Wow, What a play by Microsoft. Halo 2 gets leaked a month early and everybody is talking about it. It happens all the time. Doom 3 was floating around in early alpha. I played Warcraft III the week before it was released and I still walked into a store and bought it when it released. Once a game gets out, little can be done to keep it underground.

Microsoft is different, Halo 2 is different. Because it is a month from release, A lot of buzz already surrounding Halo 2. Not to mention the ILoveBees marketing campaign that has attracted a lot of attention. And to top it off, Microsoft says yes it was leaked and do not download it. Then every media outlet covers the story. Now everyone is blogging about it and some suspect Microsoft of releasing it. What they say doesn't matter, as long as they don't link to the download or DVD 5 conversion kits, it becomes harder and harder to find. What has happened is a flood of references to the Halo 2 leak talking about it while the actual leaked files get lost in the mess.

Only Microsoft could pull this off. Every thing they do becomes news, good or bad. I have already preordered my copy of halo 2 so I don't care if I play it early or not. I am just doing my part to keep the chatter going.

I am done writing, any further reference to halo 2 download and to the dvd9 to dvd5 conversion kits or the negative buffer inverter or the French PAL version is mentioned to up the listing in search engines. Bungie did an excellent job with Halo. Halo 2 DVD9 PAL XBOXDVD DiFFUSiON, trust no one.

http://xbox.ign.com/objects/482/482228.html
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00008J7NZ/002-0235168-0435235?v=glance
http://www.bungie.net/
http://www.tnpsc.com/ssaver/halo.htm

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Not that I am surprised. syntache kevin marquette

I eventualy want to write dental software and link it back to here (syntache.com)

Why did I pick the term Syntache? I dont recall where I got the name, but when I google it, i would only get 28 results for it. If anyone is ever looking for syntache, they will find my site. ADA

So, I was playing with onenote today and started experimenting with their recording features. I thought about setting up the web cam but its been back in the box for so long, i dont know where to find it. the cool feature that I was playing with was I started recording a memo and typing various nodes at different places throughout the notebook and when you play back the recording, it synchronizes your various notes with where at in the recording you're speaking.

The tester that I am, I had an interesting idea I just had to try. I turned offices voice dictation on and started recording a memo. As I was dictating I would select different places so might notes would be at various places on the page. I initially didn't think I'd be able to do the voice dictation while I was recording a memo at the same time. It actually worked a lot better than I thought it would. When I replayed the memo it would highlight all the text I had dictated as they got to that point in the memo so that It actually followed my written notes along with my voice.

I am now somewhat impressed with how well this voice dictation works. in fact, I wrote this entire journal with my voice dictation. I did have to make minor corrections, but I'd never RE type any of the words.

How much crap in my inbox do I have to put up with? Paris Hilton, Fw;Re;Fw, reduce debt, porn, and enlargement crap. Any change to the email system will have to be universial.

Micropayments sound like a good idea, but I don't pay for email now and I don't like the idea of paying for somwthing that should be fundementaly free. And what about the posibility of mistakes or large mailing lists? what about a victom of a email worm? One way to shoot down a micropayment movement would be to unleash a worm that just kept sending messages and make charges add up.

Processing micropayments are another slight change in the idea. create a small puzzle and make the sender solve it. a spammer that sends a high volume of messages could collect and gather solutions over time or have enought partial solutions to give the puzzles no processing value, It then becomes a database lookup.

No mater what the solution is, we will have to make universial changes for it to work. As we transition into the new system, we will either remain backwards compatible or segment the market.

And if this is the case, should we look at starting from scratch?

How much trust should you give a spammer?

This one spammer sends me to a page that is a form requesting name, address, phone, and email information from me. I made a little script that fills the form with real looking random data and submits it. When the results page loads, I do it again, and again, and ... . I think I saw 2 links go off line in the past few days that I have been doing it.

Well today I get another spam and as I test the page before loading it into my script and I see a remove email address option.

Now I see this and ponder what just happened. Did I just make a spammer place a do not email me link on his site?

all I realy want is for the spam to stop. Can I trust that this spammer has suffered enough abuse and is willing to not send spam to those that do not want it? or is this just a new method for him to collect email addresses?

I have stopped my script for now and "unsubscribed" a new hotmail account that I just created. Lets see how quickly it gets hit.

So it does little good to attack the sender of spam. all the informatin is fake. replying to the abuse or postmaster accounts of fake domains just bounces.

But, the spammer is spamming you for a reason. they are either selling, scamming, or harvisting you email address. several repeat spammers do very little to change their messages, but it is their links that truly give them away. Links to addresses that have the same url structure or same query parameters. Little keys they use to validate your address once you click the link.

I like to explore the link patterns that I find in my mail box. if i see a url with ?email=my@address.com I like to see if the same link will show up for different email values. I might send random addresses for a week and i reaalize that every email address value gives me the same page. It took me 100,000 tries to figure that out.

I also see addresses like this:
domain1.com/bnr/03793284721
domain2.com/bnr/03793284721
domain3.com/bnr/03793284721
domain4.com/bnr/03793284721
domain5.com/bnr/03793284721

I tried this structure with random numbers and 100,000 tries latter, every page was the same. hmm,... go figure

So, i have this idea. but what to do about it.

Generalization
I was looking ahead at a future problem that I would have to solve in order to do something the way I want to do it.

The Idea
I am trying to make something work in a way that it was not designed. the solutions offered on the web could work, but dont offer much flexibility or the dynamics that I want. The solution is fundamentaly simple and can be very usefull. I saw the question widespread, but not the solution.

Profit
The question the now comes to mind is how to collect on it. It is almost too simple to patent and the very mentioning of it will reveal its secrets. the solution will become the way to do it. my fear is that the only way i will profit is from sueing those that use it because people won't realize that it is patented. and that is not me. I would compare it to the amazon oneClick checkout suits or the eBay auction suit.

Ownership
The second question results in ownership of the idea. I work at a University in a departments IS department. I was hardware support, but now do internal data oganization tools. This idea is inresponce to a question that I asked myself while looking ahead at possible future needs and accessing my skills against them with the technologies that I like. The only thing that would give work a claim to it is the fact that it was the enviroment I was in to trigger the initial thoughts. The actual solution came in my own time at home.

Cost
The advantage I do have in this situation is that I work for a university. If I patent this myself, the costs would start at $1000 or more. I should pay a lawer to protect it corectly and pay for suits (not that I want to do that). I would also have to market and sell it myself. Working for the University is an advantage because they pay royalties and handle all the legal and patent costs. I would collect 15-30% by surendering my rights to them, rights that could questionable because I work for them.

Final Notes
The cost is a problem for me, excluding my car, computer, and what I owe on Credit Cards, $1000 is more than all my belonging.

I wish I could provide more details, but I am sure you understand.

It is hard to fund good domain names. I wanted to post this last time, but quickly got off subject and went into a history lesson.

I spent a good week looking, hunting, and searching. Looking up random terms and words. in lititure and RPG games. religion, worlds, gods, stars, countries, seas. Looking for the simple and unique word. I found several possible and only a few that would work. I spent a lot of time looking at this list and speaking the word. three jumped out at me.

The one I realy wanted that I thought was available turns out to be one of those domain for sale website and I have not heard back form them. I registered the other two. www.syntache.com and www.omean.com.

So why was I looking for a new domain? and why did I want atleast two of them?

I am building something. something that needs it own unique title. a name that people will share and remember and is unique.

The other domain will be the name of the company that releases that product.

sites are not up yet. still configureing dns and webserver. test server is currently up.

It is so hard to find a good .com domain. I already had a few, but havent done anything with them.

www.truedesign.org was my first. As a highschool student doing web design, that worked out fairly well.

www.northplatteonline.com, www.mynorthplatte.com, www.northplatte.cc was going to be a directory for the closest town. I was watching for www.northplatte.com to open up because it was dead and about to expire, but they renewed it.

www.lincolnadds.com was going to be the place to post and brows adds for the local city.
www.matzinwinsinlandslide.com was the adds site addapted for trading books for college students to help a friend with student elections.

www.talentfinder.net was an online application survey that was realy a personality test to bettter understand potental applicants for a small office.

www.kevinmarquette.com my personal website, borring, simple, empty. I just put something up.

all of them have been lost. college student buying temporary server space and then decides he doesn't need it any more and just lets the sites die. haha, die, they never had any users. all were proof of concept sites.

The future is now, dont let it pass you by!

The power of AI. Smith witness to the imposible, the reserection of neo and his own destruction, realizes that the rules are flexable even changeble withing the matrix.

A body within the matrix acts as a pointer back to the body in the real world. everyone still plugged into the matrix is part of the matrix. so the body is a pointer to the matrix that points to the physical body.

An agent is a single object within the matrix. they move from one body to another by intercepting the pointer. the body then points back to the agent that then points back to the physical body. so agents can move from one body to the next. when leaving a body, they restore the original pointers. (usualy leaving a dead body).

Smith is unplugged. he no longer manipulates pointers. once he has access to a pointer, he overwrites the data that it is pointing to and thus copies himself.