I went to CompUSA a few months ago to pick up a computer that was on sale. I'm a graduate student in computer science. I found an employee and had him bring out the box, and while he was writing up the sale, he asked me, "You aren't planning on using this for anything like Excel, are you?" "Well, yes" I tell him, and he replies "You know, this machine uses a non-mathical processor, do you know how that will work?" He actually said NON-MATHICAL! The idiot was trying to suggest that because the computer I was buying had a Sempron, it was incapable of doing math, so I'd better upgrade to something "mathical."
I get phishing attacks using techniques similar to this all the time. Being somewhat of a security guy, I always click the link and take a look at the techniques that particular phish is using. Lately, a lot of them have spoofed address bars (using javascript) that try to cover up the real address bar with something like "https://paypal.com/login.html". The interesting thing is that Firefox doesn't display the spoofed bar at all. It usually doesn't look very good in IE, since it uses absolute coordinates to position the spoofed bar, and if you have any extra toolbars, it won't show up in the right spot.
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I went to CompUSA a few months ago to pick up a computer that was on sale. I'm a graduate student in computer science. I found an employee and had him bring out the box, and while he was writing up the sale, he asked me, "You aren't planning on using this for anything like Excel, are you?" "Well, yes" I tell him, and he replies "You know, this machine uses a non-mathical processor, do you know how that will work?" He actually said NON-MATHICAL! The idiot was trying to suggest that because the computer I was buying had a Sempron, it was incapable of doing math, so I'd better upgrade to something "mathical."
... Microsoft's research site is already slashdotted
When are the slashdot mods going to learn the difference between "its" and "it's"? Strong Bad explains it best.
I get phishing attacks using techniques similar to this all the time. Being somewhat of a security guy, I always click the link and take a look at the techniques that particular phish is using. Lately, a lot of them have spoofed address bars (using javascript) that try to cover up the real address bar with something like "https://paypal.com/login.html". The interesting thing is that Firefox doesn't display the spoofed bar at all. It usually doesn't look very good in IE, since it uses absolute coordinates to position the spoofed bar, and if you have any extra toolbars, it won't show up in the right spot.
Can a science guy really know about these topics?
Actually, the Dock-n-Talk does this. http://dock-n-talk.com/
$69.95? That's how much my computer cost.
How about just shutting off your computer for good?