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Re: “I have toyota corola”

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Post by Peroni »

ffjffsfr wrote: post #122
Peroni wrote: post #18

I used to run a tech job board in the UK called Hacker Jobs. I used to get two or three emails a week from folk (almost always outside of the UK) asking me to hack into Facebook and gmail accounts. The best thing was that the job board was very obviously a normal tech job board yet these people had to dig pretty deep into the site to find my contact email.

That was really useful site, I think I found some job via this couple of years ago. Is it no longer in existence? Why?

Thanks! It was fun and it seemed to help a few people but unfortunately after a bit of a fall-out with the dude that I ran it with, I stepped away from it and he doesn't seem to be doing anything with it at anymore.

Re: “I have toyota corola”

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Post by cmdrfred »

eric_the_read wrote: post #136
cmdrfred wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How'd that work over a 32k modem?

32k? Loooxury! We had to bang magnetic rocks together fast enough in order to induce a current on the phone line and we only got 1200 baud and WE LIKED IT. Seriously, 32k in the days of shareware? I think the fastest modem I ever saw (in that era, anyway) was 19.2k, and almost nobody had those. Pretty sure I went from 19.2 straight to ADSL.

My mistake 32k was the first I'd used and I downloaded a great deal of shareware at that time. I didn't realise it was dead by then.

Re: “I have toyota corola”

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Post by InitialLastName »

jaspervdmeer wrote: post #62
forgettableuser wrote: post #23

As somebody who has written to companies about bugs in their products (and almost always ignored), I would really appreciate a response even if it was some form letter thing to the effect of "I just make a small component that happens to be used in your car, kind of like the people who make the screws in your car. Please contact your car manufacturer directly." I personally just like knowing somebody read my letter i…

Yeah you would, but you're on Hacker News and not stupid, like 99.999999999% of users are. To them a reply and it doesn't matter what's in the reply as they're not reading it anyway, means they have somebody to vent to. And if Daniel doesn't solve it. T-mobile is a bad company. DO NOT ever understimate the stupidity of people. No reply is best reply in cases like this!

So, like 7% of a single person isn't stupid? You might want to check the significant figures on that statistic.

Re: “I have toyota corola”

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Post by [deleted] »

ghaff wrote: post #137
problems wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even if you want to publish a phone number, you can get a voip number for under $1/mo from many providers these days and redirect it as needed, block numbers, send to voicemail, etc. Complete control over it and complete separation. It may have made sense at one point but today it seems crazy.

I assume you're raking in downvotes because the context was pretty clearly why someone would have at some point in the past published a personal phone number long before the services you describe were available. Clearly, most people wouldn't do so today.

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Re: “I have toyota corola”

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Post by ghaff »

eric_the_read wrote: post #136
cmdrfred wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How'd that work over a 32k modem?

32k? Loooxury! We had to bang magnetic rocks together fast enough in order to induce a current on the phone line and we only got 1200 baud and WE LIKED IT. Seriously, 32k in the days of shareware? I think the fastest modem I ever saw (in that era, anyway) was 19.2k, and almost nobody had those. Pretty sure I went from 19.2 straight to ADSL.

>Seriously, 32k in the days of shareware?

Yeah, but very latterly. Modems topped out at about 56K (although, in my experience, they rarely connected at that speed). That's the fastest I had before getting broadband in the late 90s.

Before that I had 9600 (maybe something else in between), although as I recall there were competing "standards" in the 9600 space.

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Post by zachlatta »

Peroni wrote: post #18

I used to run a tech job board in the UK called Hacker Jobs. I used to get two or three emails a week from folk (almost always outside of the UK) asking me to hack into Facebook and gmail accounts. The best thing was that the job board was very obviously a normal tech job board yet these people had to dig pretty deep into the site to find my contact email.

Same deal. I work on a nonprofit called Hack Club that helps high schoolers start after-school coding clubs. Literally, the first thing you see when you go to https://hackclub.com is "We help high schoolers start awesome after-school coding clubs" and I've received at least a few hundred emails asking me to hack into Facebook and Gmail accounts.

Re: “I have toyota corola”

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Post by dom0 »

mfukar wrote: post #126
problems wrote: post #93

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Why do people have a publicly listed personal phone number though?

Legislative requirements, in most places. In Greece my phone number was unlisted. In Germany, my carrier notified me it was automatically placed on the .

You totally can have unlisted phone numbers in Germany.

Re: “I have toyota corola”

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Post by pjc50 »

cesarbs wrote: post #125
willhslade wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Knuth is a one man shop. Torvalds is leading the biggest open source project in the world, and Jobs was leading one of America's largest corporations by market cap. Leading is different than writing.

Being a leader does not justify being an asshole.

These days, it seems to be a requirement for getting elected.

Re: “I have toyota corola”

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Post by atomical »

Off topic, but what's the deal behind the bluetooth audio lag? Does it apply to calls as well? I've experienced it with music. Is this an Android problem or a problem that could be fixed by the automakers?
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