I must admit, it’s a big week around here. The college football season begins in a big way this weekend. I resolve, as usual, not to wind up like Arlo above. I know it’s all a big racket, and I’ve certainly been critical of big-time college sports in the strip over the years, but then, doggone it, my alma mater has a year like last year. It certainly was one of the most interesting seasons ever; even non-sports fans were watching the replays and talking about the end of the Auburn-Alabama game. It’s going to be another exciting year for us, I think, but there’ll never be another last year.
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Debbe – right back atcha!
Should I expect to see any hacked-from-Apple-iCloud nekkid pictures of any villagers on the InterWebNet? 🙂
Not unless they sneak a camera into my bathtub 😛
One can never to be too careful, Munchkin. 😉
http://www.hisupplier.com/product-691700-kajoin-Shower-Nozzle-Rack-Hidden-Spy-Camera-DVR/
Oh, I know. I am very careful. That’s why nobody cleans my bathroom but *me*
Amusing article, TruckerRon; thanx. My response to an ID10T like that would have been similar to yours: ask him how he expected to trouble-shoot my computer when it runs Linux instead of Windows. I guess that the prevalence of such scams is just one more reason not to use anything from Microsoft because it makes stuff like that so easy to spot.
I was at my Mother’s home and answered the phone. Keep in mind that she is 89 and practically deaf. The guy on the phone said that he was calling about a problem with our computer. I should have tried to sell him some Amway laundry soap, but I told him three times that there was no computer in the house before I hung up.
Thanks Debbe.
Dang, I can’t get anything to post
Ghost, this girl has no nekked pics on the internet, only Polaroids.
Actually, I have posed nude for paintings and drawings before, for The Boss Of My Life. Ain’t saying where you can see them, though 😛
The MBH received a call a few days ago in which the caller said that her computer was sending out error messages. This seemed doubtful to me; can such a thing even happen? The only error messages I associate with a computer is the one whereby I don’t get to see my requested page. To boot, said computer had been turned off for a full day or so.
In any event, the MBH didn’t buy the story but did thank the person (to get rid of same) saying that she’d relay the information to our son, a 25-year experienced computer pro. He said, in so many words, that the call was hogwash.
I checked the phone number from which the call supposedly came – being aware that caller identification numbers can be faked – and it was a number assigned to some college in NC.
Anyone have similar experiences about “error messages”?
PS: Our phone number has been unlisted for some 30 years. Sure, it can be found on the ‘net, but not at all easily. How would someone receiving error messages be able to associate a given phone number with the computer source? I’d think it a lot more likely for any such recipient to respond by computer rather than by phone, anyway.
Every computer and mobile device has an individual IP adress assigned to it. Search IP tracker or trace on the internet, you will the realize how easy you are to track. Use a WiFi router or modem? They broadcast an IP adress all the time. Any one with a smartphone and free app can locate their signals by just driving the streets.
Use a robo-dialer to call all possible landline nuumbers to find which are active and customer type(Home, fax, business, modem). Do an internet search to find basic owner information.
I am no hacker, just internet knowledgable. Have located people I’ve not seen in forty or fifty years. Can you imagine what the NSA or a criminal could do?
As I reported recently, my call was from a non-native English speaker who ID’d as “Windows Support” who had “gotten into my computer” and “found some errors”. Not having time to mess with him and yank his chain, I simply told him to get out of my computer and stay out out it, seasoning that demand with a couple of English words he may possibly have not heard before, before hanging up.
I’ve done a lot of things, but I’ve never posed naked for a boss. 🙂
She says I am the perfect model, apart form talking all the time. 😛 She just finished a watercolor of me reclining on a fainting couch last month. I really like it.
Como se “fainting couch”?
Fainting couch (n) – What Southern ladies endeavor to be near whenever they come down with a touch of the vapors.
Is this you, Munchkin?
http://alegriaonline.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/goya_maja_desnuda.jpg
Nope, I am much slimmer and prettier 😛
I would hope not. Gravity being what it is, the Nude Maja must have a rigid right implant of some sort, or a massive benign fibrous tumor, maybe on both sides. De gustibus etc., but I think she’s ugly. Lots of lesser but observant artists have done better. Not speaking from theory, but practical, bilateral experience, with happy results.
curmudgeonly ex-professor, Windows asks your permission to transmit error data anonymously to the company so they can track and eliminate problems with the software. They don’t call you to fix an individual computer, they send out those periodic updates based on what they determined is a problem through the use of the data they collect. And you can always decline when it asks, and turn it off it is on. Probably under tools.
I found one that is slimmer and prettier, but it’s an actual photo, and rather detailed, so…
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