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This isn't true in many cases. I was an out of state student attending a California university and was paying out of state tuition for all years. You can only establish residency if you demonstrate financial independence (e.g., you need a full time job). If you have someone else helping pay the tuition that is outside the state, or if you're using loans to fund yourself, you remain an out of stater.
I'm pretty sure that name-based hosting is fairly common, especially for smaller websites...
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Google, however, confirmed this will not impact the agreement with Microsoft and that the Softies will still be able to implement CalDav support on Windows Phone."
http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-in-the-clear-to-add-google-ca...
Towards the end of my internship, I was there until 10 PM some days working on code. Andre would see my cube lights on and come over to talk to me. Considering how I was just working all alone when there that late, I really appreciated the brief talks, as they provided me when an opportunity to think about something other then the problems within my code for a few moments. He would often share a few technical tips or an interesting story with me during our conversations.
Although I didn't work with him much, it's disappointing to hear of his death. It seems like most of the comments in here (on HN) are regarding mental illness -- something which I never observed during the brief period of time that I knew him. Regardless of his reason for taking his life, I'm glad I had the opportunity to meet him and thank him for those brief conversations.
Both paid and free accounts have 30 days of deleted file history by default.
Is this really appropriate use of the word "intercepting"? Typically intercepting carries a negative meaning -- like "the FBI is intercepting my postal mail and opening it before it reaches me". However, with their use of the word, every email I send is "intercepted" by multiple servers before it reaches its destination....
They also only made the change for email addresses -- not IM usernames, etc. If the two layers were to help with privacy somehow, why not apply it to everything?
The groups of people you communicate with are different. Just like during the 90s, some groups used AIM, some MSN, some ICQ...
MagicJack was planning to offer similar functionality in the past:
"YMAX [makers of MagicJack] says it doesn’t need permission to use the carriers’ operating frequencies in the home and that it’s protected under Part 15 of FCC regulation. This stipulation allows a device to operate without a license if it uses very low power, and doesn’t cause interference."
"In 2007, the CTIA requested the FCC regulate in-home wireless network signal boosters. The CTIA believes it should be illegal to boost any signal without the consent of the spectrum licensee. This contentious issue is still being debated, and YMAX is likely watching very closely for any signs of a decision."
http://www.audioholics.com/news/industry-news/magicjack-cell...
Whenever I see a site down like this due to a surge in traffic for a "free" opportunity, I always question whether it is in the site's best interest. For instance, if I was a hellofax customer attempting to send a fax right now, I would be unhappy -- I pay to be able to send / receive faxes, and an (perhaps from the customers perspective) "unnecessary event" has prevented me from doing that.
Brings up another question -- whenever companies do these types of "promotions" / "events", should they be hosted on a separate system to minimize impact on existing customers / site activity? I believe this year, Sparkfun use a separate system for free day to ensure the surge in traffic did not impact the main site (and paying customers).
(Edited to add further discussion)
Other people though don't seem to feel as strongly about keeping their work and personal lives separate...
The author complains that VPN connections choke the user's bandwidth, but I am not sure I know many examples of this. Typically through a VPN connection I will see higher latency to external internet point if the company does not allow split-tunnel routing. However, decreases in the user's bandwidth only occur if the company does not have the appropriate bandwidth available for the number of VPN users logged in. Perhaps I am just lucky, but I've never had this problem.
Regarding the pain of logging in, Cisco's new Cisco AnyConnect VPN automatically re-authenticates you to the VPN session so you don't need to keep signing in as you shift locations. Microsoft's DirectAccess allows you to have a VPN session automatically established with no additional authentication necessary whenever it finds a network connection available.
The author proposes cloud services? Those don't work too well for large companies in my opinion. In fact, I don't think they work well for small companies yet either. Google Docs just doesn't have the functionality required and STILL lacks the idea of having centralized repositories of information. If you want to share a document with your entire Google Apps organization, you can "share it" but the people in your organization must know to search for it in order to discover it. There is no way to browse "All Documents in My Company" which creates a huge pain.
Most companies and their employees, especially Fortune 100 companies, utilize "Network Volumes". Go into one of these company's and talk to the employees. "Oh, that is on my U drive, and the other documents, those are in the company wide public share on my P drive". They browse to these files seamlessly over the VPN, edit them, and they are updated on the remote server.
VPNs also HELP ensure compliance (though they definitely don't guarantee it). You no longer need to worry whether every single cloud service you are using has the proper security configuration. There may be some wiggle room here, but I know that with Active Directory Group Policies, I can really lock things down on users through one centralized management interface. If I have 10 cloud services, I have 10 different things I need to worry about locking down.
When a call is received, the user is notified via a variety of mediums, including instant message, SMS, and I think some other desktop/mobile apps they have. If the deaf user accepts the call, the relay informs the caller that the other individual is deaf and begins to transcribe the call.
2-way conversation (text<----->relay<----->caller)
In addition, these services provide transcriptions of voicemail / etc and are completely FREE (sponsored by individual state tax dollars in US). I'm really surprised that the post makes no note of these services, since I have known about them for years and am not hard of hearing.
I believe you are referring to the one-party / all-party telephone recording laws, where in some states all parties to the call must know the call is being recorded. This is not relevant for this software program (unless it is being used to stream audio from a phone call...)
Yet, the address is of a parking lot... (10 E 3rd Street in San Jose). Strange.
-- Don't bother reading the article. The above line says everything you need to know about the "pranksters" involved.
My point is, your method of "never logging into a production server" is extreme. You could have easily written a script for this and then by accident, executed it on the production server instead of on a testing server. Same problem manifests itself in a different manner.
Since call center employees commonly have the ability to perform call transfers, I can only imagine they have the ability to hang up on calls. Otherwise, I imagine they could simply transfer the call to an invalid extension to "hangup".