a few links

[cellio]

How to pass for Canadian (link from mabfan).

What you risk by legalizing gay marriage (link from nancylebov).

Feed the phishers (link from brokengoose). This article suggests that a way to increase the cost of phishing scams is for everyone to respond, giving bogus data. Sure, when the phishers send out a million pieces of email they'll get a hundred suckers, but which hundred amidst all the other responses?

Conflict resolution, a good commentary on Parsha Korach (by aspaqlaria).

Comments

Notes from living on Canada's border.

[dagonell.livejournal.com]

1.) Tim Horton's photo is in all his shops. In Canada, he wears a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey; in Buffalo, a Sabres jersey.
2.) Canada bars vs. American bars
a.) 1 AM closing vs. 4 AM closing
b.) good beer vs. er, beer
c.) 18 drinking age vs. 21 drinking age
d.) dancers, naked and in your lap vs. topless and 10' away
[This is based on my college years, some things may have changed]
3.) A request for a $1 bills in Canada means you want your change in American cash if possible.
4.) It's not unusual to go over at noonish, just for their Chinese food.

Love the gay marriage and phishing links.
-- Dagonell

Re: Notes from living on Canada's border.

[cellio]

2.) Canada bars vs. American bars

Does Canada have blue laws like we do? Or can you get a beer on a Sunday there?

On feeding phishers

[(Anonymous)]

Phish-feeders have to be careful not to get bitten. Spam displaying a URL may be trying to get people to access it so that the site can exploit a security flaw and download malware onto their computer. Always disable JavaScript, ActiveX, and automatic downloading and opening before visiting such a site. Alternatively, use a "dumb" browser such as Lynx for such sites. If you aren't sure you know what you're doing, don't open a suspicious URL in a browser.

Re: On feeding phishers

[cellio]

Excellent point. I don't think I'd personally be comfortable going to any spammer's or phisher's web site, though if I did I'd use Lynx. I've seen a few phishing schemes that request an email reply, and I'd be willing to feed them from a bogus email address (using mailinator). At least in theory; I haven't actually done this.

Re: On feeding phishers

[madfilkentist]

I don't know why that warning comment came out anonymous; I was the one who posted it.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link, but my handle is nancylebov--it ends with V. It looks as though lj has helpfully changed things by no longer giving you a failure notice when you put a non-existant handle in a user tag.

[cellio]

Whoops, sorry about that. Fixed now.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Thanks very much.