I just created an account for myself. Apparently men can't see what the competition is like (males interested in women can't search for other males). I picked a few people (friends) who haven't used the site, and they aren't present. I don't see anything on the site that shows how old my account is, but it only has the very basic information that I just provided, so I'd say they hadn't previously auto-created my account from Facebook.

When I "created" mine just now, I did the lost password search using the same email address that I use with Facebook. Apparently they let you create an account that way, if you didn't have one already.

I did notice that they have a one-click account creation, so she could have clicked it in the past to log in, and forgot about it.

So much for a perfectly crappy conspiracy.

The worst debt collection practice I was hammered with, called, didn't state for who they were,, did not leave any options to complete the call from them, but only gave a call back number for Jeromy to call Bob. I'm not Jeremy, so I let it run for a couple of months to see if it would quit. It didn't. Collectors continued to call even after my new number was not so new at 8 years.

I pity anyone who does not speak English as they wouldn't understand the message, there was no option to respond to the call, such as press any key, and it would continue until you did call in. They only quit after I called and didn't ask for Bob, but asked for their legal department. I think I shook them up a bit. Anyway the calls quit from them.

I asked for the legal department. I then told them they can not legally disclose any debt info to third parties. Then told them of the issue with the robocall. I gave them the number they robocalled and the times. They feigned ignorance and stated it must have been forwarded to my number from another number. I then asked for the number they were using to call Jeremy and gave time stamps. They then claimed they could not release Jeremy's contact info to 3rd parties. LOL.. Nice snow job. Anyway the calls quit with threat of $50 for each additional call per the telemarketing and fair collection practices laws.

A Google search of the number revealed the law firm in Chicago IL, their address, office phone numbers, staff names, etc. Nobody there is named Bob or Robert.

Jeromy Taylor, Please update your contact info with your creditors. I'm tired of taking your calls.

And I got issued your number. Your bill collector still calls on occasion Mr Taylor. Pay your bill!

I'd rather have the $9,230.77 to $10,769.23 a year spent per student. A nice little $200,000 nest egg when I was 16 wouldn't have been too bad.

The way to make them was shown at Defcon years ago, and there is plenty of information online on how to make a femtocell.

You could make one and use it, but unless you're only intercepting your own phone, you'll likely get some unwelcome attention from law enforcement.

I was going to say something like that, but not as well. I've been in interviews where someone is asked about their experience.

"What experience do you have?"

"I spent 6 years at [university] earning my Masters degree."

"Ok, what *work* experience do you have?"

"I worked for 6 years earning my Masters degree."

"Lets try this again. Have you ever been employed and paid for work in this field?"

"We had projects at [university] where we worked on various projects to earn my Masters degree."

I'm not saying that the original post is that kind of person. He says he worked in IT infrastructure for years. I would think he would have been exposed to the development side, at least a little bit.

Unfortunately, with the questions asked, I suspect it may be more like my example above. If he had the necessary experience, he'd already know, as the owner of whatever new company he's starting, the lead dev is going to provide the best answers to those questions. The lead dev is going to have their own opinions and methods that everyone on their team is going to work with. Unless he's going to do the CEO/CTO/CIO/lead dev rolls all at the same time, which isn't going to work as well as he'd hope.

I'm surprised he got it to run that fast. AM radio in the US broadcasts from about .5 to 1.5 Mhz. Without a ground plane and shielding, there is a lot of coupling between wires. I bet he can't listen to any distant AM radio stations in the same room with that running.

Good job getting a breadboard computer to clock over 1MHZ.

There's no good reason for trying to make your own OBDII reader. There's a good bit to it. Get an ELM327 compatible reader. I strongly recommend the bluetooth versions, not the serial/USB. You end up with some funny problems, like if there is a difference in ground potential between the computer reading it and the OBDII bus, you can fry the reader.

My bluetooth OBDII reader has been great. I plug it in, or have the driver plug it in, and then I can read data from the passenger seat while we're driving. No wires required, except possibly to charge my laptop, tablet, or phone. They only cost a few bucks on eBay, and despite what you may see some brand name purists say, the generic bluetooth ones work fine.

I lost two name brand serial readers from "mysterious" circumstances (i.e., ground potential difference), at over $30/ea. I've only replaced my cheap bluetooth OBDII reader when I misplaced it. Since I spent about $7 on it, that didn't hurt as much. If it fell under a friend's car seat, I won't care if they keep it.

If you read up on the ELM327 chip , you'll see that it uses 2, 3, or 4 pins from the OBD connector for data. The bluetooth ones also use 2 more pins for power. (block diagram, page 1)

That also gives you all the information you need, if you want to code your own interface (like you would with an Arduino or Raspberry Pi.

Just to answer everything including the original post...
His remote start, door lock, etc, may be possible on some CAN bus vehicles. That's not an OBDII thing. It may be best to do those functions with good old fashion relays. I just finished decomputerizing a 1999 truck (EFI to carb conversion). It's amazing how many miles of wires are no longer necessary, and I still have all the gauges working. :) Actually, they work better than before, which is interesting. Gauges that were jumpy for no good reason are now stable and accurate. I guess there were more than mechanical issues.

What the liberals want is;
30% Chinese
30% Japanese
30% Korean
30% Hispanic
30% Black
30% Vietnamese
What ever us keft over % Male
50% Female
50% Gay
30% Mexican
30% Guatamalan
and 30% Native American.

All cry inequality when less than 50%

Liberals have some other shortcommings in STEM besides math.

I had a job offer in Seattle that I turned down due to the cost of relocation, traffic, housing, etc. If I had taken the job, my spouse would have moved too and looked for work. She would not have looked for an engineering job, so yes, there would be pay inequality, but she would not need to deal with 2nd housing, etc. I suepect some of the pay inequality is spouses of engineers working at Microsoft or Boeing working the two income family positions to make the mortguage instead of full time homemaker. These positions are rarely the same income bracket as the primary breadwinner who can have >40 hours work and are not the primary family member taking the kids to soccer practice.

If MS drops support for all the Polycom Lync devices including conference speakerphones and desk phones, Bluetooth Lync headsets, etc, Corporate will be a hard sell.

Best of Lync and Skype should not obsolete all the business telcom hardware products in use by corporate users. That would be dropping the most useful parts.

I don't wear headphones all the time. I don't have disruptive speakers, and I can still hear my phone ring, and answer it, even while the PC is in a locked screensaver, in hibernation, or even rebooting.. Not all my job is screen time.

Do you ever reboot? Lock the screen and step out? Read a paper list, drawing, manual, or report?

Missing calls while not watching the screen or have another app on top is unacceptable.

Lync can be used with communications headsets. UN-checking the option to use the sound device only for communications permits using the headset for Lync as well as for all other PC sound playback.

The best option in my opinion is to use a desk phone for Lync calls. Polycom makes some nice ones as well as Snom. Alternate firmware can change the SIP phone into an OCS VOIP phone able to integrate with your Lync account. Search for Snom OCS firmware for more info.
Desk phone, speaker phone, or headset is your choice.

The main reason peers block Comcast by deafult is the number of vunerable XP machines that get hijacked to send spam. Dropping mail from home users has almost no false positives. Mail if permitted by peers would increase the number of botnet attempts to send bulk spam. The fact the mail is blocked makes compromised Comcast user's machines much less valuable.

Even home configured business accounts on static IP addresses do not have a super good IT department to prevent compromised machines becoming part of a spam botnet, which is a good reason to not accept mail from home IP blocks.

We recently put servers up on a new circuit. One of them was a mail server. It immediately refused by Yahoo for the same reasons. I tried everything conceivable to fix it, and nothing helped. That IP wasn't listed anywhere as being blocked, but it was.

We needed a second block of IPs, because we simply ran out of space in the first rather quickly (we were migrating a lot of servers). I switched the primary IP on the machine from the first block to the second, and suddenly those refused emails went through fine.

So, it may be a matter of changing your IPs. Another solution may be to put up a smart host somewhere, and relay all your outgoing mail through it. Doing that, when a provider decides to block it, you can just switch to another smart host rather painlessly.

In sendmail, the .mc file would have this line:

define(`SMART_HOST', `relay.example.com')

In sendmail.conf (if you like to do it manually"

# "Smart" relay host (may be null)

DS relay.example.com

On your relay server, you'd just need to make sure that the IP of your real mail server is authorized to relay through the relay server.

The point is after the education market, business is mostly non Apple. The exceptions are media production and related fields. Mobile media (tablets) should belong to Apple, but Android at lower price points has higher unit sales.

Google Chrome is poised to do to MS PC's what Android did to Apple Tablets and phones.