Comment spammers hit a new low

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I found this in my Akismet queue today: Helga | sveta@yandex.com | chaudlac.info/1986-for-f150 | IP: 222.92.69.125 Please, do not delete the given message. Money obtained from spam will go to the help hungry to children uganda Not Spam — Dec 30, 8:58 PM — [ View Post ] Sometimes, all you can do is chuckle.

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Updates and modifications

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I have updated and modified some of the plug-ins that I’m using in an effort to make commenting easier. Comment SPAM is really on the rise, yet I don’t want my diligence in stopping SPAM to interfere with normal use of the blog. In order to post comments, your browser must have Javascript enabled and [...]

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GNU/Linux user gets a virus

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No, not my computer, me. I managed to pick up some sort of stomach bug that causes me to segfault and dump my core every 45 minutes like clockwork. I don’t think that I got this from reading e-mail, but I’m sure that it was a Windows user who gave it to me. For those [...]

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Sharesource looks rather promising

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I had a chat today with Tim Groeneveld, the creator of Sharesource, a new kid on the block in the city of distributed collaboration tools that are offered as a service. I wasn’t simply slinking around the sourceosphere in search of the next big thing to emerge, I was looking for a Mercurial friendly service [...]

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Will Google kill Santa?

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If you make a person, you must also make some interesting decisions. Religion (or not) being one, basic values to instill being another example. Parenting methods need to be agreed upon quickly by both parents, preferably before said methods need to be employed. Then, there’s the whole Santa issue. I can remember being rather disturbed [...]

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Why the sudden surge in comment SPAM?

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Holy Viagra Batman! In the last two weeks, my Akismet binspam has nearly quadrupled on average, some days even more than quadrupled. The odd thing about this is that I have not been posting very much (perhaps once a week) and can’t find any new & authoritative back links leading to me. What the heck! [...]

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The future of robot love affairs, continued

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John Hawks, an assistant professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin (and one of my favorite reads) recently happened upon something that I wrote about in a rather satirical manner, a possible future that prescribes that we’ll be making love (and falling in love) to/with robots by 2050. John also reacted to the cyborg [...]

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Can we stop the Wikipedia witch hunts?

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We’re coming dangerously close to throwing the ‘baby out with the bath water’ when it comes to one of the few quality sources of free information available to anyone with an Internet connection. Technology web sites have been ablaze with criticism over Wikipedia editorial cliques, broad sweeping user bans, sock puppet editors and lately the [...]

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