What was fun was watching the look on the branch manager's face when I explained why I was closing my accounts. After I showed him the letter (he was shocked) he asked me to show him what I was talking about. I had him open the page source and find the huge section "" filled with tracking links. Again, he was shocked. He said, "I sure am glad I work here and can do my banking any time I want. This is crazy."
Of course, CEO/Chairman/President Thompson believes it to be a secure, nonintrusive essential part of their business model.
Sounds like the 4th largest bank in the U.S. exposing me to no less than 12 single pixel tracking images from the likes of doubleclick, ru4, advertising.com etc. when I want to login followed by tracking by an outside source while using the "secure" area of the site(hooray for AdBlock). I complained and complained. I finally received a response from the office of CEO Ken Thompson telling me to piss up a rope. I am no longer a customer.
...it seems FedEx has decided to cut costs simply by not delivering packages.
Said FedEx spokesman Dewey Shippit, "We've found that there is a significant savings in randomly tossing packages into a large warehouse and not delivering them. The cost of delivering those packages far exceeds the cost of repeatedly 'issuing a trace' to locate the missing item."
I've been fighting with Wachovia for the last month over the abundance of tracking images on their banking site. doubleclick, advertising.com, zedo, tribalfusion...the list goes on and on. All this crap on my online banking site. Fortunately, I have pretty aggressive filter settings in AB+, but this is total BS. Their stance is "Everyone is doing it". Kinda funny considering only one of the 9 largest competitors uses this crap on their site. They have 4 days left on their deadline to remove this garbage before I cloe all of my accounts and move those which I manage for elderly family and family estates. After that time I will also be posting the details of my ordeal (including conversations with the office of the President/CEO).
Check out www.wachovia.com and see what AB+ picks up with easylist subscription.
Main Entry: masturbatory
Pronunciation: 'mas-t&r-b&-"tor-E
Function: adjective
2 : excessively self-absorbed or self-indulgent (write tedious, masturbatory books...about themselves for people to read...with envy -- D. R. Katz)
Main Entry: self masturbatory
Pronunciation: 'self 'mas-t&r-b&-"tor-E
Function: redundant adjective
1 : a redundant form of the word masturbatory see also: self autonomy, self narcissism
Unfortunately it will be much easier to find and arrange outside training than to get the devs to crawl out of their hole and support us. Welcome to "How to drive your corporation into the ground through in-house politics 101"
Thanks so far to people who have offered real advice. RTFM is perfectly useless at this point. Someone (I know who) dropped the ball when they decided to field 100s of units and not provide any notice, much less training, to the field service teams. With products in the field and need to support them now RTFM does not cut it. These people need a crash course in basic *nix OS structure and operation. I've looked into redhat training as well as courses offered by linuxcertified.com. Does anyone have any input about linuxcertified?
maybe it will lower the cost of aerial & satellite imagery in general - relying on IKONOS, SPOT is expensive
I don't see how a new satellite based location system is likely to reduce the cost of remote sensing data. The 2 systems are entirely different in their applications. The only thing that will reduce the cost of commercial satellite imagery is competition. Unfortunately the industry is shrinking in terms of the number of players. With the merger of Space Imaging and Orbimage into GeoEye we are left with basically 3 companies (Digital Globe, GeoEye, SPOT) to choose from for high resloution(.6-1m) imagery. Given the cost of the current development cycle of new satellites they're not likely to reduce prices for their services. GeoEye will be launching GeoEye-1 with.41m resolution this year. DG is set to launch Worldview-1(.5m) this year followed by WV-2(.5m) late next year. It's going to take awhile for them to recoup those costs. I'd expect to see prices on the rise if anything.
I have a restored '69 Camaro that hasn't moved in a year and unfortunately won't for another 2. I'm not using it, so maybe I should give it to that guy who offered me $3000 last week. I mean, it's not being used and $3000 is more than nothing.
Based on the description of the IFE system and having recently flown and played a version of Tetris which fits his description.....
Delta 767
I'll see if I can confirm the hack without the crash (I guess I'm just too nice) next week.
Both services have commercial-free stations. With XM (my preferred service) the stations actually run by XM are commercial-free. There are plenty of other stations run by outside sources (News, Talk, some music) which have advertising in order to sync properly with their original broadcast source.
Slashdot Mirror
ENJOY!
It is generated by a script. In AdBlock look for a script ...akamai.net...Wachovia.com/metric/*.js
What was fun was watching the look on the branch manager's face when I explained why I was closing my accounts. After I showed him the letter (he was shocked) he asked me to show him what I was talking about. I had him open the page source and find the huge section "" filled with tracking links. Again, he was shocked. He said, "I sure am glad I work here and can do my banking any time I want. This is crazy."
Of course, CEO/Chairman/President Thompson believes it to be a secure, nonintrusive essential part of their business model.
As soon as I am back in the States (Wednesday) I'll scan it. I'll post a link as a reply to the parent, so subscribe to it if you're interested.
It will be a couple of days. I'm in Turkey right now. Once it is available I'll let you know.
No, it was a real letter of all things. Maybe I should scan it and post it when I get home.
I think me meant, "On communist internet, macines watch you."
Sounds like the 4th largest bank in the U.S. exposing me to no less than 12 single pixel tracking images from the likes of doubleclick, ru4, advertising.com etc. when I want to login followed by tracking by an outside source while using the "secure" area of the site(hooray for AdBlock). I complained and complained. I finally received a response from the office of CEO Ken Thompson telling me to piss up a rope. I am no longer a customer.
...it seems FedEx has decided to cut costs simply by not delivering packages.
Said FedEx spokesman Dewey Shippit, "We've found that there is a significant savings in randomly tossing packages into a large warehouse and not delivering them. The cost of delivering those packages far exceeds the cost of repeatedly 'issuing a trace' to locate the missing item."
I've been fighting with Wachovia for the last month over the abundance of tracking images on their banking site. doubleclick, advertising.com, zedo, tribalfusion...the list goes on and on. All this crap on my online banking site. Fortunately, I have pretty aggressive filter settings in AB+, but this is total BS. Their stance is "Everyone is doing it". Kinda funny considering only one of the 9 largest competitors uses this crap on their site. They have 4 days left on their deadline to remove this garbage before I cloe all of my accounts and move those which I manage for elderly family and family estates. After that time I will also be posting the details of my ordeal (including conversations with the office of the President/CEO).
Check out www.wachovia.com and see what AB+ picks up with easylist subscription.
...welcome our Minority Reporting overlords.
Hmmm... methinks a moderator needs to read a parent before modding offtopic
Main Entry: masturbatory
Pronunciation: 'mas-t&r-b&-"tor-E
Function: adjective
2 : excessively self-absorbed or self-indulgent (write tedious, masturbatory books...about themselves for people to read...with envy -- D. R. Katz)
Main Entry: self masturbatory
Pronunciation: 'self 'mas-t&r-b&-"tor-E
Function: redundant adjective
1 : a redundant form of the word masturbatory
see also: self autonomy, self narcissism
aww heck. It's too easy.
Time to go to work. Code all night. Building DRM, hey. We won't stop until we have DRM. Yum tum yummy tum tay!
Unfortunately it will be much easier to find and arrange outside training than to get the devs to crawl out of their hole and support us. Welcome to "How to drive your corporation into the ground through in-house politics 101"
Thanks so far to people who have offered real advice. RTFM is perfectly useless at this point. Someone (I know who) dropped the ball when they decided to field 100s of units and not provide any notice, much less training, to the field service teams. With products in the field and need to support them now RTFM does not cut it. These people need a crash course in basic *nix OS structure and operation. I've looked into redhat training as well as courses offered by linuxcertified.com. Does anyone have any input about linuxcertified?
... ignore something so customer friendly and inviting as DCE!!!
I don't see how a new satellite based location system is likely to reduce the cost of remote sensing data. The 2 systems are entirely different in their applications. The only thing that will reduce the cost of commercial satellite imagery is competition. Unfortunately the industry is shrinking in terms of the number of players. With the merger of Space Imaging and Orbimage into GeoEye we are left with basically 3 companies (Digital Globe, GeoEye, SPOT) to choose from for high resloution(.6-1m) imagery. Given the cost of the current development cycle of new satellites they're not likely to reduce prices for their services. GeoEye will be launching GeoEye-1 with
I have a restored '69 Camaro that hasn't moved in a year and unfortunately won't for another 2. I'm not using it, so maybe I should give it to that guy who offered me $3000 last week. I mean, it's not being used and $3000 is more than nothing.
Based on the description of the IFE system and having recently flown and played a version of Tetris which fits his description .....
Delta 767
I'll see if I can confirm the hack without the crash (I guess I'm just too nice) next week.
I love listening to Bill O'Reilly and hearing Viagra commercials every other break.
Both services have commercial-free stations. With XM (my preferred service) the stations actually run by XM are commercial-free. There are plenty of other stations run by outside sources (News, Talk, some music) which have advertising in order to sync properly with their original broadcast source.
It seems officer Perrone changed his mind after a meeting with the magistrate.
Not much more detail, but it does include snippets of Georgia Stalking Law.