Re: Twitter Profit House Review (reviewopedia)

This is really funny. Reviewopedia has a new "review" up about another scam. Here's what they have to say:

These people will stop at nothing to legitimize their offers as shown by the way they advertise their products. The classic characteristics of these campaigns include using fake blogs, developing websites to resemble newspaper articles, and using IP reading scripts to regionally customize their offers.

Fake blog? Doesn't that sound familiar? Reviewopedia itself is essentially a fake blog. In fact it is more of a fake community review site. Posing as a review site where people could share opinions about various opportunities, it is in fact all written by one author, Steve Albright. Every article ends the same way: "This opportunity is a scam, but check out mine." Steve collects your email address with a link at the bottom of every article and then sends you his "opportunities". One of them, partnerwithpaul is COMPLETELY deceptive. (see my post about partnerwithpaul) As it turns out, partnerwithpaul is just a way to charge you money and then tell you to join Herbalife. His other opportunity, "operation payday," looks like a clone of partnerwithpaul.

But what about those comments at the bottom of all the reviewopedia articles? They are cherry picked. Notice how they all agree almost 100% of the time. Besides, whether or not Twitter Profit House is a scam is not contested. Sure it is. But Steve Albright is attempting to take advantage of those who make an effort to research it. Of course, no comment exposing HIM would EVER get through on his own site.

See more details on reviewopedia and the scam trend.

Myspace phishing alert: false positive

Myspace did something stupid again. They automatically blocked my account, labeling it as a phished account. They think I entered my log in details elsewhere on the internet and it was collected by spammers.

Problem is I didn't. And now they want me to change my password again?



The false positive is because I replied to a message that was from someone who was phished. It contained a link that was obviously trying to install a virus. I was telling them to get their account fixed. The reply automatically contains a quote of the message and ergo the virus link. Because I sent a message containing a virus link, myspace has automatically declared me a phished account.

Teleportation

Until today I found the current understanding of teleportation to be disturbing. A copy of you would be made while the original was destroyed and, along with it, possibly your soul or your soul's connection to the universe. But today I have read more about the subject that changed my mind. The destruction of the original is inherent due to laws of quantum mechanics. In order to make the "copy," the "original" has to be destroyed.

This is what I didn't understand before.

I had thought that a copy would be made, and the original destroyed as a convenience in order to prevent problems of two people with the same identity. Clone and kill. Disgusting.

But this is different. Your state is perpetuated, never existing in two places at once, and never ceasing to exist. Just as it would if you were never teleported. I believe the soul travels with this perpetuating state, not with the atoms that comprise it. But I would like there to be a greater understanding of the relationship between the soul and the universe before this is taken as fact.

Scientists of today do not often speak of souls. Instead they have observers. To me, the soul is the observer and it is the single most fundamental aspect of existence. Everything known comes through perception, which is observation. To me, a vivid dream is more real than a distant spiral galaxy.

It is of utmost importance that the soul (or its connection to the universe) be preserved throughout any use of technology. Otherwise, it's not really you coming out the other end. Much like the movie "The Prestige," this has disturbing implications.

This is exactly what I found to be disturbing about teleportation until today. But today I find that the quantum laws that do not allow this information to be copied without being destroyed, nudges my intuition towards the concept of soul as a function of structure state. Here I speak in math terms because they are familiar to me and are analogous to the current situation. The state of the structure of your mind is what determines which particular soul is plugged into it. The output of a function is not ambiguous, it either has 1 value or 0. The soul is determined by the structure of your mind without ambiguity. And the mind perpetuates itself into the next instant in such a way that the same soul is output. This continuity would not be interrupted by a teleportation process that recreates the structure exactly.

A possible test would be teleporting a person and storing their information. Then recreate their structure twice. If both persons have the same soul, my intuition is confirmed.

Fanbox! Jeez!

I kept getting these annoying emails from fanbox. They give you the option to change the frequency of your mail between receiving mail always or never so I changed it to never. But I still got their stupid emails until I found the link to permanently delete the account they had automatically made for me. Jerks.

Sweatguy

this integral will make you sweat

Often Imitated Never Duplicated

Irony Completed

Jim in the box

I saw a weird Jack in the Box commercial featuring Jack's incarcerated and lopsided brother Jim. I thought it might be some weird pun about his incarceration being "Jim in the box" so I searched for the term. Instead, I found a bizarre youtube of a clown feeding wasps to a guy chained to the floor.

More Bad Drawings

Return of Classroom presenter

its back!

3-space

Death of YTMND?

Just like Expage and then Ringo before it, YTMND, a site that relies on user-created content seems to be suffering greatly in popularity. It reached a peak in 2006 and has been declining ever since, the novelty having worn off. You can see a comparison at google trends of YTMND and 4chan, another site with apparently a similar fanbase. YTMND seems to be just another fad now although it once surpassed 4chan, 4chan has surpassed YTMND several times over. YTMND was the source of a lot of internet jokes that are continually repeated today. I was pretty into YTMND for a while, I was well known on the forums and had a prolific portfolio of nearly 200 sites on my main account and dozens more on other accounts. I was even a mod. But the question remains, will YTMND suffer the same fate as Expage and Ringo? Doubtful, I say. For one thing, YTMND is far less commercial. The owner, Max Goldberg, has emphasized that he prefers to run smaller sites, rather than larger ones. So he will probably enjoy having YTMND become a smaller community of friends and die-hard fans. He has also complained about server costs and such too.. So maybe he will shut it down. Who knows? Another example site by Max is http://www.dustindiamond.com which stood against the test of a lawsuit from Dustin himself. Good luck YTMND. I still check back every now and then. I wonder if this is a microcosm of what will happen to the likes of youtube and myspace given enough time. Web 2.0 has not been documented long enough to know what fate these sites will ultimately realize. Sites that are driven by user created content can easily go under when people get bored of the same old content being repeated. Then a new site comes along that offers new ways to post content and they all leave. Which means the original site loses what little new content it was receiving. Perhaps this is a new phenomenon that could be called "content saturation."

Flip Phone

Blue Brain: A thinking computer?

Blueprinting the human brain

Research has already started on a computer simulation of a human brain. What will happen when this is completed? A computer running through the motions... just so happens to create what we would call a thought? If the computer is truly running an accurate simulation of every cell in the human brain, then another way of looking at this is that the computer is thinking like a human. Would emotions manifest in the data? Happiness? Love? More possibly threateningly, greed? Ambition? Would it have a soul? (Or is a soul something more than what can be contained by a number of brain cells?)

Hmmm perhaps I should bite my tongue. It's only a matter of time until they would hook it up to the internet and it could find my blog...

Infinity 800 scam

Infinity 800 is a naked pyramid scheme. It barely does anything to hide the fact that it is a pyramid. Take a look:





A 2X2 Matrix here refers to a pyramid which must be 2 levels deep, each level doubling in size. The problem of course is that for any new member to achieve payout, they must recruit more members. When you join, you pay $260 for 2 figurative hot potatoes that you have to pass on.

As this continues, an increasing fraction of members will receive payout, however it will never exceed 1/4. When the system stops, more than 3/4 members will never see a single payout.

Now you might be thinking about this as being the same as a $260 lottery ticket. But that doesn't quite sum it up. In a lottery, you buy your ticket and wait to see if you're one of the lucky ones. With Infinity800, you have to actively find other people to pass the risk on to-- most likely people who trust you. You're taking advantage of someone else's trust AKA scamming. No matter how you look at it, the joining members are on the short end of the transaction.

Don't get sucked into this scam. They will tell you that once you complete a pyramid, the people below you will cycle and you will keep getting payouts for the rest of your life. Don't be fooled, each cycle requires more and more people to join, increasing exponentially. You cycle when you complete a pyramid, but for you to cycle again, the 2 below you then have to complete their pyramid, then the people 2 levels below you have to complete theirs! That's 6 times the number of pyramids that must be completed for you to receive payout #2 as compared to payout #1 which requires one pyramid (which is hard enough, and will already make you feel enough like a scumbag). The next cycle is going to require 24 pyramids. Then 96, 384, 1516 and you can see where this is going (multiply by 4 for each successive payout).

Most of the people you talk to won't want to join, those who do probably won't build their own pyramid, and even when they do, it only takes a few lazy people (or people who just decided they don't want to scam anymore) to be a weak link in the chain-- essentially shutting down the cycles.