The basic idea is simple: you tell NoSpam.st your email, and you get a temporary email from us. You can then use this email on the website you don’t trust. If you indeed get subscribed to many spam lists, it will be with the nospam.st email, which will be automatically disabled when the time comes. Once disabled, any email attempt to this address will be refused.

I am also preparing a nice feature for webmasters: the ability to make a mailto link on your site via NoSpam.st: you login on NoSpam.st, enter your email address, the expiration time you wish (default would be 4 hours) and get a snippet of javascript you can include on your website. Each time someone sees the page, a different email address will be generated. A normal user will usually send an email within the next minutes if he really want to contact you about your site, and not spam you for the next years.
With this system you might get some spam if spammers are fast enough (usually spam is sent a few days/weeks/months after email address has been crawled), but in this case you’ll get informations about the crawl (ip and date) in the email headers, and anyway you won’t get much spam as the email will soon be disabled.

Anyway a lot can be do to fight email spam. Also as soon as spammers see that emails @nospam.st are soon blocked, they might even consider automatically removing @nospam.st emails from their lists (we can dream).

By the way if you have nice spam-related domain names you don’t use, you can give them to us and we’ll make them available for email addresses.

So, you know the conflict is back, is now labelled as a war, and is going nicely since December 27th. Gaza keeps firing rockets and mortar on Israël, and Israël’s army keeps advancing in Gaza with the goal of stopping attacks.

Today, the number of casualties reached the value of 1000 death in Gaza (while it’s still written that this number is not confirmed by any external source, it still seems plausible).

Ok, so now I’ll provide answers for five questions I hear everyday, I’ll try to stay as impartial as possible, but since I have friends in Israël and I lived there for a few months, I might not be totally impartial. I’m warning you now, so you know in advance, and read this document while you know about this.

1. Israël is killing, and keeps killing civilians, while Gaza/Hamas killed mostly military men.
   Technically, attacks against Israël is not done by an army, so attacking those people means you’ll end killing “civilians”. They are usually labelled “terrorists”, however you might want to think that the children/women killed were not all terrorists. You are probably right, but still again, when you have civilian-looking terrorists hiding in a civilian-looking place, it becomes quite tricky.
   Now, the amount of casualties is pretty high, while it seems attacks against Israël didn’t fall, so I believe lots of blood have been wasted there.
2. Who is winning the war?
   In recent wars, the one who “wins” as you could think, is the one who gets attacked. As long as Israël is getting hit from Gaza, it can say there are “bad boys” there that needs to be punished, and keep attacking. The same is also true in the other side, as long as Gaza keeps being attacked by Israël, Hamas can continue firing rockets.
   The next point is making this sound better. You need quite a lot of marketting to make you looks like “the good guy” in a war. For now I’d say that Hamas looks like the “bad guy” because of previous marketting (labelled as a “terror organisation”, etc) while Israël started an all-out war, then gave some “bits” to show they are the “good guys”.
   Now, everything depends on your definition of “winning a war”, however nowaday, “winning a war” meaning having most other countries recognizing you as the winner.
3. Why is the political pressure on Israël to stop the war having no effect?
   The fact USA is not following is having a strong impact against any attempt to stop the war. Hamas also showed they don’t want to stop the war at all costs by refusing the cease fire proposed one week earlier. I’ve also read in a previous article from BBC News that Hamas was “about to win the war”, and just needed a few more days.
4. How could Hamas win the war?
   I personally believe the only way for Hamas to win against Israël’s well-trained army is to stop firing rockets. Any other kind of threat will cause a strong international reaction, and probably the apparition of other armies (I’m looking at America right now).
   If Hamas stops rocket firing, Israël’s army will have no more a valid reason for killing civilians, and will have to fall back and explain all deaths since the conflict started. Arrived at this point, rocket/mortar firing can resume for a few months before another military operation will be possible.
   Of course, that would require for Hamas to be able to pass orders, and its followers to accept such order. I don’t know how they are organised, but this kind of order is usually hard to accept.
5. How could Israël win the war?
   A war against an ideology is not something you can win easily. I’m not even sure you can win at all.
   If you exterminate anyone following the ideoligy, you’ll be a “bad guy”. If you don’t, they’ll still taunt you.
   Currently, Israël seems to be taking the “average” route, by attacking “all out”, then opening things like a daily truce of a few hours, etc… They are maintaining publicity for the military operations this way, and keep attacking to try to demotivate attackers. While this will have an effect on most people attacking Israël, it’ll still have the reverse effect on some of them, who will begin/continue firing rockets and running operations against Israël.

So, are you saying this war has no permanent way of ending?

If you see any viable long-term option for this conflict, speak it out. I believe if an easy solution existed, it would already be found and applied, however things are not that easy.
Let’s remember that Israël is a country initially imposed on existing countries of the area in 1947 and declared its independence on May 14, 1948.
Of course, if at some point someone else told you you will have to share your hourse with someone else, you wouldn’t be really happy. That was the case for the countries located at the place which became the first Jewish state, and they showed it. In return Israël also attacked, and won more territories than initially planned.

Since those conflicts are barely 50 years old (and not all), the place is quite unstable, and wars are easily started. Everyone has a reason for fighting, however the context has changed. How your country is seen by other countries became important for international market, and as I previously said, the winner will be chosen for its marketting effort. Even countries like Notrth Korea did some (temporary) efforts to fix the way they were seen by other countries and try to resume commercial exchange with their neighbors.

So, everyone is welcome on the newly born IRC Network GG.ST. This will remain some people of old times, when we were called something similar, and well, the idea is partially coming from there.

So, because of this unfortunate event 3 years ago, I became “potentially legally unable” to manage an IRC network for a duration of 3 years, and had to get other people manage/run/operate/etc… networks, as I could never leave IRC. I kept working on software for irc, but left my hands out of network management.

So, now that I’m back, time for some fun, and need to bring back some users. I’ll probably merge the existing MatrIRX project into pinetd2, by adding to pinetd2 some “protocol adapters” thanks to the new IPC structure of “ports” I recently added.
On a side note, pinetd2 should go on public beta near January 20th/22nd 2009, as PHP 5.3.0 should also go beta at this time. Good news for everyone waiting for this, and for Grepsd who’s currently working on some stuff for pinetd.

If you are interested into meeting me on IRC, you can join my personnal channel, even if you don’t have an IRC client (web interface).

Feel free to visit GG.ST’s home page too. I’m trying to get someone to do something nice with this page, it’s not even started yet, but should be done at some point in the future.

OpenOptimus’ website has been defaced because of an exploit in Mantis BugTracker, but mostly because I totally forgot to update this thing for ages.

The site has been taken down, since our little script-kiddie think he’s so smart he could host stuff there without root noticing anything (chmod 0000 owned him).

Anyway the most interesting talks from a technical point of view included:

• The Age of Literate Machines by Zak Greant
• Scaling Mozilla’s websites with PHP by Laura Thomson
• Performance, en allant plus loin que PHP by Éric Daspet (in French)
• Static and Dynamic Analysis at Ning by David Sklar
• L’importance de PHP dans l’entreprise by Zeev Suraski (a Zend France’s guy took over in French)
• PHP, a mystery success story! by Lukas Smith

Great work guys, and hope to get more great presentations from you all (“all” including the people reading this article too) !

This choice was made after I used WordPress for a while on Porchoman. Anyway stay tuned for more soon !

So, for this website (yeah, my blog) :

I’ll use this from times to times on my posts to talk about some websites, just adding a screenshot on my blog posts without having to really do a screenshot.

Oh and what’s more cool? The screenshots are updated every 10 days. If the load is low enough, I’ll change that to everyday

So, the website:

Recent news shows how North Korea test-fired missiles while people there have troubles finding food. North Korea’s military ideal is interesting, as recently a country had to be attacked to attack back in order no not hurt its image.
It seems North Korea couldn’t care less, and continue hurting its image, people and probably other things. They did a great job scaring major governements but I think they can do better… Still I’m not going to cover it today.
Anyway no need to talk about North Korea firing missiles, unless those can reach Washington.

At the same time, in USA, they are counting their nuclear “marbles” to make sure nobody tried to take some of those. That’s something any kid would do if they found their marble bag open, and as you could say, there’s no smoke without fire.
They already know there’s more than the nuclear fuse triggers they sent to Taiwan 2 years ago, but in 60 days, will still announce that nothing else is missing and that the world is safe with America.

Next, America’s people is worried about oil price whnich reached $108. Isn’t it sad? Just try to stop using oil… Oh and the rise is due to something which happened in Iraq… can you believe it to be an accident?

If you played Assassin’s Creed, learning about DNA matching crusades in Lebanon won’t make you suspicious. It’s no longer suspicion because you know the evil plot planned by some underground organisation. And you know all people with this DNA will be killed. Well, or maybe not, it depends…

All those subjects are nothing against today’s topic you already know because you saw this article’s title…

Geert Wilders, this name became quite famous a while ago, and there’s still a lot going on about this guy.

As you can see on his picture (on the BBC website, as I’m too lazy to get the image and ask for authorization), he doesn’t look like someone nice (this usually happens if you let people take pictures of you while you don’t smile, many politicals just smile all the time, even when sleeping, it makes them look almost human).

This guy understood that religion isn’t needed for real men. Think for yourself as this is the only way you’ll think right. Or maybe not. Anyway…

You can check his film out, and see that it’s not as interesting as you may think first. It’s just that this movie was made especially to be flamed, so everyone is having fun flaming it.

Still, any text is understood by the people applying it. There is always extreme people who just go on and blame holy texts for their actions. However that’s not the real meaning beind those. Being stoned is just outdated.

Some people gave their opinion on the BBC article about Fitna, so feel free to read that to see what both sides think.

Have fun!

Well, more recently, BBC reported about videogames rating, and how rating of video-games should be changed…

So, before anyone tries to tie the two stories together I’ll clarify some parts (okay, I’m probably already too late). Anyway…

As you may also have noticed, the two articles are both speaking about how parental control may be the original cause of both problems.

Parental control, this is one important subject people don’t like to talk about. Why? Because most parents, who are supposed to be role models for their children are less and less apt to act as supposed.

Most people think it’s because of video-games’ influence on the children. They become violent, don’t care about other people, and may end doing some really bad things (like kick-killing a poor goth girl).

Well, I don’t have any scientific analysis of the problem, however I’ll give you a piece of my mind, something I just imagined.

Video-games are not only played by youngsters, you know. Did anyone do a survey on what is the influence of video-games parents are playing on their children?

What if…

Let’s assume a few facts.

Children are initially a lot like a blank book. They learn by understanding their surrounding and reproducing. Now how is a young boy supposed to understand that his dad playing a game like GTA is different from his in-game dad?
The boy will most likely misunderstand his dad saying “Today I killed 30 people while driving, I was trying to finish this mission as fast as possible”…

Now, let’s suppose the next day, the young boy want to be the best one in class, if he remembered, he might end saying something close to “My dad is so cool, he killed 30 people yesterday”. He’ll be proud of something he doesn’t really nor care about.

Now let’s see see what might think a boy who just heared that…

“Hey, that’s so cool, I wish my dad could kill a dozen of people too so I can brag about it”

Of course I’m talking about this kind of example, but anything else might end up causing the same kind of problem. For example TV news where you see black people fighting and killing each other in Africa, arab people from Gaza getting killed…
Basically anything can be misunderstood by a child…

Now the main problem is not the child braging about his dad, or the child misunderstanding stuff, it’s more about how immature parents are.

As I see things, game ratings should also apply to parents who have children this age, or people who live with children this age. Playing games is a way to escape reality, and helps you care less about it. However there’s just no way you’re supposed to escape your duty of educating your children.

So, forget about games, and look at what’s in front of you. Even if your children seems OK, there’s always stuff you won’t see, and when you see something because it’s not possible to ignore it anymore, it’s usually too late.

Children will test you, to see how far a real human may go. A child shouting to his father “Yeah! Kill him!! KILL HIM!!!” while he’s playing a game is usually a child who’s still missing the understanding of some limits in life.

Life is not easy. If your children don’t understand that and takes everything for granted, you’ll end with problems like recent ones.

Just a final note : I saw my first porn movie while I was 11, at a friend’s place whose father didn’t care a bit (he was watching too). I found it to be quite boring, however I envied a bit his freedom I didn’t have.
I grew without the “freedom” others may had, however today I work daily, get enough money to buy whatever I want, and live quite happily. I’ve been able to go through hard times thanks to the education I got.

Oh, and don’t blame your problems on games, blame it on yourself.

I’ll try to reply to this interesting question in an interesting attempt to show how easily can a politician discredit himself/herself.

First, take a country where people are not really used to know what happens outside their country. Yes, United States of America is a good choice, given it’s a know fact that most people there have a funny way to understand world’s geography.

Now, let’s take at random some politician from this country (yeah, this process is totally random… or maybe not?) and see what it recently told (yeah, from now on, I’ll use it to refer at people from politic mass).

So, it told about how it was attacked by some siper when arriving in Bosnia, at Tuzia.

Let’s quote a bit thanks to the BBC…

“I remember landing under sniper fire,” it said.

“There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.

“But it was a moment of great pride for me.”

So, I guess that even without looking at the BBC article you guessed what it takes to be a good politician…

Yeah, right, you need to be able to tell lies the size of a country. Don’t worry, even if someone finds out it’s a lie, you can easily save yourself like that :

“I did mis-speak the other day. You know this has been a very long campaign laughs so occasionally I am a human being like everybody else.”

So yeah, it didn’t lie, it mis-spoke …

What it mis-something was to mistake its own country’s video cameras as something else, and think nobody in USA would know about what really happened.

Now I guess most human beings would not, even after a very long campaign, take pride in something that never happened.
I feel sorry for the little girl who had to read a poem this day at the airport. And I feel sorry for all the people who felt sorry as it told this blatant lie.

Don’t be so arrogant as to think a sniper may want you dead, and don’t be so arrogant as to compare yourself to human beings.

Stay tuned for a future release of a book by Hillary Clinton, the art of making up lies the size of a country.

Now, return to your current occupation to try to become the main puppet of this world-sized puppet show called politics. Just try to remember that human beings may be forgiving, but sometimes simply do not want.

By the way, if you are american, you are welcome to reply to this post, and flame me back, I’ll flame you happily. Oh and don’t try to flame telling French politics are bad, I don’t like it either… but thanks god I’m not american (quote from some picture, try to remember it and flame).