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RFC 1480 (rfc1480) - The US Domain

2005 Mar 30, 12:44Description of the hierarchy of the US top level domainPermalinkCommentsdns reference rfc internet

HTTP State Management Mechanism

2005 Mar 28, 10:47This document specifies a way to create a stateful session with Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) requests and responses. It describes three new headers, Cookie, Cookie2, and Set-Cookie2, which carry state information between participating origPermalinkCommentscookie reference rfc development internet http

Client Side State - HTTP Cookies

2005 Mar 28, 10:46Netscape's definition of cookiesPermalinkCommentscookie reference development http internet specification

RFC 3490 (rfc3490) - Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA)

2005 Mar 28, 10:31PermalinkCommentsrfc reference development idna internet uri punycode

DNS related RFCs

2005 Mar 28, 10:30List of links to RFCs related to DNSPermalinkCommentsrfc reference development dns internet

"Official" list of URI schemes from IANA

2005 Mar 27, 6:12PermalinkCommentsrfc specification uri reference internet

RFC 2616 (rfc2616) - Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1

2005 Mar 27, 6:09HTTP 1.1 RFCPermalinkCommentsrfc specification http reference internet

RFC 3986 (rfc3986) - Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax

2005 Mar 27, 6:06URI RFC (latest)PermalinkCommentsrfc specification uri reference internet

W3C HTML Home Page

2005 Mar 27, 6:03PermalinkCommentsw3c rfc specification html reference internet

Penny Arcade - Green Blackboards (And Other Anomalies)

2005 Mar 27, 5:14Gabes Greater Internet Fuckwad TheoryPermalinkCommentscomic penny-arcade fuckwad humor

Phishing

2004 Aug 19, 2:52I received an email from verification@citibank.com the other day with the subject "Fraud Check Verification". Or at least that's what someone at the jumphk2.net domain would have me believe. The whole official looking email was very convincing at first glance. There's the Citibank logo image up in the left corner, the reassuring TrustE image in the opposite corner, and just the right amount of legal-ese on the bottom. The text requested me to follow a link in the email to update and verify my information. At closer examination however it becomes apparent that this is a scam. Little things start to catch your eye. The TrustE image is hosted on ebay and the Citibank logo is hosted at 65.108.92.50. Both images one might expect to be hosted on Citibank's site. The link in the email looks like its taking you to https://www.citibank.com/saw-cgi/citibankISAPI.dll?PlaceCCInfo but in fact its taking you to a page hosted at 65.108.92.50 again. The following sentence appears in the email:

If your account information is not updated within 48 hours then your ability to sell or bid on Citibank will become restricted.

Oh shit! My bid on Citibank might not go through! Seriously, they might have gone to a little more effort than just copying and pasting a scam letter meant for EBay. And the number one fact revealing the email for what it is -- I don't have a Citibank account. I had received an email exactly like this several months ago and just deleted it, but for some reason, perhaps I was in a foul mood, I decided to do something this time around. I emailed abuse at my domain, the ISP controlling their IP address, and Citibank. My domain told me there was nothing they could do. Citibank has yet to respond. As for their ISP, the following day I received an email from Leon at Alabanza's Abuse department informing me:

This account has been locked down and is now on schedule for deletion. If we can further assist you please let us know.

Fuck yeah! This was a lot better than anything I had expected. I anticipated no response from any of the letters I sent. The page is gone now. Leon rocks!PermalinkComments

Worry Beads

2003 Mar 1, 5:22Today will produce the Mardi Gras parade in my town. I haven't been the previous two years, but I'm considering it this time around. San Luis Obispo, as a college town, contains many teens and young adults who enjoy occasional festivities accompanied with inebriation. San Luis Obispo, as relatively cheap beach front or at least near beach property, contains many vacationing elderly. As we all know, voting increases proportionally with age and, as such, any person under the age of thirty in public after dark is arrested. Mardi Gras is yet another of the bouts in the battle between the Youngsters and the Old-timers in the SLO ring. I will be very happy when this quarter is over. Chemistry may yet have a happy ending, but I don't know that Technical Writing can. I don't believe any grade in that class would make me think, "I'm glad I spent all those weekends working on that report". The quarter's end will also mean I can devote some time to my attention starved Polytope Tetris project. As a side note, I was tempted to, yet again, not write in the journal on account of my poor attitude tonight. However, a journal of one entry does seems a bit slim.PermalinkComments

MAKE | Proscribed Printables

1969 Dec 31, 8:00Its 3d printer models for a AR-15 magazine and an apparently critical part of the AR-15 that can't be sold without a license. They need to get to the point where no one can imagine their life without a 3d printer before they start into this territory... Over on BoingBoing Just_Ok writes: "1st amendment + 2nd amendment = The right to print arms."PermalinkComments3d printer gun law diy
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