[Grubb's] Random Thoughts of the Day

Blacktop · Post by **Blacktop** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 3:17 pm

I'm knot sure who's worse...The Crips and the Bloods, or the Israelis and the Palestinians...

All y'all on one side go an' cap some banga on the otha side and they all like 'aw hell no, we gonna revenge on y'all,' and they cap one of yo boys and you all like 'aw hell no, we gonna revenge on y'all,' repeat ad nauseum.

letshavetea · Post by **letshavetea** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 10:26 pm

Soffish anyone?

mexican ninja · Post by **mexican ninja** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 11:13 pm

built-to-spill wrote:My avatar is Beck, some people have told me I kinda look like him, and I wish they were right, but he's one of my favorite artists of all time.

Dang, I knew it!

Ugh, I'm posting.

Blacktop · Post by **Blacktop** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 12:29 am

First off, the most unbe-freaking-christ-a-lievably scary thing I have ever seen, prominently displayed in my e-mail inbox.

"From: Taina Hauser
To: Agnessa Levesque [how did they discover my moonlight identity as a Bulgarian pornstar?]
Subject: Online Ppharmacy u can trust

Hello, Welcome to Health Suite!

Vi ra al Xa x cod
ag Ci is na Vi in

And many other at [no site for you, but the URL isn't even complete and goes nowhere]

Save Yourself a Huge 70% Off All 0rders With us.

Have a nice day!"

I'm used to terribly uncreative spam, but this really opened my eyes to a shocking aspect of our culture: "Orders" is spelled with a zero.

Post by **MonMotha** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 2:57 am

The idea is to get around pattern matching Bayesian filters that try to learn what is and isn't spam based on past references. The funny thing is that mine has learned very well that "0rder" with a zero is spam, but if you just send your email completely straight and unmunged (as in come right out and say "Get your Viagra and Other Penis Pills Here!"), it'll go right through the filter because almost nobody ever sends spam like that anymore.

Interestingly, I got the same mail. The URL is complete, just not in the text portion. If you look at the actual link target, it's valid. Of course, if you just turn of HTML email most spam is just a blank page anyway :)

Either that, or the plain text looks like this (from that same email):

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Have a nice day!

They do that in a further attempt to confuse the spam filters.

EDIT: Normally, I dismiss spam (this one got caught by the filter like usual), but this one has a really neat trick.

The reason you see those spaces in the drug names is because your HTML renderer sucks (possibly IE since you're using Outlook/OE?, oddly enough it was made using some sort of Microsoft product). The product names are actually split up into a 2-row table, both aligned at the same line which makes them get rendered as one line. They then split the names of the drugs up into those two rows where you see the spaces so that the full name doesn't appear anywhere, which would confuse most spam filters. Since the table column width is determined by the widest cell, and the other row is just blank for each position, it meshes together fairly nicely if you have a good HTML renderer and looks normal. Actually quite an ingenious hack, if I do say so myself.

Original Sin · Post by **Original Sin** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 5:27 pm

My junk mail filter catches damn near everything...even emails from my friends wind up in the 'junk mail' folder. The only thing that manages to get through are, of course, emails from MSN and my steam account (that I didn't even request). That's it.

Grubb · Post by **Grubb** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 5:54 pm

I herd Bill Braskie went though puberity in one night...

...He howled like a werewolf for 8 hours, and he woke up with a full beard.

...

TO BILL BASKIE!

...Bill Baskie is a son-of-a-bitch!

God Of Rock · Post by **God Of Rock** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 6:00 pm

I AM POSTING ON THE INTRAWEB.

Mosh_Mosh_Revolution · Post by **Mosh_Mosh_Revolution** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 10:20 pm

Mmmm....n00blets and gravy! My favorite!!! <3

Erica6924 · Post by **Erica6924** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 1:05 am

mmmmmmmmm
..

forgot what i was gonna say.

Goodnight.

Mei-Mei · Post by **Mei-Mei** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 2:00 am

Whoa, I'm totally going so fast!!!
AHH F---!!!

God Of Rock · Post by **God Of Rock** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 11:27 am

What happens when you touch the two wires toge-

Original Sin · Post by **Original Sin** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 5:17 pm

Smells like barbeque!

Grubb · Post by **Grubb** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 5:34 pm

When you finally get to Hell, tell Elvis I said hello.

God Of Rock · Post by **God Of Rock** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 6:19 pm

....And there was much defecation!!!!