Isn't everyone jumping on the linux bandwagon for a little P.R.?
I'm not, are you?
In answer to TFA's questions:
"Aren't we all supposed to be grown-up journalists, or bloggers, or whatever?
No. In fact, most people blaghing and journaling and whatevering are either very young, or very immature. I'm 55 and I never managed to grow up, thank God.
Forbes is a religious magazine, devoted to the worshipers of money, the love of which the Christian bible says is the root of all evil. Lyons is a troll. Now, I've wondered for years, if you troll trolls (especially in in meatspace), does that make you a troll yourself? I hope not!
Aren't Linux and Free Software supposed to be about love and harmony and making the world a better place?
No, that would be Bhuddhism, which worshipers of money consider to be even more evil than Christianity.
Can't we, please, smile on our brother, everybody love one another, right now? Ha ha ha HA AH HE HE ho ho HO HO HA HA HA STOP IT YER KILLIN' ME!!!
Having a PhD does not, of course, preclude nerdiness, but it doesn't guarantee it, either. My old boss Charlie (now retired in Florida) had a PhD and was, in fact, a true geek. OTOH, the fellow now in the next office from mine has a PhD but is dumb as a box of rocks, and has no geek qualifications whatever aside from being a fat dork who wears glasses. It doesn't take a high IQ to obtain a PhD, just stubbornness and a good work ethic. It does require a three digit IQ to be a nerd.
The #1 all time famous nerd was Niel Armstrong, who was an engineer who famously said "I am and always will be a pocket protector wearing nerd". He accomplished the ultimate in nerdiness, being the first man to step foot on another world. That was a nerd's wet dream come true!
-mcgrew (Linked text is titled "Growing Up With Computers" from 2005, in it is mention of Niel's most famous act of nerdiness. Another of my useless but on-topic scribblings is a two year old blagh titled What is a nerd?)
Foux News sez (and note they are perhaps the most sensational "news" outlet there is) 17,011 deaths from the superbug. Wrong diagnosis dot com says 15,245 Americans died of AIDS in 2000.
Note that I'm tired of googling so find your own link, half a million die from cancer and another half million die from heart disease. The two biggest terrorists aren't germs, Muslims or SUVs, but R. J. Reynolds and Ronald McDonald.
What are you going to do when the zombies show up at your door?
Indeed. When was the last time we had a pandemic of any kind? IINM, it was some time before the Great Depression. My 76 year old father wasn't even born. And there were no antivirals back then, and few antibiotics. Medicine was downright primitive. Hell, it was primitive when I broke my arms when I was seven in 1959; they used automotive starting fluid as an anesthetic! When I had my eye operated on in 2006, the operating room was so science fictiony that Dr. "He's Dead Jim" McCoy would have been jealous.
We might as well be worried about asteroids* or terrorists. What? You ARE worried about asteroids and terrorists?
Buy low? I figured out who all you slashdot people are. Mr. Gates, Mr. Ellison, Mr. Trump, Mr. Carmak...
$240,000,000 and you folks say that's a bargain? If I had $240,000,000 I sure wouldn't blow it on a website! I'd blow it on fast cars and expensive booze and hookers. Hell, I'd stick it in the bank at 5% interest and blow the $12,000,000 interest on fast cars and expensive booze and hookers every single year and leave the whole $240,000,000 to my kids. Come to think of it, if I had that kind of money I wouldn't NEED hookers!
How long till this product is in an airport near you figuring out if you are happy. If you are not you get corn holed with extra screening because you must be a terrorist.
Is that a happy grin or an evil grin? Is that a real poncho or a Sears poncho? I doubt this software can tell (no, I din't RTFA ass eye yam knot knew hear)
Perhaps this software will be used at the exit to a bar. If you are too happy or too sad, you are drunk.
Neither the bar owners nor the bartenders care if you're drunk, and the policeman waiting outside in his squad car needs no software. Actually, the bartenders/owners would want a device that wouldn't let you out until you were either a) drunk or b) broke. ("that's a joke, son", says Mr. Leghorn)
What if this software is used allover the place and it is saved. An employer could search you and find out if you are typically a sad or happy person and you then do not get the job because you are a sad person.
HR can already do this without any technology whatever.
Or could this be used for discrimination? Show someone of an African American hanging and if the person smiles they are a bigot? (Yes I think racism is wrong, it was just an example. Insert African American and hanging for something else if you want.)
Sorry, that sentence didn't parse. Will pass this comment along to my user for human evaluation. Please do not leave the room, the authorities will be there shortly.
As to the +3, today's moderators seem to all be hung over or something (and I probably forgot to check the "no karma bonus" box). I saw a whole bunch of comments that were on topic that made me LOL and were modded "offtopic".
Or maybe some of my old fans have found me, I've been in hiding for a while.
I think it was because the ocmet was so far south. Thailand is almost on the equator, and IIRC (but I've slept since then) the comet was to the southeast.
I get younger every day. Back when I was regularly contributing to K5 someone once said "how can someone who has teenagers rant like one?"
Once a nerd, always a nerd. Niel Armstrong once said "I alwasy was and always will be, a pocket protector wearing nerd." The only pocket calculators that existed when I went to high school took a three story building to house, so I cheated in math class with a slide rule.
This little bit of nerd history might be of interest to you. What, pray tell, is the maximum slashdot age?;)
Look, dweeb, the only people I have a superiority complex about is dorks like you who make stupid, assinine assumptions. I was in Thailand because I was in the Air Force at the time, and they sent me there.
Trolling is a method of fishing in which some form of bait, such as a fishing lure or a living fish, is drawn on a line through the water. Trolling from a moving boat is a technique of Big-game fishing and is used when fishing from boats to catch large open-water species such as tuna and marlin. Trolling is also a freshwater angling technique
Hey, we're rolling, hey.. Go home, go home Squatter go home Go home, go home Squatter go home I think I hear your Mommy callin' On your cellular phone She said your dad wants his car back So you'd better come home Squatter go home Squatter go home Squatter go home Squatter go home Go home, go home Squatter go home Go home, go home Squatter go home You got no money for the punk rock show It's delagated for a beer and a ho Spitting, pissing, cumming, and shitting So you have cool clothes Squatter go home Squatter go home Squatter go home Squatter go home I see you sitting on the boulevard with your tired and pissed off stare Tellin' everyone your hard luck story, and what landed you here You think of mommy and daddy out in their safe suburban home And you know that's where you're gonna be when you start to feel the cold I'm saying poser go home Poser squatter go home Summer squatter go home Poser squatter go home Squatter go home Squatter go home Squatter go home Squatter go home Squatter go home Squatter go home Summer squatter go home
This is only slightly on-topic but I have karma to burn so wtf, someone might think it interesting or amusing.
I used to be a Quake addict, ad my ISP offered "unlimited internet access" and he wasn't kidding. They gave free web hosting with internet service, so I proceeded to start the "Springfield Fragfest" (note that the link is NOT to the Springfield Fragfest, it is to an article in Springfield's local paper that succinctly illustrates the fact that the real Springfield, which has an alderman named Gail Simpson, is sicker and funnier than the cartoon Springfield. The article is about "Klutzo the Clown", a former police officer, being arrested for being a pedophile).
Anyway, a series of freak accidents got my site popular, and I finally registered thefragfest.com and continued the site there. A few readers jokingly pestered me to host porn on it (one fellow whose online name was "Dopey Smurf" is now a medical doctor in Canada, he's probably reading this now). After a few years I got tired of the sirte, let it grow cobwebs, and finally let the domain lapse.
Well, Dopey got his wish. thefragfest.com was, last time I looked, a porn site.
OK, I know yours was a joke post, but something pissed me off for YEARS that I don't think should be allowed. I wanted to register mcgrew.org or alternately mcgrew.com back when com, org, and net (and ones you can't get like gov and edu) were the only roots.
What infuriated me was that some sleazeballs had registered.com and.org for every name in the phone book, and was selling "your name can be your email!" mcgrew.com, smith.com, jones.com, even johnson.com (which one would expect to be a porn site) led to the same company.
Eventually they opened up.info and I managed to snag mcgrew.info and moved all the stuff I'd been polluting the net since 1997 with (yes, that particular page is older than slashdot). And newer stuff.
Of course, if I had actually managed to get mcgrew.com, the comedian with the same name as me out in Colorado probably would have sued me for it, despite the fact that I'm 10 years older than him.
-mcgrew
(then I discovered K5, back in its heyday, and actually had people READING my pollution, and strangely LIKING it. Still scratching my head over that one...)
True, but we're talking about safety, not villany. I'm aghast and disgusted by terrorism, but not the least bit afraid of it. My chances of being killed by a terrorist are lower than my chances of slipping on ice this winter and dying from the fall. I see little reason to spend extra money on terrorism; regular law enforcement funds should do. I'm certainly not willing to give up any of my rights to fight terrorism.
OTOH my chances of dying on the highway is scarily real. As a former cigarette addict I'll most likely die from cancer, caused by the corporate terrorists, who Google informs me kill half a million people a year. Heart disease doesn't run in my family, but that kills another half a million people.
Selling cigarettes and trans-fats is IMO quite a bit more vile than driving an airplane into a big building.
Poets, priests and poiticians Have words to thank for their positions Words that scream for your submission And no-one's jamming their transmission And when their eloquence escapes you Their logic ties you up and rapes you
A horse is a four legged animal. That does not mean that a four legged animal is a horse.
I shall add a bit of emphasis to what I said: "But hell, you expect thieves and con men to tell the truth in a contract?" I expect honorable men to tell the truth, in a contract or otherwise. I do NOT expect thieves and con men to be honorable.
I've been primomising it for years, one of these days I'll actually get around to writing "indoor rocketry for children". It wil have photos of the actual pyrotechnic rockets actually being launched indoors, with children.
...high in the sky and ideal for viewing at this time of year.
On what part of the planet? Northern hemosphere or southern? The Americas or Asia? What time of night (or day)?
In 1974, the American media were excitedly predicting a very bright comet named Kahoutek, and then when it appeared wrote how dissapointing the show was, that it wasn't even visible.
I was in Thailand that year, Kahoutek drowned out all the stars in half the sky there.
Some of you folks need to learn that the internet is a global phenomena and not restricted to your own country. Is this thing visible in my country (US)? What part of the sky, and what time? If I can see it, people in Australia can't.
And I must suppress those regions that get optimistic when I submit a New Scientest article (yesterday morning) and expect it to get posted, instead of someone else's submission of the decidedly unnerdishly AP's geekless take on the matter.
The optimist says "the glass is half full". The pessimist says "the glass is half empty". The scientist says there is.314159 litres. The realist says "it's.00237 litres shy of what we need." Klutzo the Clown squirts it in your face.
(link text is a real newspaper article about Klutzo the Clown, former police officer and Christian minister arrested for child porn. I thought you guys might be amused.)
What a bunch of sleazeballs, both Verizon AND the New York State's Attorney. I got halfway down TFA (Sorry, I know that's unslashdottish of me to RTFA but I'm not feeling well) before my stomach started turning and I was forced to hit the "back" button.
What Verizon did, from TFA, was FRAUD plain and simple. Their CEO and board of directors should be in prison, not made to take petty cash and give it to New York. In their defense I must say, why isn't MY nad-free AG doing anything?
However, I'm not the least surprised. Nobody from Sony went to prison for rooting millions of PCs, despite the fact that if you did to them what they did to me you'ld be in the slammer for years.
I didn't read far enough to see if they agreed to stop defrauding their customers. But hell, you expect thieves and con men to tell the truth in a contract? I mean, the agreement is about their LIES to begin with!
I'm looking for a new cell phone company. Is there one out there that is reletively sleaze-free? I was happy with Cingular for years, never went over my minutes (always had rollover minutes) and the bill was always the same, under $50. Then AT&T bought them out, and all of a sudden I got hit with a $150 bill. I didn't pay it. The next month they tacked on another $450 on top of the $150, and shut off my service. After shutting off my service, they tacked ANOTHER $150 for the month I was without service, including taxes on the service they never provided.
Verizon was on the list of possible replacements (I'm using pay as you go right now), so this story was just in the nick of time. Thank you, slashdot!
You iknow, I'm a geezer; I don't remember businesses being run by thieves and sociopaths when I was young. Maybe my memory is bad, or I was naive. Or maybe we're heading for another world wide depression like tha 1930s?
-mcgrew
(Oblig link to my blagh posting about Sony rooting my box, titled "SONY MUST DIE!!!!")
It is NEVER okay for a company to install an application on my computer without my concent.
When you install an application (say, a smiley face cursor or a security update) and that installation installs a different application without your consent (say, a spam mailer or a desktop search), isn''t that called a trojan?
What's next, rootkits? Oh wait, this is Microsoft, they wrote the OS. You're already rooted.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh, the irony!
To misquote some anonymous coward, who are Paris Hilton and Michael Vicks and why would a nerd care anyway?
This is slashdot, right? Or did some practical joker sneak in in the middle of the night and change my bookmarks?
-mcgrew
Isn't everyone jumping on the linux bandwagon for a little P.R.?
I'm not, are you?
In answer to TFA's questions:
"Aren't we all supposed to be grown-up journalists, or bloggers, or whatever?
No. In fact, most people blaghing and journaling and whatevering are either very young, or very immature. I'm 55 and I never managed to grow up, thank God.
Forbes is a religious magazine, devoted to the worshipers of money, the love of which the Christian bible says is the root of all evil. Lyons is a troll. Now, I've wondered for years, if you troll trolls (especially in in meatspace), does that make you a troll yourself? I hope not!
Aren't Linux and Free Software supposed to be about love and harmony and making the world a better place?
No, that would be Bhuddhism, which worshipers of money consider to be even more evil than Christianity.
Can't we, please, smile on our brother, everybody love one another, right now?
Ha ha ha HA AH HE HE ho ho HO HO HA HA HA STOP IT YER KILLIN' ME!!!
-mcgrew
Having a PhD does not, of course, preclude nerdiness, but it doesn't guarantee it, either. My old boss Charlie (now retired in Florida) had a PhD and was, in fact, a true geek. OTOH, the fellow now in the next office from mine has a PhD but is dumb as a box of rocks, and has no geek qualifications whatever aside from being a fat dork who wears glasses. It doesn't take a high IQ to obtain a PhD, just stubbornness and a good work ethic. It does require a three digit IQ to be a nerd.
The #1 all time famous nerd was Niel Armstrong, who was an engineer who famously said "I am and always will be a pocket protector wearing nerd". He accomplished the ultimate in nerdiness, being the first man to step foot on another world. That was a nerd's wet dream come true!
-mcgrew
(Linked text is titled "Growing Up With Computers" from 2005, in it is mention of Niel's most famous act of nerdiness. Another of my useless but on-topic scribblings is a two year old blagh titled What is a nerd?)
Foux News sez (and note they are perhaps the most sensational "news" outlet there is) 17,011 deaths from the superbug. Wrong diagnosis dot com says 15,245 Americans died of AIDS in 2000.
Meanwhile, in 1997, 41,967 people died on the American highways. So you SHOULD fear the terrorists; the blonde ones in their SUVs.
Note that I'm tired of googling so find your own link, half a million die from cancer and another half million die from heart disease. The two biggest terrorists aren't germs, Muslims or SUVs, but R. J. Reynolds and Ronald McDonald.
-mcgrew
What are you going to do when the zombies show up at your door?
Indeed. When was the last time we had a pandemic of any kind? IINM, it was some time before the Great Depression. My 76 year old father wasn't even born. And there were no antivirals back then, and few antibiotics. Medicine was downright primitive. Hell, it was primitive when I broke my arms when I was seven in 1959; they used automotive starting fluid as an anesthetic! When I had my eye operated on in 2006, the operating room was so science fictiony that Dr. "He's Dead Jim" McCoy would have been jealous.
We might as well be worried about asteroids* or terrorists. What? You ARE worried about asteroids and terrorists?
-mcgrew
*I had my assteroids removed in 2002
I need to get cracking if I'm to get my $240 million...
Damn, I need to update my blagh!
-mcgrew
Buy low? I figured out who all you slashdot people are. Mr. Gates, Mr. Ellison, Mr. Trump, Mr. Carmak...
;)
$240,000,000 and you folks say that's a bargain? If I had $240,000,000 I sure wouldn't blow it on a website! I'd blow it on fast cars and expensive booze and hookers. Hell, I'd stick it in the bank at 5% interest and blow the $12,000,000 interest on fast cars and expensive booze and hookers every single year and leave the whole $240,000,000 to my kids. Come to think of it, if I had that kind of money I wouldn't NEED hookers!
I might even buy an iPhone, too.
-mcgrew
How long till this product is in an airport near you figuring out if you are happy. If you are not you get corn holed with extra screening because you must be a terrorist.
Is that a happy grin or an evil grin? Is that a real poncho or a Sears poncho? I doubt this software can tell (no, I din't RTFA ass eye yam knot knew hear)
Perhaps this software will be used at the exit to a bar. If you are too happy or too sad, you are drunk.
Neither the bar owners nor the bartenders care if you're drunk, and the policeman waiting outside in his squad car needs no software. Actually, the bartenders/owners would want a device that wouldn't let you out until you were either a) drunk or b) broke. ("that's a joke, son", says Mr. Leghorn)
What if this software is used allover the place and it is saved. An employer could search you and find out if you are typically a sad or happy person and you then do not get the job because you are a sad person.
HR can already do this without any technology whatever.
Or could this be used for discrimination? Show someone of an African American hanging and if the person smiles they are a bigot? (Yes I think racism is wrong, it was just an example. Insert African American and hanging for something else if you want.)
Sorry, that sentence didn't parse. Will pass this comment along to my user for human evaluation. Please do not leave the room, the authorities will be there shortly.
Outlaw the American Secret Police
RTFA? You must be new here ;)
As to the +3, today's moderators seem to all be hung over or something (and I probably forgot to check the "no karma bonus" box). I saw a whole bunch of comments that were on topic that made me LOL and were modded "offtopic".
Or maybe some of my old fans have found me, I've been in hiding for a while.
I think it was because the ocmet was so far south. Thailand is almost on the equator, and IIRC (but I've slept since then) the comet was to the southeast.
I get younger every day. Back when I was regularly contributing to K5 someone once said "how can someone who has teenagers rant like one?"
;)
Once a nerd, always a nerd. Niel Armstrong once said "I alwasy was and always will be, a pocket protector wearing nerd." The only pocket calculators that existed when I went to high school took a three story building to house, so I cheated in math class with a slide rule.
This little bit of nerd history might be of interest to you. What, pray tell, is the maximum slashdot age?
Look, dweeb, the only people I have a superiority complex about is dorks like you who make stupid, assinine assumptions. I was in Thailand because I was in the Air Force at the time, and they sent me there.
Youor proctologist called - he found your head.
Actually, its trawling,/i>, but nice try
Wikipedia says you're wrong On the other hand, -mcgrew
Hey, we're rolling, hey..
Go home, go home
Squatter go home
Go home, go home
Squatter go home
I think I hear your Mommy callin'
On your cellular phone
She said your dad wants his car back
So you'd better come home
Squatter go home
Squatter go home
Squatter go home
Squatter go home
Go home, go home
Squatter go home
Go home, go home
Squatter go home
You got no money for the punk rock show
It's delagated for a beer and a ho
Spitting, pissing, cumming, and shitting
So you have cool clothes
Squatter go home
Squatter go home
Squatter go home
Squatter go home
I see you sitting on the boulevard with your tired and pissed off stare
Tellin' everyone your hard luck story, and what landed you here
You think of mommy and daddy out in their safe suburban home
And you know that's where you're gonna be when you start to feel the cold
I'm saying poser go home
Poser squatter go home
Summer squatter go home
Poser squatter go home
Squatter go home
Squatter go home
Squatter go home
Squatter go home
Squatter go home
Squatter go home
Summer squatter go home
This is only slightly on-topic but I have karma to burn so wtf, someone might think it interesting or amusing.
I used to be a Quake addict, ad my ISP offered "unlimited internet access" and he wasn't kidding. They gave free web hosting with internet service, so I proceeded to start the "Springfield Fragfest" (note that the link is NOT to the Springfield Fragfest, it is to an article in Springfield's local paper that succinctly illustrates the fact that the real Springfield, which has an alderman named Gail Simpson, is sicker and funnier than the cartoon Springfield. The article is about "Klutzo the Clown", a former police officer, being arrested for being a pedophile).
Anyway, a series of freak accidents got my site popular, and I finally registered thefragfest.com and continued the site there. A few readers jokingly pestered me to host porn on it (one fellow whose online name was "Dopey Smurf" is now a medical doctor in Canada, he's probably reading this now). After a few years I got tired of the sirte, let it grow cobwebs, and finally let the domain lapse.
Well, Dopey got his wish. thefragfest.com was, last time I looked, a porn site.
-mcgrew
OK, I know yours was a joke post, but something pissed me off for YEARS that I don't think should be allowed. I wanted to register mcgrew.org or alternately mcgrew.com back when com, org, and net (and ones you can't get like gov and edu) were the only roots.
.com and .org for every name in the phone book, and was selling "your name can be your email!" mcgrew.com, smith.com, jones.com, even johnson.com (which one would expect to be a porn site) led to the same company.
.info and I managed to snag mcgrew.info and moved all the stuff I'd been polluting the net since 1997 with (yes, that particular page is older than slashdot). And newer stuff.
What infuriated me was that some sleazeballs had registered
Eventually they opened up
Of course, if I had actually managed to get mcgrew.com, the comedian with the same name as me out in Colorado probably would have sued me for it, despite the fact that I'm 10 years older than him.
-mcgrew
(then I discovered K5, back in its heyday, and actually had people READING my pollution, and strangely LIKING it. Still scratching my head over that one...)
True, but we're talking about safety, not villany. I'm aghast and disgusted by terrorism, but not the least bit afraid of it. My chances of being killed by a terrorist are lower than my chances of slipping on ice this winter and dying from the fall. I see little reason to spend extra money on terrorism; regular law enforcement funds should do. I'm certainly not willing to give up any of my rights to fight terrorism.
OTOH my chances of dying on the highway is scarily real. As a former cigarette addict I'll most likely die from cancer, caused by the corporate terrorists, who Google informs me kill half a million people a year. Heart disease doesn't run in my family, but that kills another half a million people.
Selling cigarettes and trans-fats is IMO quite a bit more vile than driving an airplane into a big building.
I shall add a bit of emphasis to what I said:
"But hell, you expect thieves and con men to tell the truth in a contract?"
I expect honorable men to tell the truth, in a contract or otherwise. I do NOT expect thieves and con men to be honorable.
I applaud your Smartassedness. All of you, well done!
Bad writing on my part to then, I guess. But in my defense, nobody's paying me to do it.
I've been primomising it for years, one of these days I'll actually get around to writing "indoor rocketry for children". It wil have photos of the actual pyrotechnic rockets actually being launched indoors, with children.
No, I'm not actually normal!
...high in the sky and ideal for viewing at this time of year.
On what part of the planet? Northern hemosphere or southern? The Americas or Asia? What time of night (or day)?
In 1974, the American media were excitedly predicting a very bright comet named Kahoutek, and then when it appeared wrote how dissapointing the show was, that it wasn't even visible.
I was in Thailand that year, Kahoutek drowned out all the stars in half the sky there.
Some of you folks need to learn that the internet is a global phenomena and not restricted to your own country. Is this thing visible in my country (US)? What part of the sky, and what time? If I can see it, people in Australia can't.
-mcgrew
And I must suppress those regions that get optimistic when I submit a New Scientest article (yesterday morning) and expect it to get posted, instead of someone else's submission of the decidedly unnerdishly AP's geekless take on the matter.
.314159 litres. The realist says "it's .00237 litres shy of what we need." Klutzo the Clown squirts it in your face.
The optimist says "the glass is half full". The pessimist says "the glass is half empty". The scientist says there is
(link text is a real newspaper article about Klutzo the Clown, former police officer and Christian minister arrested for child porn. I thought you guys might be amused.)
-mcgrew
What a bunch of sleazeballs, both Verizon AND the New York State's Attorney. I got halfway down TFA (Sorry, I know that's unslashdottish of me to RTFA but I'm not feeling well) before my stomach started turning and I was forced to hit the "back" button.
What Verizon did, from TFA, was FRAUD plain and simple. Their CEO and board of directors should be in prison, not made to take petty cash and give it to New York. In their defense I must say, why isn't MY nad-free AG doing anything?
However, I'm not the least surprised. Nobody from Sony went to prison for rooting millions of PCs, despite the fact that if you did to them what they did to me you'ld be in the slammer for years.
I didn't read far enough to see if they agreed to stop defrauding their customers. But hell, you expect thieves and con men to tell the truth in a contract? I mean, the agreement is about their LIES to begin with!
I'm looking for a new cell phone company. Is there one out there that is reletively sleaze-free? I was happy with Cingular for years, never went over my minutes (always had rollover minutes) and the bill was always the same, under $50. Then AT&T bought them out, and all of a sudden I got hit with a $150 bill. I didn't pay it. The next month they tacked on another $450 on top of the $150, and shut off my service. After shutting off my service, they tacked ANOTHER $150 for the month I was without service, including taxes on the service they never provided.
Verizon was on the list of possible replacements (I'm using pay as you go right now), so this story was just in the nick of time. Thank you, slashdot!
You iknow, I'm a geezer; I don't remember businesses being run by thieves and sociopaths when I was young. Maybe my memory is bad, or I was naive. Or maybe we're heading for another world wide depression like tha 1930s?
-mcgrew
(Oblig link to my blagh posting about Sony rooting my box, titled "SONY MUST DIE!!!!")
It is NEVER okay for a company to install an application on my computer without my concent.
When you install an application (say, a smiley face cursor or a security update) and that installation installs a different application without your consent (say, a spam mailer or a desktop search), isn''t that called a trojan?
What's next, rootkits? Oh wait, this is Microsoft, they wrote the OS. You're already rooted.
-mcgrew