User: Montaro

Re:fp

On: Best Method For Foiling Email Harvesters?

I too would be interested in seeing a harvester that can parse javascript..

Re:Make people think to figure out your e-mail

On: Best Method For Foiling Email Harvesters?

I have been pondering this for a few hours now going about my daily doings.

What if your email was sent as a scrambled string (this is scrambled server-side), and sent to the browser in a hidden input, then have a button saying like "Contact Us", or a link or whatever, which runs a javascript that decodes the email and opens a mailto: link.. so all this will be unseen by the visitor (all they will see is a link or a button) and also unseen in the source code (since the server will send the email scrambled, and the javascript will descramble it). unless somehow the harvester has written his own javascript parse also.

I haven't slept for about 20hrs, so let me know if this is just absolutely stupid ;P

I've written some example code which does waht I'm talking about: here is a link: http://montaro.bur.st/antispam/

Re:Simple!

On: NASA Avoids "Happy New Year" On Shuttle

I don't see why they can't power the damn thing up, set the clock to Dec 31st 23:59:59, wait a second or two and then see what actually will happen?

I think I just qualified to be on the lead nasa dev team by that comment. oh the logic of it all!

Re:Unbelievable

On: Microsoft's New Mantra - It Just Works

I decided to make a search on google for "just works"...seems its everyone's sales pitch at some stage or another:

- http://www.artima.com/spontaneous/upnp_digihome.ht ml
- http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2002/0715mustha ler.html
- http://www.apple.com/switch/whyswitch/
- http://bashburn.sourceforge.net/
- http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6037

... just to name a few.

Also here is a page with an interesting write-up about "It Just Works": http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ItJustWorks