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i got this size chart from the north face website |
| im trying to buy a north face jacket like a thin light weight one how can i find out what size i am ? >.> because my friend says size are diff compared to reg jackets |
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I'm 14. I have no modeling classes or anything, but would like to start. When I do, how can I become a runway model for any of the following
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To get signed, you don't need any classes or experience. You just need to be tall enough, have measurements of 34-24-24 plus or minus an inch, long legs, a great walk, and have an incredibly photogenic face. You start by sending in a headshot and full body shot to the agencies listed above and they calll you if they think you have the right look
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I have a north-facing balcony(10th floor if that's important) and we get absolutely NO direct sunlight. (The building like a few meters to our right blocks all the sun we could have… grr) How can I calculate how much sun I'll *maybe* get in Spring? |
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It goes down about an inch below my waist bone (hip bone?), but when I see other people wear it, it goes down past the crotch area. I don't know if my jacket is too small or is it supposed to be worn a size bigger? Do you think it's ok for me to just keep the jacket I got? (size Med). I'm 5'4 1/2.
My silence must have appeared somewhat noisy to him, as Oliver (not his real name) picked up hisiPhone and began to explain:
“What’s a calorie app?” I said, dumbly.
“I just couldn’t do it any more. All the things I really wanted to do, I couldn’t. Because the machines always took priority. The machines always had to be looked after. Without the back end systems, nothing at Apple could have happened.”
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Unsure as to what he was evaluating–my beauty out of 100, perhaps?–I turned toward him very slowly. “So you trust your iPhone to tell you precisely when to stop?” I asked. “So what happened?” I asked, becoming increasingly fascinated by Oliver’s openness. Chris Matyszczyk is an award-winning creative director who advises major corporations on content creation and marketing. He brings an irreverent, sarcastic, and sometimes ironic voice to the tech world. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET.
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“The best feeling I’ve ever had in my life,” he said.
“Oh, yeah,” he said. “I was one of them for 25 years. In fact, I hadn’t been anywhere near a computer for a year until I got this iPhone.”
As we said our good-byes I asked Oliver again whether he really needed those iPhone apps to tell him how much to eat and drink.
“So you were at the mercy of the machines?” I wondered.
“So you let these apps tell you what to do and how to live?” I asked, feeling a weird frown forming above my shades. “Don’t you realize that half of this techy stuff was designed by people who barely see the light of day, adore only numbers and secretly want you to be a little more like them?”
“You see, I’m running an app on my iPhone that tells me how much I can drink before I get into mycar. And the lady behind the bar has poured you 8 ounces, not 6.”
“I’m trying to find a life beyond the one I used to have,” said Oliver. “I’m traveling, seeing things, having new experiences, learning to play the guitar. I’ve got a great new business idea, too.”
“So what are you doing now?” I asked.
“I love metal,” he said. “And so for my song, I chose Sabbath’s ‘War Pigs’.”
“Your drink is an 8. Normally they pour you a 6,” he said.
As he thought about it, he told me that he had gone to a music school which, at the end of the course, gets its students to form a band and gets them to play live at a San Francisco venue.
“Er, excuse me?” I muttered, squinting at the man’s long, straggly hair and rather kind-looking face.
“It’s an app that tells me exactly how much I should eat every day,” he replied. “But it’s a bit of a problem to be honest, because when it tells me I’m 300 calories under my limit, I then order a dessert, even though I don’t actually feel like eating a dessert.”
How Apple can mess with your life
I had just been poured a drink at a bar Saturday night, when the man to my left tapped me on the shoulder.
“That’s an 8,” he said.
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Oliver said he was heading up north because he’d never really been there.
“Yeah. I loved them. But I just couldn’t take it any more. If I’d stayed another 5 years, I would never have had to work again. But I couldn’t do it. So one day I just walked,” he said, a curiously guilty joy in his eyes.
“Oh, yeah. I also run a calorie app,” said Oliver, a little too enthusiastically.
“How did it go?” I asked, three ounces in my hand.
I grabbed at my now 6 ounces of pinot noir a little too hastily as I listened to him explain: “I worked at Apple for 25 years. Huge machines. Back end stuff. Loved working with those machines. Loved being able to tell them what to do.”
Still sober, at least according to his iPhone app, he said: “Information is fun, isn’t it? But I guess I’m traveling to see what else is fun in this world.”
Rusin, whose company also sells ID protection services, likens the process of ID monitoring to having a smoke detector: “You should have a smoke detector in your house.” So the goal isn’t necessarily to stop ID fraud, but rather to manage it.
Getting to this level of access hasn’t been easy, Rusin said. Carders are tremendously paranoid. Often, just to gain access to the forums, you have to demonstrate your chops by providing up to five active credit card account numbers. It’s the equivalent of gang or mafia initiation.
While scrolling through posts in an online underground criminal forum on his laptop, Rosin explained that since “every American keeps some money in their savings account,” unlike when stealing credit cards, debit cards grant thieves immediate access to cash. Next in demand are usernames and passwords because “most people use the same password on the sites they visit.”
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Rusin says that once a criminal has your Social Security number, it’s possible to find the rest of that personal information from various sources via Google. “Typically, they’re garnished from phishes but also from hacks. It’s everything I need to become you. So your identity in the underground is worth about 20 bucks.” You can hear more of my interview with Tom Rusin in this week’s Security Bites podcast. The next most common use, according to Rusin, is new-account creation. This is a slower process, and it often involves establishing utility accounts. Here, the goal is to actually become someone else so that if it ever gets to court, a jury would have a tough time determining the difference between your transactions and another’s. In addition to having antivirus software and a firewall to protect our digital information on our desktops, it looks as if we now need ID protection for our real-world information as well. New-account creation requires that a carder have a Social Security number, birth date, and mother’s maiden name, at least. Rusin explained that a “full” profile will contain a name, address, SSN, date of birth, and driver’s license number. Scrolling through the forum, he fingered one of the entries on the screen and said, “this guy’s selling U.S. fulls for $20.” As CNET’s resident security expert, Robert Vamosi has been interviewed on the BBC, CNN, MSNBC, and other outlets to share his knowledge about the latest online threats and to offer advice on personal and corporate security. Listen to his podcast at securitybites.cnet.com or e-mail Robert with your questions and comments.
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Unfortunately, personal information is going to flow, admits Rusin. He cites high-profile data breaches such as the ones affecting ChoicePoint and the parent company of TJ Maxx.
“Carders” are the people who buy, sell, and trade online the credit card data stolen from phishing sites or from large data breaches at retail stores. Affinion is one of the largest identity protection companies in the world, with offices in more than a dozen countries. Over the years, it has provided a wealth of information to the U.S. Secret Service and the FBI. A few weeks ago, Affinion identified .Mac users who found themselves victims of a phishing scam.
That’s an example of what’s known in the business as an “account takeover,” the most common use of personal information, in which thieves start using your active account without your knowledge. The effect is immediate, and the losses can be large.
Carders once used to peddle their wares on forums as “novs” for novelties, as though they were only providing fake accounts or fake personal details for fun. What Rusin showed me on his laptop were bold, even boastful, claims. For example, today they’re not just selling card information online.
In 2007, FaceTime Communications’ Chris Boyd and Wayne Porter gave a standing room-only talk at the RSA Conference in San Francisco on a botnet they’d traced back to the Q8 Army sites.
There is a predictable pattern. Often, the purchasing individual will first run a $1 transaction through to a charity–say, the American Red Cross. Once that transaction is authenticated, a flood of illegal purchases cascade in until the card account is shut down.
Rusin says Affinion has been establishing its carder credentials since 1998 or so. The company maintains several credit cards, accounts that they use to test their own software as well as that of others in spotting customer’s data among the carder forums. For example, they once fed an Affinion credit card account to a carder, then watched at the bank’s end of things.
Threaded among the expected offers in the forum were those for proxy servers and bullet-proof servers (i.e. servers that are unlikely to ever be shut down, located in parts of the world where the law often doesn’t reach). These are used in conjunction with phishing kits (packages that help you create your own fake Bank of America page), which are also for sale.
Terrorists, not just organized criminals, are interested in stealing and using your credit card history. That’s one of the surprising trends identified by Rusin and documented in a Department of Justice white paper (PDF) that cites the increasing involvement of terrorist networks, starting as far back as the 2002 bombing in Bali.
How 'carders' trade your stolen personal info
Debit cards and PINs are hot subjects on the criminal underground forums these days, Tom Rusin said on a recent visit to CNET. Rusin is president of North American operations at Affinion Group, a company that monitors the criminal underground for several thousand banking institutions by lurking in carder chat rooms.
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Going into the holiday season, many retailers warned they might be hurt by both the tepid economy and the Sept. 11 attacks. Research firms were more optimistic. In line with Jupiter’s estimates Thursday, Gartner researchers had predicted $11.86 billion in sales in North America this holiday season and more than $25 billion worldwide. Hot: Online window shopping. Not: Buying |
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With holiday shipping deadlines looming, a record number of people–52.4 million–browsed online stores last week, up 50 percent from the same period last year, according to a report from Jupiter Media Metrix.
Perks such as free shipping and in-store pickup of goods purchased online have helped draw people to the Internet, according to the report issued Thursday. Electronics retailer Circuit City said its in-store pickup option is more popular than ever, with nearly half its online customers walking into a store to pick up their merchandise. Last year, e-commerce holiday sales hit $9.1 billion, according to several research firms. “I shopped online last year, probably more than this year,” said Tarik Ono of San Francisco, who said she frequently shops on Amazon.com. “I’m buying less presents this year.” Aryeh Sheinbein in New York is buying more gifts this year at the online outlets of traditional retailers such as Old Navy, Gap and Eddie Bauer, rather than at online-only stores. “It adds an element of convenience for sure; you can go back to the store if there’s a problem.” Consumer concern over returning gifts, an American holiday ritual, may be one hurdle facing some online retailers, according to the report. Forty-one percent of online shoppers cited difficulty with returning products as a reason they are reluctant to buy online. Plus, many retailers are offering better deals offline this year, and there are fewer deep holiday discounts than in years past. Gartner analyst Adam Sarner says neither the absolute level of Internet sales nor the growth rate tells the whole story, but that this year e-commerce became a mainstream retail channel. see commentary The shopping rush, which traditionally kicks off the Friday after Thanksgiving, is nearing a close. One of the biggest online retailers, Amazon.com, warned customers that Friday is the last day that goods sent by standard shipping will arrive in time for Christmas, and that after that there will be extra charges to get goods delivered by Dec. 25. The overall economic malaise is also playing a role in a general downturn in spending. Although online sales are up overall from last year at this time, the rate of growth is leveling off. Online holiday retail and travel sales will reach $11.9 billion this season, up 11 percent from last year, the report said. But in 2000 it was up 54 percent from the year before, and up 125 percent in 1999. The Jupiter estimate for this year is in line with figures from Nielsen/NetRatings, indicating a 10 percent increase in online sales last month.
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ISPs “are going to turn around and pass those on to consumers,” he said.
“You can’t get certified by a state (public utility) commission” to provide service in that state if you aren’t providing comprehensive phone service, he said.
Some backers of the House bill–including sponsor House Telecom subcommittee chairman Billy Tauzin, R-La.–argue that some competitive carriers aren’t interested in providing phone service, but instead have set themselves up almost solely to terminate traffic to ISPs and collect fees from Bell companies.
The bill being voted on in the House Telecom subcommittee would eliminate that charge, on the belief that some local phone companies have gone into business more to collect these fees than to provide phone service.
Tauke estimated these payments will exceed $2 billion this year, “and if history is any guide, they will double next year.” These expenses make it more difficult for incumbents, or Bells, to invest in new services for consumers, he said.
“We’re being paranoid,” Windhausen said. “That’s what we’re paid to do.”
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The Baby Bell then has to pay a fee to that regional phone company to connect the call, part of a method called “reciprocal compensation”–one of the results of telecommunications deregulation. With Congress ending for the year in less than a month, it would seem the House bill would have little chance of final passage, although ALTS and its allies–trade associations U.S. ISP Association, CompTel and the Information Technology Association of America–know it could be added as an amendment to other legislation. Bell Atlantic executive vice president Tom Tauke testified before the House Telecom subcommittee this summer that the rates Bells have to pay “actually reduces (competitive) companies’ incentives to compete in the local exchange business” by allowing them to rely on termination payments. He also said that if the situation is not corrected, those rates “could result in per-minute charges being imposed on Internet use.” House vote could change Internet rates |
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WASHINGTON–Internet surfers could face rate increases as high as 35 percent if a House bill being considered today becomes law, though proponents say the legislation could end up reducing Net access and phone rates.
When consumers dial up their Internet service providers to surf the Web, that connection requires a complex series of communications “handshakes.” First, a customer’s local phone company–typically a Baby Bell like SBC Communications, for example–connects the call placed by a computer user’s modem to what is typically a small regional phone company that has a relationship with the ISP. Windhausen said that with the exception of one company in North Carolina that was quickly shut down by state regulators, that isn’t happening. If these rates were eliminated, ISP rates “would increase 35 percent,” John Windhausen, president of the Association for Local Telecommunications Services (ALTS), said in an interview. “We incur costs of carrying Internet calls,” he said, and if Bells were no longer obligated to pay when passing off those calls, rates that ALTS members charge to ISPs would be increased. Windhausen said one ISP recently said it would be forced to raise its monthly access rates to $21 from $15 if current legislation becomes law. The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., sent that ruling back to the commission, however, arguing the FCC hadn’t explained itself properly. Opponents of the federal legislation have urged Congress to wait for the FCC to complete its review. Uncertainty surrounds these rates. The Federal Communications Commission last year ruled that Net traffic doesn’t stop at the ISPs’ systems but goes all over the Web, making it interstate traffic and not necessarily subject to compensation by the Baby Bells. Baby Bells say the rates they have to pay are too high for a simple transfer of a call from one carrier to another. They argue that eliminating the compensation to competitive carriers could lower phone bills. “The Bell companies set those rates,” Windhausen said. “If they’re too high, they set them too high” several years ago, after the passage of the Telecom Act. He contends competitive carriers were quicker to sign up ISPs as customers, and now the Bells regret having put forward such a high compensation rate, when they’re the ones paying it rather than receiving it. Ilmg House panel OKs global rules for U.S. Net firMarch 9th, 2010All search engine providers would be required to give the U.S. State Department’s Office of Global Internet Freedom a detailed breakdown of how their search results have been restricted or censored in such countries. All Web content hosts would have to supply a list of URLs that have been removed or blocked there. See more CNET content tagged: Smith proposed the bill just days after a daylong congressional hearing at which politicians lashed out at representatives from Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and Cisco Systems for compliance with China’s state-sponsored censorship regime. “The growth of the Internet and other information technologies can be a force for democratic change if the information is not subject to political censorship,” Smith, a New Jersey Republican, said in a statement Thursday. The original version of Smith’s bill, for instance, would have barred search engine companies from agreeing to remove “protected filter terms” from search results in order to serve the interests of restrictive governments. That content, to be determined by the Office of Global Internet Freedom, would have included “key words, terms and phrases relating to human rights, democracy, religious free exercise and peaceful political dissent.” Add a Comment (Log in or register) (4 Comments)
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House panel OKs global rules for U.S. Net firms
The Global Online Freedom Act, introduced in February by Rep. Christopher Smith, passed by a unanimous voice vote in the U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee that focuses on Africa, global human rights and international operations.
Yahoo declined to reveal whether it supported the bill. Spokeswoman Mary Osako said in a statement, “We look forward to continuing to work with the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Global Internet Freedom, Congress and our industry peers to develop reasonable measures and policies that will promote Internet freedom around the world.”
Although China has taken center stage, the bill says the rules would also apply to dealings with Belarus, Cuba, Ethiopia, Iran, Laos, North Korea, Tunisia and Vietnam–along with any other country on which the U.S. government decides to bestow an “Internet-restricting” designation.
The human rights group Reporters Without Borders, which has been pressuring Yahoo on its alleged Chinese cooperation, applauded the bill’s approval, though spokeswoman Lucie Morillon said it could have gone even further.
Google spokesman John Murchinson said the search giant hadn’t yet reviewed the approved bill but believes “that our approach in China advances our mission of making all the world’s information universally accessible and useful.” Cisco representatives were not immediately available for comment.
Microsoft’s managing director of federal government affairs, Jack Krumholz, called the Global Online Freedom Act’s approach “unproductive.” He said in a statement Thursday that the bill “could provoke greater restrictions, or even the withdrawal of Internet services in China, which would leave the Chinese people with even less ability to access information and communicate with others.”
The concerns among politicians flared up after reports that, under pressure from the Chinese government, Microsoft had deleted a journalist’s blog, Yahoo had turned over information leading to the conviction of at least one Chinese journalist, and Google was offering a restricted search service there. Politicians also accused Cisco’s hardware of aiding in filtering out content, although company representatives explained that the same features are available on all such devices they sell worldwide.
Some of those companies have said they have no choice but to comply with the laws in all of the countries where they do business.
Internet service providers could also face fines of up to $2 million per offense and imprisonment for blocking access to any U.S. government-sponsored Web site or content, such as Voice of America, in the blacklisted countries.
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Strict new rules Despite that apparent compromise, Morillon said, “we believe it’s going to help make the Internet freer and help protect the privacy of users in repressive countries,” she said. Ravy Honnold Free-Solos Half Dome_167March 8th, 2010Some of Alex’s previous wild solo ascents include The Moonlight Buttress in Zion National Park this past spring, and Astroman and The Rostrum in a single day in 2007. Comparing Half Dome to Moonlight Buttress, Honnold told Alpinist, “It’s an awesome route…it’s bigger and more involved. And just doing the almost two-hour hike up a hill looking at the huge looming wall is a little intimidating. It’s rad.” His ascent is rad, but also more than a little risky…just don’t try this at home, kids! Honnold had previously climbed the route five times, including once all-free two days before his solo ascent. On the solo day, he scrambled up to the base of the wall and began climbing just after 8 in the morning. He carried no rope, harness, or gear, wearing only shoes and carrying chalk, a few energy bars, and a small bottle of water in his pocket. He stood on the summit before noon…not bad for a morning’s work. No comments yet. Leave a Comment
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