The phishing attack crap and filled-in form is above above.

If you post a resume you could get phished. I used Linux, Thunderbird and Konqueror to have some fun. I filled in the blanks with crap. I believe it is fairly safe to do so.
__________________________
The original email message:

Because9of9unusual1number7of7invalid7login4attempts1on7you4account,9
we0had0to9believe1that,8their5might7be3some9security5problem7on7your8
account.2So1we3have9decided3to2put2an2extra2verification3process0to0
ensure0your4identity1and8your9account0security.8Please9(click here) to8
continue4to7the1verification4process3and9ensure2your1account2security.3
5
Thank2you6for8your4patience9in0this8matter.9
0
Bank9of4America1Customer7Service

__________________________________________

Their online form is better each time they do this. Unfortunately for them they are not accustomed to American language usage. Note the lack of possessive for MOTHER; it should be MOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME. Note the password sent in clear as part of the URL in the URL address bar. I entered die_asshole_die as the user and killPHISH as the password. Look at their crappy grammar in the email message. What idiots. I removed the web page that I was directed to via the click here link.

I like to use the number 6 frequently as it is part of the number of the beast in the bible even though I am not a Christian.

Profanity gets the point across. It is a powerful exclamation point.

Too bad I cannot have the opportunity to unload my .45, 12 ga or something similar in their specific direction (not general direction). I need some target practice. I prefer moving targets as it is more of a challenge.

"Vatican Condemns Saddam Execution"

Comments responding to

"Vatican Condemns Saddam Execution"

Amos,

I agree with you. As a recovering Catholic I looked at the history of the Catholic Church and was ashamed to call myself Catholic. I applaud your speaking up.

If we do not remember our history then we will repeat it. Even if it happened MORE than 1000 years ago. The Catholic Church dominated for many years by killing or having 'governments or monarchies' kill for them any opposition.

I also know the Bible well enough to duke it out with the Baptists, no mean feat that!

A little-known fact is that the Church encouraged the killing of children with birth defects such as being a hermaphrodite. I am waiting for two hermaphrodites to attempt to get married. Should we deny marriage to someone born with both male and female genitalia?

Paka.

Scroogle, an alternative to Google without the data retention

An email to my friends:

All,

You guys probably know by now just how political and paranoid I am. I have never been comfortable with what I have learned about Google and its ties to the CIA and other US government agencies. Furthermore I do not like the loss of freedoms because of King George and a cowardly Congress.

Google retains a record of ALL searches along with your IP address. That means that the government or business partner or former lover or whatever or whomever could get access to these searches LINKED to you or your family. I like my privacy. I don't care to have the government know that I may have looked at naked women, learned how to grow better pot, tried to find dirt on a politician or accessed legal information for example. In other words Google could be asked to provide all internet provider IP addresses for all persons who looked for better ways to grow pot and then come knocking their (your) door with a search warrant. That would not be a stretch for King George and his ass-kissing Supreme Court that he packed. Congress has been kissing his ass for some time now as well. Hopefully that will change in a week.

I discovered Scroogle and will use it from now on. I like what they do and it is really simple to use. Later I will use TOR to surf the web anonymously when I have the time to set it up. I do not like snoops and snitches.

King George and his ilk have been trying to get all internet searches and other personal information retained by the internet providers for a period of years or more so that they can look for "kiddie porn" access. Let me tell you that is a farce. They want ALL information retained. Type in your SSN and see if anyone has it anywhere on the web and that is retained (along with your IP address). Names of friends typed in Yahoo people search will also be retained. Look for tax information and that will be retained and the assumption could be made that you are attempting to evade taxes. George Orwell (the book 1984) would be proud.

So if you feel like I do then look at this site and protect your privacy. Pass it on if you can.

If you forward this then please delete the email addresses that came with this before sending it on. That will protect the privacy of the previous recipients. Thanks.

Information came from Michael Hampton at:

http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/10/30/google-intelligence-cooperation-reprise/

Scroogle here: http://www.scroogle.org/

and Scroogle search scraper here: http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm

and Yahoo search scraper here: http://www.scroogle.org/scraper7.html

http://www.scroogle.org/donatesc.html when I have a job and a few bucks to send.

There are two reasons why an ad-free scraper of Google's main search results is important. One reason is personal, and the other is political.

On a personal level, your support for Scroogle says that search engines should not be tracking you and retaining this information indefinitely. Not only does Google scrape much of the web, but they keep records of who searches for what. If information about your searching is accessible by cookie ID or by your IP address, it is subject to subpoena. This is a violation of your privacy. Someday Google's data retention practices will be regulated, because Google is too arrogant to do the right thing voluntarily. In the meantime, you should not be leaving your fingerprints in Google's databases.

There are other proxies that can protect your privacy on the web. Almost all are general-purpose proxies that cloak all of your web activity behind an IP address that is not easily traced to your service provider. One is Anonymizer.com. A possible problem with this one is that the founder, Lance Cottrell, has connections with the FBI and the Voice of America. It also costs money for a reasonable level of service. Another is Tor, which is much more secure. But it is also slow, because Tor is a complicated system that needs networks of volunteers to run server software. Juvenile surfers from video pirates to rogue Wikipedia editors tend to clog free services such as Tor, which slows them down even more.

Since Scroogle does just one thing, it is fairly fast and simple. But because it does only one thing, it is vulnerable to action by Google. They could block our IP address, which would require that we relay requests to other servers that are more difficult for them to locate. They could also centralize their system more in order to better detect and throttle any outside address that does too many searches per minute. Finally, they could make minor changes in their output format on a regular basis, which would break our scraper and require frequent reprogramming. Any of the above might quickly get too complex and expensive for us, and that would be the end of Scroogle.

One action that Google is less likely to take is to serve Scroogle with a cease and desist letter. This introduces the second reason why Scroogle deserves support. As a nonprofit with a history of activism on privacy issues, it would be difficult for Google to sue us on the grounds that their search results and rankings are copyrighted. The main reason for this is that we are noncommercial. None of our sites has ever carried ads, we have zero employees, and our gross annual income is about $10,000. Our lack of commercial intent strengthens our claim that we have the right to scrape Google. It's obvious that we are doing it in the public interest.

Showing Google's results without their ads is another political statement. About 99 percent of Google's total revenue comes from ads, and these are ruining the web. Thousands of "Made for AdSense" domains are spewing garbage. Since these sites need content to trigger Google's ads, they steal it by scraping legitimate sites, or generate their own by purchasing junk from bulk writers. Meanwhile, click fraud is rampant. Zombie botnets are used to click on ads. If you cannot afford to buy a botnet from some shady character, then you can contract with someone in a country where labor is cheap. They will hire people to click on ads all day at below-minimum wage.

It's time to stop pretending that Google's revenue model is anything more than a temporary bubble, and it's time for Google to start developing more socially-responsible sources of income. Showing Google's results without the ads amounts to more public-interest advocacy. It says that the web spam situation is intolerable.

We remain vulnerable to blocking, throttling, or breaking by Google, which unfortunately is legal if they decide to stop us. But the longer Scroogle exists and the more our traffic grows, the stronger our statements become. We cannot survive many more months without at least one more server, even if Google leaves us alone. While we could apply for foundation grants, our experience tells us that foundations are about ten years behind on Internet and other high-tech issues. Any funding proposals we send out would strike them as bizarre and incomprehensible. It's not worth our time to send out proposals to foundations.

That leaves us asking lots of Scroogle users for small contributions. Searchers who prefer Scroogle are making a unique statement about important issues. Nothing else we know of is making the same points as effectively.

After Shootings, Some Teachers Get Guns

Here.

"If someone's going to get into this school and harm the kids, there needs to be an immediate and deadly response," said Nick Pond, a teacher. "That could be an amazing deterrence to anyone who wants to harm kids."

Hooray, some common sense. I WANT to retain the option of being able to shoot back. Bullies are homicidal, not suicidal.

That is why I urge all law-abiding citizens to get a concealed carry permit as you will never know when you will need to defend yourself or a loved one. I have a variety of guns so that one is appropriate whenever I carry one. Some will fit into my pocket. For home defense my favorite is a Ruger P90 .45 with laser. Very, very accurate and whomever intrudes my home without permission will not, and I mean not, testify in court against me as I will not shoot to warn or wound them.

Remember that in the US the police are under no, and I mean do mean no, obligation to rush to your defense. This is according to the United States Supreme Court. They don't have to leave their donut shop of choice to protect you. You are on your own.

UK gallery scraps art, fearing Muslim rage: curator

Details. "

PARIS (Reuters) - A London gallery has decided not to show some works of art because it fears they would upset Muslims, a curator said on Friday, a week after a German opera house canned a Mozart production for the same reason.

The director of Britain's Whitechapel Art Gallery decided to remove works by surrealist artist Hans Bellmer from an exhibition the day before it was due to open, one of the museum's curators, Agnes de la Beaumelle, told Reuters.

"The motive was simply to not shock the population of the Whitechapel neighborhood, which is partly Muslim," she said."

Muslims, get a life. You say that your leaders are non-violent. Bullshit. Every rock, every bomb, every bullet proves how violent your religion is.

Microsoft warns software pirates

CNN. Gates started as a thief. Just because he was not charged with a crime does not mean that the civil lawsuits mean nothing. He and his company have been sued time and time again for theft of someone's software.

Who says crime does not pay.

I am glad that Linux exists as I WILL not buy Vista. It is a piece of crap with all its anti-theft features. Who wants a piece of software that can cripple itself on a whim if it thinks it has been tampered with?

Gates is trying to keep kids from stealing his crap. What a laugh.

chicken-shit son of a bitch

Molest my child and die! No excuses. No reasons. You will die.! you son of a bitch...

My .45 is vey accurate. Very, very accurate. Very, very accurate. Good enough to blow off your fuckin' head. Be afraid, be very afraid...I shoot for the head in case you are wearing body armor.