Acceptable Mobile Ads: Takes up the edge of the screen (or otherwise unused area), is not distracting (flashing, music, etc) and is primarily on pages/screens that I'm not going to spend a lot of time on, such as title screens, login screens, etc
The more an ad looks like content (as opposed to "attention grabbing", the more likely I am to pay attention to it. The more likely I am to pay attention to it, the more likely I am to click it if I'm interested. If your ad flashes yellow flying monkeys and blares music then I'm going to ignore it even if it's something I may be interested in. The advertising industry has taught us to tune out the annoying ads completely. Also, if an app has an ad splash screen (especially one that cannot be skipped), I will stop using that app altogether regardless of how well done, relevant, etc the ad itself is.
I was under the impression that the image/phrase thing was so you know you're not at a phishing site... nothing to do with keeping other people out of your account. Of course, it sounds like no one at your bank understands the concept of a secure login anyway.
I use the correct answers, but uncommon formatting rules. For example, if my highschool was "Slashdot Public School" then for all security questions of that type, I might have the answer be "schooLpubliCslashdoT" or for a one-word answer, I might say my favorite color is "eulB". That way I know the answer and the formatting is uncommon enough that most people won't guess it even though they know the answer. As long as I'm consistent with security question formatting, I can usually get it in one or two guesses.
I used to belong to a credit union that was great... except for their web interface. It would lock me out completely after three failed attempts and I'd have to drive to their closest branch (40 minutes away) and wait in line for someone (not a teller) to unlock it. Horrible system. It got worse when I tried adding them to Mint.com, which caused it to lock me out for no discernible reason.
There's still websites out there that limit you to 8 characters maximum. When Citi held my student loans (studentloans.com), their website would just use the first 8 characters of whatever password you entered.... of course, the field would accept more and they wouldn't tell you this so the first time you went to log in, it was a very WTF moment because you'd get a Password Incorrect error even though the password matched the one you signed up with. It was one of the main reasons I was actually happy when they sold my loan to Sallie Mae six months ago.
Books tend to have three meanings: 1) What the author meant 2) What the reader takes away from the story 3) What English teacher say the author meant and what they (the teachers) think readers should take away from the story
1 and 2 are often, but not always, the same. Neither 1 nor 2 are ever the same as 3.
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I first read it on my own, then was surprised when it showed up in English class a few years later
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He was the only author that was required reading in school (in several grades no less) that I still enjoyed on my own time as well. Not even English teachers can screw up Bradbury's works.
I went to a state school and foreign students were split roughly into three equal-sized groups. 1) The ones who avoided anyone else not from their part of the world, thus not helping the school's cultural diversity 2) The ones who "Americanized" a little too hard and spent most of them time drunk, arrested or deported and 3) The ones who actually helped the goal of spreading diversity by experiencing American cultural while still introducing others to their own. Of course, I'd take all of them over the mobs of inner city kids they shipped up from NYC to go to school for free who inevitably flunked out after the second semester.
A bunch of other posters said Rochester. Either way, I'm in Rochester now and will be going through Syracuse soon. Do you think I could hide a stolen spy satellite in my trunk?
An awful long post for one minute after the story's timestamp. I'll save the rest of the Slashdotters here the work and accuse you of working for Microsoft, Oracle, Apple, Linus Torvalds, the NSA, the CIA, the KGB, the Democrats, the Republicans, Adolf Hitler and Mr. Rogers.
More on topic, any idea where in "upstate NY" they're being kept? Whether you go by the NYC definition of Upstate or the rest of the state's definition of Upstate, it's still a pretty big area and odds are I'll be near it sometime within the next two weeks. I'm going to guess somewhere near either Rome or Watertown.
Sooner or later, we'll have to break compatibility. Apple broke compatibility with OS 9 software, DDR3 broke compatibility with DDR2, SATA broke compatibility with PATA, etc. It's great if you keep supporting older devices, but sooner or later you have to move on. Look at all of the issues Microsoft has supporting legacy apps and devices on the latest versions of Windows. Imagine how much sleeker and less buggy Windows would be if MS just said "Ok, Windows 8 will not work with any programs created for Windows 7 or earlier and will require DDR3 memory, SATA hard drive, USB mice and keyboards and a Blu-ray player".
As far as I can tell, it would have been slightly smaller (about 10mm x 8mm instead of 12.3mm x 8.8mm) and would have had a different layout for the contacts. The winning design can also be jammed sideways into a 12mm wide mini-SIM slot and get stuck, which Nokia designed theirs to avoid.
People already know that soda is unhealthy. They just don't care. Reminds me of Dennis Leary talking about cigarettes... same basic idea.
"There's a guy- I don't know if you've heard about this guy, he's been on the news a lot lately. There's a guy- he's English, I don't think we should hold that against him, but apparently this is just his life's dream because he is going from country to country. He has a senate hearing in this country coming up in a couple of weeks. And this is what he wants to do. He wants to make the warnings on the packs bigger. Yeah! He wants the whole front of the pack to be the warning. Like the problem is we just haven't noticed yet. Right? Like he's going to get his way and all of the sudden smokers around the world are going to be going, "Yeah, Bill, I've got some cigarettes.. HOLY SHIT! These things are bad for you! Shit, I thought they were good for you! I thought they had Vitamin C in them and stuff!" You fucking dolt! Doesn't matter how big the warnings are. You could have cigarettes that were called the warnings. You could have cigarettes that come in a black pack, with a skull and a cross bone on the front, called tumors and smokers would be lined up around the block going, "I can't wait to get my hands on these fucking things! I bet you get a tumor as soon as you light up! Numm Numm Numm Numm Numm" Doesn't matter how big the warnings are or how much they cost. Keep raising the prices, we'll break into your houses to get the fucking cigarettes, ok!? They're a drug, we're addicted, ok!? Numm Numm Numm Numm Numm *wheeze*"
Noun: A thing given willingly to someone without payment; a present: "a gift shop". Verb: Give (something) as a gift, esp. formally or as a donation or bequest: "the company gifted 2,999 shares to a charity".
I've seen something similar - when I pre-ordered Diablo III from NewEgg, they didn't charge my card until it shipped. Granted, it's not a digital download and it wasn't a gift but those feel like a subset of the overall process of not charging (and allowing cancellation) until delivery.
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Acceptable Mobile Ads: Takes up the edge of the screen (or otherwise unused area), is not distracting (flashing, music, etc) and is primarily on pages/screens that I'm not going to spend a lot of time on, such as title screens, login screens, etc
The more an ad looks like content (as opposed to "attention grabbing", the more likely I am to pay attention to it. The more likely I am to pay attention to it, the more likely I am to click it if I'm interested. If your ad flashes yellow flying monkeys and blares music then I'm going to ignore it even if it's something I may be interested in. The advertising industry has taught us to tune out the annoying ads completely. Also, if an app has an ad splash screen (especially one that cannot be skipped), I will stop using that app altogether regardless of how well done, relevant, etc the ad itself is.
The captain never leaves a sinking ship!
Unless he's Italian.
I was under the impression that the image/phrase thing was so you know you're not at a phishing site... nothing to do with keeping other people out of your account. Of course, it sounds like no one at your bank understands the concept of a secure login anyway.
I use the correct answers, but uncommon formatting rules. For example, if my highschool was "Slashdot Public School" then for all security questions of that type, I might have the answer be "schooLpubliCslashdoT" or for a one-word answer, I might say my favorite color is "eulB". That way I know the answer and the formatting is uncommon enough that most people won't guess it even though they know the answer. As long as I'm consistent with security question formatting, I can usually get it in one or two guesses.
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You're gonna break stuff if you keep leaving unmatched (
I used to belong to a credit union that was great... except for their web interface. It would lock me out completely after three failed attempts and I'd have to drive to their closest branch (40 minutes away) and wait in line for someone (not a teller) to unlock it. Horrible system. It got worse when I tried adding them to Mint.com, which caused it to lock me out for no discernible reason.
There's still websites out there that limit you to 8 characters maximum. When Citi held my student loans (studentloans.com), their website would just use the first 8 characters of whatever password you entered.... of course, the field would accept more and they wouldn't tell you this so the first time you went to log in, it was a very WTF moment because you'd get a Password Incorrect error even though the password matched the one you signed up with. It was one of the main reasons I was actually happy when they sold my loan to Sallie Mae six months ago.
"Developers are the people who invented CamelCase"
I think chemists has developers beat by a century or two. Now please pass the NaCl.
Books tend to have three meanings:
1) What the author meant
2) What the reader takes away from the story
3) What English teacher say the author meant and what they (the teachers) think readers should take away from the story
1 and 2 are often, but not always, the same. Neither 1 nor 2 are ever the same as 3.
All Summer in a Day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Summer_in_a_Day
I first read it on my own, then was surprised when it showed up in English class a few years later
He was the only author that was required reading in school (in several grades no less) that I still enjoyed on my own time as well. Not even English teachers can screw up Bradbury's works.
It's a tech college. There's no women there.
Maybe people didn't launch it? It could have built itself in an automated factory. Skynet has reached for the sky!
I went to a state school and foreign students were split roughly into three equal-sized groups. 1) The ones who avoided anyone else not from their part of the world, thus not helping the school's cultural diversity 2) The ones who "Americanized" a little too hard and spent most of them time drunk, arrested or deported and 3) The ones who actually helped the goal of spreading diversity by experiencing American cultural while still introducing others to their own. Of course, I'd take all of them over the mobs of inner city kids they shipped up from NYC to go to school for free who inevitably flunked out after the second semester.
A bunch of other posters said Rochester. Either way, I'm in Rochester now and will be going through Syracuse soon. Do you think I could hide a stolen spy satellite in my trunk?
I must have missed that. Depending on which location (they have two here), it's just a few miles from where I'm at.
An awful long post for one minute after the story's timestamp. I'll save the rest of the Slashdotters here the work and accuse you of working for Microsoft, Oracle, Apple, Linus Torvalds, the NSA, the CIA, the KGB, the Democrats, the Republicans, Adolf Hitler and Mr. Rogers.
More on topic, any idea where in "upstate NY" they're being kept? Whether you go by the NYC definition of Upstate or the rest of the state's definition of Upstate, it's still a pretty big area and odds are I'll be near it sometime within the next two weeks. I'm going to guess somewhere near either Rome or Watertown.
Sooner or later, we'll have to break compatibility. Apple broke compatibility with OS 9 software, DDR3 broke compatibility with DDR2, SATA broke compatibility with PATA, etc. It's great if you keep supporting older devices, but sooner or later you have to move on. Look at all of the issues Microsoft has supporting legacy apps and devices on the latest versions of Windows. Imagine how much sleeker and less buggy Windows would be if MS just said "Ok, Windows 8 will not work with any programs created for Windows 7 or earlier and will require DDR3 memory, SATA hard drive, USB mice and keyboards and a Blu-ray player".
As far as I can tell, it would have been slightly smaller (about 10mm x 8mm instead of 12.3mm x 8.8mm) and would have had a different layout for the contacts. The winning design can also be jammed sideways into a 12mm wide mini-SIM slot and get stuck, which Nokia designed theirs to avoid.
Rather than ordering more sophisticated attacks, why not just order more effective attacks?
People already know that soda is unhealthy. They just don't care. Reminds me of Dennis Leary talking about cigarettes... same basic idea.
"There's a guy- I don't know if you've heard about this guy, he's been on the news a lot lately. There's a guy- he's English, I don't think we should hold that against him, but apparently this is just his life's dream because he is going from country to country. He has a senate hearing in this country coming up in a couple of weeks. And this is what he wants to do. He wants to make the warnings on the packs bigger. Yeah! He wants the whole front of the pack to be the warning. Like the problem is we just haven't noticed yet. Right? Like he's going to get his way and all of the sudden smokers around the world are going to be going, "Yeah, Bill, I've got some cigarettes.. HOLY SHIT! These things are bad for you! Shit, I thought they were good for you! I thought they had Vitamin C in them and stuff!" You fucking dolt! Doesn't matter how big the warnings are. You could have cigarettes that were called the warnings. You could have cigarettes that come in a black pack, with a skull and a cross bone on the front, called tumors and smokers would be lined up around the block going, "I can't wait to get my hands on these fucking things! I bet you get a tumor as soon as you light up! Numm Numm Numm Numm Numm" Doesn't matter how big the warnings are or how much they cost. Keep raising the prices, we'll break into your houses to get the fucking cigarettes, ok!? They're a drug, we're addicted, ok!? Numm Numm Numm Numm Numm *wheeze*"
"Well, we got our 2 minutes of browsing time today, but at least it was fast!"
No, but you can create a verb from a verb.
gift/gift/
Noun: A thing given willingly to someone without payment; a present: "a gift shop".
Verb: Give (something) as a gift, esp. formally or as a donation or bequest: "the company gifted 2,999 shares to a charity".
I've seen something similar - when I pre-ordered Diablo III from NewEgg, they didn't charge my card until it shipped. Granted, it's not a digital download and it wasn't a gift but those feel like a subset of the overall process of not charging (and allowing cancellation) until delivery.
Nope, but I did get a ton of cake. One of the advantages of working in an office of mostly women.