His money being accepted by the company gives him the right to not only sound like one, but be one. If they don't want to conduct business with pompous asses or their sound-a-likes, they should not accept their money.
The sheer arrogance to think the instant you give someone money, you can treat them however you wish, is frankly shocking.
I remember reading that if you make vocal contact, and add a reason "..because XYZ" - people are more than likely to let you proceed.
If you just arrive and slot in without saying a word, you've created a hostile situation - it's easy to be irritated at a stranger.
However, if you approach, make contact: "Hi - would you mind if I drop in, because I've got a taxi waiting / I just had to fill in this form / etc" - even if they're not happy about it, most people can't bring themselves to be bluntly rude to someone that is 'polite'.
Incidentally, from living in France, I've learned that queues are generally for people who have time to waste. Normally in most queuing situations, some people *do* have more reason to be further up than others.
Google has long since favoured PDFs - and gives them boosted results, under the guise that anyone who makes a PDF has something serious to say, I guess.
You may have noticed of late that people are wise to this - there are a bunch of sites that are embedding popular search terms / results in PDF files, and clustering their sites with adverts.
One of the best things about living in australia was that the nation-wide alternative radio station was completely uncensored - so you'd hear everything from 'goddamn' to 'cunt'.
The cussing was not so much as exciting as the fact that it's a government owned / sponsored network [ABC Australia]...
Come on - no crim is going to bother picking a lock. Quite often, locks are just the diversion - open windows, hidden keys, roof, slipping the latch, carding the door, drilling the lock, unscrewing the lock, unmounting the door - the list goes on.
Taking eyeballing out of the picture - even if you have the code for the key on hand, your first problem is getting a blank.
Blanks are restricted, but even if you manage to get your hands on them, they're pre-cut at the abloy factory [usually 2 pins] depending on your account with them - to prevent locksmiths with less scruples than others cutting abloys.
Then of course, there's the machine to cut them. Even if you're filing by hand, the tolerances are fine, and the key configuration doesn't really take to soldering as regular keys do...
I previously read on/. a method of shipping your camera gear safely.
A reader had said he'd purchased a larger aluminum suitcase / roadcase, with foam cutouts for his camera gear, and a flare gun.
Upon arriving at the airport, he'd declare he had a weapon, and check the suitcase as a weapon. It got stored, handled and inspected differently, and he never had any loses.
I must admit, I'm not totally savvy. I'd figured this though: If you've got encrypted streams on irregular ports - unlike, say P2P apps with no encryption, and a discernable traffic 'footprint', your relative security is vastly improved?
May I add another 'No, it's not!' to the comments?
ISP-based usenet has always sucked. The retention was lowsy, the propogation was poor (if they even let you post) - or they simply outsourced to one of the Big 3 [giganews,usenetserver,eweka.nl] [http://top1000.org/#stats]
For those of us who know about it, Usenet is thriving - there's more data passing through it than ever. GN is adding 240days of binary retention (which is insane)
With the combination of NZB files [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NZB], and SSL, you'd be nuts to ever use a torrent again. Speed + security + real files.
We had some affiliate software, X, on our servers. The internal mailing script was buggy, so I'd written another one, scrapeX.php.
We had some unrelated problems, which required them to have access to parts of the box.
All of a sudden, I'm receiving confirmations of email receipts: their incompetant 'tech' had fixed the problem, then poked around, found a script scrapeX.php and thought: well, I'd better run this, to see what it did - and ended up mailing all our clients.
Action taken: a virtual shrug.
You have to bear in mind that on hosts that are geared towards entry-level users, that the clients have a tendancy to destroy things in ways possible, which is why they probably did a look around, similarly how when you call your ISP for issue X, they normally give the list: is your power on, can you ping this, can you do that..
I concour, completely. I've not used AV software for the last 6 years, and have never had so much as a spyware infection.
However, I'm disciplined in my surfing habits. Spend 5 minutes watching others surfing, clicking 'Allow ActiveX Control' as fast as they can, and trawling torrent sites, and you know exactly why some people need AV.
They're just the same as your expensive SSL certs, but just come from a company with a name less 'known' [but never revealed to the users..], as opposed to Thwarte.
Slashdot Mirror
I'd have thought falling would have been the opposite of zero g :D
When you're wealthy, you seek experiences, not items.
Anyone can buy a bugatti - not everyone can experience zero g.
Wait til your life goes to hell because your casual attitude towards privacy means you get your identity stolen.
..and ultimately, would you not buy a toyota, because of this stunt?
I highly doubt that this event would sway even the largest toyota fanboys.
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=297#more-297
Another amazing history of WWII era relics trapped under the ice (but they got them back!)
I remember reading that if you make vocal contact, and add a reason "..because XYZ" - people are more than likely to let you proceed.
If you just arrive and slot in without saying a word, you've created a hostile situation - it's easy to be irritated at a stranger.
However, if you approach, make contact:
"Hi - would you mind if I drop in, because I've got a taxi waiting / I just had to fill in this form / etc" - even if they're not happy about it, most people can't bring themselves to be bluntly rude to someone that is 'polite'.
Incidentally, from living in France, I've learned that queues are generally for people who have time to waste. Normally in most queuing situations, some people *do* have more reason to be further up than others.
They do what they must, because they can...
Google has long since favoured PDFs - and gives them boosted results, under the guise that anyone who makes a PDF has something serious to say, I guess.
You may have noticed of late that people are wise to this - there are a bunch of sites that are embedding popular search terms / results in PDF files, and clustering their sites with adverts.
One of the best things about living in australia was that the nation-wide alternative radio station was completely uncensored - so you'd hear everything from 'goddamn' to 'cunt'.
The cussing was not so much as exciting as the fact that it's a government owned / sponsored network [ABC Australia]...
I said disklock pro - there's a distinct difference [up to 16 cuts more]
See the differences: http://protectvol.online.fr/abloy.html
Come on - no crim is going to bother picking a lock. Quite often, locks are just the diversion - open windows, hidden keys, roof, slipping the latch, carding the door, drilling the lock, unscrewing the lock, unmounting the door - the list goes on.
Disklock Pros are rather hard to copy.
Taking eyeballing out of the picture - even if you have the code for the key on hand, your first problem is getting a blank.
Blanks are restricted, but even if you manage to get your hands on them, they're pre-cut at the abloy factory [usually 2 pins] depending on your account with them - to prevent locksmiths with less scruples than others cutting abloys.
Then of course, there's the machine to cut them. Even if you're filing by hand, the tolerances are fine, and the key configuration doesn't really take to soldering as regular keys do...
Seems similar to the 'cities' of
Internet City and
Media City in Dubai.
I previously read on /. a method of shipping your camera gear safely.
A reader had said he'd purchased a larger aluminum suitcase / roadcase, with foam cutouts for his camera gear, and a flare gun.
Upon arriving at the airport, he'd declare he had a weapon, and check the suitcase as a weapon. It got stored, handled and inspected differently, and he never had any loses.
Seems to make sense to me...
I must admit, I'm not totally savvy.
I'd figured this though: If you've got encrypted streams on irregular ports - unlike, say P2P apps with no encryption, and a discernable traffic 'footprint', your relative security is vastly improved?
May I add another 'No, it's not!' to the comments?
ISP-based usenet has always sucked. The retention was lowsy, the propogation was poor (if they even let you post) - or they simply outsourced to one of the Big 3 [giganews,usenetserver,eweka.nl] [http://top1000.org/#stats]
For those of us who know about it, Usenet is thriving - there's more data passing through it than ever. GN is adding 240days of binary retention (which is insane)
With the combination of NZB files [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NZB], and SSL, you'd be nuts to ever use a torrent again.
Speed + security + real files.
There are bunch of services:
Combined:
BitNabber.com [Combines NZB + SSL Usenet access]
Usenet only:
Giganews.com [240 days retention, SSL]
Supernews.com [Cleanest / most spam free usenet server]
UsenetServer.com [Solid service, SSL]
NZB Services:
http://www.newzleech.com/ [Free, but automatic, so results will vary]
http://www.binsearch.info/ [Free, also automatic, but with SSL]
NewzBin.com - [Premium + Invite only, but the goliath of NZB sites]
It's exactly as you say: it sounds too interesting to avoid.
I can understand that 'scrapeX.php' might sound a little dubious, so I bet this guy thought he was doing his company a service by running it...
We had some affiliate software, X, on our servers.
The internal mailing script was buggy, so I'd written another one, scrapeX.php.
We had some unrelated problems, which required them to have access to parts of the box.
All of a sudden, I'm receiving confirmations of email receipts: their incompetant 'tech' had fixed the problem, then poked around, found a script scrapeX.php and thought: well, I'd better run this, to see what it did - and ended up mailing all our clients.
Action taken: a virtual shrug.
You have to bear in mind that on hosts that are geared towards entry-level users, that the clients have a tendancy to destroy things in ways possible, which is why they probably did a look around, similarly how when you call your ISP for issue X, they normally give the list: is your power on, can you ping this, can you do that..
I can't speak for other European cities, but Paris has an implimentation of an RFID-based card, running on the CALYPSO system.
In fact, it's now impossible to purchase the 'Carte Orange' - one must use a Navigo to purchase their normal weekly / monthly tickets.
That said, the mix of magnetic cards for single trips still exists, but flow problems are reduced by having Navigo-only entrances in most stations.
I've kept a subscription to Webroot Spysweeper, and will do a scan if the system ever feels sluggish :)
I concour, completely.
I've not used AV software for the last 6 years, and have never had so much as a spyware infection.
However, I'm disciplined in my surfing habits. Spend 5 minutes watching others surfing, clicking 'Allow ActiveX Control' as fast as they can, and trawling torrent sites, and you know exactly why some people need AV.
Call the cops back, tell them not to worry about following up the theft, as you just went around and shot the thief.
See how fast they scuttle ;)
http://www.namecheap.com/ / http://www.rapidssl.com/
They're just the same as your expensive SSL certs, but just come from a company with a name less 'known' [but never revealed to the users..], as opposed to Thwarte.
C'mon. You can get a CA signed cert for $12.95.
That's $4 more than a domain.
There's no excuse for not having a CA signed cert.