Comment Re:Effective... (Score 1) 468
except it's not. the correct word is specious.
except it's not. the correct word is specious.
unless you belong to Planariidae, you don't have much hope of this benefiting you.
there is a subset of vandalism that a bot can be very good at detecting. this bot can never handle every kind of vandalism. for example, adding some subtly false statement to a biographical article, but spelling everything correctly, using correct grammar and adding something that looks like it could be a legitimate source is difficult for even human editors to recognize as vandalism.
adding 1s everywhere or deleting the entire article is very easy to detect.
I received this amusing spam today:
Greetings From Victoria,
the bottled water i usually buy already has 0.07mg/L of lithium.
first step should be cataloging what you have: properly documented license, cracked/definitely illegal and uncertain legality (owner claims it's legal but can't find the license or the purchase receipt). everything without a properly documented license should be elevated along the proper management chain, but you should probably treat the uncertain legality cases different than the definitely illegal. maybe for the uncertain cases, you should give a deadline to produce proper documentation or some signed letter from the appropriate level of management that the software is legal even though they can't document it.
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. -- Bion