The bots, Newitz writes, would send users messages designed to entice a response, and then make use of one of the unusual features of Ashley Madison – that men have to pay to read messages, and pay to send them – to encourage the (overwhelmingly male) recipients to buy credits from the site to engage in further conversation.
He observed wryly that "Macbeth" was "hardly designed to entice me to a public career" but that through the play, "I learned about the dangers of blind ambition, the fleeting nature of fame, the ultimate emptiness of power disconnected from higher purpose".
The Conservative party has issued its candidates with model letters to target demographic groups including farmers, veterans and "women", suggesting blanket messages designed to entice them to vote Tory, a leaked campaign document reveals.
Male bowerbirds build bowers--twig tunnels furnished with decorations--that are designed to entice females and act as a stage for courtship and copulation.
One e-cigarette company even ran a "Welcome Back" marketing campaign that appeared designed to entice former smokers to start vaping, a move that could get them readdicted to nicotine and possibly on the road to smoking traditional cigarettes again.
For users, it's a very nice update that adds a lot of worthwhile functionality, and for Nvidia, it's reaffirmation that this is a real platform, not just a demonstration device designed to entice OEMs.
Impatient with the local firms but determined to revive its domestic industry, the government in 2005 passed a law designed to entice foreign manufacturers to assemble their products in Russia.
He also became known for picture-perfect pitch framing, a technique designed to entice as many borderline strike calls as possible from umpires, something Martin has mastered over previous seasons.
They're designed to entice interns to come back to a full-time job after graduation.
