but this one actually has some merit.

McAfee has a "test your phishing IQ" quiz.

http://www.mcafee.com/phishing_quiz/

10 out of 10 here. It's not terribly difficult, but some of them you kind of have to know what to look for.

Hopefully everyone knows what that is. If you don't, or if you didn't know it actually has 4 verses, or if you're just feeling vaguely patriotic, it's after the cut.
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I am no longer boiling water for a living (nor working rotating shifts). Starting monday, I am a Test Engineer at XKL, LLC. Go me.

for those of you who were *just* about to offer me a job, but I'm off the market.

(Pending a background check, anyway.)

Every time I read some personal development goo-roo (or pretty much anyone else) say, usually wildly inaptly, something like "it was a Zen-like experience" I want to hit them with a stick.

If that doesn't make sense to you, you probably shouldn't be describing anything as a Zen-like experience.

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It's spring cleaning time, and we're getting rid of a fairly large number of books, especially mediocre F/SF, or even good ones that we know we'll never read again (since they've been sitting in boxes for three years in some cases). If you want to paw through them before they go off to half-price books, send me an email at ssandv (at) gmail (dot) ( Read more... )

1)I would like my friends to decide whether the President is a bumbling boob or a brilliant, scheming manipulator who is fooling everyone and lying all the time. If you think he is both, put away the Blake Edwards movies. Real life isn't like "The Pink Panther". (Or go play the old Infocom Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy game. There was a ( Read more... )

not just Germans. (From Der Spiegel)

Evil Americans, Poor Mullahs

Tagline: Forty-eight percent of Germans think the United States is more dangerous than Iran, a new survey shows, with only 31 percent believing the opposite. Germans' fundamental hypocrisy about the US suggests that it's high time for a new bout of re-education.