Q: Why do you require my social security # or social insurance # when I withdraw money from my account?
A: If you live within Canada or the U.S. You are required to submit your winning as income.
Q: Should I be worried about hackers?
A: No, we have many many security features installed to make sure you are safe.
Arg! Since I can earn winnings (Taxable income) from these guys, they want my Name, Address, CCard Number, date of birth and Social Security Number. How do I know this information is safe?
According to the video, everything is secured with a "proprietary security system". What the heck does that mean?
Check out their membership page. Not only do they charge a membership fee for certain membership levels (Bronze, Silver are free; Gold, Platinum have a monthly fee), but they also charge a transaction fee per account transfer (5-10% per transaction).
They also provide services like Domain Registration ($15-25), Web Hosting ($2.50 - 10/month), secure servers ($50-100), etc. Basically, the higher your monthly membership fee, the lower your OTHER fees.
I notice that alot of gaming & clan websitessites have trouble staying with one provider, so perhaps Bloodmoney is trying to bank off of that opportunity.
Other then the gaming membership, I don't really see anything unique about their web services. I notice that they do NOT provide any dialup or DSL/cable access, which is pretty smart. The Access business is pretty darn volitile.
"Even though it has a non-zero version number,
this is not a "stable" release. You will not be able to use it as your real mail client, calendar, or contact manager."
Or the README, which says something like "This program may delete all your email if you aren't careful"... or something.
Linux Orbit: Do you have any stats available on the total number of Helix GNOME downloads and sales? Evolution as well?
Miguel de Icaza: We have counted around 450,000 installations of the full Helix GNOME desktop from our main site. We have also distributed around ten thousand CDS. So we figure we have over half a million people using Helix Code GNOME now.
I realize that "total number of Helix GNOME downloads" and "users" is difficult to estimate, but does anyone else think that 500,000 is an overestimate?
450,000 installations & 10,000 CD != 500,000 users (No, I'm not arguing that the simple math is wrong).
Many of those installations are probably reinstallations. I've completely reinstalled Helix-Gnome onto this desktop right here 4-5 times.
I did the newbie http://go-gnome.com thing once, I downloaded & installed the RPM's manualy (After accidently deleting/overwriting something or trying to satisfy a mysterious dependancies for some some nifty-sounding-but-experimental package), and I completely reinstalled the entire thing from the source on Saturday. So that's 4-5 installations, yet I am One user. (And I did the same thing to my work Computer, but I imagine that counts as a second user in their stats).
Many of my Helix Gnome friends do this thing (But less often then Crazy-agressive-maybe-reinstalling-will-make-pilot link-and-esound-work! me).
I am sure a number of people will reply by complaining that this does not work with RedHat 7
What's ironic is that RedHat's up2date service doesn't support RH 7 either (At least, there is no rhl-7.0 directory under ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/up2date ).
This is something that really irks me about science. I paid attention in Chemistry class, and I learned that definition of "organic".
However, you should know that the word "organic" predates the our knowledge of atoms by several centries (No doubt because you were misinformed by junk science; or at least by scientists who were racing to "discover" shit that was already there (Hey, happy Columbus Day).
Atoms were first 'discovered' about a century ago, but the word organic is at least 500 years old. It's original meaning *was* somethign like "Derived from the organism". The definition of "organic" had nothing to do with "Carbon based", because we had no idea that the universe existed on an atomic level.
You doubt my word? Here, check out the Merriam-Webster dictionary definition the word 'organic' is about 500 years old.
Scientists discovered the word organic in much the same way that they 'discovered' carbon atoms. The matter was already there, scientists were trying to make heads-or-tails out of it these new things which they were calling 'atoms' (Which means "Cannot be cut"), and so they appropriated the word 'organic' to mean 'carbon-based', because as far as they knew, everything that was "carbon-based" was "derived from living organisms".
Then came petroleum byproducts like Gasoline and Plastic (BTW, plastic is *another* old world which was "redefined" by science. plastic used to mean "pliable"), which are technically "carbon-based", but unless you trace their root back for many eons. But the "Carbon based" definition stuck.
So next time people like me talk to you about "Organic veggies", there's a reason why we use that word.
No it's not. The project isn't a success until the organism is born and lives to an age where it can breed and pass it's genes on.
I understand that the goal of this project was simply to birth one extinct animal out of a common animal, but if the almost-extinct-critter doesn't make it to breeding age, then what's the point?
It's not perpetual motion, there are inputs and outputs. Inputs: solar energy. Outputs, electricity (and heat?) from the fuelcell. Not a closed system by any means.
The Solar panels created electricity from the sun. The electricity was used to split water into O and H2, using the method we all tried in science class.
The fuel cells and hydrogen tank acted storing the gas in a tank, just like a lead-acid battery stores it's acid in a container within the battery casing.
As to the science fair project... I don't think you correctly understand what was going on. It sounds to me like the fuel cell would run on
hydrogen and oxygen at night, producing water; and during the day solar cells would split the water back into hydrogen and oxygen. As long as nothing wears out or breaks, and as long as the sun shines, such a device could run continuously.
When I first heard about fuel cells 2-3 years ago,
people were mentioning how fuel cells could be used with just about any gas or liquid that contains hydrogen. I've seen examples that use hydrocarbon-fuels like methane (Collected from a compost pile of corn stalks and cow dung), propane, or gasoline, and my favorite (because it's the cleanest in terms of pollution), water.
Nowadays, it seems that Fuel cells are always mentioned in conjunction with natural gas. Why natural gas over water? More hydrogen per molecule or something?
Interesting fuel cell story:
I once saw a neat homemade fuel cell project which was composed of a couple of solar panels, a fuel cell, a water tank, and a tank to hold hydrogen. The project worked like this:
At night, the Fuel Cells would power the project. The fuel cell would do it's thing and seperate water into oxygen and hydrogen, generating a change when the hydrogen pass through the membrane. The leftover oxygen bled into the atmosphere, and the hydrogen was collected in a seperate tank.
This method generated enough electicity to power 'the project' (A couple of lightbulbs and a stereo).
As I understand it, you just need an electric shock (or a flame) to fuse oxygen and hydrogen back into a water molecule.
In the daytime, solar panels would generate enough electricity to fuse the hydrogen (from the tank) with oxygen (from the atmosphere) back into water, which was collected in the watertank. Meanwhile, the fuel cell would continue to generate enough electricity to power the project (but the fuel cells could be turned off during the day while other Solar Panels generated enough electicity to power the project).
Every once in a while, the son or the father would suplement the water (fuel) tank with some distilled water.
See, you should just put/usr/local/bin in your PATH. Then you can type 'quake2' from anywhere and have it start up, assuming that quake2's environment doesn't look for anything in '.'.
I agree with you. The UN*X directory structures can be really silly at times. My brain has trouble telling the difference between enviornment/usr/local/bin vs/bin vs/local/bin vs/opt/bin vs/local/opt/bin vs/Sys5v4/style/directory vs/ucb/style/direcory vs/redhat-linux/interpretation/of/the/posix/standard vs/debians/interepretation/of/the/posixs/standard vs/directory/left/around/for/backwards/capatabilty , they're all full of symlinks pointing to each other. ARG! It's enough to make me pee in my pants!
So what happened? Did it boot? Yeah it did. Booted easily with the CPU at about -150C(block temp), but you cannot understand the language anymore. The screen suddenly turned alien into us. We cannot understand a damn thing! Checksum error was up. We could go into the BIOS but everything was different. The keyboard types different letters.
Some scientists think that as you approach Absolute Zero, time starts to slow down, just like time slows down as you approach the speed of light.
So based on the extremely low temperatures, and the extreme amounts of electricity involved.
I believe that their computer had actually jumped forward in time!!! Those strange characters on the screen were really future space alien types trying to communicate! How else could you explain this line here:
I signed up for the Harris Poll long ago. Did a dozen Polls, got bored, and decided to get off their list. Unfortunately, it wasn't that easy...
To unsubscribe seems pretty simple, click on a link, enter your email address on some web page, hit "ok". Too bad it doesn't work right... it took me 6 or seven tries over a period of 6 months to get off their damn mailing list. I tried contacting humans over at harrispollonline.com, but never received a single response.
In the end, I was only partially successful.
I don't get any more invites to participate in Harris Polls, but I still get their damn Harris Poll Newsletter. I don't want to deal with this anymore, so I just filter all their stuff now.
Moral of this story: Harris Poll may not be Spam, but the mailing list is poorly run. Poorly run mailinglists deserve to get blocked until they fix the problem. If they don't suffer the consequences of getting blocked, then they will never fix the problem. Tough shit for them.
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Q: Why do you require my social security # or social insurance # when I withdraw money from my account?
A: If you live within Canada or the U.S. You are required to submit your winning as income.
Q: Should I be worried about hackers?
A: No, we have many many security features installed to make sure you are safe.
Arg! Since I can earn winnings (Taxable income) from these guys, they want my Name, Address, CCard Number, date of birth and Social Security Number. How do I know this information is safe?
According to the video, everything is secured with a "proprietary security system". What the heck does that mean?
They also provide services like Domain Registration ($15-25), Web Hosting ($2.50 - 10/month), secure servers ($50-100), etc. Basically, the higher your monthly membership fee, the lower your OTHER fees.
I notice that alot of gaming & clan websitessites have trouble staying with one provider, so perhaps Bloodmoney is trying to bank off of that opportunity.
Other then the gaming membership, I don't really see anything unique about their web services. I notice that they do NOT provide any dialup or DSL/cable access, which is pretty smart. The Access business is pretty darn volitile.
Pingball
lol
You know what's inside...
It's full of stars!
Good question. Maybe she read the "It's in development" warning.
"Even though it has a non-zero version number, this is not a "stable" release. You will not be able to use it as your real mail client, calendar, or contact manager."
Or the README, which says something like "This program may delete all your email if you aren't careful"... or something.
Miguel de Icaza: We have counted around 450,000 installations of the full Helix GNOME desktop from our main site. We have also distributed around ten thousand CDS. So we figure we have over half a million people using Helix Code GNOME now.
I realize that "total number of Helix GNOME downloads" and "users" is difficult to estimate, but does anyone else think that 500,000 is an overestimate?
450,000 installations & 10,000 CD != 500,000 users (No, I'm not arguing that the simple math is wrong).
Many of those installations are probably reinstallations. I've completely reinstalled Helix-Gnome onto this desktop right here 4-5 times.
I did the newbie http://go-gnome.com thing once, I downloaded & installed the RPM's manualy (After accidently deleting/overwriting something or trying to satisfy a mysterious dependancies for some some nifty-sounding-but-experimental package), and I completely reinstalled the entire thing from the source on Saturday. So that's 4-5 installations, yet I am One user. (And I did the same thing to my work Computer, but I imagine that counts as a second user in their stats).
Many of my Helix Gnome friends do this thing (But less often then Crazy-agressive-maybe-reinstalling-will-make-pilot link-and-esound-work! me).
What's ironic is that RedHat's up2date service doesn't support RH 7 either (At least, there is no rhl-7.0 directory under ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/up2date ).
I'm sure that Al and George both spent alot of time in space during those "young and irresponsible" years...
Nader, OTOH, is probably spacing out right now...
This is great, now when our site crashes, I can send out voice messages instead of alphanumeric pages...
Tech: "Man, last night I was SOOO drunk, that I (phone rings)... hold on, got a call"
Phone: "HOOOOOOOT! Hooot hoot HOOOOOOT HOOT! Hohohohoooot!"
If a webserver crashes, and no one is within cell phone range to receve the call, does it make a sound?
I wonder what getting slashdotted sounds like?
What is the sound of one hand turning off the cell phone.
After months of haggling with my employeer, I finally gave in and accepted a work cell phone.
Now, when I switch the damn thing off, I can blame the outage on the geomagnetic storms!
LETS HEAR IT FOR THE SUN! WHOOOOHOOO!
Plus, all that y2k water in my store room is starting to develop algae. Better drink it quick!
anyone will go-pher it. haha haha.
Yeah... alot of my ex-bosses seem to think they are Gods ... I didn't, and left.
Hrm, if the European developers are so equitable, where is the topless man?
This is something that really irks me about science. I paid attention in Chemistry class, and I learned that definition of "organic".
However, you should know that the word "organic" predates the our knowledge of atoms by several centries (No doubt because you were misinformed by junk science; or at least by scientists who were racing to "discover" shit that was already there (Hey, happy Columbus Day).
Atoms were first 'discovered' about a century ago, but the word organic is at least 500 years old. It's original meaning *was* somethign like "Derived from the organism". The definition of "organic" had nothing to do with "Carbon based", because we had no idea that the universe existed on an atomic level.
You doubt my word? Here, check out the Merriam-Webster dictionary definition
the word 'organic' is about 500 years old.
Scientists discovered the word organic in much the same way that they 'discovered' carbon atoms. The matter was already there, scientists were trying to make heads-or-tails out of it these new things which they were calling 'atoms' (Which means "Cannot be cut"), and so they appropriated the word 'organic' to mean 'carbon-based', because as far as they knew, everything that was "carbon-based" was "derived from living organisms".
Then came petroleum byproducts like Gasoline and Plastic (BTW, plastic is *another* old world which was "redefined" by science. plastic used to mean "pliable"), which are technically "carbon-based", but unless you trace their root back for many eons. But the "Carbon based" definition stuck.
So next time people like me talk to you about "Organic veggies", there's a reason why we use that word.
No it's not. The project isn't a success until the organism is born and lives to an age where it can breed and pass it's genes on.
I understand that the goal of this project was simply to birth one extinct animal out of a common animal, but if the almost-extinct-critter doesn't make it to breeding age, then what's the point?
... and toss it at all the space junk up there. -= Stefan
Doh! Sorry, the star stayed still still. The mercury was rippling... someone bumped into the telescope again.
Stephen! Quit dancing!
You need to use two hands... and quit jigglin' the mouse like that!
It's not perpetual motion, there are inputs and outputs. Inputs: solar energy. Outputs, electricity (and heat?) from the fuelcell. Not a closed system by any means.
The Solar panels created electricity from the sun. The electricity was used to split water into O and H2, using the method we all tried in science class.
The fuel cells and hydrogen tank acted storing the gas in a tank, just like a lead-acid battery stores it's acid in a container within the battery casing.
As to the science fair project... I don't think you correctly understand what was going on. It sounds to me like the fuel cell would run on hydrogen and oxygen at night, producing water; and during the day solar cells would split the water back into hydrogen and oxygen. As long as nothing wears out or breaks, and as long as the sun shines, such a device could run continuously.
That's it. I got it backwards.
When I first heard about fuel cells 2-3 years ago, people were mentioning how fuel cells could be used with just about any gas or liquid that contains hydrogen. I've seen examples that use hydrocarbon-fuels like methane (Collected from a compost pile of corn stalks and cow dung), propane, or gasoline, and my favorite (because it's the cleanest in terms of pollution), water.
Nowadays, it seems that Fuel cells are always mentioned in conjunction with natural gas. Why natural gas over water? More hydrogen per molecule or something?
Interesting fuel cell story:
I once saw a neat homemade fuel cell project which was composed of a couple of solar panels, a fuel cell, a water tank, and a tank to hold hydrogen. The project worked like this:
At night, the Fuel Cells would power the project. The fuel cell would do it's thing and seperate water into oxygen and hydrogen, generating a change when the hydrogen pass through the membrane. The leftover oxygen bled into the atmosphere, and the hydrogen was collected in a seperate tank.
This method generated enough electicity to power 'the project' (A couple of lightbulbs and a stereo).
As I understand it, you just need an electric shock (or a flame) to fuse oxygen and hydrogen back into a water molecule.
In the daytime, solar panels would generate enough electricity to fuse the hydrogen (from the tank) with oxygen (from the atmosphere) back into water, which was collected in the watertank. Meanwhile, the fuel cell would continue to generate enough electricity to power the project (but the fuel cells could be turned off during the day while other Solar Panels generated enough electicity to power the project).
Every once in a while, the son or the father would suplement the water (fuel) tank with some distilled water.
See, you should just put /usr/local/bin in your PATH. Then you can type 'quake2' from anywhere and have it start up, assuming that quake2's environment doesn't look for anything in '.' .
/usr/local/bin vs /bin vs /local/bin vs /opt/bin vs /local/opt/bin vs /Sys5v4/style/directory vs /ucb/style/direcory vs /redhat-linux/interpretation/of/the/posix/standard vs /debians/interepretation/of/the/posixs/standard vs /directory/left/around/for/backwards/capatabilty , they're all full of symlinks pointing to each other. ARG! It's enough to make me pee in my pants!
I agree with you. The UN*X directory structures can be really silly at times. My brain has trouble telling the difference between enviornment
So what happened? Did it boot? Yeah it did. Booted easily with the CPU at about -150C(block temp), but you cannot understand the language anymore. The screen suddenly turned alien into us. We cannot understand a damn thing! Checksum error was up. We could go into the BIOS but everything was different. The keyboard types different letters.
Some scientists think that as you approach Absolute Zero, time starts to slow down, just like time slows down as you approach the speed of light.
So based on the extremely low temperatures, and the extreme amounts of electricity involved. I believe that their computer had actually jumped forward in time!!! Those strange characters on the screen were really future space alien types trying to communicate! How else could you explain this line here:
The screen suddenly turned alien into us
... Penis is upsidedown!
LOOK! IT IS!
http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/345.html
I signed up for the Harris Poll long ago. Did a dozen Polls, got bored, and decided to get off their list. Unfortunately, it wasn't that easy...
To unsubscribe seems pretty simple, click on a link, enter your email address on some web page, hit "ok". Too bad it doesn't work right... it took me 6 or seven tries over a period of 6 months to get off their damn mailing list. I tried contacting humans over at harrispollonline.com, but never received a single response.
In the end, I was only partially successful.
I don't get any more invites to participate in Harris Polls, but I still get their damn Harris Poll Newsletter. I don't want to deal with this anymore, so I just filter all their stuff now.
Moral of this story: Harris Poll may not be Spam, but the mailing list is poorly run. Poorly run mailinglists deserve to get blocked until they fix the problem. If they don't suffer the consequences of getting blocked, then they will never fix the problem. Tough shit for them.