Sit up and pay attention, there will be random pop quizzes later — and if you fail one, your “teacher” will probably steal a good portion of your wealth, with no guarantee that you’ll ever get it back. (I’ve been on the receiving end of credit card fraud three times myself, and I’m ridiculously careful …
A little creepy, but it looks delicious. And it just goes to show that you really can find absolutely anything on the Internet. 😉
Got any burning theological questions? Now you can get them answered… sort of. They really should put a warning on it though… “iGod cannot authorize crimes, crusades, or jihads.” 😉
I’m sure some of you have been following the Wikileaks news recently… how the founder and spokesperson for the organization, Julian Assange, has been arrested in England, over an accusation in Switzerland. There are reports, which I haven’t been able to confirm, that the US is trying to criminalize Wikileaks retroactively and get him extradited, …
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I’ve mentioned that the blog has been hammered with spam attempts recently, but I thought nothing of it — it happens every now and again. And I thought that my own e-mail inbox was getting an abnormally large amount of spam as well, but GoddessJ’s young cousin recently had her Yahoo e-mail account hacked, so …
Some spammer’s automated spam-bots have targeted Geek Drivel over the past few weeks, for reasons unknown. Well, okay, the surface reasons are obvious — but since they haven’t managed to get a single spam published, despite weeks of effort and hundreds of attempts per day, you’d think the spammer would notice and turn them to …
This is the kind of thing that just wasn’t possible before the Internet. No single organization had the data needed, not even the government in some cases (and in others, only the government, who could manipulate it or keep it secret if they wished). Even now, only Google and maybe a handful of others have …
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Our cell phone company has just started adding a $2 charge for any customer that still receives a mailed bill. They’re promising to donate an additional $2 to a charity for any customer that goes paperless, too. I expected this sort of thing to happen years ago. Companies have been touting paperless billing for more …
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I’ve talked about IPv6, the “new” Internet addressing standard, a few times here. It’s a fairly geeky subject, but since it’s one that underlies the entire Internet, it’s kind of important. Apparently the US government just woke up to the problem. A little late to the party, guys.
You don’t need to see his URL. This isn’t the page you’re looking for. Move along. 😉