| strictx ( @ 2004-05-06 08:37:00 |
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I have a question ... there's a Slashdot article, First DVD+R9 Burners Reviewed, with one comment that seems very out of place:
Sorry if this reveals me to be quaintly non-Web-savvy, but I don't know what I'm looking at. It sure looks like it was written by an agent, or some other scripting tool; but for what purpose, I sure as heck don't know. I would rule out spam, since there's no contact info.
Curious, I wondered if the text was derived from the page on which the post appeared. This is because the first function I could imagine was a steganographic or encryption utility -- hiding messages or keys on public-posting host sites.
CTRL+F for the word "problem" -- sure enough, it's there. Then, "a few minutes" -- also there. Some of the other words/phrases were on the page (comment threshold -1, to show all), but not all of them. And for most of these things about which I'm only mildly curious, I really don't have the patience to dig any deeper. (You'll note that the Bush administration hasn't put me in charge of hunting down terrorists.)
I have a question ... there's a Slashdot article, First DVD+R9 Burners Reviewed, with one comment that seems very out of place:
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Sorry if this reveals me to be quaintly non-Web-savvy, but I don't know what I'm looking at. It sure looks like it was written by an agent, or some other scripting tool; but for what purpose, I sure as heck don't know. I would rule out spam, since there's no contact info.
Curious, I wondered if the text was derived from the page on which the post appeared. This is because the first function I could imagine was a steganographic or encryption utility -- hiding messages or keys on public-posting host sites.
CTRL+F for the word "problem" -- sure enough, it's there. Then, "a few minutes" -- also there. Some of the other words/phrases were on the page (comment threshold -1, to show all), but not all of them. And for most of these things about which I'm only mildly curious, I really don't have the patience to dig any deeper. (You'll note that the Bush administration hasn't put me in charge of hunting down terrorists.)