Archive of January 2009
FAUConcealed.org » Young Woman Decapitated at Virginia Tech
A short article related to the recent tragedy at Virginia Tech
12:53 AMFAUConcealed.org » Two Women Assaulted at FAU
Something I wrote for FAUConcealed.org the website for the FAU chapter of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus.
10:43 PMEEL-3470 Volume 1.pdf
This is a PDF of the first volume of notes for Fields & Waves (EEL 3470) at FAU.
03:53 PM | Tags: collegeFinally! The source of the random instant messages
For the past several weeks (months?) I’ve been getting random instant messages from screen names like “LovingCoho” and “LightspeedCoho” and all sorts of other [VAR]Coho names. The user says “hello”, “you look beautiful”, “what’s up” or any other conversation starter. When you reply suddenly the user has no idea who you are or how you came to start discussion.
Since there are so many different variations there isn’t really any way to just block all of them. You have to do them one by one. This gets old real fast. Even googling for the screen name doesn’t come up with much.
I finally found the source of these annoying messages. There is something called Project Upstream. They have “fish” that instant message someone, and then connect two random people together.
Also in my searches, is how you can opt-out of these instant messages. All you have to do is type “$optout” on a single line. Then you get a verification code, after putting that in - you’re done. At least I think you’re done.
I just opted out a short while ago and we’ll see how long it is until the messages return. I’ve been getting at least one or two a week and was getting tired of it.
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