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One morning about three weeks ago, at 5:45 a.m., the robocallers came for me. My cellphone rang. And rang. The calls claim to come from all over the world. Sometimes they ring once, and stop. Sometimes twice. Rarely more than that. If I answer, I am sometimes told I owe money to the Internal Revenue Service but, more often, I hear gibberish, noises that sound vaguely French - but also sound like what a 10-year-old says when they are trying to pretend they are speaking French. Sometimes the calls are from Belarus. Or Slovenia. Or Uganda. Last week, an “unknown caller” got me twice while I was on another line talking to experts on robocalls. The next day, 14 calls by 10 a.m. A query on Facebook showed I wasn’t alone. “Minsk and Bosnia,” wrote a high school friend within seconds of my initial post. “Always Chinese ones for me,” a sometime editor chimed in.
While Stickam's policy states that such material is against the rules, enforcing the policy is difficult when live streaming is involved. The AVC mentioned above is Stickam's parent company: Advanced Video Communications. The company also owns and operates a service called PayPerLive. Stickam members with a PayPerLive account can charge other Stickam and PayPerLive members money to view their live streams. While Stickam has an age limit of 14 for members, you must be at least 18 years old to have a PayPerLive account. It's against Stickam's rules to broadcast any content for which you don't own the rights. In other words, you shouldn't stream movies or music if you don't hold the copyright. Stickam will send messages to anyone who ignores these rules and may even go so far as to delete the user's account. Users also aren't allowed to turn their Stickam accounts into a way to make money, apart from subscribing to the PayPerLive service.
What should I do about unsolicited, unwanted, spam or junk email? The main drawback of using email is receiving a constant flow of unwanted and occasionally offensive email. IT Services regularly receives queries from people on campus asking how the sender obtained their address and how to stop the messages. If ever you contact anyone off site via email there is no guarantee that your email address will not be disclosed to someone else or made available to others. Companies are much more likely to do discover this than individuals. Chat sites may make your email address visible, and software exists that "harvests" this information. We have had complaints from people who thought that their privacy had been invaded, and who forgot that they had published their email addresses in journals and on websites advertising conferences. The Sussex system uses a spam-detection system called SpamAssassin, and while this does help block a huge amount of spam, it cannot block all of it.
You can also connect your Kindle to a computer with the USB cord to transfer files. Every purchase you make from Amazon goes into a special folder called your library. Amazon uses a cloud storage model where the file lives on one of Amazon's computer servers. That means even if you delete a book from your Kindle to conserve space, the record of your purchase will still exist on Amazon's servers. You can download the book again to your Kindle for no additional charge. There are also free Kindle reading apps for many devices, including iPhone, iPad, Android devices and Mac and Windows-based computers, so that you can buy and read Kindle books without purchasing a Kindle. One advantage to all the available apps is that you can partake of Amazon's Whispersync technology, which synchronizes the last page you read on one device across all your Kindle readers, including your physical Kindle if you have one or more, so that you can read on multiple devices without losing your page when you switch.
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