The latest from Scam School: Episode 21 - Clever Match Trick Scores Free Drinks

We've got a "scam school" panel proposal in for the SxSW interactive conference this year, and it turns out the 30% of the decision as to which panels get selected is based on votes from the public.

Here's the link. If you sign up and vote for it, I'll be your best friend.

And if you like, here's a list of all the Revision3-submitted proposals.

The proposal:

Social Engineering: Scam Your Way Into Anything or From Anybody

Level:
Intermediate
Type:
Panel
Category:
Community / Social Networks
Presenter:
Brian Brushwood, Scam School/ Revision3.com
Description:
This session will give you all insider tips to use social engineering – the art of manipulating people into divulging information – to make friends and influence people. The panel will present tricks on how to scam your way into ANYTHING, whether it's a business meeting or a hot-ticket event.

Next episode I'll be taking my time machine back to this week, and do nothing for the next 7 days. Think about it!

If we search exactly, I don't see why. In fact, it might help, because when you search "Doctor Alfred Doubleday" you don't have to worry about "Professor Alfred Doubleday" or "Doctor Alfred Singleton"

Just finished watching the saved Stickycam video and loved it!

However, it cut off! We were right in the middle of the Vegas story and it stops. :(

I looked up skepticism on wikipedia, and I found two variants:
*link*

1. Philosophical Skepticism
2. Scientific Skepticism

Now its obvious to me that Brian is a scientific skeptic ... from his lectures. However, I am curious about philosophical skepticism because it seems to be incompatible with scientific skepticism.

"In philosophical skepticism, pyrrhonism is a position that refrains from making truth claims. A philosophical skeptic does not claim that truth is impossible (which would be a truth claim). The label is commonly used to describe other philosophies which appear similar to philosophical skepticism, such as "academic" skepticism, an ancient variant of Platonism that claimed knowledge of truth was impossible."
*link*

"A scientific (or empirical) skeptic is one who questions the reliability of certain kinds of claims by subjecting them to a systematic investigation. The scientific method details the specific process by which this investigation of reality is conducted."
*link*


Is it possible to use the scientific method to find truth if finding the truth is impossible or unlikely? (Can you be a philosophical skeptic and a scientific skeptic at the same time).

Nah... never owned one, but damn that's a sweet lookin' ride! :-)