The interesting about this thing, is when I first saw the title of the facebook group, I was sure that was odd, but I quickly ignored it and moved on. Then I saw it again tonight, and I started to do a bit of digging.

http://www.brain-thee.co.uk/2010/01/how-to-tell-a-scam-on-social-networking-sites/ manages to describe my thought process pretty well actually. But I went a few steps more. I got very weirded out by the fact they wanted me to use javascript to select all my friends for invite (I still can’t believe I immediately recognized that javascript the second I saw it.). So after I visited the page they said you could only visit after you invited your friends (look at that, I visited it fine).

Anyways, to make a long story short, I started to dig through the js on the page, found out its essentially a small page with a ad or something to c p a l e a d (dot com, I don’t want to link to it). That in itself isn’t that interesting, its the fact that it tries to detect firebug so you can disable whatever it does (video maybe? I run with noscript so I don’t see it).

I put the code up on pastebin @ http://pastebin.com/d40ea2d1c for anyone who is curious. Its simply the only javascript on the scammers page after I ran it through the reverse dean edwards packer.

Anyways, lots of people pop in #jquery and ask questions.. which is good, ’cause i learn about new plugins or ideas, etc. But there are a lot of people who just can’t figure out how to ask a question.

Examples of bad people:
* <yoav> guys i’m stuck tryin’ to get an ajax form to work with jquery and codeigniter <yoav>stuck as in it’s not working
(i’m surprised i can’t find more in my recent logs)
or my fav, and i can’t find an example from my current logs
* <someone> Can I ask a question?
* <someone> I have a question (in which the reply is no, thats a statement)

Between those and the people who know next to nothing about javascript, css and html, expecting that jquery will be really easy and needing to be hand held through every little step is really frustrating.

I gotta setup some irssi aliases now to point to http://reactor-core.org/irc-help.html (which I just found)..

For me, its simply Control + L (goes to location bar) then “perldoc” which gets me to http://www.perldoc.com which I also end up using many times during the day, as I need to look up specific behavior of functions, like grep :)