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I don't know if this has allready been noticed, byt when watching the
Zippy Movie I counted it to 31 computers.
Then I got the idea to count those names:
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AddedMoney1
bennydale111
big_colonel
bound_away
cloudy_bay
ducks_nuts
fair_dingkum
flying_spur
frames_depot
Gabriel6661
GoldenGus
gunsmoked333
HelicoptLeo
Liguria111
Mads080205
mes_ami
miss_meidy
pagliaccio_
prime_move
Prometheus42
roball111
RoccoSuper
sanddance
simon_sez555
stabber555
Starway
successor111
tuckerrain
tawriffic
WonderW_72
vallyvally
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31 exactly...
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This is a very interesting post and starteling. I double counted, and you are right, 31 bot names, and 31 cpu's in the video. Very interesting. Then I was looking a bit closer at some obvious material to put here:
The video maker said his last post was 2005 Sept 13. The idea that he implies is that his bots have been unsuccessful and he has been working on them since then or, that they were in the testing phase.
He then shows a room of 31 cpus (possibly 30). Impling that his bots are very successful at this point.
Rage Against the Machine music is blasting in the back ground.
This video was uploaded on February 19 2006 (according to the site). But the video claims that it was created May 1st 2006 (and states, "See you in may").
The one holding the camera is not wearing a wedding ring, the room with the cpu has sunlight coming in from outside (so it is not in the basement), and the walls are your standard cubicle walls found in any office. The filing cabenet and flouresnt lights reinforce the idea that is in an office. The door locking mechanism seems like it may have been reinforced. You get the idea it is a one man op., because the same person who opens the door is holding the camera. He has white skin, groomed fingernails, and hairy arms. Judging from the angle of the camera to the door know, I estimate his hieght between 5'7" to 5'11". His arm seems fit and I would guess that he is between 170 to 230 lbs. I can't tell for sure whether the plugs are American or European.
I'm willing to guess that he is an America (perhaps Russian American [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] ).
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Was it the "hairy arms" that gave you the "russian american" tell??? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]
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Although, Russians are world renowned for the hairest of arms...That was a joke, comrade! I have nothing against Russians (for the record). Ask my Russian friend (no picture available). I was just using that as an example (in my previous post, in which someone claimed I was obsessed with the cold war [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]. I do believe that bot users, even those based out of the US, could use Russian or similar addresses and phone numbers to deter ID verification...thus I'm willing to suggest: 'ban all users whose ID's and addresses can not be reliably verified' (even if that means Romania, Russia, Nigeria, ect - I'll miss you!)
Secondly, we subcontracted our high level programming to Russia at $15/hr! Similar programming here runs about $60/hr. We think the Russians subcontracted that out to India actually, but that is irrelevant. Many US programmers can make $100k per year and lack the incentive to spend a year creating a poker bot, and in the process possibly break laws through ID theft, ect, though I wouldn't put it past a rogue programmer seeing the potential.