Saturday, June 26, 2010

Star Wars 2 Part 5

I see a strange parallel to what is going on at the end of this clip (about 9:00) regarding democracy, dictators and the past president's remark that a dictatorships are not good unless he was the dictator.

Friday, June 11, 2010

You have version (Adobe - Flash Player)

This is the page that will show you specifically what the version number is for the Adobe Flash Player installed. I tried to highlight the text 'You have version'as it says to do for Sidewiki, but this text may be 'Flash Text' because it is not registering like it normally does.
At this time I am being shown that I have version 10,1,53,64 installed for my Vista Home Premium 64-bit OS running the Internet Explorer version 8 web browser. I had read that this version 10-1 is suppose to support 64-bit machines.

in reference to: Adobe - Flash Player (view on Google Sidewiki)

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Two Breaks sometimes equals a Paragraph

This is my second selection from TheThemeSong DOT com site. At least this time I got something, but still don't understand what the word 'song' has to do with this. I think the HTML programmer (or maybe this was compiled automatically) intended to have a line break (or maybe two that is like a paragraph command) just before the sentence that starts as 'Based on the book by Roberto Saviano....

Strange there is NOT a single period used in that entire description. Possibly further indicating the this was not done by a person? Maybe it was data mined?

in reference to:

"br"
- Gomorrah movie theme song - The Theme Song (view on Google Sidewiki)

This selection does not have anything

Teacher's Pet movie theme song
No description available 115 hr

The above information is all I got on this page. This was one of their choices from the main page.

TheThemeSong DOT com may be a bogus site. I will check some of the other choices out to see if I can get anything.

in reference to: Teacher's Pet movie theme song - The Theme Song (view on Google Sidewiki)

Saturday, June 5, 2010

'Cleaned Up' for some is 'Thow Out' for others

This cleaning has removed features like for me being able to blog directly to LiveJournal. I use to be able to select which playlist to add a video by the keyboard letter and the first letter of my playlist, but no longer. I have tried to find out why or who to contact about LiveJournal not being supported but YouTube may have become ThemTube.

in reference to:

"Cleaned up actions bar: Actions like sharing, rating, saving or flagging a video are now all grouped in one place, with a cleaner, simpler "button bar." We thought a lot about practicality here, choosing to expose only the most commonly used actions and language"
- YouTube Blog: The Video Page Gets a Makeover (view on Google Sidewiki)

Ratings and Help Section

In the help section it still speaks of a 5 Star system and I was trying to help a government site that is probably very confused because it also has the 5 Star system (which apparently a Terms of Service Agreement with Google has specified) may be one of the reasons it has not been deleted.

in reference to:

"Simplified binary ratings: As we noted in an earlier blog post, the rating system on YouTube doesn't really work that well (e.g. only the 1 and 5"
- YouTube Blog: The Video Page Gets a Makeover (view on Google Sidewiki)

Friday, June 4, 2010

Spoofing and Emails - From or Form

The monthly report from my Norton program suggested this link regarding email security, but has confused me. They have called this "Form spoofing" and I quote:

Form-spoofing is annoying, but it’s not dangerous. It’s the sender entering your name and address into the From field in their mail program instead of their own. Outlook, for one, makes this a snap. During the setup process, when asked to enter one’s own email address, spammers choose this option.

Since the name of the game for spammers is hiding their tracks and making sure you receive their mail, from-spoofing is natural. By putting your address in the From field, they obscure the true sender and nearly guarantee that your spam filter won’t block their email.

[end quoting]

I searched for both "Form spoofing" and "From spoofing" and I think this problem with email is best described as 'FROM-SPOOFING'.

This article on Email spoofing makes no mention of "Form spoofing", but does mention "from" and "Reply-to" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spoofing).

in reference to:

"Form-spoofing is annoying, but it’s not dangerous. It’s the sender entering your name and address into the From field in their mail program instead of their own."
- Cybercrime News: Expert Q & A - Your Security Resource (view on Google Sidewiki)