I think a countdown timer every 108 minutes would be good. You have to enter the code within the last minute or bad things happen. That'll keep them on their toes.
All of them. Check again. Ever been involved in a project that has bug lists? I'm guessing not. There are many bugs that have been discovered yet remain bugs in the product. It takes time to fix bugs. Some projects are large and bugs aren't instantly corrected the moment they are discovered. They're not all simple typos.
Even once a solution has been determined, it may still take even more time to implement the solution. Then even when they're fixed, the bug usually remains in that software version while a new version is rolled out with fixes, so you may want to be aware of existing bugs in the software version that you use.
That creates a cascade effect of investor avoidance, forcing Facebook's actual value down to where it's reasonable and Microsoft can snatch it up at a bargain. You can't just wait until Facebook's advertised price comes down. Lot's of companies would buy Facebook if they would accept a lower bargain offer. That's supply and demand. Microsoft isn't the only one that could buy at a lower price. So Microsoft buying at a premium now doesn't give them any advantage over anyone else to buy more later.
Soon router manufacturers will recommend replacing your router every 6 months to keep your SSID fresh and unmapped. You'll find shops pop up across the country offering "router change" service for $19.95. Watch out for that hazardous disposal fee!
I was able to recover the currently slash-dotted article via google's cache:
Enormous Map of Wifi Servers - Including Yours! - Revealed by AOL and Skyhook Announcement 3/19/2007 -
Summary: Quite a few people have by now read about AOL's new Skyhook "Near Me" buddys plug-in. That's the plugin for the service which lets you know if any of your buddies are geographically near to you, and puts them in a "Near Me" buddies group. But what far fewer people realize is exactly how it works. How does it know when you are near one of your buddies? The answer may surprise - and concern - you.
Quite a few people have by now read about AOL's new Skyhook "Near Me" buddys plugin. That's the plug-in for the service which lets you know if any of your buddies are geographically near to you, and puts them in a "Near Me" buddies group.
But what far fewer people realize is exactly how it works. How does it know when you are near one of your buddies?
The answer may surprise - and concern - you.
The underlying technology is provided by Skyhook Wireless. According to news sources, Skyhook has spent the past several years "driving a fleet of 200 trucks up and down the streets of 2,500 cities and towns across the United States and Canada," mapping every single wireless router. Not just commercial hotspot routers. They openly admit that their trucks "scan for the pulse given off at least once a second by every home wireless router or commercial hotspot, recording the unique identifying code for that piece of Wi-Fi equipment."
Then, that code - of your home wireless router - "is correlated with the exact physical location where it was captured using GPS in the trucks, which cruise the streets at 15 to 50 miles (24 to 80 kilometers) per hour as they collect this information."
Just in case the picture isn't clear, let me paint it for you:
Skyhook's trucks have been cruising your street, have identified yourby its unique code that only your home wifi has - and is correlating it with your location using GPS.
And then they put it in a database
Yep, Skyhook has what has got to be the largest database of wifi access points - public and private - anywhere. According to reports, the database has 16 million wifi access points "covering an area where Skyhook says 70 percent of the U.S. population lives and six Canadian markets where the majority of that nation's people live." Including you.
Including your wireless router.
How do you feel about that?
Suddenly the issue of whether your computer is seeping data seems a lot more relevant, doesn't it?
[Erasing IP logs] would also save the students a ton of money ($4000 per student served, $3000 with the "discount") which they could be spending on education. Here's an idea for students to avoid having to pay $4000 to RIAA: don't steal/share copyrighted data.
Why not make ten bigger Making 10 greater than 10 will really screw everything up. Everyone is kind of settled on the fact that 10 equals 10 right now.
Your SSN is probably already being used by an entire family of illegal aliens to get work and have accounts. Credit Bureaus, banks, credit card companies, employers, even the IRS aren't obligated to tell you when someone else is using your SSN without your permission. Investigations have found that some SSN's are used by up to 30 people. This stuff doesn't show up on your credit report. Some day you'll get some collections agency looking for money you owe.
What will happen?...What's the big problem aside from the end of the earth?
The real problem is that the Pearly Gates would suddently be overloaded beyond capacity. How would you like to take a number and wait while they process the forms for 6 billion people?
-Picture the DMV times a billion or so.
-Think of what the waiting room would smell like after a while.
-And it's run by near-sighted 90-year-old volunteers, hope they don't make a mistake processing your paperwork!
it looks like a cheap rip-off of google maps, but that doesn't work properly
Agreed. People have been using Google maps and GreaseMonkey for geotagging for more than a year. Flickr's parent company Yahoo probably got jealous and is making another attempt to be as cool as Google.
Too little, too late.
Careful, Google might sue you for using their trademark name as the generic verb for search. Unless you are specifically referring to searching at www.google.com. That of course is okay.
However if there was some form of time restricted cheaper account I think I would try it out.
I am with you, along with probably many others. However, if Blizzard opens up a lower-cost rate, how many current customers will downgrade to the cheaper rate? Would Blizzard reduce their fees for players that have already shown that they're willing to pay the current rate? Only if the revenue from newly attracted customers recovers and exceeds the loss.
They probably aren't willing to take such a risk with a system that already works.
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The porn industry would like to thank Stanford University for their breakthrough research.
I think a countdown timer every 108 minutes would be good. You have to enter the code within the last minute or bad things happen. That'll keep them on their toes.
...Terrorism/form-letter.html You can't fool me, I won't fill out that form!Soon router manufacturers will recommend replacing your router every 6 months to keep your SSID fresh and unmapped. You'll find shops pop up across the country offering "router change" service for $19.95. Watch out for that hazardous disposal fee!
I was able to recover the currently slash-dotted article via google's cache:
-Picture the DMV times a billion or so.
-Think of what the waiting room would smell like after a while.
-And it's run by near-sighted 90-year-old volunteers, hope they don't make a mistake processing your paperwork!
They probably aren't willing to take such a risk with a system that already works.