What Is PayBox.me? Is it a Scam? <- This is normally my first reaction!

What Is PayBox.me?  Is it a Scam? This is normally my first reaction!



Well! A friend asked me to join and I did a day or so ago, I now have $67.16 which includes two referrals and some survey work. By the way, these are PayBox or PB Dollars.



What's Peculiar About PayBox.me?



What this means is the money currently in your account is in PayBox dollars - as of now worth nothing until they are open to the public. They are in the experimental stage right now and will go public early next year. It is at that point when an actual value will be set to your PB dollars. The value of your PB dollars will change with the market rate set at the time of their opening.



Look at it as a way to help out a start-up company that could be as big as PayPal or eGold. They need people to test their system and they have limited funds right now to pay testers, so they are paying out in PB dollars. They have an honest intention of being a viable company in several months.



So long as you keep an active account by logging in everyday and participating in the surveys designed to get feedback so they can become competitive with other online payment processors, then you will be in line for an actual payment when the company officially opens.



If you are looking for a fast buck, this is not for you. If you are a person who believes in helping out other start-up companies on the principle of helping the little guy, then this is up your alley.



An Hypothesis!



I am not exactly sure how they are doing it, but here goes a(n) hypothesis: It is quite possible that they are using Google AdSense and affiliate networks as well as survey companies to generate funds. They then require you to take surveys every week in order to remain active! For example: The survey company that they are using has already paid me multiple times in my personal capacity prior to my signing up with PayBox.me.



For September 2010 PayBox.me had over 240,000 visitors and for October 2010 over 305,000 visitors. Good job PayBox.me! Nothing wrong with those numbers if you are a start-up in a developmental or experimental phase.



They recently updated the back office with Debit Cards with  all links going to Google AdSense!  Very smart strategy!



Let's Have Some Fun!



Oh and bt the way if you guys will sign up for a FREE EARLY BIRD PayBox.me account I will also receive PB$10.



Let's make PB Dollars! Who knows we may be experimenting with the next PayPal or eGold.



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Additional information



According to the terms of service under Account Balances:



"All account balances are held in PayBox currency. PayBox maintains a currency that is autonomous and independent of all nations and governments. The PayBox currency is denominated in dollars and cents (similar to the currency of the United States and over 20 other countries). The PayBox currency is currently in a closed system, and cannot be exchanged or spent. Before long we plan to open our currency to be spent and exchanged just as you can with any other currency. Our plans include person-to-person transactions (via the Internet and over cell phone text messages), integration with merchants and shopping cart systems, debit card transactions (through an issued debit card linked to your account), and more. The value of our currency is estimated to be close to that of the U.S. dollar. As is the case with any currency, once the PayBox currency becomes openly exchangeable, its value as weighted against other world currencies can and will fluctuate due to forces beyond our control."



Source(s):



http://www.paybox.me/terms.php



http://realchristianityandbusiness.com/What_is_PayBox.html



http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100915074657AAnG0Cg

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URL:  http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2010/12/09/are-ddos-dis...

It's not pleasant to be on the receiving end of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.



Malicious hackers can commandeer thousands of computers around the world, and order them to deluge a website with traffic - effectively clogging it up, preventing others from reaching the site, and bringing the website to its knees.



As I've described before, DDoS attacks are the equivalent of "15 fat men trying to get through a revolving door at the same time" - nothing can move.



In recent days a number of websites have been struck by DDoS attacks, seemingly co-ordinated by supporters of WikiLeaks against firms and websites who they feel have turned their back on the controversial whistle-blowing website.



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URL:  http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2010/12/10/wikileaks-th...

Everyone out there - consider yourselves on notice about privacy, secrecy, security, encryption, data leakage prevention, and the rest of it.



It's not the data which WikiLeaks leaked, it's the leak of the WikiLeaks data.



Sean Richmond and I explain why, and what that means for you and your business in this podcast:

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10 dirty little secrets you should know about working in IT | Tech Sanity Check | TechRepublic.com

URL:  http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/hiner/?p=546&tag=nl.e023

Editor’s note: This article was first published in August 2007. It has now been updated and we’ve added a slideshow for those who prefer the visuals.



If you are preparing for a career in IT or are new to IT, many of the “dirty little secrets” listed below may surprise you because we don’t usually talk about them out loud. If you are an IT veteran, you’ve probably encountered most of these issues and have a few of your own to add — and please, by all means, take a moment to add them to the discussion. Most of these secrets are aimed at network administrators, IT managers, and desktop support professionals. This list is not aimed at developers and programmers — they have their own set of dirty little secrets — but some of these will apply to them as well.



You can also view this list as a slideshow.

http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-13416_11-490857.html

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The Cost of Insecurity | CTO Edge

URL:  http://www.ctoedge.com/content/cost-insecurity?utm_sour...

When times were good, malware attacks were pretty much the cost of doing business. They happened from time to time, but nobody ever really considered their real impact on the business.



Now that times are tough and the number of zero-day malware attacks have increased, the operational costs of security are becoming a much bigger factor.



That’s the primary finding of a survey of 564 IT security managers conducted by The Ponemon Institute on behalf of Lumension, which finds that security issues are becoming a bigger drain on limited IT resources.

The survey also finds that far too many IT organizations don’t have much in the way of control over security policies. Many report either not having any or simply lack the wherewithal to enforce them.



According to Ed Brice, senior vice president for worldwide marketing at Lumension, the study not only highlights the need for more effective policy enforcement, but it also shows that anti-malware software isn’t enough to make the overall IT environment secure. And without additional security measures, IT organizations are incurring significant additional operating expense cleaning up after malware infects their systems.



A comprehensive approach to security should not only include anti-malware software; IT organizations should be deploying application controls, policy-based management systems based on whitelisting techniques and data loss prevention (DLP) systems.



Unfortunately, the majority of the IT organizations surveyed by Lumension have yet to deploy any of these security technologies, even as their operational security costs continue to rise. Worse yet, with the rise of mobile computing in the enterprise, Brice contends that the security will become even more complicated to manage.



Of course, in these tough times, it’s sometimes hard to make a case for additional security investments. But when you start to factor in how much time and expense is being wasted in the aftermath of a malware infestation, suddenly the cost of security doesn’t look nearly as prohibitive.



References:

http://www.ponemon.org/index.php

http://www.lumension.com/

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How do I use a RAM disk to help speed up disk-intensive applications? | Microsoft Windows | TechRepublic.com

URL:  http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/window-on-windows/?p=...

here are certain applications that do an unusual amount of reading and writing data. Under normal operating circumstances, these applications work fine. But what happens when those disk-intensive applications start competing with other applications? When this happens, a serious slowdown can occur. You can prevent those slowdowns with the help of RAM disks.



A RAM disk is basically a special partition of your PC’s memory that has been formatted and configured (via a special application) to be used as a high-speed target for data reading and writing. These RAM drives are significantly faster than traditional storage, so those applications will see a noticeable boost. Let’s take a look at the process of creating a RAM drive in Windows for this purpose.



http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/window-on-windows/



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Ten Online Project Management Mistakes to Avoid | ITBusinessEdge.com

URL:  http://www.itbusinessedge.com/slideshows/show.aspx?c=85...

A major transformation is taking place in how organizations use project management software.



Instead of being the sole province of the project managers, the rise of online project management applications heralds a new era of collaboration across the enterprise.



The challenge, of course, is getting the organization to embrace online project management in the first place, so here are some tips to get you started.

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