yeah you're right it's hard for others to advertise, so i just thought of something evil!
How about if instead spending 100% of their budget for advertising on advertising, they spend 80% of that money buying iphones right. And then they break them, not scratching or screens, but software-wise. Maybe bricking them.
THEN they give them away through promotional avenues, and so when thousands of people have "bad iphones" that apple won't repair, that'll make news and then BAM! The small guys have a chance for competition?
As long as no one gets caught, could it work? hahaha
If the concern is that you can only learn/repeat small bits of information, then you could say there could never be any more philosophers! lack of introspect and depth would be a direct result of knowing only little bits right?
I think that has always been the case though. I'm sure many of you work in a field that most people wouldn't be able to work in not because of lack of effort towards the job, but lack of caring to learn and understand what is needed to be done.
The internet is not a hindrance to most people because they would have never cared to learn more than what is necessary. But to those of you/us that are interested in more than what the summary of the associated press says, it has allowed us to easily access that information.
So basically, if you were lazy before the internet, you're going to be lazy during/after it. If you were very proactive in learning before it, you will be during/after it. How many of you have conversations that are short exchanges of words? Most people can't tell me to shut up enough lol:P
Although I agree with what you say, that isn't what they're trying to avoid.
What would you rather HAVE to fight against in order to "save your life?"
A) knife
B) coke can
One thing i always like to mention is i carry a full size spyderco "police" knife with full seration. It's a rather long/large knife and some people don't even want to look at it because they get scared! Can you believe that? That being said, I can still get that passed security and metal detectors... i've always said someone who is smart can think about these checkpoints and get knives and other weapons through. It's always in the back of my mind that someone who isn't in the right frame of mind might be carrying the same as I am.
Anyways, like i said in the TSA competition to improve security and decrease wait time at security check points... you need more people that are better trained than technology, our eyes are very capable but the brains we have using them are lazy!
But ATI sucks:P From personal experience, all ATI video cards i've had over the years have all sucked. They've been very limited in what I can do. The most upto date video card i have is only an nvidia 6600gt. But before that I ran pretty much only ati (because i didn't know any better) and always hated life. Since then i've recommended nvidia to everyone and no complaints what soever.
Now i'm looking at one of the newer nvidia cards for a HTPC. hopefully amd can fix the ati issues and make them a realistic performance card for people, but i'm likely to never buy them again.
Hmm i'm not REALLY sure but I don't think it matters if Ebay made paypal the only way to pay in the US. It's like saying I sell motorcycle parts and I only accept discover card. You can't complain to anyone and say I have to accept visa and master cards.
As long as it's a private business, they can say they can only take paypal for methods of payment.
The only thing I see people could raise a stink about is that paypal and ebay are owned by the same company, so they could get into it there.
But from my point of view, it sucks, but it seems they could do it, but i hate using paypal, they rob!! Ebay also robs so i try not to use them either.
Now that they have this against them, can all those who paid up because of their accusations counter sue and reclaim some of the damages paid? Or will they just get a slap on the wrist?
Also, will they just say "it's not us, it's the record companies, we just represent them..." crap?
Although the 3 cc companies have 800 numbers, i don't know if you can get a hold of someone. I believe it's all automated or recorded. If that is the case, wouldn't it amount to the same?
Why dumpster dive when you can just go work in a bank for a few days, steal loads of confidential files and get rich? Why go for pennies when you can go big time?
I've always told my buddies I want to write a movie about robbing a bank, but don't actually do it because dumb bastards would actually use what I wrote and pull it off.
Security is a joke in most banks, including the company I contract for at the moment. It's really sad and surprising what goes on. Glad it's not my bank!
In all seriousness, if you do that with checking accounts you'll go into the check system, which will be because of unpaid checks through your accounts. Then you won't be able to open checking accounts with any bank associated with the check system.
Having worked as a teller for the 3rd largest bank in the world at the time, it's pretty surprising to see how little money people have.
I then moved up to merchant teller and saw that businesses weren't really that much better. People will usually brag about how much money they have, but what you really need to get out of them is the last 3 month average or the account average, and then you'll get to the meat of the problem.
Most people have very little, i would say $500 average is HIGH.
But if you sign up for my financial course, I can help you save thousands!:P
Having played guitar for like 15 years, I know that you can get some pretty bad ass callouses on your finger tips. They are smooth and impervious to most sharp things for a short amount of time with applied pressure.
My question has always been, would this affect your finger prints? When I worked for a bank before, the FBI took my prints 3 times because they wouldn't come out. I think the guy just gave up after the 3rd attempt.
Some people have really hard jobs that destroy their hands, like some welders I know. I am pretty sure that would effect the palm vein scan.
I am thinking face/hand/feet would be the combo to go with since odds are you won't have all 3 destroyed. What do you guys think?
HAHAHA guess what, he married an Oriental! This is comedy that you mention it. He met some girl over the internet and went to see her, TWICE! The first time the girl was 'not sure about coming back with him and getting married.' The second time she accepted and got married! Hmm, maybe i should look him up to see if he's still accounted for! Oh Noes, now you have me worried about my buddy Shane.
mmm no i don't think it was Jeremy Clarkson, it was some other white dude. This other guy runs a company that secures your personal info (i believe through the credit reporting agencies) so that if someone tries to 'steal your identity' (maybe it's identity guard). Oh, it's life lock.com
My name is Todd Davis My social security number is 457-55-5462
hahaha YEAH!!!
my word image is: sweating, that is what Todd Davis was doing once they 'borrowed' his identity.
everyone reacts differently when i try explaining the virtues of BBC (in my opinion). But most don't know (so can't appreciate) what i know and where i'm coming from, so they take it poorly. I believe the reason is most people believe they're pretty bad ass, and few that they're l33t.
Little by little those who care learn about me and have learned to contemplate what i've said, but the rest (most) just give me attitude as if i was belittling them. That's pretty sad because i'm just really trying to help.
What do you guys say/do to teach others things that will help them be safer?
yeah, it's not just another job, i agree! That is why they have to take care to prevent this sort of thing from happening. In the IT world, they don't let users manager their own work terminals because they know the users will really fook it up, right? Same deal here.
Prevent access to sites, or even better, allow access to only a handfull of approved sites. This could be a good thing because then parents and civilians could run this list of 'approved sites' if they so wanted to and 'stay out of trouble.' Yes, that's censorship, but it'll protect the less than savvy population from the evil online-doers.
Because if you go down to the lowest level, even cops/security guards do the wrong things, a lot of the time.
hmm, i think naive is the word here, they just don't understand the security risk they run. Sure, in the small town it's really no risk at all. But in a bigger environment it's just a bad idea. I respect those who boldly put their info out there, like that guy who had so much faith in his credit securing company that he put his SSN out there... unfortunately it was used by those smarter than in his company.
They really need to teach about secure ideas in school.
I work as a contractor for the client i'm working for, and they required me to take the yearly security tests madated by fed and state law. Their testing structure involved 30-50 min reading sessions followed by like 10-25 questions. Having skipped the reading part and going straight to the questions, i was able to guess because the multiple choice told you what answers were wrong.
If you have something like that for testing, whats the point of doing it? I personally believe it's something that each person has to understand. Maybe not disclosing personal info, pictures or (more) links to my real life than i have to might make me a little paranoid, but i'd rather be this way than subject to easy in depth analysis of my personal info. I think Jr High is a good time to start teaching the virtues of security.
PS While in living abroad, i found out that people even entered their cell phone #'s in their personal profile (like hotmail's profile). I couldn't believe this!!!!! But to them, that's ok.
I don't know, because it's not about doing what you're trained/told to do. Even the best of us can get a virus in winders. I have a friend who admins my gbsd network and he doesn't even run a a/v on his windows box. He is that confident in his ability to discern good/bad archives/files/websites. I just burned him by giving him the g2p.org link, and he search for something (probably porn huh?) and BAM! Had to ghost his system.
So even though he KNOWS he should run an a/v, he doesn't because he trusts himself. We can't trust others when they're like this, especially with sensitive data they're holding.
PS, my major concern with the USAF is my buddy who is a mechanic. He was always so drunk, i found it hard to believe he could take the entire plane apart and put it back together. I always wondered about the safety of his plane. But i guess it was ok! He went with it to Saudi Arabia and got shot at (so he thinks) while having been put on sentry duty (due to low amount of people on base). ANY how, it worked out ok in the end and he came back alright.
Well, I want people around me to be 'smart' about these sort of things as well. Right now at work we have a pretty bad spam problem, well I do. Apparently people don't pay attention to me when i say to send BCC instead of cc, and they don't delete the "FROM" email addresses. Now my personal email is getting spammed. That sucks!
Maybe if you start with kids in jr high you can teach people about security, because most don't care if they use their real names, pictures of them AND names and pictures of others! That's a big pain in my side. And everyone who gets hired is instructed on what and what not to send in emails (because it's sensitive info). You think that matters to some forwarding to gmail every email they get in their inbox (a`la riaa)?
It applies because it really depends on the situation you're in. In the company I work for, we can't have 100% access to the systems because of security issues (gov (fed and state) law. But even if we could manage our own work terminals, I wouldn't recommend it. So many people barely can work with what they have, installing what they want would be a nightmare.
That's not even the worst of it, I could only imagine what it would be like fixing these peoples computers when they get infected warez (spy, root, etc).
I really don't know what the answer to this problem is, but maybe users could take a test to see if they're competent to admin their own terminal, and if they pass they can sign a document taking full responsibility over all activity that it creates (illegal warez, torrents etc.). I would LOVE to have full access but that's not going to happen here!
Did they just want to see how much at risk their respective departments were? I don't think they needed to try this on the military with so much data out there. Information is the hardest thing to keep secure, right?
So now what happens with people who gave up too much info? Will they get in trouble or will it be "well now you know better?" Either way that's not cool at all. Just think if your company set this up on you, what would your reactions be?
i am a little late but blend tec blenders will be at costco in alhambra, ca in april i believe. DO you think i can take my own samples to "will it blend?" Would be a nice segway to shredding hard drives. Maybe the white house used a blend tec blender!?!?!?
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yeah you're right it's hard for others to advertise, so i just thought of something evil!
How about if instead spending 100% of their budget for advertising on advertising, they spend 80% of that money buying iphones right. And then they break them, not scratching or screens, but software-wise. Maybe bricking them.
THEN they give them away through promotional avenues, and so when thousands of people have "bad iphones" that apple won't repair, that'll make news and then BAM! The small guys have a chance for competition?
As long as no one gets caught, could it work? hahaha
hey, the ppc6800 (mogul for me) isn't so bad ass! It does everything i want it to (except sprint tv at the moment).
With custom roms, i'm set!
If the concern is that you can only learn/repeat small bits of information, then you could say there could never be any more philosophers! lack of introspect and depth would be a direct result of knowing only little bits right?
:P
I think that has always been the case though. I'm sure many of you work in a field that most people wouldn't be able to work in not because of lack of effort towards the job, but lack of caring to learn and understand what is needed to be done.
The internet is not a hindrance to most people because they would have never cared to learn more than what is necessary. But to those of you/us that are interested in more than what the summary of the associated press says, it has allowed us to easily access that information.
So basically, if you were lazy before the internet, you're going to be lazy during/after it. If you were very proactive in learning before it, you will be during/after it. How many of you have conversations that are short exchanges of words? Most people can't tell me to shut up enough lol
what if the only dna they got were from guys? the "make them females" doesn't sound too good anymore =(
Although I agree with what you say, that isn't what they're trying to avoid.
What would you rather HAVE to fight against in order to "save your life?"
A) knife
B) coke can
One thing i always like to mention is i carry a full size spyderco "police" knife with full seration. It's a rather long/large knife and some people don't even want to look at it because they get scared! Can you believe that? That being said, I can still get that passed security and metal detectors... i've always said someone who is smart can think about these checkpoints and get knives and other weapons through. It's always in the back of my mind that someone who isn't in the right frame of mind might be carrying the same as I am.
Anyways, like i said in the TSA competition to improve security and decrease wait time at security check points... you need more people that are better trained than technology, our eyes are very capable but the brains we have using them are lazy!
But ATI sucks :P From personal experience, all ATI video cards i've had over the years have all sucked. They've been very limited in what I can do. The most upto date video card i have is only an nvidia 6600gt. But before that I ran pretty much only ati (because i didn't know any better) and always hated life. Since then i've recommended nvidia to everyone and no complaints what soever.
Now i'm looking at one of the newer nvidia cards for a HTPC. hopefully amd can fix the ati issues and make them a realistic performance card for people, but i'm likely to never buy them again.
Hmm i'm not REALLY sure but I don't think it matters if Ebay made paypal the only way to pay in the US. It's like saying I sell motorcycle parts and I only accept discover card. You can't complain to anyone and say I have to accept visa and master cards.
As long as it's a private business, they can say they can only take paypal for methods of payment.
The only thing I see people could raise a stink about is that paypal and ebay are owned by the same company, so they could get into it there.
But from my point of view, it sucks, but it seems they could do it, but i hate using paypal, they rob!! Ebay also robs so i try not to use them either.
Now that they have this against them, can all those who paid up because of their accusations counter sue and reclaim some of the damages paid? Or will they just get a slap on the wrist?
Also, will they just say "it's not us, it's the record companies, we just represent them..." crap?
Although the 3 cc companies have 800 numbers, i don't know if you can get a hold of someone. I believe it's all automated or recorded. If that is the case, wouldn't it amount to the same?
Why dumpster dive when you can just go work in a bank for a few days, steal loads of confidential files and get rich? Why go for pennies when you can go big time?
I've always told my buddies I want to write a movie about robbing a bank, but don't actually do it because dumb bastards would actually use what I wrote and pull it off.
Security is a joke in most banks, including the company I contract for at the moment. It's really sad and surprising what goes on. Glad it's not my bank!
In all seriousness, if you do that with checking accounts you'll go into the check system, which will be because of unpaid checks through your accounts. Then you won't be able to open checking accounts with any bank associated with the check system.
... at least I have a job!
Having worked as a teller for the 3rd largest bank in the world at the time, it's pretty surprising to see how little money people have.
:P
I then moved up to merchant teller and saw that businesses weren't really that much better. People will usually brag about how much money they have, but what you really need to get out of them is the last 3 month average or the account average, and then you'll get to the meat of the problem.
Most people have very little, i would say $500 average is HIGH.
But if you sign up for my financial course, I can help you save thousands!
Having played guitar for like 15 years, I know that you can get some pretty bad ass callouses on your finger tips. They are smooth and impervious to most sharp things for a short amount of time with applied pressure.
My question has always been, would this affect your finger prints? When I worked for a bank before, the FBI took my prints 3 times because they wouldn't come out. I think the guy just gave up after the 3rd attempt.
Some people have really hard jobs that destroy their hands, like some welders I know. I am pretty sure that would effect the palm vein scan.
I am thinking face/hand/feet would be the combo to go with since odds are you won't have all 3 destroyed. What do you guys think?
HAHAHA guess what, he married an Oriental! This is comedy that you mention it. He met some girl over the internet and went to see her, TWICE! The first time the girl was 'not sure about coming back with him and getting married.' The second time she accepted and got married! Hmm, maybe i should look him up to see if he's still accounted for! Oh Noes, now you have me worried about my buddy Shane.
mmm no i don't think it was Jeremy Clarkson, it was some other white dude. This other guy runs a company that secures your personal info (i believe through the credit reporting agencies) so that if someone tries to 'steal your identity' (maybe it's identity guard). Oh, it's life lock.com
My name is Todd Davis
My social security number is 457-55-5462
hahaha YEAH!!!
my word image is: sweating, that is what Todd Davis was doing once they 'borrowed' his identity.
everyone reacts differently when i try explaining the virtues of BBC (in my opinion). But most don't know (so can't appreciate) what i know and where i'm coming from, so they take it poorly. I believe the reason is most people believe they're pretty bad ass, and few that they're l33t.
Little by little those who care learn about me and have learned to contemplate what i've said, but the rest (most) just give me attitude as if i was belittling them. That's pretty sad because i'm just really trying to help.
What do you guys say/do to teach others things that will help them be safer?
yeah, it's not just another job, i agree! That is why they have to take care to prevent this sort of thing from happening. In the IT world, they don't let users manager their own work terminals because they know the users will really fook it up, right? Same deal here.
Prevent access to sites, or even better, allow access to only a handfull of approved sites. This could be a good thing because then parents and civilians could run this list of 'approved sites' if they so wanted to and 'stay out of trouble.' Yes, that's censorship, but it'll protect the less than savvy population from the evil online-doers.
Because if you go down to the lowest level, even cops/security guards do the wrong things, a lot of the time.
hmm, i think naive is the word here, they just don't understand the security risk they run. Sure, in the small town it's really no risk at all. But in a bigger environment it's just a bad idea. I respect those who boldly put their info out there, like that guy who had so much faith in his credit securing company that he put his SSN out there... unfortunately it was used by those smarter than in his company.
They really need to teach about secure ideas in school.
I work as a contractor for the client i'm working for, and they required me to take the yearly security tests madated by fed and state law. Their testing structure involved 30-50 min reading sessions followed by like 10-25 questions. Having skipped the reading part and going straight to the questions, i was able to guess because the multiple choice told you what answers were wrong.
If you have something like that for testing, whats the point of doing it? I personally believe it's something that each person has to understand. Maybe not disclosing personal info, pictures or (more) links to my real life than i have to might make me a little paranoid, but i'd rather be this way than subject to easy in depth analysis of my personal info. I think Jr High is a good time to start teaching the virtues of security.
PS While in living abroad, i found out that people even entered their cell phone #'s in their personal profile (like hotmail's profile). I couldn't believe this!!!!! But to them, that's ok.
I don't know, because it's not about doing what you're trained/told to do. Even the best of us can get a virus in winders. I have a friend who admins my gbsd network and he doesn't even run a a/v on his windows box. He is that confident in his ability to discern good/bad archives/files/websites. I just burned him by giving him the g2p.org link, and he search for something (probably porn huh?) and BAM! Had to ghost his system.
So even though he KNOWS he should run an a/v, he doesn't because he trusts himself. We can't trust others when they're like this, especially with sensitive data they're holding.
PS, my major concern with the USAF is my buddy who is a mechanic. He was always so drunk, i found it hard to believe he could take the entire plane apart and put it back together. I always wondered about the safety of his plane. But i guess it was ok! He went with it to Saudi Arabia and got shot at (so he thinks) while having been put on sentry duty (due to low amount of people on base). ANY how, it worked out ok in the end and he came back alright.
Well, I want people around me to be 'smart' about these sort of things as well. Right now at work we have a pretty bad spam problem, well I do. Apparently people don't pay attention to me when i say to send BCC instead of cc, and they don't delete the "FROM" email addresses. Now my personal email is getting spammed. That sucks!
Maybe if you start with kids in jr high you can teach people about security, because most don't care if they use their real names, pictures of them AND names and pictures of others! That's a big pain in my side. And everyone who gets hired is instructed on what and what not to send in emails (because it's sensitive info). You think that matters to some forwarding to gmail every email they get in their inbox (a`la riaa)?
It applies because it really depends on the situation you're in. In the company I work for, we can't have 100% access to the systems because of security issues (gov (fed and state) law. But even if we could manage our own work terminals, I wouldn't recommend it. So many people barely can work with what they have, installing what they want would be a nightmare.
That's not even the worst of it, I could only imagine what it would be like fixing these peoples computers when they get infected warez (spy, root, etc).
I really don't know what the answer to this problem is, but maybe users could take a test to see if they're competent to admin their own terminal, and if they pass they can sign a document taking full responsibility over all activity that it creates (illegal warez, torrents etc.). I would LOVE to have full access but that's not going to happen here!
Did they just want to see how much at risk their respective departments were? I don't think they needed to try this on the military with so much data out there. Information is the hardest thing to keep secure, right?
So now what happens with people who gave up too much info? Will they get in trouble or will it be "well now you know better?" Either way that's not cool at all. Just think if your company set this up on you, what would your reactions be?
i am a little late but blend tec blenders will be at costco in alhambra, ca in april i believe. DO you think i can take my own samples to "will it blend?" Would be a nice segway to shredding hard drives. Maybe the white house used a blend tec blender!?!?!?