2017-07-28 07:02
It seemed like a good idea. I run a Facebook page with over 400,000 followers, and selling a few t-shirts to make a few bucks seemed like a good thing to do. We ran a few campaigns, we sold… Read More
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2017-01-12 09:35
Legitimate sites serving up malware is nothing new. Some of the ad networks the big sites use don't scrutinize ads like they should, because money. They make lots and lots of money from ads… Read More
2016-12-03 02:33
Right about the time my Facebook fan page started blowing up, all the scammers came out of the woodwork. It's pretty much what you'd expect, from the "hey I wired you a bazillion dollars so… Read More
2016-11-30 10:46
Just like last time, I was looking up a movie (yeah, I watch a lot of movies) on IMDB when it redirected me to the URL below. Same "Urgent Chrome Update" message, and this time I noticed tha… Read More
2016-11-27 09:00
This is the second time in less than a week where I was looking at a movie on IMDB and it suddenly redirected me to an obvious malware link. Every couple of months I get a popup from Frontie… Read More
2016-07-30 06:17
Many laptops come with Bluetooth built-in, but it's super easy to add a cheap Bluetooth dongle to your USB port and use your computer to listen to music, or share files, which is the subject… Read More
2016-02-26 03:14
In a letter to its employees, Disney recently asked its employees to help corrupt politicians through the millions of dollars it spends on lobbying. Apparently that's not enough, because the… Read More
2016-02-16 22:00
Many of you will know Experian as one of the three credit scoring bureaus. This mega-corporation compiles vast amounts of data on every human being it can, all without their permission, and… Read More
2016-01-28 23:19
It's bad enough that Epicurious sends me email spam every day that I've been powerless to stop. But then, long after I tried to unsubscribe from their emails, they give my email to their sis… Read More
2016-01-25 04:40
Today I got an unsolicited email from Vanity Fair, who I have no relationship with, and I've never visited their site. But I noticed the email came from Conde Nast, which also owns Epicuriou… Read More
2016-01-22 00:36
GearBest was a decent seller for me, until they started with the shady behavior, which I'm the first to call them out for. So, I would avoid them if at all possible. I gave the full story on… Read More
2016-01-08 02:41
It's pretty simple in theory. People obey the law because there are consequences for not doing so. The problem begins when those "people" are large, multi-national corporations. Couple that… Read More
2015-12-03 03:19
It used to be just scammers and spammers would send you unwanted email. The CAN-SPAM act made it the law that companies had to provide an opt out process, and had to stop sending you email o… Read More
2015-11-20 02:41
Well, the FCC finally responded to my complaint. I wonder why big corporations like this can violate the law with no consequences, when, you know, there's no consequences. I'm really glad to… Read More
2015-11-02 03:56
For anyone who ever said "Siri is nice, but Apple isn't my flavor of koolaid," then you will like some of the recent voice commands for Google Now. The voice commands were rudimentary at fir… Read More
2015-10-30 08:57
From the day I started building USB power packs using 18650 lithium-ion cells harvested from laptop batteries, I've dreamed about replacing every single cell with brand new NCR18650B cells… Read More
2015-10-23 19:28
Almost a month after I unsubscribed from the Epicurious emails, they are still spamming me every day. So far I have unsubscribed, tried to contact them, and filed both FCC and FTC complaints… Read More
2015-10-22 23:39
CISA is a truly awful cyber security bill that has nothing to do with security and everything to do with mass surveillance. Earlier today I dismissed what I thought was a pop-over ad, until… Read More
2015-10-17 22:58
Well, I still continue to get email spam from Epicurious every single day. They didn't honor the unsubscribe request, and I've escalated to filing complaints with the FCC and FTC.Yesterday t… Read More
2015-10-13 09:46
The other night someone said "OK Google" to their phone, and every phone in the car responded with that "blunk" noise which means Google is listening to you, and all of our phones searched f… Read More
2015-10-11 22:38
This is a continuation of my first post about epcurious.com sending me unwanted spam emails every single day. I tried unsubscribing, I tried the official email contacts for their domain, and… Read More
2015-10-11 00:19
Friends and family often comment on how nice it would be to have a blog big enough to fight back against bullies like spammers, scammers, shady businesses and all other companies and people… Read More
2015-10-08 23:05
Some companies have a lot of nerve. As some one who loves to cook, I went to their site and registered about a year ago, I don't remember what for. I also don't remember getting any emails f… Read More
2015-10-08 06:44
I'm a big lover of Amazon Prime. I place orders all the time, and most of the time with Prime, it make sense versus driving to somewhere like Target and paying a little more. Why spend that… Read More
2015-09-26 23:00
It's honestly not surprising that I would get hit with denial of service attacks after calling out spammers and other companies for poor behavior. The bigger shock wouldn't be getting this s… Read More
2015-09-14 05:24
I've done some searching on the Google-machine and it looks like I am not the only one having problems with my videos hitching and stuttering after my computer. My mouse was stuttering too… Read More
2015-08-28 21:15
All I wanted was a paper bank statement so I could use it to establish Oregon residency. I need something official looking with my address on it and a postmark so that I can get things like… Read More
2015-08-13 22:53
Companies like Microsoft, Apple and Google should be the champions of our privacy. But these companies throw us under the bus just like every other company.Windows 10 ups the ante by taking… Read More
2015-08-01 22:16
I've been saying this for a while now: Most big businesses at some point have just dropped all pretense of caring about their customers in the name of short term profit.Today I was in Target… Read More
2015-07-23 05:08
Most companies have just dropped all pretense of pretending to respect their customers. The goal of most companies these days is to grab your attention and get you to buy something before yo… Read More
2015-07-23 05:08
2015-07-20 19:50
A couple years I did a couple small orders with miniinthebox.com and I've regretted it ever since. The orders actually shipped and were fine, but I've been constantly email spammed by them s… Read More
2015-06-24 22:32
You are sitting at your computer surfing the web like the time waster you are. You click on a web site link and the web site comes up. But another tab opens asking you to take a short survey… Read More
2015-06-10 22:56
Early TV was free. If you owned a television set from the 1950's all the way up through the early 1980's, free programming was the norm. Most people understood it was free because sponsors p… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
They've been calling my work number almost every day. Never the same phone number twice, in fact never the same state twice. They claim be calling from "account services" and ask… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I have this game where I try to keep phone scammers on the line as long as possible. I consider my time valuable, but I figure if enough people string them along and waste their time, then t… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
A decent camera is just part of the setup you need to take closeup pictures of small objects, which I do for a couple of my blogs. It's a natural progression: you start by taking whimsical p… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I do believe in an emergency she would save her Kindle firstThe missus was very happy to get her Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 for Christmas this year. But a few days later she came to me with it and… Read More
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