tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44710181074059364492024-02-19T02:18:34.641-08:00Alpha Carternever send a human to do a computers jobAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13689638423710105698noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471018107405936449.post-56141279292352952922013-01-27T08:25:00.000-08:002013-01-27T08:25:45.745-08:00That time Captain Kirk talked to me<script src="//storify.com/carter/that-time-captain-kirk-talked-to-me.js"></script><noscript>[<a href="//storify.com/carter/that-time-captain-kirk-talked-to-me" target="_blank">View the story "That time Captain Kirk talked to me" on Storify</a>]<h1>That time Captain Kirk talked to me</h1><h2>I cant express how excited I am... William Shatner the Captian Kirk actually responded to me on twitter</h2><p>Storified by <a href="http://storify.com/carter">Carter Cole</a>· Sun, Jan 27 2013 08:24:38</p><div>So I'm thinking about doing some more tweets for donations but thought maybe a DM thank you would be better? Thoughts?William Shatner</div><div>@WilliamShatner id want it to be public so i could retweet you talking to me and I could get props for a tweet from the legendary captainCarter Cole</div><div>@WilliamShatner yea @sirlarryfleming how much charity would a custom voicemail message go for?Carter Cole</div><div>Ive actually asked him about this before as well as if he would barter a plug mentioning cartercole.com for free development work... or like a WilliamShatner app (for both android and ios of course)</div><div>“@CarterCole: yea @sirlarryfleming how much charity would a custom voicemail message go for?” You'd be interested in a VM? Let me think @ itWilliam Shatner</div><div>And then he responds to me! muahahaa i can die a happy man. Then the responses came in</div><div>@WilliamShatner @CarterCole @sirlarryfleming : That's a pretty awesome idea!david r williams</div><div>@WilliamShatner @CarterCole @sirlarryfleming A custom VM message would be awesome!! I'd get it for my mom's b-day (she's a fan since day 1)Beren Weil</div><div>@WilliamShatner @CarterCole @sirlarryfleming I would donate for this.Paul Miller</div><div>@WilliamShatner @CarterCole @sirlarryfleming who wouldnt want a William Shatner vm? Jerks probably.John Paul Butkovich</div><div>@WilliamShatner @CarterCole @sirlarryfleming I'd pay cash money for a voicemail done as TJ Hooker. Seriously.Geek Mojo</div><div>@WilliamShatner @cartercole @sirlarryfleming I would say at least $500 for a voice message.... But how much for an actual conversation?Rich T</div><div>@WilliamShatner @cartercole @sirlarryfleming I'd pay to have Mr. Shatner give a personalized voicemail to my pops for a special occasion.Ethan Tyer</div><div>@WilliamShatner @cartercole @sirlarryfleming brilliant!Tony Gobroski</div><div>@WilliamShatner @DavidTroop1 but we ENJOY watching you clog up 1.3 M feeds.Paul Miller</div></noscript><div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><a href="http://twitter.com/cartercole" title="Carter Cole on twitter">follow me on twitter in @cartercole</a>
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<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">First President to violate the War Powers Act.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">First President to spend a trillion dollars on 'shovel-ready' jobs when there was no such thing as 'shovel-ready' jobs.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S. , including those with criminal convictions.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.</span></strong><br><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">First President to terminate America 's ability to put a man in space.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke-out on the reasons for their rate increases.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal).</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">First President to fire an inspector general of Ameri-Corps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half years in office, 102 to date.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">First President to hide his medical, educational and travel records.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">First President to go on multiple global “apology tours” and concurrent “insult our friends” tours.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayer.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">First President to repeat the Holy Quran & tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they “volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences”.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that THEY were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last suggestion.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states (Mexico vs Arizona).</span></strong></p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><a href="http://twitter.com/cartercole" title="Carter Cole on twitter">follow me on twitter in @cartercole</a>
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<a href="http://alpha.cartercole.com" title="carter cole's personal blog">This feed is from my personal blog</a></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13689638423710105698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471018107405936449.post-50852458721788805602012-01-14T07:48:00.000-08:002012-01-14T07:48:59.846-08:00Its not a Facebook easter egg... "Your phone has a name" explained.Ok so my wife Jodi tells me that there is some post on Facebook that your phone has a name and if you do some little command and post it the comment will change into a name. The first thing that made me think this wasnt a real phone hack but something Facebook was doing was the @ symbol notation, followed by brackets with two numbers separated by a colon <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/509211/good-primer-for-python-slice-notation">looked like python slice notation</a> so i decided to try it and this is what happened<br />
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In the original instructions they tell you to do this<br />
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<li>You can use any numbers, just use this format @*[684:0]</li>
<li>Don’t forget to remove the * so in reality it will look like: @[684:0]</li>
<li>After posting it should convert to a name!</li>
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<span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;">So after playing with it awhile i found you can put any </span></span></div>
Heres a video some guy did oh how to do it
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So this all seems like some old form of Facebook tagging notation and the star is to stop javascript from popping up the @selector
Some other websites that are also <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.cafemom.com/group/107447/forums/read/15768952/Your_cell_phone_has_a_name">talking about this</a> but it is kinda cool so thats it. Have a nice day! :)
P.S. heres a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Yes-my-cell-phone-has-a-name-Is-there-a-problem/108921799140571">Facebook group</a> somebody made to tell people about it<div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><a href="http://twitter.com/cartercole" title="Carter Cole on twitter">follow me on twitter in @cartercole</a>
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<p><strong>2</strong>. Approximately <a title="57 percent" rel="nofollow" href="http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/15/9461848-dismal-prospects-1-in-2-americans-are-now-poor-or-low-income" target="_blank">57 percent</a> of all children in the United States are living in homes that are either considered to be “low income” or impoverished.</p>
<p><strong>3</strong>. If the number of Americans that “wanted jobs” was the same today as it was back in 2007, the “official” unemployment rate put out by the U.S. government would be up to <a title="11 percent" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/wonkbook-the-real-unemployment-rate-is-11-percent/2011/12/12/gIQAuctPpO_blog.html" target="_blank">11 percent</a>.</p>
<p><strong>4</strong>. The average amount of time that a worker stays unemployed in the United States is now <a title="over 40 weeks" rel="nofollow" href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/UEMPMEAN" target="_blank">over 40 weeks</a>.</p>
<p><strong>5</strong>. One recent survey found that <a title="77 percent" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2011/11/07/7-in-10-blame-economy-for-hiring-freeze" target="_blank">77 percent</a> of all U.S. small businesses do not plan to hire any more workers.</p>
<p><strong>6</strong>. There are fewer payroll jobs in the United States today <a title="than there were back in 2000" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.usnews.com/opinion/mzuckerman/articles/2011/06/20/why-the-jobs-situation-is-worse-than-it-looks" target="_blank">than there were back in 2000</a> even though we have added 30 million extra people to the population since then.</p>
<p><strong>7</strong>. Since December 2007, median household income in the United States has declined by a total of <a title="6.8%" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-09-13/census-household-income/50383882/1" target="_blank">6.8 percent</a> once you account for inflation.</p>
<p><strong>8</strong>. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 16.6 million Americans were self-employed back in December 2006. Today, that number has shrunk <a title="to 14.5 million" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/smallbusiness/story/2011-09-07/Fewer-people-choose-to-be-self-employed/50305432/1" target="_blank">to 14.5 million</a>.</p>
<p><strong>9</strong>. A Gallup poll from earlier this year found that <a title="approximately one out of every five" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/07/06/underemployed-new-reality-american-job-market/" target="_blank">approximately one out of every five</a> Americans that do have a job consider themselves to be underemployed.</p>
<p><strong>10.</strong> According to author Paul Osterman, about <a title="20 percent" rel="nofollow" href="http://money.usnews.com/money/careers/articles/2011/10/19/the-ranks-of-the-underemployed-continue-to-grow" target="_blank">20 percent</a> of all U.S. adults are currently working jobs that pay poverty-level wages.</p>
<p><strong>11</strong>. Back in 1980, <a title="less than 30%" rel="nofollow" href="http://growth.newamerica.net/sites/newamerica.net/files/policydocs/26-04-11%20Middle%20Class%20Under%20Stress.pdf" target="_blank">less than 30 percent</a> of all jobs in the United States were low income jobs. Today, <a title="more than 40%" rel="nofollow" href="http://growth.newamerica.net/sites/newamerica.net/files/policydocs/26-04-11%20Middle%20Class%20Under%20Stress.pdf" target="_blank">more than 40 percent</a> of all jobs in the United States are low income jobs.</p>
<p><strong>12.</strong> Back in 1969, 95 percent of all men between the ages of 25 and 54 had a job. In July, only <a title="81.2 percent" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2011-08-25/obama-seeks-jobs-plan-as-u-s-workingman-status-further-erodes.html" target="_blank">81.2 percent</a> of men in that age group had a job.</p>
<p><strong>13</strong>. One recent survey found that <a title="one out of every three Americans" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.dsnews.com/articles/job-loss-could-put-one-in-three-homeowners-out-of-their-home-2011-09-30" target="_blank">one out of every three Americans</a> would not be able to make a mortgage or rent payment next month if they suddenly lost their current job.</p>
<p><strong>14</strong>. The Federal Reserve recently announced that the total net worth of U.S. households declined by <a title="4.1 percent" rel="nofollow" href="http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/08/news/economy/household_net_worth/index.htm" target="_blank">4.1 percent</a> in the 3rd quarter of 2011 alone.</p>
<p><strong>15</strong>. According to a recent study conducted by the BlackRock Investment Institute, the ratio of household debt to personal income in the United States is now <a title="154 percent" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/story/2011-10-02/cnbc-consumers-economy/50619276/1" target="_blank">154 percent</a>.</p>
<p><strong>16</strong>. As the economy has slowed down, so has the number of marriages. According to a Pew Research Center analysis, only <a title="51 percent" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/married-couples-at-a-record-low/2011/12/13/gIQAnJyYsO_story.html" target="_blank">51 percent</a> of all Americans that are at least 18 years old are currently married. Back in 1960, <a title="72 percent" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/married-couples-at-a-record-low/2011/12/13/gIQAnJyYsO_story.html" target="_blank">72 percent</a> of all U.S. adults were married.</p>
<p><strong>17</strong>. The U.S. Postal Service has lost more than <a title="5 billion dollars" rel="nofollow" href="http://news.yahoo.com/post-office-near-default-losses-mount-5-1b-210808129.html" target="_blank">5 billion dollars</a> over the past year.</p>
<p><strong>18</strong>. In Stockton, California home prices have declined <a title="64 percent" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/most-miserable-cities-america-2011-12#6-stockton-california-15" target="_blank">64 percent</a> from where they were at when the housing market peaked.</p>
<p><strong>19</strong>. Nevada has had the highest foreclosure rate in the nation for <a title="59 months" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/45682960" target="_blank">59 months</a> in a row.</p>
<p><strong>20</strong>. If you can believe it, the median price of a home in Detroit is now <a title="just $6000" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/detroit-is-in-utter-shambles-and-the-state-should-take-it-over-immediately-2011-12" target="_blank">just $6000</a>.</p>
<p><strong>21</strong>. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, <a title="18 percent" rel="nofollow" href="http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/18/real_estate/florida_vacant_homes/index.htm" target="_blank">18 percent</a> of all homes in the state of Florida are sitting vacant. That figure is 63 percent larger than it was just ten years ago.</p>
<p><strong>22</strong>. New home construction in the United States is on pace to set <a title="a brand new all-time record low" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/housing/story/2011-11-03/economy-hits-home-builders/51065938/1?loc=interstitialskip" target="_blank">a brand new all-time record low</a> in 2011.</p>
<p><strong>23</strong>. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/have-we-raised-an-entire-generation-of-young-men-that-do-not-know-how-to-be-men" target="_blank">19 percent</a> of all American men between the ages of 25 and 34 are now living with their parents.</p>
<p><strong>24</strong>. Electricity bills in the United States have risen faster than the overall rate of inflation <a title="for five years in a row" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/story/2011-12-13/electric-bills/51840042/1?loc=interstitialskip" target="_blank">for five years in a row</a>.</p>
<p><strong>25</strong>. According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, health care costs accounted for just 9.5 percent of all personal consumption back in 1980. Today they account for approximately <a title="16.3%" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/america-middle-class-in-decline-2011-4#-10" target="_blank">16.3 percent</a>.</p>
<p><strong>26</strong>. One study found that <a title="approximately 41 percent" rel="nofollow" href="http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/the-royal-wedding-american-idol-dancing-with-the-stars-and-7-other-ways-that-the-american-people-are-being-distracted-from-our-real-problems" target="_blank">approximately 41 percent</a> of all working age Americans either have medical bill problems or are currently paying off medical debt.</p>
<p><strong>27</strong>. If you can believe it, one out of every seven Americans <a title="has at least 10 credit cards" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mybudget360.com/endgame-credit-card-nation-40-year-credit-card-bull-market-over/" target="_blank">has at least 10 credit cards</a>.</p>
<p><strong>28</strong>. The United States spends <a title="more than 4 dollars" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/Press-Release/current_press_release/ft900.pdf" target="_blank">about 4 dollars</a> on goods and services from China for every one dollar that China spends on goods and services from the United States.</p>
<p><strong>29</strong>. It is being projected that the U.S. trade deficit for 2011 will be <a title="558.2 billion dollars" rel="nofollow" href="http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/1005-trade/192857-trade-deficit-narrows-to-lowest-level-this-year" target="_blank">558.2 billion dollars</a>.</p>
<p><strong>30</strong>. The <a title="retirement crisis" rel="nofollow" href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/25-bitter-and-painful-facts-about-the-coming-baby-boomer-retirement-crisis-that-will-blow-your-mind" target="_blank">retirement crisis</a> in the United States just continues to get worse. According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, <a title="46 percent" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ebri.org/pdf/surveys/rcs/2011/FS2_RCS11_Prepare_FINAL1.pdf" target="_blank">46 percent</a> of all American workers have less than $10,000 saved for retirement, and <a title="29 percent" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ebri.org/pdf/surveys/rcs/2011/FS2_RCS11_Prepare_FINAL1.pdf" target="_blank">29 percent</a> of all American workers have less than $1,000 saved for retirement.</p>
<p><strong>31</strong>. Today, <a title="One out of every six" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ncoa.org/press-room/press-release/one-in-six-seniors-lives-in.html" target="_blank">one out of every six</a> elderly Americans lives below the federal poverty line.</p>
<p><strong>32.</strong> According to a study that was just released, CEO pay at America’s biggest companies rose by <a title="36.5%" rel="nofollow" href="http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/15/news/companies/ceo_pay/index.htm?iid=HP_LN" target="_blank">36.5 percent</a> in just one recent 12 month period.</p>
<p><strong>33</strong>. Today, the “<a title="too big to fail" rel="nofollow" href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/archives/too-big-to-fail-10-banks-own-77-percent-of-all-u-s-banking-assets" target="_blank">too big to fail</a>” banks are larger than ever. The total assets of the six largest U.S. banks increased by <a title="39 percent" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2067359/Revealed-The-secret-1-2-TRILLION-bailout-given-banks.html?ito=feeds-newsxml" target="_blank">39 percent</a> between September 30, 2006 and September 30, 2011.</p>
<p><strong>34.</strong> The six heirs of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton have a net worth that is roughly equal to the <a title="bottom 30 percent" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/wal-mart-heirs-have-same-net-worth-as-the-bottom-30-percent-of-americans/2011/12/09/gIQAkg6FiO_blog.html" target="_blank">bottom 30 percent</a> of all Americans combined.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><a href="http://twitter.com/cartercole" title="Carter Cole on twitter">follow me on twitter in @cartercole</a>
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Ive always been a fan of the <a href="http://thereifixedit.failblog.org/">"there I fixed it blog"</a> They have so many funny fixes that people have created some are just too crazy for me to think they are real. I love people's creativity fixing things that bother them so when i was at my friendly local La Madeleine's it made me super happy because I have my own kluge to submit now.<img src="http://www.lamadeleine.com/images/logo.png" style="border: 0px; float: right; padding: 15px;" /> SO without further ado here is the awesome fix I hope makes it onto the blog. I almost didnt catch it but I think it meets the requirements for getting posted<br />
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Toothpicks can fix anything... i wonder where the original plastic pin went... Do you have any cool fixes you have done? Leave a link in the comments<div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><a href="http://twitter.com/cartercole" title="Carter Cole on twitter">follow me on twitter in @cartercole</a>
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A long time ago when I was about 16 I was almost arrested because apparently Im a one man gang in Cypress, TX because I was spray painting over the phone numbers of signs that were around my house. Now that I have a car I stop and pick up as many of the signs as I can. I get that people are just trying to earn a living but they just look so trashy and if I dont go and pick them up on a regular basis then there are 2 then 3 and its just stupid to let them keep putting them up. I just smile to know its 2$ for every sign I pick up</div>
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Its funny some people look like you are crazy, some honk or yell to keep up the good work but only once have I ever gotten a person yelling that I was messing up their business and that their brother was the one who puts out the signs. I tried to explain that they are trash, putting them out is illegal and that I was doing nothing wrong but they called the cops on me anyways. If you put out sign just know that any of the ones I see I tear down so just dont even bother<br />
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<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/City-to-crack-down-on-bandit-signs-2193942.php">Apparently the city is cracking down</a> but I have even seen a city truck driving around picking them up. I think its good and bad, i dont like that they are using tax dollars to pick them up but I also hate them so i dont know if im for the city trucks picking them up or not. I like the community volunteers approach like they<br />
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<div class="cbx" style="background:#accede"><h1 style="color:black">#accede</h1><table class="ts"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="80px" style="padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;color:black">Verb:</td><td valign="top" style="padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px"><table class="ts"><tbody><tr><td><ol style="padding-left:19px"><li style="list-style-type:decimal">Assent or agree to a demand, request, or treaty.</li><li style="list-style-type:decimal">Assume an office or position.</li></ol></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></table></div>
<div class="cbx" style="background:#beaded"><h1 style="color:black">#beaded</h1><div class="std" style="padding-left:40px"><ol><div><li style="list-style:decimal">Decorate or cover with <em>beads</em><div class="std" style="padding-left:20px"><ul><li style="color:black;list-style:none">- a <em>beaded</em> evening bag</li></ul><br></div></li><li style="list-style:decimal">String (<em>beads</em>) together<div class="std" style="padding-left:20px"><ul></ul><br></div></li><li style="list-style:decimal">Cover (a surface) with drops of moisture<div class="std" style="padding-left:20px"><ul><li style="color:black;list-style:none">- his face was <em>beaded</em> with perspiration</li></ul><br></div></li></div></ol></div></div>
<div class="cbx" style="background:#bedded"><h1 style="color:black">#bedded</h1><table class="ts"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="80px" style="padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;color:black">Adjective:</td><td valign="top" style="padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px"><table class="ts"><tbody><tr><td>(of rock) Deposited in layers or strata, esp. in a way specified.</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div>
<div class="cbx" style="background:#decade"><h1 style="color:black">#decade</h1><div class="std" style="padding-left:40px"><ol><div><li style="list-style:decimal">A period of ten years<div class="std" style="padding-left:20px"><ul><li style="color:black;list-style:none">- he taught at the university for nearly a <em>decade</em></li></ul><br></div></li><li style="list-style:decimal">A period of ten years beginning with a year ending in 0<div class="std" style="padding-left:20px"><ul><li style="color:black;list-style:none">- the fourth <em>decade</em> of the nineteenth century</li></ul><br></div></li><li style="list-style:decimal">A set, series, or group of ten, in particular<div class="std" style="padding-left:20px"><ul></ul><br></div></li><li style="list-style:decimal">Each of the five divisions of each chapter of the rosary<div class="std" style="padding-left:20px"><ul></ul><br></div></li></div></ol></div></div>
<div class="cbx" style="background:#deface"><h1 style="color:black">#deface</h1><div class="std" style="padding-left:40px"><ol><div><li style="list-style:decimal">Spoil the surface or appearance of (something), e.g., by drawing or writing on it<div class="std" style="padding-left:20px"><ul><li style="color:black;list-style:none">- he <em>defaced</em> library books</li></ul><br></div></li><li style="list-style:decimal">Mar; disfigure<div class="std" style="padding-left:20px"><ul><li style="color:black;list-style:none">- the canyon's spectacular limestone walls have been <em>defaced</em> by the reservoir</li></ul><br></div></li></div></ol></div></div>
<div class="cbx" style="background:#efface"><h1 style="color:black">#efface</h1><table class="ts"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="80px" style="padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;color:black">Verb:</td><td valign="top" style="padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px"><table class="ts"><tbody><tr><td><ol style="padding-left:19px"><li style="list-style-type:decimal">Erase (a mark) from a surface: "words effaced by frost and rain"; "his anger was effaced when he stepped into the open air".</li><li style="list-style-type:decimal">Make oneself appear insignificant or inconspicuous.</li></ol></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div>
<div class="cbx" style="background:#facade"><h1 style="color:black">#facade</h1><div class="std" style="padding-left:40px"><ol><div><li style="list-style:decimal">The face of a building, esp. the principal front that looks onto a street or open space<div class="std" style="padding-left:20px"><ul></ul><br></div></li><li style="list-style:decimal">An outward appearance that is maintained to conceal a less pleasant or creditable reality<div class="std" style="padding-left:20px"><ul><li style="color:black;list-style:none">- her flawless public <em>facade</em> masked private despair</li></ul><br></div></li></div></ol></div></div>
Do you think the colors remnd you of the words? I think it would br really cool if somebody did a layout with these words... hidden messages in CSS colors would also be something cool you could do. Ive thought about hiding ascii art in the source code before so iono. I also put the definitions of the words so you can have more context when your trying to decide if the colors match their definitions<div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><a href="http://twitter.com/cartercole" title="Carter Cole on twitter">follow me on twitter in @cartercole</a>
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<h1><a href="http://ccole.tk/ChromeKatamari">Get the Katamari Everywhere game</a></h1><br />
heres a quick demo video i threw up on youtubez<br />
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It was totally easy to become registered but each church seems to charge from 8$ to a few hundred. They require you to get credentials to give to the clerks office and have each states information and instructibles on how to preform a marriage <br />
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So <a href="http://SquareUp.com">Squareup.com</a> gives you credit card merchant services on your phone... but the reader can read any magnetic stripe... when you swipe things like drivers licences or gift cards you can read data into the square program and show the last for digits of an id or something, but what else is on there? Thats where all you internet people come in... i need some engineers who are smarter than me to give me some guidance on how to decode the signal the card reader produces. Ive found some of what I think I need here on <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre;"><a href="http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=37&id=6#article">"A Day in the Life of a Flux Reversal"</a> </span> using a free spectrum analyzer app im able to see positive and negative waves as I swipe the card that seem to be alot like the flux lines the guy talks about...<br />
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But I thought my life would be much easier with data so I got a bunch of old cards and swiped them a few times each, recording the output from the square dongle so i can have some samples to decode with some known data<br />
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embedmp3('ttmc2','JCPenny Gift Card','6006492001928534134','http://cartercole.com/dev/squareup/JCPenny-Gift-Card-6006492001928534134.mp3')
embedmp3('ttmc3','HEB Gift Card','6006-49668-81060-07754','http://cartercole.com/dev/squareup/HEB-Gift-Card-6006-49668-81060-07754.mp3')
embedmp3('ttmc4','Dave and Busters','94937573','http://cartercole.com/dev/squareup/Dave-Busters-94937573.mp3')
embedmp3('ttmc5','Carnival Sign Sail','05411183','http://cartercole.com/dev/squareup/Carnival-Sign-Sail-05411183.mp3')
embedmp3('ttmc6','AMC Gift Card','6006491324135697820','http://cartercole.com/dev/squareup/AMC-Gift-Card-6006491324135697820.mp3')
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<ol><li><a href="http://cartercole.com/dev/squareup/Texas-Trust-Mastercard-5105-9400-0109-1438.mp3">Texas-Trust-Mastercard-5105-9400-0109-1438.mp3</a><br />
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</ol>These are all the cards i used and the id numbers I could find<br />
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So if anybody wants to help me build an open source app to decode the data off other cards with the square reader drop me a line im <a href="http://twitter.com/cartercole">@cartercole</a><br />
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Also: based on what ive seen from <a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/Magnetic-stripe-card-spoofer/">this instructable called "Magnetic stripe card spoofer"</a> with just a little tinkering you could play back these recordings into an electromagnet and drive the reader to spoof the data you recorded. I know.. like super cool spy toys :) I now take this time to remind you that neither CarterCole.com or <a style="text-decoration:none;color:#ccc;" href="http://cartercole.com/">Carter</a> Cole condone illegal activity and all information shared here is for curious who are people without malicious intent ( do you think that disclaimer protects me? )<div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><a href="http://twitter.com/cartercole" title="Carter Cole on twitter">follow me on twitter in @cartercole</a>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">oh and almost forgot... heres a screenshot of my emails from mint... the highlighted ones are from accounts that aren't mine and below that is the email about a deposit in a account i dont have after I had canceled my account a day earlier</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<h1><a href="http://g.live.com/1rew3set/en_error?!draug_eciohc">Microsoft Choice Guard </a></h1>So from what i can tell it locks in the search engine and keeps other programs from changing it... now it really does piss me off whenever firefox or chrome start asking to change the default browser but default search engine? i mean cmon, what will it really be used for? keeping bing in its place when someone tries to change to something thats not Bing<br />
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<blockquote style="padding-left:5px;">Microsoft Choice Guard is a small piece of software that's downloaded during the Windows Live installation process to carry out any changes that you choose to make to your browser settings. If you choose to change your default search engine, Choice Guard looks for any programs on your computer that might interfere with this process and works around them to let you change your default search engine. Choice Guard does this to help ensure that choosing your default search engine is as easy as possible.</blockquote>The copy from their help page is above... seems like i cool tool doesnt it? i mean who wouldnt install it? I think its crazy that microsoft would put out such a tool but hey they want to keep that .1% search share they bought from yahoo<div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><a href="http://twitter.com/cartercole" title="Carter Cole on twitter">follow me on twitter in @cartercole</a>
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I also got a nice referral letter<br />
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I am the owner of Kaleidoscope-Studio. We needed a website that would convey to potential clients the full scope of our offerings. We wanted it to be simple to navigate, and easy to update. <br />
I met with <a href="http://cartercole.net/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Carter Cole</a> and explained my vision of what I needed. As an interior designer I thought I knew exactly “how” it would look and work and just needed someone to take my ideas and make them work. Carter did so much more than I would ever have expected. He listened to my ideas and what I liked and didn’t like of other websites I had used, and put all of the ideas together. He made the process very easy. My website is easy to navigate and clearly shows that it was done by a professional. He is very creative and so very technical. He tried to explain the technical details to me, but I have learned to just trust someone when it is obvious they are an expert in their field, and I believe <a href="http://cartercole.com/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Carter</a> is that. <br />
I am very fortunate to have met Carter and to have had him develop the very best website I have seen.<br />
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Judy Buchanan, ASID<br />
KALEIDOSCOPE-STUDIO</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><a href="http://twitter.com/cartercole" title="Carter Cole on twitter">follow me on twitter in @cartercole</a>
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<h1>How to make a lizard trap</h1>so here is the design for the lizard trap... you get a shoebox and cut a hole in the top... the lizards can climb but cant hold onto plastic wrap... you bait them with small crickets or nats and now you have your own little lizard trap<br />
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this is the video where we released the entire box and they all went running and jumping everywhere its like so crazy we were able to catch so many... send your video responses to youtube or your comments below<br />
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<div style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid black;margin:15px;color:black; padding: 100px 25px 60px 25px; text-align: justify;">How Taxes Work . . .<br />
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This is a VERY simple way to understand the tax laws. Read on — it does make you think!!<br />
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Let's put tax cuts in terms everyone can understand. Suppose that every day, ten men go out for dinner. The bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:<br />
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The first four men — the poorest — would pay nothing; the fifth would pay $1, the sixth would pay $3, the seventh $7, the eighth $12, the ninth $18, and the tenth man — the richest — would pay $59.<br />
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That's what they decided to do. The ten men ate dinner in the restaurant every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement — until one day, the owner threw them a curve (in tax language a tax cut).<br />
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"Since you are all such good customers," he said, "I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily meal by $20." So now dinner for the ten only cost $80.00.<br />
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The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes. So the first four men were unaffected. They would still eat for free. But what about the other six — the paying customers? How could they divvy up the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his "fair share?"<br />
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The six men realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would end up being PAID to eat their meal. So the restaurant owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.<br />
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And so the fifth man paid nothing, the sixth pitched in $2, the seventh paid $5, the eighth paid $9, the ninth paid $12, leaving the tenth man with a bill of $52 instead of his earlier $59. Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to eat for free.<br />
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But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings. "I only got a dollar out of the $20," declared the sixth man who pointed to the tenth. "But he got $7!"<br />
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"Yeah, that's right," exclaimed the fifth man, "I only saved a dollar, <nobr>too . . .</nobr> It's unfair that he got seven times more than me!".<br />
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"That's true!" shouted the seventh man, "why should he get $7 back when I got only $2? The wealthy get all the breaks!"<br />
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"Wait a minute," yelled the first four men in unison, "We didn't get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!"<br />
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The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up. The next night he didn't show up for dinner, so the nine sat down and ate without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered, a little late what was very important. They were FIFTY-TWO DOLLARS short of paying the bill! Imagine that!<br />
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And that, boys and girls, journalists and college instructors, is how the tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up at the table anymore.<br />
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Where would that leave the rest? Unfortunately, most taxing authorities anywhere cannot seem to grasp this rather straightforward logic!<br />
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T. Davies (discussed this but didnt write it)<br />
Professor of Accounting & Chair, <br />
Division of Accounting and Business Law <br />
The University of South Dakota <br />
School of Business <br />
414 E. Clark Street <br />
Vermillion, SD 57069 <br />
Phone: 605-677-5230 <br />
Fax: 605-677-5427</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><a href="http://twitter.com/cartercole" title="Carter Cole on twitter">follow me on twitter in @cartercole</a>
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</div><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;padding:70px 15px 40px 15px;border:2px solid black;background:white;color:black !important;">Hello,<br />
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I am so sorry to be getting back to you so late. I am really very glad and confident about your acceptance to help look after my angel. She's is all I have got in the world and I always look for the best for her and right now I believe you are the best candidate.So, no doubt,this will be a very symbiotic relationship between you and me.<br />
You shall be working under a very conducive environment and like I said earlier,you shall have no work to do except to look after her, make sure she takes her meal,make sure she uses her meds, she never over plays, make her laugh and feel warm around you. You shall be working around 5 other workers. John is my chauffeur, he is from Brazil. Debby and Flora are the 2 caretaker for the house, they do all the house cleaning. Marcus is the house Gardner while Mother Angela is the house chef,who prepares the meal for the house. I want you to know that there are 3 cars and 1 SUV in the house to take you people around and John will always answer to you anytime you call on him. I believe this is a perfect working condition for you.<br />
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Please I have attached Aaliyah's picture for you to get familiar with her face and I want you to know that you shall have the opportunity to meet with her soon when she will be coming with her former caregiver and the driver. I guess by then you both will have enough to discuss.<br />
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I want to believe you have been looking forward to the 31st of this month just like I have been looking forward to it and so is my little angel Aaliyah as well.. I will like you to know at this point that one of my accountants just informed me that he has mailed out 2 money order to you in the amount of $780 each and so it will be $1580 in total, which was mailed via UPS courier with the tracking number [1Z82V03X0199112580 ] and which from the last time I checked should have delivered to your address by 10 am your Thursday morning. I believe by 10 to 11 am thursday your time, you must have the check in your possession.<br />
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I am very sorry about our previous agreement to meet Aaliyah. I want you to know that Aaliyah has flown out of the state since Thursday due to her health issues which was such an impromptu one. She needed to meet with a specialist in Antioch, California and even right now as I email you, She is still there but will be back on the morning of the 31st of July..<br />
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Now, I believe one of the virtues of a successful employee is the ability to listen and adhere strictly to instructions which is why I will be giving you a series of instructions this moment which I want you to strictly adhere to.<br />
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In your possession is money order which is the amount of $1580 and it is so because like I told you I need to include money for eventualities that might crop up during the period of your stay with her. I had instructed my accountant to send that amount and to my surprise,I never even knew Aaliyah will be visiting any specialist.<br />
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Now I want you to do a few things. First I will like you to immediately after reading this email, you should run right away to your bank and get the money orders cashed and go to any Money Gram outlet closest to you using the information below;<br />
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Name: PAtricia Inez Singh<br />
Address: 3311 gentry town drive<br />
City: Antioch<br />
State:CA<br />
Zip code: 94509<br />
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You will deduct part of your salary($500) from the $1580, and send $1000 to the specialist because you shall be needing some simple Health Aid kits for Aaliyah which the specialist recommended and already told me about. You need to do this very fast this morning so the kit can be shipped over to your address. You can go through the simple things,read through it and understand easily how to handle it.Immediately you are done doing that this morning I want you to have 1,000 usd sent via Money gram. I want you to make sure you have the 1,000 sent within now and the next 24 hours so that Aaliyah might be quickly discharged and can come home to meet you.. I want you to keep the remainder of the 80usd with you while you come to meet Aaliyah at home. That money should be with you in case any other thing crops up and if eventually nothing happens,you can use that as a payment bonus for yourself.<br />
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I am sure I have not yet communicated our location to you but from your possible guess, I believe you should know it is within a few mile radius from where you are(63 Saint Stephens School Rd, Austin TX). I want you to know that Aaliyah and I live in Austin. I want you to know that I have already arranged with the driver to come pick you from home on that 31st and also get to drop you. Now you need to mail me as well with the convenient place and time when you want the driver to come pick you everyday,whatever place and time you decide will be fully taken down by the driver.He will always be at your service and anytime you need to go out with Aaliyah to play or do anything, he shall always be there to take you people out. I want to believe this is very comfortable for you and will ensure you spend no dime on transportation or anything else..<br />
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Now, I believe you have read carefully what I have instructed you to do. So, go right now and have the check cashed at your bank and send me the details of transfer which should include Sender's full name, receiver's full names, 8 digit confirmation code(Reference Numbers) and also the amount sent. I will because of you come back here online 9pm(GMT) UK time to check for the details of the transfer so I can have it immediately sent over to the specialist's email and then those things can be bought and sent over to you. I also want you to email me all necessary details of transfer for the 1,000 which I believe you know you will be sending to the same person.That I believe I will come back tomorrow morning to check and have emailed to the specialist so Aaliyah can be discharged as quickly as possible.<br />
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Thank you so much for your patience,your time,your anticipated honesty and most especially,the love you have for my angel Aaliyah. I am very grateful and shall never forget.I will be back by 9pm today my time to check my email for the details I require of you.<br />
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Bye and have a great day,<br />
<br />
Cole<br />
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</div>You can see up above that they are pretty convincing... i was hoping they were real but after she checked a few places we found they were fakes, they used watermarks but it was the one for a dollar not the postal money order. The security strip is painted on and off in a dash not woven into the paper but there is some microprinting that looks pretty good...<br />
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My question is when it took her just a few min to find this why are there cops on facebook pretending to be 13yr olds trying to catch kids drinking when there are such bigger better scams to be going after<div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><a href="http://twitter.com/cartercole" title="Carter Cole on twitter">follow me on twitter in @cartercole</a>
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<h2>Original Post</h2>So im not sure if its a beta or twitter has already rolled it out everywhere but it seems like they are now including suggestions in the sidebar. See my screenshots below<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpe7eAsCN-XiOk1VwzUpOqT_sqVz7gLVqgvhVlQRGafYP0FNV_RZaFr9i8P6KH3jkEQaSyo_qhuF6LEVYguyo1AUVLNpeNBssCr0UP6PGmjK79l68mt0Tq_nrGwfzXCBTAnQCgjUpt93LL/s1600/suggestions2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpe7eAsCN-XiOk1VwzUpOqT_sqVz7gLVqgvhVlQRGafYP0FNV_RZaFr9i8P6KH3jkEQaSyo_qhuF6LEVYguyo1AUVLNpeNBssCr0UP6PGmjK79l68mt0Tq_nrGwfzXCBTAnQCgjUpt93LL/s400/suggestions2.JPG" width="321" /></a></div>you can see it has the "followed by" and then names of people you are already following, I guess the ideas is that if multiple friends are following someone then you are likely to find that person interesting aswell... is anyone else seeing this test going on? talk to me in the comments or on <a href="http://cartercole.com/">@cartercole</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><a href="http://twitter.com/cartercole" title="Carter Cole on twitter">follow me on twitter in @cartercole</a>
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Ive had my research assistant (wife) working on mechanical turk for the past few days after she wanted some easy tasks to make money online... I have heard about the system and how it can be used as a great tool for repetitive tasks or data entry. I looked through a few of the HITs and quickly saw there was abuse... people are asked to "clear cookies" before "testing lead form" or "enter real info to test a cred app form". its obvious that these accounts are cheating other affiliate programs but i saw a very interesting one just now. Here is an excerpt from the instructions<br />
<blockquote><b>3.</b> Say, "Hi, I am calling to oppose bill S6873. My New York zip code is 10003. Thank you"</blockquote>They are paying for political opposition to <a href="http://open.nysenate.gov/legislation/api/html/bill/S6873">the bill S6873 in New York</a> which has to do with sub-leasing apartments and affects hotel rentals. You can specify different qualifications (like location) and yet the creator choose not to care about who or where they were from...<br />
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<a href="http://cartercole.com/dev/mechturkpolitcs.html">Heres the copy I made of the job unless it disappears</a> and screenshot of the active job<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikLlTTs0iM7TEQOxCh6u1HzTZPLsDJ568vPAoE5Pir5nzBO7wntv-lF1ndtCVs7R5YDPU8fTxWBm-_EsxDMXBAbyihKIgxqhTd0NgbUlQ1VO-tpe-t8XPh1hylWLtQZxQ5zJ2gJb8hyphenhyphenAhy/s1600/mechturl.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="331" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikLlTTs0iM7TEQOxCh6u1HzTZPLsDJ568vPAoE5Pir5nzBO7wntv-lF1ndtCVs7R5YDPU8fTxWBm-_EsxDMXBAbyihKIgxqhTd0NgbUlQ1VO-tpe-t8XPh1hylWLtQZxQ5zJ2gJb8hyphenhyphenAhy/s640/mechturl.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>Im always surprised when i see these kind of blatant attacks on the internet... and im really wonder if it works or if they have already caught on to the strange volume of calls with the exact same script... reminds me allot of money mules who help the hackers get the money out of people's accounts but most dont care because they are getting a cut themselves<div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><a href="http://twitter.com/cartercole" title="Carter Cole on twitter">follow me on twitter in @cartercole</a>
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var a=new Date(2009,10,12);t=new Date;document.write(Math.ceil((t.getTime()-a.getTime())/864E5)+" days ago i made a prediction... and 211 days later, I was right");
</script></h1>I like playing with security... its fun to break things (of my own or with permission) and its what makes security work. If we never tried to break the design and assumed security then the less moral of us would and they would find our code easy pickings. XSS is one of my personal favorites because they are everywhere, usually easy to find, and can be super nasty (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samy_(XSS)">sammy is my hero</a>) <br />
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So when i heard that Obama was going to make the <a href="http://whitehouse.gov/">WHITEHOUSE.GOV</a> website a Drupal site i thought it was quite dumb... i mean its the whitehouse... you need a friggen CMS? hell waste some money on an old fashion webmaster and have it all flat html (i just think that a defaced homepage for america would totally suck) with the code for the site open source I instantly now know about most of the code that whitehouse.gov runs on and i can do my own pen testing before i even try on the whitehouse.gov domain. I wasnt alone in this ha.ckers.org makes these same exact points... <a href="http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20091025/whitehouse-drupal-and-the-open-source-security-model/#comment-115731">and i commented on it</a><br />
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<h1>flash forward 211 days</h1><br />
what <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/10/drupal_security_changes/">happens across my RSS feed</a>? do my eyes decieve me? zomg its an article describing how Drupal is redefining its policy to clarify <i>it only supports security on <b>STABLE</b> releases</i> <br />
and...<br />
<blockquote>The clarifications are a response to the discovery of a potentially serious XSS hole in the Drupal Context module three weeks after White House developers proudly released their own plug-in based on the buggy module.</blockquote>- from <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/10/drupal_security_changes/">The Register</a><br />
<h1>i hate being right</h1>now i haven't looked at the <b>XSS</b> hole myself yet but they said it was in the <b>administrative console</b> (they say that makes it limited i think that now i can steal the admin auth cookies) even if they caught it in time this is the exact issue i was warning about. am I crazy? what do you think? id love to spark off a good discussion on it :)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><a href="http://twitter.com/cartercole" title="Carter Cole on twitter">follow me on twitter in @cartercole</a>
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This video was freaking awesome and it shows the whole start... but i wanted to skip that so heres some extra... to start the youtube video at a certain place you just need to add <code>&start=58</code> and for autoplay <code>&autoplay=1</code> to make it auto start...<br />
heres a sample of the code below... im really liking <a href="http://www.nbc.com/americas-got-talent/">Americas Got Talent</a> and this is ony one of the super cool acts <br />
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if your really bored you can <a href="http://alpha.cartercole.com/2009/12/im-geek-so-this-way-cool-geek-chart-is.html">go look at my cool share chart and get your own</a> and later fools! lolz :) <h1 style="display:inline;">I rule teh interwebz</h1><div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><a href="http://twitter.com/cartercole" title="Carter Cole on twitter">follow me on twitter in @cartercole</a>
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<h2>Original Post</h2>earlier i <a href="http://alpha.cartercole.com/2010/05/breakdown-of-how-facebook-advertiser.html">wrote a post in which I explained "Facebook divulging your identity to advertisers"</a> and <a href="http://corywatilo.com/a-real-facebook-privacy-issue-email-addresses">again now poor Facebook has another one</a>. This one stems from Google loving Facebook too much... well its kinda like that.They were indexing pages that have no value but have email addresses displayed on them, when you enter your password and it scans your email account address book you choose to have Facebook send them an email on your behalf. now some people may want nothing to do with Facebook and they consider the message spam. So to provide a good experience for these people they give them an opt out link (thanks i really hate those emails) because this is sent to an email address it really should never become public, unless someone intentionally releases it. <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1402384">Here on hacker news</a> a Facebook employee unofficially points out <a href="http://www.facebook.com/o.php?k=afc4a7&u=1018862530&mid=21f667bG3cba9bc2G0G8">one of the pages that was leaking information</a> (they have removed the address now i think its useful to make sure im removing the right address) but this links should have never been found and crawled... how did they find it? because <a href="http://games.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/Living_Greyhawk/message/98175">it was publicly published</a> oh now I get it... Yes Facebook could have done <code><meta name="robots" content="noindex"></code> but like other issue its small... quick fix... and those pages even seem to be gone from index already so again we have a minor data leak caused by user themselves that probably never could have been thought of. we dont just sit around and go oh i know some weirdo has no privacy anyways and will post the link publicly spiders will crawl and then people will be able to pull emails out of the search engines index oh noes! im mean we are nerd but we aren't psychic welcome to the digital world. Stay off the interwebz if you dont like it<br />
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<h2>the infamous</h2><h1>- <a href="http://facebook.com/carter.cole">Carter Cole</a></h1><br />
leave me your comments id love to agree or disagree with you :)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><a href="http://twitter.com/cartercole" title="Carter Cole on twitter">follow me on twitter in @cartercole</a>
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<a href="http://pixton.com/">Created with Pixton</a> it was totally awesome editor i may actually start an ongoing strip after i found it. i want to know what you think so leave me comments!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><a href="http://twitter.com/cartercole" title="Carter Cole on twitter">follow me on twitter in @cartercole</a>
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Lets say your spending thousands of dollars on advertising by doing a PPC campaign and people are clicking those links... and when they hit your server your browser passes the page your asking for (URI) and the HTTP REFERRER which is sent by your browser about where you came from (you cant even trust these they are trivial to spoof) heres the image from the wsj <a href="http://j.mp/dntZi4">http://j.mp/dntZi4</a> you see how it identifies you? its because they dont scrub referrer and it has a <code>ref=profile</code> that means it only tells them when your on your own profile page and click on an add. They probably never thought of it... its in the HTTP protocol that all browsers and websites use and is mostly an afterthought used as a lax security measure.<a href="http://www.facebook.com/alphacarter" target="_TOP" title="CarterCole.com"><img height="247" src="http://badge.facebook.com/badge/114026733056.2244.1906558526.png" style="border: 0px; float: left;margin:4px;" width="120" /></a> If they did they were like well some may abuse it but for the majority its helpful... why? because they dont care about you as a person they are running aggregate stats to help improve user experience and help provide you with better product. like seriously is there any proof that someone has had their name found and gotten a sales call from it? im all for privacy and control of my online life but this isn't a huge risk... close the hole and move on. i just hope all the referrer data from Facebook doesn't end completely and im not able to track visits to my blog from my Facebook fan page... (isn't that what it was for track community and drive traffic)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><a href="http://twitter.com/cartercole" title="Carter Cole on twitter">follow me on twitter in @cartercole</a>
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