{"id":275,"date":"2005-12-29T13:03:48","date_gmt":"2005-12-29T12:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=275"},"modified":"2005-12-29T13:03:48","modified_gmt":"2005-12-29T12:03:48","slug":"2005-and-a-bit-spam-maths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=275","title":{"rendered":"2005-and-a-bit &#038; Spam maths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year we&#8217;re getting a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2005\/12\/29\/leap_second\/\">leap second added<\/a> on to the final day to account for a something to do with the earth&#8217;s rotation. I&#8217;m not quite sure <em>what<\/em> precisely, but boffin-type people seem to know what they&#8217;re talking about so I&#8217;ll leave them to it. Apparently the important clocks of the world will tick over to 23:59:60 before moving on to 00:00:00.<\/p>\n<p>On related &#8216;end of the year&#8217; stuff, AOL say that spam email these days is usually scams about money, such as fake mortgage offers, and drugs for sex or painkillers. I&#8217;m not sure if this means that porn has become old fashioned, or perhaps it&#8217;s just the evolution of the internet that more money can be scammed in other ways. Apparently 8 out of 10 emails going through their system are junk, which seems about right when compared to the amount that I get that are usually offering me junk bonds, some drug called Cialis (whatever that may be), and fake Rolex watches (with &#8216;98% Perfectly Accurate Markings&#8217;!)&#8230; And that&#8217;s with junk filters turned on at my server. Ho hum.<\/p>\n<p>AOL say that they are blocking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2005\/12\/29\/spam_top_ten\/\">1.5 billion spam messages every day<\/a>, so with the extra second that&#8217;s been added to 2005 there will be another 17,361 spam emails blocked. Now that&#8217;s what I call a happy new year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year we&#8217;re getting a leap second added on to the final day to account for a something to do with the earth&#8217;s rotation. I&#8217;m not quite sure what precisely, but boffin-type people seem to know what they&#8217;re talking about so I&#8217;ll leave them to it. Apparently the important clocks of the world will tick &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=275\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2005-and-a-bit &#038; Spam maths<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-weird-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5bQqr-4r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}