including the last one which is on its second return waiting for a refund
good riddance to the garbage peddlers
Agree entirely. I gave up in 2001 after receiving one after the other of non-working Thinkpads. All garbage. I took a beating on the time and shipping. I should have just started out by buying a new one made out of gold.
I can almost hear the whining now from the flimsy street advertising "businesses": "Traditional advertising is TOO expensive. My little business can't afford it!"
Well then I say your business model is fuc**d and you need to go away.
That's exactly what I was wondering. I don't know about the local statutes in all the areas where these folks operate, but at least in a few of them it must be illegal. In some, advertising may not be legal, in others it may be a littering offense - but it can't be something that is just allowed everywhere.
It is probably just a low level annoyance for each property owner (what, they get a sign like this a couple of times a year each), and without knowing who to complain about it would be difficult to ever get a fine to anyone. Come to think of it, that blog isn't going to help most people find out who put that sign in their park, yard, school, etc. So there will probably be no practical effect from the disclosure of the parties responsible.
Yes, it's usually illegal, and often akin to littering. In my city, I went after the "Mattress Firm" across the street for putting 50 of them at a time by the public roadside advertising a sale. It took calling the city directory and finally narrowing it down to about 6 people who handle this. Repeated calls finally got the city to send a guy out, who took the signs the first time and went into the store to give a no-fine warning. The enforcement guy told me that first offense is usually free, 2nd one is $50 per sign, 3rd is $100 per sign. The store did, in fact, repeatedly replace the signs, so I kept after the city. I think they finally got their big fine because the behavior has stopped.
That was an easy one, more or less, because the violator was obvious. Most "street spam" signs would be much harder to track and I'd tend to just let it go due to not having the time to pursue it.
Apparently some people make a living just placing these signs for pay, as I have seen pickup trucks several times full of signs in the back. Not only are they littering for money, they are driving the trucks on grassy public areas, spinning out jumping the curbs, etc.
http://www.causs.org/ has info about the legalities of all this. The Citizens Against Ugly Street Spam.
Indeed Jamendo is good. There is a lot of crap there, but the good stuff is really good. I've half filled a hard drive with it already and have sent out lots of donations, of which the artist gets almost all of it.
One problem that is creeping up there, many artists will only post one really short song with a link to their webpage. If they'll post a collection, and I like it, I'll pay about what a CD would have cost, but for one song, I don't stay long.
I like their torrents and keep my collected ogg files flowing almost all the time.
I second the motion on http://www.gandi.net/ . They handle my domains, DNS, and e-mail. https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ handles the few light webpages I want to serve. I set it all once and was able to forget about it because it's so trouble free,
Enigma was broken by a Polish cryptographer named Marian Rejewski. The Poles knew they were going to be overrun by the Germans and disclosed their work to the French and British.
Bletchley Park is where they automated the process of intercepting, decrypting, translating, and analyzing Axis communications. I can't think of any large-scale SIGINT operation that preceded Bletchley, and it was certainly vital to the war effort, but credit where it's due, etc.
I'm a Cuban. This happened more than a month ago. And we are very happy that someone finally came to his senses about it. What's new, though, is that [startin soon], they are going to be sold without operating systems... No more windows pre-installed. Or so I've heard. Now we only need tons of Ubuntu disks to give away at the sotre.
I was over there in 2005, and visited a few folks who already had computers at home, but good to hear it's now legal. In a couple of net cafes I visited in Havana, all the computers had the KDE desktop, but I didn't get a chance to see what was running under it.
Many Cubans access e-mail and net at the post office, Correos de Cuba, and the lines were usually long.
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This means that you can't post anything that the US corporate-conglomerate/government has deemed inappropriate. This includes source code for software to watch DVDs on linux, or even advertisements for Cuban holidays for fucks sake! Cuba and DeCSS? Well maybe, but I think if you could dig up some really critical dirt on General Electric or Monsanto, for example, then you'd really be cookin'.
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I remember the throbbing blue N.
I loved all the Netscape throbbers. On dialup you had to watch a helluva lot of those comets fly by that "N". You could change the throbber easily. I usually went with the "running puppy" one.
From the article: Hollinger said customs officers "are trained to protect confidential information."
Pay is probably minimal, and oh that good training! At my company, "trained" means you've seen a 10 minute video on the subject. You don't even have to watch it, you can read a magazine while it's playing. As long as you were "present" in the room while it was running, you're trained.
I'd surely use a free, disposable email account. I agree, and I'd probably use tor to connect to it.
This type of e-mail behavior is so common. I give my e-mail address to a trusted friend assuming I'll get e-mail from one person to ONE person, but no, let the mass openly addressed forwarding begin. Even worse, the recipients do a "reply all" and start having a conversation in my inbox. When I write to the trusted friend and gently try to explain the pitfalls of mass address sharing or how to use BCC, they invariably respond with a "huh?", or get all offended and never speak again.
You've been looking at pics of RMS again, haven't you?
I renounce my previous post and am now going to gouge my eyes out in an attempt to stop the burning.
If they cannot find a way to monitize the living daylights out of that, then they need to hire some better mathematicians I should already be monitized (of value). I've bought so many CD's because of unusual things I've heard on net radio. Isn't that what was wanted?
No idea, but in pyramid schemes - pardon, multilevel marketing - the majority always lose money somehow. It is the nature of the beast. So true. I also feel that like Clearwire broadband or those Postal Jobs,there will be those cardboard street-spam signs tacked up to phone poles everywhere for it. CHEAP SOLAR! 1-800-CALL-SUNY
Whose problem is that - your's or your employers? It's not your employer's fault if you're too much of a dim bulb to improve your circumstances.
This reminds me of an Aug. 3rd comment by nationally syndicated radio show host Neal Boortz. It just seems too nasty.
Boortz:
"I want you to think for a moment of how incompetent and stupid and worthless, how -- that's right, I used those words -- how incompetent, how ignorant, how worthless is an adult that can't earn more than the minimum wage? You have to really, really, really be a pretty pathetic human being to not be able to earn more than the human wage. Uh -- human, the minimum wage."
On my computer's web browser I surf with plugins disabled. On my cell phone I disable loading of images. That gets me right to the things I want to read and keeps the data flow low. Also Opera software has some great phone browsers that reduce image sizes and format pages to work on your phone better, http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/.
So in addition to charging advertisers for ad space, Verizon will also be charging users for the additional data download. Not just text, but images, and potentially video in the future.
Try to sign up for Bellsouth DSL using Opera and you get taken to upgradebrowser.html (used to be badbrowser.html, guess they got nicer). There you get more or less told to take your business elsewhere as you cannot go any further:
BellSouth.com offers online features that only work with newer browsers...If you choose not to upgrade your browser, we regret that our website will not function properly for you at this time. I got cable access. Thank ya Bell!
Sprint's ET fee is $200 per phone currently, still not good, but it's no $400 per phone. Each phone on a family plan has its own contract (*agreement*, in warm fuzzy language). You can let one go and still keep the other, but it's $200 a whack unless you're out of contract.
I enjoy awake observant people like this, and they guy who called Verizon. I would have just unthinkingly gone along and said "oh yeah, it's 50 cents for the buffet" or "yeah, it's $0.002 for data roam." Now that I've been awakened, they better watch out!
Country Buffet eateries have signs that say kids eat for.50 cents. Has anyone tried to to have a kid eat for half a cent. The whole Country Buffet staff may have no grasp of the difference.
Our society discriminates based on age at the younger end in all sorts of aspects.
So that makes it all ok!
Maybe she should just sign up with another company that's happy to have her business, rather than waste time being an attention whore over a minor issue.
She did the right thing, IMO. This was such a pissing-off action by the ISP that quietly running off to another company would not have made Carphone Warehouse suffer some like they needed to.
This story, and other stories mentioning recyled waste being shipped abroad, has been in all the major UK newspapers this week. The parent poster is telling no lies.
These links talk about that. They mostly talk about waste coming from the US, but I imagine what's piling up in the 3rd world is coming from everywhere.
Also about Yahoo...I noticed when they made their personals a pay service years ago, the number of new ads really ballooned. I would expect the opposite to happen. Most of the new ads were too slick to be believed, even after several beers. Some of the pics involved I'd seen online before. It was an obvious attempt to seed the pot while the real ads faded away.
I no longer do business with Dell due to the massive financial incentives they got from the state of North Carolina and Forsyth county to locate a factory there. When my friends here in NC oooh and ahhh over Dell PC's, I tell them they should get one for free....they've already paid for it once already. Forsyth county *might* break even over the 20 years Dell has promised to stay....might.
I agree about the service level. After having a lot of my online shopping ruined by sorry as mud merchants, I'm beginning to think that Amazon and QVC are the only ones who regularly get things right. A lot of the others are just nipping at the heels.
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including the last one which is on its second return waiting for a refund
good riddance to the garbage peddlers
Agree entirely. I gave up in 2001 after receiving one after the other of non-working Thinkpads. All garbage. I took a beating on the time and shipping. I should have just started out by buying a new one made out of gold.
Real business (usually) advertise in legit ways
I can almost hear the whining now from the flimsy street advertising "businesses": "Traditional advertising is TOO expensive. My little business can't afford it!"
Well then I say your business model is fuc**d and you need to go away.
That's exactly what I was wondering. I don't know about the local statutes in all the areas where these folks operate, but at least in a few of them it must be illegal. In some, advertising may not be legal, in others it may be a littering offense - but it can't be something that is just allowed everywhere.
It is probably just a low level annoyance for each property owner (what, they get a sign like this a couple of times a year each), and without knowing who to complain about it would be difficult to ever get a fine to anyone. Come to think of it, that blog isn't going to help most people find out who put that sign in their park, yard, school, etc. So there will probably be no practical effect from the disclosure of the parties responsible.
Yes, it's usually illegal, and often akin to littering. In my city, I went after the "Mattress Firm" across the street for putting 50 of them at a time by the public roadside advertising a sale. It took calling the city directory and finally narrowing it down to about 6 people who handle this. Repeated calls finally got the city to send a guy out, who took the signs the first time and went into the store to give a no-fine warning. The enforcement guy told me that first offense is usually free, 2nd one is $50 per sign, 3rd is $100 per sign. The store did, in fact, repeatedly replace the signs, so I kept after the city. I think they finally got their big fine because the behavior has stopped.
That was an easy one, more or less, because the violator was obvious. Most "street spam" signs would be much harder to track and I'd tend to just let it go due to not having the time to pursue it.
Apparently some people make a living just placing these signs for pay, as I have seen pickup trucks several times full of signs in the back. Not only are they littering for money, they are driving the trucks on grassy public areas, spinning out jumping the curbs, etc.
http://www.causs.org/ has info about the legalities of all this. The Citizens Against Ugly Street Spam.
Indeed Jamendo is good. There is a lot of crap there, but the good stuff is really good. I've half filled a hard drive with it already and have sent out lots of donations, of which the artist gets almost all of it.
One problem that is creeping up there, many artists will only post one really short song with a link to their webpage. If they'll post a collection, and I like it, I'll pay about what a CD would have cost, but for one song, I don't stay long.
I like their torrents and keep my collected ogg files flowing almost all the time.
I second the motion on http://www.gandi.net/ . They handle my domains, DNS, and e-mail. https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ handles the few light webpages I want to serve. I set it all once and was able to forget about it because it's so trouble free,
Bletchley Park is where they automated the process of intercepting, decrypting, translating, and analyzing Axis communications. I can't think of any large-scale SIGINT operation that preceded Bletchley, and it was certainly vital to the war effort, but credit where it's due, etc.
Buried deep within the article, there's some credit there:
http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/articles/imagegallery/0,1000002003,39415278-20,00.htm
I was glad to see you mention Marian Rejewski or I wouldn't have known to scan the article for it.
What's new, though, is that [startin soon], they are going to be sold without operating systems... No more windows pre-installed. Or so I've heard. Now we only need tons of Ubuntu disks to give away at the sotre.
I was over there in 2005, and visited a few folks who already had computers at home, but good to hear it's now legal. In a couple of net cafes I visited in Havana, all the computers had the KDE desktop, but I didn't get a chance to see what was running under it.
Many Cubans access e-mail and net at the post office, Correos de Cuba, and the lines were usually long.
These were just some observations while there.
I loved all the Netscape throbbers. On dialup you had to watch a helluva lot of those comets fly by that "N". You could change the throbber easily. I usually went with the "running puppy" one.
Man, that was serious web browsing, lol.
From the article: Hollinger said customs officers "are trained to protect confidential information."
Pay is probably minimal, and oh that good training! At my company, "trained" means you've seen a 10 minute video on the subject. You don't even have to watch it, you can read a magazine while it's playing. As long as you were "present" in the room while it was running, you're trained.
This type of e-mail behavior is so common. I give my e-mail address to a trusted friend assuming I'll get e-mail from one person to ONE person, but no, let the mass openly addressed forwarding begin. Even worse, the recipients do a "reply all" and start having a conversation in my inbox. When I write to the trusted friend and gently try to explain the pitfalls of mass address sharing or how to use BCC, they invariably respond with a "huh?", or get all offended and never speak again.
This reminds me of an Aug. 3rd comment by nationally syndicated radio show host Neal Boortz. It just seems too nasty.
Boortz:
"I want you to think for a moment of how incompetent and stupid and worthless, how -- that's right, I used those words -- how incompetent, how ignorant, how worthless is an adult that can't earn more than the minimum wage? You have to really, really, really be a pretty pathetic human being to not be able to earn more than the human wage. Uh -- human, the minimum wage."
Sprint's ET fee is $200 per phone currently, still not good, but it's no $400 per phone. Each phone on a family plan has its own contract (*agreement*, in warm fuzzy language). You can let one go and still keep the other, but it's $200 a whack unless you're out of contract.
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You may terminate any line of service before its Term ends by calling *2, however you will be responsible for an EARLY TERMINATION FEE of up to $200
Country Buffet eateries have signs that say kids eat for
Our society discriminates based on age at the younger end in all sorts of aspects.
So that makes it all ok!
Maybe she should just sign up with another company that's happy to have her business, rather than waste time being an attention whore over a minor issue.
She did the right thing, IMO. This was such a pissing-off action by the ISP that quietly running off to another company would not have made Carphone Warehouse suffer some like they needed to.
I tried to find you an online source but failed.
/ 06/mm0692_10.html Plastics: Trashing the Third Worldu ter-waste.htm Much toxic computer waste lands in Third World
This story, and other stories mentioning recyled waste being shipped abroad, has been in all the major UK newspapers this week. The parent poster is telling no lies.
These links talk about that. They mostly talk about waste coming from the US, but I imagine what's piling up in the 3rd world is coming from everywhere.
http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1992
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2002/02/25/comp
What are they making? In Opera I type "g my_search_terms", and I get an instant Google search on "my_search_terms." I like it.
Also about Yahoo...I noticed when they made their personals a pay service years ago, the number of new ads really ballooned. I would expect the opposite to happen. Most of the new ads were too slick to be believed, even after several beers. Some of the pics involved I'd seen online before. It was an obvious attempt to seed the pot while the real ads faded away.
I no longer do business with Dell due to the massive financial incentives they got from the state of North Carolina and Forsyth county to locate a factory there. When my friends here in NC oooh and ahhh over Dell PC's, I tell them they should get one for free....they've already paid for it once already. Forsyth county *might* break even over the 20 years Dell has promised to stay....might.
I agree about the service level. After having a lot of my online shopping ruined by sorry as mud merchants, I'm beginning to think that Amazon and QVC are the only ones who regularly get things right. A lot of the others are just nipping at the heels.