Comment Spammers Back
Sigh. The comment spammers are back already. It seems as though I’ll have to try something a little more industrial in strength.
Archive of entries posted on March 2004
a murder of crows
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Clarke in his own words
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Climate and National Security
My story on climate change and national security ran in this morning’s paper. It gave me a chance to take a stab at explaining the idea of “no regrets” policies – climate change responses that are robust to the endless and apparently unsettleable argument in our political arena over the nature and causes of climate …
Spring
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Dumping a DocPtr
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The Panda’s Thumb
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My Comment Spam Hack
Elise.com has a thorough discussion of techniques for fighting comment spam. What seems to be the most widely used is Jay Allen’s mt-blacklist. But since that would have required an MT upgrade, I opted to first try this simple hack. It is based on the assumption that there is brainless automation on the other end …
Children – a Luxury?
Aaron yesterday suggested children may be an expensive luxury. Dude, there’s good science backed up by badass mathematical analysis to support that suggestion. One of the puzzles of demography has long been that as societies get richer, they tend to have lower birth rates. This seems evolutionarily counter-intuitive. As you get richer, you ought to …
Comment Spam Update
One day into my little hack and I am comment spam free. I also am free of other comments, which either means I’ve also inadvertently disabled all comments (my testing suggests that is not the case) or that I’m just exceedingly boring, that whatever it is I have to say is not worthy of comment.