In addition to the phone number that other people have posted, there's a website (no hold time) that you can check to see if you've been exposed. You'll need to supply your home phone number and zip code:
actually, i track every hand i play. Over the course of my 33,000+ hands, 39.4% of the players are winners, and 60.6% are losers...that's fairly consistent, judging by conversations i've had with other people, and more or less explained away by the fact that the sites take a rake...
The drinks may be free, but the rake is higher, and you have to toke the dealer. Add in gas and the crappy casino food...those "free" drinks wind up getting expensive...
I call BS. There's enough ways to tell if people are cheating that there's no way to do anything significant. You talk about controlling 6 players at the table at once - if each player sees the flop 1/3 of the hands, the two of them should see the *same* flop 1/3 * 1/3 = 1/9 of the time...if the correlation is significantly off from that, flags go up. That's just one example of the dozens of methods that sites use to catch cheats.
Even if you do manage to get by all the safety checks, you're still only at 1 table. With 40,000 people playing at once, there's dozens of tables at each level. If I think something fishy is going on, I send an email to the site's support staff with your screen name and the table name, and I switch tables - it's that simple. There's always another table, another game, another 9 people to play against.
Sure, Party Poker's revenue is down, but they still get 40,000+ players at a time. There's gotta be another 50 sites out there, too - none of them are as big as party, but they're out there. Ultimatebet, Pokerroom.com, Paradise Poker, Pacific Poker, Interpoker, etc, etc, etc...
People talk a lot about bots, but if they're out there, they suck. I play up to 2/4 limit Hold 'em, and 1-2 NL Hold 'em, as well as Omaha hi/lo, and I'm a consistent winner (I track every session I play). I play 6-8 hours a week, usually while the wife is watching dawson's creek, or some other equally girly dvd. We get to sit together, each doing something we enjoy, and I clear anywhere from $400 - $800 a month.
In short: people still play, decent players win, and (from what I've read), the bots are really, really bad.
it was a business decision, and many people would say the right one (he may be a great player, but Cuban's math said he wasn't worth the price)
Re:Read "Bringing Down the House"
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Geeks and Poker?
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· Score: 4, Interesting
True story? Sure, but written by a journalist... One of the guys from the book is a member of the same gym as I am (Sports Club LA in Boston), and told me that he doesn't remember "Kevin" (definitely not his real name) ever dating any cheerleaders, or hanging out with Patrick Ewing, or...well, you get the idea.
Did they beat the system? Yeah. Did everything else happen? well....maybe. Does that make it any less worthy of your time? Nope, great book
In this post on the Area 51 site linked to from the article, Joerg Arnu (one of the "hackers" in the article) claims that Poulsen lured him into the interview under false pretenses, then refused his requests not to use the interview, hung up on him, and didn't return any further messages. I haven't read much of Poulsen's stuff, but is this typical of him?
not necessarily...the ISP could put the filters in place on behalf of the users...there might be a couple of wackos behind the filters who really, really, really enjoy getting mail-bombed with information about stuff that nobody in their right mind would want
Not exactly...it was 2-8K per GRAM, not per ounce. At 28.4 grams per ounce, this becomes $568K-$2.2 million. So yeah, it really is a million-dollar heist.
Also, the FBI didn't find it themselves...they were tipped off by "a belgian rock hound"
His department may be School of Management, but (as listed in some other posts), his credentials are not exactly shabby:
* BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering * PHD in computer science * Masters in management * "author or co-author of over 250 books, articles, or reports including the classic textbook, Operating Systems (McGraw-Hill), and the book, The Dynamics of Software Development (Prentice-Hall). " * "key designer and developer of projects such as IBM's VM/370 operating system" * "served as the head of MIT's Information Technologies Group for more than ten years"
I don't know him personally, but I think it's safe to say he's not a traditional PHB...
Right, carnivore (in my understanding at least) does sniff all traffic, and stores it for a set period of time. However (and it's a big however), if the FBI wants to go in and read anything that's been sniffed, it needs to get a warrant. And the warrant doesn't say "we want to open the box"...it says "we want to open the box, and read only emails to person X from date y to date z"
And if you think it's easy to just hop in and get a warrant, I suggest you go read 'Black Mass' - it will shed some light on your misconceptions.
Wow...I'm the first to admit that it's a pretty site, and there's probably a lot of fun stuff to do, but there's also something to be said for usable navigation. I wish I had time to click every single little screen to try to find some of the good stuff...
Has anybody else noticed the lack of easily-navigated sites out there today? People seem to have forgotten the old "just because we can doesn't mean we should" motto..
Depending on the bar, cams can be a fun addition...at The Rack in Boston, they have webcams all over the place, and you can control them online...www.therack.com
I guess when your clientele is as attractive as the people who frequent that place on a friday/saturday night, it can't hurt to make views of the place available online...
Is where can I pick one of these up for $50? Most stores around me (central CT) don't carry them anymore...Anybody out there have a website that carries them?
I don't know about other people, but I am in a development program at a large company. Most people in the program were recruited from schools quite some distance away, and relocated here. Because of that, we pretty much know only each other (the fact that they put us all together in classes for two weeks helps), and we've become pretty good friends. I don't hang around w/my direct co-workers much, mostly because they're all double my age (I write COBOL...). I play golf, go to happy hours, hit the "nightspots", watch football, etc... with people in the program, though.
Now, the problem I need help with is meeting people *outside* of work...bars suck, gyms don't work...the best luck I've had is basketball at the local park, but it's gettin a little chilly for that in New England...anybody have any ideas for this?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but POP is a way to *retrieve* email. How does the client that you're using to *retrieve* your mail matter when it comes to spam? Granted, OE has some mail filters that can be used, but so do other clients (procmail anyone?).
I could see this being legit if, somehow, it prevented the SENDING of spam...but it seems like, if anything, it could only possibly prevent your receiving it...that's like telling someone...well, i don't know what that's like telling someone, because it just seems ridiculous...
This isn't katz-bashing, but more a different opinion.
With regards to the borderline-racism: These scenes are supposed to be the very gang-infested neighborhoods of LA. Everyone in those neighborhoods was packing - black, white, latino, polka-dotted, whatever. Do you really think that Denzel Washington would be a part of a movie that was borderline racist?
Russian Mafia: This wasn't a plot "twist" at all...it was the basis of the movie. (Don't worry...i'm not going to throw out spoilers) At the beginning of the film, Denzel's character Alonzo becomes *very* endebted to the russian mafia. The movie very intelligently shows his efforts to pay them back. If you just look for the action, you'll miss the sub-plots, but this is a great movie, with some very, very well done plot twists
Remember, IANAMC (I am not a movie critic), so your opinions may differ, but I thought the movie was good...
How To Keep A Healthy Level Of Insanity
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ironically, I just got this as a fwd today...seems appropriate given taco's insanity comments:
1. At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.
2. Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise your voice.
3. Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.
4. Put your garbage can on your desk and label it "in"
5. Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to expresso.
6. In the memo field of all your checks, write "for sexual favors".
7. Finish all your sentences with "in accordance with the prophecy."
8. Don't use any punctuation marks
9. As often as possible, skip rather than walk.
10. Ask people what sex they are. Laugh hysterically after they answer.
11. Specify that your drive-through order is "to go".
12. Sing along at the opera.
13. Go to a poetry recital and ask why the poems don't rhyme.
14. Put mosquito netting around your work area. Play a tape of jungle sounds all day.
15. Five days in advance, tell your friends you can't attend their party because you're not in the mood.
16. Have your coworkers address you by your wrestling name, Rock Hard Kim.
17. When the money comes out the ATM, scream "I won!", I won!" "3rd time this week!!!!!"
18. When leaving the zoo, start running towards the parking lot, yelling "run for your lives, they're loose!!"
19. Tell your children over dinner "due to the economy, we are going to have to let one of you go."
have you actually used the web lately? Your ideas are great in theory, but in practice they take you back about 6 years. E-commerce goes out the window w/out cookies. Many sites become unusable w/out javascript (Not just sites that do "onclick=location.href", but there are many sites that actually use javascript *well*). Turning off images means that you won't see half of most sites...and the list goes on...
Now I know what you're going to say: "If site X won't let me browse my way, then I don't need site X". Well, damn near every site out there is becoming site X. Whether you like it or not, that's the way the world is moving, and you can either accept their way of doing things, or stay in 1995.
Hmm...just re-read that, and it sounds like a flame...I really didn't intend it to be...just meant it to be more of a wake-up call.
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Did you just suddenly get banned, or did you get notified first? Did they lock any funds in your account?
:)
And you're super-duper-100% sure that you didn't violate anything in the ToS, right?
In addition to the phone number that other people have posted, there's a website (no hold time) that you can check to see if you've been exposed. You'll need to supply your home phone number and zip code:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/cclookup
and yes, I'm on the list....
actually, i track every hand i play. Over the course of my 33,000+ hands, 39.4% of the players are winners, and 60.6% are losers...that's fairly consistent, judging by conversations i've had with other people, and more or less explained away by the fact that the sites take a rake...
The drinks may be free, but the rake is higher, and you have to toke the dealer. Add in gas and the crappy casino food...those "free" drinks wind up getting expensive...
I call BS. There's enough ways to tell if people are cheating that there's no way to do anything significant. You talk about controlling 6 players at the table at once - if each player sees the flop 1/3 of the hands, the two of them should see the *same* flop 1/3 * 1/3 = 1/9 of the time...if the correlation is significantly off from that, flags go up. That's just one example of the dozens of methods that sites use to catch cheats.
Even if you do manage to get by all the safety checks, you're still only at 1 table. With 40,000 people playing at once, there's dozens of tables at each level. If I think something fishy is going on, I send an email to the site's support staff with your screen name and the table name, and I switch tables - it's that simple. There's always another table, another game, another 9 people to play against.
Sure, Party Poker's revenue is down, but they still get 40,000+ players at a time. There's gotta be another 50 sites out there, too - none of them are as big as party, but they're out there. Ultimatebet, Pokerroom.com, Paradise Poker, Pacific Poker, Interpoker, etc, etc, etc...
People talk a lot about bots, but if they're out there, they suck. I play up to 2/4 limit Hold 'em, and 1-2 NL Hold 'em, as well as Omaha hi/lo, and I'm a consistent winner (I track every session I play). I play 6-8 hours a week, usually while the wife is watching dawson's creek, or some other equally girly dvd. We get to sit together, each doing something we enjoy, and I clear anywhere from $400 - $800 a month.
In short: people still play, decent players win, and (from what I've read), the bots are really, really bad.
Mr. Cuban explains his perspective on Nash here: http://www.blogmaverick.com/entry/6721616637326928 /
it was a business decision, and many people would say the right one (he may be a great player, but Cuban's math said he wasn't worth the price)
True story? Sure, but written by a journalist... One of the guys from the book is a member of the same gym as I am (Sports Club LA in Boston), and told me that he doesn't remember "Kevin" (definitely not his real name) ever dating any cheerleaders, or hanging out with Patrick Ewing, or...well, you get the idea.
Did they beat the system? Yeah. Did everything else happen? well....maybe. Does that make it any less worthy of your time? Nope, great book
In this post on the Area 51 site linked to from the article, Joerg Arnu (one of the "hackers" in the article) claims that Poulsen lured him into the interview under false pretenses, then refused his requests not to use the interview, hung up on him, and didn't return any further messages. I haven't read much of Poulsen's stuff, but is this typical of him?
not necessarily...the ISP could put the filters in place on behalf of the users...there might be a couple of wackos behind the filters who really, really, really enjoy getting mail-bombed with information about stuff that nobody in their right mind would want
Not exactly...it was 2-8K per GRAM, not per ounce. At 28.4 grams per ounce, this becomes $568K-$2.2 million. So yeah, it really is a million-dollar heist.
Also, the FBI didn't find it themselves...they were tipped off by "a belgian rock hound"
His department may be School of Management, but (as listed in some other posts), his credentials are not exactly shabby:
* BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering
* PHD in computer science
* Masters in management
* "author or co-author of over 250 books, articles, or reports including the classic textbook, Operating Systems (McGraw-Hill), and the book, The Dynamics of Software Development (Prentice-Hall). "
* "key designer and developer of projects such as IBM's VM/370 operating system"
* "served as the head of MIT's Information Technologies Group for more than ten years"
I don't know him personally, but I think it's safe to say he's not a traditional PHB...
Right, carnivore (in my understanding at least) does sniff all traffic, and stores it for a set period of time. However (and it's a big however), if the FBI wants to go in and read anything that's been sniffed, it needs to get a warrant. And the warrant doesn't say "we want to open the box"...it says "we want to open the box, and read only emails to person X from date y to date z"
And if you think it's easy to just hop in and get a warrant, I suggest you go read 'Black Mass' - it will shed some light on your misconceptions.
Don't forget about all the bandwith it would use...
18.25 trillion songs, at an avg of 4 megs/song works out to a little under 2,314,815 megs/second (assuming I didn't screw up the math)
woah...where do I sign up for *that* connection?
Wow...I'm the first to admit that it's a pretty site, and there's probably a lot of fun stuff to do, but there's also something to be said for usable navigation. I wish I had time to click every single little screen to try to find some of the good stuff...
Has anybody else noticed the lack of easily-navigated sites out there today? People seem to have forgotten the old "just because we can doesn't mean we should" motto..
doh...my bad...I was a little paranoid about checking the link here at work...they're watching, you know!
thanks for the correction!
Depending on the bar, cams can be a fun addition...at The Rack in Boston, they have webcams all over the place, and you can control them online...www.therack.com
I guess when your clientele is as attractive as the people who frequent that place on a friday/saturday night, it can't hurt to make views of the place available online...
Don't forget about Intel's cancer-research P2P system - www.intel.com/cure
They also have info there about Stanford's protein-folding project (http://folding.stanford.edu)
Is where can I pick one of these up for $50? Most stores around me (central CT) don't carry them anymore...Anybody out there have a website that carries them?
Thanks!
I don't know about other people, but I am in a development program at a large company. Most people in the program were recruited from schools quite some distance away, and relocated here. Because of that, we pretty much know only each other (the fact that they put us all together in classes for two weeks helps), and we've become pretty good friends. I don't hang around w/my direct co-workers much, mostly because they're all double my age (I write COBOL...). I play golf, go to happy hours, hit the "nightspots", watch football, etc... with people in the program, though.
Now, the problem I need help with is meeting people *outside* of work...bars suck, gyms don't work...the best luck I've had is basketball at the local park, but it's gettin a little chilly for that in New England...anybody have any ideas for this?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but POP is a way to *retrieve* email. How does the client that you're using to *retrieve* your mail matter when it comes to spam? Granted, OE has some mail filters that can be used, but so do other clients (procmail anyone?).
I could see this being legit if, somehow, it prevented the SENDING of spam...but it seems like, if anything, it could only possibly prevent your receiving it...that's like telling someone...well, i don't know what that's like telling someone, because it just seems ridiculous...
This isn't katz-bashing, but more a different opinion.
With regards to the borderline-racism: These scenes are supposed to be the very gang-infested neighborhoods of LA. Everyone in those neighborhoods was packing - black, white, latino, polka-dotted, whatever. Do you really think that Denzel Washington would be a part of a movie that was borderline racist?
Russian Mafia: This wasn't a plot "twist" at all...it was the basis of the movie. (Don't worry...i'm not going to throw out spoilers) At the beginning of the film, Denzel's character Alonzo becomes *very* endebted to the russian mafia. The movie very intelligently shows his efforts to pay them back. If you just look for the action, you'll miss the sub-plots, but this is a great movie, with some very, very well done plot twists
Remember, IANAMC (I am not a movie critic), so your opinions may differ, but I thought the movie was good...
ironically, I just got this as a fwd today...seems appropriate given taco's insanity comments:
1. At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.
2. Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise your voice.
3. Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.
4. Put your garbage can on your desk and label it "in"
5. Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to expresso.
6. In the memo field of all your checks, write "for sexual favors".
7. Finish all your sentences with "in accordance with the prophecy."
8. Don't use any punctuation marks
9. As often as possible, skip rather than walk.
10. Ask people what sex they are. Laugh hysterically after they answer.
11. Specify that your drive-through order is "to go".
12. Sing along at the opera.
13. Go to a poetry recital and ask why the poems don't rhyme.
14. Put mosquito netting around your work area. Play a tape of jungle sounds all day.
15. Five days in advance, tell your friends you can't attend their party because you're not in the mood.
16. Have your coworkers address you by your wrestling name, Rock Hard Kim.
17. When the money comes out the ATM, scream "I won!", I won!" "3rd time this week!!!!!"
18. When leaving the zoo, start running towards the parking lot, yelling "run for your lives, they're loose!!"
19. Tell your children over dinner "due to the economy, we are going to have to let one of you go."
"There's a very real chance that none of this is going to work"
Yeah...there's a chance that something nasa does (think polar lander) isn't gonna work...what is he, some kind of rocket scientist? =)
have you actually used the web lately? Your ideas are great in theory, but in practice they take you back about 6 years. E-commerce goes out the window w/out cookies. Many sites become unusable w/out javascript (Not just sites that do "onclick=location.href", but there are many sites that actually use javascript *well*). Turning off images means that you won't see half of most sites...and the list goes on...
Now I know what you're going to say: "If site X won't let me browse my way, then I don't need site X". Well, damn near every site out there is becoming site X. Whether you like it or not, that's the way the world is moving, and you can either accept their way of doing things, or stay in 1995.
Hmm...just re-read that, and it sounds like a flame...I really didn't intend it to be...just meant it to be more of a wake-up call.