First it'd be really hard to have 4200 positive feedbacks only to yourself, since the shill accounts would become obvious, since they'd only be bidding on your own shit, or very disproportionately so. EBay would notice and shut you down.
Secondly, you'd be charged all the auction fees on those 4200 items. Since he was dealing with somewhat expensive items let's make a conservative estimate of $10/item of auction fees. That's a $42k investment right there, which will probably only result in you losing all your accounts.
Thirdly, each shill account needs a valid, different credit card, in different names. Now I know I get a lot of offers for platinum cards in the mail, but not that many.
As far as this type of fraud being detrimental, thank you captain obvious. In other news murder is mean and embezzling isn't honest. Great whore though, it's fucking hilarious that you got modded to +5.
Everybody is saying 'if the seller won't use escrow, don't do business', but in my experience nobody uses escrow, even when you offer it. If you can't afford to take the loss, USE ESCROW.
The second thing to remember is that even good users can "go bad". If you can't afford to take the loss, USE ESCROW, don't just see if the seller is willing to use escrow, use it. For As an analogy, look at slashdot, at all the high-karma, low-uid users who turn into useless trolls.
Lastly, if you can't afford to take the loss, USE ESCROW. Don't contemplate it, USE IT.
I'm currently having the same problem, except I'm not willing to give paypal the above documentation just so I can get money that started in my bank account back to that same bank account, so I can close my paypal account.
I'm amazed you got it unfrozen in under 24 hours as I couldn't even get an email reply in that time, though this site gave me some phone numbers that might lead to better luck. Or at the very least maybe I'll be able to cost them as much money as they've stolen from me.
I think it's safe to say that FFTs will not cure cancer. Seti is not research like creating a laser, it's basic math done on a large dataset, looking for alien life in a rediculously improbable manner.
Does anybody here really give a shit? I mean, honestly, for a site that bitches about MS so much, slashdot gives them a helluva lot of free press.
Why not spend the effort advertising the Sanyo SCP-5150 instead, a very cool, full-feature phone that can meow out of the box, in addition to the normal wireless web, color LCD, blah the fuck blah.
Or maybe we could concentrate on the Kyocero palm-phones, available for sale right this very instant, interoperates with all your stuff, and is a really cool phone.
Let's stop watching MS pull out the same old bullshit, but with a start button, and start advertising products that matter, and don't support monopolies!
I'm not saying that seti is without value, I still run it on one of my machines. I'm merely noting that there are other ways to spend your spare cycles that might be worth exploring, since apparently seti is getting more users than it can handle, and let's face facts, dnet is an exercise in proving the obvious.
For me, the prospect of helping to cure cancer and alzheimers is more immediately important than searching for extraterrestrial life, though I'm not so short-sighted as to ignore the importance of research for the sake of research.
I don't mean to be rude but another solution, if you're running windows, is to try to find a cure for cancer, or alzheimers, or anthrax, instead of looking for extra-terrestrial life. This can be done by downloading this.
Go, do it now, I swear you'll feel all warm and fuzzy.
Woah now, I know RMS is considered to be an important fellow, but this is a crazy idea. Come on, cooperation between KDE and GNOME? What crazy idea is next, a free flow of information and help between BSD and Linux?
Oh wait, my bad, this idea is so obvious it's rediculous. Does anybody have a valid reason why it hasn't happened already?
I believe the problem is more simple. TiVo gets guide data from tribune media services, and their "big build" (the full dataset) doesn't seem to include Canadian data, thus rendering canadian tivo impossible.
It's so refreshing to see somebody with common sense on slashdot. Casual desktop users don't want or need Linux yet; or BeOS for that matter.
As much as I hate to admit it, W2K makes a pretty decent desktop for the average person.
Also, a correction on the story, you can still buy a Dell with Linux, Dell was just pragmatic enough to realize that Linux is currently a great choice for servers, but doesn't make sense for the desktop today.
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As a security manager, you should learn how to lock down the computers that the users are using, thus preventing the installation and deployment of this utility.
Additionally, your security policy should have language forbidding the use of non-authorized software, thus making the use of said software a fireable offense.
Since when was OS X based on NetBSD? It's based on FreeBSD. I know that NetBSD can run on table lamps, but that doesn't automatically mean it's the OS used on the new iMac.
Where did you get the idea that he's a "Free Software advocate"?
Where did you get the idea that I said he's a Free Software advocate. It would be really, really hypocritical if an environmentalist said that a Suburban is BETTER than a Prius, based on headroom.
It amazes me how much energy the denizens of this site spend complaining about monopolistic practices, and evil corporations, then refuse to take those practices into account when making personal choices. It's a geekier version of the fucking retards with 'save the rainforest' bumper stickers, driving through the McDonald's drive-thru.
opening a new window in any shape or form (Ctrl+N, or a javascript function) takes *forever*
Try using ctrl-t, to open a new tab. It's a lot faster than ctrl-n, and tabbed browsing is one of the nicest extras in the new mozilla builds anyway.
As far as 'best browser' goes, a Free Software advocate has to be incredibly hypocritical to recommend the use of IE. Mozilla works wonderfully for me, and I don't have to play the standard slashdot hypocrite, "believing" in one position, yet supporting another.
If you're collecting my private information, the burden of proof is on you to show me why such collection is beneficial, not on me to show why it isn't.
Ah yes, the old 'guilty until proven innocent' methodology.
can you prove you didn't steal my wallet on August 23rd, 1996?
I fail to see the issue. Some companies which created some great technologies are enforcing their legal right to get license fees for those technologies. This is how patents are SUPPOSED to work!
Where's the incentive to create if it's legal to just steal the invention and pay nothing?
This game represents what could turn out to be the most popular online universe ever-created
Or it could be a steaming pile of turd. An article entitled 'Been playing this game for 3 months, here's a detailed review explaining exactly why it's the best of the lot' would be a hell of a lot more interesting and useful.
use a memory filesystem to store the image, get a machine with 64-bit PCI, and a nice fast 64-bit U160 SCSI controller, and you should be able to do a lot. if you want to know how much alot is, do the math.
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First it'd be really hard to have 4200 positive feedbacks only to yourself, since the shill accounts would become obvious, since they'd only be bidding on your own shit, or very disproportionately so. EBay would notice and shut you down.
Secondly, you'd be charged all the auction fees on those 4200 items. Since he was dealing with somewhat expensive items let's make a conservative estimate of $10/item of auction fees. That's a $42k investment right there, which will probably only result in you losing all your accounts.
Thirdly, each shill account needs a valid, different credit card, in different names. Now I know I get a lot of offers for platinum cards in the mail, but not that many.
As far as this type of fraud being detrimental, thank you captain obvious. In other news murder is mean and embezzling isn't honest. Great whore though, it's fucking hilarious that you got modded to +5.
The second thing to remember is that even good users can "go bad". If you can't afford to take the loss, USE ESCROW, don't just see if the seller is willing to use escrow, use it. For As an analogy, look at slashdot, at all the high-karma, low-uid users who turn into useless trolls.
Lastly, if you can't afford to take the loss, USE ESCROW. Don't contemplate it, USE IT.
I'm amazed you got it unfrozen in under 24 hours as I couldn't even get an email reply in that time, though this site gave me some phone numbers that might lead to better luck. Or at the very least maybe I'll be able to cost them as much money as they've stolen from me.
- have no interpersonal skills
- think you can do everything better than your cow orkers
- use any sort of power you gain with colleagues to belittle them idiotically
- go outside the boundries of your job and in the process fuck your cow orkers
- get all vengeful when your inadaquacies are pointed out, and spew a pile of bile all over internet discussion sites
- take all credit for everything
There's no link between his background and his managerial issue. He's just a fucking retard, like you.I think it's safe to say that FFTs will not cure cancer. Seti is not research like creating a laser, it's basic math done on a large dataset, looking for alien life in a rediculously improbable manner.
Why not spend the effort advertising the Sanyo SCP-5150 instead, a very cool, full-feature phone that can meow out of the box, in addition to the normal wireless web, color LCD, blah the fuck blah.
Or maybe we could concentrate on the Kyocero palm-phones, available for sale right this very instant, interoperates with all your stuff, and is a really cool phone.
Let's stop watching MS pull out the same old bullshit, but with a start button, and start advertising products that matter, and don't support monopolies!
For me, the prospect of helping to cure cancer and alzheimers is more immediately important than searching for extraterrestrial life, though I'm not so short-sighted as to ignore the importance of research for the sake of research.
Go, do it now, I swear you'll feel all warm and fuzzy.
your signature is retarded.
Oh wait, my bad, this idea is so obvious it's rediculous. Does anybody have a valid reason why it hasn't happened already?
I believe the problem is more simple. TiVo gets guide data from tribune media services, and their "big build" (the full dataset) doesn't seem to include Canadian data, thus rendering canadian tivo impossible.
Also, a correction on the story, you can still buy a Dell with Linux, Dell was just pragmatic enough to realize that Linux is currently a great choice for servers, but doesn't make sense for the desktop today.
Additionally, your security policy should have language forbidding the use of non-authorized software, thus making the use of said software a fireable offense.
Since when was OS X based on NetBSD? It's based on FreeBSD. I know that NetBSD can run on table lamps, but that doesn't automatically mean it's the OS used on the new iMac.
What is xwd, other than a file format?
Impressive, I thought I was the only low-UID asshole left around here. Guess you showed me!
Where did you get the idea that I said he's a Free Software advocate. It would be really, really hypocritical if an environmentalist said that a Suburban is BETTER than a Prius, based on headroom.
It amazes me how much energy the denizens of this site spend complaining about monopolistic practices, and evil corporations, then refuse to take those practices into account when making personal choices. It's a geekier version of the fucking retards with 'save the rainforest' bumper stickers, driving through the McDonald's drive-thru.
As far as 'best browser' goes, a Free Software advocate has to be incredibly hypocritical to recommend the use of IE. Mozilla works wonderfully for me, and I don't have to play the standard slashdot hypocrite, "believing" in one position, yet supporting another.
Yes, I own a copy of both of the albums currently released on SACD, and they sound great!
Your views are unacceptably fascist. You will be shot.
My deepest sympathy, Kathleen.
can you prove you didn't steal my wallet on August 23rd, 1996?
Where's the incentive to create if it's legal to just steal the invention and pay nothing?
use a memory filesystem to store the image, get a machine with 64-bit PCI, and a nice fast 64-bit U160 SCSI controller, and you should be able to do a lot. if you want to know how much alot is, do the math.