mibbitier

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by mibbitier 14y ago
The point is that you can work as many hours as you choose.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
I very much doubt they make 5 bucks a month per user. Maybe 5c.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
Am I the only one that finds appeals to donate actually more irritating that adverts?
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by mibbitier 14y ago
FWIW, It's better to stick to the facts rather than spreading even more FUD - "sell it's users searches to amazon" Ubuntu is not "selling" your searches to amazon. Ubuntu will only get paid any money if you click through, and purchase somet
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by mibbitier 14y ago
Outside hospital workers, you'd be hard pressed to find many in the UK that even know what a pager is, let alone someone who has one.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
A simple nokia from 10 years ago or so will run for a week on a charge. It's only modern phones with massive screens, GPS, etc that eat battery.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
They also use pagers. Crazy.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
It's surprising your comment hasn't been down-voted to oblivion. It's so factually incorrect.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
No, because most cellphones/iPods etc will be subject to scammers. These devices are absolutely simple for scammers to work with. They're high value, cheap to post, and can easily be swapped with phoney/broken identical devices.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
One bad incident out of millions doesn't set a precedent.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
For the UK there's http://www.envirofone.com/ or http://www.mazumamobile.com/ or http://www.fonebank.com/ amongst others. I've used the first 2 with excellent results. Obviously you get slightly less than selling on the open market, b
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by mibbitier 14y ago
Odd. I'm using google DNS, so maybe they're "blocking" it via dns.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
> " If youre thinking of selling an expensive item on eBay, think again. " I would say, this type of fraud is exclusively targeted at cellphones, ipods, netbooks etc. If you're selling something like an antique grandfather clock, you sh
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by mibbitier 14y ago
FWIW, I'm on BT and it's not blocked here.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
I expect us (UK) to withdraw from the EU in the next few years, so hopefully it'll become irrelevant.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
The worst implementations "drop down" a message at the top of the page to tell me they're using cookies. This invariably happens just as I'm clicking on a link. The link moves, and I click on some link I didn't want to click on. There are n
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by mibbitier 14y ago
I want advertising. It tells me about things I might like. You're perhaps one of the very very few people who dislike being told about things, but thankfully you're in the minority. The whole "do not track us" idea is ridiculous and a 'moot
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by mibbitier 14y ago
You could say the same about IE6 users.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
Realistically it's probably <0.01% of users.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
This is a horrible misfeature. Often, I select bits of an email, to copy and paste elsewhere to check things. Then I hit reply, and wonder why only the currently selected text is there. There should be a way to turn this "feature" off.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
Wouldn't it be fairly trivial to have an automated system to call the caller back (Verify that they aren't spoofing the caller ID)? eg 1. Caller phones in 2. System looks at caller ID, and says "We will now call you right back to
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by mibbitier 14y ago
Because there's a sucker born every minute.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
> "The fact that they had an idea, built it and executed their vision successfully enough that another company bought them out are the bits that matter." As far as I remember, it was a "buy the team, shut down the company" deal. The ver
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by mibbitier 14y ago
IMHO you might want to reassess your idea of success. Having a great family life, bringing up children, enjoying each day. Those are good measures of success.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
Central London is a massive city. Obviously there's a shit-ton of CCTV there. It's in no way typical of the UK though.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
As I say, we've had widespread CCTV in shops in the UK since the 80s. In the last 30 years nothing has particularly changed. I take your point, in theory an evil genius prime minister could install some mass surveillance system. But what
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by mibbitier 14y ago
That's right. Because the number of instances of "My life was ruined by the state who monitored my every move", or "My love life was ruined when my wife was able to bribe the CCTV operator to find out about my affair"... they don't happen d
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by mibbitier 14y ago
You're once again believing the ridiculous notion that somehow all CCTV cameras feed into a central state monitored control station. They don't.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
What do you think they're doing with the CCTV? They're almost certainly recording to a VHS tape, which cycles every couple of days. IF some crime or vandalism happens on the playground, they will then grab the tapes, and check them. The c
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by mibbitier 14y ago
Please don't peddle the "UK CCTV" bullshit. It's simply not true. CCTV in the UK is widespread in large cities, but operated by individual shop owners, and has been since the 80s when cameras became cheap enough. There is no big government

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