We've started seeing some of these newfangled phishing emails over the last few days. The victim's email address is used as an identifier. It is simply appended to the URL by the mailer bot, so that the link sent to the victim will look something like this:

hxxp://compromisedsite.ru/joe33/somebank/?victim@gmail.com

That URL would lead to a script hosted on a compromised site, which looks up the email address in a whitelist before serving either a credential-collecting scam page or a bogus 404 error.

But this is all very basic stuff, and it is not hindering forensic investigators in the least. The folks investigating such scams don't just stumble upon them by accident; they rely instead on vigilant users and admins who take the time to report phishing emails. Once they get a report they already have a whitelisted URL to begin with.

I was about to mention that C has a small enough compass that one can get to the point where they never need the language documentation. Library API docs, on the other hand, are definitely a must.

And as for declaring an array of function pointers or functions that return function pointers, etc... typedef is your friend. :-)

emarkp wrote, "This is one reason [for] having an actual immigration policy and enforcing it. Most countries in the world do this, but for some reason the US doesn't."

The Americans cannot enforce an immigration policy because doing so is politically incorrect. So, essentially, the USA has open borders. Anyone can come whenever he wants.

Even the French, who supposedly are oh-so-liberal, strictly enforce the rules for an orderly welcoming of legal immigrants. After Nicolas Sarkozy became president of France, he toughened the rules and insisted that all immigrants must learn Western values and the French language.

Admittedly, the French did not always treat immigrants in this way. During the 1970s and the 1980s, the French took a lax attitude to immigrantion. As a result, France swelled with illegal and legal immigrants from the Middle East and Africa. About 20% of the people living in France today trace their ancestry to the Middle East and Africa, and this 20% vehemently rejects assimilation into French society. These folks periodically riot, destroying property and killing French bystanders.

My wife will come in an occasionally to wipe off my desk leaving a lite film of water behind. A Logtech wireless mouse doesn't work properly on that until I dry the desk off. Also if she brings me a beer or an ice tea that is so cold condensation will form and spread from the mug across part of the desk so that the mouse skips or flakes out. This new mouse looks like it will not be susceptible to that sort of problem so I would buy one as soon as it is available in Atlanta.

Last I checked, the US allows over one million legal immigrants into the country every year. If that's "anti-immigrant", then the government sucks at it.

Wait, what does border patrol have to do with immigrants? Or are you now talking about illegal immigrants?

If you are talking about illegal immigrants, the problem is that they might very well be the source of these diseases. The problem is we can't tell for sure, since they have ignored our immigration laws and waltzed right in without being checked out by us.

girlintraining wrote, "People are surprised by this? Our inner cities are rotting. Our economy is in shambles. People are living squallor and poverty on an unprecidented scale in this country. We're a breeding ground now for all manners of disease, both social and medical."

You have omitted an important aspect of the problem. Uncontrolled immigration is precisely hurting those American citizens who are living in "squalor and poverty". Illegal immigrants are suppressing the wages of such Americans by about 8%.

Worse, according to the report by the "Wall Street Journal", illegal immigrants inject disease into neighborhoods of impoverished Americans.

The Americans living in the upper/middle class simply do not experience the pain and suffering that Americans in the lower class endure due to illegal immigration. So, naturally the Americans in the upper/middle class favor uncontrolled immigration. They want the cheap vegetables that illegal-immigrant labor provides even if it means hurting the Americans in the lower class.

That is the ugly truth.

Seriously though, we live post-Genome Project, is it REALLY that difficult to just sequence her DNA to see if there exist two X Chromosomes without a freaking political scandal?