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Alice in Dairyland
4/10/2021 5:03:15 PM
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Norm...
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Kosh's Shadow
4/10/2021 5:04:25 PM
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Reply to Alice in Dairyland in 1: I never watched the show, but I have been by the exterior in Boston. BTW, on Star Trek Deep Space 9, Quark's bar had a regular alien called "Morn" - as an homage to Norm.
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Kosh's Shadow
4/10/2021 5:39:49 PM
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Maybe the pub needs an AI regular who can chat when there is no one around.
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Kosh's Shadow
4/10/2021 5:46:26 PM
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In #3 Kosh's Shadow said: Maybe the pub needs an AI regular who can chat when there is no one around. NormHal "Sorry, Kosh, I cannot do that"
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Kosh's Shadow
4/10/2021 6:20:06 PM
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My new cell phone (Pixel 5) has an interesting call screening feature. One option when a call comes in is "Screen call" That displays in text what is being spoken to the other end ("The person is using a call screening service from Google. Please state your name and the reason for the call..." and then displays speech recognition of the voice from the other end, usually poor; I think it does not handle Indian accents well. Most times, the call gets disconnected with no message. Other times I see some garbled message about a warranty or Amazon customer service. ONCE I got a real message, and said to call back (you can't pick up the call), and the person called back the next day. (Headhunter.)
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Kosh's Shadow
4/10/2021 7:29:13 PM
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NormHal, open the pub bay doors Sorry, I cannot do that
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@PBJ3
4/10/2021 7:30:33 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 5: Ever since I gave my cell phone number to the health company that gave me my Covid19 shots I've been getting spam like never before. Some are claiming to be the IRS and they're getting ready to take "action" against me. Prior to getting my shots the only strange calls were the ones where they're speaking Chinese.
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Alice in Dairyland
4/10/2021 7:56:18 PM
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I only use Facebook for Market Place. I have absolutely no information about myself on it. I think I'm probably the only person on FB with absolutely no friends. I was checking the security settings and saw something that said every time I check webpages they partner with,, they let Facebook know I was there. It's so FB can serve me better with ads I may be more interested in. Yeah, sure. I was pretty upset to see my bank was one of them. The option for turning it off only turns off your notification about it. Facebook will still get notified when I visit these pages. I'd get out of FB, but I really like Market Place. It's kind of like the old classified ads section in your local newspaper and have had pretty good luck selling things we no longer need/want. I was surprised to see how interconnected these websites were though. Scary, to say the least.
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Kosh's Shadow
4/10/2021 8:07:14 PM
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Reply to @PBJ3 in 7: Health care companies, not the ones you do business with, but the ones they do business with, are not good at security, and don't care. OK, my info is from around 2002, but I doubt it has gotten that much better. When I took my class for my now-lapsed GSEC security certification, there were people there from some health claim processing company saying their management said they didn't care about security since they did not contact the consumer directly, and thus were not subject to HIPPAA. (BS)
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Kosh's Shadow
4/10/2021 8:10:15 PM
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Reply to Alice in Dairyland in 8: I used FaceBook once to get information from an interested party in a case my wife had. Then I deactivated it. Someone in Turkey reactivated it, so I changed the password and deactivated it. I really hate Big Tech. Yet I occasionally get contacted by Facebook Engineering to see if I am interested in working there. When I was unemployed, I did the phone screen, and there were lots of positions I would have fit, but they didn't go further. Not that I really expected them to. I was the US guy they could say they contacted but didn't fit so they could bring in someone from India cheap.
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Kosh's Shadow
4/10/2021 8:13:02 PM
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In #10 Kosh's Shadow said: I was the US guy they could say they contacted but didn't fit so they could bring in someone from India cheap. You see, they can get H1B visas by saying that they couldn't find anyone in the US who met the job requirements, but they are not required to show the people from India or China met them. Thus, when .NET was 2 years old, they'd require 5 years of .NET experience, and hire someone cheap from India who knew what .NET was.
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Alice in Dairyland
4/10/2021 8:15:36 PM
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In #10 Kosh's Shadow said: there were lots of positions I would have fit, but they didn't go further. I think you really dodged a bullet there. I'd feel kind of dirty working there, kind of like a paid Peeping Tom. Now with them being so anti-conservative, it would really be hard to fit in and find any kind of job satisfaction.
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Alice in Dairyland
4/10/2021 8:19:03 PM
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In #11 Kosh's Shadow said: hire someone cheap from India Maybe you could have gotten a job creating the Universal Translator they used on Star Trek. At least then we could understand that guy from tech support when he's giving us instructions on what to do to solve our problem.
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Alice in Dairyland
4/10/2021 8:20:51 PM
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I have a hard enough time trying to understand people south of Illinois, just imagine what I go through with an Indian accent!
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@PBJ3
4/10/2021 8:23:31 PM
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In #8 Alice in Dairyland said: Scary, to say the least. I was just telling a FB friend about the time I broke my femur because his wife just broke hers. I'm sure I'll probably have ads for orthopedic doctors by tomorrow. It is scary.
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Alice in Dairyland
4/10/2021 8:24:55 PM
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Reply to @PBJ3 in 15: I just hope nobody shows up from there and breaks your leg! They've got product to sell.
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Kosh's Shadow
4/10/2021 8:27:47 PM
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Reply to Alice in Dairyland in 12: Except I had gone too long over the 20 years past and year or so then without a paycheck
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@PBJ3
4/10/2021 8:28:47 PM
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In #16 Alice in Dairyland said: I just hope nobody shows up from there and breaks your leg! They've got product to sell.
Indeed, LOL.
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Kosh's Shadow
4/10/2021 8:32:01 PM
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In #13 Alice in Dairyland said: Maybe you could have gotten a job creating the Universal Translator they used on Star Trek. At least then we could understand that guy from tech support when he's giving us instructions on what to do to solve our problem. If it is someone who calls claiming to be from tech support, he's trying to steal your info. I pay for Dell pro tech support. They are the few tech support people that actually know what they are doing. Even the regular Dell techs are barely competent. I had a computer that would not pass the self tests BEFORE it loads Windows, and they wanted me to reinstall Windows. Hardware problem. The heat sink was not properly attached. While that computer was being fixed, my Macbook died and Apple can shove it up their behinds. That was the WORST computer I ever had. Screen, system board, keyboard, 2 or 3 optical drives, and then, 3 months after Apple Doesn't Care expired, the heat sensor on the system board failed. NO compensation. I had less trouble from Compaq years earlier and they compensated me.
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Kosh's Shadow
4/10/2021 8:32:42 PM
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In #16 Alice in Dairyland said: Reply to @PBJ3 in 15: I just hope nobody shows up from there and breaks your leg! They've got product to sell. MafiaBook
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@PBJ3
4/10/2021 8:38:59 PM
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OMG, I have Power of Attorney for my husband and I filled out a survey of the appointment the other night. The last two or three pages were all about what sex were you when you were born, do you identify as a someone of a different sex, which one???, etc., etc. I wish I had made a copy of those pages. I'm sure if the hospital is not careful about all of this they could be sued.
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Alice in Dairyland
4/10/2021 8:40:41 PM
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It always bugged me when people would say they couldn't take a job because they couldn't stand to "that" everyday for the rest of their lives. We didn't really have that option. Paying the bills was the priority, didn't matter if we liked it. I stayed in my job for 32 years because it paid the mortgage and created a retirement nest egg, not because I liked it! In all fairness, I didn't mind the work, it was some of the people that made it miserable.
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Alice in Dairyland
4/10/2021 8:47:25 PM
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Reply to @PBJ3 in 21: I'm so sick of this shit. When you're in the hospital, it doesn't matter what gender you identify with; they had better treat you in regards to whatever gender you were born as. Why do people have to make life harder than it already is?
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Kosh's Shadow
4/10/2021 8:47:58 PM
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Reply to Alice in Dairyland in 22: Most of my jobs weren't bad, but one was, and that was deliberate on their part. They wanted to get rid of me, and did, That time, I had another job in a couple of weeks, because I had been looking. They got rid of me because I did not get an assignment done on time. By that time, they had two people far more familiar with the code I was working on, who had not gotten the work done in twice the time I was given. If you were in their "in" crowd, you were good. Otherwise, don't mind the door on the way out. They were a technology company, but not in a tech industry. Pure tech companies have been better; layoffs there were never personal.
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Alice in Dairyland
4/10/2021 8:50:45 PM
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In #19 Kosh's Shadow said: If it is someone who calls claiming to be from tech support, he's trying to steal your info. I never take those calls, let voice mail answer the phone if I don't recognize the number. The only tech support I have to deal with is when I call the phone carrier for internet problems.
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@PBJ3
4/10/2021 8:50:49 PM
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In #22 Alice in Dairyland said: I didn't mind the work, it was some of the people that made it miserable. That's how it was for me at one or two of my jobs. We were self-employed in a small business for 39 years and that has it's problems too. We had some wonderful employees and some "nightmare" employees.
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Kosh's Shadow
4/10/2021 8:51:17 PM
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In #21 @PBJ3 said: I wish I had made a copy of those pages. I'm sure if the hospital is not careful about all of this they could be sued. We scan everything here. No physical copies to clutter the place, but we can print them if needed, and they are MUCH easier to find.
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Kosh's Shadow
4/10/2021 8:56:45 PM
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In #25 Alice in Dairyland said: The only tech support I have to deal with is when I call the phone carrier for internet problems. The last time I tried to call Verizon for Internet support (as opposed to phone line and physical DSL problems, which they can handle), the person on the other end had no idea what I was trying to explain. If their line checks show problems, they can handle it. That's telephony, which they are good at. Mostly. Last time, the tech replaced the interface box which had been ripped off when a truck hit the phone line and never was properly repaired. I was pleased he took the time to do the job right, and filled out their survey accordingly. And there have been a few days recently of problems with Verizon and other providers. They don't admit it, but I can tell from my router logs they had hackers taking their networks down with denial of service attacks. I'd see 3 or more a minute when the network had problems, and that would drop to one every few minutes when it worked again. But the news that covers the outages never mentions that.
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Alice in Dairyland
4/10/2021 8:57:36 PM
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In #24 Kosh's Shadow said: If you were in their "in" crowd, you were good. Well, I certainly wasn't part of the "in" crowd, but I was responsible and dependable. They needed me for a long time before they no longer did. Too many people in new management and had no idea of what my job was and decided they just didn't need me anymore. I wasn't too heart broken because I really didn't need them anymore either. Things work out in the end.
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Kosh's Shadow
4/10/2021 8:58:24 PM
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In #29 Alice in Dairyland said: Too many people in new management and had no idea of what my job was and decided they just didn't need me anymore. A new Pharaoh who did not know you?
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@PBJ3
4/10/2021 9:00:33 PM
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In #27 Kosh's Shadow said: We scan everything here. No physical copies to clutter the place, but we can print them if needed, and they are MUCH easier to find.
We need to start doing that.
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Alice in Dairyland
4/10/2021 9:08:16 PM
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Our carrier is Frontier. Some things they are good at and others not. Recently just upgraded us to fiber. Speed check shows 62.9 mbps. Used to be .9 on a good day. Other than disconnecting us from our voicemail, the upgrade went good. Took 2 days and 3 tech people to fix the voicemail. The first 2 were really bad, the last guy said he could see the problem right away. Something wrong in the programming. Took about 10 minutes to correct it and he kept apologizing for taking so long. Should have gotten his name and could ask for him if/when need be in the future.
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Alice in Dairyland
4/10/2021 9:09:36 PM
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In #30 Kosh's Shadow said: A new Pharaoh who did not know you? I guess you could say that. Guess things worked out pretty good for me then.
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Kosh's Shadow
4/10/2021 9:10:10 PM
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Reply to Alice in Dairyland in 32: We have DSL because when we did have cable, it would go out in bad weather, and we cannot tolerate that for essential internet (both of us need it to work). Comcast was always willing to give a refund, and we can live without TV. And we do now, as it got too expensive.
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Kosh's Shadow
4/10/2021 9:11:35 PM
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Reply to Alice in Dairyland in 32: Oh, and most tech support is graded on the number of calls they can handle. Thus the common "reboot and call back" - the complicated issue ends up with someone else when you call back
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Kosh's Shadow
4/10/2021 9:19:36 PM
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Good night,
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Alice in Dairyland
4/10/2021 9:23:13 PM
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I'll turn the lights out. Well, maybe not, others may show up later. Wouldn't want them to trip over something in the dark.
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@PBJ3
4/10/2021 9:26:53 PM
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In #36 Kosh's Shadow said: Good night, Gluten free dreams, LOL.
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