Microsoft is suing a trio of Vancouver Fraudsters: Eric Lam, Gordon Lam and Melanie Suen. Click-Fraud is rampant in the pay-per-click advertising industry, as anything that people can do to rip others off for money easily will be. The lawsuit is for $750,000, though it allegedly cost Microsoft $1.5 Million in repayment to advertisers. Vancouver [...]
Well, another reason for me to HATE APPLE. See.. for about 3-4 months, I’ve been blaming my PC and network connection issues with TCP/IP and doing all sorts of things to try and fix the network problems I have been having. Basically my problem was this: Any sort of FTP or HTTP Browser window or [...]
I used to use IX Webhosting, but have since switched to MediaTemple. I kept up an IX Webhosting account just to keep my backup sites on it and to use it for developing websites for some clients, but even with the limited use, I have found that IX Webhosting is down what seems like 50% [...]
Apparently us Canadians are amongst the worst of all the First world countries, logging in over 65 times more illegal downloads than legal ones! That’s interesting to know as we are one of the worst countries for intellectual property theft, and it is somewhat embarassing, though I cannot say that I have never done it [...]
eBaY is shutting down its Vancouver operations centre, which employs around 700 people in the Greater Vancouver Area. They say that it is meant to improve efficiency at the silicon valley Giant, but I’ve been watching eBaY’s model change, and I believe that the new changes will put the company in the ground. With niche [...]
Funny.. My mother sent me an article in a Canadian magazine called “Profit” about how to Optimize your websites for SEO purposes – this was the second article the magazine published, and was called Google Grabbers 2. It’s a fairly recent article, and she gave me the article about a week ago. In the last [...]
There were lots of really complicated was of detecting if I had conficker, and while I didn’t think I had it… its always something I would be paranoid about. I found a great simple visual eye checking guide that tells you if you have conficker by simply visiting the webpage and displaying images that use [...]
We’ve all heard of wikipedia, but have you heard of Uncylopedia? Uncylopedia is a wiki that has some of the most entertaining articles I’ve ever read. Its touted as a content-free encyclopedia, but really is just a comedic parody of Wikipedia. Uncyclopedia and Jarome Iginla See.. being from Vancouver, I’ve never really liked the Calgary [...]
A 52-Year Old Saanich Man was arrested along with 50 others across the country in an Canada-wide investigation into Child Pornography. The man was arrested earlier this week, and involved a group of internet users that swapped images and files online. Several computers and digital storage devices along with hard copy prints were seized from [...]
I find it amusing when exploits in Mac’s security are found, as there are just as many exploits in the software as there are in Windows, yet Mac users are always trying to discredit any findings… saying that they are irrelevant to the actual security of the machines. While some of this may be true, [...]