Thank goodness for bad advertisements online!

[Jimmy Higgins]

I must be an awful father. I keep getting an ad for WonderDads on Facebook. It shows up all the time. It is an online service that costs $10 a month! It tells you how to be a better dad, they have activity ideas (what, 'go to the playground'?) and "offers" (no idea to what) and other things to help you become a better father. Apparently I'm being targeted, I'm not certain how the algorithms indicate I have a daughter.

They claim to have had 45k members, which makes me wonder if I can invent WonderPetOwners after subscribing to WonderDads for a month, just copy and paste all their stuff, replace the word "child" or "kid" to "pet" and charge $15 a month. Even if just 20k idiots sign up for the first and only month... that'd be $300,000. Sorry, no refunds... also, we are out of business now.

Well, there are services which provide medical centers with technitium-99M, and they feel they should advertise their services.

Did you not note my saying it's produced on site?

Medical centers do not buy technitium-99. Rather, they buy molybdenum-99 and extract the technitium-99 they need from it. Even those cows aren't long-lived as molybdenum-99 only has 66-hour half life, but that's still much, much better than the technitium-99.

So you are saying if I buy technitium-99M on eBay, I should insist on the overnight shipping?

Can I sell near empty bottles of water to people (with pictures of full bottles of water) and just note that there is a half life of 6 hours for the water? If anyone asks, I'll say I noted that the water had a half life of 6 hours. If they protest and say that isn't possible, I'll respond, science says it is possible.

 

[bilby]

I must be an awful father. I keep getting an ad for WonderDads on Facebook. It shows up all the time. It is an online service that costs $10 a month! It tells you how to be a better dad, they have activity ideas (what, 'go to the playground'?) and "offers" (no idea to what) and other things to help you become a better father. Apparently I'm being targeted, I'm not certain how the algorithms indicate I have a daughter.

They claim to have had 45k members, which makes me wonder if I can invent WonderPetOwners after subscribing to WonderDads for a month, just copy and paste all their stuff, replace the word "child" or "kid" to "pet" and charge $15 a month. Even if just 20k idiots sign up for the first and only month... that'd be $300,000. Sorry, no refunds... also, we are out of business now.

Did you not note my saying it's produced on site?

Medical centers do not buy technitium-99. Rather, they buy molybdenum-99 and extract the technitium-99 they need from it. Even those cows aren't long-lived as molybdenum-99 only has 66-hour half life, but that's still much, much better than the technitium-99.

So you are saying if I buy technitium-99M on eBay, I should insist on the overnight shipping?

Can I sell near empty bottles of water to people (with pictures of full bottles of water) and just note that there is a half life of 6 hours for the water? If anyone asks, I'll say I noted that the water had a half life of 6 hours. If they protest and say that isn't possible, I'll respond, science says it is possible.

 

[Malintent]

Hotels.com is the most ridiculous I have seen. Every time I book a hotel in some city, it emails me like a month later on deals to travel to the place I already am booked to travel to.

I enjoy filling marketing databases with false information. It all started when I was a lad buying batteries from Radio Shack. The only way to get my batteries was to give them a ton of information about me. I bet Anna Lee Cage at 212-867-5309 has been getting a lot of junk mail over the past decades. And god help anyone that actually has the email address gofuckyourself@yourass.cum

Public service announcement:

Never use a real email address with any service you don't actually want emailing you (after signup, I mean).
Sure, many sites will send a test email to see if you receive a code to continue registering or whatever... Here is how to bypass that forever:

There is a service called Mailinator.com. Whenever mailinator.com receives any piece of email, it blindly accepts it (regardless if the address exists or not). Try it... send a test message to some ridiculous address like thisaddresscantpossiblyexist@mailinator.com

go to mailinator.com, and enter the address you just made up. Presto! Your inbox appears (to anyone that knows the address to type in). Mailinator dynamically creates any mailbox for which an email is sent to them and offers it up for free to anyone that asks for it, and then automatically deletes any email it gets after a few days.

This is great for entering bogus addresses that you may need to use one time to get a registration code or something.

What happens if someone gives Mailinator an actual, existing email address? Would it intercept that person's emails? Could this be used to snoop someone else's emails?

It only works for mail sent to "anyone" @mailinator.com

If you pick an existing one (a popular one is "fuckyou@mailinator.com) it just adds those messages to the existing inbox that many other people are also sending to / looking at. You can use it, but it will full up with mail from all over the place due to others using it... that is why I suggest a long, unique sounding address when you make one up... like "registrationwithsomepornsite@mailinator.com", or whatever...

 

[Malintent]

Email spam is a bit of an arms race: some websites have already blacklisted mailinator.com, guerillamail.com, sharklasers.com and any other known disposable mail providers.

You're right... but I have yet to encounter a rejection due to using the mailinator.com domain as my alleged "email provider".
To the point of the "arms race", it is trivial to add a DNS record mapping "ggogle" to "mailinator", for example.. so it takes weeks of research to discover "bad" domains and block them, and about 8 seconds to undo all that work with a new domain redirection.

 

[Underseer]

What happens if someone gives Mailinator an actual, existing email address? Would it intercept that person's emails? Could this be used to snoop someone else's emails?

It only works for mail sent to "anyone" @mailinator.com

If you pick an existing one (a popular one is "fuckyou@mailinator.com) it just adds those messages to the existing inbox that many other people are also sending to / looking at. You can use it, but it will full up with mail from all over the place due to others using it... that is why I suggest a long, unique sounding address when you make one up... like "registrationwithsomepornsite@mailinator.com", or whatever...

Thanks for the clarification.