Author here. Inspired by John Oliver's segment[0] on 911, I've drafted a system which can communicate the location of emergency callers, but without any major infrastructure upgrades. I have no idea how to reach somebody who might be interested in getting this implemented. Can somebody help?
Google Domains (if you're in the US) or AWS Route 53. They cost about the same ($12/year for most domains, including private registration) but AWS charges extra (about $6/year) if you host your DNS with Route 53 as well.
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I'm a software developer and operations guy. I love taking on interesting and challenging projects where there's a lot of figuring out to do and an elegant system to be built. I have more than eleven years of paid work experience; I have been hacking and programming for much longer than that.
The five most recent languages I used are .NET/C#, XSLT, JavaScript/node.js, Windows PowerShell, and shell script, with a side of HTML5 and CSS.
WHAT I CAN DO FOR YOU
Pretty much anything, but here’s what I absolutely love doing:
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SEEKING WORK -- Delhi, India (Remote work preferred; I am also willing to travel)
I'm a software developer and operations guy. I love taking on interesting and challenging projects where there's a lot of figuring out to do and an elegant system to be built. I have more than eleven years of paid work experience; I have been hacking and programming for much longer than that.
The five most recent languages I used are .NET/C#, PHP, JavaScript/node.js, XSLT, and shell script, with a side of HTML5 and CSS.
RECENT + INTERESTING PROJECTS
I'm currently finishing up on a WordPress plugin that transforms the regular ATOM feed to an ATOM-derived format that is used by The Associated Press.
I wrote a node.js script to send bulk email via Amazon SES, and utilize the full 100 messages/sec that the client had available.
I built a training/learning module Windows app recently; the fun thing was that I created a build system that would actually compile parts of the app on the client's computers, so that they could update their training materials and upload a new installer, without needing to come back to me. The build system had a nice GUI to control it and did not require any special dev tools on the client's computers.
I ported an open-source Java web app to Heroku, and set up the client's systems so that they could edit and update the website using GitHub for Windows (which pushes to Heroku directly, GitHub isn't involved -- it's just a nice and human-friendly UI for git.)
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On a side note, I like using Elance as a project management and escrow platform, and you can check out my Elance profile (work history + client reviews) at http://niksci.elance.com/. On Elance, I am usually ranked among the top 1000 contractors, out of a total of nearly 150,000.
The output can be made much smaller if you just encode (and possibly compress) the bitmap data as a (base64?) string in JavaScript, then use a little JavaScript to actually render it at runtime. You can then have all sorts of optimizations - render using CSS data URIs or canvas where available, for example, to make it look better on iPads and other high-DPI devices.
The download contains the Babylon toolbar, but if you open the installer with 7-zip, then extract and run $TEMP\PrivitizeVPNInstaller.exe - you get the VPN sans the adware.
How does this actually stop spam? Any automated bot would just do the POST or whatever is behind the HTML form, without actually loading up the page with this script, and since there's no server-side verification of the user input, it would merrily go through.
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-XlyB_QQYs