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I wrote to them about this during the early Beta. They were not interested.
My mistake was signing up for a Spanish (Spamish?) site. I don't speak Spanish but I guessed the form fields for username, password, email address. The floodgates opened afer that.
Back to the topic, why doesn't Google just change their CAPTCHA? It sounds too simple a solution...
Marian's three styles of script is amazing but not that much so.
I have two, maybe three. One is for my eyes only; very few people can read it. One for letters that is a neater version of the previous. One for my daughter who needs to understand what has been written. She is seven.
You chaps in this part of the thread should look at technologies such as SopCast and the other 'pirate' video streaming applications. With a decent seed the action is more than watchable with minimal delay.
I wish the FOSS community, with their huge knowledge, would start a project like this. Blow the big boys out the water and make them compete properly......oh, and the BBC uses P2P for some of their streaming. It can be done.
free access to a PDF version of the book online through our uni intranet, which was locked to prevent printing or saving.
I find this slightly amusing because I deal with 'locked' PDFs at work. So many people think they have hit the holy security grail by ticking all the boxes in Adobe Acrobat. All they achieve is a little bit of my wasted time.
Only Adobe follow their own security standards. Other PDF readers do not.
I've marked-up locked PDF drawings using the cheap, off the shelf, Paint Shop Pro and contractors think I'm the dog's danglies when I email them back. heh.
I thank NatWest for doing this. I only wish their small calculator sized reader could actually be used as a calculator. How hard would it have been?
I'm there, doing my online banking, working through a few figures and I need a calculator. I've lost count of the amount of times I couldn't find the plus button on their reader.
PS I know I'm going to open myself up to trolls here, I know there is a calculator on my PC, I'm not stupid, don't waste your time.
A dozen people use the laptop I'm typing this on. Not every day, that number is three, but distant family and guests have free access if they want it.
One of them clicks a link to an MP3 in an email and I lose my internet connection - that sounds fair. Someone sends me an email with an MP3 attachment and everyone loses their access - that sounds fair. What about a you-tube link to something copyrighted?
It's too easy to download copyrighted files without even knowing about it.
No we don't. How very dare you to even suggest such a thing. We comment because we can, not because we have sigs. If you don't like it, you can fuck off.
Slowing down is good but the game of cat and mouse afterwards is not.
Take it a stage further. Slow down and, using the tips of your forefinger and thumb, signal a distance of 5cm in your rear-view mirror. This lets the driver behind know why you're slowing down.
As they pass, mouth the words "can you read lips cunt?"... No, don't do that, you'll get stabbed.
I've had someone drive into the back of me while only doing 10mph. My neck hurt like crazy for a day, it was a week before the tenderness went away. I was paid two weeks worth of wages as compensation. I shudder to think how much 20mph would have hurt or 30mph or...
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I wrote to them about this during the early Beta. They were not interested.
My mistake was signing up for a Spanish (Spamish?) site. I don't speak Spanish but I guessed the form fields for username, password, email address. The floodgates opened afer that.
Back to the topic, why doesn't Google just change their CAPTCHA? It sounds too simple a solution...
I always thought 'spike' was more fitting.
My cheap-as-chips, bargin-bucket, bottom of the range Kodak all-in-one won't let me scan british bank notes nor will it photocopy them.
Excellent photo printer for the money btw. The box said lab quality and I thought "yeah, right" but they really are that good.
I thought the same. 60 hours on a good week? 80 on a bad? Oh dear. Sounds like he's doing the work of two people.
I'm contracted to do 37 hours. I do 35 on a good week and 40 on a bad week. My American colleages don't get anymore work done than me.
(Posted during the last 5 minutes of my 60 minute lunch break in the UK... and I've had a nice refreshing walk in the sunshine while it lasts) =)
140? My phone says 1836. I know it splits the messages up but 140 hasn't been the limit on new phones for years.
Marian's three styles of script is amazing but not that much so.
I have two, maybe three. One is for my eyes only; very few people can read it. One for letters that is a neater version of the previous. One for my daughter who needs to understand what has been written. She is seven.
You chaps in this part of the thread should look at technologies such as SopCast and the other 'pirate' video streaming applications. With a decent seed the action is more than watchable with minimal delay.
...oh, and the BBC uses P2P for some of their streaming. It can be done.
I wish the FOSS community, with their huge knowledge, would start a project like this. Blow the big boys out the water and make them compete properly...
This made me chuckle... At my place of work, all the meeting rooms are named after local towns. Imagine the conversations.
Bod1: Where's the boss' meeting?
Bod2: It's in Nottingham.
Bod1: Nottingham?!?! That's 30 miles away, I'd better leave now.
Bod2: No, it's downstairs.
Imagine the numpty who thought it was a good idea.
I saw a Ford Transit go into the back of a Smart. The Smart bounced. The Transit crumpled. I was impressed.
UK £0.05 per text, no contract. That's $0.10.
I can also text land line phones and a computer reads them out. How would that work in the US where you pay to receive texts?
lol@pay to receive.
I find this slightly amusing because I deal with 'locked' PDFs at work. So many people think they have hit the holy security grail by ticking all the boxes in Adobe Acrobat. All they achieve is a little bit of my wasted time.
Only Adobe follow their own security standards. Other PDF readers do not.
I've marked-up locked PDF drawings using the cheap, off the shelf, Paint Shop Pro and contractors think I'm the dog's danglies when I email them back. heh.
Or FrontPage. All third party apps seem to struggle with the format it exports.
I thank NatWest for doing this. I only wish their small calculator sized reader could actually be used as a calculator. How hard would it have been?
I'm there, doing my online banking, working through a few figures and I need a calculator. I've lost count of the amount of times I couldn't find the plus button on their reader.
PS I know I'm going to open myself up to trolls here, I know there is a calculator on my PC, I'm not stupid, don't waste your time.
Yep, and I've posted this before, I have Theme Hospital installed on Vista which is Windows 95 territory.
I wish people would stop posting bullshit - heh, I know, I know.
Uploading something illegally, ratios, fast speeds - sounds like FTP from back in the days. BitTorrent's days are numbered, rewind the evolution.
The competition can be effectively stifled with Metaldehyde. I like Metaldehyde.
"house, a car, and a jet ski"
I own a house, car, motorbike. No degree (although I have a trade that I don't use anymore).
People in the UK on less than average income can afford all this. Many families are home-owner, two-car families.
Degree? hehehehe.
I hope you still get to see him. Make sure you get your $160 worth.
I thought it was a valid argument.
A dozen people use the laptop I'm typing this on. Not every day, that number is three, but distant family and guests have free access if they want it.
One of them clicks a link to an MP3 in an email and I lose my internet connection - that sounds fair. Someone sends me an email with an MP3 attachment and everyone loses their access - that sounds fair. What about a you-tube link to something copyrighted?
It's too easy to download copyrighted files without even knowing about it.
No we don't. How very dare you to even suggest such a thing. We comment because we can, not because we have sigs. If you don't like it, you can fuck off.
Slowing down is good but the game of cat and mouse afterwards is not.
Take it a stage further. Slow down and, using the tips of your forefinger and thumb, signal a distance of 5cm in your rear-view mirror. This lets the driver behind know why you're slowing down.
As they pass, mouth the words "can you read lips cunt?"... No, don't do that, you'll get stabbed.
I've had someone drive into the back of me while only doing 10mph. My neck hurt like crazy for a day, it was a week before the tenderness went away. I was paid two weeks worth of wages as compensation. I shudder to think how much 20mph would have hurt or 30mph or...
You jest but deep down you know this is this answer to the problem.
British. My passport says my nationality is British. The government is British. I may have been born in England but I am British.
Calling all UK residents English is like calling everyone in the USA Texan.
"have a few kids, one of which is 6', and 20 stone"
Get him (or her, poor girl) a bike.
20 stone! Jebus! I'm 6' and 75kg (12 stone) - love handles too - but 20 stone!?!? Christ alive man, you should get locked up for child abuse.
"See, unlike the rest of the world, I haven't had to put up with a shitty cell phone for the past year."
The rest of the world has had better phones for years. And they've been free with contracts. Yawn.