If this is going to continue, please consider the possibility of trimming down the long stuff to just the funny parts. Or in other words, if you can't say something funny or insightful, just don't say anything at all.
Is it just me, or are we looking at last week's Slashdot today: iPhone 2.01, iPhone is having reception problems, and Psystar still shipping knockoffs?
Every one of these stories was on the front page last week.
IANAL, but if TW is forcing you to get a cable box for premium channels, they are violating the FCC rules dealing with the whole CableCard thing. If TW insists you rent the box and you could just get by with a CableCard, file an FCC complaint. If you mean premium services like an onscreen interactive programing guide, that function is part of the box and not subject to the FCC rules.
Unfortunately, most people aren't smart enough to upgrade their firmware -- Hell, we even have to occasionally send a tech out to explain the difference between component and composite cables.
TIVO is subsidizing the hardware with the subscription fees. Its interesting to me that lifetime service costs $399. The plus side about renting a $400 box is when it goes bad, we swap you out a new one no questions asked.
P.S. I just checked, and the two SA boxes we use cost either $325 or $450 depending on if you want DVR function. We're renting them for $9 or $15 respectively, and that includes the remote.
My guess is you've been talking to an ignorant CSR and can get service with just a CableCard rental.
But you also can't get a party line anymore. The system was closed and the phone company was fully responsible for all devices connected to the network.
Cable is the same thing phones were 80-100 years ago: one line feeding all receivers. Now, the phone company has two copper wires going to every home. If you don't pay your bill, they cut off your two wires, and it doesn't affect anyone else.
Using the same logic as this lawsuit, my power company is milking me by not letting me use a third party meter.
You pay the same fee for your telephone service even if it isn't listed as a line item there. If you have a problem with the franchise fee, I'd talk to your local government, rather then gripe about TW actually keeping you informed about what the true costs of cable are.
Full disclosure: I work for a small cable operator.
Ok, what if he wins. TW still has to pay for the costs of those boxes. The ones we use cost up to $400 from SA if they have a DVR. Instead of spreading the cost fairly among all subscribers, everyone's price goes up.
The guy can try to sue for openness, but that's exactly what the FCC has tried to push with the CableCard system. It hasn't worked. The free market isn't there because it's not a sustainable business model.
In the year we've been on digital, we've had one person ask about using a CableCard because his TV was supposed to support it. He finally found out that his TV was built on a draft version, and wouldn't work without a hardware upgrade.
Anyone here ever performed an upgrade on their TV?
If TW was violating the FCC rules, I could see this guy having a case, but he can't even find hardware that will support the CableCard lock/key system operators employee to secure their system.
I worked as a graphic designer at the corporate office for a now defunct Multi-level Marketing company. The family-owned company had become very arrogant. Shortly after I left, they were raided by federal marshals and the FDA who confiscated about half their product line.
They tried to have the best of both worlds when accounting for my time and pay. If I took off early for a doctor's appointment, I had to write up a time card deducting those hours, but if a project required additional hours, it was just part of the job.
I began documenting all the time I spent on work beyond 8 hours after the marketing V.P. complained to my supervisor that I was leaving after an 8-hour day. Shortly after that, the company laid off half the work-force. Two other designers quitting just weeks before was the only reason I survived the layoff.
With the expectation of increased hours growing, I talked with HR. I was told that the labor laws said not completing required work constituted insubordination.
A week after I quit, I mailed them a bill for just under $3,000 in unpaid overtime. I included a short primer on labor laws culled from web research that detailed why I was incorrectly classified as exempt, and that their payroll practices forfeited any claim to my position being exempt.
I knew the company wasn't going to be around much longer, so I felt pretty safe leaving the burned bridge. I didn't want a future prospective employer talking to these clowns. 18 months later, I attended their bankruptcy auction and bought the filing cabinet that contained a few grand in graphic design software.
P.S. They paid the entire amount I billed them. I later heard this wasn't the first time they had been hit by a labor issue claim, and they had been advised that it might get bumped up to class action if someone was allowed to pursue litigation. Personally, I was bluffing. I was gonna let it drop with the letter, but the check was just icing on the cake.
That's hardly a qualifier. It's not like your best man is holding the rope to keep you from falling into molten lava. My brother was my best man, but that doesn't mean I'll trust him with my money or lively hood.
Explain to me why Craigslist would want or bother to pay for the legal defense of someone selling something they have no right to sell?
Perhaps if this had been an actual privacy issue, Craigs might feel inclined to step up.
Consider that the Academy has an established precedent of defending its legal rights. Ever wonder why you can rarely buy an Oscar on eBay?
Also, where does Craigs make any promise of privacy to it's users? The randomized emails they offer posters are just one step above the security provide by lock on your front door. If someone wants to get in there, they're not going through the lock, they're going through the decorative glass window.
They talk about using DNA as a data storage device, but I'm worried someone's kinky porn collection might just have the exact data sequence to mutate harmless bacteria into some nasty STD.
Full disclosure here first. I'm a Mormon, and I've served as a Varsity Scout Coach.
I sympathize with individuals who feel same sex attraction. But I also feel God has plainly stated that sexual relations should be confined within the bonds of marriage between one man and one woman. That's not bigotry. It's expressing my moral standard. Your standards may differ. Ain't variety the spice of life.
Open gays are excluded in scouting because inherently it becomes sexuality issue. A leader who discusses sex issues at a scouting meeting or function should be removed. Scouting is not the forum for "discovering" one's sexual identity. If I were to say in a scout meeting, "I really enjoyed banging my wife last night," I'd be thrown out.
Quoting from the BSA adult application:
The applicant must possess the moral, educational, and emotional qualities that the Boy Scouts of America deems necessary to afford positive leadership to youth. The applicant must also be the correct age, and subscribe to the Declaration of Religious Principle, and abide by the Scout Oath or Promise, and the Scout Law.
As far as the religion issue:
The Boy Scouts of America maintains that no member can grow into the best kind of citizen without recognizing an obligation to God and, therefore, recognizes the religious element in the training of the member, but is absolutely nonsectarian in its attitude toward that religious training.
When you're a scout leader, you commit to put personal agendas aside and teach, coach and inspire young men to become better citizens.
Starcraft is the worst argument you could have made for showing good balance. Top ladder games consistently demonstrated that Zerg were superior to humans or protoss.
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If this is going to continue, please consider the possibility of trimming down the long stuff to just the funny parts. Or in other words, if you can't say something funny or insightful, just don't say anything at all.
just ignore my above comment, I realized I wasn't on the front page, just looking at the apple page, and making myself look like an idiot.
Is it just me, or are we looking at last week's Slashdot today: iPhone 2.01, iPhone is having reception problems, and Psystar still shipping knockoffs?
Every one of these stories was on the front page last week.
IANAL, but if TW is forcing you to get a cable box for premium channels, they are violating the FCC rules dealing with the whole CableCard thing. If TW insists you rent the box and you could just get by with a CableCard, file an FCC complaint. If you mean premium services like an onscreen interactive programing guide, that function is part of the box and not subject to the FCC rules.
Unfortunately, most people aren't smart enough to upgrade their firmware -- Hell, we even have to occasionally send a tech out to explain the difference between component and composite cables.
TIVO is subsidizing the hardware with the subscription fees. Its interesting to me that lifetime service costs $399. The plus side about renting a $400 box is when it goes bad, we swap you out a new one no questions asked.
P.S. I just checked, and the two SA boxes we use cost either $325 or $450 depending on if you want DVR function. We're renting them for $9 or $15 respectively, and that includes the remote.
My guess is you've been talking to an ignorant CSR and can get service with just a CableCard rental.
But you also can't get a party line anymore. The system was closed and the phone company was fully responsible for all devices connected to the network.
Cable is the same thing phones were 80-100 years ago: one line feeding all receivers. Now, the phone company has two copper wires going to every home. If you don't pay your bill, they cut off your two wires, and it doesn't affect anyone else.
Using the same logic as this lawsuit, my power company is milking me by not letting me use a third party meter.
You pay the same fee for your telephone service even if it isn't listed as a line item there. If you have a problem with the franchise fee, I'd talk to your local government, rather then gripe about TW actually keeping you informed about what the true costs of cable are.
Full disclosure: I work for a small cable operator.
Ok, what if he wins. TW still has to pay for the costs of those boxes. The ones we use cost up to $400 from SA if they have a DVR. Instead of spreading the cost fairly among all subscribers, everyone's price goes up.
The guy can try to sue for openness, but that's exactly what the FCC has tried to push with the CableCard system. It hasn't worked. The free market isn't there because it's not a sustainable business model.
In the year we've been on digital, we've had one person ask about using a CableCard because his TV was supposed to support it. He finally found out that his TV was built on a draft version, and wouldn't work without a hardware upgrade.
Anyone here ever performed an upgrade on their TV?
If TW was violating the FCC rules, I could see this guy having a case, but he can't even find hardware that will support the CableCard lock/key system operators employee to secure their system.
Since idle.slashdot.org is failing to deliver on the promise to waste my life away, I present http://rinkworks.com/stupid/
I worked as a graphic designer at the corporate office for a now defunct Multi-level Marketing company. The family-owned company had become very arrogant. Shortly after I left, they were raided by federal marshals and the FDA who confiscated about half their product line.
They tried to have the best of both worlds when accounting for my time and pay. If I took off early for a doctor's appointment, I had to write up a time card deducting those hours, but if a project required additional hours, it was just part of the job.
I began documenting all the time I spent on work beyond 8 hours after the marketing V.P. complained to my supervisor that I was leaving after an 8-hour day. Shortly after that, the company laid off half the work-force. Two other designers quitting just weeks before was the only reason I survived the layoff.
With the expectation of increased hours growing, I talked with HR. I was told that the labor laws said not completing required work constituted insubordination.
A week after I quit, I mailed them a bill for just under $3,000 in unpaid overtime. I included a short primer on labor laws culled from web research that detailed why I was incorrectly classified as exempt, and that their payroll practices forfeited any claim to my position being exempt.
I knew the company wasn't going to be around much longer, so I felt pretty safe leaving the burned bridge. I didn't want a future prospective employer talking to these clowns. 18 months later, I attended their bankruptcy auction and bought the filing cabinet that contained a few grand in graphic design software.
P.S. They paid the entire amount I billed them. I later heard this wasn't the first time they had been hit by a labor issue claim, and they had been advised that it might get bumped up to class action if someone was allowed to pursue litigation. Personally, I was bluffing. I was gonna let it drop with the letter, but the check was just icing on the cake.
Everyone who is complaining is jealous that ...
A. They didn't think of the idea first.
B. They can't afford it anyway
C. If they did think of it first, they could have afforded it.
Can someone point me to this mystery iPhone P2P client in the App store?
I think AT&T is just trying to say their mobile network is for mobile devices. 3G is not a replacement for your DSL/cable internet.
That's hardly a qualifier. It's not like your best man is holding the rope to keep you from falling into molten lava. My brother was my best man, but that doesn't mean I'll trust him with my money or lively hood.
Explain to me why Craigslist would want or bother to pay for the legal defense of someone selling something they have no right to sell?
Perhaps if this had been an actual privacy issue, Craigs might feel inclined to step up.
Consider that the Academy has an established precedent of defending its legal rights. Ever wonder why you can rarely buy an Oscar on eBay?
Also, where does Craigs make any promise of privacy to it's users? The randomized emails they offer posters are just one step above the security provide by lock on your front door. If someone wants to get in there, they're not going through the lock, they're going through the decorative glass window.
What was it they said in the 80's about the most common admin passwords?
But the game designers always favor the melee classes at the expense of the pure casters.
They talk about using DNA as a data storage device, but I'm worried someone's kinky porn collection might just have the exact data sequence to mutate harmless bacteria into some nasty STD.
I personally like the companies that charge $50 for anti-virus protection on a Mac.
I don't think selling them on ebay is a good idea. You never know what kind of data might be recoverable.
Honestly, if you can't use them in-house, then keep collecting them and let your replacement deal with the mess when you leave for another job.
Anyone else have trouble following that map. Red states usually denotes a Democratic win.
I sympathize with individuals who feel same sex attraction. But I also feel God has plainly stated that sexual relations should be confined within the bonds of marriage between one man and one woman. That's not bigotry. It's expressing my moral standard. Your standards may differ. Ain't variety the spice of life.
Open gays are excluded in scouting because inherently it becomes sexuality issue. A leader who discusses sex issues at a scouting meeting or function should be removed. Scouting is not the forum for "discovering" one's sexual identity. If I were to say in a scout meeting, "I really enjoyed banging my wife last night," I'd be thrown out.
Quoting from the BSA adult application:
The applicant must possess the moral, educational, and emotional qualities that the Boy Scouts of America deems necessary to afford positive leadership to youth. The applicant must also be the correct age, and subscribe to the Declaration of Religious Principle, and abide by the Scout Oath or Promise, and the Scout Law.As far as the religion issue:
The Boy Scouts of America maintains that no member can grow into the best kind of citizen without recognizing an obligation to God and, therefore, recognizes the religious element in the training of the member, but is absolutely nonsectarian in its attitude toward that religious training.When you're a scout leader, you commit to put personal agendas aside and teach, coach and inspire young men to become better citizens.
(my nerd creds are shining today, aren't they)
I'm worried now that I'll still need to pay full price because At&t won't subsidize someone in their existing contract.
If you really need to verify a signature, you use a notary.
Because Google pays them lots of money when the search originates in that little text field in the upper right corner of your browser.
Of course it will be on the front page later this evening. This is the iPhone we're talking about! ITS MADE BY APPLE FOR CHRIST'S SAKE!!!!!