Actually I'm talking about my father, who insists that his SSN needs to be printed on his check. For myself, I'm a 27 year old that has little credit history no credit cards and only 1 dealing with a financial institute (for a vehicle loan). Yes, I'm eccentric but I have no use for the credit system in america. Any information I have on file is positive, but I don't go looking to use my SSN anywhere
Social engineering, a form with a SSN (which usually includes a home address, in bad form) and a quick mind can do a lot with this information.
Think of this, large clothing retailers that allow you to sign up and after approval use $500+ dollars on a one time shopping spree? There are so many examples of what a capable mind can do with this information.
Any corporation / school / government entity that uses SSN to identify a individual either on paper or digitalized is out for a harsh reality: Personal identity theft is real and here to stay. Now if I could just figure out how to talk these old timers to drop the SSN number they want labeled on their checks..
I commute 1.5 hours each way 5 days a week to my workplace. I usually put in 9 hour days (sometimes more) and lead a very active life. This tends to afford me 4 hours of sleep a night, 5 on the good ones.
What this causes-
Too much caffeine intake (which causes lack of sleep)
Too many input calories (that's what the snack vendor is for, high energy fixes)
Lots of stress (which may or may not contribute to a issue)
Someone want to put me on a/. diet to research this? I've picked up 25 lbs over the last month (40 in the last 3 I've been working this contract)
Hard drive for video:http://www.liquidationetc.com/31/15840.htm?4 21: $48.00
The rest is relevant to how spiffy you want your setup in wiring but in this example assuming your TV is within 50 feet of the PC (for apartment dwellers like myself::
Reference: http://www.directx.com/home.htm
In its latest filing with the US S.E.C. Infinium says it'll have to spend $US 22.2M over the next 12 months in order to execute its "current business strategy". Basically it says it'll need $US 11.5M to launch the Phantom Game Service and sell the first 10,000 units. Then another $US 10.7M to "achieve cash flow break even". Then, as if that weren't enough, it says it anticipates having to spend another $US 20.2M over the next 16 months for promotion and services.
They have a lot of stretching to do with that 20k in the bank!
My home PC that I spent 1000 on and carefully self customized and tweaked will still beat the pants off of this "phantom" if it ever comes around.
Idiots, leave M$ to their XBOX peddling, at least mods for the 'Box are easy to install.
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Actually I'm talking about my father, who insists that his SSN needs to be printed on his check. For myself, I'm a 27 year old that has little credit history no credit cards and only 1 dealing with a financial institute (for a vehicle loan). Yes, I'm eccentric but I have no use for the credit system in america. Any information I have on file is positive, but I don't go looking to use my SSN anywhere
Social engineering, a form with a SSN (which usually includes a home address, in bad form) and a quick mind can do a lot with this information. Think of this, large clothing retailers that allow you to sign up and after approval use $500+ dollars on a one time shopping spree? There are so many examples of what a capable mind can do with this information.
Any corporation / school / government entity that uses SSN to identify a individual either on paper or digitalized is out for a harsh reality: Personal identity theft is real and here to stay. Now if I could just figure out how to talk these old timers to drop the SSN number they want labeled on their checks..
Good call, I am a example of this..
What this causes-
Too much caffeine intake (which causes lack of sleep)
Too many input calories (that's what the snack vendor is for, high energy fixes)
Lots of stress (which may or may not contribute to a issue)
Someone want to put me on a /. diet to research this? I've picked up 25 lbs over the last month (40 in the last 3 I've been working this contract)
But does it run linux?
PC: Allready existing, you're on /. so that's a good assumption
TV Tuner / remote: http://www.dvcentury.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Scr een=PROD&Product_Code=96-989-7134&Category_Code=ET T
Cost - $36.00
TV Output: Almost all recent video cards have S-Video out, even the cheap ones.
Software: http://store.snapstream.com/btv-3-both.html
Cost - $69.00
Hard drive for video:http://www.liquidationetc.com/31/15840.htm?4 21: $48.00
The rest is relevant to how spiffy you want your setup in wiring but in this example assuming your TV is within 50 feet of the PC (for apartment dwellers like myself::
$153 dollars plus the price of connection cables.
But... PC: You're on one Tuner card: $50-150 Hard Drive: $50 PVR Software: Negligible ----- Sticking it to TIVO and having your own PVR, priceless.
Reference: http://www.directx.com/home.htm In its latest filing with the US S.E.C. Infinium says it'll have to spend $US 22.2M over the next 12 months in order to execute its "current business strategy". Basically it says it'll need $US 11.5M to launch the Phantom Game Service and sell the first 10,000 units. Then another $US 10.7M to "achieve cash flow break even". Then, as if that weren't enough, it says it anticipates having to spend another $US 20.2M over the next 16 months for promotion and services. They have a lot of stretching to do with that 20k in the bank!
My home PC that I spent 1000 on and carefully self customized and tweaked will still beat the pants off of this "phantom" if it ever comes around. Idiots, leave M$ to their XBOX peddling, at least mods for the 'Box are easy to install.
May darwin smile on the western shoreline!