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Yet another group of people all saying how they'd solve the current spam problem, by addressing the current problem. Let's make better OCR!!!!!!! Let's write "true AI" grade image recognition! When will it end?

Don't you people know that the bad guys can program too?

I'm amazed these anti-spam companies don't have their own private small armies of grey-hats trying to break their own products. I swear half these stupid ideas would just go away.

Personally, I think it's time we move to a completely different model, and do a bit of biomimicing.

We already have the equivalent of skin and cell walls, protection of networks and computers against outside pathogens.

What we really lack is an effective way of dealing with viral cells (computers). The fact that the internet continues to tolerate these hundreds of thousands of hosts I find rediculous.

The fact that most of these spam detection systems are held by private that don't share them is insulting.

I think what we need is a more real-time approach to spam and viruses and all bad behaviour, by just quarantining those machines (more or less) off the internet.

Something like this.

Well command and control didn't help.

I wonder if it's time to revisit that real-time zombie monitoring network idea again.

Neato, now do mine!

I don't know about the whole automatically identifying viruses bit, but the communications layer needed for something like this would seem to have already been done, and in a more general form that is needed for this too.

But you can!

Go check out NASA's World Wind.

For an example, the following shows where OSCON will be, and where my host for that week lives.

http://ali.as/OSCON

File -> Save Page.
Half a dozen search and replaces later...

http://ali.as/news/religion.html

I don't see what the fuss is, to be honest. WAP is the easiest technology conversion I've had to make in the last two years.

HOW to do WAP ( Taken from http://ali.as/ )
Simply set the MIME type for .wml files ( or anything else ) to text/vnd.wap.wml and that's it! WAP server setup complete.

Example: http://ali.as/wap/wap.wml ( doesn't work in a normal browser )

The other thing you want to do is set index.wml as an index file... since every keystroke they have to type in will be a pain for mobile users, at least the phone ones anyway.

Next, CGI ( or servlets, or whatever ).
Given you now know the magic WAP MIME type ( text/vnd.wap.wml, simply get your program to spit out the MIME type. Perl example would be

print "Content-type: text/vnd.wap.wml\n\n";

I imagine it would not be THAT hard to change the Content-type line of the header in JSP... A collegue is mentioning to me that all you need to do is something like

Method addHeader( 'Content-type', 'text/vnd.wap.wml' ); in the interface HttpServletResponse in the class javax.servlet.http

All you have to do then is write in WML, which isn't that difficult to learn.

To do that, I highly recommend the WAP Phone Simulator provided in the Unwired Planet SDK 4.0

AdamK