On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 05:42:20AM -0800, Tom wrote: > Let me tell you a story about a job I had one time: I worked for a guy > (in his basement -- don't ask) who bought your personal credit card data > and other publicly available information. He would pay about $10,000 or > $15,000 for lists of ~100,000-200,000 people's data. My job was to > datamine it under criteria like: Give me all the people who make > between $50,000-$80,000 /yr, own a boat, live within 15 miles of certain > area, and used their Visa more than 10 times on the boat within the last > 6 months. We'd rank order the data, apply the filter, and maybe get > 10,000 good names, which he would sell for about $140,000 to a home > alarm company, who would then call you during dinner. [1] So you've aided telemarketers and worked for Microsoft? Is your last name Darkness, middle name Prince of? -- gram
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