“I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.” – RFK
Posted in Fraud on Jul 17th, 2007
Tweet Sunrocket (my VoIP service provider) quietly called it quits yesterday. Normally, a company going bankrupt will already greatly inconvenience their customers. Sunrocket’s exit however, just absolutely takes the cake. The CEO Lisa Hook, who only got the job less than 16 months ago, suddenly resigned last Friday. Without notifying any of Sunrocket’s subscribers or [...]
Tweet Straight from Jim Zhuang @ Google China comes one of the more hilarious education fraud stories that has come across my IM window. IMPOSTER CAUGHT High school graduate pretends to be a Stanford student, even living in the dorms, buying textbooks and ‘studying’ for exams Azia Kim was like any other Stanford freshman. She [...]
Tweet If you use the internet regularly, I’m sure you’ve mistyped a URL at least once or twice, and come across a webpage with nothing but useless links. This is actually a phenomenon called “domain squatting”. Almost every single domain name that remotely sounds like a word, or even the combination of two words have [...]
Tweet Students often complain they are treated as nothing more than a collection of standardized scores and their GPAs. Well, it turns out adults are similarly judged by numbers, the most prominent of which is the credit score. Everyone from employers, banks to landlords use credit scores to get a quantiative measure of one’s “trustworthiness”. [...]
