There's significant evidence that someone has been injecting tungsten filled "gold bars" into the world gold market. They're the correct weight, they displace the correct amount of water, the only way to tell is that the electrical resistance is something like.01% off. And cutting them in half, of course.
Mythbusters proved that this is completely incorrect. Scotch tape with your thumb behind it is enough to fake out many modern systems, since it detects the body heat. You have to breath on the tape for moisture, but that's about it.
Uh... you can easily burn out a lithium ion battery like the ones tesla uses by going below 1% charge. If their system isn't intelligent enough to completely stop battery use at 3%, and report that as 0, it's entirely possible to kill the whole power plant.
Is that the cheaters are going to cheat, no matter what you do. Had a guy who listened to class material on his ipod in class. Wrote answers on their hands. Texted them to each other. Bluetooth micro-earpiece and mumbled questions under their breath. You can't stop them. You just have to let them know that when they get their dream job, with their fake resume and their unjust transcript, and they get fired within a month because they can't do it, that perhaps they would have been better off learning the material.
I'll ask my friends for a recommendation once I've done a local search, but I'll use a text message to a person, not facebook or some other social media. Post it on facebook and the signal/noise ratio sucks.
The CEO doesn't care, cause he's got enough money that he doesn't have to, so he sets policy to be, hey, screw you, no refunds. The vp says, ok, I wanna keep making enough that eventually I won't care, so I need to enforce the policy. The manager says, ok, well, I need this job, cause I'm not a vp or a ceo, so I need to keep the policy ball rolling. The employee says, I'm a wage slave who works hand to mouth, paycheck to paycheck, so I'll follow the policy.
The ball rolls the other way when the customer says, "I'll charge it back." The employee says, well, that's 50$ per chargeback and how much ever for the service we'll lose, so I need to take this to the manager to get it approved. The manager approves it, cause losing that other money is much worse than losing a customer. The vp justifies this to the ceo based on bottom line, and the whole thing works out. Is it good customer service? no. Does it work in the end if you know to tell them you're going to do that? yep. Drop that bomb right off the bat and you'll be suprised how many places apologize and refund you up front.
Note to those who actually get to read this: Most credit card companies only chargeback up to 90 days! If you're getting screwed by a company like, say, aol, make sure to call them and tell them you're going to chargeback within 40 days of the bad charge, cause it sucks to get screwed out of that money.
Did you notice that the topic was Could be good? I'm not saying it's going to suck from one trailer. I'm saying that if they overly hype the drama, they're going to take an experience that held it's own drama, and make it suck.
I'm hoping that the trailer is cinematically different from how the movie will be, so that perhaps the movie will let the story carry itself.
That's exactly what I'm talking about. It isn't a room full of furniture that I recall, but, it's not covered, it's not unusual looking inside, and it's not special in any way.
You can go in and find the back... and sometimes you can go in and find Narnia. I'm hoping that these are just trailer scenes, not the actual scenes from the movie.
No, it doesn't. There was no cloth in the book, and they didn't have to turn it into some overly dramatic moment. When she feels the trees on her back from inside the wardrobe, and finds snow at her feet? yes. That could be dramatic. If this is a scene from the movie, I won't watch it. It'll be so much cheese.
Yeah, I work at an ISP, and we are starting to see the dmca complaints for bittorrent. 99% of the people that get hit are using suprnova.
The next generation is already out there, full 2 way encryption, servers based in countries that don't care about US IP laws, and complex routing that makes it virtually impossible to trace who's getting what from where. I see people talking about these, and I wonder why the p2p community who swarmed suprnova hasn't moved to these more advanced protocols yet.
If I recall correctly, this was the major bust in april. This is one guy that the records finally became unsealed on. Most of this is done and over with, and the warez "community" has probably moved on.
At a guess, I'd say that either they're still in their waiting period, or, they aren't listed on the nasdaq or the NYSE. In looking at their profile, it states that they aren't listed on any of the indexes, such as the DJIA or the NASDAQ. I would assume that they've already been delisted.
Apparently when you are at less than 1$/share for 30 days, you are warned and given some sort of waiting period, depending on whether the market thinks you can pull out of the dive. You can also get delisted if your market cap drops below a specified amount you put in when you form your public offering.
There are other things, but I'm not a stock trader, so I don't know what they would be. It appears you can get delisted almost instantly if your shares hit.01 per share.
working for an ISP, I find that error #666 is virtually unfixable without a complete reinstall of the operating system. Microsoft's Q articles on it basically say "We don't know, go away." In this context, that error # is strangely appropriate.
I hardly find microsoft releasing a bunch of security patches to be equal to the 1929 stock market crash that killed many people and caused widespread economic collapse that lasted until WWII. This isn't monday, so 1987's stock collapse is not really relevant.
Thanks to everyone who pointed out microsoft's policy of batch patching on tuesdays, that makes sense, but calling it black tuesday seems a little harsh.
Exactly. I have a franklin Ebookman, and it takes only MMC, not SD, (the sd lock thing makes it too big for the slot.... *growl*) and with this, I could easily take 3000-4000 plain text books anywhere in the world. I thought the 256mb mmc was wonderfull... this is love.
When I went to the LOTR trilogy showing in Portland, Oregon, they had 3 guys from New Line in the theater with night vision goggles. Since we were among the first to see it, they wanted to make sure we weren't recording/digitally rebroadcasting it to the net live. Pretty messed up stuff, but it's been happening for a long time. It's only news cause they finally caught someone.
My name is Nate. What do you do that you haven't dealt with this crap? are you an execeptionally smart end user? an exceptionally lucky tech?
Remember, tech support only hears about stuff when it goes wrong, so my perception of end users is more than a little tainted, but this stuff does happen, and people like my grandmother, my mom, my dad, and my aunts and uncles do it, just like the rest of the population.
You don't seriously think they understand how delicate some of the components are on a motherboard? If the box says you can install it in 15 minutes, that must mean you can open the box and slap it in any which way. That's how some people (just enough to cause a lot of calls) think about this stuff.
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There's significant evidence that someone has been injecting tungsten filled "gold bars" into the world gold market. They're the correct weight, they displace the correct amount of water, the only way to tell is that the electrical resistance is something like .01% off. And cutting them in half, of course.
Mythbusters proved that this is completely incorrect. Scotch tape with your thumb behind it is enough to fake out many modern systems, since it detects the body heat. You have to breath on the tape for moisture, but that's about it.
Uh... you can easily burn out a lithium ion battery like the ones tesla uses by going below 1% charge. If their system isn't intelligent enough to completely stop battery use at 3%, and report that as 0, it's entirely possible to kill the whole power plant.
I think it's great that another member of the 5 digit club chimes in with this. For the record, I'm married and hang out with friends frequently. :)
Dude. I'm 32. I could make it through TWO jordans.
Is that the cheaters are going to cheat, no matter what you do. Had a guy who listened to class material on his ipod in class. Wrote answers on their hands. Texted them to each other. Bluetooth micro-earpiece and mumbled questions under their breath. You can't stop them. You just have to let them know that when they get their dream job, with their fake resume and their unjust transcript, and they get fired within a month because they can't do it, that perhaps they would have been better off learning the material.
I'll ask my friends for a recommendation once I've done a local search, but I'll use a text message to a person, not facebook or some other social media. Post it on facebook and the signal/noise ratio sucks.
Well, here's how it works:
The CEO doesn't care, cause he's got enough money that he doesn't have to, so he sets policy to be, hey, screw you, no refunds.
The vp says, ok, I wanna keep making enough that eventually I won't care, so I need to enforce the policy.
The manager says, ok, well, I need this job, cause I'm not a vp or a ceo, so I need to keep the policy ball rolling.
The employee says, I'm a wage slave who works hand to mouth, paycheck to paycheck, so I'll follow the policy.
The ball rolls the other way when the customer says,
"I'll charge it back." The employee says, well, that's 50$ per chargeback and how much ever for the service we'll lose, so I need to take this to the manager to get it approved. The manager approves it, cause losing that other money is much worse than losing a customer. The vp justifies this to the ceo based on bottom line, and the whole thing works out. Is it good customer service? no. Does it work in the end if you know to tell them you're going to do that? yep. Drop that bomb right off the bat and you'll be suprised how many places apologize and refund you up front.
Note to those who actually get to read this: Most credit card companies only chargeback up to 90 days! If you're getting screwed by a company like, say, aol, make sure to call them and tell them you're going to chargeback within 40 days of the bad charge, cause it sucks to get screwed out of that money.
wait.. darn. That's kinda depressing, actually.
Did you notice that the topic was Could be good? I'm not saying it's going to suck from one trailer. I'm saying that if they overly hype the drama, they're going to take an experience that held it's own drama, and make it suck.
I'm hoping that the trailer is cinematically different from how the movie will be, so that perhaps the movie will let the story carry itself.
That's exactly what I'm talking about. It isn't a room full of furniture that I recall, but, it's not covered, it's not unusual looking inside, and it's not special in any way.
You can go in and find the back... and sometimes you can go in and find Narnia. I'm hoping that these are just trailer scenes, not the actual scenes from the movie.
No, it doesn't. There was no cloth in the book, and they didn't have to turn it into some overly dramatic moment. When she feels the trees on her back from inside the wardrobe, and finds snow at her feet? yes. That could be dramatic. If this is a scene from the movie, I won't watch it. It'll be so much cheese.
could be very bad. I hope the trailer is not scenes from the actual movie, because quite honestly, the overly done wardrobe scene turned my stomach.
Yeah, I work at an ISP, and we are starting to see the dmca complaints for bittorrent. 99% of the people that get hit are using suprnova.
The next generation is already out there, full 2 way encryption, servers based in countries that don't care about US IP laws, and complex routing that makes it virtually impossible to trace who's getting what from where. I see people talking about these, and I wonder why the p2p community who swarmed suprnova hasn't moved to these more advanced protocols yet.
If I recall correctly, this was the major bust in april. This is one guy that the records finally became unsealed on. Most of this is done and over with, and the warez "community" has probably moved on.
Yeah, in the US it's 33-40% to uncle sam.
I dunno. I'm not a stock broker.
At a guess, I'd say that either they're still in their waiting period, or, they aren't listed on the nasdaq or the NYSE. In looking at their profile, it states that they aren't listed on any of the indexes, such as the DJIA or the NASDAQ. I would assume that they've already been delisted.
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.01 per share.
Apparently when you are at less than 1$/share for 30 days, you are warned and given some sort of waiting period, depending on whether the market thinks you can pull out of the dive. You can also get delisted if your market cap drops below a specified amount you put in when you form your public offering.
There are other things, but I'm not a stock trader, so I don't know what they would be. It appears you can get delisted almost instantly if your shares hit
If I recall correctly, when a stock hits below 1$/share for 30 days, it gets delisted on the nasdaq. They're still a good bit away from that.
working for an ISP, I find that error #666 is virtually unfixable without a complete reinstall of the operating system. Microsoft's Q articles on it basically say "We don't know, go away." In this context, that error # is strangely appropriate.
I hardly find microsoft releasing a bunch of security patches to be equal to the 1929 stock market crash that killed many people and caused widespread economic collapse that lasted until WWII.
This isn't monday, so 1987's stock collapse is not really relevant.
Thanks to everyone who pointed out microsoft's policy of batch patching on tuesdays, that makes sense, but calling it black tuesday seems a little harsh.
What does "Black tuesday" Refer to?
Exactly. I have a franklin Ebookman, and it takes only MMC, not SD, (the sd lock thing makes it too big for the slot.... *growl*) and with this, I could easily take 3000-4000 plain text books anywhere in the world. I thought the 256mb mmc was wonderfull... this is love.
When I went to the LOTR trilogy showing in Portland, Oregon, they had 3 guys from New Line in the theater with night vision goggles. Since we were among the first to see it, they wanted to make sure we weren't recording/digitally rebroadcasting it to the net live. Pretty messed up stuff, but it's been happening for a long time. It's only news cause they finally caught someone.
My name is Nate. What do you do that you haven't dealt with this crap? are you an execeptionally smart end user? an exceptionally lucky tech?
Remember, tech support only hears about stuff when it goes wrong, so my perception of end users is more than a little tainted, but this stuff does happen, and people like my grandmother, my mom, my dad, and my aunts and uncles do it, just like the rest of the population.
You don't seriously think they understand how delicate some of the components are on a motherboard? If the box says you can install it in 15 minutes, that must mean you can open the box and slap it in any which way. That's how some people (just enough to cause a lot of calls) think about this stuff.