The wonders of comcast chats.

I'm not going to explain the problem as I'm sure everyone on my friends list is smart enough to figure it out on their own from the first fucking sentence. This was a fun chat.

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Problem : The movie "An American Crime" is labeled incorrectly on On Demand. It is actually "American Crime" featuring Kip Pardue and Rachael Leigh Cook. Any help here?

Tristan > The movie "An American Crime" is labeled incorrectly on On Demand. It is actually "American Crime" featuring Kip Pardue and Rachael Leigh Cook. Any help here?

Luigi.29478 > Hello Tristan_, Thank you for contacting Comcast Live Chat Support. My name is Luigi.29478. Please give me one moment to review your information.

Luigi.29478 > I would be happy to help on your concern.

Tristan_ > Awesome. smile

Luigi.29478 > For account identification can you please provide your account number?

Tristan_ > I actually don't have that handy...anything else I can use?

Luigi.29478 > Let me just go ahead and check it using the phone number that you gave earlier.

Luigi.29478 > Would it be okay with you if I put you on hold for 2 minutes to be able to review my resources?

Tristan_ > Sure.

Luigi.29478 > Thank you.

Luigi.29478 > After checking that movie on my end, Tristan.

Luigi.29478 > This is the description that I got.

Luigi.29478 > In 1960s Indiana a bitter, divorced woman ( Catherine Keener ) vents her frustrations by torturing a girl ( Ellen Page ) left in her care by itinerant parents.

Tristan_ > Right, I get that one, too.

Tristan_ > But when I actually WATCHED the movie. It was not that at all.

Tristan_ > It was American Crime which takes place in Clarksville, KS. At least I think that's where it was.

Luigi.29478 > I see.

Tristan_ > I can understand why these movies would be mixed up seeing as they have very similar names.

Tristan_ > I didn't notice, or think anything of it, when I saw "American Crime" come up as the title and not "AN American Crime"

Luigi.29478 > Let me check on my resources to see what happened there, It was supposed to be "An American crime", as it was listed on the channel t.v guide.

Luigi.29478 > Thank you for patiently waiting.

Tristan_ > The further my wife and I got into the movie, we realized that this was not taking place in Indianapolis being from there.

Luigi.29478 > Can you please go ahead and retry viewing the movie again.

Tristan_ > Sure, give me two minutes.

Luigi.29478 > Thank you.

Tristan_ > Still "American Crime" with Rachael Leigh Cook.

Luigi.29478 > Would it be okay if I place you on hold, to see if we have other people having the same kind of concern?

Tristan_ > Yeah, that's fine.

Luigi.29478 > Thank you for patiently waiting.

Luigi.29478 > I have already checked on that movie.

Luigi.29478 > It says here that the airing will start 8:00pm-9:45pm. So that would be alter tonight.

Tristan_ > On sho.com. Which is Showtime's website is says this:

Tristan_ > AVAILABLE ON DEMAND:
# Starting 05/11
# Ending 06/07

Tristan_ > Last I checked, it's May 17th. And 17 comes after 11.

Tristan_ > It's mislabeled. That's it. Somewhere along the lines, someone gave comcast American Crime without the An

Tristan_ > If you want the link for my information, here it is:

Tristan_ > http://www.sho.com/site/schedules/product_page.do?episodeid=131558&seriesid=0

Luigi.29478 > Please click the link below for the schedule of the an American crime. http://tvplanner.comcast.net/?lid=5ProgrammingWhatsOn&lpos=Nav&searchTerm=&sc=com&noLanding=true&initView=search&zipcode=#initView=search,subPage=main,target=vod_microsite,b3target=,b3selPath=,gridStart=1211068800000,gridFilter=all,searchTerm=american%20crime,microCat=vod_all,microSubcat=,browseAlpha=null,browseListing=null,1211083993142

Tristan_ > Right, I understand it's going to be on television later. But the point of on demand is to have it, stay with me on this one....on demand when you want it. Which is what it says it is, but it isn't.

Luigi.29478 > I understand.

Luigi.29478 > I will go ahead and report and single out that incident for you, Tristan.

Tristan_ > Awesome. I'm gonna go find it online so that maybe, one day, we won't need cable companies anymore. Say hi to your brother Mario for me.

http://www.phun.at/

zomg so much fun even if I had to copy three files into /usr/lib

Teh winz!!1!

Zoohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhmg

Portal is so much fun.

Rush says he wants "replay of Chicago 1968, with burning cars, protests, fires, literal riots, and all of that." This is a transcript found on his own website.

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Limbaugh has said that "The dream end of this [of Operation Chaos] is that this keeps up to the Convention, and that we have a recreation of Chicago 1968 with burning cars, protests, fire, and literal riots and all of that, that is the objective here."

Cause that sounds like a good idea.

How can people still listen to this douchebag after his pill incident, Michael J Fox, what he's said about soldiers & his 3 divorces? He obviously doesn't have a conservative mindset.

Way to fail (most of) Indiana.



Way

to

fail.



But the republicans should be glad that a republican won Indiana.

According to officials from Nairobi-based Wildlife Direct, rebels and villagers have slaughtered at least 14 elephants in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in the past two weeks.

Since April 14, FLDR militiamen killed four; Congolese word FARDC and Mai-Mai rebels killed eight, and local villagers killed two elephants in Virunga National Park.

"This is the worst month we have seen in a long time in terms of recorded elephant deaths," said Alexandre Wathaut, the provincial director for the Congolese Institute for the Conservation of Nature (ICCN). "ICCN is making official representations to the Congolese military and to the militia for this slaughter to stop. We call on the international community to engage in solving the region's political problems, for the sake of the local population as well as for Virunga's unique wildlife."

Wildlife Direct chief Emmanuel de Merode said relaxing of global ivory trading rules and arrival of Chinese merchants in the lawless Great Lakes region has worsened poaching.

"The upsurge in elephant killings in Virunga is part of a widespread slaughter across the Congo Basin, and is being driven by developments on the international scene: the liberalisation of the ivory trade, being pushed by South Africa, and the increased presence of Chinese operators on the ground, who feed a massive domestic demand for ivory in their home country," he added.

Elephant populations in Virunga National Park have fallen from 3,500 in 1959 to about 350 in 1996. The death of 14 elephants therefore has a considerable impact on the viability of the local elephant population.

The killings were announced on Thursday as South Africa lifted a 13-year moratorium on elephant culling, raising concern of a return to the international trade in ivory seen in the 1970s and 1980s. The South African government earlier this year authorized the killing of elephants from May 1 as "a last resort" in limiting the numbers of the African elephant that have more than doubled since culling was halted in 1995.

Apart from elephants, rare mountain gorillas were killed last year in Virunga, one of Africa's largest parks, where local and foreign militias as well as Congolese soldiers, poachers and illegal miners regularly cross. All in all there are only 1,100 rangers protecting five national parks - four of which are classified as UNESCO World Heritage Sites -in eastern DRC. Some 150 rangers have been killed while on duty in the past decade.

Remember that time when Maiden of Virtue was at 5% and the instance server crashed. Yeah, that sucked.

Happy 2 month-aversary, Samkins!!!!

Greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey's NINTENDO!!!!!!!!


Chris needs Albuterol to live.


Twitter sucks.


Emma's a dirrty cat.*


Gracie is clean.

The extra "r" is a reference to the song "Dirrty".

It's funny that people have looked up OTHER hospitals on this hospital computer.

So, 79 dollars for full coverage insurance for my Insight since we're married.


I was paying about 120 dollars for liability only before.

Wow.

Did we just have an earthquake?

Look what we just gone and did!

http://belf-marriage.blogspot.com/

So I was on the ubuntu forums and I found this gem.

I put this in the *Security Section* of the forum too. Thanks.


Help With Hacker, Wanna Buy New Ubuntu
This is a VERY long story.

I'll try to keep it short though.

I've had a hacker stalk me for a long time here on the net.

Short story.....I got him fired for putting some of my private medical information on the net.

He worked as the main CT (computer tech) for the hospital where I was a patient.

When the hospital looked, they found that he was not only hacking patient records, but was running a pornography spamming ring with THEIR COMPUTERS!

Our ISP (Mediacom High Speed Internet) even admits that we're hacked (he's using THEIR computers) but refuses to act "because we don't get involved in personal vendetta's".

I've been to the FBI, who surprisingly, knew all about this socio-path, but does not got involved in personal cases (only unless one has a BUSINESS and has been hacked for over $10,000.00 in damages),

After being astounded that the FBI already knew all about him here's what else has happened to us.

After going through six Windows computers, and all of them falling like weeds under a lawnmower, we bought a Mac....it took him NINE MONTHS to learn his way around a Mac, and then he found a back door in our I-Mac G-5, through I-Chat, and Dashboard.

We were using OS X Tiger when this happened. I've heard it all about "Macs CAN'T be hacked", so please don't tell me THAT. It's JUST NOT TRUE.

I'm thinking of switching to a System 76 Ubuntu machine.

But I have questions.

After talking with Tom at System 76 this morning, and telling him our story he said (basically) "I don't know if Ubuntu can do anymore for you than a Mac could do, Mac use's a Linux kernal (I THINK that's what he called it)".

We are using an 'Alpha Shield' external firewall ( www.alphashield.com ) and I had ALL of our Mac locked down tight, and NO sharing applications were turned on.

But the Mac firewall WAS ON! And this guy is so "good", he still managed to find some 'backdoor' into I-Chat and Dashboard.

HOW do I go about super securing a brand new System 76 Ubuntu computer?

I'm thinking of trying THIS wireless router, it's got a double firewall in it:



http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...0079&CatId=373




But there MUST be MORE that I can do yet.

I've heard from reliable sources that Ubuntu is coming out with a firewall in their next update on April 24th, 2008.

Will this be a GOOD and strong firewall, do you think?

A Mac comes with reformat disc, what if you need to wipe the hard drive clean on a Ubuntu machine, can you burn a Ubuntu disc, and use it in the same way that you can in a MacIntosh?

That is, to wipe the hard drive, and to reformat the computer?

Can you please tell me that there is some way to really LOCK DOWN a Ubuntu machine, to where NO ONE can get through it, or is Tom right, and eventually this guy will be able to get through no matter WHAT I DO for security?

If you decide to write back could you please not use 'computerese' and please just say it in plain English (if that's possible, I mean)? Thanks.

I REALLY want to try Ubuntu, and one more thing.

This hacker cuts through Mozilla Firefox like hot butter, so is there another browser to use with Ubuntu that's SAFE do you think?

I'm VERY discouraged from what I heard from System 76 this AM, can you guys help me PLEASE?

Here's the computer that we plan on buying:


Graphics: Intel 950 Graphics Media Accelerator

Sound: Realtek ALC 662 4 Channel Audio

Processor: Core 2 Duo E6420 2.13 GHz FSB 1066 MHz L2 4 MB

Memory: 2 GB - 2 x 1 GB DDR2 667 MHz

Hard Drive: 250 GB SATA 300 Mbps - 7200 RPM 8 MB Buffer

Ottical Drive: First CD - RW / DVD

Second Optical Drive: CD - RW / DVD

Wireless: 802. 11 bg

Thank you so very much! Orca Wave

May be really long, but I lol'ed.

mmmm so very yummy.

I love Sam.

( Geeky WoW stuff. )

Ugggghhhh

My knee hurts for no reason at all.