I told you to watch out for phishing sites, but it is evident that thousands of MySpace users don’t read my blog. Some hackers collected scads of user emails and passwords for the LOL horde and then posted them (amongst other places) here.
Don’t get your hopes all too high. I tried a few and it seems like most of those have been reset with the rest most likely soon to follow. Though you may think it is cool to change some poor jockish lacrosse player kids listed sexuality to “gay” — and it is cool — the window has probably passed.
Or has it?
Thing about kids is they don’t like filling their brains with seemingly redundant information like multiple passwords. Simple logic has that if a password is secret, then why have a different one for every damn online service out there? So if you really have nothing better to do than to fuck with already fragile egos, see where they check their email (probably Yahoo, Hotmail or AOL) and try out their password.
Okay pedophiles, now’s your chance to SHINE!
Aside to MySpace: you should really alert these kids (and they are mostly kids) that they should change ALL of their passwords.
From Marketwatch:
On Friday, Google (GOOG489.75, +1.92, +0.4%) said it was to invest $600 million to build a data center in Lenoir, North Carolina, and create 210 jobs in one of the region’s less-well-off areas.
Predicted Lenoir County Metrics:
- There are going to be approximately 210 rapes,
- and then approximately 210 people migrating back to an area of actual population.
- After that, there will be at least 210 lawsuits.
- Sometime after that, Google will be moving 210 or so jobs to another location.
(from the archives of Guy)
“Have you ever wondered if the Christian image of heaven is true? Like you die and there’s Saint Peter and he’s itemizing your tally of sin?”
“All the time. I mean, I was thinking about limbo just the other day. Like, the idea that sins are weighted differently and the amount of time you spend in limbo depends on the summation of those weights blows my mind. Stealing is what I was thinking about in particular. Like how much worse is stealing a thousand dollars than stealing a hundred. Is it ten times worse? What if you steal one dollar from a hundred people vs. a hundred dollars from one person, is the first way worse than the second? Does personal finance have anything to do with it? What if you steal a hundred dollars from a millionaire? How bad is it to steal if you are already rich? What if the money you are stealing is going to feed your family? How poor do you have to be for it to be okay? What if the person you are stealing from stole that money themselves? What if that person is just evil in general like a killer or something but is not a thief? What if that person stole from you, is it stealing to steal it back? How bad is stealing an essentially value-less but heavily sentimental trinket? What if a theft leads to a victims death, like they can’t pay for their heating or something, is that like a murder on Saint Peter’s check list? What about your age? I mean I stole a ton of stuff when I was a kid like I was a bona-fide klepto. Will that stuff count as much as if I were to steal the exact same things from the exact same type of people now? Or what if you don’t mean to do it, like you accidentally take a pen from the bank. I’ve done that. I’m sure you’ve done that. I mean, we’ve all done that.”
“…”
“Haven’t you done that?”
“I was trying to find a gentle way to tell you it’s your turn to clean the litterbox.”
The evening began with two flat tires (one was the spare). I just make it from the auto shop to the Cradle on time only to find the show is delayed an hour. The night before was over an hour late, so this is an improvement.
Minutes after the doors open there’s a fight out front. David overheard people talking about it; it sounds like the story is some guy was going to give a beggar some money when another guy comes up yelling, “don’t do that, man! He’s just going to spend it on crack!” (Though I’ve been accused of hating the homeless, I assure you this wasn’t me.) The aspiring benefactor and the unwelcome interjector come to nose-breaking blows.
I take a break from bartending just in time to break up a fight. One of the dudes ends up staying and, drunk as ever, is being a total douche. I ask one of the blond girls he is harassing if she wants me to do something about him, but no, she doesn’t. (Perhaps she thought I was an over-enthusiastic oi-boi.) This act must have sparked something as the pair found reasons to be around me the rest of the night. Totally flattering until Kevin says at the end of the night, “oh man, did you see those two blond girls? They were hitting on me all night!”
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Reggae kept me up last night at the Cradle. After work my usual parking spot is taken so I park in a neighbors. How could they possibly need that spot between 2:45 and 8:45 AM? Lo and behold, a note on the car indicating that they’ve taken down my license plate number and are keeping a really close eye on me. I mean, are you kidding me? They didn’t need the space for that off-peak time. That’s just staking claim just for the sake of staking a claim. As a result I was cranky all the way to work. To counteract this I thought some caffeine was in order, but the usual company coffee just wouldn’t do. My bright idea (in a brain-addled way) was to float a tea bag in my cup to give it an extra kick; I’m calling it the Floatea. You really should try it — it’s horrible.
CNN reports on a recent study which demonstrated that the perceived attractivness of a man is augmented if it is shown that other women find that man attractive. This was achieved by showing women test subjects pictures of men with women looking at the men. In the photos where the women were smiling at the men the male subject was considered to be more attractive.
What the article fails to mention is that recently a follow-up study was conducted in which pictures of women with men smiling at them were shown to women. The women’s reaction? Images of women garnering male attention appeared 10% fatter and as much as 20% “slut[tier]” than the control group. The findings confirm the researcher’s initial hypothesis.
Engadget recently had a piece comparing the words Steve Jobs used in his keynote speech compared to speeches by Bill Gates and Michael Dell at their respective conferences. I found it interesting that Jobs, though describing incredibly sophisticated features, used significantly easier words and much shorter sentences.
One reader pointed out to me that someone undertook the project of mapping keywords in speeches delivered by Bill Gates to a timeline that you can slide around to see which are more popular in a given era. A project worth their effort? Who knows. Interesting none the less. I enjoyed seeing the shift from “computer” to “computing”. It speaks to me the state of the market. At first, Bill was trying to sell the idea of a “computer” to people. After a while, most had a computer so he had to let them know how Microsoft would help with “computing.”
Here, I wrote a little ringtone for your iPhone. That has a nice sound, “ringtone for your iPhone ringtone for your iPhone.” I could say it all day.
It wasn’t announced, but I’ll bet the iPhone will let you use any mp3 or aac for your ringtone. Sure, the phone will cost $500, but with ringtones going at $2 a pop, it’ll pay for itself!