I moved to a new bank and signed that "one form". Within days all my creditors sent nice "thank you for updating your details" letters. It's a great system.
Chip and pin readers are great. That extra piece of security that never leaves the house. Every foreseen problem has been designed out. Excellent.
Only it looks like a calculator but has no calculator functions. On mine there's even a square root sign, but that is actually a tick symbol. I'm doing some online banking and trying to add something up, and, and...
I would have guessed at '12345' or 'abc123' first. Forth choice would have been 'computer', then '123456', '1234', 'a1b2c3', 'qwerty', '123', 'xxx', 'money', then finally 'test'.
My occupational health nurse suggested to me that endorphins, being our body's natural opiates, would help me enjoy life more. She's a fitness nut, if you're interested.
Why did she give me such a strange look when I suggested they should sell endorphins in powder form?
C'mon, it's the only reason these drug addicts spend an hour a day exercising.
Totally off topic but my mobile phone isn't registered. In fact, the majority of personal phones are not registered in the UK. We use pre-paid. Phones are sold off the shelf next to the DVDs.
When credit can be bought over the phone, online, at ATMs, newsagents, supermarkets... why bother with contracts?
You say that but I know plenty of people who'll sink four pints of Stella a night. That's 12 units. That's about 13 hours to clear the alcohol out. Finish drinking at 11pm and you won't be sober until lunchtime the next day. Forget that your body slows down during sleep too.
Eight pints on a Friday night, drive in the morning... Don't get me started. Irresponsible is a tame word to use.
I ran a league with some friends 10 years back. We had 300 - 400 players. Everything was done on trust.
The majority of cheaters were stupid. Registering new accounts and posting 40 wins within an hour was a classic. Registering multiple accounts was another - we tracked IP numbers. Poorly edited screen grabs were easy to spot - lossy jpegs show changes easily.
In the end reputation was king. With a small number of people, everyone knew each other. We also took part in our own leagues.
The caught cheaters used to go to great lengths to get even with us for banning them. Forum exploits, DOS attacks, and general annoyances. Funny because we offered no prizes except a name on a 'winners' page.
It was required reading in some British schools 20 years ago. The made me read it at the tender age of 14 and I didn't understand a word of it. What a waste. It turned me off reading more than anything else.
Buy the points off eBay. Don't worry about postage charges as the seller will scan and email the codes. The whole transaction, during normal waking hours, takes less than five minutes.
An 800 point game costs me £4.61 on live. In comparison, I cannot buy a packet of cigarettes for that, I cannot buy a gallon of petrol for that, I cannot buy a pizza for that. £4.61 is an impulse buy price.
Less than £5 for some of the games is perfect. Peggle and Worms 2: Armageddon have been extremely good value for money. Selling them, if possible, would be pointless. If I received half the money back, which is very unlikely, what would I do with it? (shut up smart-arses)
My spam count, in my Gmail spam folder, has recently jumped from 4,000 to 5,500 per 30 days.
Have another Idiot badge, you dirty spammers. Or get yourself a Gmail account.
My spamgourmet.com addresses have seen a rise too.
Have another Idiot badge. The clue is in the email address.
And finally, if you are going to send me Phishing emails, I bank with Natwest, not Egg, not Halifax, not Bank of America, Bank of... In fact, I'll give you my account number, password and PIN. The bills need paying at the end of the month. Good luck doing anything else without the physical card reader.
Without wanting to give my gamertag away, I am current 28th in the world on one game that's been out for a month. I have a head start on nearly everyone else because I played almost the same game on the PC 10 years ago.
I have about 30,000 points. The guy in 2nd place, who plays a real good game, has about 60,000 points.
The leader in 1st place has, if I counted the digits correctly, 11 billion points. What a twat! What is the point? Everyone looks at his name and thinks "Fucking Cheat!"
I can't stand cheats. Or people calling me lucky. Or people calling me fag and homo when I beat them fairly and squarely (why is it always Yanks who do this?)
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I'll back you up here, as I did on another thread.
My employer offers free charging stations and they will add more as needed. This has been on offer for years.
It looks good in the press: "Local company goes green!" etc etc etc
My company lets you charge for free. I'm sure they'd feel a little different if we all went electric but the offer is there now, today.
If only that were true.
His website, CV (haha, go read it), and other history seems like too much effort to cobbled together...
I moved to a new bank and signed that "one form". Within days all my creditors sent nice "thank you for updating your details" letters. It's a great system.
Chip and pin readers are great. That extra piece of security that never leaves the house. Every foreseen problem has been designed out. Excellent.
Only it looks like a calculator but has no calculator functions. On mine there's even a square root sign, but that is actually a tick symbol. I'm doing some online banking and trying to add something up, and, and...
Solar panel would be nice too. heh.
I would have guessed at '12345' or 'abc123' first. Forth choice would have been 'computer', then '123456', '1234', 'a1b2c3', 'qwerty', '123', 'xxx', 'money', then finally 'test'.
Passwords are obsolete. They have been for years.
My occupational health nurse suggested to me that endorphins, being our body's natural opiates, would help me enjoy life more. She's a fitness nut, if you're interested.
Why did she give me such a strange look when I suggested they should sell endorphins in powder form?
C'mon, it's the only reason these drug addicts spend an hour a day exercising.
Sound effects on each key would make me buy one!
*peeow* *ping ping ping* *baaw*
£120? How did you manage to get it so cheap? I'm paying £142.50
90 is higher than everyone who replied to your post.
(if jokes make you think too much, are they still funny?)
Yeah but they're talking about blood cells here. I've had my white cells counted under a microscope, so I know it can be done.
Totally off topic but my mobile phone isn't registered. In fact, the majority of personal phones are not registered in the UK. We use pre-paid. Phones are sold off the shelf next to the DVDs.
When credit can be bought over the phone, online, at ATMs, newsagents, supermarkets... why bother with contracts?
You say that but I know plenty of people who'll sink four pints of Stella a night. That's 12 units. That's about 13 hours to clear the alcohol out. Finish drinking at 11pm and you won't be sober until lunchtime the next day. Forget that your body slows down during sleep too.
Eight pints on a Friday night, drive in the morning... Don't get me started. Irresponsible is a tame word to use.
Yeah, you sure showed him the errors of his code! Woo! Oh Yeah!
Never again will he program a forum thread incorrectly.
I ran a league with some friends 10 years back. We had 300 - 400 players. Everything was done on trust.
The majority of cheaters were stupid. Registering new accounts and posting 40 wins within an hour was a classic. Registering multiple accounts was another - we tracked IP numbers. Poorly edited screen grabs were easy to spot - lossy jpegs show changes easily.
In the end reputation was king. With a small number of people, everyone knew each other. We also took part in our own leagues.
The caught cheaters used to go to great lengths to get even with us for banning them. Forum exploits, DOS attacks, and general annoyances. Funny because we offered no prizes except a name on a 'winners' page.
Good luck to these people. They'll need it.
It was required reading in some British schools 20 years ago. The made me read it at the tender age of 14 and I didn't understand a word of it. What a waste. It turned me off reading more than anything else.
:)
Reading Haynes manuals were much more fun.
I only have one eye you insensitive clods!
Turn that voice mail off.
I'm on pay-as-you-go, and as a result I have to pay to listen to messages. Solution is to turn it off.
My boss moaned once about me not using an answering service. My reply?
Record an MP3 on your phone. Send it as a MMS. You know he never does.
The security police do that here. We just rename *.mp3 to *.mp3.txt and Windows Media Player still plays them.
They also stop us copying MP3s but don't stop us writing batch files that basically say:
COPY *.mp3 *.mp3.txt
Idiots
Buy the points off eBay. Don't worry about postage charges as the seller will scan and email the codes. The whole transaction, during normal waking hours, takes less than five minutes.
An 800 point game costs me £4.61 on live. In comparison, I cannot buy a packet of cigarettes for that, I cannot buy a gallon of petrol for that, I cannot buy a pizza for that. £4.61 is an impulse buy price.
Less than £5 for some of the games is perfect. Peggle and Worms 2: Armageddon have been extremely good value for money. Selling them, if possible, would be pointless. If I received half the money back, which is very unlikely, what would I do with it? (shut up smart-arses)
I used to work in a factory where we used all manner of chemicals. Most were flammable, some carcinogenic, some just plain horrible.
Acetone was only one of two we kept outside, in an explosion bin, 20 metres from any buildings. The other was paraffin.
My wife uses it in our tiny bedroom, with the windows closed, with the hot hair straighteners on.
If only she'd believe me...
My spam count, in my Gmail spam folder, has recently jumped from 4,000 to 5,500 per 30 days.
Have another Idiot badge, you dirty spammers. Or get yourself a Gmail account.
My spamgourmet.com addresses have seen a rise too.
Have another Idiot badge. The clue is in the email address.
And finally, if you are going to send me Phishing emails, I bank with Natwest, not Egg, not Halifax, not Bank of America, Bank of... In fact, I'll give you my account number, password and PIN. The bills need paying at the end of the month. Good luck doing anything else without the physical card reader.
Idiots.
What is a question?
Do I know?
Do I know what a rhetorical question is?
Without wanting to give my gamertag away, I am current 28th in the world on one game that's been out for a month. I have a head start on nearly everyone else because I played almost the same game on the PC 10 years ago.
I have about 30,000 points. The guy in 2nd place, who plays a real good game, has about 60,000 points.
The leader in 1st place has, if I counted the digits correctly, 11 billion points. What a twat! What is the point? Everyone looks at his name and thinks "Fucking Cheat!"
I can't stand cheats. Or people calling me lucky. Or people calling me fag and homo when I beat them fairly and squarely (why is it always Yanks who do this?)
Come to think of it, why do a I bother?
I have a two year old tree in my garden. It produced seeds this year. A new generation every two years. 500 years could be 200 generations.