By Mark O’Neill A dangerous legal precedent could be set if a woman is convicted of harassing a clinically depressed girl on MySpace to later commit suicide. This is because the only crime in which prosecutors could charge the woman with was violating the MySpace Terms Of Service contract (TOS) which you agree to when […]
By Mark O’Neill Now here’s the situation. There’s a domain I’ve had my eye on for the past several years but the current owner has had an “under construction” sign on it for as long as I can remember. About two years back, I started emailing him, asking him if he ever planned to use […]
By Mark O’Neill This article in the New York Times really struck a raw nerve with me because it is a touchy subject in my life at the moment. The article is about spammers who are moving their harassment from emails to the cellphone (or mobile phone if you are in Europe). Never a day […]
By JR Raphael Contributing Writer, [GAS] Break out the bubbly: Spam is celebrating its 30th anniversary this weekend. And my oh my, three decades later, how the annoyances of the internet have changed. Where it all started The message considered the first unsolicited mass e-mail went out to unsuspecting inboxes on May 3, 1978. A […]
By Mark O’Neill No, the title of this article is not the way it sounds. I’m not advocating anything illegal. I’m not offering any fake passports or dodgy driving licenses. But instead, when you’re filling in another one of those endless web forms asking for your contact information, instead of giving them your actual details, […]
By PatB Contributing Writer, [GAS] Gamers in China, desperate to get their powerups by cheating, are seeding Microsoft IIS servers with exploit code that will steal game logins. So far the mass attack has hit over 500k webservers. Brian Krebs has the details, including some of the high-profile webservers affected at his blog on the […]
If you ever need to download a file from RapidShare be warned: You may have to spend several hours trying to decrypt their CAPTCHA pictures in order to download a file. Each displayed letter contains the picture of a cat or dog. To proceed with a download, you’ll have to type in only the letters […]
Here’s a great 3 minute video tutorial on how Greasemonkey, a Firefox extension what lets you run user scripts on almost any html page you want, can help you fix sites that really annoy you, such as myspace.
By Mark O’Neill Russia is a country that I love but it is also a country that fills me with despair. While it is rich with history, culture and wonderful people, it also can’t decide whether it wants to be free or whether it likes to be stamped on by a dictator’s foot. It seems […]
By Mark O’Neill It’s not often that I am speechless. Whilst perusing through the New York Times Technology section, I came across a story about a search engine specifically for black people, called RushmoreDrive. I thought it had to be a joke and I checked the calendar to make sure it still wasn’t April 1st. […]