petersum

@petersum (4522)

United States

Joined myLot 14 years ago

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The internet has developed the human holiday habits.

petersum @petersum (4522) • United States 25 Dec 12

Merry Christmas all! Are you spending your time over sleeping, being lazy and not working? Yes, most of us do that on holidays. But today the Internet is doing the same! Most of my regular money earning sites are either down or...

christmas

internet

malfunction

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Who would you NOT follow on twitter?

petersum @petersum (4522) • United States 31 Jul 12

I have noticed that twitter has some regular "customers" in their "Who to follow" box. Now many are going to be fake celebrities, has beens, and wannabe's. So when I saw Bill Gates there... Well I can't imagine anyone I would...

celebrities

followers

twitter

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Fanslave is a genuine paying site.

petersum @petersum (4522) • United States 27 Jul 12

You probably all know that I hate Facebook and Twitter but if you can make some money... Fanslave is a site that pays you to "like" or "follow" people. Now here on mylot, and all over the web, there have been many questions...

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2 people

Mouse action - seeing or feeling!

petersum @petersum (4522) • United States 23 Jul 12

I'm facing a problem with my mouse just now. The cable is probably going to break soon if it hasn't already. Every so often, the mouse direction reverses - up becomes down, left becomes right, etc. I don't know how that...

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Again

petersum @petersum (4522) • United States 12 Jul 12

unable to post content. please modify your text to only include letters, numbers, and standard punctuation. Again unable to post content. please modify your text to only include letters, numbers, and standard...

mylot as usual

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Mylot going down for the weekend?

petersum @petersum (4522) • United States 28 Jun 12

Well, the signs are all here to see. Unable to post sometimes. Icons showing - not showing - showing again. Pages not fully loading. Or showing a blank white page. Getting stuck waiting for the advertisements. Long, long waits...

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Linus Torvalds shares Millennium Technology Prize

petersum @petersum (4522) • United States 13 Jun 12

Just want to send my personal congratulations too! Story http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18423502 We wouldn't be here without you. Linux users of the world must be so happy.

linus torvalds

linux

millennium technology prize

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Mylot confirms Greece has left Europe to join USA.

petersum @petersum (4522) • United States 31 May 12

Yes, it's true - photo proof attached, taken directly from the result of an AdChoices top banner link. Attiki is an administrative region of Greece that includes the capital, Athens. You probably already know that...

adchoices fake ad

false advertising

mylot fake ad

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Does paypal know something the politicians don't?

petersum @petersum (4522) • United States 8 May 12

I was just reading the new paypal user agreement. Couldn't help noticing that there are three Europes now! Yes, Northern Europe, Europe 1 and Europe 2. Coming just after Sunday's elections in France and Greece, along with the...

eu breakup

eurozone

paypal

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UK to censor the Internet

petersum @petersum (4522) • United States 30 Apr 12

Here's the story http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17894176 So the question is, is this just the beginning? Or is it another case of going for the only pirate that the politicians know the name of? Afterall, there are...

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Old newbies???

petersum @petersum (4522) • United States 2 Oct 11

What is going on? Today I have noticed several people with one or two thousand next to their names asking typical newbie questions. One has supposedly been here five years but doesn't understand that payments are updated once a...

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gmx email - good or bad?

petersum @petersum (4522) • United States 28 Sep 11

I am fed up with not getting email through Yahoo. Not even a mylot notification for five days! Enough - end the damn thing! So help me now - what is gmx.com like? Are they reliable? Do you receive all your email?

yahoo

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What happens if Paypal gives you trouble?

petersum @petersum (4522) • United States 19 Sep 11

Those who read my discussions know that my paypal account got hacked and the account was "limited". That means money could not be transferred in or out! My mylot payment never made it there, and now the balance has been...

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Internet loses a sports betting site.

petersum @petersum (4522) • United States 17 Sep 11

It's sad but centsports.com has gone. This used to be a great site where you could bet on your favorite sports events WITHOUT using any of your own money. It has joined with freesportsbet which is a disaster of a site! It is so...

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My paypal was hacked!

petersum @petersum (4522) • United States 15 Sep 11

Oh, what a week! Everything has gone wrong and now my paypal account was hacked. Now it is limited, so I have no idea if I received the mylot payment or not! I expect that I will have to wait a week or so to find...

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Can't find anything - literally!

petersum @petersum (4522) • United States 30 Aug 11

Mylot search doesn't seem to be working but I didn't expect this result. See photo.

mylot

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New Internet vocabulary.

petersum @petersum (4522) • United States 30 Aug 11

The Internet has introduced many new words into our vocabulary. Most are technical terms, but many are somewhat unpleasant, derogatory terms. Here is one of the most hated terms ever found on mylot! How would you feel if...

cafemom

internet

terminology

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Would you risk your money on a hurricane?

petersum @petersum (4522) • United States 25 Aug 11

With the hurricane approaching the USA, I was looking for news about it when I discovered "catastrophe bonds". Intrigued, I did a search and read a little about them. They are yet another investment gamble, but these...

Lost without a spellchecker!

petersum @petersum (4522) • United States 21 Aug 11

I don't know what went wrong but somehow my browser lost it's spellchecker add-on. So for two days, I have been posting God knows what sort of comments! You kind of get used to seeing that red squiggly line and without it,...

browser

firefox

spellchecker

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Hat fashion changes again.

petersum @petersum (4522) • United States 14 Jun 11

This news item caught my eye today. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110613/pl_afp/usmilitaryuniform The US Army is no longer wearing the beret. It got me thinking about all the silly headgear that is worm by military personnel...

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