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Or use can always use: http://www.bugmenot.com/

This annoyed me for a second, too, until I remembered I have the bug-me-not extension installed on this machine. It worked beautifully this time: right-click, select "login in with bug-me-not" and I was logged in.

I'll create an account with a site I access frequently to repay them in a small way for their efforts. Sites I can't live without I support financially (which oddly doesn't include slashdot). But sites I need this one time and may never visit again can suck it. I use bug-me-not on them.

Ah, my mistake - see Bugmenot.com for a usable password.

Just use one of these bugmenot accounts.

For sites like the NY Times, I use BugMeNot.com and use someone else's login. After all, isn't recycling a perfectly good login better than getting a new one?

I've searched for plenty of technical questions on google that land me on forums that require you to register to even read the posts. This means you have to give them a valid (well long enough for you to get the confirmation) email address and username/password. The worst part is that a lot of times those sites are really slow to send out the email and you're stuck waiting for it to solve your problem.

http://www.bugmenot.com/ is your friend - and there's also a Firefox extension. :)

I don't like grinding. I don't play MMOs - which I stated, so what's your point?

Perhaps you've decided that current MMO design is the absolute nadir, and that it cannot be progressed any further. Other people have decided that it can be improved. One of the issues with this WoW autopilot is that it is needed at all. Games are supposed to be fun, MMOs that require the player to grind to get anywhere are not fun - they're an addiction. In fact they are pretty close to optimal in terms of the reward schedule, which is why they are popular.

Before you hit the reply button to slate me because I disagree with you, try reading this. It does require a free-registration hassle, or a Bug me not. If you are at all interested in MMO design then it is an interesting read, and the opinions in it are a good reflection of how online gaming will shift over the next five years. The most important point is that grinding is not an addition to gameplay - it's a barrier

If you don't already have a dedicated download manager (e.g. KGet, FlashGot), Sun's download manager is pretty good in my experience.

Also, you can use dodgeit.com for throwaway email, and bugmenot.com for an account that's already set up for you.

Bugmenot.com is your friend.

I know a place to get a whole bunch of username/passwords.

I'll bet there's nothing keeping you from placing all those pennies on railroad tracks and having a train stomp those suckers flat.

And stop linking New York Times, you [expletive deleted]s. I don't want to fucking register nor do I want to have to take the goddamn time to go to bugmenot.com to get a NY Times uid & pwd. Here's some links that don't require registration to read: here , here , here , and here . Anyway, now that they said don't melt those coins, guess what they are going to do? Melt those coins.

http://www.bugmenot.com/ -- for when you need a username/pass to log into a particular free site (New York Times, AllMusic, etc.) but don't want to bother registering. Assumedly, this site will knock out half of your reasons to use these various quickie e-mail services. Enjoy!

http://www.bugmenot.com/view/www.chicagotribune.co m

try http://www.bugmenot.com/, and enter www.nytimes.com into the list. The first one I tried worked.

I just disputed that this can be deduced from the fact that most rich americans are first generation.

Point taken. The question I was answering was "You can exercise greater control over your socioeconomic standing?" If most or all rich became rich by inheritance, it would be evidence that you cannot. Most rich americans being first generation allows (but doesn't prove) that you can influence your socioeconomic standing.

I haven't read the article (login required) and "the book" (which book?)

My bad, the first time I looked, from a google link, it didn't require a login. You can get a login here: http://www.bugmenot.com/ . The book is "The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of American's Wealthy", which is why I've used american millionaires as an example. It's well worth a read from what I hear. I've only read the webpage.

First, frugality. I'm sure that has an effect, but why this would be bigger in the US than anywhere else I cannot see.

I agree entirely. I just don't know of a similar book about other countries.

Plus, while frugality will pay off under specific circumstances (possibly the majority), there are many business endeavors where it is bad for you.

I took the frugality to be applied to the personal income rather than a business practise. Don't have a lifestyle of senseless consumption, rather than don't invest in your business.

Dunno what this says about the control one has, but my gut feeling is again that this still does not mean that hard working equals rich any more in the US than in other places.

If we could use the word influence rather than control so we are clear what we are talking about. I think there are many other factors than hard work involved. What I mean is, having influence, but not control is that you don't have a guarantee, but you have a reasonable chance of obtaining the desired outcome. It's not hopelessly futile. Hard work does not guarantee rich, but laziness is pretty close to a guarantee of poor. Hard work is not the key, but it's a key.

There exist however many hard working rice farmers and pest controllers that are not rich. Again, I am not completely convinced.

My question is: are there any significant differences between the ones who do and do not become rich. Specifically, what is different about the rich that someone else could implement in their own lives, which pretty much comes down to habits, attitudes and beliefs.

An honest question: what about failure? Don't you have to take into account when juding about control over your life that in Europe there is a social safety net?

If you don't have control, failure is possible. Learn, start again, don't give up. Or depend on charity I suppose. Get a job. Something. In the end, every country has a 100% fatality rate. If you haven't become part of that statistic yet, do whatever you can. What you can't change, learn to live with. Failing in business or finance is not the end of the road in most cases. Plenty of successful people have failed first. In any case, I'm an aussie, not an american. We have a safety net. Several years ago, my wife and I came to the conclusion that the safety net will probably not survive the retirement of the baby boomers. We decided it was best to learn to live without it now, before everyone else did too. I used to do casual work, taking less than two weeks to find work after a contract finished. After refusing the safety net, I got to the point of finding work usually within 3 hours, not more than 2 days. I find that I become a lot more resourcefull if it is possible for me to fail. Now I have full time employment.

If in the US your business goes wrong in spite of hard work and other good qualities you have (say, you had no health insurance and got sick), what about the influence over your life then?

Indeed, that is exactly what it means to have influe

I used this back when it was called BugMeNot

They invented BugMeNot for that ;)

For some reason, the article omitted a link to bugmenot. There's a Firefox extension that automates the process.

If you don't know what this is, it's a user-maintained list of usernames and passwords for sites that "bug" you for registration. Some sites block Bugmenot-listed usernames and passwords but most don't.

http://www.bugmenot.com/

They have logins for manywebsites of all categories.
If if there isn't a login, they supply you with websites that allow you to create temporary email accounts.

How about the source article instead of a blog about it?

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/02/washington/02pho nes.html
http://www.bugmenot.com/view/www.nytimes.com

For you registration whiners.

I've never seen a developerworks article that required a login/password but this one does. Bugmenot has several though.

Anyways, has anyone actually used RCP. How does it compare to Swing?

Or, just use BugMeNot for an NYT login (or get Firefox and the BugMeNot Extension).

Porn spam is common and effective because sex is one of the basic human needs, so it's natural that more people are attracted to porn spam than Rolex watches for example. This is what first came to my mind when I read the title, and it turned out the article revolves around this idea.

The article requires login by the way, and BugMeNot comes to the rescue.

BugMeNot. + Firefox. = No Registration

I was curious and found that the Firefox extension for http://www.bugmenot.com/ has logins for the site so that you can view the info. You know, I hate forced, "free" logins.

Check out BugMeNot. I'm sure there's one there.

Facinating results with potentially huge implications, but according to the New York Times (login required, use BugMeNot), none of the results from this lab have been replicated elsewhere; despite discovering this cancer-resistant mouse three years ago, they haven't shared it with any other lab, so both papers on the topic are from the same people/lab. Not that I don't believe them, but a discovery like this which is so unlike anything seen before clearly needs to be independently verified.

You don't have to be a "member". You just have to feed them a bunch of BS demographics to get a free account. They have to be know whether to put up the Tampax ad or the Budweiser ad when you hit the page (or the Tampax/Budweiser combo ad if you're a drunken bitch).

Just go to Bugmenot and pick a ready made account.

Have you tried http://www.bugmenot.com? They have stuff in there you wouldn't expect.

Eww.

*washes hands*

Anytime you have to provide a credit card, I never go any further, nor am I alone on this.

Bugmenot is your friend

Here's the article: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg16622425.000 .html, although I'm afraid you can't read much of it unless you're a subscriber.

It's called Bug Me Not

Dear Atomm...

Login: bugmenot
Password: Bugm3n.+
Reminder: http://www.bugmenot.com/

Username: jpmorgan
Password: chastise

courtesy of http://www.bugmenot.com/

"That don't require you 'sign up'?"

Username: mobb@deep.com
password: mobbdeep

http://bugmenot.com/view.php?url=washingtonpost.co m

if those don't work

AC, Let me introduce you to bugmenot. Bugmenot, meet AC. I suggest you two get acquainted! :D

AC, Let me introduce you to bugmenot. Bugmenot, meet AC. I suggest you two get acquainted! :D

What digital divide? Read this NY Times story about the lack of one: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/31/us/31divide.html ?_r=1&oref=login (Registration required, or get credentials here: http://www.bugmenot.com/view.php?url=www.nytimes.c om)

err, registration?? pfff... no need to waste your time.

http://www.bugmenot.com/view.php?url=www.pqhp.com

have fun...

... is your friend.

http://bugmenot.com/view.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww. chicagotribune.com

why register when you can use other peoples registrations Go to http://www.bugmenot.com/ it works!

Actually, users can use the bugme not service [bugmenot.com] to get a free login/pass for chicagotribune. The first one off the top of the list worked for me.

BugMeNot rules! If you install the firefox extension (I think there's also an IE one), all you have to do is right click on one of the authentication text boxes and press "Login with BugMeNot"...

I wonder how long these will take to make their way to bugmenot

Instead of proto-bacteria, it might be more accurate to use "protobiont," because the characteristics that make bacteria bacteria weren't necessarily around at the beginning of life. Also, self-replicating DNA is kind of a big first step - more modern theories point to ribozymes as the original self-replicating molecule, being a ribosome molecule that can act as an enzyme and therefore have information-storing and metabolic functions. The oil droplets, or micelles, that you mention are probably better known as liposomes (that's actually a really good article on selectively permeable membranes and the first cells) and the presence of what are essentially protists (mitochondria and chloroplasts) inside eukaryotic cells is called endosymbiosis, and occurred (at least with mitochondria) by endocytosis. More on that here.

And here's a bugmenot search for Discover.com: http://www.bugmenot.com/view.php?url=www.discover. com

..they're the ones with the news website that is mostly unusable without a privacy-shaving registration or BugMeNot.