a guy i know had his credit card number stolen. the thief charged a lot of office furniture and office supplies on it and had it all shipped to his (the thief's) new home office (he wasn't too bright, huh?). my friend called the credit card company when he got the charges and got them reversed. he then did a little research and got the address the furniture was sent to. he went to the location and saw the new stuff, verified that at least some of what was there was charged on his card, and then called the CC company to tell them he found the guy who did this. he was told that it wasn't worth the trouble of going after the guy so they weren't going to do anything. no charges were filed. the stuff wasn't recovered.
at least my friend didn't end up paying for it, but i wonder, if they did prosecute more often on even little things (when they have proof of course), would this lower the amount of this type of fraud? and would i be living in a dream world to hope that this might lower those pesky interest rates and/or fees we all love to see?
i.e. that they aren't affiliated with one particular firewall solution (that they'll be trying to sell you once they've finished testing you, "well, this system that we happen to sell protects you against all these exploits we found on your network"). i would also recomend a company that only checks you for vulnerablities and then lets you know what you found, leading you to fix them yourself. "Leave the gun, take the canoli."
yeah, you can do this. when you have free space where you'll be available for meetings and such, you can choose to show that time as "free" to other people. "Leave the gun, take the canoli."
i don't know what it is, bunch of multiple choice questions.
we were told that they were for a personality test that would be used to determine what sort of team we are and what type of personality would best complement us when we decide to hire someone else.
sorry, that was the first link i could find...i'm sure google could help you there. there's a bigger assiciation that has contact lists of it's members that used to be available to the public, but i forgot the name..sorry.
first, there's a big difference between a telemarketer and a market researcher. telemarketers are almost always sleazy, and from having worked for a market research company i can tell you that most of them aren't. not all of them, but most of them.
market researchers (the guys who call you on the phone to do surveys) are NOT trying to sell you ANYTHING. they want you to answer a few questions that their client is interested in. these are the same people who call you and ask you if you're going to vote and who you're going to vote for.
while i believe the client (the one who hired the research company in the first place) shouldn't have asked to you to run a program they send you, i can almost positively assure you that they mean no harm. to be on the safe side, mailing the disk to your office was a smart idea, but if you want to look into it further, check your phone book. if they aren't a local company (most are in the central time zone) look on the web, there's an association of market research companies, here that will give you a list of members. "Leave the gun, take the canoli."
ricochet.com I haven't used it personally, and it's not available everywhere, but for $70 a month it's supposed to give you access at up to 128k (up to of course). it allows you to use the service anywhere they have the antennas setup, which is in most major cities and most major airports. i think they also give you access to dial-up accounts for when you're in an area that doesn't have it yet. you'll have to go through a reseller to get it, but i've heard good things about it and may be getting it soon myself. "Leave the gun, take the canoli."
IANAH (historian) but i believe that's the main reason we nuked japan. the commanders knew that the japanese were entrenched in the islands they needed to occupy to win the war and there was no way to get them out without another Normandy. "Leave the gun, take the canoli."
i worked at a small company (less than 100 employees) and when the original sysadmin left he was threatening to call the BSA and report all the unlicensed software they had...don't know what happened, but later i was cleaning up an old storeroom and found enough disks to probably prove we'd bought everything legit...
i think one of the (many) polls about nader voters showed that the majority of them would have voted for bush, and the rest wouldn't have voted at all.
i don't think they will though, i think it's only been done a handful of times although i don't know of any specific cases. i think they are selected for their loyalty to the party that chooses them and therefore are unlikely to vote against that party. in this case, they only chance is if they see that gore's won the popular vote and they decide to give him the win...not too likely though. "Leave the gun, take the canoli."
yeah, a friend told me that he was a where are they now episode about Sir Mix-a-Lot, apparently in addition to all his record producing duties and hanging out and stuff, he repairs/refurbishes old HAM radios.
if you're looking for wireless service, depending on what area of Dallas you live in you might want to look into ricochet. it's 128k for about $70 a month. you have to buy the modem too. i haven't gotten it yet, anyone have any experience good/bad with it? "Leave the gun, take the canoli."
i remember hearing that at one point in a game Deep Blue could have one just by waiting Kasparov out. Kasparov only had a short amount of time left on his clock, and if Deep Blue had simply stalled it would have techinically won i think. instead, i think kasparov offered a draw or something...point is, as many moves as Deep Blue was programmed to look ahead into, it didn't know enough to check the time limit...
maybe you were being sarcastic, but they already broke several laws while gaining possesion of those weapons. would more laws and restrictions have stopped them? no. would stricter enforcement of the laws they were breaking have helped? maybe. who knows.
i don't think "thinking" has anything to do with it. i know that smoking's not a smart thing to do, i've seen the statistics, seen the pictures of smokers' lungs, and still i started smoking.
Its great that you can program in every known assembler to man and you make 90K / year but what if you cant do something really simple like write a well formed document describing your work?
then i do the same thing when i don't know something computer related. i learn. on my own. i research the problem, test out what i find, and come up with a solution to whatever my problem is. no it's not that easy, but it's not that hard either..
just because you don't go to college doesn't mean your friends didn't either. i still have friends who went and graduated, but because i am an avid reader in my spare time i am still able to hold my own in discussions with them. learning on your own may not be for everyone, but neither is college. "Leave the gun, take the canoli."
Doesn't the sysadmin get first pick on what login he wants? Doesn't he have the right to reassign logins or assign them in whatever fashion he chooses?
yeah, but if i was to assign a user a login and then later tell them they couldn't have it because someone else was supposed to have gotten it, and do that frequestnly enough, i don't think i'd last that long in my job. of course in that case the people who pay me would have a choice of who to use for sysadmin work. most areas still don't have more than one or two local service providers, and i've heard nothing but nightmare stories about people changing...
i believe it's deep enough that for single divers (as opposed to in a mini-sub) to go down, they have to wear bulky suits that make getting through the hatches of the sub very inconvinient, even dangerous.
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a guy i know had his credit card number stolen. the thief charged a lot of office furniture and office supplies on it and had it all shipped to his (the thief's) new home office (he wasn't too bright, huh?). my friend called the credit card company when he got the charges and got them reversed. he then did a little research and got the address the furniture was sent to. he went to the location and saw the new stuff, verified that at least some of what was there was charged on his card, and then called the CC company to tell them he found the guy who did this. he was told that it wasn't worth the trouble of going after the guy so they weren't going to do anything. no charges were filed. the stuff wasn't recovered.
at least my friend didn't end up paying for it, but i wonder, if they did prosecute more often on even little things (when they have proof of course), would this lower the amount of this type of fraud? and would i be living in a dream world to hope that this might lower those pesky interest rates and/or fees we all love to see?
"Leave the gun, take the canoli."
i.e. that they aren't affiliated with one particular firewall solution (that they'll be trying to sell you once they've finished testing you, "well, this system that we happen to sell protects you against all these exploits we found on your network"). i would also recomend a company that only checks you for vulnerablities and then lets you know what you found, leading you to fix them yourself.
"Leave the gun, take the canoli."
yeah, you can do this. when you have free space where you'll be available for meetings and such, you can choose to show that time as "free" to other people.
"Leave the gun, take the canoli."
i don't know what it is, bunch of multiple choice questions.
we were told that they were for a personality test that would be used to determine what sort of team we are and what type of personality would best complement us when we decide to hire someone else.
"Leave the gun, take the canoli."
sorry, that was the first link i could find...i'm sure google could help you there. there's a bigger assiciation that has contact lists of it's members that used to be available to the public, but i forgot the name..sorry.
"Leave the gun, take the canoli."
first, there's a big difference between a telemarketer and a market researcher. telemarketers are almost always sleazy, and from having worked for a market research company i can tell you that most of them aren't. not all of them, but most of them.
market researchers (the guys who call you on the phone to do surveys) are NOT trying to sell you ANYTHING. they want you to answer a few questions that their client is interested in. these are the same people who call you and ask you if you're going to vote and who you're going to vote for.
while i believe the client (the one who hired the research company in the first place) shouldn't have asked to you to run a program they send you, i can almost positively assure you that they mean no harm. to be on the safe side, mailing the disk to your office was a smart idea, but if you want to look into it further, check your phone book. if they aren't a local company (most are in the central time zone) look on the web, there's an association of market research companies, here that will give you a list of members.
"Leave the gun, take the canoli."
ricochet.com I haven't used it personally, and it's not available everywhere, but for $70 a month it's supposed to give you access at up to 128k (up to of course). it allows you to use the service anywhere they have the antennas setup, which is in most major cities and most major airports. i think they also give you access to dial-up accounts for when you're in an area that doesn't have it yet. you'll have to go through a reseller to get it, but i've heard good things about it and may be getting it soon myself.
"Leave the gun, take the canoli."
not SkyNet, W.O.P.R.!!
now i just need to find a backdoor so i can play a really good game of Global Thermonuclear War. woohoo!
"Leave the gun, take the canoli."
IANAH (historian) but i believe that's the main reason we nuked japan. the commanders knew that the japanese were entrenched in the islands they needed to occupy to win the war and there was no way to get them out without another Normandy.
"Leave the gun, take the canoli."
i worked at a small company (less than 100 employees) and when the original sysadmin left he was threatening to call the BSA and report all the unlicensed software they had...don't know what happened, but later i was cleaning up an old storeroom and found enough disks to probably prove we'd bought everything legit...
"Leave the gun, take the canoli."
i think one of the (many) polls about nader voters showed that the majority of them would have voted for bush, and the rest wouldn't have voted at all.
"Leave the gun, take the canoli."
i don't think they will though, i think it's only been done a handful of times although i don't know of any specific cases. i think they are selected for their loyalty to the party that chooses them and therefore are unlikely to vote against that party. in this case, they only chance is if they see that gore's won the popular vote and they decide to give him the win...not too likely though.
"Leave the gun, take the canoli."
yeah, a friend told me that he was a where are they now episode about Sir Mix-a-Lot, apparently in addition to all his record producing duties and hanging out and stuff, he repairs/refurbishes old HAM radios.
"..even white boys got ta shout..."
"Leave the gun, take the canoli."
both candidates are open w/their drug/alcohol use of the past
i thought bush refused to answer questions about his drug use saying only that he'd had "youthful indiscretions" or something like that...
"Leave the gun, take the canoli."
how the f*ck is this off topic?!?!?!
"Leave the gun, take the canoli."
if you're looking for wireless service, depending on what area of Dallas you live in you might want to look into ricochet. it's 128k for about $70 a month. you have to buy the modem too. i haven't gotten it yet, anyone have any experience good/bad with it?
"Leave the gun, take the canoli."
i can't remember which, but there was some MS product that didn't have "microsoft" in it's spell checker...
"Leave the gun, take the canoli."
i remember hearing that at one point in a game Deep Blue could have one just by waiting Kasparov out. Kasparov only had a short amount of time left on his clock, and if Deep Blue had simply stalled it would have techinically won i think. instead, i think kasparov offered a draw or something...point is, as many moves as Deep Blue was programmed to look ahead into, it didn't know enough to check the time limit...
"Leave the gun, take the canoli."
maybe you were being sarcastic, but they already broke several laws while gaining possesion of those weapons. would more laws and restrictions have stopped them? no. would stricter enforcement of the laws they were breaking have helped? maybe. who knows.
"Leave the gun, take the canoli."
i don't think "thinking" has anything to do with it. i know that smoking's not a smart thing to do, i've seen the statistics, seen the pictures of smokers' lungs, and still i started smoking.
"Leave the gun, take the canoli."
Its great that you can program in every known assembler to man and you make 90K / year but what if you cant do something really simple like write a well formed document describing your work?
then i do the same thing when i don't know something computer related. i learn. on my own. i research the problem, test out what i find, and come up with a solution to whatever my problem is. no it's not that easy, but it's not that hard either..
"Leave the gun, take the canoli."
just because you don't go to college doesn't mean your friends didn't either. i still have friends who went and graduated, but because i am an avid reader in my spare time i am still able to hold my own in discussions with them. learning on your own may not be for everyone, but neither is college.
"Leave the gun, take the canoli."
Doesn't the sysadmin get first pick on what login he wants? Doesn't he have the right to reassign logins or assign them in whatever fashion he chooses?
yeah, but if i was to assign a user a login and then later tell them they couldn't have it because someone else was supposed to have gotten it, and do that frequestnly enough, i don't think i'd last that long in my job. of course in that case the people who pay me would have a choice of who to use for sysadmin work. most areas still don't have more than one or two local service providers, and i've heard nothing but nightmare stories about people changing...
"Leave the gun, take the canoli."
i believe it's deep enough that for single divers (as opposed to in a mini-sub) to go down, they have to wear bulky suits that make getting through the hatches of the sub very inconvinient, even dangerous.
"Leave the gun, take the canoli."
so if this happens, i could have a true "nitro burning funny car"...
woohoo!!!
"Leave the gun, take the canoli."