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Re: [telecom] AT&T charges extra to pay cash [Telecom]
in a note to a post by
jtayNOSPAM...@hfDONTSENDMESPAM x.andara.com>:
[ ... ]
In Oklahoma, and I assume on most states, food stamps and other
public assistance are offered by electronic transfer only, the
recicipent receiving a plastic device that looks about the same as a
credit card, and I note most grocery stores, even those in upscale
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cheap checking accounts, was: AT&T charges extra to pay cash [Telecom]
[ snip ]
In quite a few states banks have to provide what's
typically called "lifeline" accounts at modest fees.
NYS's regulation is typical and requires:
"Basic Banking - All New York State banks are
required by law to offer low-cost or 'lifeline'
accounts called Basic Banking Accounts. Basic
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Call Accounting Research [Telecom]
I am researching call accounting software available on the market. I
am putting togeather a SWOT analysis and trying to identify weaknesses
in some of these call accounting software products and companies. I
would like to here of [your] experiances with [these] products.
Thanks,
Bass
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Re: AT&T charges extra to pay cash [Telecom]
That is a very good point -- we chose to have regulated utilities
rather than government departments to handle telephones, electric
power, etc., so these regulated utilities have some of the same
responsibilities that government agencies do.
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Re: AT&T charges extra to pay cash [Telecom]
On May 16, 11:09Â am, _
wrote:
When it comes to financial transactions, the poor have been screwed
for a great many years, ever since checks became widespread. When
poor people get paid at work, they have to cash their paycheck at a
check-cashing place and they have very high service charges. A great
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Re: AT&T charges extra to pay cash [Telecom]
In article <546Xj.20889$C8.4...@bignews2. bellsouth.net>,
Yup. they *SEEM* that way. But they are -not-, in fact.
A creditor _is_ (pretty much) required to do so. *UNLESS* the parties
agreed _at_the_time_of_sale_ that only certain form(s) of payment would
be acceptable.
For a "non-credit" transaction -- where you make payment in full at the time
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Re: AT&T charges extra to pay cash [Telecom]
The doctrine of legal tender is essentially as follows:
Anything declared to be legal tender is, if offered as a settlement of a
debt, a complete defense to any action for non-payment of that debt.
This means that if a debt does not yet exist, one party may set as a
condition of the contract that payment is to be made in any way they choose
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Re: AT&T charges extra to pay cash [Telecom]
As I understand them, when you are negotiating a transaction, the
creditor can set any terms of payment it wants, e.g., Yap island stone
coins in advance. But if a transaction has already happened and you
owe someone money, then they have to accept cash to settle it.
The last time I was in my local AT&T store, last year sometime, I
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Debian OpenSSL Vulnerability
***** Moderator's Note *****
Although the attached warning is not, srictly speaking, telecom
related, I'm allowing it because Debian GNU/Linux is the operating
system that runs a lot of the Asterisk PBX software, and is used in a
lot of other "infrastructure" machines that provide email or other
essential corporate functions. The more people who know, the better.
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Re: AT&T charges extra to pay cash [Telecom]
Those words, which are quoted from a Treasury Department web page,
seem contradictory. The original source is:
[link]
... and is not any clearer. If it is "a valid and legal offer" why
isn't the creditor required to accept it?
I gather the legal tender laws have only actually been enforced when
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Re: AT&T charges extra to pay cash [Telecom]
It was a dark and stormy night when Matt Simpson
wrote:
It is not true, but at the same time, that's not to say that there is
anything that obligates a business to accept payment in pennies, either.
"[All] United States money... is a valid and legal offer for payment of
debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal law
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Re: Who needs an HDTV? [Telecom]
In article ,
WRONG!!! 'pixels top-to-bottom", is the same as what the video guys call
"*HORIZONTAL* lines of resolution".
Its _easy_ to get confused. But remember if you light up the same pixel
position in adjacent _vertical_ columns, this draws a =horizontal= line.
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[telecom] 3 in 10 get all or most calls on cell phones
By ALAN FRAM
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- For nearly three in 10 households, don't even bother
trying to call them on a landline phone. They either only have a cell
phone or seldom if ever take calls on their traditional phone.
The federal figures, released Wednesday, showed that reliance on cells
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Re: AT&T charges extra to pay cash [Telecom]
It is enshrined in the US Code that no quantity of pennies greater then
forty nine cents need be excepted by anyone as payment for anything.
There may be similar limits on other denominations of coinage but I
don't know. I do know that cash can be sent by registered mail quite
safely and that no one can refuse US paper currency in any denomination
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Re: Who needs an HDTV? [Telecom]
Right, it's pixels top to bottom, which is the same as what video guys call
'vertical lines of resolution.'
It doesn't MATTER that you have more than 1080... it only matters that you
have 720 or an integral multiple of 720. If you scale the image up by a
non-integral size factor, you lose quality.
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License requirements for cellular repeaters/boosters [TELECOM]
I'm not sure this is where I saw the discussion regarding license
requirements for cellular repeaters, but some had stated that no FCC
license was required. From today's FCC Daily Digest, it appears they
disagree.
DIGITAL ANTENNA, INC.
Notified Digital Antenna, Inc. of its Apparent Liability for
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Re: Who needs an HDTV? [Telecom]
In article <110520082131028182%linc...@su espammers.org>,
linc...@suespammers.org says...
[Moderator Snip]
Thanks for confirming that it's vertical resolution. So in essence I'll
get a bit of letterboxing on this laptop. No biggie. I much prefer net
based vids and haven't had many crashing issues.
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Re: Who needs an HDTV? [Telecom]
In article ,
'lines of resolution' on one axis is _exactly_ the same as 'pixels' on the
other axis, when talking about a fixed-pixel based display.
Stack a number of rows (columns) of pixels side by side, with every other
one on/off, and you'll see the lines form in the other direction.
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A Low-cost Attack on a Microsoft CAPTCHA
A Low-cost Attack on a Microsoft CAPTCHA
Jeff Yan, Ahmad Salah El Ahmad
School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, UK
{Jeff.Yan, Ahmad.Salah-El-Ahm...@ncl.ac.u k
Abstract: CAPTCHA is now almost a standard security technology. The
most widely used CAPTCHAs rely on the sophisticated distortion of
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Re: Who needs an HDTV? [Telecom]
In article ,
Yes, the 720 and 1080 numbers are the vertical, not horizontal.
720 = 720 v / 1280 h (monitors commonly 768 x 1366 or thereabouts)
1080 = 1080 v / 1920 h
My computer monitor is 1200 x 1920, so it can display 1080 images with
just a bit of letterboxing. Given how crash-prone my computer is,
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Re: Who needs an HDTV? [Telecom]
In article , klu...@panix.com says...
I thought the 720 was lines of resolution, not pixels across. If that's
the case I've got better than 1080.
I know the aspect ratio on SDTV is 4:3, and on HD it' 16:9, so by that
math I'd need 723 lines of 1280 pixels, and my display is set at
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Re: Velveeta: "beware Operation Sudden Fall" [Telecom]
[snip]
I suppose you're right, although I can't help but wonder if someone is
touting SMS encryption as a roundabout way of pumping a common
underlying technology which is in use by all the sites mentioned.
But is it AES, or something less robust? If it's AES, then the
encryption is believable, but if it's a less robust method, then it
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Re: Velveeta: "beware Operation Sudden Fall" [Telecom]
edi...@telecom-digest.org wrote in :
My best guess from reading several versions of the message you refer to: it
is a hippie who got all excited when he saw news that the police can
monitor text messages, he collected a few links to existing options to
encrypt your text message traffic and got those out to the world in order
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Re: Who needs an HDTV? [Telecom]
Unfortunately, scaling up from the lower resolution to the higher resolution
isn't very good. With multisync CRTs, it was possible to change the resolution
of the video monitor to whatever the computer wanted it to be, but in the
flat panel monitor world, you pretty much have to operate the monitor at the
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Velveeta: "beware Operation Sudden Fall" [Telecom]
***** Moderator's Note *****
Usenet is getting a flood of Velveeta this morning, all of it touting
some scheme to "Encrypt" SMS messages, and supposedly protect them
from interception by the police. The first two URL's in the Velveeta
point to news reports about widespread drug dealing and arrests on a
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Re: Who needs an HDTV? [Telecom]
In article , mo...@roscom.com says...
So true, I've got my laptop set at the highest native resolution
1280x800
So it can do 720P no problem.
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English money (WAS: History -- increase in pay phone... [telecom]
If our moderator and the group will tolerate another "odd English money"
item I'll offer this mathematics class story problem:
"The coalman delivered seven sacks of coal at thirteen shillings and
tenpence, ha'penny a hundredweight. Your Mum gave him a five-pound note,
then bought a pair of shoes for one guinea and gave you half a crown pocket
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Re: Who needs an HDTV? [telecom]
Won't come close to a good HDTV with high-speed video processing,
conversion to 24 fps for Blueray DVDs, and on and on.
Plus, until you get to around 40 inches, much of it's lost anyway.
***** Moderator's Note *****
_What_ is lost below 40 inches, and why?
Bill Horne
Temporary Moderator
(Please put [Telecom] at the end of your subject line,
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"Mind Control by Cellphone" [Telecom]
We haven't had this discussion in a while. There's always the crowd who
says "it is impossible for a cellphone to affect your body except by
heating", the crowd who says "it'll give you cancer", and a few who say
"we're not sure why there are effects, or what their significance is,
but they do exist". This article falls into that last camp.
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Re: History -- increase in pay phone from 5c to 10c? [telecom]
hanco...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote in
I found the local coin telephone rate in Louisiana in 1974 at five
cents. This was during basic training at Fort Polk. Where the fort was
served by a Bell System Associated company located in Leesville not far
away. I don't know when, or how much, the five cent coin paid call rate
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Re: History -- increase in pay phone from 5c to 10c? [telecom]
_ schrieb:
This is getting very off topic now, but I have a rather funny story from
my first visit to England. With my metrical brain, I had practised
several hours before I dared to visit a grocery store to buy "half a
pound" of cheese. Everything went well until the nice lady had cut of a
good looking piece of cheese, put it on the scale and then my whole
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Re: Who needs an HDTV? [Telecom]
***** Moderator's Note *****
Here's another response to my question about using HDTV cards with
Linux.
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On Fri, 09 May 2008 09:45:38 -0400
As usual, Bray has his head up and locked. First, HDTVs are selling
for under $500 retail (32in and smaller). Most of these are 720P. Full
HD is 1020P, but 720P is pretty good for smaller systems. Many also
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Re: Who needs an HDTV? [Telecom]
***** Moderator's Note *****
Here's another post about the Linux side of HDTV cards.
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I have an HDHomeRun, from Silicon Dust. Two tuners, an IR receiver,
and connected via 100Mb/s ethernet. It works very nicely with Linux,
OS X and (people say) Windows. Picks up over-the-air channels with an
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Re: Who needs an HDTV? [Telecom]
***** Moderator's Note *****
I'm a member of the Boston Linux & Unix Group, and I asked the members
to add a Linux perspective to the Hiawatha Bray article mentioned in
Monty Solomon's post.
This reply is from Jarod Wilson, who asked that his email address be removed.
***** *****
The digital side of the HVR-950Q is supported in the dvb-v4l mercurial
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Re:History -- increase in pay phone from 5c to 10c? [telecom]
On Thu, 08 May 2008 06:44:30 -0600 "Anthony Bellanga"
[snip]
It is my recollection that Bell Canada and the other companies in
which AT&T had only a minority interest - the Cincinnati & Suburban
Bell Telephone Company and the Southern New England Telephone Company
- were "associated companies," not Bell Operating Companies. The
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May 8, 1988 - Hinsdale CO Fire [Telecom]
Today (or yesterday, if you're reading this in digest mode) is/was the
20th anniversary of the Hinsdale, Illinois CO fire. Everybody on this
list probably has his/her own story about that day, but here's mine ...
from the Cable TV side.
In 1988, I was Manager of Tech Ops at the Warner Cable system in Oshkosh
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Who needs an HDTV?
TECH LAB
Who needs an HDTV?
By Hiawatha Bray | May 8, 2008
Given the feeble state of the economy, many of you are in no mood to
blow $1,000 or more on a high-definition TV set. But then, you
probably own one already.
It's called a computer monitor. The typical monitor can display HD
video of respectable quality - not up there with a true HDTV set, but
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Re: History -- increase in pay phone from 5c to 10c? [telecom]
On Tue, 06 May 2008 17:50:17 -0400" Julian Thomas"
[snip]
It may seem picky, but it was not a minor matter
to the crafts involved. Linemen would not have worked
on pay phone or any other station apparatus. This
would be the job of installers, repairnen or
installer-repairmen. Those were the titles at the
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Re: History -- increase in pay phone from 5c to 10c? [telecom]
Actually, MOST of the US, at least "Bell" areas, was already 10-cents by
the mid-1950s.
Louisiana as an entire state was the last holdout. I understand that
Louisiana briefly went to 10-cents in the 1950s, but it went back to
5-cents. I will have to research this... I sort of wonder if Southern
Bell (yes, it was Southern Bell for Louisiana, and also Mississippi,
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Re: History -- increase in pay phone from 5c to 10c? [telecom]
"d" for the UK (old) penny comes from the latin "denarius". From 1950 to
the mid 60's a pound (240 pence) was worth about $2.80 in USD, so a penny
UK was a little more than a penny US - 4d was about a nickel.
English coinage was at least as full of oddities in nomenclature as it was
in division.
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