Mar 2006
Patriot Act: The Home Version - The Game
Patriot Act: The Home
Version is a
free game you can download and print out for your
personal use. A variation on Monopoly, except
instead of paying money for landing on a property
you surrender a civil liberty. The person with
that most a civil liberty left wins.
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A Plague of Automated Comment Spammers
17 March 2006 11:37 AM | Peeves and
Irritations| Permalink
It's amazing
how automated comment spammers and their bots work.
One of my directories gets mass waves of bots all
trying to spam the comments for the listings.
Here are their footprints:
83.240.17.162
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Mac_PowerPC)
203.113.146.250
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0; NetCaptor 6.5.0RC1)
216.93.179.108
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; iRider 2.21.1108; FDM)
69.243.42.205
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
222.118.167.142
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows ME) Opera 5.11 [en]
202.38.52.5
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; KITV4.7 Wanadoo)
200.123.131.181
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Hotbar 3.0)
62.183.50.164
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; N_o_k_i_a)
201.6.226.173
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Maxthon)
211.152.35.23
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; N_o_k_i_a)
They appear to be randomizing the IP and User Agent. All are hitting only the comments area of the listings in swarms 6 or more times a day. I'll bet half my bandwidth is going to these guys.
Link popularity and PageRank have become such a holy grail commodity that it's all now just zombie hoards of spam bots roaming the web looking for any form field to spam.
So this is what the web has come too?
Here are their footprints:
83.240.17.162
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Mac_PowerPC)
203.113.146.250
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0; NetCaptor 6.5.0RC1)
216.93.179.108
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; iRider 2.21.1108; FDM)
69.243.42.205
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
222.118.167.142
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows ME) Opera 5.11 [en]
202.38.52.5
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; KITV4.7 Wanadoo)
200.123.131.181
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Hotbar 3.0)
62.183.50.164
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; N_o_k_i_a)
201.6.226.173
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Maxthon)
211.152.35.23
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; N_o_k_i_a)
They appear to be randomizing the IP and User Agent. All are hitting only the comments area of the listings in swarms 6 or more times a day. I'll bet half my bandwidth is going to these guys.
Link popularity and PageRank have become such a holy grail commodity that it's all now just zombie hoards of spam bots roaming the web looking for any form field to spam.
So this is what the web has come too?
Bunn MyCafe Single Serve Pod Coffeemaker
I just
replaced my Melitta One:One pod coffee maker with
a Bunn MyCafe commercial maker. I
had the Melitta since 2004 and I have enjoyed it
but I wanted something that made the coffee a
little hotter and that accepted a wide variety of
pod sizes and brands. I found that in the Bunn
MyCafe.
I got it Monday and so I have now had a couple of days to play with it. Aesthetically, this is not the prettiest machine IMO. The styling is sort of haute-Holiday Inn, so no fancy Euro-styling for me. But then again my kitchen is straight out of the 1950's so it kinda looks at home. Plus it is a commercial grade machine and not meant to be beautiful only ubiquitous.
But the preliminary results are - it makes better coffee. The coffee is hotter and it has all the features I could want or expect.
Likes:
200 degree coffee.
Pod drawer hold coffee pods of all sizes.
Slide selector for how large a cup you want in one ounce increments from 4 - 12 oz.
Coffee or Tea settings
Not a lot of dripping
Dislikes:
High price.
I got it Monday and so I have now had a couple of days to play with it. Aesthetically, this is not the prettiest machine IMO. The styling is sort of haute-Holiday Inn, so no fancy Euro-styling for me. But then again my kitchen is straight out of the 1950's so it kinda looks at home. Plus it is a commercial grade machine and not meant to be beautiful only ubiquitous.
But the preliminary results are - it makes better coffee. The coffee is hotter and it has all the features I could want or expect.
Likes:
200 degree coffee.
Pod drawer hold coffee pods of all sizes.
Slide selector for how large a cup you want in one ounce increments from 4 - 12 oz.
Coffee or Tea settings
Not a lot of dripping
Dislikes:
High price.
Finally Somebody gets it.
09 March 2006 01:12 PM | Web Directories -
Portals| Permalink
I run a
little niche directory where I constantly get spam
submissions for "pills, p*rn and casino" sites
looking to scam a free listing.
So the other day I get notice that a casino site wants to pay to advertise on the site. I almost had a knee-jerk reaction and rejected it without thinking. But then I accepted it - I mean that is the point, if you are off topic and can't get a listing in the directory but still want exposure to my web site's demographic then buy an ad!
So the other day I get notice that a casino site wants to pay to advertise on the site. I almost had a knee-jerk reaction and rejected it without thinking. But then I accepted it - I mean that is the point, if you are off topic and can't get a listing in the directory but still want exposure to my web site's demographic then buy an ad!
