Picked up SBC as our DSL and phone provider at work about a year a half ago. One of my co-workers battled them about our long distance bill, while I battled them over the wrong DSL they gave us. Finally got the static ip's and the correct modem, things calm down. About six months ago, DSL up and dies, no reason, no explanation, just gone. Called SBC, guy from India wants me to unplug the cables, find dial tone, etc., no resolution, will get there within 48 hours. That was Thursday, Friday night at 4 SBC tech from 3 hours away finally shows up, turns out all the local people were in training. He spends two hours tracking the problem, only to determine it's outside our walls, no shit, I could have save 2 hours of this, no resolution. Monday, yes 4 days later we finally find out the crew working in the area, yea, they were putting an rt in and clipped us off, turns out we were at the far end of the loop and they extended us far past usable signal. They finally did something to get us a signal, not a good one, but a signal nonetheless, then had to wait 4 months to get speed back.
End result was once the rt was finished, we went to a local mom and pop provider. My company lost many days worth of email and our web presence to this monstrosity. Mom and pop shop can at least save our email, SBC wont even touch that.
Now SBC is part of AT&T, shudder, I've already had to call tech support, they still own the lines, and got shuffled between both companies. Literally, one said to call another, and vice versa. It's damn hard not to scream when they give me the number I just called.
I'll say it, how does a law prevent anything from happening? There is a law on the books saying I can't run a red light, but yet, I can plow my vehicle right on through one without a care. I may damage myself or someone else, but a law DOES NOT PREVENT ANYTHING. Laws only assign fines for things that are deemed illegal in a damn law. What keeps some hacker from outside of Oklahoma from putting spyware in place? There is no special magic that making a bill keeps someone out. As said regarding DMCA, RIAA, DRM and such, this is only laws to keep the honest people honest. Stupid puppets, this is only a nice way for corporations to bend you over and steal your data legally.
The cow manure thing was from a magazine or some news article I read many years ago, can't remember the source at all. I just remember there was a study done that showed methane being released from cow manure was helping to contribute to the global problem.
Me and studies do not get along very well. One will say yes, the next no. My whole point was this, how can anyone specifically say on a global scale that X causes Y. There are so many factors, maybe one gas causes more, one less. Atmospheric conditions change constantly. From what I understand, there is only about a hundred or so years of atmoshperic records. Something like the Earth that has been here, what, millions of years, is not easily guessed, studied or anything else for only a split second of it's existance. Yes, we can make generalizations, yes, science can study, but to state something as a fact is not easily done at this stage in the game.
Never have understood the whole argument, when one the one hand, yes we are polluting everything and need to clean things up, but on the other hand what about volcanoes, cow manure and all the other natural things we can't control? They contribute far more to global warming than cars do. Although, not to be outdone by lowely mother nature, mankind will surely find something to really fork up the atmosphere.
I'll second that, the first two you list I've had to block for my company. I found a really good way to filter most of this crap, is by the sender. How many people have recipe in their name? Some legitimate companies might, but that's why this crap gets quarantined and not deleted. Another good one to block by is by the html tag to hide text, can't remember what it is. I never could understand all the gibberish in some of these emails, I view them as plain text, then one day I was looking at one in html and saw what they were doing. Very nIAgera falls GReat Axis, use the html tag to hide the lowercase letters and you get VIAGRA. Kind of cool in a way, but should be able to block by those and have no regrets.
I'm sick of dealing with this crap. For a company of about 40, we get around 1000 a day. I can usually block about %80 to %90, so that limits things quite a bit, but I get so tired of people whining about getting 10 or 20 a day and not being able to pass that little threshhold, with a combination of keywords and bayesian filtering.
I've worked on a computer for 11 years now and recently started playing bass guitar on a regular basis. Having poor posture over those many years has hurt quite a bit. Started out with cubital tunnel in the elbow, caused numb pinky and ring finger. Got that under control, now working down the carpal tunnel, which numbs the other fingers. Now, part of this was from sleeping all curled up on my hands, but a lot is due to my poor posture at work. Odd thing is none of this would have shown up had I not starting playing bass.
PS to get rid of the various tunnels, I've worn a sports brace for the elbow, and the hand, and also changed my sleep habits and my posture at work. Lemme tell ya, sleepless nights suck when your trying to change a sleeping habit.
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End result was once the rt was finished, we went to a local mom and pop provider. My company lost many days worth of email and our web presence to this monstrosity. Mom and pop shop can at least save our email, SBC wont even touch that.
Now SBC is part of AT&T, shudder, I've already had to call tech support, they still own the lines, and got shuffled between both companies. Literally, one said to call another, and vice versa. It's damn hard not to scream when they give me the number I just called.
This monopoly crap, needs to go.
2003 UB313 the place where the colonists disappeared in Aliens?
I'll say it, how does a law prevent anything from happening? There is a law on the books saying I can't run a red light, but yet, I can plow my vehicle right on through one without a care. I may damage myself or someone else, but a law DOES NOT PREVENT ANYTHING. Laws only assign fines for things that are deemed illegal in a damn law. What keeps some hacker from outside of Oklahoma from putting spyware in place? There is no special magic that making a bill keeps someone out. As said regarding DMCA, RIAA, DRM and such, this is only laws to keep the honest people honest. Stupid puppets, this is only a nice way for corporations to bend you over and steal your data legally.
The cow manure thing was from a magazine or some news article I read many years ago, can't remember the source at all. I just remember there was a study done that showed methane being released from cow manure was helping to contribute to the global problem.
Me and studies do not get along very well. One will say yes, the next no. My whole point was this, how can anyone specifically say on a global scale that X causes Y. There are so many factors, maybe one gas causes more, one less. Atmospheric conditions change constantly. From what I understand, there is only about a hundred or so years of atmoshperic records. Something like the Earth that has been here, what, millions of years, is not easily guessed, studied or anything else for only a split second of it's existance. Yes, we can make generalizations, yes, science can study, but to state something as a fact is not easily done at this stage in the game.
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Never have understood the whole argument, when one the one hand, yes we are polluting everything and need to clean things up, but on the other hand what about volcanoes, cow manure and all the other natural things we can't control? They contribute far more to global warming than cars do. Although, not to be outdone by lowely mother nature, mankind will surely find something to really fork up the atmosphere.
I'll second that, the first two you list I've had to block for my company. I found a really good way to filter most of this crap, is by the sender. How many people have recipe in their name? Some legitimate companies might, but that's why this crap gets quarantined and not deleted. Another good one to block by is by the html tag to hide text, can't remember what it is. I never could understand all the gibberish in some of these emails, I view them as plain text, then one day I was looking at one in html and saw what they were doing. Very nIAgera falls GReat Axis, use the html tag to hide the lowercase letters and you get VIAGRA. Kind of cool in a way, but should be able to block by those and have no regrets. I'm sick of dealing with this crap. For a company of about 40, we get around 1000 a day. I can usually block about %80 to %90, so that limits things quite a bit, but I get so tired of people whining about getting 10 or 20 a day and not being able to pass that little threshhold, with a combination of keywords and bayesian filtering.
I've worked on a computer for 11 years now and recently started playing bass guitar on a regular basis. Having poor posture over those many years has hurt quite a bit. Started out with cubital tunnel in the elbow, caused numb pinky and ring finger. Got that under control, now working down the carpal tunnel, which numbs the other fingers. Now, part of this was from sleeping all curled up on my hands, but a lot is due to my poor posture at work. Odd thing is none of this would have shown up had I not starting playing bass. PS to get rid of the various tunnels, I've worn a sports brace for the elbow, and the hand, and also changed my sleep habits and my posture at work. Lemme tell ya, sleepless nights suck when your trying to change a sleeping habit.