Spambot of the day
I’ve noticed the ever-increasing sophistication of spambot comments before. But here’s is a new twist just in today, from a porno bot:
I love the tips on this site, they are always to the point and just the information I was looking for. Its hard to find good content these days in the world of spam and garbage sites.
Hear, hear.
Technology is amazing– there are some farm bots in games I’ve played that will have you asking “is it word-triggered bot, or a really poorly spoken human?” for a good half hour before they slip up.
See ALICE for an example.
From your linked post…
I well remember the times when I was getting a grand total of five readers a day on this blog–and three of them were me, because I didn’t know how to block my own IP address; and the other two had reached here in error.
I can imagine it, because that’s where I am now.
With such a minuscule following, I’ve felt safe in allowing anyone to comment, including anonymous.
I did have to remove one comment that appeared to simply say
“hello~nice to meet u …………….”, but running the cursor over it revealed each dot to be a link to an asian video porn site, which I couldn’t even take advantage of as my dial-up connection made it impractical :(.
Somebody put in a bit of work on that one.
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“Spambot of the day”
Spambot of the year, Obama….
Perfected Democrat,
Oh, I don’t know. The ILLUSION of thought and individuality is almost perfect, but it slips up QUITE a bit. 😀
Paul, anyone who correctly spells “minuscule” deserves an audience. I’m coming over.
AVI:
From “In The Line of Fire”, dialogue between Clint Eastwood’s and Rene Russo’s characters…
Clint: “… besides, he thinks he has panache“.
Rene: “Panache?”
Clint: “It means flamboyant.”
Rene: “I know what panache means.”
Clint: “Really?!!! I had to look it up.”
🙂
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I’ve been getting Asian porn links in my blog’s comments. 🙁
Why the frown camojack?
Are you also limited by a dial-up connection?
🙂
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camojack:
I’ve just visited your blog and I like it. I’ve just finished reading “Once upon a time…” (your tribute to 9/11) and thought you might like this. It has a link you may feel like checking out.
I feel like sharing; this is why I’m putting this on neo’s site as well as yours.
An email I sent to friends on 9/11…
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As some of you may be aware, “The Won” is seeking to desecrate 9/11 as a “Day of National Service” instead, with the excuse that “We need to move on”.
I recall, years ago when we were toppling the Taliban rule in Afghanistan, the Taliban leader Mullah Omar whining to some journalist that we should “Get over it!”.
To which my response must be not only “No!”, but “Hell No!!!”.
Like many, I was at work on that day, learning of it when co-workers told me to check out CNN on the internet, and watched it play out, watching with horror when the buildings collapsed with so many still inside.
The next day, Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts, normally a fairly angry liberal wrote a column reproduced at WTC Tribute ( http://www.forgotten-ny.com/WTCtribute.html ) “We’ll Go Forward From this Moment”, in which he observed (among other things)…
“Let me tell you about my people. We are a vast and quarrelsome family, a family rent by racial, social, political and class division, but a family nonetheless. We’re frivolous, yes, capable of expending tremendous emotional energy on pop cultural minutiae — a singer’s revealing dress, a ball team’s misfortune, a cartoon mouse. We’re wealthy, too, spoiled by the ready availability of trinkets and material goods, and maybe because of that, we walk through life with a certain sense of blithe entitlement. We are fundamentally decent, though — peace-loving and compassionate. We struggle to know the right thing and to do it. And we are, the overwhelming majority of us, people of faith, believers in a just and loving God.
Some people — you, perhaps — think that any or all of this makes us weak. You’re mistaken. We are not weak. Indeed, we are strong in ways that cannot be measured by arsenals.”
And concluded with
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“So I ask again: What was it you hoped to teach us? It occurs to me that maybe you just wanted us to know the depths of your hatred. If that’s the case, consider the message received. And take this message in exchange:
You don’t know my people.
You don’t know what we’re capable of.
You don’t know what you just started.
But you’re about to learn.”
THIS is how I’ll remember 9/11, for a VERY long time to come.
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Well camojack, you’ve disabled comments for that post on your site; so I’m glad I put it here.
Have a good one. 🙂
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Apologies to all, for going so far off-topic here. I made a light reply to a commenter, decided to check out his blog, saw something of interest there, wanted to share, and here we are (“Where are we?!!”).
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Paul_In_Houston…FYI, it is my practice to disable comments on the previous post once I’ve added a new one. Thanks for the link in your comment here, and I’m glad you appreciate my blog…