Extreme Justin

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Bulletproof MySpace How to protect yourself from hackers

This is essentially a quick guide on protecting yoursef from those hackers out there. I am tired of the spam and of friends feeling like they have to delete profiles. It really doesn’t matter how smart you are, they seem to be able to get in. But I have found at least some of their most frequent tricks and I will share them with you.

First there are 4 types of hackers/spammers:

1) The ones that want to use your account to spam people. These are the most common. They gain access to your account so that they can post bulletins, messages, or comments to promote their product.

2) The ones that are there to show off. These are the ones that add stupid things to your profile to try and be cool.

3) The ones that are malicious. These are the ones that delete accounts, change profile info, spread viruses, and all sorts of other nasty things

4) The ones that just add you to sell you things. These are not hacked accounts but actual accounts that are spamming you.

How do the hackers gain access you might ask? It’s very simple: you give them the info. I’ll let you take a minute to absorb that. Yes, YOU give them the info. On occassion someone uses some other insidious way to get your username and password but 90% of the time it is given by the person themselves. But not with persmission. Always by trickery….

Well how do they do it? You are going through bulletins or comments and suddenly you see a link. Maybe it’s from one of your friends you know, maybe it’s from one you don’t really know that well. You click on it. But wait, suddenly you are logged out of myspace… Well you can’t have that can you. So you log back in. That’s your mistake right there. YOU WERE NEVER LOGGED OUT. You were redirected to a hacker site that just got your username and password because YOU typed it in. Now don’t feel bad. It happened to me also. Now here’s what really sucks… Your username is your e-mail address. That means all they need is your password for the e-mail account and they are in that too. Well, quite a few people leave the password the same for e-mail and MySpace….not a good idea. Because then you keep changing your MySpace password and they keep hacking you because they just read the e-mail to get the new one.

How to stop from being hacked/spammed:

1) never re-enter your info if YOU didn’t log yourself out. if you find you are logged out type www.myspace.com in the URL box and you will often find that you have not been logged out. Only enter your user info when you typed MySpace.com yourself…

2) Don’t download a myspace tracker. They don’t work. They are ALL hacking tools.

3) Don’t add people who have a huge link to their “other” profile with the “good” pictures…they are spammers. Also if they have very little info. There are often tell-tale signs.

4) If you get a spam comment, delete it, don’t just leave it there.

5) If you get spammed block them…All of a sudden the people wanting to spam you notice that and it cuts out a lot of spammer add requests

6) change your password frequently…this will lock them out if they have alread hacked you…

7) You can approve all comments manually but I really don’t like this one so much and it really doesn’t do as much I think as far as prevention
Private profiling doesn’t really help I don’t think

Things you don’t need to do:

1) Deleting all those Xs in your user list. I’ve seen people panic over that but what those really are is the remants of profiles that were either deleted by myspace or the person themselves. All you are doing is locking out someone who has a deleted profile from coming back on to your playlist.

2) Delete your account…that is so dramatic and unnessary. The damage they have done can be replaced…

Extreme Justin

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I am currently going through a book about dishonesty in history. Basically some historian that was a Holocaust denier sued another historian because she called him a Holocaust denier and said he was a crappy historian, a lier, and all sorts of nasty things (at least in the acedemic sense). They were all true. This 3rd historian was hired to go through everything this Holocaust denier (that thought he was like Hitler’s second coming or something I guess) wrote and expose it for the crap that it was that was being masqueraded as history. This book was written by the guy that had to go through all that stuff and expose the dishonesty.

This entire book is about lying, misreptresention, falsifying data, credit being given to the wrong people, making people look bad by saying you are one of them and doing half assed work and using excuses… and making it look like it was all accidental when your motives weren’t really pure…

I love this book. I have just never understood things like dishonesty and plagerism and falsifying data and all that. I think people should be truthful and not try to push lies on people or be something they are not. Sorry, I’ve just been obsessed with why people keep lying even when faced with the evidence that they lied and why they thought they could get away with it in the first place…arrgghhh

Oh, and of course the Holocaust was real. Quite trying to deny it. I almost forget that’s half of what this book was about…I was so wrapped up in the whole dishonesty portion of it.

Extreme Justin

Currently reading : Lying About Hitler: History, Holocaust, and the David Irving Trial By Richard J. Evans Release date: 16 April, 2002

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It kinda sucks that I’ve been having problems with MySpace lately. I still will stay with it because that’s where my friends are and their are memories there. But it seems like a pain in the butt all the little problems that MySpace has. I would really like to see some improvements in MySpace. I love MySpace and all and really with improvements it could be better than any of the other services because it has so much more potential. Maybe I should just make a list here: Read more »

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–>What is your favourite metal genre?
Metalcore and New Wave Of British Heavy Metal

–>What is your least favorite metal genre?
Death
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I have studied the relationship between Karma and Fate and have come up with the following: they are intertwined in such a way that any divination can change shape based on actions in the material world. But that also no matter what actions you take you are bound in some way by fate. The good and bad that happens to us is not a force of either, but a combination of the two. So when we are in a terrible state and wonder what we have done to deserve it, perhaps there is nothing at all that we did, it was just meant to be. Any divination or reading or fortelling of the future is an impression and may not be set in stone. For the actions of the present are intertwining at this very moment to reshape Fate. And that my friends is probably the deepest thing I have ever written in so short of a space.

Justin

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This link no longer works.  Updated : http://www.extremejustin.com/2009/01/15/foamy-the-squirel-on-cell-phones/

Foamy the Squirel on Cell phones, ringtones, and cars….NOT FOR KIDS…

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[Update, Feb 11.: I forgot to mention that Channel 10 news did a feature on Lovetain's show as well as the oracle. I hope to have video made available at some point. I will add the Oracle link to this soon.]

Feb. 10, 2007

Yesterday Dr. Johnny P. Lovetrain did a memorial show for Ron Stem. I was there for some of it. I was a guest on the show because I wanted to be there when Lovetrain remembered a man who did so much for WBUL. His death was very hard on Lovetrain and many others at the station. I think it was wonderful that Johnny did such a great tribute to Ron. I only wish that all the former and present DJs at WBUL were there to see it. Hopefully they watched or listened on the net.

I was there one year ago today when Angela sent out the message to everyone at WBUL about Ron’s death as she fought back tears. It was the day we ordered our black T-shirts and the day I met L.T. I was there at Ron’s memorial service on March 9, 2006 ironically the anniversary of the death of Biggie Smalls (one of the causualties of the East-West rap war along with Tupac). As the memorial service played outside, a separate memorial song to Biggie Smalls aka Notorius B.I.G. was being played inside by L.T. Laila met most of the people at WBUL either on the day we ordered the T-shirts or at the memorial service. As I watched my friends recount their memories of Ron in tears, I felt like I knew him from the vivid stories. I can actually picture Ron even now. But I’ve never met Ron Stem. He was taken from us before I even had a chance to meet him. His story and works inspired me so much that I tried to emulate him in the things I did at WBUL . I did a lot at the station and at times I ruffled feathers and ticked people off. That was all unintentional, and I had the best intentions in my heart. I didn’t realize how successful I was at it until I read my friend Marisa’s kind but truthful words about Ron I wonder if the same could one day be said of me. At the memorial service I felt a calling to do more for the station. And whatever choices (right or wrong) I made they were for the love of WBUL and of our DJs and staff there. And they were inspired by Rockin’ Ron Stem. I’m sure I would have not only liked him but I would have called him a friend.

Justin Kimberlin
Former Extreme Music Coordinator for WBUL

I will leave you with Marisa’s words.

“In memory of Ron, I just wanted to say I loved the energy that Ron
brought to the station. He had a passion to make the station better for the
students. He was definitely not a person that went unoticed at the
station. At our monthly meetings Ron always had something to say whether his
statements were good or bad, it was solely for the good of the station.
I can appreciate that Ron didn’t care who he ruffled up wheather it was
SG, administration, the directors at the station or even fellow students
because his purpose was to make WBUL 1620 AM as great as it possibly could be. With that said, Ron, it has been a year but you will not be forgotten at the
station ever. Thank you for all you did here!! ”
Marisa Kahn

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Extreme Poetry Part 0

Cinder

Flames fall all around me
I try to pick them up
but they burn to the touch
I cannot see past the fire
consumed by my own
and yet I walk past
I am born of fire and darkness
And I one day go into the light

Freefall

Falling fast there is no ground below
the wind rushing past me as I fall
the air speaks to me as I know
the breath is gone from me
but alas this is not real
but a dream that I have seen
over and over again it seems
will you catch me when I fall

Infinity

As I look out to the sea
I think of my place in this world
and what lives I have affected
what would happen if I were never to have been
for I was not supposed to be here
but here I am

Whisper

In the night I hear a voice calling me
It is you that I hear
And I am drawn to you
Unlike I have ever been before
and it calls me even more
you tell me that you love me
and I have never felt it more
than I did right then.
And to the end of time
I will whisper in your ear
“I love you”

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In 1776 the American Revolutionary War began, in part because of the denial of what was considered the inalienable right to trial. That right was finally codified in 1789 in the American Constitution as part of the Bill of Rights. Those rights persisted for the most part for over 200 years. On September 11th, when the World Trade Center was attacked, my second thought was that the Constitution would soon be suspended and the more militant people in the right (or possible the left) would use it as an excuse to declare war on anyone they wished in a never-ending struggle. My first thought of course had been the complete sadness at what had happened to my fellow Americans on our own soil. Even though I did see the September 11th attacks being used to justify the Iraq war, the constitution was for the most part intact for American citizens. Foreigners were getting imprisoned and this was not good, but the Constitution was still functioning. Believe me; I was happy to be wrong about this. I was glad that my paranoia had not come to fruition.

That was true until 3 weeks ago. On October 17th the Military Commission’s Act of 2006 was officially enacted. I wondered if maybe George Lucas had foreseen this possibility when one of his characters in the final Star Wars movie looked upon the move from Republic to Empire and exclaimed something to the effect of, “This is how liberty dies—with thunderous applause.” Yes my friends, a part of our great nation died on that day. And it died amidst thunderous applause. You may feel that this act doesn’t affect you because you didn’t notice its passing or you haven’t heard of it. This act provides for the suspension of habeas corpus. We can now officially be detained tortured up to a certain point (yes there is a limit to the torture in act), and cannot even force a trial. The potential for this act to be used by those in power is far too great to ignore. One commentator, Keith Olberman, even went so far as to suggest that this could be used against George W. Bush by his successors to detain him. Is this far-fetched? It could be.

Sadly, the effects of this act could be disastrous to our troops as well. While supposedly defining the area left untouched by the Geneva Convention, this act completely supercedes it. Experts have agreed that information obtained through torture is mostly useless. Why do you think that we have frequent terror scares and nothing happens? That is because people gave “confessions” of “terror plots” under torture. The United States of America is no longer considered a follower of the Geneva Convention. The end result is that the torture of American troops by other countries is now allowed under international law. I will repeat that so that it sinks in. The torture of American troops is now allowed under international law. By removing the Geneva Convention from ourselves, we have removed any need for any other country to follow it toward us. We have been the enemy we seek to fight. We have lost not only our freedom, but our humanity. The Bush administration has now accomplished the one thing that the terrorists could not on September 11^th, 2001. The American Constitution has been attacked and this time the enemy has won. The most horrifying thing is that this enemy came from within. Bin Laden destroyed 2 landmark buildings, damaged the Pentagon, and killed thousands. But he could not defeat us.

If you think my words on this are harsh perhaps they are. If you think this act gives the government the right to take me away without any Constitutional right, you are correct. I could simply disappear and there is nothing you could do about it. This is my stand — right here and right now about right and wrong. I will do what cowards who have lost my respect like McCain and other Republicans who initially spoke out against this and then gave in to this could not: I will speak out against it and hold my ground. We have lost too much in this country already.

It seems strange that we fought the Revolutionary War to get this right that we have so casually thrown away.

Justin

The following links are to blogs by peope that I know well and who detest this Act as much as I do:

The following is by a historian and contains an analysis of both habeaus corpus and the redefining of the Geneva Convention:
The death of liberty? by Quadius

The following sums it up quite well and contains a youtube video of Keith Olberman’s commentary:
The Beginning of Our End by Mike

Here is a link to MSNBC for a commentary from Keith Olberman on this: Olberman’s Commentary from countdown.msnbc.com

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If you have not seen the ad, you can probably find it on youtube. There are several arguments about whether or not this ad is racist. It most definately is. It depicts Harold Ford as a womanizer hanging out at Playboy parties to hook up with white women. Next thing we will probably see from the Republican National Committee is some clips from Birth Of A Nation showing black congressmen eating fried chicken and watermelon during a congressional session. That is what is most disturbing is that the Republican National Committee, came up with this ad. Was this ad intended to be racist? I really don’t know. They are the representatives of one of the 2 major US parties. They should know better. They could have done their ad without the racism.

The second issue that I want to attack here is the portrayal of the Playmate stereotype. The ad never actually comes out and says that the girl is a Playmate, only that she “met Harold Ford at a Playboy party at the mansion.” She is blonde and does not seem very intelligent. I am personally offended by this because most of the Playmates I have met seem to be very intelligent and not all are blonde. This kind of bigotry is just hateful, set forth by men and women who hate anything like Playboy. I can name two Playmates offhand that were USF students: Alesha Oreskovich and my friend Carlotta Champagne. Neither are the embodiment of the blonde, stupid playmate that the ad tries to establish. I’m sick of Playmates being stereotyped.

The Republican National Committee agreed to pull the ad finally, but it could be that was always their intention, much like a lawyer bringing up an objectionable point and then shouting “withdrawn.” It is quite possible that this ad will backfire on them. That remains to be seen. There are negative ads put out by both parties. It is not the only negative ad out there, just one of the worst ones.

Extreme Justin