The Race to Insanity and Beyond!

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Or someone else does use his school e-mail on sites and the Internet as a whole, his adress got picked up by a spambot/spammer/spam with eggs and spam/whatever, it (whatever it was) went over that person's contact list and started sending spam. Now I may not know much about the mechanics of spambots or hacking or viruses or whatever, but I think that might be a distinct possibility. Or at least a possibility.

And now we return to your regularly scheduled insanity.

CHEEZEBALLS!!!

[NullAshton]

The problem is that it's on my ISPs email address. And my other e-mail on my ISP I use all over the internet. Does it get spam? A little, but not as much as my school address does. I just want to know why the two differs so much.

[Jack Simth]

Yeah, that one is a distinct possibility (trojans/worms/viruses usually have the infected do the spamming, as otherwise there's a potentially traceable information drop address in the virus that could be used to track down who made it....).

It's also possible that the distinction is due to ISP level filtering.... school's a little less filtered.

[NullAshton]

No. It's exactly the same as my other account. Just a different name.

[Jack Simth]

Perchance one has a more guessable name than the other? NullAshton isn't something that's likely to be hit by a name generator, but RLSmith is. Especially if RLSmith is gotten in a way that is known for assigning E-mail address in such a manner that all of them are of that format.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

/me suddenly gets a vision of "6079 Smith W"

[Jack Simth]

Yeah, those 6079 millimeter rounds pack quite a wallup.

If only I could find a way of dealing with the kickback ... some way to move the thing would be handy, too... ah well.

Oooh, shiny button! What's this "Continue" thing d

[Kamog]

By the way, there's something that I've always wondered about that I couldn't find a good explaination for so far:
Why are there two high tides per day?

I know that the moon's gravity pulls the water in the ocean so the sea level rises on the side of the earth that is facing the moon. That's OK, I understand that, but why does the opposite side of the earth also have a high tide? It seems to me that it would make more sense if there were a low tide on the opposite side of the earth because the moon would have pulled the water away, but that's not how it actually is, there's a high tide there.

[Jack Simth]

'Cause the water on the opposite side isn't being pulled away like the water at 90 degree angles.

[douglas]

High tide with moon overhead: water being pulled towards moon.
High tide with moon under feet: rest of earth and water being pulled towards moon more strongly than the water on this side.