It’s not every day that one of the top visited websites in the world seems to go down for most everyone, but when it does, it’s kind of incredible. In this case, as I type these words it’s 8:30 in the evening central time and YouTube has decided to go down. Well, not completely, you …
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The Dumbest Scammers Of 2017
Been a good long while since I did anything regarding tech support scams. Rather than another typical video of a scam in action, I thought it would be fun to share this compilation by YouTuber Jim Browning, certainly one of the most thorough and mature scambaiters, where he shows what he feels were the dumbest …
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The Internet Reacts To Photobucket’s Stupidity
As we discussed the other day and as you probably well know by now if you’re even reading this, Photobucket eliminated hotlinking on all but their most expensive account forms, basically ruining untold numbers of blogs and other websites across the web, and the internet, needless to say, isn’t taking kindly to this. Now, that …
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People Get Offended Over A Microsoft DeadRising 4 Email!
As an Xbox gamer, this is an email I actually received, and thought not much of it: The email, entitled “GGGGGRRRAAAAARRRRGGGHHHH” somehow, in some way, offended people! Okay, more correctly, apparently there was a version that used the text “NNNNNGGGGHHHHAAAAAA” In either case this is an innocuous advert for a zombie game which just happens …
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United States Congress Blocks Yahoo!
In a piece of interesting news that crossed my radar last night, it looks like the United States Congress is blocking access to Yahoo, all because someone feel victim to a phishing scam. That’s right. Someone in the United States Government, in a major legislative role, mind you, fell victim, in 2016, to some (as …
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Display Scaling: The pain continues.
So, upon waking up today, I learned that Nvidia had released a new driver set (295.73). Cool, after waiting 2 months, I had another chance to get my video card scaling working again. Wrong. These drivers behave identical to the previous set, or indeed, ANY driver set I try to use: they simply refuse to …
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