The foil creates a Faraday cage. It'll do the job. It doesn't have to be foil though, there are lots of things you can use. Nowadays, you can get wallets with Faraday cages built in, and you can get Faraday bags to put mobile phones in when you're with people who can't be trusted to turn them off, or worse, answer them while they're already in the middle of a conversation with someone else.

No. You get four guaranteed ads every day (compared to one for a standard member), and more chances at Clixgrid, but you do not get more surveys, offers, or tasks.

I have a recurring dream about trying to get a flight from Rombald's Moor to Sofia, and back before the last train from Ilkley, without anyone finding out. I get a plane from the airport in Rombald's Moor which very definitely isn't a thing in a real life. If it was a thing in real life, I'd protest it heavily, and might even take up eco-terrorism to prevent it.

When I land, I get in a taxi. The taxi is playing an Azis song I hate. I hate Azis generally, but it's always the same specific song. It takes me to a flat in Opalchenska. I've never been to Opalchenska in real life. I only know it exists because the Metro stops there. I stand outside for a bit, then get another taxi to Sofia airport, which does exist, and make it just in time for the plane, which is scheduled to land a few minutes before the last train from Ilkley to where I live. The plane is delayed, and I miss the train.

I've never dreamt as far as discovering whether or not this did make anyone find out, or who I would be trying to hide it from.

You only lose the 2% for the Activity Bonus part. You can still get the 12% for the daily bonus, and the 2% for the addon.

It's never 0%

There are three components to the bonus.

The daily checklist bonus is 5% every day for free members, or 12% every day for upgraded members.

The Clixaddon bonus is 1% every day for free members, or 2% every day for upgraded members.

The activity bonus (for completing the checklist bonus every day) is 0% until the third day, after which it's 1% for free members, or 2% for upgraded members.

What is the Daily Checklist Bonus?

Quote:Up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-b-a-select-start

Ahem, that's up up down down left right left right b a.

Select and Start aren't part of the code, everyone just thinks they are because Contra.

Quote:Don't ever doubt me 'cos I will @#$%&! cut you

-- Daisy Marie

There's no such thing as the cloud, just other people's computers.

Yes.

Quote:Naah, I don't like kids. It's not just that they're smelly and noisy but unfortunately you have to have them in the same room as you, otherwise they'll hurt themselves.

-- Shane MacGowan

You've got no idea how hard it is to find a Shane MacGowan quote that can be shared on a family forum. I have 89 entries for him, and only two of them can be shared.

What you're missing is that he's being a dick - the edited post you can see now is absolutely nothing like the thread he originally posted.

Moral of the story - full quote anything he ever says if you're going to warrant him with an answer at all.

That's one interpretation. Another interpretation is one localised group of ISIS decimated, along with anyone else who happens to be within range, and a propped up dictator at the start of the second cold war.

Logitech B110 and the generic "We make IT happens" (sic - it's printed on the mice in Engrish) 6 button adjustable DPI gaming mice are both good quality plastic, and reasonably robust compontents for under a fiver - about $8USD - and better than you get from name brands for four or five times as much.

Clean the cat hair from the LED. If that doesn't work, reinstall the driver. If that doesn't work, you've probably got a dodgy wire somewhere.

Quote:I don't know if that user is still around the Web, but the least I can do is return the favor back -- the same way he/she did for me

Which is exactly why we'll spend hours helping some people, and thirty seconds helping others.

Quote:What we are, unapologetically, is hostile to people who seem to be unwilling to think or to do their own homework before asking questions. People like that are time sinks — they take without giving back, and they waste time we could have spent on another question more interesting and another person more worthy of an answer. We call people like this “losers”

How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

Quote:Koreans have recently brought out their own vegetarian version of an instant noodle snack. It's called Not Poodle.

-- Jack Dee

Does that work?

If that works, you definitely shouldn't use Rusty Razorblade. The huge surplus of developers mean I definitely don't need any more of them, and you definitely shouldn't donate your time to the project.

When you take a survey, there is a random string that appears to be a hash. It's actually a coded message, encrypted with the Vigenère autokey cipher. The key is a random section of the hash in the survey URLs. You need to find this key, and decode the message. Once you have this message, you must select the appropriate boxes in the clixgrid, where column 1 = a, column 2 = b, etc and column 27 = 0, column 28 = 1, etc to spell out the word in your encrypted string.

That's day one.

On day two, you get a different encrypted string, this time using the Playfair cipher. The key is a random eight letter sequence from your username. If you have less than eight characters in your username, the name is padded by repetitions of "xyzzy". Once you have your key, decrypt the string, and once again, select the appropriate boxes in clixgrid where column 1 = a, etc.

The tricky part is discovering which day is day one, and which day is day two. This is based on the moon cycle of Jupiter. Jupiter has 67 moons. Like ours, from the surface, on any given day, you can see a proportion of any given moon from 0 (no moon) to 100% (full moon). On days when the number of full moons is divisible by 4, you should undertake day one actions. On days when the number of full moons is divisible by 6, you should take day two actions. On days when the number of full moons is divisible by four and six, you must undertake both days actions.

On days when the number of moons is divisible by four, six and also happens to be a prime number, the daily winnings on the Clixgrid are multiplied by a thousand, giving a maximum daily prize of $10,000

Quote:Another program to avoid is Foxit PDF Reader -- I can't remember the version when it started bundling OpenCandy

Foxit used to come up on the El Reg forums all the time. There was a huge kerfuffle over OpenCandy for a while, then much rejoicing later when it was removed - followed by much face palming when it was discovered they were sending telemetry back to China even without the added malware.

So, before anyone says "it's fine, they don't do that anymore", it's true, they don't - they spy on you directly these days, which is even worse.

Can you get Okular on Windows? Okular is awesome, and not even slightly evil.