New Email scam 2011 NOTICE REPORT from FBI Washing DC
This was a simple email, but it is clearly a scam/virus. The subject of the email is 2011 NOTICE REPORT and the sender is FBI Washington DC and the actual email is fbi.washington.dchjuew@live (dot) com
Obviously it is not from the FBI or anyone in Washington, DC. The email actually came from a server in Germany.
It seems that FBI Washington DC decided to send me an email with nothing more in the body than;
READ THE ATTACHED FILE AND REPLY IMMEDIATELY.
With an attachment - Beneficiary.html
This is an obvious scam intending that I open the attachment expecting to get some reward or be entitled to some prize. The attachment will more than likely result in a trojan or other virus to ruin my computer or share personal data. Be warned to ignore this message.
You should report the email to http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx
The real FBI in Washington, DC may be interested someone is attempting to emulate their agency for evil.
Why Comcast is not ready to serve business telephone service
My Rant about Comcast Phone Service for Business
I ordered Comcast voice telephone service and I made a huge mistake. I trusted that the sales person would be knowledgeable enough to know how their system works, and not lie to me to get me to sign up. The resulting service problems are enough for me to honestly say that Comcast is NOT ready to provide true business class phone service, and they fall behind every provider I have used in the past 10 years.
It started with voice mail and call hunting, two very basic features for a business phone system. Phone hunting is the ability of the phone system to take a busy phone number and continue to try other numbers in the group to find one that is open. This will typically ring an alternate line jumping from lines 1-2-3-4 in our case. If all lines are busy then voice mail should pick up and my customer hears a message saying that we’ll be right back in touch. Seems easy so far.
The problem comes when a customer tries to contact us directly on line number 2-3-4. What SHOULD happen on those lines is the same as above, hunt through the busy lines and if no answer the call is sent to my voice mail box. This is standard practice and has never been a problem with any real phone service provider. The service that Comcast provides currently causes calls from the 2-3-4 lines to ring with no answer forever. No voice mail service will pick up, leaving my customers to wonder if I am still in business. If all lines are busy, my customers get a busy signal when calling directly on these lines. UNACCEPTABLE!
The salesperson for Comcast told me it would be no problem to get things running properly. I specifically spoke to him about the voice mail and hunting service since this is one of the main reasons I went with Comcast. The promise of emailed voice mail transcripts and checking the voice mail through the net were interesting. So I know I explained this to the sales rep, then checking with his supervisor and they claimed it would work just fine.
After some techs were trying to get this working for me, the sales manager contacts me and has a tech contact me who actually understands what we are trying to accomplish. He very clearly explains to me that what I want done is not possible on Comcast’s current system. I am told they are upgrading other areas to have this ability, but it is not happening in the Philadelphia region, and that this upgraded switch would be the only way for me to get the services I explained above. So now we have a confirmation from the sales person and his manager, and this master Comcast tech that the phone system should operate this way, but it can not because of hardware that should be upgraded.
So Comcast, if you can’t provide the most basic business class phone service, why do you continue to sell this to us? At least be honest and tell us that your system is being upgraded or will be upgraded soon. Now you have a business that relies on phone service limping along and trying to get switched BACK to Verizon so my clients can contact me. Don’t push this amateur service as business class phone..it’s far from it.
Why choose a .com over other domains
Just a quick thought and observation….
I own a HTC Android phone, Apple iTouch, Apple iPad, and a blackberry. They all have slightly different keyboards and all have some level of web browsing. The one constant is they all have a key/button/shortcut to include the .com after typing in a web address!
There is no denying that these mobile devices are becoming more popular, and every day more and more people are using mobile devices to search this crazy network of tubes. Every time I am typing in a web address into one of these mobile devices I am almost forced to use the .com domain or take the time to type out whatever other top level domain I feel like surfing to.
My portfolio contains a lot of other domain extensions. I use a lot of .us and .org for different reasons, but mostly because the search engines claim they do not care what TLD you use for your website. So using these TLDs means I can get a relevant domain name without dealing with someone who many already own the name in .com. I don’t have any problem with the other extensions, because in search, all domains are said to be created equal. But .com still rules over all in mind-share and on mobile devices.
Low on power? Change your batteries
So electric cars have limitations we hear about all the time. Short run times, slower vehicles, and limited life are all on the list of needs to overcome to make the all electric vehicle viable as a full time option. There are thousands of people working to fix everything on the list as they see EV’s as the next great solution, and I agree – to a point.
As I was making a phone call earlier in the day I hear that terrible chirp in my ear telling me that my phone battery is low, so I reach for the charger and think “this is going to take forever to charge” and it was at that moment that I remembers I had a charged battery for a different phone that happened to fit my new phone. I swapped batteries and all was right with the world. It was that simple, batteries of the same design to fit across multiple phones got me thinking about EV’s and a solution to two of the biggest problems for full electric transportation. Swappable batteries!
My mind raced as I thought about possibilities and logistics. I had a full business plan in my mind and I was ready to grab some web space and tell people about how I could change the world. I would convince everyone from Toyota to Ford to Nissan to governments all over the world to start building swap stations for car batteries. We could get everyone to create a standard battery pack and regulate those packs for minimum standards of quality and specs. We could design a station that would maintain these packs at peak performance better than the individual user, thereby resulting in a longer lifespan even under different loads and requirements.
There was money to be made in this idea, initially because some governments and private companies are shelling out big dollars for revolutionary ideas like this, was to make full electric transportation possible to replace fossil fuels, or at least supplement them to reduce their use. Then there are the leasing plans, the ability to set a transportation cost based on a fixed number. It would even be possible to build the cost of the battery swaps into the car lease or purchase price.
Facilities design would be paramount to the growth of the industry. Hundreds of thousands of empty gas stations can be converted to fuel cell swap stations replacing the large fuel tanks below ground with cell holding containers. Make each container fully contained in the same way Google adds server additions – fully pre built shipping crates that plug in like Lego blocks. Branded stations for whatever energy supplier comes up with the money to put their name on the station, both making additional income and connecting locally with the user base.
But enough about my thoughts, because someone has already beat me to the idea. A company called “A Better Place” has taken this idea and run with it.
I guess I’m not the smartest person on earth, and I’m a little late to the party. They seem to have a lot of the bases covered as far as building out the infrastructure and designs. Who knows about marketing and planning as I’m sure the numbers people are locked far away from public view. I’m going to keep an eye on these guys and see what direction they take and of this idea can get any traction.