- November 11, 2008
- The State is in Danger, says a Return Spam Message from Eurosoftware
- Posted by Strangely
- Internet
- Tagged with: address, advert, anger, BBC, Buddhism, Buddhist, California, Captcha, China, communication, computer, Contact, domain, Doom, Download, email, filter, friend, future, good, index, laugh, Mailwasher, market, Microsoft, mind, pcpro, Picture, price, privacy, race, scientist, service, Software, Spam, state, storm, technology, university, Xin Net
Following on from my post a few days ago about EuroSoftware, I had an interesting spam today. I used “The Complainerator” to automate some abuse mails to see what happened. Well… fortunately I used my old email spam sucker-inner trap as the “from” address, because that’s where today’s spam came to. Addressed from myself – to [...]
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- September 6, 2008
- Back to Doing the TanTan
- Posted by Strangely
- Internet
- Tagged with: Captcha, comment, conflict, dodgy, experiment, filter, functionality, good, install, Photo, Plugin, realise, Software, Spam, spam filter, TanTanNoodles, WordPress
I’ve gone back to enabling the TanTanNoodles Simple Spam Filter on my WordPress installation. I didn’t realise what spam it was actually blocking until I started an experiment a few weeks ago to see how the various plugins and systems that I use interact with each other. What happened was I started getting quite a [...]
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- August 29, 2008
- Captcha Broken says Matt, I agree!
- Posted by Strangely
- Technology
- Tagged with: Akismet, attack, Bastard, Captcha, computer, email, good, Guardian, Human, index, Injection, Internet, invoice, Ironic, monitor, operandi, Plugin, problem, registration, sabre, Software, Spam, spring, SQL, technology, Website, WordPress
….That’s what I’ve determined empirically recently. Matt’s (WordPress prime mover) post here and this article in the Guardian mention the various failings of CAPTCHA. It’s the kind of thing that’s dawned on me progressively and is the reason I don’t use Captcha any more. I’ve tested it and in the WordPress plugins that use it, [...]
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- August 22, 2008
- Probable DDOS attack Using SQL Injection on my Websites
- Posted by Strangely
- Internet, Technology
- Tagged with: address, attack, browser, Captcha, comment, data, Database, DDoS, engine, future, Google, Hack, Hacker, Hosting, htaccess, index, Injection, investigation, Java, knowledge, Mixer, MySQL, phpAdmin, Plugin, power, problem, Protect, QUERY, race, Spam, SQL, Theme, Wassup, Website, WordPress
Over the last day, my sites have been really slow and twice to my knowledge have tripped out. I’ve been getting a mysql error message like so when I try to resolve the problem in phpAdmin; MySQL: ERROR 1040: Too many connections I tried hosting chat support (as I’m in a hurry) but the connection [...]
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- August 18, 2008
- Another Positive Use for the Computer to Human Interface
- Posted by Strangely
- Technology
- Tagged with: book, brain, Captcha, computer, eyes, Fantastic, Farm, Galaxy, Human, Mankind, Mistake, power, project, service, Software, Technique, Wikipedia
In a recent post, http://strangelyperfect.tv/629/hannys-voorwerp-shows-what-ordinary-people-can-do/, I mentioned the power that can be gleaned from combining massive computer power and the pattern recognition capabilities of 3 million years of evolution on the human brain/eye system. Now another use has just surfaced… Many web-using people will be used to filling in forms with the deciphering of some [...]
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- May 31, 2008
- What is the Creative Conciousness? Answer – Courage.
- Posted by Strangely
- Art, Crawling Chaos, Internet
- Tagged with: Adsense, advert, Archive, Arse, Ashington, Audio, bonus, book, brain, British, Buddhist, Captcha, cause and effect, comment, concept, Contact, Copyright, courage, Crap, Crawling, Crawling Chaos, creative, creativity, David Bowie, Discography, Doom, email, explosion, F30, Factory, Factory Records, Fantastic, Farewell, Farm, Film, Foetus, forum, Fossil Fuel, Freedom, fuck, game, God, good, Google, Gordon Brown, graph, Happy, Harry, Head, hell, hidden, History, house, index, Inspire, install, Internet, interview, Java, Joy Division, knowledge, Lovecraft, lyrics, Machine, mind, money, monitor, Murder, Music, nation, Nature, Nuclear, party, Plugin, president, privacy, project, Promise, public, Punk, QUERY, race, Recording, Relation, release, responsibility, rights, Robot, Sale, school, Screen, sense, Sex, Sex Machine, shame, Sound, state, statistics, storm, terror, Theme, Throbbing, Times, Tony Wilson, Trademark, traffic, trial, truth, Video, Vinyl, Vision, Washington, Website, Wikipedia, World, Ypres
Art and creativity come in many forms but since the internet arrived with the huge explosion in community sites and the easy interchange of prior art, maybe the concept of creativity needs re-defining. Prior art like: a 20 foot oil canvas viewed in a museum a paper book like Harry Potter, read in bed, a [...]
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