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Dating Site fraud for fun and profit...
by Fred at Thursday November 8, 2007 03:09:38
Hey folks, here's one that's worth talking about... Have you seen the "World Dating Partners" program? I hadn't although as a sometime online dater I had apparently seen some of their wares.

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by at Friday September 10, 2004 12:11:10
太陽が世界を明るく染め始める頃。珍しく早起きした私、ベルは・・・

Online Privacy

by at Tuesday November 4, 2003 10:45:55

To paraphrase the old cliche, there appear to be three sorts of people in the online world. Those who will trade their privacy for colored trinkets, those who jealously guard their privacy and those who have no idea that they have any privacy, what it might be worth to them (or in a slightly more sinister manner, someone else) or indeed how to protect it. Here then is a short discussion about the privacy implications of our our online and to a lesser extent offline behaviour.

More spam as an entertainment medium...

by at Wednesday September 10, 2003 02:09:17

Too bizarre to believe. Here's another one doing the rounds. If the press is to be believed this guy is legit. He really wants to buy these things and in an extension of the economic theory that suggests things appear once a demand for them exists, he's attempting to create demand... (or more succinctly a reverse "if you build it they will come"). Just another view of what happens when you fail to detect the line between the real world and Star Trek I guess.

Does Terrorism work?

by at Tuesday June 24, 2003 01:31:27

Just been watching yet another current affairs piece about Arabs and Israelis blowing each other up and generally being shitty to one another. This on the back of Muslims declaring war on non-Muslims at large, bombing discos, destroying buildings and generally acting up. Serbs and Croats devastating their own country but only after letting the Lebanese and Irish show the world how its done properly first. Terrible tragedies all, as are the events that drive people to try these things. But I have to ask... does anyone think this shit is going to work? Has it ever.

E-Commerce 101
by at Friday May 30, 2003 17:02:36
Online stores are doing less well than their bricks & mortar progenitors we hear... Well fancy that. What could it be? Oooh I know. Most of them are in desperate need of a clue... This then is one mans attempt to provide that sorely needed clue.

Spam as an entertainment medium

by at Tuesday May 20, 2003 11:42:01

We all get spam. Its like some strange birthright granted us when we sign up for an internet connection. And most of it is quite bizarre. (Just how many ads for penis enlargement do I really need? Per day? Is there something they're trying to tell me?) But occasionally, when the truly bizarre arrives, its frankly entertaining. So here then, is one man's tale of 120-something spams that arrived at a single mailbox one Saturday afternoon...

What the heck is all this about?
by at Sunday May 18, 2003 16:16:59
You've come here and you're undoubtedly wondering what these pages are all about then? After all, who does he think he is? What makes his opinion(s) so important? Why should you bother reading them? In order then, no one special, nothing, and perhaps you shouldn't.

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