This information was likely gleaned from simple sources:
His address is probably trivial to get if you know his name. From there, there are a zillion web sites that will tell you the estimated value of your house, what houses around you have sold for, etc. All real estates are public, so it's not hard to figure out anything about his house.
You can buy marketing information, which likely will give them enough information to compute things the DMV would know, like cars and boats.
I would guess his credit report would provide the rest. I don't know if you need a credit application to run a credit report.
My guess is they simply called some private investigator who cranks these sorts of reports out all day long.
The aforementioned layoffs don't appear to have helped the stock price much, and we're talking nearly full three quarters after the move. ~$18 to less than $5. Gee, wish I owned that stock...
...so they can reset it. Seriously, it's not like there's a scientific law that says the world will break if they're not moved in six months. They set a goal. They might not make it. OH MY GOD...
What a lot of people fail to realise is that encryption can be made unbreakable even by brute force by simply choosing a large enough encryption key. What people also fail to realise is that 256 bit encryption doesn't take twice as long to crack as 128 bit encryption. It in fact takes 2^128 times as long to crack.
What some SlashDot posters don't realize is that we're just as smart as they are and they don't have to talk to us like we're technically illiterate.
"they're one of the few online resources that gets by completely on subscription fees"
Uh, aren't there gazillions of "online resources" that get by completely on subscription fees...aka porn? Isn't that the business model of every porn site?
On a less noxious note, that's also the business plan for eMusic and those sorts of sites.
Heck, it's also the business model for iTunes and World of Warcraft. They're not web sites, but they're still online resource.
IS it just me, or is Wikipedia best suited for pulp culture trivia...
Wikipedia sucks for pulp culture trivia. There is a ton of information on 1920s-1950s mystery/sf/adventure magazine short stories that is completely missing.
It's not bad for pop culture trivia, though, but who cares about that crap?
Ultimately, in all other ways, it should be used to replace books.
This is precisely why the OLPC project is so laughably absurd. Take a $200 device that is fragile (it's ruggedized but still electronics), is an environmental hazard to dispose of, and has a lifespan measured in years...and use it to replace books, which are far more rugged, cheaper to produce, and have a lifespan measured in centuries. There are good reasons to spread information technology, but "should be used to replace books" is not one of them.
OLPC is a rich man's idea of what poor men need. It's like donating an expresso machine to a homeless shelter.
(i.e., chat online before speaking on the phone; speak a lot before agreeing to meet; meet somewhere public the first few times; meet their friends and family and see if they look normal. remember if you marry someone you're marrying their family, and if their family is psycho, chances are they are psycho too, even if they behave normal for a while).
...handguns are not a form of torture. Seriously, that's the choice in many situations - crazy meth'd-up homeless guy charges cop with knife...cop tases or cop shoots. Which do you prefer?
Regardless of the Ewoks, the reason ROTJ sucked was that it was the same plot as the first movie. I remember watching it and thinking...death star...one weakness...no, they didn't just say that...ugh.
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48? Who gets the other 24?
- His address is probably trivial to get if you know his name. From there, there are a zillion web sites that will tell you the estimated value of your house, what houses around you have sold for, etc. All real estates are public, so it's not hard to figure out anything about his house.
- You can buy marketing information, which likely will give them enough information to compute things the DMV would know, like cars and boats.
- I would guess his credit report would provide the rest. I don't know if you need a credit application to run a credit report.
My guess is they simply called some private investigator who cranks these sorts of reports out all day long.The aforementioned layoffs don't appear to have helped the stock price much, and we're talking nearly full three quarters after the move. ~$18 to less than $5. Gee, wish I owned that stock...
He probably can't afford RHES even with his employee discount.
Not just like...they are a "regular charity".
...so they can reset it. Seriously, it's not like there's a scientific law that says the world will break if they're not moved in six months. They set a goal. They might not make it. OH MY GOD...
...the encyclopedia anyone can edit? Doesn't say "anyone who agrees with what the groupthink considers right can edit".
Well, and MS-DOS. And Windows. But they do make a nice line of office productivity apps...
What some SlashDot posters don't realize is that we're just as smart as they are and they don't have to talk to us like we're technically illiterate.
As I've said before, OLPC is a rich man's idea of what poor men need. It's like donating an expresso machine to a homeless shelter.
Uh, aren't there gazillions of "online resources" that get by completely on subscription fees...aka porn? Isn't that the business model of every porn site?
On a less noxious note, that's also the business plan for eMusic and those sorts of sites.
Heck, it's also the business model for iTunes and World of Warcraft. They're not web sites, but they're still online resource.
Why not? You're defending something Wales didn't say in the article.
I guess RTFA is sort of like looking at a "primary source"...
Wikipedia sucks for pulp culture trivia. There is a ton of information on 1920s-1950s mystery/sf/adventure magazine short stories that is completely missing.
It's not bad for pop culture trivia, though, but who cares about that crap?
My favorite quote (from Amazon's own comments section on Kindle): "The Kindle: it will do for books what the Segway did for transportation."
No, it's "Power corrupts, but PowerPoint corrupts absolutely."
Oh, well, when you put it in terms of an ad hominem, then of course I must agree.
This is precisely why the OLPC project is so laughably absurd. Take a $200 device that is fragile (it's ruggedized but still electronics), is an environmental hazard to dispose of, and has a lifespan measured in years...and use it to replace books, which are far more rugged, cheaper to produce, and have a lifespan measured in centuries. There are good reasons to spread information technology, but "should be used to replace books" is not one of them.
OLPC is a rich man's idea of what poor men need. It's like donating an expresso machine to a homeless shelter.
Sounds about right for a wii.
Is that the voice of experience I hear?
The idea that you're going to change the lives of kids living in mud huts by giving them a laptop is the central lunacy of this entire idea.
...handguns are not a form of torture. Seriously, that's the choice in many situations - crazy meth'd-up homeless guy charges cop with knife...cop tases or cop shoots. Which do you prefer?
Regardless of the Ewoks, the reason ROTJ sucked was that it was the same plot as the first movie. I remember watching it and thinking...death star...one weakness...no, they didn't just say that...ugh.
The chief difference is that Google has not paid for a Slashvertisement.
Or NetHack, of course...
No. It is utterly impossible. That's why Linux and the GNU project had to close up shop.