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The Best Songs about Las Vegas
By guest author Samantha Black: The best songs about Las Vegas Because Las Vegas is such an iconic city, it makes sense that there would be a large number of songs written about it. The bright lights, 24/7 party atmosphere, luxurious … Continue reading
Spambot Updates: Next steps, account activation testing
We are taking the next step in our spambot experimentation, it begins today. We are once again completely resetting the test forums. The main change for this next round is to see how many bots can get past email activation. To … Continue reading
Next steps: How Spambots use email
Our most recent bit of research is looking at how spambots use the email addresses that we register. We want to find out if spambots attend the email addresses they register at and if they are using real persons email … Continue reading
Spam Research: Experiment Continued on SMF Forum
A continuation of the Spambot Experiment with an SMF forum, read about the first experiment here: https://zylblog.com/2011/12/spambot-experiment/ The forums were completely wiped out on the 24th of December (all registered members were deleted, all posts removed, etc). A few options … Continue reading
Posted in Spam Research, Web Services, Application, and Design
Tagged experiments, forum, research, smf, spam
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Digital or Acoustic Piano?
Whenever I visit Costco, the first place I go is right to the keyboards. Its funny because I never actually like any of them, I play the same song on each one (a very cheesy love song). As of yet, … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged acoustic, better, difference, digital, Digital piano, piano, versus, veruss, which
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Spambot Experiment
On August 28, 2011, I started a spambot experiment on my website. One inaccuracy that I want to clear up before I begin posting the results: About a month or so into the experiment, I changed the difficulty of the … Continue reading
Best support answer ever
Take a read on Google Chrome support, read the question, and the “Best Answer”. http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=73c3a0e0c96cdbfd Edit: This answer has since changed. A copy of the original “best answer” can be seen here, quite funny: http://i.imgur.com/7cWDe.jpg
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Did you know? If you Middle-Click a FireFox tab, it will close.
Posted in Computer Stuff, Programs and Software
Tagged click, close, did, firefox, know, middle, tab, tip, trick, you
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How to discern convincing spam from real comments
SPAM is becoming more and more convincing. After years of dealing with it, it never occurred to me that to new site owners it can be very difficult to tell convincing spam from real messages. Computers are becoming better at … Continue reading →