I would probably give a master password and a copy of my password safe to my lawyer, along with my will and other legal paperwork that she should have just in case something should happen to me.
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How many sharks with frikkin laser jokes will we get on this story?
Since the joke was made in the summary, I predict a total of zero further Shark jokes. I'm sure that Sea Bass jokes will be plentiful though.
I expect thats what most companies want, one profile that has your family and college buddies and one that has you friended to work people. You do work stuff from the work profile. I think that what we do for those people at my office who are on facebook for customer relations.
I'm someone who's only been to Facebook a few times, due to Google searches taking me there. I understand that it's a social site for people to post information about themselves and communicate with friends who use the service. I don't understand it when I see a product saying "Come visit us on Facebook!". Is this just a glorified web page? Why not just put up a website for your company, and let people link to it? Maybe it's like software APIs or something, where the company's Facebook page is a sort of wrapper that makes their interface match that of other Facebook users?
Its all about communicating with customers, and getting new ones. If you can get a customers to friend you what you post shows up on their wall and when they friend you it shows up to all their friends. So the idea is very simple, get a bunch of people to friend you, send content out them and then get them to bring in their friends.
Honestly with the size facebook is I would be worried about any company that was *NOT* on facebook.
Esp in areas like Sderot which has been subjected to years of rocket fire from Gaza. I'm sure making houses more bomb proof would go over quite well. I live in Israel but not in Sderot, we actually have a bomb shelter in our house, but we use it as a storage closet.
I think at some point in the 19th century the US Patent Office decicded that to patent a Perpetual motion machine you would have to produce a working demo and have it run for a year and a day (they had a LOT of bogus claims). So if these guys think they can make one, time to build a demo and set it up for review.
It would be possible to draw some energy from the earth's magnetic field, but not very much its not a very strong magnetic field.
If you have a lot of 4x5's check out some of the large format photography pages (http://www.largeformatphotography.info/). 4x5 and larger photography is still something that people are activily doing, so they have looked at these issues before. http://www.photo.net/ is also a good place to look
In theory in the USA they need a warent to listen in on your phone (I live in Israel, I have no idea what the local laws are). But to be honest if you are that worried about somone listening in on your phone then don't pass sensative information over the phone lines.
Could someone listen in on my cell phone? Maybe I don't know. To be honest if they did most of what they are going to hear is my calling neighbors to arange a lift home after work or me talking to my wife about important things like does she want me to pick up something at the store. I don't think the local cops care enough about this type of thing to make listening in important (At least I can't figure why they would). If I was aranging drug deals I would not use my cell phone, or even my home phone.
Look you have to decide if you are OK with this or not, and if not ether move to a different project or find a new job. I have always said that there are things I would not do for a job due to my own ethical/moral and religious ideals. For refrence I am a religous Jew, as such I will not work on Shabbat and would not work to build say an Evangelical Christian website. In my current job this is not a problem. In fact my contract forbids me from working on Shabbat.
Sometimes the cost of living up to your moral standards is that you get to make a hard choice. As for what the issue is that you have a problem with don't worry what anyone else here says. If you feel it is a problem for you than it is.
When I bought a condo in the USA some years ago I had to buy title insurance for just this kind of thing. I don't recall how much it cost but it was pretty cheap. Seems like not taking it out when you buy a house is just stupid.
Well when the atomic bomb project was started most of the people on it were woried about Germany (many of them were Jews who had fleed from Nazi Germany, including Einstein himself). Also the Einstein letter was written by Leo Szlard or at least at his urging, who convinced Einstein to sign it. Szlard was an old student of Einstein's from when they were both in Berlin.
Well if the CEO of United Air lines wanted to fly it Israel he might well fly El Al, United doesn't fly to Israel. The JFK-TLV route is flown by El Al, Israir, and Continental.
That rain affects radio signals is not news this has been known for a long time. That you can use this effect to quantify rainfall in a very localized way is. Now for those of you who have never been here Israel is a desert. (Some parts more than others) and there is normally no rain between April and September so when it does rain we want to make the best possible use out of it. If the country can get 5% more productive use out of each rain fall that will really help out a huge amount. Israel has invested a huge amount of money into our water infrastructure over the last 58 years and will continue to do so.
Just FYI I was at OSDC::Israel last month and there were several Arabs there. I assume they were Israeli citizens, but didn't ask. We did end up chatting about Ajax for a bit after one of the talks.
About 6 months ago I was working on a startup with a few other people and we used a wiki to plan out various things. THe wiki worked great, the startup never started for other reasons.
What we used was just the wikimedia software with a username/password infront of it.
What makes you think that with more parties there would be less corruption? While in the US you only have 2 real parties (at least only 2 worth paying attention to) in many countries you have more. Here in Israel we have something like 12-15 and it makes patronage and the like that much worse. In Israel you need to get 61 members of the Kennset (parlament) to form a government, but in the history of the ofthe country no party has ever gotten more than about 40 or so. The small parties make up the difference, so a party with 5 MK's can find itself in control of some government ministry, sometimes this works out very well but often it just means that that party uses it position to fund its own program and screw everything else.
Also we use a party list system so the top people are basicly in for life.
There are other ways to deliver a bomb besides a missle. Say load it on a boat and have it go off in the harbor of a major city. Would 1 bomb destroy the USA, no, but it could do a hell of a lot of damage.
Assuming that your office has a shower, mine doesn't. Well even if it did I would not be able to bike to work, my house is 50km away, and there is probably about 1000ft of vertical climb as well. Plus there are some areas that I would be afaid to bike threw for risk of getting shot at.
Right now I take a bus to work, its about 2 hours each way. (on a good day) but I can't afford a car yet and need the job.
My kids would probably still loose it, even if it is a bit bigger. They are very good at loosing stuff, it comes from being a teen ager (or an almost teen ager)
I have 2 kids who are about 14, and I got to say there is no way I would give them something that costs $99 and is the size of a pen. They would loose it in 3 days.
Well Intel has places all over Israel, they have a very large building in Petach Tikvah, as does IBM (i have no idea what they do in them, I just take the bus past them every morning as I go into Tel Aviv).
Kirat Gat is just outside of Ashlalon, about half way between there and Hebron. No idea why they chose to put it there and not any of a dozen other places, but they probably have good reasons. There is no university anywhere near there (the closest is probably in Bear Sheva).
From the home brewers that I have known over the years (including those who have owned brewshops) I have found that they tend to be really nice folks who would like nothing more that to share their beer and how they made it. If you want to brew it is often well worth it to find someone who brews locally and get them to teach you. Chances are whomever it is will be happy to do so and point you at lots of useful stuff.
And other drinks over at the Cat's Meow 3 lots of beer related stuff. Of course it will cost you some money to brew a batch, but hey it could be worth it.
I do not vouch for specific recipies there, as I haven't done any brewing in years.
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I would probably give a master password and a copy of my password safe to my lawyer, along with my will and other legal paperwork that she should have just in case something should happen to me.
How many sharks with frikkin laser jokes will we get on this story?
Since the joke was made in the summary, I predict a total of zero further Shark jokes. I'm sure that Sea Bass jokes will be plentiful though.
Somehow I trout that.
It could be, but it would be weird if it were the case. Out of millions we are first? Ok someone has to be first but its still kind of improbable.
Of course our ability to spot the radio transmissions from other worlds is pretty thin still so we may well have missed some, infact it seems likely.
thats ok, its probably some green prince with $40,000,000 in a bank account he wants our help with. ;)
I expect thats what most companies want, one profile that has your family and college buddies and one that has you friended to work people. You do work stuff from
the work profile. I think that what we do for those people at my office who are on facebook for customer relations.
I'm someone who's only been to Facebook a few times, due to Google searches taking me there. I understand that it's a social site for people to post information about themselves and communicate with friends who use the service. I don't understand it when I see a product saying "Come visit us on Facebook!". Is this just a glorified web page? Why not just put up a website for your company, and let people link to it? Maybe it's like software APIs or something, where the company's Facebook page is a sort of wrapper that makes their interface match that of other Facebook users?
Its all about communicating with customers, and getting new ones. If you can get a customers to friend you what you post shows up on their wall and when
they friend you it shows up to all their friends. So the idea is very simple, get a bunch of people to friend you, send content out them and then get them to bring in
their friends.
Honestly with the size facebook is I would be worried about any company that was *NOT* on facebook.
Esp in areas like Sderot which has been subjected to years of rocket fire from Gaza. I'm sure making houses more bomb proof would go over quite well. I live in Israel but not in Sderot, we actually have a bomb shelter in our house, but we use it as a storage closet.
I think at some point in the 19th century the US Patent Office decicded that to patent a Perpetual motion machine you would have to produce a working demo and have it run for a year and a day (they had a LOT of bogus claims). So if these guys think they can make one, time to build a demo and set it up for review.
It would be possible to draw some energy from the earth's magnetic field, but not very much its not a very strong magnetic field.
If you have a lot of 4x5's check out some of the large format photography pages (http://www.largeformatphotography.info/). 4x5 and larger photography is still something that people are activily doing, so they have looked at these issues before. http://www.photo.net/ is also a good place to look
In theory in the USA they need a warent to listen in on your phone (I live in Israel, I have no idea what the local laws are). But to be honest if you are that worried about somone listening in on your phone then don't pass sensative information over the phone lines.
Could someone listen in on my cell phone? Maybe I don't know. To be honest if they did most of what they are going to hear is my calling neighbors to arange a lift home after work or me talking to my wife about important things like does she want me to pick up something at the store. I don't think the local cops care enough about this type of thing to make listening in important (At least I can't figure why they would). If I was aranging drug deals I would not use my cell phone, or even my home phone.
Look you have to decide if you are OK with this or not, and if not ether move to a different project or find a new job. I have always said that there are things I would not do for a job due to my own ethical/moral and religious ideals. For refrence I am a religous Jew, as such I will not work on Shabbat and would not work to build say an Evangelical Christian website. In my current job this is not a problem. In fact my contract forbids me from working on Shabbat.
Sometimes the cost of living up to your moral standards is that you get to make a hard choice. As for what the issue is that you have a problem with don't worry what anyone else here says. If you feel it is a problem for you than it is.
Good Luck
When I bought a condo in the USA some years ago I had to buy title insurance for just this kind of thing. I don't recall how much it cost but it was pretty cheap. Seems like not taking it out when you buy a house is just stupid.
Well when the atomic bomb project was started most of the people on it were woried about Germany (many of them were Jews who had fleed from Nazi Germany, including Einstein himself). Also the Einstein letter was written by Leo Szlard or at least at his urging, who convinced Einstein to sign it. Szlard was an old student of Einstein's from when they were both in Berlin.
Well if the CEO of United Air lines wanted to fly it Israel he might well fly El Al, United doesn't fly to Israel. The JFK-TLV route is flown by El Al, Israir, and Continental.
That rain affects radio signals is not news this has been known for a long time. That you can use this effect to quantify rainfall in a very localized way is. Now for those of you who have never been here Israel is a desert. (Some parts more than others) and there is normally no rain between April and September so when it does rain we want to make the best possible use out of it. If the country can get 5% more productive use out of each rain fall that will really help out a huge amount. Israel has invested a huge amount of money into our water infrastructure over the last 58 years and will continue to do so.
Just FYI I was at OSDC::Israel last month and there were several Arabs there. I assume they were Israeli citizens, but didn't ask. We did end up chatting about Ajax for a bit after one of the talks.
About 6 months ago I was working on a startup with a few other people and we used a wiki to plan out various things. THe wiki worked great, the startup never started for other reasons.
What we used was just the wikimedia software with a username/password infront of it.
What makes you think that with more parties there would be less corruption? While in the US you only have 2 real parties (at least only 2 worth paying attention to) in many countries you have more. Here in Israel we have something like 12-15 and it makes patronage and the like that much worse. In Israel you need to get 61 members of the Kennset (parlament) to form a government, but in the history of the ofthe country no party has ever gotten more than about 40 or so. The small parties make up the difference, so a party with 5 MK's can find itself in control of some government ministry, sometimes this works out very well but often it just means that that party uses it position to fund its own program and screw everything else.
Also we use a party list system so the top people are basicly in for life.
There are other ways to deliver a bomb besides a missle. Say load it on a boat and have it go off in the harbor of a major city. Would 1 bomb destroy the USA, no, but it could do a hell of a lot of damage.
Assuming that your office has a shower, mine doesn't. Well even if it did I would not be able to bike to work, my house is 50km away, and there is probably about 1000ft of vertical climb as well. Plus there are some areas that I would be afaid to bike threw for risk of getting shot at.
Right now I take a bus to work, its about 2 hours each way. (on a good day) but I can't afford a car yet and need the job.
My kids would probably still loose it, even if it is a bit bigger. They are very good at loosing stuff, it comes from being a teen ager (or an almost teen ager)
I have 2 kids who are about 14, and I got to say there is no way I would give them something that costs $99 and is the size of a pen. They would loose it in 3 days.
Well Intel has places all over Israel, they have a very large building in Petach Tikvah, as does IBM (i have no idea what they do in them, I just take the bus past them every morning as I go into Tel Aviv).
Kirat Gat is just outside of Ashlalon, about half way between there and Hebron. No idea why they chose to put it there and not any of a dozen other places, but they probably have good reasons. There is no university anywhere near there (the closest is probably in Bear Sheva).
I personally live farther north near Ariel
From the home brewers that I have known over the years (including those who have owned brewshops) I have found that they tend to be really nice folks who would like nothing more that to share their beer and how they made it. If you want to brew it is often well worth it to find someone who brews locally and get them to teach you. Chances are whomever it is will be happy to do so and point you at lots of useful stuff.
And other drinks over at the Cat's Meow 3 lots of beer related stuff. Of course it will cost you some money to brew a batch, but hey it could be worth it.
I do not vouch for specific recipies there, as I haven't done any brewing in years.