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Did a three-day cruise in the Baltic sea with my girlfriend for free after applying social engineering to a Swedish-only rewards program.
I love this stuff :)
Sold instructions on ebay about how to beat a little known tax law [it's now plugged]. A friend went to work for the tax man and in training they were told about me and how it's so important to not let these tricks get out, as it could cost the country lots of money. I promptly stopped as I didn't realize I was on their radar! Reverse engineered an algorithm from a huge international company who kept it under lock an…
Aren't those little known tax laws usually easy for them to give you a ton of crap about, disregard and have you go through courts to actually get the benefit?
Sold instructions on ebay about how to beat a little known tax law [it's now plugged]. A friend went to work for the tax man and in training they were told about me and how it's so important to not let these tricks get out, as it could cost the country lots of money. I promptly stopped as I didn't realize I was on their radar! Reverse engineered an algorithm from a huge international company who kept it under lock an…
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It depends on the occasion, but yes, bonus if you appear to work there. My favorite place to go is the women's bathroom. They always have soap, paper towels and usually something like hair gel or other amenities. Men's bathrooms have nothing , plus women are cool about it.
We have one on campus with a couch.
When I was in 6th grade ('94) I scanned articles from our encyclopedias onto our 386 and then used OCR software to make it usable as a class research paper. You can imagine what happened the following year when I got dial up. _________________________________________ I also had a computer hardware class in high school that the teacher would often leave for extended periods of time. The other students and I get enough…
I started saving all of my questions for him until these pass-by's. I started giving him so much more stuff, that he began seeing me coming and would jokingly say "Oh, piss off!"
I later heard of another colleague who would answer an additional job request with the question "Okay, what DON'T you want me to do?"
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Isn't roulette a losing game? Or did you have some optimal betting strategy?
Roulette can be beaten by a shoe computer. Basically you tap your foot each time the ball passes a certain number. The computer uses the time between taps to compute the velocity of the ball, which is used to predict where it will stop. Then you bet on a quadrant of the wheel by the predicted stop. This was first done by people from MIT I believe.
http://www.amazon.com/Eudaemonic-Pie-Thomas-Bass/dp/05951423...
Recently I ran across another book about the same group, "The Predictors: How a Band of Maverick Physicists Used Chaos Theory to Trade Their Way to a Fortune on Wall Street"
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The UK and Spain are in the EU. EU citizens can freely move between member states ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Market_(European_Union... ), so your girlfriend can legally live in Spain for as long as she wishes.
Indeed. That's actually how we managed to rent an apartment, since she was legally allowed to live there. I, however, was the stereotypical undocumented alien, living in the country illegally, not learning the language or integrating with the culture, stealing jobs from the local economy, sneaking across the border into the land of opportunity.
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And this, boys and girls, is why we have randomized algorithms.
Are you under the impression that a random key fits a random lock?
Then one year I had a proposal rejected on the grounds that what I was proposing was impossible to do on the budget I had allocated. That's when I decided to quit and do something else.