Or, alternately, don't add burglars as facebook friends.
I don't think you know they are burglars until after you add them.
Actually, just about all the burglaries that have happened to friends and family of mine are easily traceable (but not provably) to other "friends." Unfortunately, burglars tend not to list their real day job on facebook.
Given that in capitalism it's always the scarce good which is paid for, shouldn't we get paid by the information providers for giving them part of our attention?:-)
We do get paid. Some of my friends did some sort of "watch adds, make $5 an hour" 'job' through highschool. But most information sellers still tend to barter: "We'll let you hear about important happenings in your area, right after these commercials!" Unfortunately the people who want to buy our attention often only wish to let us learn how to give them their money back or otherwise waste our time and money.
Information is plentiful, but _good_ information, relevant or enjoyable to me is a scarce commodity and often hard to find through all the other info, so I still often pay for it.
But there is no geekyness involved there; I think he wants to spend some time playing with gadgetry, hence the DYI.
So, how about a robotic dog? As a kid I had a little electronic kit which I, though I never did the particular project, had a configuration that would bark in response to noise. With an adult budget you could go totally nuts on a concept like that.
So, is this some kind of autonomous pistol that can protect your house while you are not home?
I would like to second that with my actual reasoning.
1) Although security salesmen like to perpetuate the idea that armed men are going to break into your home and run amok, every home theft that happened to someone I know happened either when they were at work or when an invited (often self invited) guest nabbed stuff when they weren't looking. I've heard of a couple of thefts that occurred in the night while people were sleeping, but then again, if you're sleeping the gun still doesn't do anything.
2) A nice pistol like that is going to make a prime thing to steal, especially if you tell people about it. I have friends that own guns, most keep them in a safe, with their ammo locked up separately, with the exception of one retired guy who is 1) home all the time and 2) originally from a neighborhood that would require that sort of thing. Oh, come to think of it, with another exception, my mother's neighbor, whose shotgun and ammo were stolen and now likely in the possession of the really scary guys that live across the street.
A sign on front door that says, "Rattlesnakes for sale: $25.00"
What's that going to do?
I mentioned in another comment that burgers who bust in while you and your neighbors are at work often start overturning your shelves and dressers in hopes some jewelry or documents are hidden in an underwear drawer (100% accurate assumption for my family) or that 'Judge' hidden in fake book, but if they think that in one of these drawers is a box of baby rattlesnakes they might tiptoe about and only grab some obvious stuff. Once again, I am basing this on the actual example of how my parents were burglarized without such a sign.
I recommend a dog, a big one, it is like an autonomous weapon when you are or aren't home. Supposedly he will protect your home while your gone, though will probably just greet the burglars looking for pats and treats, burglars won't know this from the racket he is making.
To further help your security needs, where are you going to locate valuables in your house, and what is your address?
But in case you're serious, I'll list the stuff:
My computer room gadgets could probably be ebayed for around $500, though it cost me and my roommate over $2K+ to accumulate and would cost the same to replace. I think this is normal for a geeky apartment.
I don't have TV room or a sound system but a lot of my friends do, representing another $5k+ of cash investment plus time and effort to get it just right and saved console games, etc.
I'm a dude and as such have no jewelry, but women typically accumulate several thousand dollars worth of it from Xs and rich relatives, much of which is sentimental and the price tag means little. And so if you've got a chick or are a chick (one is likely even on slashdot), or lives with you that is another vulnerability.
We've got unused credit cards, cash and other misc potentially valuable and annoying to lose stuff lying around in the bowls and dresser tops we use to empty our pockets.
$5k+ of collectibles which would probably not be touched if thieves didn't know what they were, but if they did we might be a target.
Often I take the bus leaving my $5k car and spare key at home.
Then the real difficulty of burglary is putting your house back together after a couple guys run through it, dumping out your drawers, bookshelves and cabinets hoping you've got money/jewelry/guns/drugs stashed in there. Even if you don't hide stuff in your (possibly pricey) mattress, the thieves won't know that, and have to check. Plus whatever they smash to get in/out is coming out of your security deposit. And if you've got a girlfriend, your place may be permanently tainted; she won't be in the unsafe place and she will be taking all her remaining stuff out, even if she lived there. I can't remember all the money relevant cards/papers that may be valuable in my house, and even if I could, I couldn't efficiently cancel them. Also I need gadgets from work at home at times, and no idea how much work would be made fixing and apologizing for the loss.
So in the end, there is often over ten thousand dollars lost in the theft and a lot of mental anguish. If you haven't considered how to protect your stuff, you really should.
Don't get me wrong - I still think Apple is evil - this just isn't an example of their evil behaviour.
I just wanted to point out the hilarity of the fact that you have to add that line to your post, in the likely case someone reads this post and says, "I can't listen to this post, it sounds almost, that for a moment, like apple was not being completely and utterly evil!"
an undershirt with metalic paint...that says "Fuck You TSA."
That would be sweet! When someone else wears them!
As for me, I'd really rather not piss off people who can detain harass, and violate me for pretty much any reason they choose and later justify that they where protecting you from this terrorist. Actually, on further thought, bureaucracy probably requires they detaining you long enough to miss the first leg of your $1k+ journey and then sign you up for every blacklist they have on hand. They'll probably feel too sorry for you to be pissed off after that.
I think that would do it. If we do this to all foreigners and low class citizenry, we should be safe. Just make sure that any one important can bypass it. Politicians, their families and anyone wealthy should not have to be subjected to it.
As a teenager, I did $10/hour tech support for parents friends and many of them just follow the prompts on the popup windows and don't have a clue what is going on. "My computer said, 'you need this virus protection or your identity will be stolen.' So I entered my credit card information." You ask them: "What is it called?" "Who makes it?" "What does it do?" "What is a virus?", and they don't know.
I can prove virus protection was not installed on my computer and if it ever ran, but the average person who tries to install fake software may not even know what install means and figure the website magically installed it and they are not bright enough to know how.
I paid a mechanic $200 to put in a "crankshaft sensor" he found I needed. He could be just ripping me off, but I wouldn't know. Even if someone said he was sketchy, I don't even know what crank shaft is to go check for myself, but if I did, and I found out he ripped me off, I'd be down yelling for my money back with no embarrassment about it.
There was once a porn site that had a very similar URL...presumably for that reason
No, I think, the reason they they set up shop one letter apart from a legit site, one letter particularly close on a qwerty keyboard to your intended letter, often mistyped, is to grab users looking for something else, and hoping you'll decide that boobs are more important than say, boring ADSL details.
The number of times I have or have seen people accidentally type into porn sites, makes me feel that it can't be a coincidence. Also, some guy going through your web history is not going to know obscure non-porn sites from porn without checking; he won't even know you are trying to fool him.
... at great loss of nerd-cred... I've always wondered if it is pronounced...
How can we take your nerd cred for admitting to a lack of face to face communication?
btw: the projects I worked on, interacting with 50 or so people use the pronunciation: vee with the ee like in fee for vi, but pronounce vim like whim but starting with a v sound instead of a wh.
You forgot the methane and C02 produced by the cows.
Since those cows aren't going anywhere, can't we plug in a methane capture device and use it? Isn't methane the prime component of "natural gas" which we mine at great expense?
If that was the point...Don't put all of your eggs into one basket.
I think the GP is trying to point out that whatever security measures may be in place. If someone steals your credit card, they rack pull out your limit worth of debt with your credit company. You inform the company and they say, "Oh shit! Someone stole our money!" They go after the thief while you get a new credit card and move on with life.
On the other hand, some one steals your debit card and cleans out your account, depending on your bank they may say, "Oh my! We'll refund you immediately," but usually they actually say, "sorry about your loss, we'll see when we can get around to sorting that out," as they did to the OP.
I've seen both happen to friends and hence why I choose to use a credit card over a debit card. My credit rating may take a hit if someone steals my lending agencies money, but my bank account will be fine.
2. Another analogy might be that the shoemaker is lending different designs of shoes to various people for testing; when the person is done testing the shoe the shoemaker wants it back
And if you got your borrowed shoes dirty, he has to burn them...for all eternity. He really hates dirt that shoemaker.
So, you hit '=' in some cells and click on other ones, and occasionally you change text/cell colors.
Do you bold text sometimes too, or does that cost extra?
Think his job is underwhelming, you should see what I do; I use plain old text editors, no relations between cells whatsoever, just typing away in one long linear stream punctuated by whitespace. I can't even bold text or use colors.
Just waiting for a program to come replace me. It'll happen to me first since my C source code doesn't have half the features of a spread sheet.
I know one of those users has a 200text/month plan so around the 29th his 1 follower gets: I have 122 texts left this month... I have 121 texts left this month... I have 120 texts left this month...
Slashdot Mirror
Or, alternately, don't add burglars as facebook friends.
I don't think you know they are burglars until after you add them.
Actually, just about all the burglaries that have happened to friends and family of mine are easily traceable (but not provably) to other "friends." Unfortunately, burglars tend not to list their real day job on facebook.
In case anyone's interested and knows their Spanish, un enlace: El Blog del Narco.
Actually, just click the translation link on the top left of the page if you don't know your spanish.
Given that in capitalism it's always the scarce good which is paid for, shouldn't we get paid by the information providers for giving them part of our attention? :-)
We do get paid. Some of my friends did some sort of "watch adds, make $5 an hour" 'job' through highschool. But most information sellers still tend to barter: "We'll let you hear about important happenings in your area, right after these commercials!" Unfortunately the people who want to buy our attention often only wish to let us learn how to give them their money back or otherwise waste our time and money.
Information is plentiful, but _good_ information, relevant or enjoyable to me is a scarce commodity and often hard to find through all the other info, so I still often pay for it.
Lots of people are living without a TV
They are miserable. Well, thats what my TV shows seem to imply anyway.
a big, noisy dog
But there is no geekyness involved there; I think he wants to spend some time playing with gadgetry, hence the DYI.
So, how about a robotic dog? As a kid I had a little electronic kit which I, though I never did the particular project, had a configuration that would bark in response to noise. With an adult budget you could go totally nuts on a concept like that.
So, is this some kind of autonomous pistol that can protect your house while you are not home?
I would like to second that with my actual reasoning.
1) Although security salesmen like to perpetuate the idea that armed men are going to break into your home and run amok, every home theft that happened to someone I know happened either when they were at work or when an invited (often self invited) guest nabbed stuff when they weren't looking. I've heard of a couple of thefts that occurred in the night while people were sleeping, but then again, if you're sleeping the gun still doesn't do anything.
2) A nice pistol like that is going to make a prime thing to steal, especially if you tell people about it. I have friends that own guns, most keep them in a safe, with their ammo locked up separately, with the exception of one retired guy who is 1) home all the time and 2) originally from a neighborhood that would require that sort of thing. Oh, come to think of it, with another exception, my mother's neighbor, whose shotgun and ammo were stolen and now likely in the possession of the really scary guys that live across the street.
A sign on front door that says, "Rattlesnakes for sale: $25.00"
What's that going to do?
I mentioned in another comment that burgers who bust in while you and your neighbors are at work often start overturning your shelves and dressers in hopes some jewelry or documents are hidden in an underwear drawer (100% accurate assumption for my family) or that 'Judge' hidden in fake book, but if they think that in one of these drawers is a box of baby rattlesnakes they might tiptoe about and only grab some obvious stuff. Once again, I am basing this on the actual example of how my parents were burglarized without such a sign.
I recommend a dog, a big one, it is like an autonomous weapon when you are or aren't home. Supposedly he will protect your home while your gone, though will probably just greet the burglars looking for pats and treats, burglars won't know this from the racket he is making.
What are you going to buy that is worth stealing?
To further help your security needs, where are you going to locate valuables in your house, and what is your address?
But in case you're serious, I'll list the stuff:
My computer room gadgets could probably be ebayed for around $500, though it cost me and my roommate over $2K+ to accumulate and would cost the same to replace. I think this is normal for a geeky apartment.
I don't have TV room or a sound system but a lot of my friends do, representing another $5k+ of cash investment plus time and effort to get it just right and saved console games, etc.
I'm a dude and as such have no jewelry, but women typically accumulate several thousand dollars worth of it from Xs and rich relatives, much of which is sentimental and the price tag means little. And so if you've got a chick or are a chick (one is likely even on slashdot), or lives with you that is another vulnerability.
We've got unused credit cards, cash and other misc potentially valuable and annoying to lose stuff lying around in the bowls and dresser tops we use to empty our pockets.
$5k+ of collectibles which would probably not be touched if thieves didn't know what they were, but if they did we might be a target.
Often I take the bus leaving my $5k car and spare key at home.
Then the real difficulty of burglary is putting your house back together after a couple guys run through it, dumping out your drawers, bookshelves and cabinets hoping you've got money/jewelry/guns/drugs stashed in there. Even if you don't hide stuff in your (possibly pricey) mattress, the thieves won't know that, and have to check. Plus whatever they smash to get in/out is coming out of your security deposit. And if you've got a girlfriend, your place may be permanently tainted; she won't be in the unsafe place and she will be taking all her remaining stuff out, even if she lived there. I can't remember all the money relevant cards/papers that may be valuable in my house, and even if I could, I couldn't efficiently cancel them. Also I need gadgets from work at home at times, and no idea how much work would be made fixing and apologizing for the loss.
So in the end, there is often over ten thousand dollars lost in the theft and a lot of mental anguish. If you haven't considered how to protect your stuff, you really should.
If violence didn't work, it's because you didn't use enough of it!
I thought that was the rule for XML...
It's a rule that can be applied with varying levels of effectiveness to most areas of life actually.
Don't get me wrong - I still think Apple is evil - this just isn't an example of their evil behaviour.
I just wanted to point out the hilarity of the fact that you have to add that line to your post, in the likely case someone reads this post and says, "I can't listen to this post, it sounds almost, that for a moment, like apple was not being completely and utterly evil!"
an undershirt with metalic paint...that says "Fuck You TSA."
That would be sweet! When someone else wears them!
As for me, I'd really rather not piss off people who can detain harass, and violate me for pretty much any reason they choose and later justify that they where protecting you from this terrorist. Actually, on further thought, bureaucracy probably requires they detaining you long enough to miss the first leg of your $1k+ journey and then sign you up for every blacklist they have on hand. They'll probably feel too sorry for you to be pissed off after that.
I think that would do it. If we do this to all foreigners and low class citizenry, we should be safe. Just make sure that any one important can bypass it. Politicians, their families and anyone wealthy should not have to be subjected to it.
No good, a terrorist could just use an organic explosive.
Well, the best we can do is take random tissue samples and remove all suspiciously shaped organs. I think I'd feel safe at that point.
Probably more like too ashamed.
I'd offer that most don't know what happened.
As a teenager, I did $10/hour tech support for parents friends and many of them just follow the prompts on the popup windows and don't have a clue what is going on. "My computer said, 'you need this virus protection or your identity will be stolen.' So I entered my credit card information." You ask them: "What is it called?" "Who makes it?" "What does it do?" "What is a virus?", and they don't know.
I can prove virus protection was not installed on my computer and if it ever ran, but the average person who tries to install fake software may not even know what install means and figure the website magically installed it and they are not bright enough to know how.
I paid a mechanic $200 to put in a "crankshaft sensor" he found I needed. He could be just ripping me off, but I wouldn't know. Even if someone said he was sketchy, I don't even know what crank shaft is to go check for myself, but if I did, and I found out he ripped me off, I'd be down yelling for my money back with no embarrassment about it.
There was once a porn site that had a very similar URL...presumably for that reason
No, I think, the reason they they set up shop one letter apart from a legit site, one letter particularly close on a qwerty keyboard to your intended letter, often mistyped, is to grab users looking for something else, and hoping you'll decide that boobs are more important than say, boring ADSL details.
The number of times I have or have seen people accidentally type into porn sites, makes me feel that it can't be a coincidence. Also, some guy going through your web history is not going to know obscure non-porn sites from porn without checking; he won't even know you are trying to fool him.
He isn't joking; after escaping on bail, he'd like to know how to do it right this time.
Well America _is_ the real American values this country was founded on.
Citizens, politicians and laws that don't agree with my, err, those values are disagreeing with America.
I was going to add a , but I'm not sure I'm joking.
while opening themselves to click fraud.
Some police officer are awesome people who risk their lives to protect others.
Some police officers are horrible little bastards that abuse their power and terrorize citizens.
Most police officers are unionized government workers getting a check and protecting all their buddies no matter what they have done.
I just wanted to note that these not necessarily separate categories. I've known cops to be all three.
... at great loss of nerd-cred... I've always wondered if it is pronounced...
How can we take your nerd cred for admitting to a lack of face to face communication?
btw: the projects I worked on, interacting with 50 or so people use the pronunciation: vee with the ee like in fee for vi, but pronounce vim like whim but starting with a v sound instead of a wh.
You forgot the methane and C02 produced by the cows.
Since those cows aren't going anywhere, can't we plug in a methane capture device and use it? Isn't methane the prime component of "natural gas" which we mine at great expense?
It's a chicken-and-egg issue.
So it is. So instead of looking for micro organisms on Titan, why don't we just send a few jars of them over there?
Then woohoo! We'll know there is life elsewhere in the solar system!
If that was the point...Don't put all of your eggs into one basket.
I think the GP is trying to point out that whatever security measures may be in place. If someone steals your credit card, they rack pull out your limit worth of debt with your credit company. You inform the company and they say, "Oh shit! Someone stole our money!" They go after the thief while you get a new credit card and move on with life.
On the other hand, some one steals your debit card and cleans out your account, depending on your bank they may say, "Oh my! We'll refund you immediately," but usually they actually say, "sorry about your loss, we'll see when we can get around to sorting that out," as they did to the OP.
I've seen both happen to friends and hence why I choose to use a credit card over a debit card. My credit rating may take a hit if someone steals my lending agencies money, but my bank account will be fine.
2. Another analogy might be that the shoemaker is lending different designs of shoes to various people for testing; when the person is done testing the shoe the shoemaker wants it back
And if you got your borrowed shoes dirty, he has to burn them...for all eternity. He really hates dirt that shoemaker.
So, you hit '=' in some cells and click on other ones, and occasionally you change text/cell colors.
Do you bold text sometimes too, or does that cost extra?
Think his job is underwhelming, you should see what I do; I use plain old text editors, no relations between cells whatsoever, just typing away in one long linear stream punctuated by whitespace. I can't even bold text or use colors.
Just waiting for a program to come replace me. It'll happen to me first since my C source code doesn't have half the features of a spread sheet.
I know one of those users has a 200text/month plan so around the 29th his 1 follower gets:
I have 122 texts left this month...
I have 121 texts left this month...
I have 120 texts left this month...
Who says twitter isn't useful?