Re: [Discuss] Amusing turn of phrase

2012-08-20 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 08/20/2012 01:22 AM, David Kramer wrote: > On 08/19/2012 09:23 PM, Rich Pieri wrote: >> A friend of mine groused about OnLive's layoff meeting and about the >> trustworthiness of cloud providers. To which I responded: >> >>> Client-server computing, aka thin-client computing: a computing model

[Discuss] Ruby on Rails / sysadmin side job

2012-08-20 Thread Daniel C.
Hey gang, a friend of mine is looking for someone to help him out as he learns Ruby on Rails + some essential system administration tasks. His name is Peter Scheyer. Here's the information he gave me, copied and pasted: - I want to have my own craigslist duplicate up and running, hosted, and

[Discuss] Google wants images of my passport, driver's license, bank statement, etc.

2012-08-20 Thread blu
Farewell google. What else can I say? Seriously. I tried to purchase something from the Google Play store, in my android tablet today, and I keep getting an error that doesn't say much of anything. "Your order could not be processed. Please try again." So I tried a different credit card, I

Re: [Discuss] Amusing turn of phrase

2012-08-20 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 01:22 -0400, David Kramer wrote: > The original concept touted as "cloud computing" (the concept wasn't > new, just the name) was there would be ubiquitous, commoditized services > that would run data processing jobs on a scalable number of cores/boxes, > and if the vendor pi

Re: [Discuss] Google wants images of my passport, driver's license, bank statement, etc.

2012-08-20 Thread Rich Pieri
PayPal tried to pull something like this on me a while back. They wanted the ABA and account number for my checking account to "validate" my credit card. I told them to take a hike and closed out my account. My employer gets these numbers for direct deposit. And that's it. Last time I used my Goog