I received this email about a week ago. Can you say money laundering?
Dear [MY NAME]
I'm Olivia Myers, Manager of Royal Financial LTD. On site Monster.com i have found your resume and want to offer you the vacancy of "ePayment Manager".
Job description:
The major duty of the ePayment Manager is to process payments between our clients and our company via PayPal system. You will get 15 percent per transfer.
Salary: 500$-3500$ per month.
Benefits of this vacancy:
1. Flexible work schedule, work 3-5 hours per week.
2. Possibility of your career rising.
3. Home-based.
4. Ability to take unlimited vacation (without guaranteed salary).
Minimal requirements:
1. You must have the PayPal account.
2. At least 18 years old.
3. Internet and e-mail skills.
More information you can find on our site www.royal-finance-ldt.com. If you want to get this job please fill the form If you've got some questions about this vacancy please read F.A.Q. and if can't find the answer to your question, address to our support.
Best regards
---
Olivia Myers manager@royal-finance-ldt.com
And if they're in string format, you don't have to cast them to compare them. '2006-02-08' > '2005-08-02' (YYYY-MM-DD) returns true as either a string or a date. Can't say the same for '02-08-2006' > '08-02-2005' (MM-DD-YYYY)
Electricity is electrons. Electrons have mass (though extremely small). According to Einstein, nothing with mass can travel at the speed of light.
Therefore, yes, light is faster than electricity.
The only way we can effectively defend ourselves (outside of nuking the rest of the world) is to keep our heads and take reasonable effective steps to prevent attacks.
I disagree that this is the only way. The best defence against a vast majority of these terrorists would be simply to stay out of their business. What entitles the U.S. to be the 'world police', forcing their ideals on the rest of the world? I think you'd find terrorists losing a lot of support if the U.S. just left the middle east alone. I would think it's hard to garnish much support for attacking someone who's not doing anything to you (I'll let you fill in the obligatory Bush joke here)
P.S. my comment regarding Last Action Hero wasn't so much a shot at it being a good/bad movie. It was more aimed at the fact that a lot people probably haven't seen it so it wouldn't mean anything to most of us.
So your saying that all airports radar systems are directly connected to the net and have simple to unsterstand interfaces so they can all be taken down at once?
I don't believe they're all directly connected to the net. But who says it has to be done from the outside? If planned far enough ahead, you could get people hired into the system. 15 guys (who could potentially have been working there for years and therefore know the system) across the country who happen to be working in their respective towers at the same time all say the ground is 500 feet higher than it is.
When you people go outside is it like Arnolds character in Last Action Hero when he ends up inthe real world?
You're talking shit when you're choice of theatrical comparison is Last Action Hero? A movie that nobody saw?
I doubt that it's even *possible* to kill several thousand people with cracking, you could only cause extreme inconvenience.
What about hacking into the radar system at airports? (circa Die Hard 2). Seems to me that you could kill a few thousand people if you managed a major hack into all the airports in the US at once. How many planes are landing at this exact instant? Seems like it could be slightly more than an inconvenience.
At which point the surface of the earth explodes in a ball of fire; shards of molten, hyper-threaded, silicon flying through the air at ludicrous speeds.
Does anyone else find the thought of anyone under 8 using a cell phone ridiculous?
What does a 6 year old need with a cell phone? Who does he call? Does he need to call his girlfriend so they can hook up after kindergarten? Or does he have to arrange a meeting time with his pixie stick dealer?
I knew a guy who for years used the mouse aiming down (i.e. cord sticking out the bottom) and clicked with the heel of his palm. None of us noticed until he started making fun of one of my buddies for using the mouse wrong.
A professor of mine a couple years ago told us one day about the MRI machine at the local university hospital (He worked on the imaging software for it) Now, true, this was at the time the most powerful MRI in Canada (supposedly, the hospital had to inform the local air authority when they were using it because it interfered with planes flying above it) but each full, 3D image of the brain that was captured was 8 - 9 GB. How many 120 GB drives would the average hospital need for this alone?
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I received this email about a week ago. Can you say money laundering?
Dear [MY NAME]
I'm Olivia Myers, Manager of Royal Financial LTD. On site Monster.com i have found your resume and want to offer you the vacancy of "ePayment Manager".
Job description:
The major duty of the ePayment Manager is to process payments between our clients and our company via PayPal system. You will get 15 percent per transfer.
Salary: 500$-3500$ per month.
Benefits of this vacancy:
1. Flexible work schedule, work 3-5 hours per week.
2. Possibility of your career rising.
3. Home-based.
4. Ability to take unlimited vacation (without guaranteed salary).
Minimal requirements:
1. You must have the PayPal account.
2. At least 18 years old.
3. Internet and e-mail skills.
More information you can find on our site www.royal-finance-ldt.com. If you want to get this job please fill the form If you've got some questions about this vacancy please
read F.A.Q. and if can't find the answer to your question, address to our support.
Best regards
---
Olivia Myers manager@royal-finance-ldt.com
And if they're in string format, you don't have to cast them to compare them. '2006-02-08' > '2005-08-02' (YYYY-MM-DD) returns true as either a string or a date. Can't say the same for '02-08-2006' > '08-02-2005' (MM-DD-YYYY)
I was wondering why it was so hot this morning!
Man I wish I had mod points. Very informative, thank you
Electricity is electrons. Electrons have mass (though extremely small). According to Einstein, nothing with mass can travel at the speed of light. Therefore, yes, light is faster than electricity.
When there's even a thought of teaching Creatio^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Intelligent Design in schools, you're pretty much there already.
"You on the 14th floor, jump out the window. You WILL die sooner!"
The only way we can effectively defend ourselves (outside of nuking the rest of the world) is to keep our heads and take reasonable effective steps to prevent attacks.
I disagree that this is the only way. The best defence against a vast majority of these terrorists would be simply to stay out of their business. What entitles the U.S. to be the 'world police', forcing their ideals on the rest of the world? I think you'd find terrorists losing a lot of support if the U.S. just left the middle east alone. I would think it's hard to garnish much support for attacking someone who's not doing anything to you (I'll let you fill in the obligatory Bush joke here)
P.S. my comment regarding Last Action Hero wasn't so much a shot at it being a good/bad movie. It was more aimed at the fact that a lot people probably haven't seen it so it wouldn't mean anything to most of us.
So your saying that all airports radar systems are directly connected to the net and have simple to unsterstand interfaces so they can all be taken down at once?
I don't believe they're all directly connected to the net. But who says it has to be done from the outside? If planned far enough ahead, you could get people hired into the system. 15 guys (who could potentially have been working there for years and therefore know the system) across the country who happen to be working in their respective towers at the same time all say the ground is 500 feet higher than it is.
When you people go outside is it like Arnolds character in Last Action Hero when he ends up inthe real world?
You're talking shit when you're choice of theatrical comparison is Last Action Hero? A movie that nobody saw?
I doubt that it's even *possible* to kill several thousand people with cracking, you could only cause extreme inconvenience.
What about hacking into the radar system at airports? (circa Die Hard 2). Seems to me that you could kill a few thousand people if you managed a major hack into all the airports in the US at once. How many planes are landing at this exact instant? Seems like it could be slightly more than an inconvenience.
The Art of Computer Programming, vol. 4
vs.
Paul Graham's Arc
vs.
Duke Nukem Forever
And the race heats up!
Anyone else see multi-core processors as a possibility here?
One core - CPU
One core - PPU
One core - GPU
One core - SPU (sound?).
It's a 4 core gaming system (not upgradeable, but in the not so distant future, likely quite cheap...potential for handheld gaming devices?)
Anyone has an idea of how big this user base is already?
Not sure how big it is now but judging by the fact that I've got 50 invites on my one account now I'd think it's probably pretty close to going gold.
If you want one let me know!
But hey, it has the word "nuclear" in it, so it has to be bad, right?
Isn't it Nukular?
George W.
At which point the surface of the earth explodes in a ball of fire; shards of molten, hyper-threaded, silicon flying through the air at ludicrous speeds.
The gun should be able to detect human presence and not fire a round!
Excuse me for being naive, but isn't that the point of guns? (aside from hunting).
Does anyone else find the thought of anyone under 8 using a cell phone ridiculous?
What does a 6 year old need with a cell phone? Who does he call? Does he need to call his girlfriend so they can hook up after kindergarten? Or does he have to arrange a meeting time with his pixie stick dealer?
I knew a guy who for years used the mouse aiming down (i.e. cord sticking out the bottom) and clicked with the heel of his palm. None of us noticed until he started making fun of one of my buddies for using the mouse wrong.
A professor of mine a couple years ago told us one day about the MRI machine at the local university hospital (He worked on the imaging software for it) Now, true, this was at the time the most powerful MRI in Canada (supposedly, the hospital had to inform the local air authority when they were using it because it interfered with planes flying above it) but each full, 3D image of the brain that was captured was 8 - 9 GB. How many 120 GB drives would the average hospital need for this alone?