IIRC on Disc 2 of the extended edition of Fellowship of the Rings, there is a bit on Weta, and they mention leasing out there services to the advertising industry and the rest of the movie making industry that isn't based in Hollywood.
Now that NZ is a trendy movie location ("Star Wars Episode 2, The Matrix, etc I am sure their services will be in demand from time to time.
I bought an alarm clock when I was in fourth grade that takes 2 AA batteries, for about $10. It has worked great for the past 25 years, and has travelled with me from Saudi Arabia to Massachussetts, to Florida to Texas and now in Mexico. I can't tell you how many times that it has fallen, but it keeps on ticking.
In any order you want. I doubt that they are so interested in "harvesting" that they are going to try to piece invalid emails together.
Anyhow, I have been using the site for about 3 years and haven't had any spam on a few publically visible email addresses, excluding stuff that was "dictionaried" or that someone manually harvested (ie nigerian fraud email).
web spidering email collectors will gather email addresses from webpages and add you to their lists
I have been converting all my mailto's into unicode for a while now. The cool thing is that unicode is compatible with browsers since HTML 3, so most (ie 99.999%) of users can see it, but to spam bots its garbage:
And it really has reduced the overall amount of spam I get. Now if only I could get spamming my contact handles from my domains, I'd probably be nearly spam free.
Technically, in this case, the customer's websites weren't accessed, because these viruses are guessing IP addresses. How can it be my fault that a program running wild in the internet guessed my IP address, accessed a port that my web host could have closed, and therefore generated 10 times my normal traffic load.
Most people use web hosting companies because their either don't know how to configure/admin a server or couldn't be bothered.
I live in Mexico and it is economically unfeasible for me to host here, so I pay someone to host my sites for $5/month. Their admins are responsible for patching my server and protecting me from well known / widely publicized exploits.
About 6 years ago, I altavista'd my name and it turns out that there is another "Patrick Deese" at Kettering. At that time, the search went to the Adminstration Web Directory and there was a list in alphabetical order of every employee, first middle and last name, their DOB and their social security numbers.
...because otherwise you could end up on record as the strangest death ever - dying in a blizzard in your back yard in June.
Unless you live in the southern hemisphere, i don't think your snow machine will be making very much snow. Ever eaten ice cream in June? I think you'll end up with a sprinkler.:)
Ironically, according to what I've read in the retail industry, one of the best things that can happen to your brand is that it become colloquially accepted as the overall term for a group of products.
ie:
a "coke" instead of a carbonated beverage a "thermos" rather than a... err a thermal flask? a "kleenex" instead of a paper tissue
On the otherhand... according to this the quickest way to lose your copyright is to have your brand perceived as a generic term.
By the way, I found the above article by googli^U^U^U using the search engine Google®.
Yeah, but don't forget that according to the article this guy sold his Uni access for $20/month - that doesn't add up very many pizzas or beers.
My guess is that guy should have sold his connection for more like $200 - $500 per month, or based on the # of mails or something. $20/month is laughable, considering that he now most likely has been forbidden to connect to the University's network with his personal machine and may have some sort of procedural punishment on his University records.
I generally don't use credit cards - I have, of course debit cards, and an American Express card which I use for the convenience of making big purchases and travelling.
The only reason I ever got a card was that once I replaced all 4 tires on my car, and got a tune up and some other maintenance and they had a deal where if I applied for a credit card they'd give me 15% off that purchase, which I think amounted to about $80 or $90 discount.
I didn't ever use it again, and that is why, when I dropped my wallet in a parking lot at night and all my IDs and bank cards fell out I didn't realize it was missing. I just inventoried my driver's license, workplace ID, 2 ATM cards, my AMEX card and two video rental memberships and then thought, "yep, got everything." Of course when the next statement came, I was like "Oops, forgot about that stupid Sears card."
Anyhow, I had never charged anything on it again (after the tires etc) in 3 years, then suddenly, their credit dept and store staff allowed me to buy 4 VCRs etc. All I can say is that Amex would have red flagged that immediately, and at least required a voice confirmation.
Yeah, I had to sign and get notarized a series of documents disputing the charges, saying that I didn't make them, nor did I authorize them to be made. Something along that lines. Along with sheets and sheets of my signature.(for comparison, I suppose, against the sigs on the disputed charges)
In the end I just got fed up with their fraud investigation because it apparently consisted solely of their fraud dept making my life miserable to finally admit that I had made the charges (which I had not!).
Asking you to sign a contract when they lost in court, is pretty goddamned sleazy
Well, since it probably cost them $100 to have their in-house law department tell them it would cost them a couple thousand dollars to defend themselves in small claims court, management said "Dammit, isn't there something we can do?", and their lawyer said, "Well... we could try to get him to sign this waiver...."
Seriously I once lost a Sears card without realizing it, and the next month someone had gone to the local Sears and charged it up to the $3000 credit limit. I had no idea what had happened until the monthly statement arrived and said that I had spent $2999.69 during the last cycle.
6 months later they were still hassling me, had me sign my signature literally 100 times and finally I just told them that I was going to countersue them, because their staff had allowed someone to make fraudulent purchases.
Basically their clerks told them what my credit limit was, and judging from the signature it was a woman's handwriting so they allowed someone without ID and the opposite gender use my credit card, and engage in extremely suspicious activity: go on a spending spree that included the purchase of 4(!) VCRS, all from the same Sears location on the same day, in sequential purchases.
I basically told their fraud guy - yeah it was stupid of me to lose my credit card in a parking lot without realizing it, but how the fsck do you explain that your clerks never for a moment tried to verify that the person making these highly suspicious purchases was allowed to go on until they reached within 31 cents of my credit limit...
This happened 8 years ago, and still pisses me off. I haven't ever done business with Sears again, by the way.
Personally, I am looking forward to suing the National Petroleum Company of Nigeria for $500. Their disgruntled executives keep on sending me opportunities to help them embezzle millions of dollars using dummy contracts.;)
I realize I didn't make me feelings very clear. I think I would hold more of a grudge against Mick Jagger & Co. if they wrote a song called "Rock Out Your Windows" for a Windows launch than I do if that they have licensed one of their hits after the fact. One thing is about making money, which I think all musicians deserve to do, another is compromising artistic integrity to make a "jingles".
Can you imagine an entire album, where each track had a commercial sponsor...
Track 1: "They Really Know How To Build 'Em (GM Tough)"
Track 2: "So Delicious (I Can't Believe Its Not Butter)"
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IIRC on Disc 2 of the extended edition of Fellowship of the Rings, there is a bit on Weta, and they mention leasing out there services to the advertising industry and the rest of the movie making industry that isn't based in Hollywood.
Now that NZ is a trendy movie location ("Star Wars Episode 2, The Matrix, etc I am sure their services will be in demand from time to time.
I bought an alarm clock when I was in fourth grade that takes 2 AA batteries, for about $10. It has worked great for the past 25 years, and has travelled with me from Saudi Arabia to Massachussetts, to Florida to Texas and now in Mexico. I can't tell you how many times that it has fallen, but it keeps on ticking.
Anyhow nothing says that you can't enter it in the following manner:
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In any order you want. I doubt that they are so interested in "harvesting" that they are going to try to piece invalid emails together.
Anyhow, I have been using the site for about 3 years and haven't had any spam on a few publically visible email addresses, excluding stuff that was "dictionaried" or that someone manually harvested (ie nigerian fraud email).
I have been converting all my mailto's into unicode for a while now. The cool thing is that unicode is compatible with browsers since HTML 3, so most (ie 99.999%) of users can see it, but to spam bots its garbage:
example: mailto:fake@fake.com is:And it really has reduced the overall amount of spam I get. Now if only I could get spamming my contact handles from my domains, I'd probably be nearly spam free.
But I don't do it manually, there's a site that will do it for you: http://fantomaster.com/fantomasSuite/mailShield/f
Technically, in this case, the customer's websites weren't accessed, because these viruses are guessing IP addresses. How can it be my fault that a program running wild in the internet guessed my IP address, accessed a port that my web host could have closed, and therefore generated 10 times my normal traffic load.
Most people use web hosting companies because their either don't know how to configure/admin a server or couldn't be bothered.
I live in Mexico and it is economically unfeasible for me to host here, so I pay someone to host my sites for $5/month. Their admins are responsible for patching my server and protecting me from well known / widely publicized exploits.
Hah. My evil plan worked. Now I will go through your history cache using a remote exploit and get your SS# based on your google search history...
muahahahaaa....
About 6 years ago, I altavista'd my name and it turns out that there is another "Patrick Deese" at Kettering. At that time, the search went to the Adminstration Web Directory and there was a list in alphabetical order of every employee, first middle and last name, their DOB and their social security numbers.
They took it down about 3 months later....
I wish I had known about it, I would have asked them to change my transcripts to give me a better GPA. :P
are thieves purchasing easily resold goods and making their money that way
/obvious
uhhh. its called ebay.
At the bottom of the News.com article is this link:
"Wanted: Tech professionals needed at top companies now"
I don't see any warnings about ID theft there, though...
...because otherwise you could end up on record as the strangest death ever - dying in a blizzard in your back yard in June.
:)
Unless you live in the southern hemisphere, i don't think your snow machine will be making very much snow. Ever eaten ice cream in June? I think you'll end up with a sprinkler.
If they reported _every_ M$ bug on Slashdot all the good articles would get pushed off the front page.
Gotta leave room for all the articles about toasters modified to run linux and whatnot.
Ironically, according to what I've read in the retail industry, one of the best things that can happen to your brand is that it become colloquially accepted as the overall term for a group of products.
;P
ie:
a "coke" instead of a carbonated beverage
a "thermos" rather than a... err a thermal flask?
a "kleenex" instead of a paper tissue
On the otherhand... according to this the quickest way to lose your copyright is to have your brand perceived as a generic term.
By the way, I found the above article by googli^U^U^U using the search engine Google®.
The one guy I know making $30k a year doing spam
Yeah, but don't forget that according to the article this guy sold his Uni access for $20/month - that doesn't add up very many pizzas or beers.
My guess is that guy should have sold his connection for more like $200 - $500 per month, or based on the # of mails or something. $20/month is laughable, considering that he now most likely has been forbidden to connect to the University's network with his personal machine and may have some sort of procedural punishment on his University records.
I know students who are spammers making $30,000 a year without much effort.
yeah, but not all of us can live here in order to get our expenses paid.
I generally don't use credit cards - I have, of course debit cards, and an American Express card which I use for the convenience of making big purchases and travelling.
The only reason I ever got a card was that once I replaced all 4 tires on my car, and got a tune up and some other maintenance and they had a deal where if I applied for a credit card they'd give me 15% off that purchase, which I think amounted to about $80 or $90 discount.
I didn't ever use it again, and that is why, when I dropped my wallet in a parking lot at night and all my IDs and bank cards fell out I didn't realize it was missing. I just inventoried my driver's license, workplace ID, 2 ATM cards, my AMEX card and two video rental memberships and then thought, "yep, got everything." Of course when the next statement came, I was like "Oops, forgot about that stupid Sears card."
Anyhow, I had never charged anything on it again (after the tires etc) in 3 years, then suddenly, their credit dept and store staff allowed me to buy 4 VCRs etc. All I can say is that Amex would have red flagged that immediately, and at least required a voice confirmation.
Yeah, I had to sign and get notarized a series of documents disputing the charges, saying that I didn't make them, nor did I authorize them to be made. Something along that lines. Along with sheets and sheets of my signature.(for comparison, I suppose, against the sigs on the disputed charges)
In the end I just got fed up with their fraud investigation because it apparently consisted solely of their fraud dept making my life miserable to finally admit that I had made the charges (which I had not!).
They obviously haven't installed XP on it yet.
;P
That's okay, because the Lindows guy is going to offer $100,000 to the first group that can get it to run Linux without a mod chip.
Now we can finally learn the answer to Life, the Universe... and Everything!
Asking you to sign a contract when they lost in court, is pretty goddamned sleazy
Well, since it probably cost them $100 to have their in-house law department tell them it would cost them a couple thousand dollars to defend themselves in small claims court, management said "Dammit, isn't there something we can do?", and their lawyer said, "Well... we could try to get him to sign this waiver...."
Seriously I once lost a Sears card without realizing it, and the next month someone had gone to the local Sears and charged it up to the $3000 credit limit. I had no idea what had happened until the monthly statement arrived and said that I had spent $2999.69 during the last cycle.
6 months later they were still hassling me, had me sign my signature literally 100 times and finally I just told them that I was going to countersue them, because their staff had allowed someone to make fraudulent purchases.
Basically their clerks told them what my credit limit was, and judging from the signature it was a woman's handwriting so they allowed someone without ID and the opposite gender use my credit card, and engage in extremely suspicious activity: go on a spending spree that included the purchase of 4(!) VCRS, all from the same Sears location on the same day, in sequential purchases.
I basically told their fraud guy - yeah it was stupid of me to lose my credit card in a parking lot without realizing it, but how the fsck do you explain that your clerks never for a moment tried to verify that the person making these highly suspicious purchases was allowed to go on until they reached within 31 cents of my credit limit...
This happened 8 years ago, and still pisses me off. I haven't ever done business with Sears again, by the way.
Personally, I am looking forward to suing the National Petroleum Company of Nigeria for $500. Their disgruntled executives keep on sending me opportunities to help them embezzle millions of dollars using dummy contracts. ;)
Honestly, I think that Nethack has done a pretty good job of putting a fantasy game into a computer.
It is infinitely more detailed and complex than the flashy CD ROM games I have played.
It took me nearly 8 months to win the first time.
about:kitchensink doesn't work for the most recent build for windows, but you can still see it using mozilla:
p les/kitchensink.xml
http://www.mozilla.org/catalog/web-developer/exam
I realize I didn't make me feelings very clear. I think I would hold more of a grudge against Mick Jagger & Co. if they wrote a song called "Rock Out Your Windows" for a Windows launch than I do if that they have licensed one of their hits after the fact. One thing is about making money, which I think all musicians deserve to do, another is compromising artistic integrity to make a "jingles".
Can you imagine an entire album, where each track had a commercial sponsor...
Track 1: "They Really Know How To Build 'Em (GM Tough)"
Track 2: "So Delicious (I Can't Believe Its Not Butter)"
Track 3: "No Place Like Home (With Century 21)"
etc., etc...
I just can't imagine my favorite popstar having to pitch the new version of windows in order to finance the recording of his/her new album.
There was a group in the 80's (Sigue Sigue Sputnik) that sold the space between the tracks of their album to Revlon and other advertisers.
I guess this is the next step.