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How Well Do You Estimate?
A random UK blogger has published a quiz asking readers to estimate various numeric values which they may or may not have knowledge of; and has analyzed the resulting answers to determine how well people guess. The first part of the results looks at some specific questions, and the second part takes a look at the quiz overall.
FirstY pOSty!!
u frated :-[ dumb po fart.
KTHXBI
What a lame attempt at trying to be "witty". That will no doubt be marked funny even though it's NOT. Sad sad slashdot modders :(
Michael Hughes, 58, was arrested in Boston last weekend for allegedly stabbing a man he thought was gay. Police then learned Hughes was wanted for the slaying of 40-year-old McKinley Johnson.
Johnson, who worked in the police department motor pool, was killed in 1974 on Christmas Eve. He was giving away homemade Christmas baskets inside a Baltimore bar, something he did every Christmas, said his former girlfriend, Helen Fogg, now 62.
Then a man stole a can of Spam out of one of the baskets, Johnson confronted him and was shot. "That's what made it so bad, him dying on Christmas," said Fogg, the mother of Johnson's 35-year-old son. "I was devastated. I was depressed for quite a while. I couldn't believe someone would take his life over something as stupid as a can of Spam."
Since the Slashdot effect is so powerful, why doesn't Slashdot offer a section for posting full copies of spam mail, with headers.
The true source IP can be extracted and listed as a special bulletin complete with a link to said IP address. When all the slashdot readers try to connect to the trojaned server, it clogs up the pipeline for the ISP and MAYBE they will get a clue that something is wrong. Meanwhile, that's one less system spewing out mail for a while.
Or better yet, subtitute the IP address in a banner ad or graphic. That way, the calls to the trojaned servers are automatic.
Praline: Hello, I wish to register a complaint . . . Hello? Miss? Shopkeeper: What do you mean, miss? Praline: Oh, I'm sorry, I have a cold. I wish to make a complaint. Shopkeeper: Sorry, we're closing for lunch. Praline: Never mind that my lad, I wish to complain about this parrot what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very boutique. Shopkeeper: Oh yes, the Norwegian Blue. What's wrong with it? Praline: I'll tell you what's wrong with it. It's dead, that's what's wrong with it. Shopkeeper: No, no it's resting, look! Praline: Look my lad, I know a dead parrot when I see one and I'm looking at one right now. Shopkeeper: No, no sir, it's not dead. It's resting. Praline: Resting? Shopkeeper: Yeah, remarkable bird the Norwegian Blue, beautiful plumage, innit? Praline: The plumage don't enter into it -- it's stone dead.
My favourite online quiz is "Pornstar or My Little Pony":
You get 12 names and have to make a guess if that name belongs to a Pornstar or a My Little Pony. I got 5 out of 12 right, which seems fairly good :-)
http://www.brunching.com/pornorpony.html
Well, don't worry about that. We can get you back before you leave. (Dr. Who)
Very Good!!! He is a cunt of the highest order.
beter than miss universe when her skirt fell off of her on television when she had a wardrobe misestimation
"We give him about a 50-50 chance of living... and of course, there's only a 10% chance of that."
Why did WTC 7 collapse?
To get to the other side?
"A goldfish was his muse, eternally amused"
This will not work with all spam, but it should be efficient against the likes of the nigerian scammers.
They send out millions of messages in the hope that a few people fall for it and reply. But if everybody replies showing fake interest, they can't sort out the real responses from the fake ones. If it takes them only 10 seconds to respond to an email, then 10000 fake responses will give them work for several days!
Even Joe Jobs are no problem since we don't multiply the messages (one response for one incoming). If someone wants to flood a mail box and is capable of sending millions of fake emails, he can as well send those emails directly to that mailbox.
Those are all good karma whoring advice points, but I don't think they do too much damage to the system. It keeps away the worst of the trolls.
I worry about a WhoreBot which uses Eliza-type mechanisms, and pulls text from highly-moderated comments in similar discussions (perhaps from dups) to create high-karma accounts with no human intervention. The owner could then do ugly things with mod points, post offensive things with the +1 modifier, and generally make a real nuisance of himself.
Not to mention moderate offtopic posts like this mine into oblivion.
Alternative 4. Make a good joke about the comment you have chosen.
I found that the +5 funny is the easiest way to go up quick (if you can be funny, of course).
Estimate : will this post be modded funny, or interresting ?