How stupid can a human be?

November 17th, 2005 This stupid and nasty spammer - my-pills.be spammed me 918 time in less than 24 hours and all the while repeatedly fetching only my home page! Guess what happens? They are into my permanent ban list. Hasta-la-vista morons - my-pills.be! After I aggresively started banning the new crop of referer spammers, my bandwidth usage has come down from last month, despite almost 50% increase of traffic! Think how much damage they are doing to everyone.

March 22nd, 2005 A year back I posted a case study on how to deal with a spammer about Richard Milford, a stupid spammer and scam artist. The case was quoted by Plaxo as I dealt with them to get him (Richard Milford the stupid spammer) removed from their system.

June 10th, 2005 Let's begin with an example. Name: Stanford scientists takes first step towards producing renewable source of insulin producing cells from brain-derived ...

February 6th, 2004 After some deliberation, and seeing others, I decided to leave the commenting section on my blog un-moderated. Today I was mildly surprised to find almost all my posts had a comment to it.

April 3rd, 2005 The study, by 1,360 experts in 95 nations, said a rising human population had polluted or over-exploited two thirds of the ecological systems on which life depends, ranging from clean air to fresh water, in the past 50 years. Ten to 30 percent of mammal, bird and amphibian species were already threatened with extinction, according to the assessment, the biggest review of the planet's life support systems.

July 5th, 2005 All the comment spam plugins of the world do not protect you against spams which are written by humans. No amount of comment spam prevention plugins or .htaccess tricks protect you against them.

July 8th, 2005 I received a strange comment (spam) from an user nicknamed John complimenting this blog. He provided his web address as www.yahoo.com and gave his email as john@yahoo.com.

February 2nd, 2007 Update: Comment Guard pro has been released. Please check the features here.

September 21st, 2007 IPC 498a Indian Penal Code 498a makes it super easy for any wife to systematically harass and make life miserable for her husband and in-laws, including but not limited to jail time and routine torture by cops. All she has to do is file a FIR (first information report) at the local police station, even a false one, and cops will arrest her husband and her in-laws (whoever has been accused) will be imprisoned without any chance of bail.

June 13th, 2009 We are about to release a new blog (WordPress) comment spam protection software. It has been extensively tested for over two months.

June 19th, 2009 Google to step up anti-porn efforts in ChinaBEIJING — Google Inc. said Friday that it was working to block pornography reaching users of its Chinese service after a mainland watchdog found the search engine turned up large numbers of links to obscene and vulgar sites.

April 9th, 2005 Rarely we hear (outside movies and comics) of a man (or woman) who actually saved the world. Stanislov Petrov did by preventing a nuclear holocaust and third world war.

September 9th, 2007 Sometimes I see comments where the name of the person is not really his name but a popular keyword which obviously links to his website. While I understand the need to have link-love for useful comments and even encourage it, the name field shouldn't be abused by using keywords like "Web Banner Design", for example.

June 2nd, 2009 ACLU defends girl's lewd MySpace principal parody PHILADELPHIA — A federal appeals court in Philadelphia must decide whether a Pennsylvania middle school had the right to suspend a student who, on her own time, created a lewd MySpace page about her principal. The case raises broad issues about the limits of school discipline for off-campus behavior that affects the atmosphere at school.

December 14th, 2007 I just came back from a semi-traditional Indian wedding. It was an interesting experience.