So I’ve been doing a lot of bashing lately.. I just really hate when big companies change tactics because of competition. In this post, we have Facebook in the spotlight (yet again). What a fucking surprise, right? You’re probably asking yourself, wtf did Facebook do to piss Nito off this time?! Well, Aside from being a bunch of money hungry corporate assholes who can’t seem to understand that competition is GOOD for business, they’ve just fucking ripped Twitter off.

Some of my readers might not be aware of this, but Facebook attempted to buy out Twitter, who just turned around and gave them the bird. Facebook obviously didn’t like the tweet that Twitter gave them, and so here we are – Facebook attempting to make their network more along the lines of Twitters (This makes me lol hardcore).

Anyways, Facebook is (or maybe already has? I deactivated my account after the last rant about them) adding a function that will now allow you to ‘follow’ a user, instead of adding them to your friends list. Sound familiar? It should, that’s the way Twitter creates its users friends lists. So, was this at all neccesary by the people over at Facebook? Fuck no. They have a fucking friends list already, wtf would the point be in allowing others to stalk you too?

This is how I see it… Facebook sets all profiles, images, videos, etc. to public by default now and now they’re allowing ANYONE to STALK you.. Are they looking to get into the shithole as hard as MySpace is now? Have you looked at the stat’s between MySpace and Facebook lately? MySpace dropped dramatically, not only that, but now they’re downsizing their employee base.

I don’t know about anyone else, but I got on to Facebook because MySpace turned into a shithole over run with bots and kids that annoyed the fuck out of me. Facebook offered top-notch privacy, not allowing ANYONE to see shit about you unless you added them,a nd even if you did, you could limit what some people saw. And now they open the network, and allow stalking. For the fucking fail!

I can see the freelance boards now – “Looking for Facebook bot!” – “REQ’s: Must be able to auto-set follow and store addresses. Must also auto-post comments and auto-request friends!”.. You know, I see their next step in this piece of shit plan of theirs… “Hey, we should so totally allow anyone to post comments on peoples pages!”..

Fuck you, Zuckerburg, you greedy fucking piece of shit. You should have taken Microsofts offer- You’d of fit right in with the rest of the succubus staff there. You sir, are the fucking fail.

-Nito

There’s not many non-profit’s out there that catch our eye, but when we saw this one, we had to jump onboard. Brandon over at Soap Box Included is starting a free weekly newsletter that will run 12 weeks starting next week.

The newsletter will give advice on how to manage and pay off your student debt, as well as links to a weekly spotlight scholarship that you may be eligable for and available jobs. This is ofcourse, one of the biggest economical issues facing us right now. Millions of students and graduates, stuck under thousands of dollars in school loans.

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-Nito

A couple of my friends asked me if there’s anything they can do to deal with all the bullshit soliciters they get via phone calls. As a matter of fact, there is, and it’s not even that hard to do. As long as you’re legitimatelly pissed over the call, or are good at acting, there’s a way to deal with them.

Now, I’m not sure about all the phone scams, but I know about the biggest one out right now. It has to do with an extended warranty expiring on your car. I got this a couple times, most of the time I was sleeping when my phone rang (I’m a night owl), so I wasn’t coherent when I picked it up. But then they decided to call me around 9pm one night, and boy did I have fun with them =D.

So what I did was just wait until the message got to the end, and it tell you that you can press 1 to speak with a live rep (Most of them will allow you to go to a live rep) and some guy comes on the phone. He says a few words, and I listen, making sure to read into his tone, accent and what-not. So now I know, the guy’s either black or a mutt (Yeah, yeah.. I’m not one for the whole politically correct crap), he has an attitude (He talks with that ‘slang’ in his words) and he’s tired (low cracky voice).

As soon as he stops talking I start going off – this is essential. If you call up, and you politely talk to them, they will continue to call you. Now from here, I obviously want to get transferred to someone in a higher position, so while going off I slip in the words your supervisor, and after about two minutes I’m now on the phone with someone who says they’re the supervisor. Now that I’m here, I go off again, and then… I drop the bomb that rattles all companies – The Better Business Bureu. I learned that trick while I was in the Army. If something’s legally fucked up, and they won’t fix it and you drop the words “Lawyer” and “Better Business Bureu”, they start to listen.

Again, I’m not sure how every phone scam works, but this is what works for me when I get them, and after I do what I wrote in here… I’m forever off their list.

Until next time…

-Nito

I ran across this post from one of my followers on Twitter about how Facebook is scamming advertisers out of thousands of dollars with fraudulent clicks.. Advertisers are reporting 10:1 ratios, which pretty much means, for every 10 clicks, 1 is legit or actually recorded outside of Facebook. What a fucking piece of shit company.

See, there’s some times you need to keep some of your shit to yourself. If Facebook hadn’t opened their network to so many fucking developers, but instead charged them propietary fees to post their app’s and shit they wouldn’t need to pull stupid ass stunts like this. But then again, we’re talking about yet another online media community, which means that they’re nothing more than some money hungry suit wearing corporate douches.

In my honest opinion, advertising on Facebook to begin with is a fail. Sure, maybe you get a few legit clicks, but that fucking site is riddled with thousands of bot’s, which means that most of the clicks you get won’t be worth shit anyways. The advertising worth on that site is less than the towel I use to blow my nose with.

So for all you little investors, put your cash into other sites. You wanna get some cheap ass advertising, that’s going to get you a nice amount of clicks? You can go to Today.com or look for personally owned blogs with a couple hundred posts and a decent amount of subscribers. Send the owner an email, and make an offer.. I’m sure it wouldn’t have to be too big, since they probably don’t make cash outside of Google’s AdSense or some other low level advertising.

That’s it for now..

-Nito

I’ve been working on a new website based around spam posting. The website allows anyone to spam whatever they want. You can use it for free backlinks, spam your gaming clan/guild, or publicize your own website. There’s dozens of things the site could be used for.

A quick breakdown of the site and how it works…

The main page shows up to fifteen(15) random posts made for the current date or if there haven’t been any made, it will grab fifteen(15) random posts from the entire database.

The posting page has no type of Captcha, but does use a custom filter system to remove any harmful code or html type code. We don’t allow using html in any text areas.

Once a “spam post” has been posted to our database, the users IP is logged for security purposes. We then backcheck against that database to see how many posts that specific IP has posted. An IP is cut off from posting after four(4) posts in any given day. It then resets at 12AM server time.

The site has the potential to be an awesome free backlinking/advertising website. If you’d like to see the site in action, I’ve provided a link below.

The Spam Board

-Nito

I look at my email, and see an email from a company I don’t do business with. So I open it up and read it, and see what i already know to be a scam. Below is the contents of the email…

Dear [email address],

Your account is locked for outgoing transfers and credit/debit card payments therefore we cannot complete this transaction.

To unlock your account, you must restore your account. Please visit unlock.moneybookers.com and submin your information..

Thank you for choosing Moneybookers!

*******************************

Moneybookers Ltd., London, Registered in England and Wales no 4260907.
Registered office: Welken House, 10-11 Charterhouse Square, London, EC1M 6EH, United Kingdom.
Authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority of the United Kingdom (FSA).

So I go over the hyperlink (unlock.moneybookers), which says something completely different. So, I copy the link, and throw it into a safe-mode browser, and go there. As soon as I hit enter it redirects me to another site (agsoftware.ca) where they (I guess) attempted to clone the MoneyBookers site, except for the fact that all the links were set for that site. So, I go to the direct agsoftware website, and find it’s just a blank page (Obviously by now, if someone hasn’t caught on, they’re complete idiots).

So I document everything (links, email content, headers, etc.) and start writing an email to the actual MoneyBookers company, which can be found below…

Hello,

I’m sending this email to give your company a heads up, in case you hadn’t already been
aware. If this is actually sent from your company, I sincerely apologize, but you could
see the cause for concern with the URI redirects, and misuse of non-localized websites.

I recently received an email stating that my account was locked, and a transaction could
not be completed until I followed the enclosed link and unlocked it.

I have attached the email in .txt format, with the corresponding URI’s from each step in
their scam.

Have a great day.

Regards,

Nito

So, hopefully they can get that taken care of, before anyone actually starts handing out their information to the scam site, which could potentially ruin that company. Can’t trust a company that can’t keep its customers safe.

Anyways, if you get an email from MoneyBookers.Com, saying anything close to what’s in this blog, do NOT follow the link and put your login information in.

[EDIT]

I just got an email back from the actual MoneyBookers company:

Dear [Name],

Thank you for notifying us. This is a phishing attack against our website and we are already investigating the issue.

Best regards,
Moneybookers Security

Until next time,

Nito

Alright, so I stopped by Cyberstorm Gaming back in early May. It was still being fixed up when I stopped in, but you could already see that they we’re doing some epic shit there. Leather padded chairs, 40″ LCD’s, dozens of PC gaming stations, consoles ranging from Xbox 360 to Wii. This place is incredible – a complete one stop gaming center.

If you’re into multiplayer gaming and MMO’s and you’re in the Rochester area, you should check them out. From what the owner told me, they’ll be doing tons of events. Tournaments, lock-ins, etc. It should be an epic business venture for him, and an even bigger epic adventure for the gamers who finally get a haven to sit and play together without having to worry if their parents are going to start bitching at them for no aparent reason, lol…

Anyways, they’re located in the suburbs of Rochester, NY in the Henrietta Townline Plaza (You’ll probably pass it right over. It’s right after or before the bridge, with a big ass green sign in the front of the parking lot). 3047 West Henrietta Road is the exact address.

-Nito

So I got Push a couple of days ago. I saw the commercials awhile back and decided I should probably watch it. Turned out to be a pretty decent movie, even if it closely resembled Jumper.

Starts out in a hotel (I’m assuming that’s what it was) with the lead actor as a child and his father. The “Division” (which is the evil corporation that took over the Nazi’s experimental work to produce “gifted warriors”) comes in to take the dad back to their headquarters or whatever, but end up killing him instead. The boy escapes (obviously), and it goes to a scene inside of the divisions headquarters, where they’re using a sort of “enhancement drug”. The drug has killed everyone they’ve used it on thus far, but the one they test it on now lives and escapes.

They send “sniffers” to the lead actors apartment, and then a “watcher” comes and tells him she needs his help, blah blah blah… Fast forward to the next action scene, and there’s “screamers” that end up nearly killing him. The little girl (The watcher) finds him later on, and some lady who owes her mom a debt pays it off by fixing the guy up.

I actually don’t remember all of it, or maybe it’s because I’ve only been up for an hour and I’m still tired as shit. Either way, good movie, download it, rent it, whatever.. It’ll keep you intrigued if you’re into action flicks.

-Nito