{"id":545,"date":"2004-07-26T12:35:16","date_gmt":"2004-07-26T12:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=545"},"modified":"2004-07-26T12:35:16","modified_gmt":"2004-07-26T12:35:16","slug":"deliver_us_from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=545","title":{"rendered":"Deliver Us From Spam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dante should have created a separated level of Hell for comment spammers. I got hit with over 400 spams yesterday. I’m seriously contemplating taking out a contract to find these scumsacks and introduce them to the joys of ventilator-assisted breathing. I saw that the creator of MT-Blacklist<\/a> won the award for best plug-in for Moveable Type 3.0, which gives me hope that better protection may soon be available to ward off the evildoers of capitalism.
\nSeth Shostak at the SETI Institute thinks that we will discover a radio signal from another intelligent civilization within the next 25 years<\/a>. And with any luck, my computer<\/a> will be the one to find it. It’s fun to contemplate the effects of such a discovery on society. After the initial freak-out, I wonder if it would be kind of anti-climactic. After all, any response we sent would take decades, if not centuries, to get there. And that’s assuming we would even be able to decipher their message. Still, a lot of organized religions would have to seriously reevaluate their cosmologies. But I bet a lot of adherents would simply refuse to believe such a discovery, no matter how much evidence you shoved in their faces. It would be Evolution vs. Creationism, Part Deux.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dante should have created a separated level of Hell for comment spammers. I got hit with over 400 spams yesterday. I’m seriously contemplating taking out a contract to find these scumsacks and introduce them to the joys of ventilator-assisted breathing. I saw that the creator of MT-Blacklist won the award for best plug-in for Moveable […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-8N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}