I tried eHarmony too... for $50/month I decided it was very expensive for such a service, and I found it frustrating that it took so long to get through their managed q&a before you could actually chat freely with the person. I went on two dates with someone from there and it wasn't the magical spark that they claimed it would be.
So I quit, went to match.com for half the price, and used my IM handle as my name on the site. Within a few weeks, someone found me, contacted me via IM since she wasn't a paying member, and two years later we're still inseperable, and will be married about 5.5 weeks from now.
Best part of it: she's a geek too and enjoys web design. Now if only I could get her into mmorpg's...
There's this article to show that hackers do work with Microsoft.
There was another article I read within the last few weeks (zdnet maybe, I can't remember) that mentioned how MS was going to set up a network of boxes and literally invite hackers to break into them, with the specific intent of finding the common holes that hackers get into, and security procedures that hackers commonly circumvent, to make a better product.
Now, my gut tells me that the guys who break into a PC to make it send out spam all day long (all the while selling that PC's cpu cycles for $0.05/day) will more than likely NOT share their information with Microsoft.
Some people won't notice any fraudulent charges until their monthly statement comes in. By then, their high oustanding balance has been reported to the credit bureaus. A high ratio of balance to available credit will lower your credit score.
Even if it gets reversed later, it's still done damage for any potential creditors that see their new lower score until the charges get fixed.
Exactly. Our wedding photographer is charging us next to nothing to photograph our wedding, we're basically paying him for his time and he gives us all of the film at the end: we therefore own everything about our photos, including the rights to make as many reprints as possible.
Our wedding photographer will be giving us film and digital files for us to print ourselves (that's why he's so cheap, he doesn't do any photo processing himself) but if *this* is the kind of crap we're going to run into... yikes.
Why do you belive that the fridge does not use any or very little electricity???
I never said that at all... I said you'd have to factor the long term costs of either paying electricity for the a/c unit, OR the cost of the fan & ice which may or may not include using a fridge to refreeze water.
Hmm... guess it comes down to buying:
(a) a $99 a/c unit plus whatever contruction is needed to fit the thing in your window, versus
(b) $30 in parts for this guy's contraption
... and then factoring in the long term costs of:
(a) paying the extra electricity to run the a/c unit, versus
(b) paying the electricity for the fan, plus the cost of bags of ice that only last 3 hours, or using your fridge to refreeze some drainage water back into ice.
probably a tough call from a cost efficiency point of view. I'd love to see someone do a money comparison.
Not necessarily useful... some key logging software I've seen in action wrote its log file prepended with the name of the current application window's titlebar for anything you typed, so your log would have appeared as:
[Internet Explorer - Webmail]
mylogin<TAB>mypass
[Notepad]
gibberish
[Internet Explorer - Webmail]
word<ENTER>
... easily pasted back together for anyone with a few brain cells.
The fault I *did* find in this software though is that it was ignorant of the backspace key, so you could type all the gibberish you wanted, and then just backspace to correct yourself.
huh, another contender... I'll have to check it out. I used to work at QNX who also make a real-time posix-compliant OS, but it's geared more for embedded systems than desktop use (although it *can* be used on a desktop)
Yeah, I've been tempted to order a bumper sticker that says "If you can read this, tune to 89.1 and listen to my music selections"...
Or maybe get one of those magnetic signs to stick on the car instead of a bumper sticker, since the radio frequency on these smaller adapters needs to change if you're in an area with a stronger radio station broadcasting on the same station.
So patrons used to scan their library card and they could use the computer? There is no difference now
I disagree... if they *used* to scan a library card, the card could be stolen, loaned to someone else, etc. That's a little tougher to do with a fingerprint, don'tcha think?
Of course, the 'BugMeNot' crew could just start mass-producing latex finger covers with some random finger print;o)
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I tried eHarmony too ... for $50/month I decided it was very expensive for such a service, and I found it frustrating that it took so long to get through their managed q&a before you could actually chat freely with the person. I went on two dates with someone from there and it wasn't the magical spark that they claimed it would be.
So I quit, went to match.com for half the price, and used my IM handle as my name on the site. Within a few weeks, someone found me, contacted me via IM since she wasn't a paying member, and two years later we're still inseperable, and will be married about 5.5 weeks from now.
Best part of it: she's a geek too and enjoys web design. Now if only I could get her into mmorpg's ...
Exactly ... title should have read "cell phones research data help computers analyze pattern recognition"
in other words: no big deal.
Not to mention the loss of equipment from wipe-outs and smashing your kit all over the sidewalk.
Funny, every RSS feed *I* have ever subscribed to has always been returned in timestamp order, newest article first.
How *else* would you organize it? I watch my feeds based on timestamp - if something new shows up, it shows up at the top of the list.
It ain't rocket science ...
Microsoft, license-free????!!1!one!11
Bwwaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaa
(gasp)
..aaaahahahahahahahahahaha
3. Profit
There's this article to show that hackers do work with Microsoft.
There was another article I read within the last few weeks (zdnet maybe, I can't remember) that mentioned how MS was going to set up a network of boxes and literally invite hackers to break into them, with the specific intent of finding the common holes that hackers get into, and security procedures that hackers commonly circumvent, to make a better product.
Now, my gut tells me that the guys who break into a PC to make it send out spam all day long (all the while selling that PC's cpu cycles for $0.05/day) will more than likely NOT share their information with Microsoft.
... they want their copy protection scheme back.
Even if it gets reversed later, it's still done damage for any potential creditors that see their new lower score until the charges get fixed.
Exactly. Our wedding photographer is charging us next to nothing to photograph our wedding, we're basically paying him for his time and he gives us all of the film at the end: we therefore own everything about our photos, including the rights to make as many reprints as possible.
Our wedding photographer will be giving us film and digital files for us to print ourselves (that's why he's so cheap, he doesn't do any photo processing himself) but if *this* is the kind of crap we're going to run into ... yikes.
If the planet orbits its star/sun every two earth days, then that means they change 'seasons' every 12 hours, if the planet is on any kind of axis ;o)
"Hey there, welcome to our new planet. If you don't like the weather, wait a few minutes ..."
Why do you belive that the fridge does not use any or very little electricity???
... I said you'd have to factor the long term costs of either paying electricity for the a/c unit, OR the cost of the fan & ice which may or may not include using a fridge to refreeze water.
; ; ;
I never said that at all
ie:
if ($ac_unit_usage < ($fan_usage + (greater_of($ice,$fridge))) {
use_ac_unit()
} elseif ($ice < $fridge) {
use_fan_and_ice()
} elseif ($ice > $fridge) {
use_fan_and_fridge()
}
(a) a $99 a/c unit plus whatever contruction is needed to fit the thing in your window, versus
(b) $30 in parts for this guy's contraption
... and then factoring in the long term costs of:
(a) paying the extra electricity to run the a/c unit, versus
(b) paying the electricity for the fan, plus the cost of bags of ice that only last 3 hours, or using your fridge to refreeze some drainage water back into ice.
probably a tough call from a cost efficiency point of view. I'd love to see someone do a money comparison.
http://www.w98.us/ac/
... easily pasted back together for anyone with a few brain cells.
The fault I *did* find in this software though is that it was ignorant of the backspace key, so you could type all the gibberish you wanted, and then just backspace to correct yourself.
Wasn't some agency looking at building telescopes on the moon? Why not just put a dish array there too ...
huh, another contender ... I'll have to check it out. I used to work at QNX who also make a real-time posix-compliant OS, but it's geared more for embedded systems than desktop use (although it *can* be used on a desktop)
you spelled embarrassing incorrectly ;o)
Yeah, I've been tempted to order a bumper sticker that says "If you can read this, tune to 89.1 and listen to my music selections" ...
Or maybe get one of those magnetic signs to stick on the car instead of a bumper sticker, since the radio frequency on these smaller adapters needs to change if you're in an area with a stronger radio station broadcasting on the same station.
pay for value received
... so someone's going to pay *me* to sit in the theater for SW Episode 3? ;o)
Well hey, maybe with this new stem cell research stuff, they can grow you a new finger if you lose it.
So patrons used to scan their library card and they could use the computer? There is no difference now
I disagree ... if they *used* to scan a library card, the card could be stolen, loaned to someone else, etc. That's a little tougher to do with a fingerprint, don'tcha think?
Of course, the 'BugMeNot' crew could just start mass-producing latex finger covers with some random finger print ;o)
I agree... - send the files north.