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Comment Re:Arbitrage (Score 1) 382

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1...

"One example occurred earlier this month, when the Federal Reserve announced its plans to continue a long-running bond-buying program. The news was announced in a lockdown room at Fed headquarters in Washington, DC, and allowed to leave the room at exactly 2:00PM EST, timed to the millisecond. Somehow, markets in Chicago began trading on the information instantaneously, without waiting the few milliseconds that it would have taken for information to travel via microwave. Clearly someone leaked the information — but so far, they're getting off scott free."

Comment Re:Or call your credit card company ... (Score 1) 228

Key bank does this as well; it appears to be becoming standard.

Basically, Banks are refusing to cash checks for their face value.

This flies in the face of the entire point of a check, being "Give this guy this amount of money."

If they want to charge a fee, they need to charge it to their customer, not their customer's customer.

Comment AT&T billing is crap. (Score 1) 321

I have an attorney friend with two AT&T cell phone lines.

A client was disputing billed hours (despite my friend charging a flat rate...); the client was the one continually calling him, asking questions he had already answered over and over...

anyway, on the AT&T website the link to download detailed call records next to each phone line summary only downloads data from the first line, even though it appears to be separate files; there was no way to download detailed usage data for secondary lines.

This was causing a HUGE amount of anxiety for my friend, because he couldn't find official call records to match his personal logs, until I figured out that AT&T online billing was providing data for the wrong phone!

A severe bitch session with AT&T on the phone followed shortly, and after a few escalations and transfers, he got a technician to e-mail a copy of the data he needed.

Comment BBS Camp. (Score 2) 310

Wrote and debugged a dial up message board server for the Commodore 64 while at camp for 2 weeks.

In a paper notebook, since this was the 80's are we were 15 miles from the nearest power lines.

When I got home, I transcribed it, and it worked perfectly. (for a single phone line dial up board for a few friends)

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