can connect for free. If you are out in public and the only hot spot available is a T-Mobile hot spot, well then yeah
It's just plain old 802.11b . . . .
Digimarc patent # 6,771,796
From TFP:
Line art on a banknote or other security document is slightly changed to effect the encoding of plural-bit digital data (i.e. the banknote is digitally watermarked). When such a banknote is thereafter scanned, the resulting image data can be recognized as corresponding to a banknote by detection of the encoded data. (Alternatively, the image data can be recognized as corresponding to a banknote by machine detection of other forms of watermarking, or by reference to visible structures characteristic of banknotes.) In response to detection of a banknote, the detecting apparatus (e.g., a scanner, photocopier, or printer) can intervene by inserting forensic tracer data (e.g. steganographically encoded binary data) in the image data. The tracer data can memorialize the serial number of the machine that processed the banknote data and/or the date and time such processing occurred. To address privacy concerns, such tracer data is not normally inserted, but is so inserted only when the image data being processed is recognized as corresponding to a banknote. Any printed output from such image data will include the tracer data, permitting identification of equipment used in its reproduction.
This was a better "deal" than the CueDog .. . .
There was an internet startup that was giving away free IBM keyboards, that had a row of orange and green buttons across the top:
http://journal.ocliw.com/2000/0519/keyboard.jpg
If you loaded their software, the extra buttons took you to their sponsors shopping sites .. . .
I never used their driver . . . So, all I got out of the deal was a free keyboard for the PC bench in the basement :-) Actually, it wasn't a bad keyboard .. . .
You can read about it here:
http://www.nanocoolers.com/technology_liquid.php
As a metal, the liquid is both highly thermally conductive and highly electrically conductive. The thermal conductivity makes it ideal for heat removal and dissipation. The electrical conductivity enables the use of electromagnetic pumps to propel the liquid.
One unique benefit of liquid metal is the ability to pump this coolant efficiently with a silent, non-moving parts pump. The electromagnetic pump is located in-line with one of the fluid channels. It consists of magnets, a yoke and two electrodes, again ensuring the simplicity of the solution.