TheGreatHatsby, an ingenious AIMbot

[frisco]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheGreatHatsby

[dflock]

Might be quite fun if you automatically got Hatsby'd/Trouted when you initially signed up to AIM, as an intro to the service - instead of the 5 or 6 complimentary spim-vertising bots you get on your brand new buddy list currently.

[cb5]

Some years ago, when my friend and I were talking on the phone, we would each make a three-way call at the same time.

The first to answer the phone would hear the ringing of the other dialed call while my friend and I remained silent.

From what I recall the two called parties would almost always engage in conversation that was usually quite funny.

[bemmu → cb5]

Wait a minute, this has happened to me during a lightning storm. The phone rang, and the caller insisted that I had called them. I thought it was just some freakish bug in the phone system caused by the storm, but now you made me wonder if it was actually a prank instead.

[redorb → cb5]

classic man in the middle style phone hack - those were the days eh?

[philwelch]

I've been subjected to this and it was quite amusing. The fun part is not knowing when or if it'll happen to you.

[Oompa]

This makes me want to make a clone. Couldn't be too difficult with Ruby and the net-toc gem.