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Raise shields!

Dec 29
Updates

I’ve been getting a lot of feelers for trackback spam lately, so I’ve installed Kitten’s Spaminator plug-in.

So far it’s working a treat.

Long-term, though, I think we need to respond to spammers at their source: their customers.

I can think of lots of ways to do this, such as respond-bots that pollute their databases with random (but sane) values.

“You bet I want to learn more about CAS1NO VIAAAAGRA CIAILS ROLLEX”, the ‘bot would say when it got a spam, “gonna go to your site to buy me some of that hot stock before it ‘explodes tomorrow’– just as soon as I pick a random value from the known-invalid credit card list!”

Wouldn’t that be great, if the identity thieves paid good money to the spammers for a list of marks, only to find that most of the identities were completely bogus bot-spawn?

Or even better: specially-crafted values being back-tracked by the authorities?

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Holy schtick medicine

Dec 28
Ramblings

One aspect of trying to grasp the Eternal Verities is tricky enough to knock the old “chicken-and-egg” problem into a cocked hat.

For obvious reasons, it would be helpful, if not critical, to have a professional understanding of the mind, the tool we use to perceive (or navigate, or create) what we call Reality.

But how can one gain that understanding within the framework of what you’re trying to understand– discerning whether the process is intruding on the results? It’s Heisenberg writ large.

One possibility that I’m exploring is a sort of “perceptive gestalt“– a continual imagining of the impact my thoughts and actions have on the people and environment near me, the creation of a handful of gestalts of my own gestalt from “outside the bubble”.

This has proven to have a tendency for feedback overload, but each time I restart the process, I seem to be able to maintain the perception stream a bit longer, and to extend the perceptive distance “outside the bubble” a bit further.

I’m hopeful that I will be able to continue to develop this skill, to the point that it provides some valuable insight.

[pause]

“I don’t know what you’re going to do with this information, but you have it now.” — Shelley Berman

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Not to put too fine a point on it but…

Dec 27
Ramblings

Spammers suck.

Wouldn’t it be great if some clever litigator got spam classified as “electronic terrorism” and enabled us to send a few “presents” back to the lowlifes who spew this crap? Say a couple of 1200-v power surges, or maybe a few squads of heavily-armed Marines?

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Down in the Trumps

Dec 26
Ramblings

Now Donald Trump is suing the city that tried to cite him for displaying an oversized flag.

Apparently this attempted citationage somehow caused him ten million dollars (plus lawyer’s fees, don’t forget the lawyer’s fees) worth of damage.

How? Who knows. Pain and suffering perhaps.

I take back what I said about him being a patriot. To paraphrase Heinlein, a patriot is one who puts the welfare of the body politic before his own.

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Mush

Dec 25
Ramblings

Wherever you are,
whatever you do,
whatever you think:
you can still enjoy
the unlicensed magic
that works its way
through so many people
this time of year.

Peace and joy to you.

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Get down sonnet

Dec 21
Bad Poetry©, Best of the LPB, Ramblings

I’m told one time I jumped out of a plane;
I must believe it, since I can’t recall
if I at any point enjoyed the fall
or how on earth I came to earth again.

Another time it’s said I bagged a lion,
At least, the beast was dead and I was not,
And I had either passed out or forgot
This hunting deed that would have shamed Orion.

Since then I’ve tried to tread a calmer road
Because I fret that when I reach December
What use such feats be if I can’t remember?
Such pastimes as won’t make my brain implode.

Bassooning, spooning, schooning, tunes and ballooning:
I’m proud to say that none of these cause swooning.

©2006 Michael W. Lucas

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Ooh, shiny

Dec 18
Best of the LPB, Ramblings

I’ve decided that I’m not “easily distracted”, nor do I have a “short attention span”.

I have “agile mental focus”.

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