Have you used a Iridium phone? With their call dropping I wouldn't want to trust on them in a Emergency (with the exception of if I was going to the North or South Pole where Inmarsat is not available).
No, get a IsatPhone if you want something reliable http://www.inmarsat.com/Services/Land/IsatPhone/default.aspx which you just have a "see the sky, point antenna at sky, make call" operation.
I have to agree with this poster. There is absolutely no excuse for using your debit card for anything other then cash withdrawals.
There are other advantages as well, not only the fraud protection. Most cards will have a minimum of 30 days interest free on purchases so it wont cost you anything. And they will give you airmiles or cash back etc.
I would learn from this experience and sign up for a credit card straight away.
Yeah I had to hire someone for the first time a few months ago. The first filter I applied to the hundred of CVs we got was email addresses, locations etc. It is very easy as it is usual at the top of the CV so it is easy to throw out people with unprofessional emails or people who live to far away.
Assuming the job application is for a technical role then I dont buy the concept of unfair. Since it is an IT job then one of the criterias I have is that my technicans should at least be clever enough to realise how bad AOLs service is and not use them. Do I want a technican who builds personalised networks for our customers if he chooses himself by choice to use AOL? Probably not.
Yes I agree that fax is a secure way but there are multiple other secure ways to do this.
A web portal would be extremly useful and reduce their support costs massively by allowing the users to do the changes themselves.
Or at least give the power to their phone support technician to make changes if the caller answers a few security question correctly.
These options are just as secure if not securer then a fax. Your number can easily be hidden on a fax and it is not hard to get a company header! We send out loads of letters everyday with our company header. Someone could easily scan it and change the contents. I could do it in 5 minutes to fake a letter from any big company like Microsoft.
I would love to see Demon crash and burn. The most horrible company to deal with. We run a lot of our customers email and domains. We used to buy the domains through demon, then one month they forgot to send us a renewal bill for one of our many domains. Instead of calling us or emailing us like a normal company to check why we hadn't paid they decided to suspend all of our domains for this one outstanding bill.
We finally got the missing bill in the post a few days later, dated the same day that they suspended all of our accounts.
Then the same things happened a second time a few weeks later. Obviously after the first time we asked them to double check that there where no more outstanding bills we hadn't received and they assured us that we were all up to date. Turned out they missed one of our accounts when they checked.
Awful company to deal with in general, any DNS changes to a domain has to be done via fax on a letter with the company's header. Seriously? A large ISP like Demon cant make DNS changes over the phone/email or even have a management site online where the customer can change this?
Of course they refused to give us our AuthInfo codes when we requested them. They said we could not get them for 6 months as we had just bought the domains. Turned out that when they "suspended" our domains they actually just canceled all of them and then put them through as a new orders to reactivate them. Finally got the AuthInfo code but had to put through the cancellation first which was scary to do as I had a feeling they were just going to cancel it and give us the AuthInfo code at the same time as they remove all our DNS records from their NS server. Luckily the move went through smoothly. Now with Zen and 1&1 which in comparison are top notch.
All of this for a stupid outstanding amount of £12 renewal fee for 1 domain. Our customers ended up having 3 days of no emails or web services.
Thank you and goodbye Demon!
Damn, I got so excited I almost wet myself... But once I got down to the part about using GNU LPL code it became too obvious.
Ohhh well, maybe one day there will be a article like this which isnt a april fools hoax...
It is very low, both are very low.
I think what the poster was referring to is the difference between a low orbiting satellite like Iridium (laymen terms, low orbiting satellites move around the earth) and a geo stationary satellite (layment terms, a fixed satellite).
A low orbit satellite is only ~200-2000 km above the earth whilst a geo stationary satellite is 35000km above the earth surface.
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Have you used a Iridium phone? With their call dropping I wouldn't want to trust on them in a Emergency (with the exception of if I was going to the North or South Pole where Inmarsat is not available). No, get a IsatPhone if you want something reliable http://www.inmarsat.com/Services/Land/IsatPhone/default.aspx which you just have a "see the sky, point antenna at sky, make call" operation.
I have to agree with this poster. There is absolutely no excuse for using your debit card for anything other then cash withdrawals. There are other advantages as well, not only the fraud protection. Most cards will have a minimum of 30 days interest free on purchases so it wont cost you anything. And they will give you airmiles or cash back etc. I would learn from this experience and sign up for a credit card straight away.
Yeah I had to hire someone for the first time a few months ago. The first filter I applied to the hundred of CVs we got was email addresses, locations etc. It is very easy as it is usual at the top of the CV so it is easy to throw out people with unprofessional emails or people who live to far away. Assuming the job application is for a technical role then I dont buy the concept of unfair. Since it is an IT job then one of the criterias I have is that my technicans should at least be clever enough to realise how bad AOLs service is and not use them. Do I want a technican who builds personalised networks for our customers if he chooses himself by choice to use AOL? Probably not.
Yes I agree that fax is a secure way but there are multiple other secure ways to do this. A web portal would be extremly useful and reduce their support costs massively by allowing the users to do the changes themselves. Or at least give the power to their phone support technician to make changes if the caller answers a few security question correctly. These options are just as secure if not securer then a fax. Your number can easily be hidden on a fax and it is not hard to get a company header! We send out loads of letters everyday with our company header. Someone could easily scan it and change the contents. I could do it in 5 minutes to fake a letter from any big company like Microsoft.
I would love to see Demon crash and burn. The most horrible company to deal with. We run a lot of our customers email and domains. We used to buy the domains through demon, then one month they forgot to send us a renewal bill for one of our many domains. Instead of calling us or emailing us like a normal company to check why we hadn't paid they decided to suspend all of our domains for this one outstanding bill. We finally got the missing bill in the post a few days later, dated the same day that they suspended all of our accounts. Then the same things happened a second time a few weeks later. Obviously after the first time we asked them to double check that there where no more outstanding bills we hadn't received and they assured us that we were all up to date. Turned out they missed one of our accounts when they checked. Awful company to deal with in general, any DNS changes to a domain has to be done via fax on a letter with the company's header. Seriously? A large ISP like Demon cant make DNS changes over the phone/email or even have a management site online where the customer can change this? Of course they refused to give us our AuthInfo codes when we requested them. They said we could not get them for 6 months as we had just bought the domains. Turned out that when they "suspended" our domains they actually just canceled all of them and then put them through as a new orders to reactivate them. Finally got the AuthInfo code but had to put through the cancellation first which was scary to do as I had a feeling they were just going to cancel it and give us the AuthInfo code at the same time as they remove all our DNS records from their NS server. Luckily the move went through smoothly. Now with Zen and 1&1 which in comparison are top notch. All of this for a stupid outstanding amount of £12 renewal fee for 1 domain. Our customers ended up having 3 days of no emails or web services. Thank you and goodbye Demon!
Damn, I got so excited I almost wet myself... But once I got down to the part about using GNU LPL code it became too obvious. Ohhh well, maybe one day there will be a article like this which isnt a april fools hoax...
It is very low, both are very low. I think what the poster was referring to is the difference between a low orbiting satellite like Iridium (laymen terms, low orbiting satellites move around the earth) and a geo stationary satellite (layment terms, a fixed satellite). A low orbit satellite is only ~200-2000 km above the earth whilst a geo stationary satellite is 35000km above the earth surface.
Whats next, are they going to sue the electricity companies for providing power to the people who make P2P software?