When I was in High School (4 years ago), I was at $5.25/hr. By the time I left, I was making 6.25 and was grateful as hell about it.
The fired me for cleaning the crap out of keyboards while I talked and dialed (I had the most calls/hr in the group). Yeah, I'd pull of a couple of keytops and clean underneath. I knew where all of the keys where.
Last year I was thinking about working for the company that works on their phones (they wanted me bad). I heard their network administrator and programmer left a couple of weeks after me (unrelated, I'm sure).
I forgot: When dialing the PIC you want, you dial 101 in front of it. It used to just be 10, such as 10-321 or 10-345, but now they added a digit to support more carriers (now 9999 instead of 999). The correct way to dial a number using your "carrier identifier code" is:
By the way, the terminology for this is Preferred Interexchange Carrier or PIC (pronounced "pick"). The "lock" you refer to is called a "PIC freeze". I agree, everyone should get one.
Without a PIC freeze, any carrier can submit a request to the phone company to change your PIC to them, which is convenient--unless they do it without your permission. If everyone had a PIC freeze by default those $90 checks you get wouldn't work because you'd still have to call the phone company to change the PIC.
MORE INFO: You can dial your PIC directly, look at this list (sorry, it's a zip file) for all of the codes. Many carriers have dozens of codes, they may or may not be equivalent to the carrier who recieves charges from the phone company.
When you call to change your PIC, they set your PIC to the number you give them or the carrier has told them to use.
To change your long distance carrier, you can simply tell your phone company to change the PIC (costs ~$5, which carriers sometimes pay for you if you let them change it). If you set up an account with that carrier, they can bill you directly or they will have the phone company bill you on the local phone bill, depends on the carrier and your preference. If you don't set up an account with them, you can get charged inordinate amounts (like $.50 a minute).
In March we changed our local business service (in Indianapolis) from Ameritech to Intermedia. Intermedia has done a wonderful job (I won't get into how Ameritech screwed up the cutover for 2 months). Ameritech, who was billing us for MCI long distance (who was the correct PIC), set up a new account with MCI the second we cancelled our Ameritech service (we already had a corporate account with MCI, but they didn't ask us). The result was that MCI billed us a minimum amount each month on a seperate bill which was payed by our Accounts Payable department without asking us.
Do NOT swear at the telemarketer because they will often add you to the "call back real soon" list to further annoy you!
I was a phone surveyor, and I can attest to that. But when I did it and they said "you owe me $500!!!" I could laugh at them and tell them I wasn't selling anything and therefore not breaking any law.
Politely ask to be added to their "do not call" list. This is surprisingly effective...
Absolutely. People who said "please take my number off your list" politely always got taken off by me (simple as entering that code at the terminal). People who yelled at me usually got taken off, but not when I was having a bad day.
Anonymous call rejection is a service provided by the local exchange carrier (LEC). From what I understood, AT&T was forced out of the local residential business (or banned from owning copper). I'm interested to know what area you live in--do you have competing residential local phone companies? Who?
The problem is that *69 does not work for calls that originated outside of your local phone company's region. Although the calling number may have been passed to the local switch to make the connection (and almost certainly was), for some reason *69 will not work outside of Bell's area.
You're right, I meant that, not Unicode. By the way, I write all of my pages using a text editor (emacs, notepad, or Edit Plus, my fav.), and I never leave any of the following chars in plaintext: ' " < > &
I use PHP, and if I have a form that lets the user input text, I make sure to use htmlentities() on it before displaying it. Why?
(A) It keeps weird characters from being displayed incorrectly. Hell, they could be using a Mac or an AS/400 to display the page. The browser knows better than I do that they are using ASCII, Unicode, EPCDIC, or whatever.
(B) It keeps them from embedding tags that would screw up my formatting and layout. The most important tag to keep out is <SCRIPT>.
Right now I'm working on a function that will allow only certain tags and make sure that they enter matching pairs of them./. does this correctly (I think...). Check out an ebay listing to see how they take care of it:
"</blockquote>
</blockquote></blockquote></center></center></st rong></pre></em></font></dl></ul></li></h1 ></h2></h3></h4></h5></h6>"
Actually, it's because CmdrTaco was using a browser that displayed question marks instead of the punctuation marks that are in the article. It's because MSNBC was using Unicode characters to write the article, probably Frontpage or Word.
Mozilla is 'working out'. I use it about half the time (and I test every one of my pages on _all_ browsers).
I would like to call your attention to the recent Toshiba suit in which floppy drives made years ago (and no longer made) had a defect that could only be created in a lab, and had never been seen in production. Toshiba lost.
Status bars are gone, looking at content requires, what, Java? and the "scroll-bar" is two arrays you move the mouse over to cause it to slowly scroll in that direction.
There is one very big distinction. The proceeds of a state lottery go to the state government for various things (that's what I hear), which lowers state taxes. Also there's that 'government wants monopoly on ____' reason...
IMPORTANT ACCOUNT ENHANCEMENTS SCHEDULED: SECURITY UPGRADES MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL STEP BEFORE CHANGES ARE MADE ************************************************ ** Security for our customers has always been a top priority at Network Solutions. Now we are taking that even further as we merge with VeriSign, one of the industry leaders in Internet security. We all recognize information security is vital on the Internet, and we want to assure you that we constantly monitor security and maintain systems that help protect you and your information. This message is about changes in our guardian security system.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR ME? ************************************************ ** When you first registered your domain name you may have selected a security option. You then currently have one of three Guardian authentication methods: "Mail-From," Password (Crypt-PW), and Secure Encryption (PGP).
With our upcoming upgrade, customers who have not yet selected a security option will be migrated to "Mail-From" security. Customers who currently use the "Mail-From After Update" Guardian authentication method will now have to respond to an e-mail security check before the requested changes will be implemented. Customers who currently use existing Guardian security options do not have to make any changes at all.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN I REQUEST A CHANGE? ************************************************ ** NSI is enhancing "Mail-From" with an additional e-mail security check. Specifically, NSI will e-mail a validation request to the specific administrative and technical contact listed for a domain name before making any modification to that domain name. This means, if you have "Mail-From" security, NSI will no longer implement a requested change until we receive e-mail verification confirming authorization from either contact. It's an extra step, but it's worth it to protect your account.
WHEN WILL THIS HAPPEN? ************************************************ ** We have scheduled the modification for Saturday, July 8, 2000, so you should check your account information to see if it is correct. Actually, it's a good idea to check your account periodically anyway.
To make modifications easier, we provided easy-to-follow instructions on our web site at: http://info.networksolutions.com/go/t/security/g uardian/
Additionally, we updated the contact form FAQs, which can be found at: http://info.networksolutions.com/go/t/security/c ontact1/
Please note that we continue to enhance security. Future security plans include the use of VeriSign certificates for authentication. But don't worry; we will keep you completely informed about these upcoming changes.
If you have further questions or concerns about this current security upgrade, please contact our Customer Service Department at: http://info.networksolutions.com/go/t/security/c ontact2/
Sincerely, F. Michael Kyle Vice President, Customer Service Network Solutions(R) a VeriSign(R) company
I'm responding just in case someone looks at archives:) There are other much easier ways to capture digital streams of the DVD. Pirates already have ways to copy movies stored on DVD, one of which is tapping directly into a DVD player's digital stream (there is an earlier slashdot article addressing this, I think). So I emphatically state again that DeCSS does NOT make it any EASIER to copy a DVD or to pirate DVD movies. Oh ya? Well log in and call me a liar, ya yella-belly.;)
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By yiminy, that's expensive gas. Don't forget though that gas sells at different prices in different regions/countries. Right now gas here is about $1.75/USG, which includes all taxes. If I drive twenty miles in any direction, the price changes dramatically. Other counties/states charge different amounts of tax, and here in Cincinnati we're funding the new baseball stadium.:( The less well off in the US pay a negative amount of taxes--they get money back from the IRS, even if they put nothing in. There is a sweet spot in income. Check out http://ftp.fedworld.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1040ez.pdf. The Earned Income Credit on page 19 and the tax table on the last 5 pages. The long and short of it is that the middle class pay the large majority of taxes, they can't afford the accountants to manipulate the tax laws. The rich class, of course, have accountants to do this. The poor class get money back from the government without having paid any to the goverment. Anyhow, a system of indirect taxation does not preclude people from getting tax refunds, I certainly beleive that veterans, elderly, physically disabled, etc. people should get breaks, and for temporary problems (such as not having a job) perhaps for a while, but not forever. Here in Hamilton County, Ohio, they are finally placing limits on how long a family/person can be on welfare depending on why they are on it. But I won't get started on the corruption in that system.
I don't mean that the whole message would be the next key, it would simply be a block of data in the plaintext message. Perhaps a bit of it before each paragraph... If you use the same key more than once it's not secure, so each message must have a unique key. If you use a completely random key each time you must communicate the key to the recipient in some way, and if you are going to send the key via some "secure" method each time you send a message, you might as well just send the message itself via that secure method.
But--you could embed the next key inside of the message, it'd still be OTP. However, if one of the keys is cracked by force, they can access all future messages. In fact, they could probably crack past messages, since they now have part of the plaintext of the previous message, so they can more easily crack that message.
Have you heard a big hullabaloo yet about a prominent site that uses Windows 2000 being cracked? I suspect we all would if one had.
Have you heard of a prominent site that uses Windows 2000? They would have to be insane to use an immature product for their website.
Look at http://www.netcraft.com/Survey/influe nce.html. Interesting... Microsoft, MSN, and NASDAQ (where MSFT is traded). And Dell (which really is interesing, considering they sell systems with Linux...). Anyway, I haven't heard of them being cracked, but don't forget that they have dozens of servers in a cluster. Ping www.microsoft.com a few times. You'll get a different address each time. If one of those servers was cracked, it's unlikely that a large amount of people would see it. Also, since they probably copy the files to the servers every so often, the cracked page would be overwritten.
Fsck em... let em use crap software. I'll stick to my Apache.
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In Ohio it is the
Public Utilities Commision of Ohio
That's right, the puke-oh.
When I was in High School (4 years ago), I was at $5.25/hr. By the time I left, I was making 6.25 and was grateful as hell about it.
The fired me for cleaning the crap out of keyboards while I talked and dialed (I had the most calls/hr in the group). Yeah, I'd pull of a couple of keytops and clean underneath. I knew where all of the keys where.
Last year I was thinking about working for the company that works on their phones (they wanted me bad). I heard their network administrator and programmer left a couple of weeks after me (unrelated, I'm sure).
Replying to myself, blahh...
I forgot: When dialing the PIC you want, you dial 101 in front of it. It used to just be 10, such as 10-321 or 10-345, but now they added a digit to support more carriers (now 9999 instead of 999). The correct way to dial a number using your "carrier identifier code" is:
101-CIC-NPA-NXX-XXXX
By the way, the terminology for this is Preferred Interexchange Carrier or PIC (pronounced "pick"). The "lock" you refer to is called a "PIC freeze". I agree, everyone should get one.
Without a PIC freeze, any carrier can submit a request to the phone company to change your PIC to them, which is convenient--unless they do it without your permission. If everyone had a PIC freeze by default those $90 checks you get wouldn't work because you'd still have to call the phone company to change the PIC.
MORE INFO: You can dial your PIC directly, look at this list (sorry, it's a zip file) for all of the codes. Many carriers have dozens of codes, they may or may not be equivalent to the carrier who recieves charges from the phone company.
When you call to change your PIC, they set your PIC to the number you give them or the carrier has told them to use.
To change your long distance carrier, you can simply tell your phone company to change the PIC (costs ~$5, which carriers sometimes pay for you if you let them change it). If you set up an account with that carrier, they can bill you directly or they will have the phone company bill you on the local phone bill, depends on the carrier and your preference. If you don't set up an account with them, you can get charged inordinate amounts (like $.50 a minute).
In March we changed our local business service (in Indianapolis) from Ameritech to Intermedia. Intermedia has done a wonderful job (I won't get into how Ameritech screwed up the cutover for 2 months). Ameritech, who was billing us for MCI long distance (who was the correct PIC), set up a new account with MCI the second we cancelled our Ameritech service (we already had a corporate account with MCI, but they didn't ask us). The result was that MCI billed us a minimum amount each month on a seperate bill which was payed by our Accounts Payable department without asking us.
I was a phone surveyor, and I can attest to that. But when I did it and they said "you owe me $500!!!" I could laugh at them and tell them I wasn't selling anything and therefore not breaking any law.
Politely ask to be added to their "do not call" list. This is surprisingly effective...
Absolutely. People who said "please take my number off your list" politely always got taken off by me (simple as entering that code at the terminal). People who yelled at me usually got taken off, but not when I was having a bad day.
Gawdd, I'm glad to be out of there!!!
Anonymous call rejection is a service provided by the local exchange carrier (LEC). From what I understood, AT&T was forced out of the local residential business (or banned from owning copper). I'm interested to know what area you live in--do you have competing residential local phone companies? Who?
The problem is that *69 does not work for calls that originated outside of your local phone company's region. Although the calling number may have been passed to the local switch to make the connection (and almost certainly was), for some reason *69 will not work outside of Bell's area.
-A bonified phone geek
I. A Tivo. With or without a year of service in advance.
2. A Palm VII or a Qualcomm PDQ (I want a cellphone/palm!)
c. My poor VW Jetta restored (Wolfsburg, 1986, red, custom ordered from Germany, hit by speeder while pulling out of my driveway last year).
Yes, they can patent the specific technology that makes the car fly, but they cannot patent 'cars that fly.' IANAL
You're right, I meant that, not Unicode. By the way, I write all of my pages using a text editor (emacs, notepad, or Edit Plus, my fav.), and I never leave any of the following chars in plaintext: ' " < > &
/. does this correctly (I think...). Check out an ebay listing to see how they take care of it:
t rong></pre></em></font></dl></ul></li></h1 ></h2></h3></h4></h5></h6>"
I use PHP, and if I have a form that lets the user input text, I make sure to use htmlentities() on it before displaying it. Why?
(A) It keeps weird characters from being displayed incorrectly. Hell, they could be using a Mac or an AS/400 to display the page. The browser knows better than I do that they are using ASCII, Unicode, EPCDIC, or whatever.
(B) It keeps them from embedding tags that would screw up my formatting and layout. The most important tag to keep out is <SCRIPT>.
Right now I'm working on a function that will allow only certain tags and make sure that they enter matching pairs of them.
"</blockquote>
</blockquote></blockquote></center></center></s
No shit.
Actually, it's because CmdrTaco was using a browser that displayed question marks instead of the punctuation marks that are in the article. It's because MSNBC was using Unicode characters to write the article, probably Frontpage or Word.
Mozilla is 'working out'. I use it about half the time (and I test every one of my pages on _all_ browsers).
Hell, I get those same things when I do the job myself!
This would apply if the manufacturer gave the refrigerator away for the price of shipping because they are counting on you spending more with them.
I would like to call your attention to the recent Toshiba suit in which floppy drives made years ago (and no longer made) had a defect that could only be created in a lab, and had never been seen in production. Toshiba lost.
Intel still doesn't make copper interconnect chips. What is your point? You demonstrate your lack of understanding. Go __READ__ the article!
He said MOTOR is 95% efficient, and engine is 17% on a good day. geez.
Here here.
Status bars are gone, looking at content requires, what, Java? and the "scroll-bar" is two arrays you move the mouse over to cause it to slowly scroll in that direction.
Christ, it's a fscking nightmare of a site!
Here is an example.
Check out this search on Google.
There is one very big distinction. The proceeds of a state lottery go to the state government for various things (that's what I hear), which lowers state taxes.
Also there's that 'government wants monopoly on ____' reason...
Dear Customer,
* **
* **
* **
* **
g uardian/
c ontact1/
c ontact2/
IMPORTANT ACCOUNT ENHANCEMENTS SCHEDULED: SECURITY UPGRADES
MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL STEP BEFORE CHANGES ARE MADE
***********************************************
Security for our customers has always been a top priority
at Network Solutions. Now we are taking that even further
as we merge with VeriSign, one of the industry leaders in
Internet security. We all recognize information security is
vital on the Internet, and we want to assure you that we
constantly monitor security and maintain systems that help
protect you and your information. This message is about
changes in our guardian security system.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR ME?
***********************************************
When you first registered your domain name you may have
selected a security option. You then currently have one
of three Guardian authentication methods: "Mail-From,"
Password (Crypt-PW), and Secure Encryption (PGP).
With our upcoming upgrade, customers who have not yet
selected a security option will be migrated to "Mail-From"
security. Customers who currently use the "Mail-From After
Update" Guardian authentication method will now have to
respond to an e-mail security check before the requested
changes will be implemented. Customers who currently use
existing Guardian security options do not have to make
any changes at all.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN I REQUEST A CHANGE?
***********************************************
NSI is enhancing "Mail-From" with an additional e-mail
security check. Specifically, NSI will e-mail a validation
request to the specific administrative and technical
contact listed for a domain name before making any
modification to that domain name. This means, if you have
"Mail-From" security, NSI will no longer implement a
requested change until we receive e-mail verification
confirming authorization from either contact. It's an extra
step, but it's worth it to protect your account.
WHEN WILL THIS HAPPEN?
***********************************************
We have scheduled the modification for Saturday, July 8,
2000, so you should check your account information to see
if it is correct. Actually, it's a good idea to check your
account periodically anyway.
To make modifications easier, we provided easy-to-follow
instructions on our web site at:
http://info.networksolutions.com/go/t/security/
Additionally, we updated the contact form FAQs, which can
be found at:
http://info.networksolutions.com/go/t/security/
Please note that we continue to enhance security. Future
security plans include the use of VeriSign certificates
for authentication. But don't worry; we will keep you
completely informed about these upcoming changes.
If you have further questions or concerns about this
current security upgrade, please contact our Customer
Service Department at:
http://info.networksolutions.com/go/t/security/
Sincerely,
F. Michael Kyle
Vice President, Customer Service
Network Solutions(R)
a VeriSign(R) company
I'm responding just in case someone looks at archives :) ;)
There are other much easier ways to capture digital streams of the DVD. Pirates already have ways to copy movies stored on DVD, one of which is tapping directly into a DVD player's digital stream (there is an earlier slashdot article addressing this, I think).
So I emphatically state again that DeCSS does NOT make it any EASIER to copy a DVD or to pirate DVD movies.
Oh ya? Well log in and call me a liar, ya yella-belly.
By yiminy, that's expensive gas. Don't forget though that gas sells at different prices in different regions/countries. Right now gas here is about $1.75/USG, which includes all taxes. If I drive twenty miles in any direction, the price changes dramatically. Other counties/states charge different amounts of tax, and here in Cincinnati we're funding the new baseball stadium. :( /i1040ez.pdf. The Earned Income Credit on page 19 and the tax table on the last 5 pages. The long and short of it is that the middle class pay the large majority of taxes, they can't afford the accountants to manipulate the tax laws. The rich class, of course, have accountants to do this. The poor class get money back from the government without having paid any to the goverment.
The less well off in the US pay a negative amount of taxes--they get money back from the IRS, even if they put nothing in. There is a sweet spot in income. Check out http://ftp.fedworld.gov/pub/irs-pdf
Anyhow, a system of indirect taxation does not preclude people from getting tax refunds, I certainly beleive that veterans, elderly, physically disabled, etc. people should get breaks, and for temporary problems (such as not having a job) perhaps for a while, but not forever. Here in Hamilton County, Ohio, they are finally placing limits on how long a family/person can be on welfare depending on why they are on it. But I won't get started on the corruption in that system.
I don't mean that the whole message would be the next key, it would simply be a block of data in the plaintext message. Perhaps a bit of it before each paragraph... If you use the same key more than once it's not secure, so each message must have a unique key. If you use a completely random key each time you must communicate the key to the recipient in some way, and if you are going to send the key via some "secure" method each time you send a message, you might as well just send the message itself via that secure method.
But--you could embed the next key inside of the message, it'd still be OTP.
However, if one of the keys is cracked by force, they can access all future messages. In fact, they could probably crack past messages, since they now have part of the plaintext of the previous message, so they can more easily crack that message.
Have you heard a big hullabaloo yet about a prominent site that uses Windows 2000 being cracked? I suspect we all would if one had.
Have you heard of a prominent site that uses Windows 2000? They would have to be insane to use an immature product for their website.
Look at http://www.netcraft.com/Survey/influe nce.html. Interesting... Microsoft, MSN, and NASDAQ (where MSFT is traded). And Dell (which really is interesing, considering they sell systems with Linux...).
Anyway, I haven't heard of them being cracked, but don't forget that they have dozens of servers in a cluster. Ping www.microsoft.com a few times. You'll get a different address each time. If one of those servers was cracked, it's unlikely that a large amount of people would see it. Also, since they probably copy the files to the servers every so often, the cracked page would be overwritten.
Fsck em... let em use crap software. I'll stick to my Apache.