Back when this began, their web server said it was running on Linux. Then it changed to Unix--or more likely, they just changed the string that the server reported.
I'd plonk everything from Darl and SCO, but like the kook he is, he'd just morph the name and keep posting. (Of wait, they already morphed to SCO. See!)
Infected zombie proxies. If you can't find an open proxy, make thousands! That way you can have them do more than just proxying: like direct emailing, scanning, DDoS attacks on anti-spam utilities or just more infecting. (Best of all, they don't have to be open proxies. You can restrict them to you and your spammer buds. i.e. the ones that paid you.)
Never forked? What never? What about the Win 95/98/ME vs Win NT/2000/XP fork? (Or the earlier Win 2.1/Win 386 split?) I haven't counted noses of all the Wince/Win Pocket variants running around recently -- the number changes too quickly.
Spammers with quality control? Nooooo! Next they'll get an independant auditing firm to confirm the amount of money they always claim they make in those "Spam King", "Spam Queen" or "Spam We're Not Sure" news stories.
Relay honeypots (spamhole??) usually have to play a careful game: Pass the single test message by the spammer checking to see if it works, but block the spam run.
There's endless debate about where to draw the line on email relaying between none and some.
(See XML WX response to elder sibling post.) I'm not really at the stage where I was planning to look at this again. But plans change. I'll sleep on it. (Nothing is worse that getting a really neat key piece of a puzzle -- ahead of schedule!)
It wasn't exactly a critical application. In fact, it pushed me to work on generalized routines for extracting information from web pages.
The app I'm working on now will eventually have a use for weather info (it makes a really neat demo) but that's still a bit in the future. Hmm, a standard international XML format for weather information would be pretty useful for any app that needs weather info. Not just fancy apps to predict commute time, but farming apps and such with all sorts of trigger alarms.
I've jotted this down in my notes to look at again later.
Make it look pretty? Actually I miss the text-only pages. It was easy to have Merlin (a talking Clippy) speak the weather without having to strip out the HTML. If you must nu'n'improve things, how about some XML mutant?
Even worse: Jerry Pournelle will get on it and brag about it in his column, starting flamewars and tightened access that innocent people were quietly sneaking until then.
If the city knows where the plows are in real-time, car systems could poll the road-net and let you know where the cleared stretches are and when you about to have a close encounter with a plow or salt truck.
Warning, there is a snowplow two feet behind you. Have a Nice Day!
Mind you, in the future, we'll all have flying cars and we won't need plows. Right?
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Back when this began, their web server said it was running on Linux. Then it changed to Unix--or more likely, they just changed the string that the server reported.
If they were dealing Canadian bank, for Starwars consistency, it should have been the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC).
It was in Utah. Perhaps it just seemed a lot longer?
Or how pr0n sites figure out that you're legal: "Are you 18 or over? Click-here"
Are you a terrorist? Go here instead!
Yes, except the Duchy of Grand Fenwick goofed and won the war.
No, then they'd arrest you for building a weapon of math destruction.
I'm not sure but I'm typing this very very fas
I'd plonk everything from Darl and SCO, but like the kook he is, he'd just morph the name and keep posting. (Of wait, they already morphed to SCO. See!)
Infected zombie proxies. If you can't find an open proxy, make thousands! That way you can have them do more than just proxying: like direct emailing, scanning, DDoS attacks on anti-spam utilities or just more infecting. (Best of all, they don't have to be open proxies. You can restrict them to you and your spammer buds. i.e. the ones that paid you.)
Never forked? What never? What about the Win 95/98/ME vs Win NT/2000/XP fork? (Or the earlier Win 2.1/Win 386 split?) I haven't counted noses of all the Wince/Win Pocket variants running around recently -- the number changes too quickly.
Spammers with quality control? Nooooo! Next they'll get an independant auditing firm to confirm the amount of money they always claim they make in those "Spam King", "Spam Queen" or "Spam We're Not Sure" news stories.
I can't remember when I last received an actual relayed spam.
There's endless debate about where to draw the line on email relaying between none and some.
It might, but the US got the CAN-SPAM law instead.
(See XML WX response to elder sibling post.) I'm not really at the stage where I was planning to look at this again. But plans change. I'll sleep on it. (Nothing is worse that getting a really neat key piece of a puzzle -- ahead of schedule!)
The app I'm working on now will eventually have a use for weather info (it makes a really neat demo) but that's still a bit in the future. Hmm, a standard international XML format for weather information would be pretty useful for any app that needs weather info. Not just fancy apps to predict commute time, but farming apps and such with all sorts of trigger alarms.
I've jotted this down in my notes to look at again later.
There's nothing wrong with re-inventing the wheel so long as you can make it rounder.
Make it look pretty? Actually I miss the text-only pages. It was easy to have Merlin (a talking Clippy) speak the weather without having to strip out the HTML. If you must nu'n'improve things, how about some XML mutant?
Does it come with pods to drop the kids off at school?
And just think: the first time this was done, the backbone was 56kbps.
That didn't work so well the last time, now did it?
Hey, it happened last time.
Linking up universities and research centers with high-speed data communications. That has a real deja-ecoute sound to it.
Warning, there is a snowplow two feet behind you. Have a Nice Day!
Mind you, in the future, we'll all have flying cars and we won't need plows. Right?
Especially if you get them mixed up. Imagine telling Shiva to "play dead"?