I read the title of the post and thought that advertisers would pay YOU to show YOU ads. That might be acceptable to me, receiving a payment for every ad I have to see.

Ron Jeremy does not approve.

That cool one which stops you at random intervals and makes you reexamine your life.

'What, like with a cloth or something?"

I have an account for my student loan and got the website operator to correct their mistake of blocking users' passwords from being pasted. Short story: copy/paste worked, then they killed it, I asked them nicely and with a good rationale to change it back, and they eventually did.

I had found their accounting methods to be...not necessarily straightforward or well documented...so I decided to log in to their site every single day and download a PDF summary of the loan principle and interest balances. That way, I at least have a record over time of what they've done. Once I've collected enough data, I intend to go back and get a full understanding of how they're accounting for everything. Easy as pie, copy and paste my username/email address and password, click download, save a dated copy of the report and be done for the day.

Anyways, one day I found that I was unable to paste, so I chalked it up to a bug. A few days went by and I finally contacted their support team notifying them of the bug. They responded that their developers said that “By allowing users to paste a password into Manage My Account, the password is not being subjected to the edits in place to ensure that the password meets security requirements. Although it does not rule out all attacks, it does help to prevent automated attacks.” I found this to not be a satisfactory explanation, so I politely informed them in a detailed manner that passwords meeting security requirements had nothing to do whatsoever with the process of logging in and that their change had made for a very unpleasant user experience. I didn't hear anything back for a couple of weeks, but then they responded saying that they would make the change back to the original functionality within a couple of months...and they did!

Facial analysis studies could show how to detect lies, but it could also instruct on how to evade detection. If you know which eye movements, twitches, etc. are indicators of lying, you can practice avoiding those things while lying. Conversely, peppering in those types of indicators during obvious truths could cause false positives and totally throw off the reliability of knowing whether someone is lying.

Speaking of ads, why in the higgidy heck and I seeing full page splash ads on the home page?!

Hey, look at an AC flying and dropping bullshit... Look, this is just secondhand information I got from Facebook from someone I know who works for Disney as a DBA. Could they be lying? Maybe, but I trust them and the information sounds reasonable enough. Could I be lying? Sure, but my instincts tell me I'm not.

So...which company was it, AC?

...whom I'm friends with, they say that of the 250 notified, only about 50-60 left the company because most were able to stay in the same field/department. The reason for the staff change is for a large system replacement being provided by an Indian software company. The people who left were maintaining very old systems that needed replacement...we're talking green screens here. Now, I'm not saying I agree with the concept of the hard push for increasing H1-B employees in the US, but there may be more to the story than what was presented in the article.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obi...

You had me right up until "irregardless"...