so – there’s some buzz going on (yes, I’m a few days behind) about AOL and Yahoo letting companies pay (them) to send spam… but disallowing spam otherwise…
what?
If you could dis-allow it, do so. If your plan is put into effect, that means more spam in the inbox. It makes no sense. (links below)
AOL/Yahoo Email Tax to Stop Spam: Why It Won’t Work – Gizmodo Yahoo and AOL Announce Pay Per Spam Email Project | Threadwatch.
I’m seeing a lot of articles (and people at work are linking me to even more) warning people about the new Google Desktop Search; like: Google Copies Your Hard Drive – Government Smiles in Anticipation
Google today announced a new “feature” of its Google Desktop software that greatly increases the risk to consumer privacy. If a consumer chooses to use it, the new “Search Across Computers” feature will store copies of the user’s Word documents, PDFs, spreadsheets and other text-based documents on Google’s own servers, to enable searching from any one of the user’s computers.
I read the following blog post linked from slashdot. It is part of the blog for SiteAdvisor… a tool for testing for adware / spyware.
Those of you who still run into problems with adware and spyware, you might want to try this app out… it couldn’t hurt (unless it was a really clever double-agent type scam to get you to install it. no – i don’t think it is….. yes, it might be.
I have looked for this information before, but the planets have aligned and I was able to find what I was looking for.
Here are complete instructions for how to download Real Audio streams and convert them to MP3 (or really, whatever) format:
Windows Linux Note: there is actually much more useful information on those pages if you were interested.
The tool for Windows is Flashget and for Linux, it’s simply mplayer.
I got a phone call today, supposedly from DomainRegistry.com.
Unfortunately, though suspicious, I did provide my street address… I resisted, but he read it off to me, and I confirmed it… what are you gonna do? Also, I suppose he knows my phone number, since he called me on it.
Then he gave me the 800 number 800-591-7398 (8005917398) as a number to find out more about what they are offering.