Links for 2005-06-05
- In which I get attacked by a Crow at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2005 Mmm. I have a big bucket of Coca-Cola. I could do with one of those right now. Nice shirt too.
- The rumour that's everywhere: Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel chips If nothing else, it ties together the fortunes of desktop computers so that if the architecture stops developing, no company gets an advantage... Don't know what I think about that...
- A really snotty response to my earlier content that Trackback might be dead in the water... My counter response - I use MTBlacklist, and have an up-to-date installation of MT. I don't find Wordpress attractive, and I don't have time to spend my life in an arms race with spammers. For the value I derive from Trackbacks, it's not worth the bother.
- The Slingbox from Slingmedia grabs your TV pictures and redistributes them to other devices and computers around your home (or elsewhere) I don't quite get why this is cool. Explore the product spec for an awesomely dumb neologism: "Placeshifting: the SlingboxTM lets consumers shift the place they can watch TV the same way a VCR shifts the time they can watch."
- In which the Doctorovian sees God in a cup of chocolate He's hanging out in Florence with Ben Hammersley and drinking hot chocolate until he falls into a stupor. Lucky bastard.
Comments
Please stay on-topic, informative and polite. I reserve the right to remove comments for whatever vague capricious reasons seem reasonable at the time.
I'm with you on the spam arms race, Tom. Gaming of systems will always exist and people will always try to combat that gaming by creating better systems.
But saying "switch to a different CMS" is only useful up to a point. Once that CMS becomes more widespread, and more heavily targeted by spammers, it's time to switch to another one. Even if your system is more secure than another one, it's still not going to be 100% secure forever.
Some people will deal with the tiresome daily grind, but this will only stop if we work out a way to re-wire the web. How can we make the process of spamming fundamentally more difficult: too futile, too expensive or too complex to bother trying in the first place?
That's the question I think *someone* needs to answer to get out of this arms race.
→ Posted by: Bobbie at June 5, 2005 2:06 AM
By that argument, anything that drives up the cost of spamming will improve the overall situation. Someone actually has to bother to do the work, though, and others actually have to participate, either by choice, or by force. Unfortunately spam isn't going to go away all by itself.
→ Posted by: IO ERROR at June 6, 2005 4:49 AM