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WoW! ...Extortion Much?
Thanks for the warning!-Stoic Joker (May 16, 2011, 11:48 AM)
I don't think it's extortion even if it is a jive move on their part. The do have this proviso:You must extend your subscription to PC Lock or contact customer service to gain access to your encrypted files
I doubt they'd refuse to let you in at all. (Probably be illegal for them to do that anyway.) I'm guessing they'll issue you a time-limited key to get your stuff decrypted and do an uninstall if you call. But likely not before they first subjected you to a high pressure sales pitch to extend your subscription. Probably offer it on a sliding discount scale depending upon your degree of resistance too. ("OK Bud, this is our 25th and absolute final offer. And this time we really mean it!")
-40hz (May 16, 2011, 01:46 PM)
If I recall correctly, this only happened with messages originating from an AOL account.Gotta love those nested headers, Clicking open attachment over and over for each time its been forwarded (usually about 50) ... Kinda hard to believe a mess like that can manage to not be corrupt really.-40hz (May 16, 2011, 03:16 PM)
Ok, on-topic again:
I wonder how far you could get on a battery charge. As the construction does not have (too) much weight to push around, my guesstimate would be 2 or 3 miles?-Shades (May 16, 2011, 11:08 AM)
My mantra is always: "Wire if you can. Wifi if you must."-40hz (May 16, 2011, 10:09 AM)
On a related subject: Does anybody have any personal experience with the most recent generation of hub-adapters that use your wall's power lines? I've heard mostly good things about them. About the only knock on them i've heard was their relative high cost compared to other alternative.-40hz (May 16, 2011, 10:09 AM)
This is definitely interesting, though nylon is a poor material for a bike. Those bearings may look cool, but they must make for horrendous rolling resistance.-JennyB (May 16, 2011, 06:20 AM)
Are schools so gobsmack stupid?-zridling (May 15, 2011, 11:04 PM)
Yes. And don't forget the students.
No child left behind! Teach them nothing and none of them will go anywhere, guaranteeing no child gets left behind...
If at first you don't succeed, lower your standards.
Give 'em School House Rock, and let 'em sink.
Want to start a war? Try introducing a modest amount of "discipline" in schools. Let the blood letting begin~!
My education was clearly inferior, as proven by my mistaken belief that education and educational principles should improve and advance. Man... Was I wrong...-Renegade (May 16, 2011, 12:54 AM)
I really gotta find that SouthPark episode.-Stoic Joker (May 12, 2011, 06:36 PM)
Due to pre-existing Contractual Obligations, we cannot stream this episode until
05.27.2011
Can't see why a UK Phone would have any info for Canadian towers (or any other country for that matter). Surely it just looks at what is there? When I visited Niagara it jumped on to Bell and my carrier doesn't even have an arrangement with Bell!-Carol Haynes (May 12, 2011, 12:26 PM)
Also, the lose focus does work. It's that the calendar sometimes doesn't have the focus to begin with.-ajp_anton (May 12, 2011, 08:41 AM)
Interesting question - when I was in Canada recently I received texts from a friend in Toronto but couldn't return them. We had identical Blackberry 9700 Bold phones - SMS just wouldn't work on mine they got bounced back. The only difference - mine was on a UK carrier (via Rogers) and he was on Rogers as a customer. You would have thought that since we were both connecting via Rogers it wouldn't be a problem but obviously my text winging back and forth across the big pond got tired and just cam home to complain!
The other odd thing was that standing side by side at the top of the CN Tower his phone was on 3G but mine could only get EDGE. I called Rogers and my UK teco - both said I should get 3G and neither could work out why I couldn't. I get 3G in the UK in appropriate locations.-Carol Haynes (May 11, 2011, 06:05 PM)
Seems like we are headed into an age where companies are going to be trying to find increasingly convoluted and complicated schemes to extract money from us without actually charging us directly for the products we use. And I'm not looking forward to it.-mouser (May 12, 2011, 05:51 AM)
Précis! EC05. It looks like she's on an Epic too. Is it called Elite where you are or something?
- Oshyan-JavaJones (May 11, 2011, 05:53 PM)
Well, what I meant was that while android may be handling phone number issues incorrectly, that may be unnoticed by users on other networks if the network has features to figure out if the text is intended to be within the user's home area code. WinMo is obviously handling this correctly, which also shows no issues regardless of carrier. So yes android is doing something wrong, but Sprint may also be.
- Oshyan-JavaJones (May 11, 2011, 04:08 PM)
