I'm actually a TD account holder and wouldn't mind seeing them punished for this. Unfortunately, I've never been party to a class-action suit that even came to close to compensating me for the time I took to fill out whatever forms I needed to fill out much less what I had actually loss as part of the class. From the last class-action I joined:
Dear Claimant,
The Proof of Claim and Release you submitted with respect to the In re [Bankrupt Company] Securities Litigation has been processed under the terms and conditions of the Stipulations of Settlement and Second Distribution Order as approved by the United States District Court for the Easter District of New York. Please be advised such Stipulation and Order provides:
"If such Authorized Claimant is allocated less than $10.00 in value from the remaining Settlement Fund, then such Authorized Claimant shall not receive a further distribution from the Settlement Fund, and such amounts shall be re-allocated among the remaining Authorized Claimants."
Based upon these terms, we regret to inform you the proration of your share of the Settlement Fund, as approved by the Court, would amount to less than ten dollars ($10.00). Therefore you will not receive a distribution from the Settlement Fund.
The reason I ask is for the last 6 months a fax company has been cold-dialing people, many of whom like myself claim to be on the DNC list, often at ungodly hours of the morning. Full details:
I just used the address of his congressional offices and advised him to look at this thread (http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=187990&ci d=15501793) before sending out any more of his boilerplate in response to concerns about the loss of net neutrality.
When solicitors call me at work, I don't make them wait 10 minutes, but I do put them on hold for a minute or so. I figure that's enough to throw off their curve.
We also have in our small company a fictitious employee whose sole job is to have telemarketers routed to his voicemail box.
It's gotten a little tricky once or twice when vendors have showed up at our office actually looking to meet him!
Any genuine measurement has a margin of error. What is your point?
that trying to carbon date anything one year old would be pretty silly. (there are more certain methods for determining the age of a recently manufactured knife.)
IANACDE (...Carbon Dating Expert) but it also appears from the Wikipedia article that 1950 is used as the base year to measure back from because the atomic age skewed radiocarbon levels in the 50s and 60s. so carbon-dating Grateful Dead bootlegs will also produce unreliable results.
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Just came across this in a Google Ad promising "Boot Up Any PC to Pure DOS. Include All Major DOS Commands!":
http://www.pcbeginner.com/tools/pcdoctor.htm
I wish this website booted into DOS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Most_vandal ized_pages
The reason I ask is for the last 6 months a fax company has been cold-dialing people, many of whom like myself claim to be on the DNC list, often at ungodly hours of the morning. Full details:
c o-818-638-8049.html
http://enemiesblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/hot-lead-
I heard it was going to be Jackie Mason.
tinker with the code of life.
Thought this was going to be a story about lastgoogle.com.
Article totally ignores emerging fields of LRS (Last Result Search) and SEdO (Search Engine de-Optimization).
But then what do you expect of The Economist? Typical center-right-wing media bias.
http://johnboehner.house.gov/contact.asp
I just used the address of his congressional offices and advised him to look at this thread (http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=187990&c
That email was unbelievable. Does it really end?
Is "gm" the lobbyist signing off this response?
Yeah! And why can't I see the 1001st result when I search "cringely" (http://www.google.com/search?q=cringely&hl=en&sta rt=999) -- or anything else for that matter?
What is Google hiding?
What I gotta know is how Trailer Mama from Yuba City was off and running with this before I, a regular /. troll, ever even heard of it:
l istingID=13608
https://www.prosper.com/public/lend/listing.aspx?
I guess desperation is a mother of early adoption.
When solicitors call me at work, I don't make them wait 10 minutes, but I do put them on hold for a minute or so. I figure that's enough to throw off their curve.
We also have in our small company a fictitious employee whose sole job is to have telemarketers routed to his voicemail box.
It's gotten a little tricky once or twice when vendors have showed up at our office actually looking to meet him!
I believe it's part of Google's terms of service for AdWords that your domain name cannot have the term Google in it.
:)
I presume this applies only to such websites NOT owned by Google.
WOW server downtime is saving my marriage.
drops out freshman year, forms harmless little start-up to develop webOS, and goes on to take over the world.
If like me, you were wondering what exactly a short code is and were confused by the link in the parent, it's a typo. Try:
http://www.usshortcodes.com/
or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Short_Code
My run-in with the Wikipedia Gestapo:
d eletion/Totally_Obvious
:}
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_
which lead to:
http://totallyobviousmartyrsoff.blogspot.com/
All together, time well spent.
just bookmark it like I do
Any genuine measurement has a margin of error. What is your point?
that trying to carbon date anything one year old would be pretty silly. (there are more certain methods for determining the age of a recently manufactured knife.)
IANACDE (...Carbon Dating Expert) but it also appears from the Wikipedia article that 1950 is used as the base year to measure back from because the atomic age skewed radiocarbon levels in the 50s and 60s. so carbon-dating Grateful Dead bootlegs will also produce unreliable results.
What's the margin of error on carbon dating? 3-5 days?
e ments_and_scales
Actually, it looks like it's closer to 30-40 years, with a "maximum radiocarbon age limit... between 58,000 and 62,000 years":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dating#Measur
making http://www.lastgoogle.com/ more useless than ever
Not sure how to stop them, but may have tracked one of them down: http://enemiesblog.blogspot.com/2006/04/hot-lead-o n-hot-lead-co.html