Comment Wow (Score 0) 161
..spammers lie.... what a concept.....
Submission + - How to stop a spambot attack? 3
rahlquist writes: "Recently one of my sites has been under a slow and steady spambot attack. They were slowly inserting trackback spam so as not to arouse suspicion. When you insert 119,000 trackbacks over a week though, sooner or later, it will be noticed. The situation is under control now, and each IP that tries to submit a trackback now gets blocked through iptables (40 blocked ip's in the last 30 mins), short of contacting each server owner, how can I get this stopped?"
Submission + - Infinite Macbook Air commercials
Cyborganism writes: Dear slashdotters,
I live in Canada and my girlfriend and I are sick of the Macbook Air commercial. That ad is playing in every commercial break on almost all of our channels, and sometimes more than once, even twice in a row! Honestly, we can't take it anymore because we can't watch TV for a minute without hearing Feist's song and it sticks in our minds every time.
Now I know Apple paid a lot of money for their ad to play so much and the TV companies are just doing their end of the deal by showing it. But I can't help but feel like I'm being brainwashed. Isn't there a way to decrease the number of times that these ads are played? Who should we contact? Apple or the broadcasters directly?
I live in Canada and my girlfriend and I are sick of the Macbook Air commercial. That ad is playing in every commercial break on almost all of our channels, and sometimes more than once, even twice in a row! Honestly, we can't take it anymore because we can't watch TV for a minute without hearing Feist's song and it sticks in our minds every time.
Now I know Apple paid a lot of money for their ad to play so much and the TV companies are just doing their end of the deal by showing it. But I can't help but feel like I'm being brainwashed. Isn't there a way to decrease the number of times that these ads are played? Who should we contact? Apple or the broadcasters directly?
