Warshak told him that customers seeking a refund should be required to get a notarized statement from a doctor certifying that their penis had not increased in size.
Warshak told him that customers seeking a refund should be required to get a notarized statement from a doctor certifying that their penis had not increased in size.
We just make them so hard that it becomes impossible for a human to solve it. Then we invert the solution: if you pass the CAPTCHA, you're obviously a bot, because a human can't solve it. FAIL the CAPTCHA, we know that you're human.
You say this in jest, and I admit it made me smile, but we did something somewhat like this.
We have a website with a contact form on it, that gets lots of spam. After numerous discussions with marketing about implementing CAPTCHAs, we decided to simply put a text box on the form that says "leave this blank", with the HTML form field named "comment". Humans leave it blank. And sure enough, the spammers cram their links into all form fields, so we can ignore their crap.
We initially even made the form hidden (CSS font color and field color the same as the background), so a user wouldn't even see it. That was great.
Not a perfect solution for all cases, but it worked pretty well for us.
I don't see an issue with this. I know I'll get modded down to oblivion, but I see no problem with teaching people A method to compete in the market place.
I'd actually be disappointed if information like this weren't being taught in Silicon Valley!
yeah, I really hate when they "verb-ize" everything. Or add "-gate" to everything that is scandalous. (Was Water at one point a scandal? no). Or chocoholic, sexaholic, etc. Where do I buy some of that sexahol?
By the way, if anyone knows a sure-fire way to get spam mail sent to a particular email address, please reply to this comment and let me know. I need a real-world test.
haven't tested it myself, so I guess I don't know if it's surefire.
If my response solves your problem, the best way to thank me is to not
send an "it worked, thanks" follow-up. If you must respond, please put
"It worked, thanks" in the "Subject" so I can delete these quickly.
Major Tom: I'm feeling very still.
Eliza: Why are you feeling very still?
Major Tom: Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do.
Eliza: Why do you think planet Earth is blue?
The issue of avoiding accidents becomes more complex, with legal issues involved. Say a robotic car is driving east-bound in a 4-lane road, and the west-bound human-driven car swerves into the east-bound lane.
Now the robot-car has to decide whether to swerve toward its fellow east-bound cars, to avoid a head-on collision with the stupid human. The computer logic might take into account such factors as the likelihood of the other east-bound traffic moving out of his way (or the human correcting his path), as well as the potential damage caused by a side-by-side bump vs. a head-on collision. So the right option from a cost stand-point might be to swerve into traffic moving the same direction, avoiding the head-on collision.
However, current laws seem to hint that you ought to at least scrape the car coming at you. If that human isn't involved in the accident, then currently they would NEVER be cited as responsible. All of the sudden the robot-car needs to make a legal analysis as well as a cost analysis (cost in money and lives).
Not impossible, just hard. I think Will Smith showed us how that can go wrong!
Interestingly, Anderson's theory that "theories are dead" was probably not derived through automated analysis of petabytes of data, therefore proving that theories are not dead.
You should go to another site, and do a "tracert" (traceroute) to your regular location, and see what path it takes (noting the last few locations). Or do a tracert from your regular location and look at the first few entries. Maybe even try a web-based tracert site.
You may see an upstream location that appears to be in Canada. Maybe the reverse lookup domain name is misleading, and these geo services are making an assumption (like router5-ontario-ca.someisp.com being in Ontario Canada, and not Ontario California).
As others have said, this technique works great. But the way it worked well for me was to reply as if you are doing a personal reply to the original sender, and accidentally pressed reply all. This is best done if it's immediate. Like:
Bob- Thanks for the info.
On another note, I wanted to let you know that we released Rev 2 of our software package for lawyers, and just finished three successful implementations. All three are thrilled with the productivity gains and want to act as reference accounts.
If you know of anyone legal firms looking to improve their productivity, let me know. And we're still interested in the partnership idea that you guys mentioned. Let me know where that stands.
For best results, change the address of the original sender (your competitor) slightly, so he doesn't even get it. But to all his customers, it looks like he did.
This kind of lock could pose serious problems for a significant part of the population.
Isn't that the idea of a lock? To make it difficult for OTHER PEOPLE to gain access?
Another note: The way this is currently designed, as was mentioned in TFA, others could see and memorize your secret pattern. But I think it'd be trivial to change it so that as you push a button, ALL of the colors potentially change. And the "combination" might be something like:
If Red and Green are paired together (one on top of the other), press the button to the right of the Red one. Otherwise, press the lower Right button. If you can do that 6 times in a row, you're in.
Such a pattern would be VERY difficult for someone to learn through observation. And with random displays, the combination (which keys to press) would virtually change every time. And you'd be locking out the color-blind burglars (and blind burglars too).
Unfortunately, though, that's the same combination as my luggage.
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If you still have a small penis, simply get a notarized note from your doctor stating it is so, and you can get your money back!
My favorite recent scam (not TFA mentioned above), as reported in the press:
If you still have a small penis, simply get a notarized note from your doctor stating it is so, and you can get your money back!
My favorite recent scam, as reported in the press:
You say this in jest, and I admit it made me smile, but we did something somewhat like this.
We have a website with a contact form on it, that gets lots of spam. After numerous discussions with marketing about implementing CAPTCHAs, we decided to simply put a text box on the form that says "leave this blank", with the HTML form field named "comment". Humans leave it blank. And sure enough, the spammers cram their links into all form fields, so we can ignore their crap.
We initially even made the form hidden (CSS font color and field color the same as the background), so a user wouldn't even see it. That was great.
Not a perfect solution for all cases, but it worked pretty well for us.
"C'mon"??? Very clever, Hal!
Chapter80: Tell me more about your thinking prove it.
I'd actually be disappointed if information like this weren't being taught in Silicon Valley!
yeah, I really hate when they "verb-ize" everything. Or add "-gate" to everything that is scandalous. (Was Water at one point a scandal? no). Or chocoholic, sexaholic, etc. Where do I buy some of that sexahol?
http://spamyourenemies.com/
haven't tested it myself, so I guess I don't know if it's surefire.
If my response solves your problem, the best way to thank me is to not send an "it worked, thanks" follow-up. If you must respond, please put "It worked, thanks" in the "Subject" so I can delete these quickly.
Reproduction may be possible at that age, but I strongly suggest that you wait 8 more years before putting anything into her paper tray.
Imagine being able to download from the official Firefox site such distributions as:
Major Tom: I'm feeling very still.
Eliza: Why are you feeling very still?
Major Tom: Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do.
Eliza: Why do you think planet Earth is blue?
Who doesn't make more than a hundred bucks?
Shouldn't our objective be to reduce the rate people return? ;-)
Now the robot-car has to decide whether to swerve toward its fellow east-bound cars, to avoid a head-on collision with the stupid human. The computer logic might take into account such factors as the likelihood of the other east-bound traffic moving out of his way (or the human correcting his path), as well as the potential damage caused by a side-by-side bump vs. a head-on collision. So the right option from a cost stand-point might be to swerve into traffic moving the same direction, avoiding the head-on collision.
However, current laws seem to hint that you ought to at least scrape the car coming at you. If that human isn't involved in the accident, then currently they would NEVER be cited as responsible. All of the sudden the robot-car needs to make a legal analysis as well as a cost analysis (cost in money and lives).
Not impossible, just hard. I think Will Smith showed us how that can go wrong!
yeah, and it got you to talk about it. Same as Star Magazine, National Enquirer, etc...
Interestingly, Anderson's theory that "theories are dead" was probably not derived through automated analysis of petabytes of data, therefore proving that theories are not dead.
You may see an upstream location that appears to be in Canada. Maybe the reverse lookup domain name is misleading, and these geo services are making an assumption (like router5-ontario-ca.someisp.com being in Ontario Canada, and not Ontario California).
No one assumes that those are EXACT, so you're safe.
Honest, Mike. We couldn't find you if we tried.
<knock> <knock>
I'll click your link if you click mine! HA HA.
Thanks for playing. I get kicks out of the silliest thing, I hope you smiled!
For the English speaking crowd, I think just deleating teh word "Are" would help it make more sense.
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Yeah, that's right, I said it.
This technique is proven!
Apparently so were these other people: Spaceballs, Diebold Voting Machines, The Virginia Lottery, and Cold War Generals,
Unfortunately, I guess most moderators weren't around in 1966. But I laughed out loud. (sorry.. LOL'd)
Another note: The way this is currently designed, as was mentioned in TFA, others could see and memorize your secret pattern. But I think it'd be trivial to change it so that as you push a button, ALL of the colors potentially change. And the "combination" might be something like:
If Red and Green are paired together (one on top of the other), press the button to the right of the Red one. Otherwise, press the lower Right button. If you can do that 6 times in a row, you're in.
Such a pattern would be VERY difficult for someone to learn through observation. And with random displays, the combination (which keys to press) would virtually change every time. And you'd be locking out the color-blind burglars (and blind burglars too).
Unfortunately, though, that's the same combination as my luggage.
Who's the ass-clown that marked this informative?