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(...) For the average person or script kiddle to crack a 4-digit PIN via brute force, they'd have to: (1) first actually get someone's card; and then (2) manually try out up to 10,000 combinations, and IIRC, ATM's are programmed to eat cards after a (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I like this idea. I really hope the marketting world starts to realize the value of targetted advertising. I would happily fill out a fairly detailed survey if I felt that it's use would be to make sure I received only mail I am interested in. (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: PW validation terms/labels
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(...) Perhaps part of the problem is the relative weights attached to various elements of strength of passwords. I would generally agree that a 4 character password should not be accepted (of course I suspect most of us have a significant amount of (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Bill Gates' real crime...
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(...) Investors (...) behave (...) just (...) Two wrongs make a right? And I see lots of systems at my job that have unix, not windows. (...) I really don't want to sit and enumerate all of Microsoft's trangressions. It's a big, sprawling, complex (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) While MS may have had some anti-competitive practices, I haven't seen anything which justifies a breakup. Some thoughts of mine on some of the issues which have been raised: - MS billing vendors for a copy of Windows for every machine sold: Do (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Murderer Reno's real crime...
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Larry Pieniazek wrote: <snip> I'm not sure what's your point here? Are you saying that the gov should have let microsoft be, even though the court decided it was breaking the law, just because a lot of people own it's stock? (...) Since when do we (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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It seemed to me a pretty clear-cut case of monopolistic practices. Investors big and small should have seen this coming miles away. Microsoft even got a previous wake up call, dodged the bullet on penalties, and proceeded to behave as arrogantly as (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Murderer Reno's real crime...
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(...) Right. But people who sold early, like me, did better than those who had a reasonable expectation of a reasonable government. I know better, of course. The poor shlubs who waited really did see a decrease in their wealth after they sold their (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) An increase in a share price is not "real wealth". Nor is a decrease. Neither is "real" until you sell the shares. (...) Emotional button-push alert! Who knows where Microsoft stock - and its competitors stock - will go in the future. In the (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Pax Americana (was Re: Where did you lot spring from?)
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(...) I think that the best chocolate in the world is those guylian sea shells. (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Pax Americana (was Re: Where did you lot spring from?)
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(...) OMG, I can't believe I forgot that. This three-day weekend is WAY too easy to get used to! Sunday is, in Israel, a dreaded term, like Monday is here... (but I manage to keep them mentally seperated by thinking of Sunday in the US in English, (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Sorry about posting an 'on-topic' tidbit in an off topic group. But i found this one funny. I do need to send a nastygram to HQ, they aren't properly protecting trademarks of others. :-( :-( ... But they may have been laughing at the alderman so (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Pax Americana (was Re: Where did you lot spring from?)
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(...) range ! (...) Hmmm, maybe I just found Hersheys blander.... (...) Correcto, just choc-coated honeycomb. (...) Who looks at corporate sites ? Ick ! :^$ pete.w (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Pax Americana (was Re: Where did you lot spring from?)
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(...) Lindt is great, but more expensive(in Aust. anyway) ....not to mention Guylian seashells (where are they from) pete.w (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Murderer Reno's real crime...
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may be killing the goose that laid the golden egg. "When bank robbers steal your money, at least they have the honesty to admit they're just thieves," "When the Justice Department destroys $200 billion in wealth, it has the gall to claim that it is (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Pax Americana (was Re: Where did you lot spring from?)
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(...) Maybe it's just a giant mistake? (...) Cadburys is higher in sugar? I always find NA chocolate too sweet - weird! Anyway - what is the difference between a 'Violet Crumble' and a Cadburys 'Crunchie'? As far as I can tell they look the same ;-) (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Pax Americana (was Re: Where did you lot spring from?)
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(...) You can't eat too much of that, you're right. (...) Ritter Sport is good, best chocolate brand though must be Lindt, which is Swiss in origin. Ever had the dark chocolate with 70% cocoa content? Excellent!! Good night, T.F. (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Pax Americana (was Re: Where did you lot spring from?)
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(...) Susan, maybe we should swap ;^) (...) Any town/city with a university or population over 500,000 acquires diversity with the in and outgo of population. (...) Must be Cadbury's higher sugar content. Before travelling to the US, I wondered what (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Pax Americana (was Re: Where did you lot spring from?)
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(...) Heh. The Lone Star franchise seems to exist everywhere *except* the Lone Star State (Texas, USA). So yes, your having Lone Star restaurants in Sydney is exactly analogous to our having Outback Steakhouses in Houston. Ugh. (...) And every one (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Pax Americana (was Re: Where did you lot spring from?)
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(...) Ack, I just had to get used to hearing colleagues from Israel talk about having to teach classes on Sunday. ;) (...) You know, I had to do the same thing when I moved to New Jersey (insert "NJ" for "IDF"). However, I think the pay in the IDF (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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