Same reason they put the @mat guy through hell: the hackers have some stupid reason to believe that short Twitter handles are "valuable." There was a big run on short or common word domain names back during the dot-com boom, because this whole Web thing was new and people didn't know how to use it. I guess this is the same thing.
"Hi, Paypal phone service person, I recently switched banks, and I think I might need to update my card info. I forget if I did this earlier --- can you tell me which card you've already got on file for me? Just the last four digits would be enough, thanks."
"Hi, customer, go login to you account and see for yourself. It would've taken less time to do that than waiting on the phone for one of us to answer."
Yeah! As I noted below, I'd use my PCjr's RAM disk to run Infocom adventures at lightning speed:) Beats waiting for the non-DMA floppy to access for every fargin' command you typed...
Got one back in 84 for Christmas IIRC. I ended up using it through to the end of my 2nd year of university, so a bit over 7 years. Of course by that time we'd maxed out the RAM & added a second external floppy. Best hack I had at the time: making a 360K RAM disk and copying the contents of any Infocom game floppies to it so they'd run lightning quick! Otherwise each command had to access the floppy, slowing everything down.
Of course what I really wanted was an Amiga, but we couldn't afford it.:)
And when I was in high school, half the class in both my 12th grade Advanced Physics and Calculus were girls, and there was only 1 guy in the top 10 students. It was a regional school for 3 towns.
If you have a safe deposit box at Bank A, chances are you'll eventually get snail mail from them. Hey, what do you know, you also happen to have a safety deposit box key with Bank A!
The Right hates abortion because to do so appeals to the noisy, religious groups that they need to win over. They also hate any government assistance to help out infants because to do so appeals to the noise, low tax/small government groups that they need to win over. It's the consequence of a two-party system, and for it the US suffers greatly.
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Same reason they put the @mat guy through hell: the hackers have some stupid reason to believe that short Twitter handles are "valuable." There was a big run on short or common word domain names back during the dot-com boom, because this whole Web thing was new and people didn't know how to use it. I guess this is the same thing.
I'd be talking to a lawyer. Sounds like someone at Paypal owes $50k to Mr. Hiroshima.
Nobody owes him any money whatsoever. He claims it was "valued at over $50,000", but it's worth exactly $0 until he sells it.
"Hi, Paypal phone service person, I recently switched banks, and I think I might need to update my card info. I forget if I did this earlier --- can you tell me which card you've already got on file for me? Just the last four digits would be enough, thanks."
"Hi, customer, go login to you account and see for yourself. It would've taken less time to do that than waiting on the phone for one of us to answer."
1and1 was one of the shittiest registrars during the whole dot-com boom.
Yeah! As I noted below, I'd use my PCjr's RAM disk to run Infocom adventures at lightning speed :) Beats waiting for the non-DMA floppy to access for every fargin' command you typed...
3M is headquartered in Minnesota, so it's clear the 3rd one just froze off from the cold.
Got one back in 84 for Christmas IIRC. I ended up using it through to the end of my 2nd year of university, so a bit over 7 years. Of course by that time we'd maxed out the RAM & added a second external floppy. Best hack I had at the time: making a 360K RAM disk and copying the contents of any Infocom game floppies to it so they'd run lightning quick! Otherwise each command had to access the floppy, slowing everything down.
Of course what I really wanted was an Amiga, but we couldn't afford it. :)
Two words: Government Alpha.
A reminder: the first version of Soylent this guy made up and tried to live on for a week or so had NO iron. So he's not all that smart.
And when I was in high school, half the class in both my 12th grade Advanced Physics and Calculus were girls, and there was only 1 guy in the top 10 students. It was a regional school for 3 towns.
Sounds more like a high school clique than anything else - a couple of people don't like you, and bam you're isolated and shunned.
If you prove to someone that's trying to offer you a job that you're an unprofessional jackass, of course word will get around.
Funny, I always place manhole covers flat on the street!
Ah, the good ol' days when there was so much freedom around.
Would you say the key is repetition?
Nibble Magazine used things like "Fuck You Asshole"?
Yeah but it was little endian so it looks like "You Fuck, Hole Ass" in the source.
Don't do the crime if you don't wanna do the time.
Any where I've lived with rent control, there is a provision to increase it by x% per year. So, no, the cost isn't going down at all.
Well, until the WhaleView Cameras come out...
Yeah, because they have a 30Hz refresh rate. No thanks!
Why the fuck are you still there?
They do, they're just not at the office, they're at home.
And going to "fancy dinners with clients" is about networking: keeping current clients happy and trying to get new ones. You know, to produce income?
Nah, think about it in terms of energy - potential vs. kinetic.
Sure, you bought 100 shares of AAPL at $7/share so you have a huge *potential* profit. Or you've got a big rock sitting on the edge of a cliff.
But until you sell the stock, or lever the rock over the edge, it is just potential.
Imagine 4 shares on the edge of a cliff. Time works in the same way!
If you have a safe deposit box at Bank A, chances are you'll eventually get snail mail from them. Hey, what do you know, you also happen to have a safety deposit box key with Bank A!
The Right hates abortion because to do so appeals to the noisy, religious groups that they need to win over. They also hate any government assistance to help out infants because to do so appeals to the noise, low tax/small government groups that they need to win over. It's the consequence of a two-party system, and for it the US suffers greatly.
Because it's about GNU control.
Damn my dyslexia!