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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: redsniper on May 17, 2004, 05:26:04 pm

Title: they aren't planning on a Mechwarrior 5...
Post by: redsniper on May 17, 2004, 05:26:04 pm
... so go sign this petition (http://www.petitiononline.com/8675305/petition.html)
They have about 1700 signatures. I figured 2000 or so from HLP (that's the approx. population right?)  couldn't hurt. :D
Title: they aren't planning on a Mechwarrior 5...
Post by: an0n on May 17, 2004, 05:27:18 pm
Hahaha. 2000 people on HLP. Good one.
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Post by: redsniper on May 17, 2004, 05:29:40 pm
:P whatev
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Post by: Jiggyhound on May 17, 2004, 05:32:10 pm
id say about 50 of those 2000 are active, and thats pushing it :lol:
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Post by: redsniper on May 17, 2004, 05:35:11 pm
I just looked at the members list. there are about 320 people with more than 100 posts. Anyway... you two both signed already, of course.
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Post by: an0n on May 17, 2004, 05:36:14 pm
Yes.......'signed'.....indeed.
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Post by: Jiggyhound on May 17, 2004, 05:39:18 pm
suuuuuuure i did...
Title: they aren't planning on a Mechwarrior 5...
Post by: redsniper on May 17, 2004, 05:39:33 pm
If you wanna... you know... do some 'creative coding' and add about 100,000 signatures, you can.
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Post by: an0n on May 17, 2004, 05:41:19 pm
Urgh.

I'll see if I can edit my Blazin' Squad auto-voter.
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Post by: redsniper on May 17, 2004, 05:43:12 pm
cool. :yes:
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Post by: vyper on May 17, 2004, 05:46:06 pm
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Urgh.

I'll see if I can edit my Blazin' Squad auto-voter.


Please tell me you used this invention for the pupose of good and not evil? :wtf:
Title: they aren't planning on a Mechwarrior 5...
Post by: Fineus on May 17, 2004, 05:47:13 pm
This is an0n we're talking about...
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Post by: an0n on May 17, 2004, 05:53:36 pm
There was a competition where whichever school in the North East voted the most on the Blazin' Squad site got a free concert by the cock-smokers.

So my sister had me make an auto-voter that voted once every 30 seconds (the site lagged and I need to make sure each vote went through). The girls would get to see the Pop-fags, the boys would get to abuse the Pop-fags and I'd be a hero to hundreds of hot young girls.

They still lost, because Eastbourne sent like 40 kids home to vote all day. ****ing cheaters.
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Post by: Ghostavo on May 17, 2004, 05:58:16 pm
:lol:
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Post by: Rictor on May 17, 2004, 06:00:34 pm
I don't trust anyone who ommits a "g" at the end. Its leads me to believe that they are either hillbilly Southerners, or trying to look "hip".

....or both :wtf: :wtf:
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Post by: Martinus on May 17, 2004, 06:02:25 pm
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Originally posted by an0n
There was a competition where whichever school in the North East voted the most on the Blazin' Squad site got a free concert by the cock-smokers.

So my sister had me make an auto-voter that voted once every 30 seconds (the site lagged and I need to make sure each vote went through). The girls would get to see the Pop-fags, the boys would get to abuse the Pop-fags and I'd be a hero to hundreds of hot young girls.

They still lost, because Eastbourne sent like 40 kids home to vote all day. ****ing cheaters.

[color=66ff00]What scares me is thinking about what you could do if you actually wanted to...

Ph34r.
[/color]
Title: they aren't planning on a Mechwarrior 5...
Post by: an0n on May 17, 2004, 06:12:26 pm
http://www.fattonys.com/voter.html

Should work.

Note: I said 'SHOULD' work.

I make no guarantees. And since every e-mail address on the petition signings has to not bounce back an "Invalid e-mail address" message, I've had to set my server to grab every vote confirmation made as a result of this and my Outlook to immediately delete them all. This will rape bandwidth through the e-mails and the refreshing, so ****ING APPRECIATE IT.

If it works, that is.

Leave the window open and it should vote once every 5 seconds.

Leave 10 windows open and it should vote 10 times every 5 seconds.

And I'll get 10 e-mails every 5 seconds.
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Post by: Fineus on May 17, 2004, 06:13:37 pm
Are you speaking of Eastbourne UK? It's just that that's in the south east... not the north east.
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Post by: an0n on May 17, 2004, 06:15:08 pm
It's also a district in my town.
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Post by: Rictor on May 17, 2004, 06:18:42 pm
"It appears as though your signature does not originate from PetitionOnline.
Please go to the petition page and submit your signature again."
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Post by: an0n on May 17, 2004, 06:19:16 pm
Works fine for me.
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Post by: an0n on May 17, 2004, 06:23:05 pm
It got 22 fake votes in before the system twigged.
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Post by: an0n on May 17, 2004, 06:23:50 pm
Hmmm.

The system didn't twig.

It started kicking up a fuss when I set it to use a random number as the name.
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Post by: an0n on May 17, 2004, 06:24:47 pm
Easily fixed.

Gimme 5 minutes to find that random text javascript thing and fill it with names.
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Post by: an0n on May 17, 2004, 06:33:22 pm
Hmmm. It's that Review field that's causing the trouble.
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Post by: an0n on May 17, 2004, 06:38:22 pm
This is gonna require some audience participation.
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Post by: Knight Templar on May 17, 2004, 06:42:17 pm
ooh ooh! Pick me! Pick me!
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Post by: an0n on May 17, 2004, 06:56:53 pm
There ya go, people.

When the review code changes, follow the instructions at the top of the page and it'll put a valid code into the database for the voter to grab and use.
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Post by: an0n on May 17, 2004, 06:59:02 pm
Dammit.

Forgot HostDime don't allow remote MySQL linking.

Use this: http://www.penguinbomb.com/voter
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Post by: an0n on May 17, 2004, 07:06:51 pm
Well, that didn't work.

They must be using something else to check the referer. Like decent code.

Who'da thunk it?

I could probably spoof the code somehow, but I can't be bothered.

Yet another project ended before it reached completion.
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Post by: an0n on May 17, 2004, 07:23:11 pm
Mother-FU[color=332][/color]CKERS!

It's got nothing to do with the referer.

They just check the e-mail is unique and the Review value is the Name run through some MD5 thing.

Ah, screw it. I could figure out what to do to the name, but I don't feel like it.
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Post by: IceFire on May 17, 2004, 07:28:50 pm
Programmers...they always fascinate...and frighten :)
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Post by: an0n on May 17, 2004, 07:30:03 pm
Aha. No need to.

It apparently only uses the first coupla letters.

It should work fine now.
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Post by: Rictor on May 17, 2004, 07:32:49 pm
What if someone checks the names and/or email addresses? It gonna look pretty suspicous.

And don't overdo it, 18 million votes isn't going to look legit :D:D
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Post by: an0n on May 17, 2004, 07:36:21 pm
It's not refreshing for some reason.

Hmmm.
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Post by: an0n on May 17, 2004, 07:44:33 pm
I little javascript theft and.......

VOILA!
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Post by: Knight Templar on May 17, 2004, 07:49:46 pm
Why do it yourself when you know someone already did it, and better?
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Post by: an0n on May 17, 2004, 07:55:10 pm
Exactly.

Well, not exactly. I coulda done it better but I don't feel like spending 3 hours emersing myself in the study of Javascript to make it when I can spend 5 seconds copy-pasting some free code.
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Post by: Knight Templar on May 17, 2004, 08:11:36 pm
Yup.

That's how college should work. :sigh:
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Post by: Nico on May 18, 2004, 01:59:07 am
Quote
Originally posted by IceFire
Programmers...they always fascinate...and frighten :)


It scares me when I find An0n cool. But oh well, that's life.
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Post by: Fineus on May 18, 2004, 02:49:15 am
Interesting. Current count is 1880. I'll open a "few" windows and go have a bath.
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Post by: Fineus on May 18, 2004, 03:13:34 am
Hmph. Its gone down...
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Post by: an0n on May 18, 2004, 07:50:58 am
I guess they twigged.
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Post by: an0n on May 18, 2004, 07:52:38 am
Jesus! No ****ing wonder.

I got 2336 "You have signed" e-mails.

I guess 2336 signatures from Random Guy peaked their interest and they culled a load of signatures.
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Post by: Fineus on May 18, 2004, 07:57:41 am
Whoops...guess that was my bad huh ;)

(Note to self: Never open 20 self-refreshing windows and then go away for a bath - leaving them running).