Under the new requirements, telemarketers will have to get permission in writing before placing an automated call to a consumer. Previously, companies that had an established business relationship with a particular consumer could call them without permission. For example, another FCC official not authorized to speak publicly explained, a bank could robocall one of its checking account customers to try to sell them insurance. The new rules prohibit that without written permission.

-CNN

Follow the Do Not Call blog category to see my efforts to deal with the callers.

Update (2012-02-16): Wouldn’t you know it, as soon as this was adopted by the FCC I get a robo call from 609-503-8133 (listen – from_Private_609-503-8133_2012-2-16) from Joseph Andrews III with curtasycash.com.  Here is the DNS information:

Registrant:
Residualincomeinfo
73 Penn Lyle Rd
Princeton Jct, New Jersey 08550
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, LLC (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: CURTASYCASH.COM
Created on: 20-Dec-11
Expires on: 20-Dec-13
Last Updated on: 20-Dec-11

Administrative Contact:
Andrews, Joseph simpleman2@earthlink.net
Residualincomeinfo
73 Penn Lyle Rd
Princeton Jct, New Jersey 08550
United States
(609) 799-4814

Technical Contact:
Andrews, Joseph simpleman2@earthlink.net
Residualincomeinfo
73 Penn Lyle Rd
Princeton Jct, New Jersey 08550
United States
(609) 799-4814

Domain servers in listed order:
NS65.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
NS66.DOMAINCONTROL.COM

Registry Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Registry Status: clientRenewProhibited
Registry Status: clientTransferProhibited
Registry Status: clientUpdateProhibited

And care to guess what this website is?  Another Financial Freedom site!  Check out this post for some background on this company.  Will it ever end?!

While working a on a very basic cyber security presentation for work I came across a a video of the the father and daughter who sat down with Matt Laurer to talk about their postings and how things might be a little different had they thought a little harder about what they were posting.  As of the date of this interview, the father’s video has been watched 31 million times.  I liked what the mental health professional said of some of the things people post.  ”I post, therefore I am.”  Here is a link to the interview: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/46857133#46662440

My Original Post:

Okay, even though I can only type with one hand, I feel like I have to comment on fellow North Carolinian Tommy Jordan’s YouTube rant about his daughter’s rant on Facebook.  First, who would have thought thirty years ago technologies and the Internet would be where it is today. It is truly mind-boggling when I think back to trying to write my on programs on a Commodore64 to make it do new stuff until today when there isn’t anything a computer on the Internet can’t do. At least that’s what Apple, Intel, IBM, HP, and Cisco want us to think.  But the one thing a computer will never be able to do is parenting.  My guess is Mr. Jordan’s daughter picked up most of her writing style and opinions from who, Her Dad!  There was a mention in the video of Step-Mom and biological Mom, so there two more that could probably share in the development of this teenage girl.  And that’s the point.  A teenager does not have the benefit of life experience to develop good judgement.  While good parenting would help develop this, based on what I saw of Mr. Jordan I think any child in that family will go on to have judgement problems later in life.  I get that Mr. Jordan wants to instill responsibility in his children through chores, but once the child has experienced chores for sake of chores because “I said so”, versus when the floor is dirty it’s your responsibility to clean it, not everyday just because,  parent’s like this generate hostility in a child.  A responsible parent would instruct the child that these particular items are your responsibility, and when they need attention you provide it in the form of cleaning it, making it up, or what ever else it takes to keep it presentable for guests.  That’s responsibility, not a checklist of do it everyday whether or not it needs it or not. If you still have to use chores checklists with your child, they have not learned to be responsible.  On the daughter’s side, yes lambasting your folks on a public forum like Facebook is disrespectful.  But my guess the daughter would have felt the back of a hand across her face if she went directly to her parents and voiced her opinion. The more I think about the laptop and the fact that the father claims to be an IT guy my guess is the hard drive was not in the laptop.  Maybe social services can help the young woman and I would not be surprised to see Anonymous pick up her cause on this one.

Information on the dad from his wife’s veterinary clinic in Albermarle, North Carolina. (http://spayneuter.bearcreekvet.net/)

Tommy Jordan: Administrative and Technical Staff

Tommy grew up on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. After graduating high school he went spent the next 14 years in Greenville, North Carolina where he opened his own
IT Consulting and computer networking company, Twisted Networx. He traveled the world for a few years as a Project Manager for an overseas firm and eventually found and fell in love all over again with his high school sweetheart, Dr. Amy.He moved to Albemarle, NC in 2010 to start a family with Dr. Amy and together they have a house-full of ever-increasing numbers of children and pets! His dog Bonnie is never far from his side and travels with him most everywhere he goes.Tommy handles the administrative processes for the spay-neuter clinic, maintains the website, and assists with the technological and day-to-day operations in the clinic when we have in-clinic spays and neuters scheduled.
Mr. Jordan’s IT business is Twisted Networx.

Also interesting is the ist of other videos posted by the same YouTube account include everything from gun cleaning, Bible teaching, vet stuff and a couple of bands videos, but mostly gun stuff. Here is the list to see for yourself.  http://www.youtube.com/user/alornmage#g/u

And a last thought, I want to thank Mr. Jordan for promoting the stereotypical view of southern men, especially those from North Carolina. Great job!  My only fear is a man like Tommy Jordan may not reserve the use of those exploding .45 caliber hollow points just for laptops in the future.

Due to many zenphoto sites being listed when I run this Google search to find zenphoto caches.

zenphoto inurl:cache "index of" _w _h

I still think it is worthwhile to share this information.

While this search returns the links to a zenphoto cache, most any result can be changed to view the album and get the index from it.  For example: if Google comes back with http://somesite/cache/ results, in some cases, you can take the url and change “cache” to “albums” like this http://somesite/albums/ and get an index of the site albums as well.

I am running Zenphoto version 1.4.1.6 [8326] (Official Build) and trying to change from cache to albums takes me to the default page of my zenphoto site.  Sadly, I also came across one defaced zenphoto site while searching.

The domain name associated with this one is HOWCANIDOIT.INFO which has the following registration information.

Domain ID:D35279805-LRMS
Domain Name:HOWCANIDOIT.INFO
Created On:03-Nov-2010 14:14:17 UTC
Last Updated On:31-May-2011 16:50:38 UTC
Expiration Date:03-Nov-2012 14:14:17 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:GoDaddy.com Inc. (R171-LRMS)
Status:CLIENT DELETE PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT RENEW PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED
Registrant ID:CR66112680
Registrant Name:Britt Phillips
Registrant Organization:Worldwide Ad Network, Inc
Registrant Street1:14241 Midlothian Turnpike
Registrant Street2:#106
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:Midlothian
Registrant State/Province:Virginia
Registrant Postal Code:23113
Registrant Country:US
Registrant Phone:+1.8048972274
Registrant Phone Ext.:
Registrant FAX:
Registrant FAX Ext.:
Registrant Email:
Admin ID:CR66112682
Admin Name:Britt Phillips
Admin Organization:Worldwide Ad Network, Inc
Admin Street1:14241 Midlothian Turnpike
Admin Street2:#106
Admin Street3:
Admin City:Midlothian
Admin State/Province:Virginia
Admin Postal Code:23113
Admin Country:US
Admin Phone:+1.8048972274
Admin Phone Ext.:
Admin FAX:
Admin FAX Ext.:
Admin Email:

Name Server:NS53.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
Name Server:NS54.DOMAINCONTROL.COM

The message states that for $180 you can blah blah blah…. Here listen for yourself….from_8048583156_2012-1-13  The website referenced when you go to HOWCANIDOIT.INFO is a redirect to http://members.audiogenerator.com/postcard/?7124637X1166 which has a photo of some scammer, Britt Phillips, holding some cash that references computermillions.com.  The phone number belongs to ymax communications/Vocaltec, the folks who offer magic jack and other VOIP services.  I will file an abuse complaint with them in addition to the Do Not Call folks, but doubt it helps.

On the heater blower motor, there is a little metal box with three mounting screws that needs to be unmounted to get to the motor mounting bolts.  I also had to remove some plastic trim anchors to allow a little black plastic flap to move away from the bracket holding the little metal box.  Then there were three screws to take out in order to drop the fan motor.  These are also 7/32" and a small ratchet should work.  It did for me.  Once I had it out, I used some CRC electrical cleaner and degreaser after removing some black fabric cover from some slots on the side of the motor.  I sprayed some pretty significant amounts of cleaner into the motor.  The resulting fluid that drained back out was a nasty black carbon color.  I kept spraying the cleaner and draining the motor until it was draining pretty clear.  I also removed some tape over the axle and tried to get some Tri-Flo into it.  One note, the cleaner started making the rubber gasket around the blower mounts seem a little too flexible so I took off the gasket and washed it before reinstalling it on the blower mount and reinstalling the blower motor. My guess is it is possible to remove the tape and spray some cleaner into it, but have some rags below the motor to catch the run off.  I would also give the cleaner a chance to evaporate before powering up the fan.  Once I was done with these two fixes, I decided to go for a final fix on the passenger door power lock that has not worked in over two years.

Check out my previous post for the tear down and reinstall.  What I did this time was to get the actual latch/lock mechanism that has the little motor with a worm gear open and clean some electrical contacts and tighten the contacts to the little motor.  Taking apart this clam shell is not for the faint of heart.  There is a black plastic piece that fits around one corner that has to be removed first.  Then there are three Phillips head screws that need to come off.  Once the screws were out, I was able to able to eventually slide the metal latch portion off which makes getting into the clam shell easier, but not easy.  The direction to slide the metal portion is away from the side that has a blue mark on one of aligning pins.  At this point, I started unlatching the little clips all the way around the clam shell.  There are three main portions to the inside of the latching and locking mechanism. One is the lock interface to the door key, another is the latch release that interfaces with the outside door handle and the last is the cable connections to the inside door handle and lock toggle.  There are two electrical contacts on the plastic internal pieces next two the key lock interface. It is my guess that the these contacts get dirty and are part of the problem with the power door lock mechanism.  So I used the electrical contact cleaner to make sure there was no grease on either the embedded silver contacts in the black clam shell or the copper protruding metal contacts from the white plastic pieces.  The other electrical contacts are from the claim shell into the electric motor with worm gear.  There was a chance the spring memory of the contacts in the motor may have been spread out too far, so I pressed them closer in before trying to reassemble the clam shell.  This is where my trouble started.  I did not note where the two metal pieces that interface with the latch and lock were in relation to the plastic piece that interfaces with the gear turned by the worm gear and the locking interface.  Turns out that it is pretty easy to figure out as one metal piece has a hinge to the black plastic while the other metal piece floats above the black plastic.  What this means is, the one next to the black plastic goes on the bottom of this key plastic interface and the other on top.  Then the hardest part is getting all of the gear axles and a persnickety spring that provides the locking feel when the inside door lock toggle is moved manually.  It will fall out of place pretty easy so I put some thick grease on it to try and hold it in place while reassembling the clam shell.  Once the latch and locking mechanism was reinstalled I was pleasantly surprised to see it work.  Based on past efforts this could last a day, a week, or a year.

I will admit that at one point I thought I was going to have to order the lock/latch mechanism from the dealer ($205) or start hitting the self service junk yards to find one.  But bringing the clam shell and parts inside to the kitchen table and looking it over, it only took about an hour to get it back together.  All in all, the three projects took about six hours to complete including the trip to the auto parts store.