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lupita nyong’o - academy awards 2014
lupita nyong’o - academy awards 2014
Are they hand-coding the Oscars website as they roll up to it? What’s all that CSS over on the right?
Watch out for this Netflix “tech support” scam
Jerome Segura has been tracking tech support scams for a year, documenting the ploys he's encountered. But even this one found him unprepared.
"Combining a phishing scam with a fake tech support call center is something that I'd never seen before," the Malwarebytes senior security researcher told Wired.co.uk. A video of the find shows Segura trying to enter a fake Netflix login on the streaming service's homepage, only to be presented with a notice telling him the account has been suspended, and telling him to call a fake tech support number.
He dutifully called up and was asked to download "Netflix Support Software"—really the remote control software TeamViewer, which allowed the scammer access to his system. Once he had hopped on, the hacker told Segura he'd been hacked. In fact, the scammer said he'd been hacked nine times, with one coming from Serbia, four from Russia, three from China, and one from Italy. It's all part of a tactic to instill fear and get the user to comply, explains Segura. Like when the helpful voice on the other end of the phone showed him a scan of apparent hacker activity—which was really just custom-made Windows batch script.
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It's Another Boy for Gwen Stefani, Gavin Rossdale - NBC New York
firehose'Apollo Bowie Flynn Rossdale' ... 'Bowie and Flynn were their mothers' maiden names'
It's Another Boy for Gwen Stefani, Gavin Rossdale NBC New York A representative for Rossdale has confirmed that the musicians on Friday welcomed their third son, Apollo Bowie Flynn Rossdale. Rossdale tweeted news of the birth Saturday and said Bowie and Flynn were their mothers' maiden names. Apollo's brothers ... and more » |
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Police Jargon and Metaphysical Malarkey in True Detective
firehose'when you tell them their body is a paraphilic lovemap you are getting laid for sure'
The good folks over at Slate put together a nice little glossary of terms from the show which may leave some folks scratching their heads. You may be a whiz at navigating your way around M-brane theory but do you know what a 419 is? What about the "psychosphere"? That sexy someone at the party might be impressed by your knowledge of Carcosa but when you tell them their body is a paraphilic lovemap you are getting laid for sure.
    
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Steam powered mobile bathing house of King Alfonso XIII, St. Sebastien beach, Spain 1908.
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It’s good to be the king.
Just read that again
"Steam powered mobile bathing house"
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Opting Out of Dropbox’s Arbitration Clause
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Tiffany Bridge, on Dropbox’s Drobox’s new terms of service:
Allow me to summarize what it means when a company wants to handle all disputes in arbitration:
No matter what they do (delete your data, privacy breach, overcharging, whatever), you don’t get to sue. Instead, THEY get to choose the arbitrator according to whatever criteria they want, and thus any dispute is decided by someone they’re paying.
Also, you can’t join a class-action suit against them. Which sounds like no big deal, but when a company takes advantage of a bunch of people all in the same small way (incorrectly assessing a service charge, for example), class action is how companies are made to clean up their act en masse, instead of waiting for thousands of people to call them up and demand their $20 back or whatever.
I’m not a lawyer, but it seems clear to me that opting out is in your best interests. I did.
From Independence Day — the “virus” that Jeff...
firehoselike some weird combination of java, gobbledygook, and assembly
From Independence Day — the “virus” that Jeff Goldblum uploaded to the alien mothership after he and Will Smith were docked inside their trojan spacecraft. I think this particular program was invented for the movie - it doesn’t conform to any syntax I’ve seen or can find.
Sled Dog Perfectly Mimics Humans Saying “Blah, Blah, Blah”
A sled dog in Kiruna, Sweden perfectly mimics the humans saying “blah, blah, blah” who have gathered around him in this video taken by Wells Johnson while on a Spotify employee trip. Interestingly enough, the husky standing beside this vocal dog keeps completely silent, unlike others of the breed.
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Don’t you love how reporters love to forget what their jobs are and like to attempt to put things in people’s mouths?
Idiots. (And a month ago half the people asking questions like this didn’t even know where Ukraine or the Crimea were.)
A Look Back At Just How Silly The Tech Industry Has Become
firehose'I’ve argued before that Silicon Valley is more like Hollywood than people realize — VCs as producers, founders as directors, most everyone desperate for blockbuster hits — and the Valley today is like the Hollywood that Goldman was talking about, the Hollywood of the 1970s, when nobody knew what might become a hit and so an anarchic wave of auteurs flooded the scene, Spielberg and Lucas and Coppola and Easy Rider and even, God help us, Zardoz, because producers were throwing money at everything, because nobody knew anything.'
RapGenius is clearly the Zardoz of tech
Image Comics Publisher Calls Women “The Fastest Growing Demographic” In The Industry
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This is one of those things that's so in line with what we're all about here, it's hard to not copy-paste the whole shebang. Yesterday morning, at the ComicsPRO Annual Membership Meeting, Image Comics publisher Eric Stephenson gave a speech on expanding the industry's appeal. Stephenson spoke passionately about advancing the medium, and talked at length about how both publishers and retailers need to focus on bringing in new readers. His remarks on one group in particular were highly relevant to our interests.