So I wouldn't throw away that old compass just yet.
No, I wouldn't either. And I don't figure that most people have
completely lost their minds as far as their best interests are concerned.
Evidence to the contrary.
At 7:15 PM -0500 1/5/10, Ellen Rains Harris wrote:
wireline n: a slender, rodlike or threadlike piece of metal usually
small in diameter, that is used for lowering special tools (such as
logging sondes, perforating guns, and so forth) into the well. Also
called slick line.
Ellen H who once
At 8:13 PM -0500 1/5/10, Eric S. Sande wrote:
It's this kind of sloppy writing that makes the rest of us have to
learn useless new words. I've never in my life heard the word
wireline before today, and really can't see the need when landline
works so well.
In general usage wireline is
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Tony B ton...@gmail.com wrote:
This actually makes a degree of sense. I never really thought of what
to call FIOS. Obviously we can't call it wireless, even though it
really has no wires. We can't call it a landline because it has no
wires. And now we can't
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Reid Katan ka...@his.com wrote:
Gee. Not unlike this very list, eh? We seem to spend freakish amounts of
time talking all things cell phone.
Agreed. Yet, no one wants to admit that they have a jones for
their cell phone?
To wit, yesterday I was stopped at
mint.com's security tech and practices are here:
http://www.mint.com/privacy/security-tech/
They keep the passwords encrypted. They are not encrypted as one-way hashes
and they decrypt them to use at the bank sites. 24/7 security guards?
Even if they have a guard dog, I don't want someone
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:31 AM, Constance Warner cawar...@his.com wrote:
We have a bad habit, in this country, of writing off old technologies as
soon as something a little more advanced has been adopted by a small
percentage of the American public.
A lot of the older technology is the only
You eat out? Give your credit card or visa debit to the waitress making
2+tips an hour? Drive through at jack or mcds and give the card to the kid
making 8 bucks an hour? Not to mention all the people who get their CC
numbers etc stolen by hackers at the bank level. I'm not sure I'd say Mint
And if yer lucky you end up on Discovery's 'Hoarders' show.
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 6:14 AM, phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:31 AM, Constance Warner cawar...@his.com wrote:
There is the old adage that if you throw it away today, damn if
you're not
You eat out? Give your credit card or visa debit to the waitress making
2+tips an hour? Drive through at jack or mcds and give the card to the kid
making 8 bucks an hour? Not to mention all the people who get their CC
numbers etc stolen by hackers at the bank level. I'm not sure I'd say
On Jan 6, 2010, at 2:31 AM, Constance Warner wrote:
In this case, I don't think it's a foregone conclusion that fancy
cellphones have replaced computers as all-purpose communications
devices. Cellphones are too small to display most of what's on the
Web. For a lot of people, cellphones
On Jan 6, 2010, at 9:40 AM, mike wrote:
You eat out? Give your credit card or visa debit to the waitress
making
2+tips an hour? Drive through at jack or mcds and give the card to
the kid
making 8 bucks an hour? Not to mention all the people who get their
CC
numbers etc stolen by hackers
Yes and no. Yes, the waiter can do bad things with your credit card.
Yet if you have ever left your credit card behind you will discover
that they usually go to great lengths to protect your card and get it
back to you promptly. If these were dishonest people they would be in
a different line
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Victor Subervi victorsube...@gmail.com wrote:
Ok, you all convinced me. I'll have money next week. I would like your
advice. I live in the US Virgin Islands (eat your hearts out ;) but getting
things shipped down here is a major hassle. The USPS ships for the
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:38 PM, phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Victor Subervi victorsube...@gmail.com
wrote:
Ok, you all convinced me. I'll have money next week. I would like your
advice. I live in the US Virgin Islands (eat your hearts out
I'm not talking about CC numbers. I'm worried about a third-party company
storing my sensitive passwords in its servers. It's the principle of the
thing ... if you are okay with it, go for it.
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 9:40 AM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
You eat out? Give your credit card or
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:56 AM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
Our reality is often shaped by advertising and we don't realize that what
most people do is not advertised (because it does not have to be). Most
people use paygo, not the advertised contracts. Most people have simple
cellphones.
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Victor Subervi victorsube...@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah, but he only delivers once a year! And that was last week!!
I guess that's about all you can expect to get for free...and for
trying to be so good all year! But yeah, it is a little late, or
wy to early
Quoting tjpa t...@tjpa.com:
On Jan 6, 2010, at 9:40 AM, mike wrote:
You eat out? Give your credit card or visa debit to the waitress making
2+tips an hour? Drive through at jack or mcds and give the card to the kid
making 8 bucks an hour? Not to mention all the people who get their CC
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:58 PM, phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Victor Subervi victorsube...@gmail.com
wrote:
Yeah, but he only delivers once a year! And that was last week!!
I guess that's about all you can expect to get for free...and for
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:08 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
Weren't there stories from NY and other metro areas of people getting mugged
specifically because they had white earbuds and thus the most expensive mp3
player on the market?
Yes. Bling envy. No great dollar value involved, just
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Victor Subervi victorsube...@gmail.com wrote:
This is my point. Apple and Amazon *only* ship computers to the continental
US. I would not use FedEx or UPS...way too expensive...they charge for
shipping to the Caribbean. The USPS charges as if it were the
Quoting phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.com:
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Victor Subervi
victorsube...@gmail.com wrote:
him reship it, that costs money and time. Anybody out there know of a
supplier who will ship it directly to me?
Only one I can immediately think of is Santa
You're right in general, but Eskimos having many words for snow is
something of a myth. The Eskimo languages are polysynthetic, which means,
more or less, that multiple words are combined into one
as needed. Where we might say something like dry, drifting snow, they
would combine the three
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:06 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall
revsamarsh...@earthlink.net wrote:
Try calling it fiber optic communications.
Lets keep things consistent- Glass Line.
--
John Duncan Yoyo
---o)
On Jan 6, 2010, at 2:06 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
A close friend got emails from three of her friends wherein they
related Christmas gifts they had gotten this year. Two boasted of an
iPod Touch, and one of an iPod. Nothing else mentioned. Just those
items, as if you got one of those you
At 01:41 PM 1/6/2010, you wrote:
Date:Wed, 6 Jan 2010 11:44:53 -0500
From:Chris Dunford seed...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: new bank and a mint
There was a significant problem not long ago,
especially in major cities, with wait staff who
had handheld card readers. They'd quietly swipe
On Jan 6, 2010, at 11:44 AM, Chris Dunford wrote:
There was a significant problem not long ago, especially in major
cities, with wait staff who had handheld card readers. They'd
quietly swipe cards and sell the information. I don't know if this is
Is this not an urban legend?
I do not know about the card reader, but we did have a problem here a
few year ago with an ethnic restaurant getting card numbers of
patrons and using them. People prosecuted, problem ended.
Local police chief had it happen to him in Georgia.
I would figure if you are at a place you know and
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Rich Schinnell richnrockvi...@gmail.comwrote:
You specify the max amount and the expiration date for the shopsafe card
and you print out a replica of the card with all the data necessary to
on-line shop with the safety of knowing that it can only be used to the
At BofA, I have their visa card and they offer
ShopSafeR is their free service for Online
Banking customers that allows you to create a
unique, temporary account number for online purchases.
You specify the max amount and the expiration date for the shopsafe card
and you print out a
There was a significant problem not long ago, especially in major
cities, with wait staff who had handheld card readers. They'd
quietly swipe cards and sell the information. I don't know if this is
Is this not an urban legend?
Nope.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/03/washington/
Is that for one single purchase or for one short period of time? If I want
to make three on-line purchases (three different vendors) in an evening, do I
have to get three different temporary VISA Card numbers?
Has anyone ever been able to learn specifically how a compromised credit card
I would figure if you are at a place you know and trust not as much
of a problem than if you are somewhere you are totally unfamiliar with.
Apparently not. If you read the article I linked to in the reply to Tom, you'll
see that some of the restaurants in question were very well-known DC
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Victor Subervi
victorsube...@gmail.com wrote:
This is my point. Apple and Amazon *only* ship computers to the continental
US. I would not use FedEx or UPS...way too expensive...they charge for
shipping to the Caribbean. The USPS charges as if it were the
Reasonable being the highest price on the market...
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:38 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Jan 6, 2010, at 2:06 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
A close friend got emails from three of her friends wherein they
related Christmas gifts they had gotten this year. Two
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:38 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
What? You think that somebody who got a Zune is going to brag about it? You
are so out of touch.
Not out of touch, as you say. I understand that those folks who
received the iPody devices are primarily thrilled because they now
have
On Jan 6, 2010, at 4:58 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
Not out of touch, as you say. I understand that those folks who
received the iPody devices are primarily thrilled because they now
have what everybody else has. This is the lemming mentality. These
gift recipients finally belong, no
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And they say macs ain't got game.
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On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:43 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
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And they say macs ain't got game.
Look it takes tough guys to battle an apple.
--
John Duncan Yoyo
---o)
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:42 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Jan 6, 2010, at 4:58 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
Not out of touch, as you say. I understand that those folks who
received the iPody devices are primarily thrilled because they now
have what everybody else has. This is the
On Jan 6, 2010, at 9:26 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
No, no, no! It wasn't ME who got an iPody device. The folks who
were breathlessly extolling the fact that THEY had gotten one ARE
Windows users.
And good for them. I'm observing quite a change in attitude among
Windows drones after
Could Your Cell Phone Help Shield You From Alzheimer's? - BusinessWeek
http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/healthday/634709.html
exposure to electromagnetic field prevented and even reversed brain
impairment
There was a significant problem not long ago, especially in major cities, with
wait staff who had handheld card readers. They'd quietly swipe cards and sell
the information. I don't know if this is
Is this not an urban legend?
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/03/washington/
Well
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