Hey ya'll,

Just wondering if anyone would be interested in buying my tuner module. It is in like new condition although it has been installed. I can throw in a sony stalk (RMX4S?), for free, if you like, but it is only in fair condition cause the (use-once sticky stuff has been peeled off my steering column). The tuner module comes with everything in the original box including the antenna adapter and extension. I know that a price of $350 sounds ridiculous, but they are going for $400 on ebay and I'm using it happily right now. I cannot go any lower than $350; if I get no offers I will keep it.

John McDowell

P.S. As I know there was a recent scam scare, I can do anything you like to assure that I am legitimate, including phone numbers, drivers licences, bank wires, and general assurance that I have no intention of being anything but completely honest.

Scare? LOL

You got him, didn't ya? Serves him right.

I thought your quote about him either being a criminal mastermind or an idiot was hilarious. Can't you just imagine his face when he was reading how much information you had tracked down on him? LOL.

Can't you just imagine his face when he was reading how much information you had tracked down on him? LOL.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing -- that he picked the wrong group of people to mess with if he thought he could keep any internet anonymity. Maybe the "Garden View Orchid Club" or something similar would have been a better choice for him -- but to try it with a group where a pretty significant percentage could legitimately claim to be hackers (in the best sense of the word) was a mistake.

tanstaafl.

Did he try to hide his tracks in any way? I thought he handed out his address for cheques to be mailed? Sounds like a knuckle dragger to me.

(or maybe it's a double scam, there are only actually two victims, and nobody has really been arrested at all...) (I'm joking! Keep those lawyers away from me!)

Rob

He used a fake name at his real address. Signed the money order I sent to him over to his real name and cashed it at his bank in his real account. Andy Stot wired the money directly to his account with his real name. I am not sure what the man was thinking. It was certainly erratic but it was relatively easy to track him down. I don't think he counted on us coming forward so quickly and being so forthright about the information. I am thankful that this forum is as close knit as it is, otherwise he would have gotten away with it. I thought he may have been a college student that was trying to get over and then go home for the summer. Then again he was relatively arrogant about it. In one email I told him that if he went to jail that he would be close personal friends with several inmates--if you know what I mean and he seemed to think that it would never happen.

I just hope if NOTHING else the police let me keep the 20gb empeg he sent me to get me to shut up. I paid for a 60gb model but I don't expect to ever get that. I would be happy with a 40gb drive and blessings to upgrade from those who control the warranty instead of my money back.

I have already told the police that I would be willing to travel there to testify. I want to look this jerk in the eye when he goes to jail.

No problem with the warranty, provided you contact David (carsupport@sonicblue.com) first and follow any instructions he gives. We should check that the player hasn't previously been reported as stolen, though.

Rob

It had never been installed. Everything was still sealed. Who do I contact about checking the serial? It is 010101499

I know this is terribly off topic and I am sorry. If you want to reply to this under one of the other threads that is kewl.
Thanks
Chris

Who do I contact about checking the serial?

David, who is carsupport@riohome.com .

On that note, I contacted David last Friday about needing a replacement cable as mine is bad, and have yet to recieve so much as an aut-reply email. Just wondering, what are his normal working hours? And has Monday started in England yet?

They don't have Mondays in England.

They also don't feel pain the way we do.

Greetings!

Normally, Mondays start just after Sunday night over there. I know there is a multiday holiday for the Queen's Jubilee going on over there, so I doubt anyone is really paying attention to email. There was a posting somewhere about the empeg store not being taken off-line yet because no one is in the office to do it. I would expect a reply when people return to the office (Wednesday).

It's not Monday until Wednesday, it's the Queen's Golden Jubilee weekend.

Edit: Ummm, in fact exactly what pgrzelak had said!

I took the store offline but I'm not going anywhere near the support mailbox

I think we set a bad precedent with these fast email responses - we should probably set up a "We'll get to it soon" autoresponder and then introduce an arbitrary delay to bring everything into line with most other companies

Rob

It has long been the maxim in my line of business that if you reply too quickly, they won't think that you've thought about it and will mistrust your reply.

Great four days for the jubilee, being British has more than a few compensations - but I thought that we got too much Paul McCartney in the concert. It's nearer to Holland as well, just a night trip over, with casinos and booze, but I won't be able to make the meet.

Question about the Jubilee...

CNN showed a picture of Brian May (with that same old guitar he built in high school that he's never changed) on the roof, playing "God Save The Queen". However, CNN reported on the photo caption that he "sang" it, and I thought he was best known for his instrumental version of that piece of music.

I'm curious, did he sing it, or did he do an instrumental and CNN just got the caption wrong?

Well it wouldn't be entirely unexpected that he'd sing it, as he's got a good singing voice. He sang lead on several Queen songs, '39 probably being the most notable. Happens to be my favorite Queen song.

On a slightly tangential note, with all that's in the news these days about new experiments testing Einstein's theory of relativity, I think this analysis is kinda interesting.

Not many people "get" that '39 is about the time dilation effect. I didn't even know it until a couple years ago, when a friend pointed it out to me. I had never read the lyrics closely enough, despite being a big fan of that album. When I perform the song now, I have to give it the proper introduction and explain the time dilation efect.

I have since found a web page which quotes an interview with Brian where he confirms this and also talks about it being influenced by a short story written be Herman Hesse. The page is here:

http://www.pemcom.demon.co.uk/queen/nato/poet.html

Wow, pretty cool. I thought that h2g2 entry was just conjecture. I never really delved that deep into the lyrics, but I always did get confused by "though you're many years away." I thought of time travel, as opposed to time dilation.

I thought that h2g2 entry was just conjecture.

It is, it just happens to be correct conjecture. Someone needs to get in there and point them to the quote from the book I linked to confirm their findings.

He didnt sing it, it was an instrumental.

That's what I figured. Leave it to CNN...

Ironicaly, we started to watch the TV coverage on BBC, but had to abandon the coverage because of the witterings and republican dross that David Dimbleby(SP?) was winging on about.

So we watched it on CNN too, a much more informed and interesting coverage.

I thought of time travel, as opposed to time dilation.

Time dilation is just the fancy name for time travel.

Time dilation is just the fancy name for time travel.

No, it isn't.

Time dilation refers specifically to the non-linearity of what we perceive as the passage of time as velocities approach the speed of light, as defined by the Lorentz-Fitgerald contraction equations of the early 1900s.

It has no more to do with traveling through time than would Rip Van Winkel waking up after a 20 year nap.

tanstaafl.

Wow, dude, if you just stuck to talking about topics you actually know something about... Well..... We'd miss you around here.

No way..... You can never be too fast. Especially when the email was personally written and it was obvious the you read the entire thing. I just wish more companies were like you. If you like you can let the powers that be know that your friendliness and speed and the fact that you all very obviously care about producing the best quality product possible makes me much more likely to buy anything else that Rio happens to sell... Even if you guys aren't even directly involved. (Quality by association, I guess). Anyway, I got my email earlier today, but I've been too busy to even reply to it. I am doing so right now. Thanks again.

Mason

You've hit a nerve with me! Dimbleby seemed ill informed( or briefed) and gave opinions instead of information, he spoilt the whole parade by wittering on. Particularly in talking over the singers in the procession, but when he said we need an expert - I shouted out loud what the f*** are you being paid for!
I,ve complained to the BBC and note that many of Wogsn's listeners thought the same.

I hate that whole dialation thing... Last time it happened to me I had to start paying child support.

Ba-DUM. "Thank you, I'm here all week."