matiu

It's just a model in my brain; it's probably wrong, so please be kind with corrections :)

As a fund owner, you know the magic formula: If your fund customers win, you win, if they loose, they loose.

It's a good position to be in.

1. Gather info from whois DB, google search, site spidering, going to your house and looking through your trash.

2. Ring you up - Hello I'm Joe from the tax department/credit card company/bank we need to confirm your address .. give your address .. could I please confirm you are the credit card holder, I just need the last 4 digits

3. Ring your friends, family and business contacts - use smooth talking to gather as much info as possible.

4. Ring up Amazon - oh yes I am mister XXX, I forgot my password, please can you reset it. If they don't I'll try to guess information, and glean any info out of the replies.

5. Ring up your email provider and do the same

6. Keep on ringing about 8 hours apart to make sure I get different teams, so it's fresh each time, until I had enough info to get access to the account

7. Make sure to delete all backups

8. Deface to my hearts content - change all the passwords, blah blah

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This is the info I'd try and gather:

* Name - probably from whois

* DOB - probably from public records search - or ringing friends

* Phone - probably from your trash or mailbox

* Last four credit card digits - probably will get from your trash, or tricking you on the phone

* Date of last payment - Probably from tricking Amazon

* Password bits - pet's name, girfriend/wife/child names and ages, keylogger in an email I sent you

Taskwarrior is open in as many ways as it can be:

    It is free and open source, using the MIT license
    It uses human-readable text files for storage. It imports and exports JSON, so your data is never held captive
    There is DOM access and a Hook script API
    There are many available free and open extension scripts
    There is Vit, a curses-based UI
    There is FreeCinc, a free online sync service
    There is Inthe.AM, a free online sync service, web UI and iOS client
    There is Mirakel, and Android syncing client app
    There is BugWarrior, so you can import your bug issues from a dozen different bug systems

Command line, so easy to integrate into other systems.

If you finish a non-important task, it yells at you and says, dude, you had more important tasks, do them first.

Also auto-orders them.

I had some brilliant ideas, (and they still are), but after doing a business forecast on them, they're not good for business. I'm guessing you may be in the same boat.

To make your brilliant idea work, you need a business head and luck.

Good luck.

Concentrate on one thing and get it done. Break it down into chunks. Write them in a todo.txt. Get one chunk done and finished and committed before moving on to the next one.

For chunk size; I think a chunk is gonna take me 1-5 hours, and it usually ends up taking 0-5 days.

I think MS's thinking is a bit ahead of its time, and possibly a bit too Americanized. USA and a lot of other countries have cheap, reliablish Internet. The onliny model will be OK for them.

But there are still a lot of places that have XBox's that have expensive + useless Internet. Like where I live.

I'm moving from XBox 360 to PS4 because, as it is on the 360, I get a "Can't connect to XBox live" message about once an hour. If I went to XBox4, I'm assuming it'd be more annoying.

I bought the computer/console and the software; I expect it to work for me, not to police me, not to try to advertise to me, just do what I paid for.

When I was there, I made a flyer: "Computer Whiz-kid Seeks Work" .. like a news paper headline. Did some bullet points:

* Website design/fixing * Desktop Publishing * Data entry * Virus Removal * Computer Speedup

then some blurb .. I'm 22 and really good with computers. Give me a call if I can help you out with anything.

I distributed 100 fliers in a trading estate and a shopping mall, and got 3 job offers. One turned sour and the guy tried to sue me, one was a one off, and the last one got me a job converting .eps and .ai files for a sign writing plotter machine.

This company had associations with gangs and a drug using boss, who sometimes slapped me on the back of the head and called me a fing idot. However that job set me up for my next job and following career.

At that time, I was 13k in debt, and had no degrees. To get off the street, I bought a car for $150 to live in. The Methodist city mission was very helpful to me, giving me free, or $2 meals once a day. Also the Hari Krishna restaurant had good cheap food.

From the car, I moved in to a friend's part-under-the-house where the supports and dirt is, and lived rent free in exchange for doing chores.

That's when I managed to get that job controlling a sign writing plotter. Also I had to go through 6 months of being sued and had a bit of a breakdown, but it's all good now.

At that time I was 20/21. Now I am 38.

I hope it works out. Just keep sowing seeds, and soon enough some will start to sprout. I think the best place to get work and help is the larger cities.