Posts made by Marian

that's so surreal

You are mad.....

@beginner said:

Another interesting case...
Apple sues Polish online grocery store over 'A.pl' domain
http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/09/10/apple-reportedly-suing-polish-online-supermarket-trademarking-name-a-pl/

Apple is run buy a bunch dumbheads.....They will soon sue people in markets who sell apples and start to register the name of the apple fruit in every language.

Simlab Composer can export to STL, I can help you do that if you want.

@richard said:

I had to post this image that I came across the other day on Apple's own efforts of copying the designs of BRAUN. Makes you really question Apple's level or so called "morals!".

So like I said, improvement of designs and function without copying something outright is called progress and that picture shows it clearly. It's obvious that Apple is an extremely hypocritical and overzelous company. They should either reform or die. If they had been a more "normal" company I'm pretty sure they could have been even more successful then they are now, but they just polarize their potential customer base and lose out.

Good link. It appears you can't trust anything with your card anymore.

I found out on my own too, but ammounts taken each time were small and even if I had activated the setting to have sms messages sent to my phone for certain transactions I probably would have kept the default setting of approximately 45 euros so I still wouldn't have noticed.

Like you said, here they don't take your card out of sight, but there are plenty of other methods to swipe your card's info. I saw one on TV some time ago that with a modified mobile phone and some stuff attached to it you could scan a card by just keeping it near someones wallet pocket. It would be very hard to notice something like that.

@escapeartist said:

Glad to hear it all worked out and you were able to put a stop to the damages quickly!

Yeah, me too....I would be in a real pickle if I had lost most of the money.

@loco said:

Thanks for the explanation..good workflow...the hob has sprung into life now..very effective

You're welcome.

@hellnbak said:

Nice flames, Marian!

(I got it down to 150kb if that makes it more useable)

Cool, any little big helps. Some people might have a lot of cookers to lit up and the number of the flames pile up fast.

Lyall I turned on the cooker for you. You can now make me a nice stew or something.

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@solo said:

Paypal is brilliant, I got a Paypal debit card works everywhere, stores, supermarket, gas stations, online, where ever you need it.

Apparently Paypal cards are availabe only in the US.

@mitcorb Yeah I can imagine that it would cause hyesteria and their image would be ruined, but that is very narrow minded. That scenario is better than complete ruin when people find out that they knew what happened and didn't do anything and let them get robbed.

@gaieus said:

Whenever I am about to pay online, I always check if the transaction goes through a secure server (https instead of a simple http). I do not know what happened to you but this is also important. I would scan my computer for any possible malware (like keyloggers), too.

I check that too, https also turns green the left part of the link so it's easily noticed, but I can't remeber if there was such a thing when I did that amazon transaction. I did scan my pc here and it's free of viruses and spyware but I used the computer at my parents' house to make that transaction so...I'll do a scan when I get back there. They don't make payments online so I won't worry them for nothing.

@mike lucey said:

Bastards! Hope you manage to get the funds back. PalPay, while it may have a load of faults and folks complaining about it, it does offer good security.

Thanks, I hope so too.
I use paypal too, but not all sites accept it and you definitely can't use it to pay for food and other stuff like that in the real world. Plus it's not very practical to withdraw frequently small sums from paypal to your card because it takes a few days to process and you also pay for each transaction.

It would be nice if you could have a paypal card attached to your account and pay normally but have to log into paypal to authorise the transactions personally...or some other security feature. In any case if all online payments would requiere a digipass code cases like these wouldn't happen.

I initially just modeled a rounded cone, then copied it 2 times and scaled them to fit inside the first one. I then made them all a group and used the Radial bending tool from the Fredo Scale plug-in http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=17948&hilit=free+scale to bend the whole thing up. I then just copied them.

Yup it happened to me and don't even know how exactly.

Last night I was checking online my bank account when I realised that I appeared to have less money than I knew I should have. I checked the tranzactions to see if I made some mistake when SHOCKER...I saw lots of tranzactions that I didn't recognize or know about done 2 to 3 times daily for the past week to BWIN (BAW International Ltd. GI Gibraltar). I panicked, I forgot about the number on the card, I just picked up my card and ran to the nearest ATM and withdrew all the money and then came back and closed my card online and this morning I went to the bank and told them.

They managed to leech off me 150 euros, the bastards, luckily I noticed relatively fast and they didn't get close to leeching the whole ammount.

Still I can't imagine how they got my card details. They didn't have the PIN number otherwise I would be bankrupt right now, so they either got them from hacking the Amazon database, I funded something on kickstarter through it about 2 months ago, or somebody cloned my card while I was in town last week, but the more I think about it the less plausible that seems to be, also Bitdefender says I have no viruses.

The thing that leads me to suspect that it was through Amazon is that when I made that payment it all was too simple and fast unlike someother times I made online purchases which were made through other companies that had secure payment webpages.

Since the card had a security chip and that never left my side and whoever made the tranzactions didn't have my PIN I hope the bank can recover the money.

Be careful and check your accounts frequently. Anyone doing payments through Amazon should check to see any irregularities. It might take some time before the thieves start using your card so be on the lookout.

...frigging thieves!

Some flames. They're probably a bit highpoly to be of use, but I just wanted to experiment.

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There are no completely original works. Everything is an improvement on something else or a repurposing of something old to do something new.

@cuttingedge said:

As a designer, you know when you are being copied.

No, you don't. There have plenty of cases when people have stumbled upon similar ideas, but only one profited or overreacted. If things as complex like the telephone, light bulbs and computers had different people at different times and even at the same time coming up with similar ideas then for simple or more common things like logos or food it will happen a lot more frequently. The point is that we don't live in a vacuum, inventions, innovations, ideas, art is a reinterpretation of things we have seen or experienced wether from nature or man made objects. So copyright and patent laws should reflect this and not treat the author, inventor, artist etc, like some divine genius that can conjur things out of thin air.

@cuttingedge said:

Always, always, I will side with the original.. copycats always try to do things better because they have the original as the base.

Of course I don't side with counterfeiters that just copy a design or work to pass it off as something that it isn't in order to make a profit. But taking something, applying the best features up to that point and making improvements on it is called progress.
Progress should be more important than the profits of any one company or individual. I'm not saying that the innovators shouldn't be protected for a limited time but to stifle competition and progress for more than a years or 2 is too much.

@gaieus said:

No, you do not know my wife.

I'm not sure if I want to know her either.

@crazy eyes said:

hank you Marian for your helpful contribution!

You're very welcome. I love being helpful, it feels wonderful.

@gaieus said:

No, Mike is doing an excellent job with collecting relevant advertisers.

Indeed a big for him.
@gaieus said:

(and now that I am married already, I have no problem with that of course)

Well nothing is stopping you accessing that site anyway

I forsee some lawsuits... from

ooops...we're not allowed to even show that.

SCF has some of the best targeted advertsing I've seen. It's a 3d related site that adevertises 3d related things. No penis enhacers , no guaranteed 50000$ dollars prizes, etc...

The advertising here is pretty discreet and useful , but I do agree about that last on line advert and I'm glad it's taken care of.

I personally don't bother with adblock software. If a site has excesive stupid adverts than I'll rarely visit it anyway. I really hate those adverts that just pop up in front of an article you want to read and have to wait till you can close them and the X button is all over the place.