The theory is that spam websites aren't equipped to handle traffic (1/10000 responses or whatever) so once you send them traffic, the ones with actual hosting use up their bandwidth, and the zombies.. well.. their computers get even slower, until they eventually get some geek to clear the junk out, or install sp2, or buy a new computer.
It certainly makes it harder for the spammers IMO. Even if you only used it on phishing sites. (I've seen one in action before, seemed to be effective)
That's where you use bayesian filtering of target websites. Spammer websites are even more obvious than spam emails. Imagine going to a site in spam-ese obfuscation! Heh, I can't wait
Actually they do. Think about it. They aren't spamming you for sh*ts and giggles, are they? There MUST be a website on the end of it, somewhere, otherwise there's no way to make money!
I guess you could be email harvesting, but, on the large part, there are live websites (With lots of pretty pictures) at the end of those URLs in your spam.
I have an idea for beating spam -- renegade style. Everyone forwards their spam to a server(s), which intelligently sorts the mail, finding culprit websites, then a massive distributed network (SETI@home style) retrieves worst-offending URLS from the server, then DDOSes (./ effect s) the spammers websites. Their bandwidth is quickly maxxed. IANAL but I imagine this isn't law-friendly. It's using the zombie-network theory against the spammers (except this time we opt into the network).
I've set up a SF project, anyone wanna help?
The simple version right now just uses a javascript auto-refresh page to draw images off several sites at a time, display, then request the server for more URLs. Once a site goes down you get a 'kill'. You could run teams like seti.
Ideally it'd run as a daemon or win service, and be bandwidth-limited.
One such palm-type computer is Microsoft's Palm-size PC. The Palm-size PC has a touch screen display. A stylus is used to input data into a user interface displayed on the touch screen display. The user interface is similar in appearance to a Windows user interface displayed on a desktop or laptop PC. A taskbar, used for launching application programs, is displayed at the bottom of the touch screen display. Applications are launched by using the stylus to select the desired application from a taskbar menu. Using a stylus can be cumbersome for users. Therefore, as an alternative to launching applications by using the stylus, the Palm-size PC contains a plurality of buttons (called application buttons) that are used to launch the more common applications installed on a Palm-size PC. Applications can be launched in a variety of states. In the past, the actuation of an application button caused an application to be launched in a particular state, for example a view state. The user was required to take further steps to invoke additional application functionality, such as opening a document. It is desirable to more easily launch applications in various states. The present invention is directed to increasing the functionality of application buttons so as to accomplish this result.
In the state of Victoria, Australia, many major intersections actually have speed cameras mounted at the lights, so that if you speed up for the yellow, you get an automatic speeding ticket. If you're unlucky enough to miss it, you get another ticket for running the red light. It can get quite expensive ..
To beat this, you have to speed up really really fast then slam the brakes on hard just as you get to the lights, so that your car is going sideways through the lights and they can't see your license plate on the photo;)
Denim is an interesting tool, sounds exactly what you're looking for. I can't get it to work properly, though, with my wacom..? Basically you freehand draw up the site design, make links, etc, then export the whole thing to HTML! amazing.
Instead, according to Reed -- a former Air Force secretary whose fascinating cold war book, "At the Abyss," will be published by Random House next month --
This dubious article is just a puff-piece for a book about to come out...!
"Why not help the Soviets with their shopping? Now that we know what they want, we can help them get it." The catch: computer chips would be designed to pass Soviet quality tests and then to fail in operation.":P
"Eligible entries must be submitted and accepted by all the applicable module maintainers before the GNOME 2.6 UI freeze, scheduled for January 12th, 2004."
This article on about.com gives a good overview (it's for children with stunted growth, or pituitary gland problems). According to the article use in adults can cause diabetes and pooling of fluids in tissues, high blood pressure etc.
It used to be produced by sucking it out of dead people but now is now synthetically produced due to CJD (human variant of 'Mad Cow' disease) risks-- it comes from the pituitary gland so is high-risk for transferring the disease (possibly!)
Scientists are now looking at producing HGH from animal semen because "semen is a body fluid that can be collected easily on a continuous basis"... and in this press release from Nature, they "suggest that boars (male pigs), which can produce up to half a liter of semen at a time, could be similarly engineered to produce pharmaceutical proteins both cost-effectively and efficiently"
!!
I guess it goes 1. Get pig 2. Genetically engineer pig 3. Find someone to 'milk' half a liter... "Look Daddy, I'm a farmer!!" 4. profit!
I've noticed in print magazines that pseudo-editorials ("advertorials") that look similar to the rest of the mag, but which are advertising, always have a "note: advertising feature" or similar at the top of the page so that readers don't confuse the ad with mag content.. I would guess that there's a law or advertising standard somewhere which requires this, right? (Maybe only here in.au..) So it should be easy to extend to banners and pop-ups, too... wouldn't it be interesting if websites were categorised as media publications....
The technology 'sees' the shapes made when radio waves emitted by mobile phone masts meet an obstruction. Signals bounced back by immobile objects, such as walls or trees, are filtered out by the receiver
.. couldn't you just stand still and 'disappear'?.. or create some kind of personal radar evasion device, like a big blowup doll that moves around.. or get down on all fours (and get filtered out as "dog")
This reminds me of the Greg Bear series (Eon, Eternity)-- "picting", displaying complex characters and symbols above your shoulder-- is an important method of communication. If this could be build into glasses (or contact lenses) or mini-holographic displays, the richness of human communication could be vastly increased!
Imagine being able to project emoticons instead of actually smiling, frowning etc!
Does anyone else have a problem with using the fundamental building block of life to power a computer? How will they know that the source code to WindowsGM isn't the same as, say, HIV?
I know it will probably all be in vitro, but what's going to protect me from getting infected with a stray snipped of 3D rotation code?
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In some cases.
The theory is that spam websites aren't equipped to handle traffic (1/10000 responses or whatever) so once you send them traffic, the ones with actual hosting use up their bandwidth, and the zombies.. well.. their computers get even slower, until they eventually get some geek to clear the junk out, or install sp2, or buy a new computer.
It certainly makes it harder for the spammers IMO.
Even if you only used it on phishing sites. (I've seen one in action before, seemed to be effective)
That's where you use bayesian filtering of target websites. Spammer websites are even more obvious than spam emails. Imagine going to a site in spam-ese obfuscation! Heh, I can't wait
Actually they do. Think about it. They aren't spamming you for sh*ts and giggles, are they? There MUST be a website on the end of it, somewhere, otherwise there's no way to make money!
I guess you could be email harvesting, but, on the large part, there are live websites (With lots of pretty pictures) at the end of those URLs in your spam.
I have an idea for beating spam -- renegade style. Everyone forwards their spam to a server(s), which intelligently sorts the mail, finding culprit websites, then a massive distributed network (SETI@home style) retrieves worst-offending URLS from the server, then DDOSes (./ effect s) the spammers websites. Their bandwidth is quickly maxxed. IANAL but I imagine this isn't law-friendly. It's using the zombie-network theory against the spammers (except this time we opt into the network).
I've set up a SF project, anyone wanna help?
The simple version right now just uses a javascript auto-refresh page to draw images off several sites at a time, display, then request the server for more URLs. Once a site goes down you get a 'kill'. You could run teams like seti.
Ideally it'd run as a daemon or win service, and be bandwidth-limited.
funniest. reply. ever.
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safari bookshelf... lifesaver!
seriously though, you can download it via windows update v5.
http://v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
the funny thing is, photoshop came from the lucasfilm special effects division :)
it's not actually double clicking
One such palm-type computer is Microsoft's Palm-size PC. The Palm-size PC has a touch screen display. A stylus is used to input data into a user interface displayed on the touch screen display. The user interface is similar in appearance to a Windows user interface displayed on a desktop or laptop PC. A taskbar, used for launching application programs, is displayed at the bottom of the touch screen display. Applications are launched by using the stylus to select the desired application from a taskbar menu. Using a stylus can be cumbersome for users. Therefore, as an alternative to launching applications by using the stylus, the Palm-size PC contains a plurality of buttons (called application buttons) that are used to launch the more common applications installed on a Palm-size PC. Applications can be launched in a variety of states. In the past, the actuation of an application button caused an application to be launched in a particular state, for example a view state. The user was required to take further steps to invoke additional application functionality, such as opening a document. It is desirable to more easily launch applications in various states. The present invention is directed to increasing the functionality of application buttons so as to accomplish this result.
In the state of Victoria, Australia, many major intersections actually have speed cameras mounted at the lights, so that if you speed up for the yellow, you get an automatic speeding ticket. If you're unlucky enough to miss it, you get another ticket for running the red light. It can get quite expensive . .
;)
To beat this, you have to speed up really really fast then slam the brakes on hard just as you get to the lights, so that your car is going sideways through the lights and they can't see your license plate on the photo
http://guir.berkeley.edu/projects/denim/
This has the added bonus that all us tinfoil-hat weenies know about! Make sure you line the ceiling as well, or the spy satellites will get you.
This dubious article is just a puff-piece for a book about to come out...!
"Why not help the Soviets with their shopping? Now that we know what they want, we can help them get it." The catch: computer chips would be designed to pass Soviet quality tests and then to fail in operation." :P
from the site
"Eligible entries must be submitted and accepted by all the applicable module maintainers before the GNOME 2.6 UI freeze, scheduled for January 12th, 2004."
some of us already knew about using the nasal passage to get 'small particles' across the blood-brain barrier . . ;)
It used to be produced by sucking it out of dead people but now is now synthetically produced due to CJD (human variant of 'Mad Cow' disease) risks-- it comes from the pituitary gland so is high-risk for transferring the disease (possibly!)
... and in this press release from Nature, they "suggest that boars (male pigs), which can produce up to half a liter of semen at a time, could be similarly engineered to produce pharmaceutical proteins both cost-effectively and efficiently"
... "Look Daddy, I'm a farmer!!"
Scientists are now looking at producing HGH from animal semen because "semen is a body fluid that can be collected easily on a continuous basis"
!!
I guess it goes
1. Get pig
2. Genetically engineer pig
3. Find someone to 'milk' half a liter
4. profit!
I've noticed in print magazines that pseudo-editorials ("advertorials") that look similar to the rest of the mag, but which are advertising, always have a "note: advertising feature" or similar at the top of the page so that readers don't confuse the ad with mag content.. I would guess that there's a law or advertising standard somewhere which requires this, right? (Maybe only here in .au..) So it should be easy to extend to banners and pop-ups, too... wouldn't it be interesting if websites were categorised as media publications....
This reminds me of the Greg Bear series (Eon, Eternity)-- "picting", displaying complex characters and symbols above your shoulder-- is an important method of communication. If this could be build into glasses (or contact lenses) or mini-holographic displays, the richness of human communication could be vastly increased!
Imagine being able to project emoticons instead of actually smiling, frowning etc!
Does anyone else have a problem with using the fundamental building block of life to power a computer? How will they know that the source code to WindowsGM isn't the same as, say, HIV?
I know it will probably all be in vitro, but what's going to protect me from getting infected with a stray snipped of 3D rotation code?
Eek! Gives a whole new meaning to "virus".
finally, the messiah has come! you ARE comic book store guy incarnate!
He could always BUY a smaller company and start over, if he wanted.
.. :)
He could always BUY a small African nation and start over, if he wanted, too. Actually he could probably get New Zealand in the bargain