Wampum

Being somewhat busy ...

(Note from MB: I asked Eric to take this down when it became obvious that his somewhat tongue-in-cheek analysis was being realized first by the readers of Daily Kos, and then a number of other sites on both the left and right. However, I regret now pulling the piece, as simply showing the recipe doesn't give people the license to use it. That's why we have ethics, neh?)

Update, also from MB: Despite numerous exchanged emails, Wizbang's proprietor would prefer not to accept that exposing that the bridge is out is not the same as driving the trainload of people into the gorge. When I noted that some unethical Kos readers were in fact gaming the system, I was not suggesting that they were using Eric's methodology. In fact, it seems the Kosovians were a bit more ambitious, developing a Perl program to do their inappropriate deeds.

For over 30 years, Eric's made a living telling people where they screwed up their software and/or systems. I don't expect him to change now.

When I was in high school there was a physics exam which I gamed. It wasn't for a grade (who cared? we'd a decent teacher) and it wasn't for AP (who cared? I was off to the boats, as was Jim and Joe was en route to be a zoomie, and that was our lab group), it was for ... show. Given the format, and some of the questions were quite hard, random answers would have a .25 chance of being correct --the problem became who could get the closest to zero.

Matthew Yglesias :: Harvard, supported the Afgan War, supported the 2nd Iraq war right up to the jump off. Nope.
Brad DeLong :: Hello.
South Knox Bubba :: Howdy.
Oliver Willis :: How did he get here?
MyDD :: Is it still a blog?
TalkLeft :: Hi There!
Pandagon :: Hi Bear!
Informed Comment :: Supported the Afgan War. Close, a daily-read, but ... Nope.
Orcinus :: Nice fish. Good long form writing.
Pennywit :: ENOCLUE (me)
AMERICAblog :: Hmm. If Atrios returned an error code, it would be EAGAIN
pesky apostrophe :: ENOCLUE (me)
Something Requisitely Witty and Urbane :: ENOCLUE (me)
Mayflower Hill :: ENOCLUE (me)
Wampum :: do ... not ... seek ... the treasure

Kevin's using cookies (the culture of chickenpox) to ensure that no cookie'd browser (well, filesystem actually) user dorks on an radio button more than once per 24.

First, the cookie management code in Mozilla allows the user to edit cookies. label: { dork on radio button; delete Kevin's cookie} goto label;. MSIE has something retarded but you can still flush your cookies if you try hard enough, it will just melt all the mercury fillings from your teeth.

Second, the cookie unique site model is one ip addr per machine. Either (a) foreach (machines in your universe) {dork on radio button; get cookied} or (b) release a dhcp ip addr lease and grab a new addr. For users of large careless ip/cable isps (all of them), only a few minutes should be required to manually obtain a new addr or (c) foreach (address in the isp's ARIN allocation (and whois.arin.net is your friend)) {grab addr; if (not deja camped_upon) dork on radio button; discard cookie}.

I'm fondest of 2(c), using wget to push the POST the FORM input values (type="radio" name="option_id" value="any-value-other-than-5", because I can let it run while I do dishes or something useful like sleep, off of a machine on each net I manage or have access to.

The Prexar /17 gets me 32768 addresses ... then there's the USA /17 and the USA /18, thats 32768 + 16384 ... then there's MB's account on the local roadrunner loop, that's some part of a /16 ... 65536. I should be able to vote more than twice.

We use a Turing test. Input has to appear to be from a human being. Its labor intensive. Personally, I find Turing tests quite exhausting and difficult to pass.

Posted by EBW at December 4, 2004 04:50 PM | TrackBack