RE: How to Stop Telemarketers...

2002-12-08 Thread Lucky Green
Adam Stenseth wrote: Just for my own edification, does this apply to landline service as well(or other government-sanctioned monopolies)? For example, are your calling habits and landline number assets of your phone company? Many of them seem to think so. Yes, they are. Just as

Re: How to Stop Telemarketers...

2002-12-08 Thread Tyler Durden
Technological solutions are preferable over statist solutions (which don't usually even work, as the statists write the rules and exempt themselves and their friends). Ya know Tim May, you say a lotta crazy shit but every now and then you say something that really makes some sense.

Re: If this be terrorism make the most of it!

2002-12-08 Thread Dave Emery
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 10:56:14AM -0800, Morlock Elloi wrote: But we will always have phone booths and acoustic couplers. Not around Boston. I got attacked by a script kiddie with the kloged trojan on Thanksgiving morning at 5 AM and had occasion to need to make a couple of out of

RE: Build It Rolling Your Own Tivo (fwd)

2002-12-08 Thread Lucky Green
Jamie Lawrence wrote: Jim, you post enough crap from Slashdot to know differently. People are doing it. I have a whitebox machine (AMD, 256M ram, cheap TV card, 20G disk, $300 a year ago) that does it. It isn't a big deal. Speaking of posting crap...and don't send me private

Re: Build It Rolling Your Own Tivo (fwd)

2002-12-08 Thread Bill Stewart
At 11:38 PM 12/06/2002 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: You should have tried this back in the late 80's with a single frame VHS recorder and an Amiga Video Toaster...one frame at a time, thank god for AREXX ;) If you were actually using the Video Toaster, and not just the Amiga's CPU, you had what

Re: How to Stop Telemarketers...

2002-12-08 Thread Tim May
On Saturday, December 7, 2002, at 06:20 PM, Lucky Green wrote: Harmon Seaver wrote: Tim mentioned cell phones and the lack of telemarketing calls on his, but really that's only because, at this point at least, the cellphone number lists haven't been sold. This might change in the near

Re: Photographer Arrested For Taking Pictures Of Vice President'S Hotel

2002-12-08 Thread Mike Rosing
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Tim May wrote: Frankly, millions of these fascists need a simple solution: a tree, a horse, and a rope. There aren't enough horses :-) Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike

Re: How to Stop Telemarketers...

2002-12-08 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 06:20:02PM -0800, Lucky Green wrote: Harmon Seaver wrote: Tim mentioned cell phones and the lack of telemarketing calls on his, but really that's only because, at this point at least, the cellphone number lists haven't been sold. This might change in the near

Not as simple as it looks - Re: Build It Rolling Your Own Tivo(fwd)

2002-12-08 Thread Jim Choate
An example from my day yesterday... I have two 'cheap boxes', one from nation wide chain store (who sells things other than high tech and appliances, a wall to wall mart if you will) and one from a local Austin vendor. The behavior was checked against multiple instances of boxes so we know it

Re: Build It Rolling Your Own Tivo (fwd)

2002-12-08 Thread Jim Choate
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Jamie Lawrence wrote: On Sat, 07 Dec 2002, Lucky Green wrote: It never ceases to amaze me that there are subscribers to this list that don't have Choate filtered. This must be some weird list to read without a Choate procmail filter... Yes, my mistake. I've seen

Re: Photographer Arrested For Taking Pictures Of Vice President'S Hotel

2002-12-08 Thread Mark Renouf
jet wrote: At 20:48 -0500 2002/12/07, Myers W. Carpenter wrote: http://www.2600.com/news/display/display.shtml?id=1441 PHOTOGRAPHER ARRESTED FOR TAKING PICTURES OF VICE PRESIDENT'S HOTEL Posted 5 Dec 2002 06:03:48 UTC One major issue is these days, the laws have become so incredibly