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- Author: ikelandia Posted: 2006-12-26 Description of Blog : |
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- RANT RANT RANT RANT RANT RANT Birthday forum :hopeless: :hopeless: /me is wondering why it exist,nobody cares anyway.. |
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- I?m probably going to be tied up with Christmas activities until next week, but I did find time to read another hundred pages in Stern?s This Time while I was at Leavenworth, so I thought I?d post my favorite poem from this section of the book. I? |
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- The Rise Of Bullshit In The Black Community [YouTube, NSFW] Author/humorist Sabrina Lamb tackles "the epidemic of bullshit sweeping the black community" in a new book. |
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- I heard somewhere that you could insert your own music into the game. Is this true? and if it is, how can i do it ~Roxx edit: and i forgot to add that i only have the base game but will be getting University and Nightlife soon. |
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- As of this moment there are 511 messages in the scammy spam archive, and rising. Thanks to all the sleazy would-be con-artists who made this possible. Note: the latest scammy spams (as well as the latest news postings like this one) are now listed on the home page for your convenience. More: |
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- A 28-year-old congressional aide tried to hire hackers to change his college grades. Didn't work out so well for him. : OK here it is: I need an adjustment to my college GPA. |
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- Congressman completely, utterly duped by multiple Nigerian scammers, to the tune of $3 million — not all of it his: Prosecutors say Mezvinsky used his connections to the Clintons and his son's social relationship with Chelsea to persuade people to give him money to participate in the scams. Mezvinsky traveled to Nigeria numerous times and ultimately lost more than $3 million as a victim of the scammers. Prosecutors say Mezvinsky fell particularly hard for what is known as the "black money" scam. |
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- The Joy Of Tech web-comic sums up the Nigerian scam in four panels. More: http://joyoftech. com/joyoftech/joyimages/898. |
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- I still think that spellcheck can make a pretty good phish-detection filter. A recent subject line appearing in the Purportal spambox: The Bnak of America Billing Deptartment Even a real bank would lose my business over a subject line like that! More: http: |
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- Oops. "He said he was from Massachusetts, but [that he] was supervising a construction project in Nigeria," says Smalley, a supermarket cashier in Middlefield, Ohio. Weeks into daily instant messaging, she knew she had lost her heart to Richie. By April she had also lost $2,700 to him. More: |
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- The SiteKey system, which many banks and other security-conscious websites rely on to minimize problems from fake-site fraud, has some inherent problems. This is mostly of interest to technical folks; the message for the normal end user is, more or less, don't believe anybody when they tell you they've created a perfectly secure solution! More: http: |
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- In case you are one of the three bazillion people who got one of these bogus messages with a subject line like "You_visit_illegal_websites": The e-mail appears to be sent from the e-mail addresses of mail@fbi.gov, post@fbi.gov and admin@fbi.gov. |
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- I never really thought of this as a category before, but here it is: The Bad Astronomy website will set you straight on any number of celestial frauds, misconceptions, and hoaxes. So the next time you get an e-mail about a killer cloud of space matter, pay the site a visit. In fact, you might not want to wait, because when that killer cloud arrives you'll have a lot of other stuff to worry about. More: |
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- A rant about eBay's lack of modern, real-time, collaborative user input for flagging fraudulent auctions -- and a business idea. I'm 99% certain that this is fraud in progress, being worked via a hijacked user account. Maybe they even got access to the account via one of the phishing expeditions I was griping about six weeks ago. A fellow Well member reports seeing 20 other auctions in progress in a different area of eBay which also bear these identical red flags. Clearly somebody's got a little cottage industry going here. |
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- Here's a freshly posted rant -- some technical things eBay could do to protect more users from phishing scams, and some head-scratching as to why they're not doing them. More: http://e-scribe.com/news/75 September 23rd, 2005 |
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Fake Photos (Dec 27 2006 02:52 GMT) - OEMagazine has published a very well-written and comprehensive guide to understanding faked and altered digital images. It's makes a useful list of gotchas for photo retouchers, too. More: http://oemagazine. |
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- "Zotor" sounds like the villain of a bad science-fiction movie, but actually it's the latest Microsoft Windows worm. It's pretty severe, having crippled several national news organizations in its initial run. Reportedly only Windows 2000 machines are vulnerable. More: http: |
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- Magician (and, apparently, book reviewer) Teller has a great review of the new book The Rise of the Indian Rope Trick in this past Sunday's NYT Book Review. Not only does the book sound interesting, but the review has some excellent passages on the relation of Victorian England to colonized, mysterious India. This idea of genuine magic in a far-off place filled a void in the West. Physics, biology, geology and archaeology were challenging traditional beliefs, especially religion. Hungering for the unexplainable, but eager to consider themselves enlightened, Americans and Englishmen were turning to spiritualism, which promises ''scientific'' evidence of immortality, while providing satisfying shivers in a darkened seance room. |
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- Google's Gmail service is testing out a new system designed to actively warn users when they are viewing a suspected fraudulent message. The warning appears as a yellow box at the top of the message reading, "Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. Beware of following any links in it or of providing the sender with any personal information." A webmail vendor such as Gmail is in a great position to provide this type of service, since they can respond to new types of attacks almost immediately. |
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- If you love music you are going to certainly want to listen to Casbah Radio this Saturday at 7-9 central time. Brian will be hosting a best of Casbah Radio 2006. Brian has the best taste of any disc-jokey I know. Give it a listen. You will not be disappointed. |
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- The Dec. 26 holiday Boxing Day is one of the more civilized traditions that should have spread to the United States from England. |
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- In response to the Dec. 15 article "Foes of death penalty incensed by murderer's lengthy execution." |
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- Kwanzaa, a seven-day celebration that encourages African-Americans to gather and reflect on their roots and life in America, begins today and continues through Jan. 1. |
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- To read additional letters and tips on how to comment, visit us online at www.dailystar.com/opinion |
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- The report issued by the Iraq Study Group is circulating around the White House and Congress. Both the president and members of Congress have rushed to say good things about many of the 79 recommendations it made for changing U.S. policies in Iraq. |
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- Labor contracts covering hourly workers at Tucson-based Asarco LLC are just days away from expiring. But while last year's labor troubles at the copper producer were noisy affairs, things are quiet now. |
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- Law and closings? CSI:MLS? Tucson real estate agents have a new way to police their own. |
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- WASHINGTON ? After a bonanza in 2006, Big Oil is poised for a slightly smaller 2007, as slowing U.S. economic growth and an expanding global supply cushion may help keep a lid on prices. |
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- City officials have been saying for years that Rio Nuevo progress is right around the corner. Last week, Councilwoman Nina Trasoff said citizens will finally see that progress in 2007 when four construction cranes will be visible Downtown. |
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- PHOENIX ? The University of Arizona is caught in the middle of a battle between two Phoenix-area health-care providers. Both want dibs on running the UA College of Medicine's yet-to-be-built downtown Phoenix teaching hospital. |
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- When Francisco Arriaga's family learned his killer had been arrested, and had confessed, they figured justice would be served in short order. |
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- Editor's note: This article previously appeared in La Estrella, the Star's Spanish-language edition. |
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- A University of Arizona police officer shot and killed a man in front of University Medical Center Monday morning. |
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- PHOENIX ? Economists expect a significant slowdown in the Arizona economy, and some experts are predicting the first state budget deficit since 2004. |
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- Tucson had a warm Christmas Day, with Monday's high reaching 68 degrees, about four degrees above normal. |
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- A man killed in an apparent hit-and-run crash on Sunday was identified by police as 47-year-old Florentino R. Zavala. |
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- PHOENIX ? Erica Lopez's mother struggles with drugs and can't hold down a regular home, and the 15-year-old doesn't feel comfortable staying with her father. |
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- MESA ? In a real-life "Band of Brothers," three siblings from eastern metropolitan Phoenix are helping fight in the war in Iraq side by side. |
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- PHOENIX ? Arizona charities are struggling to get the word out about a state tax credit that is similar to the one for school donations. |
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- TEMPE ? A man who was changing a tire on his girlfriend's car on a Tempe street was killed after a drunken driver slammed into a vehicle behind him, police said. |
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- MESA, Ariz. ? A Mesa family won't get to spend Christmas at home following a house fire on Christmas Eve. |
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- SCOTTSDALE ? Tens of thousands of dollars are headed for the Scottsdale Fire Department to pay for equipment and training in the event of a terrorist attack. |
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- PHOENIX ? Phoenix officials want to renovate a busy expressway on the eastern edge of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. |
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