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Do Not Spam Site A Spam Scam

Do Not Spam Site A Spam Scam 02/12/2004 07:39 PM
The FTC is warning (once again) of a scam site that looks like the "Do Not Call" site run by the FTC, but promises to put you on a do not spam list. The site is, of course, a scam for spammers to pick up more email addresses. This isn't the first time this has happened. The site is conveniently using the .us domain to make it look more legit. Amusingly, if you click on the site's "privacy" link, you get a 403 Permission Forbidden.

Spam King gets only $40,000 fine

Spam King gets only $40,000 fine 07/22/2004 08:18 AM

Judge Says Messenger Spam Fine For Now

Judge Says Messenger Spam Fine For Now 12/15/2003 09:22 PM
Last week we reported that a small firm run by two college kids that was sending Microsoft Messenger pop-up spam advertising software to stop such pop-up spam was fightin g back against the FTC's claims that they were doing high tech extortion. As despicable as the practice is, I mentioned that they might have a case. It looks like a judge has agreed, and is refusing to grant an injunction against the firm, meaning that they can keep on spamming, at least until the trial occurs. Of course, the company might still lose the case. Either way, you would hope they would realize that their tactics of annoying their potential customers isn't the smartest way to go about offering a product.

Backwards scam spam

Backwards scam spam 09/07/2004 07:41 PM
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Nigerian Scam as comment spam

Nigerian Scam as comment spam 02/01/2005 08:40 PM
Nigeria scammers using comment spamming to fish for fools is certanly a new and "novel" approach. Hopefully anyone reading this post will understand exactly what kind of a scam this is.

Other News: Spam Phone Scam

Other News: Spam Phone Scam 02/12/2004 11:28 AM
This nasty spam looked great until the program it downloaded called a "900" porn number and billed the victims.

Dutch Fine Spammers, AOL Reports Drop in
Spam

Dutch Fine Spammers, AOL Reports Drop in
Spam 12/28/2004 04:55 PM

Email Marketers Struggling With Can
Spam, Spammers Doing Just Fine

Email Marketers Struggling With Can
Spam, Spammers Doing Just Fine 06/01/2004 10:55 AM
It's been quite clear for some time that many spammers have absolutely no intention of paying attention to any spam-related laws, such as CAN-SPAM. However, for (more) legitimate email marketers, the new regulations are already quite a hassle - with many of them failing to follow the requirements, putting them at risk of getting sued. This is a bit amusing, considering it was these so-called "legitimate marketers" who were so adamant about having CAN-SPAM passed in a way that would let them "legitimately" spam more easily. Now, what they're realizing is that they've added more trouble for themselves without doing much of anything to actually stop the spam that drowns out their own messages.

Aussie politician's incestuous spam scam

Aussie politician's incestuous spam scam 08/27/2004 01:46 PM
Xeni Jardin: BoingBoing reader Matt in Australia says:

Apparently our Australian PM - little Johnny Howard - has exploited a loophole in recently introduced anit-spam legislation which exempts charities and - wait for it - political organisations. So he's spamming the hell out of voters in his electorate with party propaganda. And it seems he's somehow managed to tie email addresses to first names, resulting in *personalised* spam and some pretty ticked off voters. It get's better - he's paying his son's company to do the mailing! (SMH is behind a subscription wall as of last week but bugmenot will sort you out - I had a running argument with a philosophy colleague about registration requirements on my blog last week here )

Link to news story.

UK to lead anti-spam and scam drive

UK to lead anti-spam and scam drive 08/06/2004 01:01 PM
Personal Computer World Aug 6 2004 4:54PM GMT

Blog star 'fesses up to payola spam scam

Blog star 'fesses up to payola spam scam 03/31/2005 05:55 PM
Google objects to CNET staffer's Adsense-bait

Website promising "do not e-mail
registry" is spam scam: US agency (AFP)

Website promising "do not e-mail
registry" is spam scam: US agency (AFP) 02/12/2004 07:27 PM
AFP - A website promoting a purported registry to stop unsolicited e-mail, or spam, is in fact a sham that probably harvests e-mail address for more spam, US regulators said.

Hefty pay package for HP's new CEO

Hefty pay package for HP's new CEO 03/29/2005 08:58 PM
Mark Hurd will get a $2 million signing bonus and a $1.4 million salary for taking the helm at the tech giant.

Hef's Hefty Balance Sheet

Hef's Hefty Balance Sheet 02/11/2004 03:12 PM
Playboy's operations are improving, but debt still casts a long shadow over Hef's empire.

Differences In iBook, PowerBook Still
Hefty

Differences In iBook, PowerBook Still
Hefty 12/12/2003 02:16 AM
Rather than compare individual models, let's take a look at the differences between the iBook and PowerBook product lines. By Bob LeVitus (Houston Chronicle via MyAppleMenu)

Schlumberger Strikes Hefty Profits

Schlumberger Strikes Hefty Profits 07/26/2004 02:36 PM
Increased drilling activity leads to tripling of profits at the oil field services giant.

Hefty hard drive means more music

Hefty hard drive means more music 06/03/2004 06:46 AM
Portable music and media players could get a boost from Toshiba's higher capacity hard drive.

Microsoft Assembles Hefty Patent Arsenal

Microsoft Assembles Hefty Patent Arsenal 04/12/2004 07:34 PM
While Microsoft is settling on some patent fronts, the company is moving aggressively on an outbound intellectual-property licensing program.

Vodafone helps FTSE ring up hefty rise

Vodafone helps FTSE ring up hefty rise 02/17/2004 10:26 PM
The Scotsman Feb 18 2004 2:42AM GMT

PeopleSoft Granted Hefty Discounts to
Outsell Oracle

PeopleSoft Granted Hefty Discounts to
Outsell Oracle 06/17/2004 01:59 AM
A top PeopleSoft sales executives testifies that he approved discounts of up to 55 percent if that was what it took to take a sales win away from Oracle Corp.

Scam Busters Just As Bad As Scam
Victims?

Scam Busters Just As Bad As Scam
Victims? 01/19/2004 05:05 AM
An odd article out of South Africa complaining that scam busters are just as bad as scam victims - in that they act in just as predictable a manner. Of course, the scam busters aren't the folks losing money to the scammers, and, in fact, they often are doing a good job to spread news of a scam to protect potential victims. So, I'm a bit confused as to what's so upsetting about people taking it upon themselves to tell others about a scam. Certainly, there are some things that don't deserve to be publicized, but are, due to the intensity of the efforts against them. However, scams are something that clearly should be publicized to limit the negative impact. It seems that the real complaint of the writer isn't so much scam busters, but "fad" busters who complain about people getting hooked on the latest fad. However, fads and scams are two very different things.

Kerala - Online lottery: Oommen chandy
took hefty bribe, says VS

Kerala - Online lottery: Oommen chandy
took hefty bribe, says VS 09/16/2004 07:14 AM
Keralanext.com - Thu Sep 16, 09:59 am GMT

Hefty Beauty Wins Miss Chubby Contest
(Reuters)

Hefty Beauty Wins Miss Chubby Contest
(Reuters) 07/26/2004 08:57 AM
Reuters - Weighing in at 416 pounds, Giovanna Guidoni, is not your average beauty contest winner. But then again, Italy's annual Miss Cicciona competition is not your average beauty contest.

London hospitals to face hefty bill for
IT plan work

London hospitals to face hefty bill for
IT plan work 01/26/2004 09:52 PM
Computer Weekly Jan 27 2004 2:20AM GMT

An Internet service to provide respite
from hefty mobile bills!

An Internet service to provide respite
from hefty mobile bills! 06/07/2004 10:04 PM
NewKerala.com Jun 8 2004 2:40AM GMT

Spam, spam, spam, spam ... Canada
targets unwanted email (AFP)

Spam, spam, spam, spam ... Canada
targets unwanted email (AFP) 05/12/2004 04:17 AM
AFP - Canada unveiled a new action plan to combat unsolicited commercial e-mail, nicknamed spam, which jams inboxes and clogs Internet traffic worldwide.

does any 1 know of sum 'A' rated games

does any 1 know of sum 'A' rated games 07/09/2004 08:10 AM
TechTree Jul 9 2004 12:09PM GMT

This Firm Is Not Yet Rated

This Firm Is Not Yet Rated 01/03/2004 06:02 AM
Want full disclosure from corporate America? Start rating cybersecurity. A commentary by Mark Rasch from Wired magazine

Disney's x-rated fare

Disney's x-rated fare 12/22/2004 01:57 AM
The original plates for the famous parody work (that was never sued over) Disneyland Memorial Orgy, is on sale at eBay. Here's the whole story on the piece, which ran in 1967 in a small underground newspaper and was created by Paul Krassner. I bet a copyright/trademark lawyer with a sense of humor buys this to mount over his desk soon.

Tsunami charities rated

Tsunami charities rated 12/29/2004 10:00 AM
Cory Doctorow: Benjamin sez, "I did a little digging into a few of the major charities mentioned on Google's page and on the tsunami blog, and have posted ratings and links from Charity Navigator, the Better Business Bureau, and the American Institute of Philanthropy for the top few." Link (Thanks, Benjamin!)

The Terminator's G-rated GOP lovefest

The Terminator's G-rated GOP lovefest 08/31/2004 10:22 PM

An R-Rated Trademark Dispute?

An R-Rated Trademark Dispute? 04/19/2005 04:16 AM
The MPAA really does get a little crazy when it comes to over-reacting on intellectual property issues. Their latest move is to send out cease-and-desist letters to sites that host fan fiction -- not because those made up stories use characters, places and themes from real movies -- but because they use the (trademarked) MPAA movie rating system. That's right, if you happen to label your story as rated G, PG, PG-13, R or NC-17, you'd better watch out, the MPAA might come after you. Of course, they seem to ignore the fact that this system has become common around the world, is hardly taking anything away from the MPAA's own system (if anything, it enhances it), and also is useful in keeping age-inappropriate stories off the screens of those who shouldn't see them.

Top 100 Websites as Rated by PC Magazine

Top 100 Websites as Rated by PC Magazine 04/09/2004 04:00 PM
There are a lot of Gems in this list and a few you are already familiar with. [PC Magazine]...

Scam Within A Scam Warning

Scam Within A Scam Warning 12/22/2003 07:43 PM
There have been a ton of warnings about so-called "phishing" spam scams - where a very realistic email from a well-known financial firm asks you to confirm the details of your account. Of course, the email isn't real and the scammers just want your account details. They go through all sorts of tricks to hide the fact that the email isn't real, but the latest such phishing scam uses a bit of social engineering. It warns people about such scams, and then says they need to fill out new information to avoid being taken by such a scam. It seems the scammers are trying to get increasingly clever, and it's an interesting social engineering trick to try to get people to let down their guard by first warning them about a scam - and then scamming them anyway.

Finance Spam Passing Drug Spam While
Porn Spam Is Washed Up

Finance Spam Passing Drug Spam While
Porn Spam Is Washed Up 05/24/2004 05:37 PM
The latest study on spam trends appears to show that financial spam is outpacing pharmaceutical spam - though, honestly, so much of both is coming out that it's really hard to imagine that this matters at all. Meanwhile, it seems that porn spam is increasingly less interesting to spammers as the numbers have been on a noticeable decline for quite some time. No matter what, though, it appears that CAN-SPAM has done absolutely nothing to slow down the amount of spam sent.

Revenge of the Sith Officially Rated
PG-13

Revenge of the Sith Officially Rated
PG-13 04/11/2005 05:59 AM

Object relational mappings are
over-rated...

Object relational mappings are
over-rated... 01/01/2004 06:18 PM

... At least according to Tim Bray:

Lots of architects have learned, painfully, that you usually can't magick relational rows away behind object/class abstractions. The right way to think about a database is as a set of normalized tables that are designed to be addressed with SQL strings.

This brings in to focus something I've been thinking about for quite a while. I always try to abstract away the details of the data storage layer behind some kind of interface, so that none of my front end code ever has to make a direct database call, instead calling methods on my application objects with names like "get_user_by_id" or "get_blog_entries_for_date". The idea is that I could, if I wanted to, completely switch out the underlying data source. I should also be able to write new front-end functionality that calls the existing application layer methods without having to change anything in the data access code.

There are a couple of problems here. Firstly, I've already got a data abstraction layer in the form of SQL. Although there are many discrepancies between implementations, basic SQL statements such as selects and joins should work on pretty much any database. Additionally, in my three years of building web applications I can't think of a single time I've needed to change the data layer for an existing application.

Modern database features such as stored procedures and constraints allow you to move huge chunks of application logic that relates to data coherency in to the database itself. In fact, PostgreSQL even allows you to write stored procedures in third party languages such as Python or Perl. With carefully written stored procedures, much of the important application logic could live in the database along with the data itself - a concept comparable to object oriented programming where the data and the methods that can be run on the data are encapsulated together.

I certainly haven't made up my mind one way or the other, and at the end of the day the best approach is the one that gets a project completed in a reasonable time frame and that results in easily maintainable code. Plenty of food for thought, in any case.

"Keep the Sex R-Rated, N.Y.U. Tells Film
Students"

"Keep the Sex R-Rated, N.Y.U. Tells Film
Students" 12/05/2003 10:14 PM

Worst Cars Of All Time Rated

Worst Cars Of All Time Rated 01/26/2004 07:36 PM

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