Maëlys McArdle

Month: August 2005

  • Theatre Experience.

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    Our family went out to see “March of the Penguins” today. We payed $45CDN – $30 for the tickets (there were 3 of us), and $16 for a bag of popcorn and three drinks. Well, the movie was swell. It’s a 1.5 hour documentary on the life of a penguin tribe in the Antarctic. Was…

  • Commercial Piracy.

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    The MPAA has often been citing examples of commercial piracy to back up their lawmaking crusades against intellectual property theft. Its destroyed the concept of “fair use” and “commercial appeal” in the process. So it was to my surprise when I saw a chart that showed that North America wasn’t this big-evil hub of commercial…

  • GAHHHH!!!!

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    I’ve connected to 17 different Battlefield 2 servers. I’ve been kicked out 17 times within 30 seconds of play due to “lost connection”. That figure is not an exaggeration, and I’ve yet to succesfully find a playable server. Spending an hour just to connect to a game is not my idea of fun, and my…

  • Inane rantings.

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    Life is full of idealistic views; and realistic views. Childhood is consumed by idealism, shielded we are from the real. We are taught things such as “It isn’t the end that matters, its the journey to that end.” High School, through both a growth in maturity and beaurocracy, exposes one to the realistic side of…

  • New article @ ThompsonWatch

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    New article at ThompsonWatch; the website I started up to track the danger to common sense that is Jack Thompson. I also updated other facets of the site.

  • Wow…

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    I just watched Tae Guk Gi… One of the few movies that ever made me cry. If you like Saving Private Ryan; only with a story – hell if you like any movie; you owe it to yourself to watch this. Rating: 9.8/10. This coming from a guy that gives movies on average 4/10. The…

  • Spam Battle. Partie Deux.

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    The spam all links to the domain of: http://t-e-x-a-s-poker.com The site itself contains nothing on the outset – just baseless text. So who is texaspoker? Well that’s the fun bit. The WHOIS points to a registrar of “gandi.net”. Gandi.net has this to say on the domain: domain: T-E-X-A-S-POKER.COM owner-address: Djibuty Convega owner-address: company owner-address: 2003…

  • Piracy film? Wha?

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    What’s been going on with the piracy film? Well, the project itself began in May; after EYNTO was completed. Off the bat, I created a logo and the idea lingered for a while. Then I spent my free time at work creating rough outlines; some of which then permeated to this blog here. At one…

  • Popular Antispam Technique Declared Poor!

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    Okay, lets revise how alog of spam harvesting gets done. Spam spiders crawl through the net, looking for a combination of “something@something.something”. Whether they crawl newsgroups; blogs; eBay; etc. – it all relies on the same principle of searching for the “*@*.*” string [* being wildcards]. So who is the genius that thought up that…

  • Under Spam Assault.

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    This morning, I awoke to find that a spammer had sent no less than 10 spam-comments to my blog. These were created by 2 attacking IP addresses. Interestingly enough, alot of the attacker IPs have HTTP websites and FTP servers running. The attacker IPs: 68.83.28.204 – pcp01453785pcs.blurdg01.pa.comcast.net 66.219.161.190 – jcarrell-ws-13.direct.neobright.net The websites those resolve to:…