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Surviving the World - Lesson 2713 - Dad Science, Part IV[^]
For some reason, I'm getting the feeling Cannonball doesn't believe her dad this time. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Seems legit
veni bibi saltavi
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Is someone from the far away timezone at it or did someone just forget to post?
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
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pkfox ( @petepjksolutionscom ) won on Friday - he probably forgot!
(I have to add a reminder in Google Calendar for FSOW and CCC when it's my turn as well)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: (I have to add a reminder in Google Calendar for FSOW and CCC when it's my turn as well)
I just write something on the day i won, then open my notebook (paperedition) the next day and see ah i have to post that 
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Calendar does the same, but it also sends me reminders & emails, and generally makes every device I own go "bing bong" in the hope that one of them might reach me... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yeah but don't get too digital, otherwise you might end as a pixel.
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Or maybe there is but it is so obfuscated that noone saw it.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
If a coffee bean is between the Earth and the Sun, is it a Java Eclipse? -- Sascha Lefèvre
/xml>
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sneaky sneaky[^]
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Sorry chaps I forgot - will post tomorrow
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Thank You.
Might as well leave it till next week now, or the week after.
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Those Procrastinators Anonymous meetings are really helping you, aren't they?
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I hope that won't become a habit
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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I think he keeps putting off going to the meetings...
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Every month I get email formulated like this: "dear grg12 you have founds on your account... click here to go to paypal...". Looks like clear case of phishing to me so I asked paypal about it. And the answer is - the email is legit, our marketing team sent it, you can easily distinguish it from phishing cause it contains your full name.
Am I stupid to think it's a bad practice?
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It's from Paypal, so it's fishing. Right?
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What have they found on your account?
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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lousy language skills and 13 cents
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You have 13 cents?! You, you capitalist you!
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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That's not the only bad practice.
When I got a phone call saying "Hi, it's [my bank] security department, we think we've found a problem with your account" and I replied "can you prove that's who you are?" all they say is "Well, we called you" as if that proves it is legitimate. (It was them, and there was a problem, but I had to go into branch to find out for sure).
Why can't a bank prove it's them instead of phishers when they call you? They expect me to prove who I am when I call them! And boy, do they get snotty if you try to get them to prove who they are!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Not just the banks - lots of companies will call you and then demand you answer their security questions before they'll talk to you. 
I once spent 40+ minutes on the phone to a supervisor at Sky trying to make him understand why I wouldn't give out my account password when their representative called me unexpectedly. I was told it was for "Data Protection" reasons, and they couldn't even set up a password to give me when they called, because they can't access the records until I've answered their security questions.
Then there's the idiots who tell you to call them back, and try to give you the number to call. Because a scammer won't have his own phone number waiting for your call, right?
Anyone who calls me unexpectedly needs to prove who they are before I give them any information. If they won't, then I call them back on a known-good number, using a different phone. It might sound paranoid, but I've read too many horror stories about scammers to take the chance.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: Then there's the idiots who tell you to call them back, and try to give you the number to call. Because a scammer won't have his own phone number waiting for your call, right?
If you have a landline and this happens - even if the number they give you is legit you should wait for 10 minutes.
Scammers can wait for you to put the phone down and leave their phone off the hook, this means that your line is still connected to them and when you call the local police(for example)the call will go straight through to them.
The 10 minutes allows for the phone system to drop the connection so that when you do dial a number the call goes to the number you dial.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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That's why I said that I call the company on a known-good number using a different phone line.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I never, ever, answer a phone call unless I know who is calling, and I want to talk to them.
Everyone else can leave me a voicemail and if I need to talk to them I will call back. Maybe.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Why can't a bank prove
Do you want a minimum-wage call center jockey to know how to do that?
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