Back when.home.computing was stillyoung, years before there was a google, there was.Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/ , where volunteers donated their time and typed in and proofread books. They are still a prescence on the web, though they've had to take down.books due to.copyright restrictions. It was and still is a noble cause.
Around last December, I bought a $100 VirginMobile Optimus V Android low-end 'starter smartphone, and I haven't regretted it for a minute! The people I knew were all telling me I should buy an iPhone, but they couldn't come up with a good reason to justify my paying all that extra $ for one. It'll take years for their maps to even come close to where google maps is at today. Yep, I'm proud to say I'm a (50+ year old) 'google-boy', who now also enjoys playing all the old arcade games on his $100 ICS tablet. Streetview's worth all the money that it hasn't cost me. I travel the world from my lazyboy anytime I feel like it, life is okay.:-)
Performing oral sex or having sex without a condom may benefit both mental and physical health in women, according to scientists who analyzed the effects of semen's "mood-altering chemicals."
(Replying to my own post) I forgot to add that 'bad' mechanics will steal the bag from a customer's car, repack the void left nside of the steering wheel with wadded up newspaper so there's no 'sinking' of the plastic, then sell the bag to the next customer and charge full price for it. Pure "profit". And they'd know how to disable the instument cluster's warning light with noone the wiser.
I've had three accidents in the last 20 years that required a visit to a body shop. In each case there was considerable damage requiring considerable time in a body shop. (In two cases the cars were totalled by insurance, but I bought them back and had them repaired anyway.) Now, in none of the accidents did any of the air bags deploy. But, now I'm thinking, if my car goes to an independent shop, would there be a profit margin in swapping out my airbag for a fake so they had a real airbag to install elsewhere? (Is this even possible?)
Of course. It has gone on since airbags first came out. A person can remove them from a car, sell them to less than honorable types for less than half their actual worth, and still leave with a couple hundred bucks. A thief mechanic will leave noobvious trace, a street thief won't care about hiding their theft and the owner is greeted with a torn up steering wheel/dashboard. As long as there's easy, quick money to be made, a thief will do whatever it takes.
The best seat belt restraints are the 2 belt 'X' system, what racecar drivers u, but just getting drivers years ago to click the one "three-point" buckle was hard enough for the NTSB to do. To get drivers to click two buckles every time was asking too much.
Gotta love the claim that inhaling a lungfull of fine silicate glass dust should be 'harmless'
If he was wearing his seat belt, it is unlikely that the airbag played any part in saving him.
Doesn't the driver need to be belted in, in order for the airbag to activate? I think there's some sort of fail-safe interlock system that won't let the bag fire up unless the driver/passenger can be assumed to be belted in and therefore correctly positioned. I think this got implemented after injury lawsuits started happening.
I've always heard that investing in the stock market is the same as gambling in Las Vegas. And that you shouldn't entrust any more than 15% of your available investment money in stocks. Tha way, in case of a major crash, you'll only lose a small 'slice of your pie'.
It sounds like this 'test' hack was just that, a 'test' of the system. Whoever's behind this will one day execute the real deal. Expect carnage and chaos in the stock markets to ensue.
I find the 'manifest destiny' idea that we HAVE to terraform Mars a bit funny.
To my thinking, Mars, the Moon and the asteroids that can be mined are all there just waiting for us to use eventually. It just seems to me to be almost too "pat". As if it were a 'set-up', just waiting for us life-forms to be lulled into the solar system's evil venus-fly trap!
I don't know if I fully trust our galaxy either.:)
This is one reason why this year's U.S. Pesidential election is so important. At least one Supreme Court judge will retire due to advanced age, both Republicans and Democrats are very aware of this
The first commercially contracted re-supply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) has lifted off. A Falcon rocket carrying a Dragon cargo capsule lifted clear of Cape Canaveral in Florida at 20:35 (00:35 GMT). The robotic Dragon ship will deliver 400kg of food, clothing, experiments and spares to the orbiting platform's six astronauts. It is the maiden flight in a sequence of 12 missions that California's SpaceX company is performing for Nasa. The US space agency is looking to the private sector to assume routine transport duties to and from low-Earth orbit. It has given SpaceX a $1.6bn contract to keep the ISS stocked up with essentials, restoring a re-supply capability that the US lost when it retired the shuttles last year.h
A few years back I "envisioned" sending up a shuttle like garbage truck to clean up orbiting space junk. Any company who violates my vision must unilaterally pay me, in perpetuity for any other idea, since I thought of it first. Thank you.
This is an area where companies should co-operate towards combining all these variious detection tech into one machine, if at all possible. I realize this may be a pie in the sky thought, profit rules, of course.
From TGDaily: FTC nabs more scareware scammers Posted on October 4, 2012 -05:30 by Emma Woollacott Flushed with success from successfully closing a 'scareware' case on Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission has succeeded in getting six more such outfits closed down.
"The FTC has been aggressive –and successful –in its pursuit of tech support scams," says FTC chairman Jon Leibowitz. "And the tech support scam artists we are talking about today have taken scareware to a whole other level of virtual mayhem." The six operations were mainly based in India, but their victims spanned the globe: most lived in the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and the UK. Five used telemarketing boiler rooms to call consumers, while the sixth placed ads with Google which appeared when consumers searched for their computer company’s tech support telephone number. The scammers then pretended to be working for legitimate companies such as Dell, Microsoft, McAfee and Norton, before claiming they'd found a threat on the user's computer that could cost as much as $450 to fix.
The six organizations concerned have been named as Pecon Software, Finmaestros, Zeal IT Solutions, Virtual PC Solutions, Lakshmi Infosoul Services and PCCare247. The FTC is pushing for compensation.
No one can make you mad, you let them. It's your choice/decision how you respond to whatever someone has said to you...
If you are an adult, then you're supposed to be in control of your emotions.
Yes, you should be able to control your emotions, but that doesn't mean someone can't make you mad. You don't get to pick your feelings, you just have them.
When someone does manage to get under my skin that, the onus is now on me to figure out why. There'll always be lots of people who'll try to irritate me and therfore 'control' me, but only if I allow it.. Whether we know it or not, we are, with practice, fully capable of deciding if that person is going to decide our mood. If I react badly to each and every one that tries to 'rule' me, I'm gonna be an unhappy f@#k most of my life, not in my 'life plan'.
For me, I learned the trick to this is 1) Identifying the underlying cause for"why does this person piss me of so much?", then 2) Trying to put myself in that person's place. What made that person into the miserable @#%$ that they are?
Look, I'.m typing tired here, can't get my point across right. Even if you can't change the person, if you "understand" them, it goes a long way to help you realize why it's not that important what a poor angry fool thinks about you. Feel sorry for them. And I've heard that the key to happiness is... Forgive everybody everything. Across the board forgiveness. It's not really for them you do this, it's really for your peace of mind. Let that shit all go. Life is mostly little shit, and when you're 80 or 90 you can look back and see that easier.
Look, you're not gonna' get this overnight. Took me years to finally understand, others might 'get it' much quicker than me, I'm sure. It takes practice. Doing it over and over again. Some time down the road, it'll become 'second nature' for you. Do your best, that's all that's expected of us, that we're 'trying' to be a bit better than we were the day before. Peace to you, my friend. SF
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Back when.home.computing was stillyoung, years before there was a google, there was.Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/ , where volunteers donated their time and typed in and proofread books. They are still a prescence on the web, though they've had to take down.books due to.copyright restrictions. It was and still is a noble cause.
Around last December, I bought a $100 VirginMobile Optimus V Android low-end 'starter smartphone, and I haven't regretted it for a minute! The people I knew were all telling me I should buy an iPhone, but they couldn't come up with a good reason to justify my paying all that extra $ for one. It'll take years for their maps to even come close to where google maps is at today. Yep, I'm proud to say I'm a (50+ year old) 'google-boy', who now also enjoys playing all the old arcade games on his $100 ICS tablet. Streetview's worth all the money that it hasn't cost me. I travel the world from my lazyboy anytime I feel like it, life is okay. :-)
Performing oral sex or having sex without a condom may benefit both mental and physical health in women, according to scientists who analyzed the effects of semen's "mood-altering chemicals."
Citation needed on that.
Desperately!
(Replying to my own post) I forgot to add that 'bad' mechanics will steal the bag from a customer's car, repack the void left nside of the steering wheel with wadded up newspaper so there's no 'sinking' of the plastic, then sell the bag to the next customer and charge full price for it. Pure "profit". And they'd know how to disable the instument cluster's warning light with noone the wiser.
I've had three accidents in the last 20 years that required a visit to a body shop. In each case there was considerable damage requiring considerable time in a body shop. (In two cases the cars were totalled by insurance, but I bought them back and had them repaired anyway.) Now, in none of the accidents did any of the air bags deploy. But, now I'm thinking, if my car goes to an independent shop, would there be a profit margin in swapping out my airbag for a fake so they had a real airbag to install elsewhere? (Is this even possible?)
Of course. It has gone on since airbags first came out. A person can remove them from a car, sell them to less than honorable types for less than half their actual worth, and still leave with a couple hundred bucks. A thief mechanic will leave noobvious trace, a street thief won't care about hiding their theft and the owner is greeted with a torn up steering wheel/dashboard. As long as there's easy, quick money to be made, a thief will do whatever it takes.
The history of the seat belt... http://www.stnonline.com/resources/seat-belts/the-history-of-seat-belt-development
History of the airbag... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbag
I don't think air bags are pilot and flight attendant shaped.
Heh :)
Well, if your local porn shop doesn't stock 'em, there are always 'discreet' shops on-line....
Gotta love the claim that inhaling a lungfull of fine silicate glass dust should be 'harmless'
If he was wearing his seat belt, it is unlikely that the airbag played any part in saving him.
Doesn't the driver need to be belted in, in order for the airbag to activate? I think there's some sort of fail-safe interlock system that won't let the bag fire up unless the driver/passenger can be assumed to be belted in and therefore correctly positioned. I think this got implemented after injury lawsuits started happening.
When I was a young man, we didn'have these new-fangled self-inflating airbag thingys. We had to blow up our airbags "manually"....., and we LIKED IT!!
You even need to be careful of the legit air bags.... http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57444565-71/airbag-saves-man-then-kills-him/
It's mostly like poker. If you play stupid it's gambling. If you play smart you can eliminate the luck factor and reliably win.
Someone should tell that to Phil Ivey.... http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-phil-ivey-london-casino-refuses-to-pay-20121010,0,6445151.story
I've always heard that investing in the stock market is the same as gambling in Las Vegas. And that you shouldn't entrust any more than 15% of your available investment money in stocks. Tha way, in case of a major crash, you'll only lose a small 'slice of your pie'.
It sounds like this 'test' hack was just that, a 'test' of the system. Whoever's behind this will one day execute the real deal. Expect carnage and chaos in the stock markets to ensue.
This makes me incredibly sad.
Ah, hoarding gold, I presume!
I find the 'manifest destiny' idea that we HAVE to terraform Mars a bit funny.
To my thinking, Mars, the Moon and the asteroids that can be mined are all there just waiting for us to use eventually. It just seems to me to be almost too "pat". As if it were a 'set-up', just waiting for us life-forms to be lulled into the solar system's evil venus-fly trap!
I don't know if I fully trust our galaxy either. :)
This is one reason why this year's U.S. Pesidential election is so important. At least one Supreme Court judge will retire due to advanced age, both Republicans and Democrats are very aware of this
The first commercially contracted re-supply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) has lifted off. A Falcon rocket carrying a Dragon cargo capsule lifted clear of Cape Canaveral in Florida at 20:35 (00:35 GMT). The robotic Dragon ship will deliver 400kg of food, clothing, experiments and spares to the orbiting platform's six astronauts. It is the maiden flight in a sequence of 12 missions that California's SpaceX company is performing for Nasa. The US space agency is looking to the private sector to assume routine transport duties to and from low-Earth orbit. It has given SpaceX a $1.6bn contract to keep the ISS stocked up with essentials, restoring a re-supply capability that the US lost when it retired the shuttles last year.h
Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nikola_Tesla&mobileaction=toggle_view_desktop
Documentary video - http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/nikola-tesla-the-genius/
PBS Nikol Tesla page - http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ins/index.html
And I do accept PayPal. :-)
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Eskimos. God's 'frozen' people.
this non-story deserves /. space because...
...while the story itself goes nowhere really, the comments it spawns are pretty entertaining.
"The FTC has been aggressive –and successful –in its pursuit of tech support scams," says FTC chairman Jon Leibowitz. "And the tech support scam artists we are talking about today have taken scareware to a whole other level of virtual mayhem." The six operations were mainly based in India, but their victims spanned the globe: most lived in the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and the UK. Five used telemarketing boiler rooms to call consumers, while the sixth placed ads with Google which appeared when consumers searched for their computer company’s tech support telephone number. The scammers then pretended to be working for legitimate companies such as Dell, Microsoft, McAfee and Norton, before claiming they'd found a threat on the user's computer that could cost as much as $450 to fix.
The six organizations concerned have been named as Pecon Software, Finmaestros, Zeal IT Solutions, Virtual PC Solutions, Lakshmi Infosoul Services and PCCare247. The FTC is pushing for compensation.
http://m.tgdaily.com/business-and-law-features/66620-ftc-nabs-more-scareware-scammers
Doh! Whoosh on me! I really gotta' get out more.
Yes, you should be able to control your emotions, but that doesn't mean someone can't make you mad. You don't get to pick your feelings, you just have them.
When someone does manage to get under my skin that, the onus is now on me to figure out why. There'll always be lots of people who'll try to irritate me and therfore 'control' me, but only if I allow it.. Whether we know it or not, we are, with practice, fully capable of deciding if that person is going to decide our mood. If I react badly to each and every one that tries to 'rule' me, I'm gonna be an unhappy f@#k most of my life, not in my 'life plan'.
For me, I learned the trick to this is 1) Identifying the underlying cause for"why does this person piss me of so much?", then 2) Trying to put myself in that person's place. What made that person into the miserable @#%$ that they are?
Look, I'.m typing tired here, can't get my point across right. Even if you can't change the person, if you "understand" them, it goes a long way to help you realize why it's not that important what a poor angry fool thinks about you. Feel sorry for them. And I've heard that the key to happiness is... Forgive everybody everything. Across the board forgiveness. It's not really for them you do this, it's really for your peace of mind. Let that shit all go. Life is mostly little shit, and when you're 80 or 90 you can look back and see that easier.
Look, you're not gonna' get this overnight. Took me years to finally understand, others might 'get it' much quicker than me, I'm sure. It takes practice. Doing it over and over again. Some time down the road, it'll become 'second nature' for you. Do your best, that's all that's expected of us, that we're 'trying' to be a bit better than we were the day before. Peace to you, my friend. SF
Tell me it was that god damn MyFuckingCleanPC (a.k.a. MySlowPieceOfShitPC) company that got busted...
PULLEEEZZZZEE!
"The fake 'scareware' programs included WinFixer, WinAntiVirus, PopupGuard, WinFirewall, InternetAntiSpy, ComputerShield, PC SuperCharger and ErrorSafe," http://www.esecurityplanet.com/malware/ftc-wins-163-million-judgment-against-scareware-marketer.html