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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?

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-XlyB_QQYs

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.

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Thanks, Nik.

From http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring:

"This account automatically submits a 'Who is Hiring? (Month YYYY Edition)' post at 9 AM Eastern time on the 1st of every month."

    $ curl http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=j
    No such user.

Clearly you could have named yourself just 'j' instead of the overly verbose 'jon6'. All those extra characters!!

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.

This looks very similar to http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-web-design/ - they've even used the same graphics!