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To: Ramius
Better yet... get on your boss's computer and open a stock quote streaming applet, and then send it to run minimized in the background so that he/she can't tell it is there. Let it run for a couple of weeks. [sigh. sometimes I just hate myself...]

Oh, that is just so tempting! Actually, that's what I got in trouble for the last time. I'd opened the streaming quotes on Scottrade and then when I went to our intranet home page, the java applet was still running somehow in the background, even though I'd closed the streaming quotes window. I was asked later if the 300+ minutes for that week might have been accurate. :o

It helps to know that they might be just assuming the amount of time spent on each webpage and then extrapolating a total from the number of refreshes (if I'm understanding what you said correctly). If that's the case, then I can work with that. I'll check with my buddy and see. In that case, all I have to do is insist that their reported time is incorrect, because sometimes I just load a page long enough to see if I have any new email or messages. I don't even have to explain the last part, just knowing how they're calculating it gives me enough info to insist the report is incorrect. Sounds like they don't even have a way to prove otherwise.

11,257 posted on 03/02/2004 7:12:03 PM PST by Penny1 (Oscar needs a Best Ensemble Acting Category.If they'd had one,LOTR would have been 12 for 12-JSiegel)
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To: Penny1
Those people are so just *crying* to be hacked in a fun a entertaining way.

It would serve them right. Something fun, yet mostly harmless. Use lots of color and art. Maybe a main page redirect to the Bush/Cheney 2004 campaign. :-)

Not that I would do such a thing. That would be wrong, and possibly illegal. I would never consider such a thing.

11,268 posted on 03/02/2004 7:25:01 PM PST by Ramius
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