Comments on: Meet Spammer Slammer

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 04:40:05 +0000

You realise that this is rubbish right?
Unless you define this parameters this is completely meaningless.
It’s like those idiots who go around with E=MC^2 shirts and have
no idea what the terms are.

Even if you were to say this equation is the probability that something
will go wrong I am extremely sceptical about it since it is obvious
that such a formula should not contain rational numbers, and reduntant
terms, etc.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 18:46:00 +0000

And even MORE specifically – ((U+C+I) x (10-S))/20 x A x 1/(1-sin(F/10))

heh – http://p2pnet.net/story/2684

Cheers!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:33:32 +0000

More specifically, according to Murphy’s Law,
something will go wrong at the worst possible time in the worst way possible.

If everything wrong happened right away in good situations it would be easy to find the problems and fix them.

Somehow I can imagine a situation where a seller granted access after validation but before getting the money. In such a situation the seller and/or the credit card company would search for a scapegoat to foot the bill.

Just make sure you’re not the scapegoat.
Specifically instructing people to enter bogus credit card information smells borderline-legal at best.

The present article notwithstanding, you could claim you were helping people to test their systems I suppose…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 04:38:10 +0000

Just tried it and no prob.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 23:27:23 +0000

Site takes approximately 1 minute to access due to the number of hits the site is getting

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 22:27:54 +0000

fgtry