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If I get a call from an overseas call centre (usually India) and they start with "Hello, my name is Mary" (or John, or Patricia etc), I ask them to repeat themselves a couple of times. If they continue using the name, I ask if that is really their name and after a bit of cajoling they will usually admit that their name is something like Sanjay or Srikanth etc. At this point I refuse to speak to them further on security grounds and demand to be put through to a supervisor. When I ask why their operatives have begun a conversation with a blatant lie, they usually say that they use English names because us poor Brits can't handle Indian names. At this point I usually accuse them of being racist, which really gets their back up!
I ask them if they would continue the conversation if I had said that my name wasn't Chris Quinn, but Krishna Bhanji. They then always say that they would end the conversation on data protection grounds, but find it puzzling that I would want to do the same.
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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Grg12 wrote: Am I stupid to think it's a bad practice?
Depends on why you think it is. I get the same mails from PayPal and I can't say I've ever thought there was anything to warrant putting my tinfoil hat on.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Cause "click here" button is typical for phishing mail. Almost every day I get emails telling me that there's a problem with my credit card and I should "click here" to solve it. In most cases link leads to some suspicious .ru or .cz domain. Sometimes they even use Russian characters to create domain names looking similiar to correct ones. All serious banks warn against such emails - they never send "click here", if you want to visit their page you must type the address or use bookmark in your browser.
You may find such scam easy to avoid - but are you sure your parents will notice it?
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Well yeah, but it's not a phishing mail, is it? It's the genuine article. If PayPal withdrew them it wouldn't do anything to change the ones that are pretending to be PayPal or other companies. If people are already avoiding click heres then they won't click on PayPal's either (unless they recognise it for the genuine article). If they're not, then one less from PayPal would make no difference, and if they do click this one at least it won't take them to a scam site for a change!
In any event if the emails concern you (or your parents) then opt out of receiving them. As for my parents, my mother was 80 before she had a phone in the house and my father still thinks it's the work of the devil. Don't think email scams are ever likely to touch them!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Hi All,
While wasting time (I have an interview this afternoon, first of 2016!) My PC was on I was doing something else and my Mum saw the CP lounge and Bob at the top hence the question who is the little green man at the top, reply 'Bob', 'Oh, he has a name','Bob crashed at Roswell in 1947', 'oh, thats where the US airforce had a crash, in the X -files','Yes, that one, there is a whole back story'.
So can I have a link to the history of Bob that Chris did. Tried search for it and got no-where.
Glenn
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Thats the one I was looking for.
Cheers Glenn
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Quote: Tried search for it and got no-where
The truth is out there! 
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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During School days, I have tough time to wake my daughter (8 years ) on time. She will always ask for extra 5 minutes of "beauty sleep"( Her own words) in recursive fashion. Come weekend and when I want to sleep extra few hours or so , she almost wakes up in time or little earlier and wants breakfast immediately.
Any suggestion how to convince them to sleep extra during weekends ?
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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I guess this a programming question of sorts!
Life is too shor
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I can see how its a programming question, but which section to post it?
cheers,
Super
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(a) It's a child process ==> software
(b) It should never be rebooted ==> not Windows
==> Probably a Linux/Android process.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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super wrote: Any suggestion how to convince them to sleep extra during weekends ?
Vodka
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That's for me 
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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Clubs.
Hammers.
Rohypnol...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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"I need my grizzled bear sleep"
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Tell her that, for now, she will have to go to school on week-ends
That should work.
You always obtain more by being rather polite and armed than polite only.
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My three kids wake up at 6:30AM, no matter what. My wife is an early bird, so this is not really a problem for her, I cared at bit about the neighbour at the beginning, but they had to get used to it.
We tried and forced the kids to stay in bed until 7:30 on the days they went to bed late the preceding evening, so they could catch up some sleep, which resulted in loud cross-room communication and them not sleeping, so we gave that up.
Suggestion: You are not against screens, so let her watch TV when she is up in the morning. You are against screens (so are we), then ... cope with it, there is no legal and safe solution 
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My daughter can only watch TV in the morning when:
- she is dressed up
- Has her hairs done
- finished breakfast
- put on her shoes
By that time she needs to go to school. So no TV in a playful way in the morning during schooldays
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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Rage wrote: You are against screens (so are we), then
She loves to watch some kids video in laptop but we don't allow to her have access to youtube in our absence.
TV is ok but for some reason she wants to spend some play timer with her dad, especially she wants to play "hide and seek".
So I will wait for few more years she becomes a teen
cheers,
Super
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super wrote: she wants to play "hide and seek".
There you go : you only need to find a place in your house where you can sleep and are very hidden.
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super wrote: Come weekend and when I want to sleep extra few hours or so , she almost wakes up in time or little earlier and wants breakfast immediately.
Teach her to cook, stops her asking for breakfast and she can have yours ready for when you get up.
Everyone's a winner.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Wish implementation was easy as planning
cheers,
Super
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As the kid is 8 that was my first reaction!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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My son (3 years old) gets up at 6.00 AM every morning, no matter if it's weekend or not...
...I don't have solution for this either, but at least you now know that you are not alone
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