Maybe he could attribute his marriage's longevity to marrying a woman willing to tolerate someone who spends all his time hiding behind a newspaper smoking a pipe.;)
I remember once, back in the dim and misty, I wrote a post that happened to be the first, but wasn't a "first post". There was a lot of astonishment that the first post contained actual content.
I've been away for awhile but I note that the "first post" dreck seems to have been somewhat modulated.
Mainstream media outlets report news- an exploit for IE isn't really news, because so many people use it and so many people target it.
Firefox has been touted as the secure alternative to IE, so it's pretty newsworthy when the only contender for the browser throne has one of its main claims to superiority knocked out from under it.
I'm just imagining the/. folks watching virtual heads asplode every time they post something, quaffing some more beer and pulling another one out...
[scene: impropmptu party in Taco's office. Several people are standing or sitting around, watching/. go apeshit over all the April Fools' stories.]
CmdrTaco: Wow, THAT got them riled up. Rest of room: Huzzah! CowboyNeal: How long you think we can keep doing this? CmdrTaco: Hell, we run the site. *glick glick glick* As long as we want. It's funny to get all these people with their knickers in a knot. CowboyNeal: What's next? CmdrTaco: I think we've got something about dinosaur fossils found crucified... Rest of room: Huzzah! CowboyNeal: Post that bad boy! Rest of room: Huzzah!
That I haven't seen raised much, is that the costs of doing this would be hugely higher than spamming via email, which is so prevalent because it's so bloody cheap. I think we'll see an increase in this sort of thing, but not to the tune of 150 calls/day, simply because of the economics of the situation.
A call center costs money, and the best telemarketers can only talk to a few people an hour. Your throughput of calls goes up only as your costs for warm bodies to man the phones goes up, and that increases your overhead.
Email spammers can simply jump to another location to keep spewing when the banhammer falls. A VoIP-based call center might have a bit more trouble.
Firewalls will be your friend to stop this sort of thing. The backlash will be harsher too- people are more likely to get irked at phone calls than emails; spam is something that you can take care of at your leisure.
A phone ringing at 3 AM, not so much.
Heh. I remember the morning that story came out. I sat down with a cup of coffee and the Olympian, and damn near fell out of my chair laughing at that story.
I love this town.
Something I've been curious about, and I'm sure there's a reason for it, is why the landers don't use signals to an orbiter, which then can use higher power to transmit back to earth? Is this just too complex or is there another reason this scenario won't work?
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Maybe he could attribute his marriage's longevity to marrying a woman willing to tolerate someone who spends all his time hiding behind a newspaper smoking a pipe. ;)
I remember once, back in the dim and misty, I wrote a post that happened to be the first, but wasn't a "first post". There was a lot of astonishment that the first post contained actual content. I've been away for awhile but I note that the "first post" dreck seems to have been somewhat modulated.
and taking more steps each and every waking moment, it would seem.
Somewhere a few miles behind me, I'd wager.
Maybe there's some way of harnessing /. moderation (and meta-moderation) data to get a candidate of likely experts.
Crazy. And people compare Microsoft to the Borg. What's next, GoogleLaundromat? GoogleBeer? (beer Googles?)
The mind, it boggles.
Mainstream media outlets report news- an exploit for IE isn't really news, because so many people use it and so many people target it. Firefox has been touted as the secure alternative to IE, so it's pretty newsworthy when the only contender for the browser throne has one of its main claims to superiority knocked out from under it.
I paid almost $400 for my Kinesis keyboard in 1996. Still use it today, and it's the best money I ever spent on a peripheral.
A cheap keyboard=pain. At least for me.
Um, yeah.
Good times, good times.
Huzzah!
I'm just imagining the /. folks watching virtual heads asplode every time they post something, quaffing some more beer and pulling another one out...
/. go apeshit over all the April Fools' stories.]
[scene: impropmptu party in Taco's office. Several people are standing or sitting around, watching
CmdrTaco: Wow, THAT got them riled up.
Rest of room: Huzzah!
CowboyNeal: How long you think we can keep doing this?
CmdrTaco: Hell, we run the site. *glick glick glick* As long as we want. It's funny to get all these people with their knickers in a knot.
CowboyNeal: What's next?
CmdrTaco: I think we've got something about dinosaur fossils found crucified...
Rest of room: Huzzah!
CowboyNeal: Post that bad boy!
Rest of room: Huzzah!
Not if there's only two choices.
Share and enjoy!
Point to you. But the costs in terms of infrastructure are still monumentally greater than email spam. I think my point about costs stands.
Also, the article did refer to real humans vs. SPIT.
That I haven't seen raised much, is that the costs of doing this would be hugely higher than spamming via email, which is so prevalent because it's so bloody cheap. I think we'll see an increase in this sort of thing, but not to the tune of 150 calls/day, simply because of the economics of the situation.
A call center costs money, and the best telemarketers can only talk to a few people an hour. Your throughput of calls goes up only as your costs for warm bodies to man the phones goes up, and that increases your overhead.
Email spammers can simply jump to another location to keep spewing when the banhammer falls. A VoIP-based call center might have a bit more trouble.
Ah, I see. Still, for those with VoIP, it would be amusing to do nasty things with the inbound calls known to be of the pork-flavored variety.
;)
How about honeypot numbers, teergrubing, and/or DDOS bombs when a number is called? Might give the script kiddies something to do with their time.
Firewalls will be your friend to stop this sort of thing. The backlash will be harsher too- people are more likely to get irked at phone calls than emails; spam is something that you can take care of at your leisure. A phone ringing at 3 AM, not so much.
He'd been up for 3 days straight, not moving, in a small chair stuck in a 7-foot cockpit.
The last thing I'd want at that point would be a gala reception. Gimme a couple days' sleep, a shower, and some food- THEN it'll be time to party.
I'm reading /. on a free wifi hotspot right now.
In a bar, with a beer.
Gotta love it. :)
Heh. I remember the morning that story came out. I sat down with a cup of coffee and the Olympian, and damn near fell out of my chair laughing at that story. I love this town.
*snort* You came *this close* (holds up fingers about a millimeter apart) to owing me a new keyboard due to Vanilla Coke spewage.
Dumbass: Slashdot poster thinks Fark is a curse word on Farscape. Humiliation ensues.
Heh. "Aw, would you SHUT UP?! You're rats with solar panels!"
Something I've been curious about, and I'm sure there's a reason for it, is why the landers don't use signals to an orbiter, which then can use higher power to transmit back to earth? Is this just too complex or is there another reason this scenario won't work?