Thursday, December 9, 2010

Some parts are meat

Ok, I turned off the captcha for comments on my blog because, frankly, I hate typing them in when I leave comments, or increasingly, do ANYTHING online.  (aside:  I'll bet there are some clever AI programmers out there doing Turing tests on captcha solving programs).

As a result, I get a few strange anonymous comments from time to time.  Whatevs, gives me the impression that someone actually reads this.

But what gets me are the seeming randomness of these quotes (c.f. Turing test).  I understand that they are spam, but I can't for the life of me figure out how they propose to work.

Let's take some examples.  The first one is this:
Sustain this wonderful text, went ahead and added to my chrome feed.
Ok.  Maybe someone's learning English and used Google translate to tell me to keep writing these wonderful posts (sustain)??  Yay to my ego.

But then there's these next two, in succession:

Car and truck insurance plan seriously isn't unbelievably unique. Dependent which always state level you live around, it should indeed be a good slighter or maybe a better section of your budget rather than your friends across condition strains. What is the minimal for one's state? I've discovered this internet site handy to determine low-cost auto insurance. I am very happy be here.
And
Lot of information about how to get cheap auto insurance? Getting your first car insurance policy may not be a priority but it should be. Car insurance protects one of your first investments, your car. But car insurance can be complicated and often new car insurance shoppers fail to compare car insurance rates and in turn fail to reap the financial benefits of finding the best and affordable car insurance available to them. Information here is great. Love to come back again. 
I am really glad that these people (read, one person) (read, one program) are happy to be here.  By here, do they mean the Internets?  My Blog?  The Democratic Republic of the Congo?

Now, suppose I was really interested in buying car insurance, because, after all, it should be a priority.  How can I use these random posts (on a blog about the use of shit on TV) to access the broker they are promoting?  There's no link in the text, the commenter is "anonymous".  There's no mention of brand at all.  In the first one, dude discovered a handy Internet site that will get me the minimal for the state I live around.  (what policy covers my various mental states?)

Also, would you seriously buy car insurance from someone who can't write proper English?  (In Communist Russia, insurance drives YOU!)  Although, it does look like my insurance seller has managed to graduate from their first TOEFL class between comments 1 and 2.  At least #2 makes more sense.

Wait - I just got it - I wonder if I had monetized my blog (p.s., how laughable is that?) - it would now be pulling in car insurance ads.  Maybe the random spamming of letters tells adsense to pull their specific ad.  (I'm pretty sure I'm right on this one).  Maybe I should monetize and see.  But The Facebook is too cool and I don't even know what it is yet (sorry, watched The Social Network last night).

Which reminds me - do you remember when that virus/spam went around a couple of years ago that had as a subject line "I love you" with an infected zip file attached?  I remember hearing on the news about how some senior executives and top level government officials were infected.  Which makes me think:  do I really trust my elected representative when they gladly open an email from an unknown source that says "I love you"?

Maybe it's lonely at the top.  I only open "I love you" emails from my wife.  And maybe sometimes my mistresses.

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