Today I got a piece of spam sent to the email address that was only used for communication with allofmp3.com. In case you have forgotten, that was a shady music seller who sold MP3 music files by the megabyte, but was eventually shut down through pressure by the US trade representative. The spam [...]
Entries from August 2009
allofmp3.com rears their ugly head
August 13th, 2009 ·
Tags: The internet · security
Even more spam from scientific publishers
August 12th, 2009 ·
Today I got another spam from ACM, plus a spam from “World Scientific Publishing” that tries to look like they are acting on behalf of Purdue University. I have appended the one from World Scientific Publishers in the hopes that it will shame them into avoiding spam in the future. Why would Purdue [...]
Tags: Economics · Rants · Research
United frequent flyer scam
August 1st, 2009 ·
Has anyone else noticed how the airlines have steadily devalued frequent flyer miles over the years? I just cashed in some miles to fly to Boston on United, and after much hassle with an arcane web site, managed to secure some economy seats. United has something called “Economy Plus”, but in reality, they [...]
Tags: Amusements · Economics · Rants