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AT&T Slaps Family With a $19,370 Cell Phone Bill 725

Posted by timothy on Saturday September 06, 2008 @04:38PM from the hearts-and-minds dept.

theodp writes "Mama, don't let your babies send e-mail and photos from Vancouver. A Portland family racked up nearly $20,000 in charges on their AT&T bill after their son headed north to Vancouver and used a laptop with an AirCard twenty-one times to send photos and e-mails back home. The family said they wished they would have received some kind of warning before receiving their chock-full-of-international-fees 200-page bill in the mail for $19,370. Guess they didn't read the fine print in that 'Stay connected whether you are traveling across town, the US, or the world' AT&T AirCard pitch. Hey, at least it wasn't $85,000."

Comment Re:how to get a job 101 (Score 1) 328

by LuckyLefty01 on Monday March 31, 2008 @02:51AM (#22918774) Attached to: Practical Experience As a Beginning Programmer?

Thanks. That's a good idea, and it's actually pretty much what I've been doing on my own, but I think I'll try to be more dedicated and put more time into it if I can.

Submission + - Practical Experience as a Beginning Programmer

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LuckyLefty01

on Saturday March 29, 2008 @08:25PM

LuckyLefty01 writes: "I'm 21 and in college/working part time doing odd jobs like math tutoring, and in the past nine months or so I've really discovered and taken to programming (so far mostly C/C++/Obj-C). I am now looking seriously at something in this area as an eventual full time job. I'm looking at this coming summer and thinking that since I don't have all that much scheduled it would be great to try to get a job of some sort at a related/tech company in order to get some practical experience in this area. Even if I don't have the experience to get a job involving actual programming or anything of that sort yet, I think just the knowledge about how such a company works would be valuable. One advantage I do have is that I live in the SF Bay Area, so there should be plenty of companies around. I'm pretty flexible about what I'm going to be doing and very willing to learn just about anything anybody cares to teach me, but if there's some (or even quite a bit of) boring grunt work involved, I can do that too. I'm already planning to ask my friends/acquaintances in the field if they have any ideas/suggestions, but I'd also like input from you guys...what methods might I use to find such a job?"

Macrovision Wants Old DRM to Work Forever 288

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday August 17, 2006 @06:21PM from the descrambling-some-eggs dept.

Grv writes "Macrovision's best-known form of copy protection inserts noise into analog video signals to make it difficult to get a good copy of the DVD or VHS recording. A company named Sima has products that eliminate this noise when digitizing such video, as any good digitizer would do. Macrovision argues that this is a violation of the DMCA, and a court sided with them in June. Now the injunction is being reviewed, and several organizations are siding with Sima and Fair Use, including the American Library Association, the Consumer Electronics Association, the Home Recording Rights Coalition, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. If it isn't overturned, this decision could make it illegal to develop products for making copies of commercial analog recordings." This story selected and edited by LinuxWorld editor for the day Saied Pinto.

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