September 15, 2013
The Twin Terrors Of Twitter
Pity Robert Stacy McCain. He is beset by vast quantities of Twitterspam and is noting a pattern that distinguishes it from comment or E-mail spam.
Like a surprising number of RSM links these are mildly NSFW.
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I don't really understand Twitter, since I don't participate there. What exactly is he concerned about? If all they do is "follow" him, what's the harm?
Is it because they're filing complaints about him and trying to take his own account offline?
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Sun Sep 15 12:33:12 2013 (+rSRq)
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Not directly, but it's a story because Twitter IS deleting accounts due to fake abuse claims while obvious spambots litter twitter.
Also the bots might have a distorting effect upon the upcoming IPO if they are counted as actual users.
Also bewbies.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Sun Sep 15 14:05:49 2013 (F7DdT)
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So some person, presumably an enemy, is creating a whole lot of sockpuppet Twitter accounts and making all of them "follow" McCain?
Why would the enemy do that? If the presumption is that the enemy wishes harm upon McCain, how does this harm him?
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Sun Sep 15 14:24:42 2013 (+rSRq)
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Buying phony followers to promote yourself is a violation of Twitter's terms of service; since it's difficult to prove he
didn't buy the obviously-fake followers, his
account could be suspended temporarily or permanently. It also spams him with notifications about each new follower, making it difficult to find real notifications.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Sun Sep 15 20:40:51 2013 (+cEg2)
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September 05, 2013
What's Wrong With This Forecast?
So..In the mad dash between work and class I encountered a report on the Weather Channel.
It seems that Tropical Storm Gabrielle is bringing horrendous flooding to Hispaniola and particularly Puerto Rico...but is unlikely to affect the United States in any way.
Ummmm.....
"Well, It ain't the Geography Channel"
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Not really that bad. What they meant to say, I'm sure, is "Continental United States".......
Posted by: Robert Mitchell Jr. at Thu Sep 5 11:23:41 2013 (2vY6g)
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September 01, 2013
Yeah. Looks Legit.
GASP!
Here's the thing.
I had like 14 tabs open and was looking for info on cycler times between Earth and the main belt so I have NO idea what site this pop-up spam scam was lurking on...but I gather that they're preying on space geeks.
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Reading Buzz Aldrin's original PhD thesis on cyclers was on my bucket list for a long time. To think that Buzz was not just the 2nd on the Moon, but also a real scientist... I mean all astronauts and cosmonauts presented PhDs, but Buzz's was a real deal that may one day save the humanity, not just a rubberstamp PhD. Ironically, it competes, in a way, against a fellow astronaut Lopez-Alegria's PhD thesis that aims to alleviate the need for cycler by using exceedingly tricky plasma phisics. My Russian colleagues are evenly split on the feasibility of VASIMR, in particular if the magnetic field is going to be straightened or not and if electrons are going to separate. Unfortunately, my highly prestigious phisics diploma does not help much after decades of disuse, but it does look like Buzz may just win in the end. His physics definitely works, while Lopez-Alegria's maybe, maybe not.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Sun Sep 1 14:19:35 2013 (RqRa5)
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Wasn't there a malicious site that actually WOULD hold your computer hostage with some downloaded malware?
BTW, RWBY is up to episode 7.
Posted by: Mauser at Sun Sep 1 21:40:51 2013 (TJ7ih)
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Wasn't there a malicious site that actually WOULD hold your computer hostage with some downloaded malware?
REAMDE?
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Mon Sep 2 01:49:57 2013 (PiXy!)
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