Sunday, April 29, 2012
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Thursday, March 29, 2012
"How Do I Know That Hashem Still Loves Me?"
http://breslov.org/ask-a-breslover-how-do-i-know-that-hashem-still-loves-me/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+breslov+%28Breslov.org%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher
The above is a nice article to read, especially now during Pesach preparing time.
The above is a nice article to read, especially now during Pesach preparing time.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Computer Jew's New Home.
Welcome to my new blog! I decided it would be better to take advantage of Google's free blog hosting than my previous arrangement. Lots of posts were lost, but I don't think I had many readers that would miss them anyway. :) Anyhow, welcome blog readers!
Monday, September 19, 2011
Baruch Dyan HaEmes
My grandmother, Goldie Levine (Golda bas Avram A"H) just passed away. Baruch Dyan HaEmes. She was like a third parent to me. When I was in the hospital, she constantly asked about my well being, and when I failed out of college, she told my parents that they must give me a second chance and convinced them to do so. (I failed again, but it wasn't at all her fault.) Also, when I was a child, I spent a few summers with her in South Carolina, where she passed away at the age of 92 just a few days short of her husband's (A"H) yahrtzeit.
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Sony Security: Victim and Perpetrator.
I just got a message saying "A child of yours has created an account for Clone Wars". Apparently someone harvested my email address and is doing who knows what on a multiplayer game MMORPG game for children. (A lot of this sort of thing is scam artists and gold sellers on an MMORPG.)
I called up Sony, concerned that someone might be using my email as their identity to do illegal/immoral acts on it, or even something like a child predator who I could get in trouble for, and they at first told me "don't worry, someone probably misspelled their email address (even though their "handle" looked suspiciously random, lots of numbers) . After some firmness on the phone with them, they said they'd cancel the account, and even sent me an email message confirming that the account was canceled.
Today, several days later, after being informed the account was closed by them, I just got another message from that game, saying "your child has selected the nickname "Anakain Lightsayber" Apparently Sony Online, so recently the victim of a security break-in, doesn't mind if their free2play MMO game for children is used by scammers / child predators / whatever using other people's email addresses. I wish I had a lawyer on-call so I could make it stop. I always suspected that all many MMO game companies cared about were subscriptions, and that's why gold sellers, botting, and scammers thrived on all but a few of them, This confirms that. Unfortunately, this means that Sony Online is being a party to identity theft, and other criminal activity perpetrated against children as well, instead of just a victim of it as the well-publicized break-in of Sony's lax security demonstrated recently.
I called up Sony, concerned that someone might be using my email as their identity to do illegal/immoral acts on it, or even something like a child predator who I could get in trouble for, and they at first told me "don't worry, someone probably misspelled their email address (even though their "handle" looked suspiciously random, lots of numbers) . After some firmness on the phone with them, they said they'd cancel the account, and even sent me an email message confirming that the account was canceled.
Today, several days later, after being informed the account was closed by them, I just got another message from that game, saying "your child has selected the nickname "Anakain Lightsayber" Apparently Sony Online, so recently the victim of a security break-in, doesn't mind if their free2play MMO game for children is used by scammers / child predators / whatever using other people's email addresses. I wish I had a lawyer on-call so I could make it stop. I always suspected that all many MMO game companies cared about were subscriptions, and that's why gold sellers, botting, and scammers thrived on all but a few of them, This confirms that. Unfortunately, this means that Sony Online is being a party to identity theft, and other criminal activity perpetrated against children as well, instead of just a victim of it as the well-publicized break-in of Sony's lax security demonstrated recently.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
HTC HD2 Mango Beta 1
I installed a more recent version of this, and didn't choose the white wallpaper, but anyway... I figured this video was a lot more interesting than looking at my phone display a bunch of rectangles in a photo, and a lot less trouble than pulling out my own video camera. ;-)
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