Would someone mind explaining what a "phantom" web site is, as this term appears nowhere in TFA?
Got an email client which displays HTML email or launches a browser to handle it? I get many spoofs of paypal, ebay and various banks each day, HTML constructed to pull images from valid sources or a coopted server somewhere in the world, which look exactly like or reasonable enough to the untrained to fool you into entering account numbers, passwords, etc., which are actually intercepted and emailed to a box somewhere in the world. Phishers usually just hang around long enough to collect a few ID's and scram.
This underscores the problem with these schemes, laws don't mean a thing if there's no enforcement. Most of the spam I see phishing should be able to be tracked down quickly enough to catch perps, but either law enforcement is bogged down with other things or it's just not really much of a priority.
Many people complain about there not being enough cops on the street (unless they've just been pulled over), which I've been informed in my area, is due to most calls are domestic disputes. Police don't have the time to catch all the burglars and bicycle thieves because someone is slapping someone else around (IMHO the first offense should land people in a cooler for at least a month.)
Regarding the agencies which should be chasing spammers and scammers, that's probably the FBI, which is too busy being reorg'd and chasing terrorist threats.
I think I'm not alone in saying this, but if Rick Berman were to show up on my porch selling Star Trek cookies, I think I'd still slam the door in his face.
The Fine Print: 'Star Trek - May Contain Nuts'
I'm sick of having the next "Trek thing" shoved in front of me as though I'm supposed to care. Enough already.
You're sick of it? Don't watch it. I don't watch it because I don't have cable, but the last few shows I found excedingly trying. Maybe it's not the stories, but the way they're acted out. I feel less like I'm watching a show and more like a bunch of actors are trying to convice me they are spacers and aliens. Could it be that part of the fault is in the fact that it's less convincing all the time that these people are hurtling about the cosmos rather than working in a corporate setting?
you'll know for sure when you see cubicles on the main deck
I wish enough people had learned the first time through.... Sooner or later, enough people are going ot get pissed off that something FINALLY gets done.
I've got one mailbox which has been receiving an old worm for about 2 years. I figure there's one or two people who have my email address and their email has been infected for that length of time and still don't have a clue.
When people finally get pissed off enough, they'll hand the goverment a mandate to do something about it and we'll all lament the freedoms we've lost thanks to the program the government 'friends' came up with, which favors special interests.
Be careful what you wish for, you may well get it.
I could actually respect a spammer that had the "guts" to route their spam through a server owned by a group that could unload a platoon of M1A2s on his front lawn and permanently crush everything in sight in about 2 seconds.
Spammers don't have 'guts' or even courage, they have audacity and chutzpah. If they thought they could get away with it and it could be used to send pecker pill offers to Air Force pilots, they'd be all over that.
The ping time would probably be pretty good, considering I can ping servers all over the planet with good response and that almost invariably takes the data through at least one satellite somewhere... so it would be the same except it would be DEDICATED traffic instead of shared with a bunch of spam and porn!
I left out 'Amature Radio Operators bounce signals off TSAT - FCC Suspends Amature Radio'
Honestly, I'm wondering how long before they give all the frequencies to mobile communications providers and tell us to just use a damn cellphone.
Even Bill said that the Mac was the best computer, or some such at one time back in the 80's I'm sure the video is still on the internet. It's fun to watch with all the catcalls and hooting going on in the background, perhaps not as entertaining as Ballmer's Monkey-boy Dance.
What nobody seemed to take seriously at the time was that Gates & Co. would basically rip off the Gui ideas of the Mac and profit wildly from them. Apple should have learned from IBM, you don't give Gates an inch!
That is indeed a lot of gadgets. But the other (missing) half of the statistic is how long will these devices last? Will the all be thrown out next year, making this a running cost?
Really. How many of these gadgets get looked at a week after purchase.
Somehow the powers-that-be got the idea that replanting seeds grown from your own soil is a crime.
"I swear, it looked like one of mine", exclaimed Ms. Nature, while being being booked. Several scattered, unharvested seed from a bio-engineered crop sprouted this Spring and the Monsanto Seed Police were right on top of it.
Unrelated to this incident, Peter Rabbit was charged with Intellectual Property theft, after taking a bio-engineered cabbage from Farmer McGregor's garden. "It sure looked good, all big and green, but it tasted like wood pulp", stated the incarcerated rabbit.
In other news, to show it's kind heart, Monsanto was offering assistance to Tsunami victims. "As long as they don't try replanting our seed", said an anonymous source within the company.
At least for my wife's parents. About a year ago, they called their ISP to cancel their service and bought cell phones instead. If they need to use the Internet, they walk to the library.
How long before they get a cell phone worm? These are now coming about thanks to cell phones being essentially desktop computers in the palm of your hand.
It's rather sad to see the smile fade, the eyes glaze, the jaw set... but these are what follow when I
explain what people need to prepare themsevles for to join the great information highway.
Oh, there's lots of great things to see and do on the 'net, but there's so much predation by more scum than
even Mos Eisley would see on a good day that newbies must be inoculated before exposing themselves to it.
A firewall, virus scanning and quite a lot of gorm, to avoid spam scams. I'm almost to the point of telling, not merely suggesting,
people to skip it if there isn't some damn good reason to be on the 'net.
Oh, and don't use Microsoft Explorer or Outlook or <Marvin Martian Voice> you'll be sorry, very sorry indeed.</Marvin Martian Voice> Getting on the
'net with good tools is a must and keeping up on them is also a must. Some degree of technical understanding is also essential, to identify when something is
out of the ordinary, i.e. that request to verify your bank account goes to some ip address instead of yourback.com and where to go to keep up on
the latest tools and information to protect oneself.
In the end, visiting or maintaining a presence on the internet is a job, not just an adventure, which requires some effort by the user
to protect themselves.
As soon as they figure out you're trying to teach them something they'll turn on you!
More like: they'll tune you out.
Kids are most effectively taught when they seek out the information, the real trick, as I expect the author is attempting to do, is figure out how to peak their interest. Making it 'cool' only appeals to a herd mentality, you have to lead the student out of the herd.
That rude gesture may not have been meant for you!
clockwise circle : home
counterclockwise circle : mother
casual flip near ear : wife/husband/girlfriend/boyfriend
rub gently in private area : significant other
rub vigorously in private area : most significant other =)
wanking : boss
flip phone up into air : bookie
beat on forehead : customer support
throw on ground and stomp on with hobnail boot : CowboyNeal
For a semi-amusing look at another anthropomorphized computer-themed show, check out an anime called "Buttobi CPU", known in the American market as "I Dream Of Mimi". The bad guys are all Nacintosh computers, the good guys being... some Japanese brand. Did I mention the computers are all hot chicks who get naked a lot and have interesting ways of "interfacing" and getting "upgraded", amongst themselves and their masters?
You know the scene where Tron is on that boat-like thing that rides the laser? if you watch the landscape you can see a GIANT mickey mouse head outlined. It's bigger than the screen; it moves from right to left and it's a lighter blue than the ground. It's just a big circle with two smaller circles but it's definitely mickey's profile.
I bought the Aladin game for my Sega and it was littered with other Disney characters, like Sebastian the crab and Goofy worked into the background. It was kinda funny.
It's pretty funny watching the Goonies, with the rather blatant Pepsi plug.
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Got an email client which displays HTML email or launches a browser to handle it? I get many spoofs of paypal, ebay and various banks each day, HTML constructed to pull images from valid sources or a coopted server somewhere in the world, which look exactly like or reasonable enough to the untrained to fool you into entering account numbers, passwords, etc., which are actually intercepted and emailed to a box somewhere in the world. Phishers usually just hang around long enough to collect a few ID's and scram.
Many people complain about there not being enough cops on the street (unless they've just been pulled over), which I've been informed in my area, is due to most calls are domestic disputes. Police don't have the time to catch all the burglars and bicycle thieves because someone is slapping someone else around (IMHO the first offense should land people in a cooler for at least a month.)
Regarding the agencies which should be chasing spammers and scammers, that's probably the FBI, which is too busy being reorg'd and chasing terrorist threats.
The Fine Print: 'Star Trek - May Contain Nuts'
I'm sick of having the next "Trek thing" shoved in front of me as though I'm supposed to care. Enough already.
You're sick of it? Don't watch it. I don't watch it because I don't have cable, but the last few shows I found excedingly trying. Maybe it's not the stories, but the way they're acted out. I feel less like I'm watching a show and more like a bunch of actors are trying to convice me they are spacers and aliens. Could it be that part of the fault is in the fact that it's less convincing all the time that these people are hurtling about the cosmos rather than working in a corporate setting?
you'll know for sure when you see cubicles on the main deck
I've got one mailbox which has been receiving an old worm for about 2 years. I figure there's one or two people who have my email address and their email has been infected for that length of time and still don't have a clue.
When people finally get pissed off enough, they'll hand the goverment a mandate to do something about it and we'll all lament the freedoms we've lost thanks to the program the government 'friends' came up with, which favors special interests.
Be careful what you wish for, you may well get it.
Spammers don't have 'guts' or even courage, they have audacity and chutzpah. If they thought they could get away with it and it could be used to send pecker pill offers to Air Force pilots, they'd be all over that.
I left out 'Amature Radio Operators bounce signals off TSAT - FCC Suspends Amature Radio'
Honestly, I'm wondering how long before they give all the frequencies to mobile communications providers and tell us to just use a damn cellphone.
They could tell you, but then they'd have to kill you.
News to Look Forward To:
Air Force Get Signal - 'CATS: AYBABTU' Spend $$$,$$$,$$$'s researching origin
TSAT 0wn3d
Alan Ralsky sentenced to Abu Ghraib for routing spam through TSAT
TSAT loses orbit, crushes Tom Cruise on eve of War Of The Worlds opening
Mischevious Glac-Elves use TSAT to spread Irata Worm
Air Force officer notices TSAT looks canoe-shaped before realizing contract made with wrong Grumman
Warfighters welcome their new Space Routing Overlord
Even Bill said that the Mac was the best computer, or some such at one time back in the 80's I'm sure the video is still on the internet. It's fun to watch with all the catcalls and hooting going on in the background, perhaps not as entertaining as Ballmer's Monkey-boy Dance.
What nobody seemed to take seriously at the time was that Gates & Co. would basically rip off the Gui ideas of the Mac and profit wildly from them. Apple should have learned from IBM, you don't give Gates an inch!
* Do not eat Xserve.
I see you have that First Post solution enhancing your lifestyle, congratulations.
Really. How many of these gadgets get looked at a week after purchase.
"I swear, it looked like one of mine", exclaimed Ms. Nature, while being being booked. Several scattered, unharvested seed from a bio-engineered crop sprouted this Spring and the Monsanto Seed Police were right on top of it.
Unrelated to this incident, Peter Rabbit was charged with Intellectual Property theft, after taking a bio-engineered cabbage from Farmer McGregor's garden. "It sure looked good, all big and green, but it tasted like wood pulp", stated the incarcerated rabbit.
In other news, to show it's kind heart, Monsanto was offering assistance to Tsunami victims. "As long as they don't try replanting our seed", said an anonymous source within the company.
Why, those clever japanese, that's whom!
Man, is Powdered Toast Man gonna be pissed.
How long before they get a cell phone worm? These are now coming about thanks to cell phones being essentially desktop computers in the palm of your hand.
Oh, there's lots of great things to see and do on the 'net, but there's so much predation by more scum than even Mos Eisley would see on a good day that newbies must be inoculated before exposing themselves to it.
A firewall, virus scanning and quite a lot of gorm, to avoid spam scams. I'm almost to the point of telling, not merely suggesting, people to skip it if there isn't some damn good reason to be on the 'net.
Oh, and don't use Microsoft Explorer or Outlook or <Marvin Martian Voice> you'll be sorry, very sorry indeed.</Marvin Martian Voice> Getting on the 'net with good tools is a must and keeping up on them is also a must. Some degree of technical understanding is also essential, to identify when something is out of the ordinary, i.e. that request to verify your bank account goes to some ip address instead of yourback.com and where to go to keep up on the latest tools and information to protect oneself.
In the end, visiting or maintaining a presence on the internet is a job, not just an adventure, which requires some effort by the user to protect themselves.
We might find that the atmosphere extends from the surface on upward?!
At long last, through the distance and cloud-cover, the ultimate question shall finally be answered...
thankyouverymuch,you'vebeenawonderfulaudience,thaA DVD won't fit in my puny PO box and I'll have to retrieve at the counter during business hours, during which I'm usually 40 miles away.
More like: they'll tune you out.
Kids are most effectively taught when they seek out the information, the real trick, as I expect the author is attempting to do, is figure out how to peak their interest. Making it 'cool' only appeals to a herd mentality, you have to lead the student out of the herd.
clockwise circle : home
counterclockwise circle : mother
casual flip near ear : wife/husband/girlfriend/boyfriend
rub gently in private area : significant other
rub vigorously in private area : most significant other =)
wanking : boss
flip phone up into air : bookie
beat on forehead : customer support
throw on ground and stomp on with hobnail boot : CowboyNeal
1. Lift Pint Glass
2. Sip
3. Repeat
4. Caculate F=ma as fall off barstool
They were the Good Taste Police, led by Politenessman
No, I don't mean "Viruses" I mean multiple instances of computer virus. Give up kicking a dead horse.
virii
Ok, it's on order. :-) Thanks for the reck.
It would be nice if you could get some media coverage and point out your tongue-in-cheek humor. Lord knows we need it with all the FUD out there.
Joe PHB: "what's the FUD I'm hearing about?"
I bought the Aladin game for my Sega and it was littered with other Disney characters, like Sebastian the crab and Goofy worked into the background. It was kinda funny.
It's pretty funny watching the Goonies, with the rather blatant Pepsi plug.