I'm pretty sure Google has an anti-fraud team behind the scenes.
1. Search for, e.g., "Healthcare Payments Inc", and the first few search results link to anti-fraud pages (Bobbear). There's no link to the scam's website.
2. Granted, it can do better with "Harper Logistic", but there's still no link to the scam's website.
3. "This site may harm your computer."
4. Red and grey page in Firefox, with a huge warning. (Thanks, Mozilla!)
5. Others that we don't see.
The efforts may mostly be done by other people (domain registries, browser developers, fighters like "Bob Harrison", etc.), but that doesn't mean Google doesn't do anything.
My neighbors buy computers for $1500 and up to as much as $3000, and they keep forking out money.
Do your neighbors have teenagers? I'm following the "computer games" train of thought. Because I had done the similar, buying graphics cards, RAM, hard disks, and so forth.
The biggest thing about googling for help, is to use the advanced search, and find RECENT articles and posts about my problem.... the enterprise might get away with purchasing minimal support packages "just in case" something serious breaks.
I'm ashamed to admit I had not thought of both of these.
Yes it's amazing how private enterprise, only 50 years after NASA first put someone in space has managed to build a spaceship that hasn't actually put anyone in space yet.
You had basements? We had to sleep in the wild open, and stay awake to fend off tigers, lions, vampires, and other creatures of the night. While enduring below-freezing temperatures and hailstorms the size of fists.
Well said both GP and PP. Someone kindly mod them up.
I donated a meager US$20, and I have not a single word to criticize Wikimedia. I'm just grateful that it exists to serve me, and has been serving me for FREE for many years.
I guess it's not safe to reveal in Slashdot that you allow your users to have local admin access to their own PCs. You'll get flamed to a crisp.
I particularly enjoy reading honest anecdotes written by other people. But I guess with such negative feedback that these anecdotes attract, they'd simply get lesser.
Hmm, I don't agree that a virus infection should lead to a head-roll. But to each of our opinion.
Anyway, would you like to leave a few notes in the next story, "Malware Delivered By Yahoo, Fox, Google Ads"? I don't care about the TFA. What's interesting is the individual anecdotes written by Slashdot writers.
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I'm pretty sure Google has an anti-fraud team behind the scenes.
1. Search for, e.g., "Healthcare Payments Inc", and the first few search results link to anti-fraud pages (Bobbear). There's no link to the scam's website.
2. Granted, it can do better with "Harper Logistic", but there's still no link to the scam's website.
3. "This site may harm your computer."
4. Red and grey page in Firefox, with a huge warning. (Thanks, Mozilla!)
5. Others that we don't see.
The efforts may mostly be done by other people (domain registries, browser developers, fighters like "Bob Harrison", etc.), but that doesn't mean Google doesn't do anything.
Blasphemy! Lock him up! Look, he even admitted it!
(And stop bothering me with these "movie" and "Monty Python" nonsense!)
One day, somebody's got to make a stand. One day, somebody's got to say, enough.
You could turn your house into a starship.
... you'd need inertia anti-dampers to simulate that warp feeling.
Or maybe mount the entire house on hydraulic cylinders?
Yet another URL: Private Copying Levy.
I doubt the completeness and accuracy, though.
I told him repeatedly that I could fix it for him, but he never brought it to me.
Sounds like he'd rather endure the pain than start thinking about fixing it once and for all. (The key word is "thinking" - it's a big effort.)
At the same time, we cannot intrude and forcibly fix other people's machines.
Would you consider tempting this guy to switch to a Mac? ;)
My neighbors buy computers for $1500 and up to as much as $3000, and they keep forking out money.
Do your neighbors have teenagers? I'm following the "computer games" train of thought. Because I had done the similar, buying graphics cards, RAM, hard disks, and so forth.
The biggest thing about googling for help, is to use the advanced search, and find RECENT articles and posts about my problem. ... the enterprise might get away with purchasing minimal support packages "just in case" something serious breaks.
I'm ashamed to admit I had not thought of both of these.
My apologies. I mis-read your post. You're right.
Thanks for your reply.
Ah, my apologies. I misread PP.
Yes it's amazing how private enterprise, only 50 years after NASA first put someone in space has managed to build a spaceship that hasn't actually put anyone in space yet.
The Apollo 11 project costed $355 million (1969).
The SpaceShipOne project costed $25 million (2004).
What's your point?
Do you do such implementation on your own home computers? Does your family members like it?
Even though your name does look quite suspicious, I'll try to explain anyway.
Thank you for your explanation.
And your benefit of the doubt.
... just one cargo bay of the space shuttle full of it could supply all of the US's energy demands for at least one year.
Not to worry, we'll just scale up our demands to make full use of the available supply.
Happy Weekend, Sir!
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I don't understand this Score:4 Insightful comment. Can someone explain?
The Page Up and Page Down works in the CLI.
You had basements? We had to sleep in the wild open, and stay awake to fend off tigers, lions, vampires, and other creatures of the night. While enduring below-freezing temperatures and hailstorms the size of fists.
I think PP is referring to creating great April Fool's jokes, and nothing to do with hacking HTML.
Darn darn darn darn damn right!!
If not for the huge "the fiction circus" title, I would have believed it too.
Well said both GP and PP. Someone kindly mod them up.
I donated a meager US$20, and I have not a single word to criticize Wikimedia. I'm just grateful that it exists to serve me, and has been serving me for FREE for many years.
... the rover gets to look at curvy, fair-textured things on the job, and take colored photos of them.
Would "rovingeyes" be an appropriate tag?
*blushing furiously for not having RTFWA*
Thanks. :)
I guess it's not safe to reveal in Slashdot that you allow your users to have local admin access to their own PCs. You'll get flamed to a crisp.
I particularly enjoy reading honest anecdotes written by other people. But I guess with such negative feedback that these anecdotes attract, they'd simply get lesser.
Throw in ending of world hunger, solving of Fermat's last theorem, and making engineers attract the best babes, and I just might consider.
Hmm, I don't agree that a virus infection should lead to a head-roll. But to each of our opinion.
Anyway, would you like to leave a few notes in the next story, "Malware Delivered By Yahoo, Fox, Google Ads"? I don't care about the TFA. What's interesting is the individual anecdotes written by Slashdot writers.