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[OT] Probs with NIN
Hi Everyone,
I'm having problems paying for my NIN news services this year via their Click&Buy service. I have no idea whether I've paid them their overdue fee, or the subscription or anything thats going on with them. I don't trust their e-mails and the only way I'll know for sure is when my credit card statement comes in at the end of the month. As a consequence, I may lose my NIN subscription for a little while until I figure out whether I've paid them or not, and if not, how to pay them without involving Click&Buy or other services that my bank think are 'untrustworthy'. I think I have AIOE as a back up, and if it really gets bad, there's GoogleGroups (shudder), but if I have lost the subscription to NIN, I may not be posting to Usenet much until I figure it out. Purrs to all in the mean time, Yowie |
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[OT] Probs with NIN
Yowie wrote:
Hi Everyone, I'm having problems paying for my NIN news services this year via their Click&Buy service. I have no idea whether I've paid them their overdue fee, or the subscription or anything thats going on with them. I don't trust their e-mails and the only way I'll know for sure is when my credit card statement comes in at the end of the month. As a consequence, I may lose my NIN subscription for a little while until I figure out whether I've paid them or not, and if not, how to pay them without involving Click&Buy or other services that my bank think are 'untrustworthy'. I think I have AIOE as a back up, and if it really gets bad, there's GoogleGroups (shudder), but if I have lost the subscription to NIN, I may not be posting to Usenet much until I figure it out. Purrs to all in the mean time, Yowie Can't you check your credit card online? -- Adrian |
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[OT] Probs with NIN
"Yowie" wrote in message
... Hi Everyone, I'm having problems paying for my NIN news services this year via their Click&Buy service. I have no idea whether I've paid them their overdue fee, or the subscription or anything thats going on with them. I don't trust their e-mails and the only way I'll know for sure is when my credit card statement comes in at the end of the month. As a consequence, I may lose my NIN subscription for a little while until I figure out whether I've paid them or not, and if not, how to pay them without involving Click&Buy or other services that my bank think are 'untrustworthy'. Yeah, I got a phone call from my credit card company that there was some "suspicious activity" on my card - $15 to Click and Buy. -- Hugs, CatNipped See all our masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped See the RPCA FAQ site, by Mark Edwards, at: http://www.professional-geek.com/rpcablog/ Email: L(dot)T(dot)Crews(at)comcast(dot)net I think I have AIOE as a back up, and if it really gets bad, there's GoogleGroups (shudder), but if I have lost the subscription to NIN, I may not be posting to Usenet much until I figure it out. Purrs to all in the mean time, Yowie |
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[OT] Probs with NIN
"Yowie" wrote in message
... Hi Everyone, I'm having problems paying for my NIN news services this year via their Click&Buy service. I have no idea whether I've paid them their overdue fee, or the subscription or anything thats going on with them. I don't trust their e-mails and the only way I'll know for sure is when my credit card statement comes in at the end of the month. As a consequence, I may lose my NIN subscription for a little while until I figure out whether I've paid them or not, and if not, how to pay them without involving Click&Buy or other services that my bank think are 'untrustworthy'. I think I have AIOE as a back up, and if it really gets bad, there's GoogleGroups (shudder), but if I have lost the subscription to NIN, I may not be posting to Usenet much until I figure it out. Purrs to all in the mean time, Yowie Purrs that it gets straightened out soonest. -- Joy To belittle is to be little. --anon. |
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Probs with NIN
hopitus wrote:
I did not attend college only medical tech schools; lotsa Latin medical words, no Greek. Really? I thought most medical terminology came straight from Greek words, starting with the term "hippocratic". (Side question: what does an oath of loyalty to high standards of medical practice have to do with horses?) Maybe more modern medical terms come from latin, though. And you did work in radiology. Joyce -- Beauty and music seduce us first; later, ashamed of our own sensuality, we insist on meaning. -- Clive Barker |
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[OT] Probs with NIN
Not sure if you can use it from Oz, but there's also
eternal-september.org. That's what I've been using since Cox cut off newsgroups. I can't get binaries, but I can most of the regular text based groups, and I can't complain about the price... Either way, hope the problems work out! Purrs- Chris, Katie, Hazard and Oreo On 04/08/2011 08:43 AM, Yowie wrote: Hi Everyone, I'm having problems paying for my NIN news services this year via their Click&Buy service. I have no idea whether I've paid them their overdue fee, or the subscription or anything thats going on with them. I don't trust their e-mails and the only way I'll know for sure is when my credit card statement comes in at the end of the month. As a consequence, I may lose my NIN subscription for a little while until I figure out whether I've paid them or not, and if not, how to pay them without involving Click&Buy or other services that my bank think are 'untrustworthy'. I think I have AIOE as a back up, and if it really gets bad, there's GoogleGroups (shudder), but if I have lost the subscription to NIN, I may not be posting to Usenet much until I figure it out. Purrs to all in the mean time, Yowie |
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[OT] Probs with NIN
On 4/8/2011 8:43 AM, Yowie wrote:
Hi Everyone, I'm having problems paying for my NIN news services this year via their Click&Buy service. I have no idea whether I've paid them their overdue fee, or the subscription or anything thats going on with them. I don't trust their e-mails and the only way I'll know for sure is when my credit card statement comes in at the end of the month. As a consequence, I may lose my NIN subscription for a little while until I figure out whether I've paid them or not, and if not, how to pay them without involving Click&Buy or other services that my bank think are 'untrustworthy'. I think I have AIOE as a back up, and if it really gets bad, there's GoogleGroups (shudder), but if I have lost the subscription to NIN, I may not be posting to Usenet much until I figure it out. Purrs to all in the mean time, Yowie Click and Buy is exactly why I stopped using NIN. I just didn't trust them with my credit card info. Good luck. |
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hopitus wrote:
On Apr 8, 8:02*pm, bast wrote: hopitus wrote: * I did not attend college * only medical tech schools; lotsa Latin medical words, no Greek. Really? I thought most medical terminology came straight from Greek words, starting with the term "hippocratic". (Side question: what does an oath of loyalty to high standards of medical practice have to do with horses?) Maybe more modern medical terms come from latin, though. And you did work in radiology. Joyce Interested in what you said here, I found a website of some weird dude who has written several books on word origins and one of them is medical terminology. He has a big chart and you click on a word to see its origin. Turns out Latin is the predominant origin but some are of Greek origin. He does not mention Hippocrates. Radiology has its own lingo and pretty much it is a form of shorthand for the long medical terms for procedures, machinery, or diagnoses exclusive to that department. Some radiology students have trouble catching on to the lingo and when one of them spouts out with the entire medical or technical term for something going on, everyone including the docs must force a straight face. Here is an example: this monstrous therapy machine, a linear accelerator, is just called "the gantry" in radiology; I worked in "diagnostic". This machine is operated by some friends, who were in school with me yeaars ago; they are "therapy" techs; and treat patients, unlike finding out what is wrong with them like I did. http://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/phot...1.jpg&pg=linac Wow. That's not a diagnostic machine, is it? Looks more like it's used for treatment. What exactly does it *do*? "Linear Accelerator" sounds like something that might be used for studying particle physics. Joyce -- There is no alternative to being yourself. |
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hopitus wrote:
(inverse square law)_. That big round thing on top ("gantry") *rotates* 360o* around whatever is on the target pad (under this guy's head) and with precise aim, bombards the tumor and the tumor *alone* with yea whater dose of radiation patient's specialist docs have ordered. This is not like chemotherapy and does not nauseate patients. It is, though, radiation that is calculated to *kill* cancerous cells. It is so powerful that the tech ruinniing it is in lanothr adjoininng room watching patient through a radiation-proof lead glass window. I wonder how that is different from other radiation treatment that is used on cancer patients. Or is it just a newer and more precise way of administering radiation therapy? Joyce -- The sun rose slowly, like a fiery furball coughed up uneasily onto a sky-blue carpet by a giant unseen cat. -- Michael McGarel |
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Epsilon (WAS: Probs with NIN)
"hopitus" wrote in message ... On Apr 8, 10:49 am, "CatNipped" wrote: This news applies ONLY to USA residents (sorry, Yowie) but for several days now on medica (both tv news and printed media) there has been reported that some major company (I don't know what they call this kind of company) that handles *email* for some really big USA corporations, called "Epsilon" (right there is a red alert: named after a Latin alphabet letter, LOL) was hacked bigtime by corporate hackers who now have the *names* and *email addys* of anyone who ever got emails from the corporations it services! The news report stted for anyone who gets regular emails from retailers to beware of any requests or ommunications by emial for *more 411 personal, like credit card #'s or full names or RL addys. I personally have received two emails but they went into my spam-trap filters, and I did not open them. One was from Walgreens, which I had deleted my subscription for online emails from them months ago, and the other was from a clothing retailer I use (its financing bank, actually). I am NOT subject to the other threat from this happening the media warns about: online banking or online personal finance invastion. I don't do dat; excellent example this of why I don't. My first annoyed though was: WTF doesn't this Epsilon encryp its customers records *like the medical records of all medical outfits were forced by the Feds to do and now have done?* Duh. I guess its a lot of trouble to encrypt stuff and probably expensive. Anyway, if you USA residents get any odd emails from your frequently used retailers, remember the above. I'm sure you can read all about it anyway. I got the email about the hackers from a number of companies. Epsilon is a marketing firm. (Personally I don't care who has my email address. I don't have a munged address or multiple email addresses designed to dance around SPAM and all that other stuff. I don't store my banking, credit card info. etc. on my hard drive.) It's just common sense if you get an email from someone asking for specifics such as your address, bank or credit card info, SSN, password, or even answer one providing a URL for you to "update" this information, IGNORE IT. For a while I was getting emails allegedly from eBay stating my password information was invalid and providing a URL to update my information. No reputable company is going to send you an email asking you to update your password. A couple of years ago I was getting emails from the "IRS" saying I had a tax refund coming but they didn't have my information to send it to me. Really? And when did I ever give the IRS my email address? LOLOL So much of this is just common sense. Sheesh, we've all been online long enough to know this sort of phishing is pure crap. At least I hope so. If not, I'm a Nigerian princess and if you'll just give me your bank account information I'll send you four million dollars LOL Oh, and you just won the UK Lottery, too. BTW, even if the email addys were encrypted, you think a good hacker couldn't crack it? Encryption is not infallible. As for online banking, Epsilon doesn't handle banking transactions. I don't have to enter my email address to access my bank account. (No one should [be stupid enough to] make their login ID their email address!) I've been paying my bills via online banking for *years*. Banks have some of the most secure servers in the world. I realize there is *always* a threat. But then again banks are insured by FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) and investment firms are insured by SIPC (Securities Investor Protection Corp). If you're doing business with a bank or securities or investment company that isn't insured, you're in trouble. Make sure your A/V software is always up to date. There are also products out there to detect and delete malware and spyware if you want to take it a step further. IMHO, life it too short to sit around worrying about it. Jill |
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