Comments on: Site Guesses Your Gender via Browsing History

By: Navin

Navin — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:07:33 +0000

So wht exactly does 2% mean?? You go to a race car derby, start munching on nachos/chips until the chequered flag and fart proudly rite from the word “go”, but you carry some SPF-30 sunblock, just in case?

By: gul

gul — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:23:00 +0000

You have to accept the woman in you.

Honestly, 2% shall not be too difficult

By: d347hm4n

d347hm4n — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:42:50 +0000

works quite well I’m 98% male which is reassuring >.<

By: Morgan Storey

Morgan Storey — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:48:32 +0000

Navin: My missus and I have pretty similar sense of humour on our honeymoon on a day trip out in the Whitsundays we were heading into an Island and the captain said “The island only has simple pit toilets, and if you fall in we will leave you there and you will have to carry on undeterred” Her and cracked up, but everyone else didn’t get it or thought it was too juvenille.

By: Navin

Navin — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:24:09 +0000

@ morgan
Oh yeah…there was this joke bout psychotherapists as well tht went on similar lines….. don’t think I need to say it out loud but i hope U’ll get it.. Psycho-The-Rapist!!

By: Morgan Storey

Morgan Storey — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:35:43 +0000

@zukacomputer: hahahah, like what experts-exchange used to be before they got the hyphen…

By: Navin

Navin — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:28:12 +0000

Din’t notice tht…guess us 50-50 guys have gotten our gonads all mixed up!! Should’ve paid more attention during Bio class

By: zupakomputer

zupakomputer — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:53:06 +0000

hmmmmmmm. When I eventually found the site with the script – it comes up as an ‘unresponsive script’ for me and doesn’t work anyway.

Doesn’t anyone find it extremely fake-coincidence that the URL/URI is mikeonads? = my gonads, and it’s about gender identification….

By: zupakomputer

zupakomputer — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:18:17 +0000

JD: that is very like something else that has taken over every job and college / higher ed (and more besides) applications in the UK. ‘They’ always hand out question sheets that claim to be about Equal Opportunity Monitoring, and they contain questions on race, religion, nationality, gender, disabilities, and recently they’ve begun to add sexual preferences too.

It’s extremely disturbing, because they are asking for that information from everyone – while claiming none of that information matters! So why do they ask for it.

Why do they need stats on all those kinds of things, if those things do not matter to them.

It’s also very disturbing that they claim it is anonymous! It’s not – you have to hand it in alongside your name-and address (and all your other CV details etc) form, or in person. So anyone that wanted to see what was in the forms can just read it there and then when you hand it in, or they can file it along with your applications.

I used to just fill them out routinely, like everyone else; you’re instructed at school etc that it’s “normal”, but recently I have just been ignoring them entirely. Some people deliberately fill them out wrong – I think I might start doing that too. Put in ‘black male lesbian hare-krishna asian’ for example – they can’t say anything because they aren’t meant to be reading it!

By: Navin

Navin — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:57:35 +0000

Correct gul….. some of us are so used to chatting online with like minded uber-nerdy security addicts that we forget the bigger picture. A recent study showed that less than 50 % of net users have updated their browsers since IE5/6 and Firefox 1.X.

And unfortunately these are the people who fall for most phishing attacks…..they don’t even know their data is at risk.

Something I’d done a few years ago to show my friends a bit abt online security….A simple phishing script sent to 9 of my best friends….. and guess what? 6 of them handed their passwords to the script!! Of course I din’t use them….. but it built up a gr8 foundation for my online security talk I gave them a week later!!