Perl has a function called dump which, intuitively yet perhaps seemingly counterproductively, causes an immediate core dump. "This is so you can use undump(1) to turn your core dump into an executable binary after having initialized all your variables at the beginning of the program" (Camel Book, p158).
Not especially elegant, but a neat hack. Reminds me a little of when I used to simulate assert() in QBasic with something like
From the website: Wpoison is a free tool that can be used to help reduce the problem of bulk junk e-mail on the Internet in general, and at sites using Wpoison in particular.
It solves the problems of trapped spambots sucking up massive bandwidth/CPU time, as well as sparing legitimate spiders (say, google) from severe confusion.
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+5, Troll :)
From the website: Wpoison is a free tool that can be used to help reduce the problem of bulk junk e-mail on the Internet in general, and at sites using Wpoison in particular.
It solves the problems of trapped spambots sucking up massive bandwidth/CPU time, as well as sparing legitimate spiders (say, google) from severe confusion.
Wait, what if the file that I want to send you is the data that you get when you decompress the string "This is it!"?