University of Phoenix: We don't know where we got your address (2006/07/26)
On June 27th, I got spam from University of Phoenix. It was addressed to “Dear Dawn”, but used my regular email address. A couple of emails and contact-us forms later, no luck.
[read more...]Bob Jones and the memory hole (2006/07/22)
One of the key components of Christian teaching is metanoia, or repentance. That means admitting your faults, because if you won’t admit them, you can’t really correct them. Even if you change your behavior, if you can’t admit it was wrong, you’re not changing yourself, you’re just bowing to superior firepower.
[read more...]Reflections on trusting TRUSTe (2006/07/20)
So, there’s this thing, called TRUSTe. They “certify” privacy. What’s that mean? Well, it means about the same thing for privacy that a diploma mill does for education. It’s not that a TRUSTe logo tells you nothing; it’s that it is a good indication that you are dealing with someone who could not otherwise hope to convince anyone that they would be safe.
[read more...]How I stopped liking the Red Cross (2006/06/29)
Okay, so a while back, Studio Whipping Boy did a charity drive. We picked the American Red Cross, because hey, everyone knows they’re legit, right?
[read more...]Suncoast: Shut up and eat your spam. (2006/06/12)
I’ll say what can be said in their defense: It wasn’t technically illegal.
[read more...](214) 279-0990 (2006/05/12)
So, here’s the thing. You can spoof caller ID. There are several ways to spoof it, but all of them depend on the cooperation, at some level, of the phone company.
[read more...]MoveOn's "email tax" meme considered harmful. (2006/04/25)
One sees, occasionally, reproductions of a heartfelt, probably sincere, dire warning about the coming Email Tax, in which AOL will soon destroy all good and innocent people by forcing them to pay email. It’s censorship, of course, because it’s backed by secret cabals of Republicans wearing special tinfoil hats which let them know when to falsely report the mail as spam.
[read more...]The statute of limitations. (2006/04/15)
Sex allegations oust Gloucester Catholic teacher, read the headlines, and her heart skipped a beat. Had he finally been busted?
[read more...]Ready-made child-sized coffins. (2006/04/13)
That’s the Problem of Evil, right there, in a nutshell: Child-sized coffins are ready-made. They don’t need to be specially commissioned.
[read more...]Woo! I'm high-functioning! (2006/04/11)
So, a friend of mine recently put up some self-scoring Asperger’s tests, implemented based on some tests he foeund as PDF documents.
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