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I am a hacker and you are afraid and that makes you more dangerous than I ever could be.

TIME.com: Prescription For Suicide? -- Feb. 09, 2004
Topic: Current Events 10:11 pm EST, Feb  3, 2004

} Baker is convinced Paxil is what killed her daughter, and that's
} what she'll tell a U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel meeting
} this week in Bethesda, Md.

This is what we get for marketing drugs directly to the public on TV. "Ask your doctor about [blank]" indeed.

If I have any problems I'll listen to what my doctor tells me I need, seeing as how he's the one with the 12 years of med school.

TIME.com: Prescription For Suicide? -- Feb. 09, 2004


Georgia Science Education Petition
Topic: Current Events 10:09 pm EST, Feb  3, 2004

] We strongly encourage the state of Georgia to incorporate
] the entirety of the AAAS benchmarks. A complete science
] education is essential to scientific literacy and to our
] state's economy.

Please sign! Save Georgia from itself! First the Ten Commandments, now this...what part of "separation of church and state" DOESN'T FREAKING APPLY?!!

Georgia Science Education Petition


Microsoft finally patches IE URL Parse bug
Topic: Technology 9:56 am EST, Feb  3, 2004

] A vulnerability that involves the cross-domain security
] model of Internet Explorer. The cross domain security
] model of Internet Explorer keeps windows of different
] domains from sharing information. This vulnerability
] could result in the execution of script in the Local
] Machine zone. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker
] would have to host a malicious Web site that contained a
] Web page designed to exploit the vulnerability and then
] persuade a user to view the Web page.

About damn time. This critical bug (their classification) took nearly 3 months to fix. 3 monthes to modify a stupid printing function. Why are these guys number 1 again? It sure aint the customer service

Microsoft finally patches IE URL Parse bug


Janet Nipple - OUCH!
Topic: Miscellaneous 1:58 pm EST, Feb  2, 2004

] "I'll get you naked by the end of this song," sang
] performer Justin Timberlake, moments before he ripped off
] Jackson's top, exposing a bare breast -- the nipple
] covered by a metal 'solar' nipple medallion.

Why oh why would someone do this to their nipple?

Janet Nipple - OUCH!


www.yak.net/acidus gets a face lift
Topic: Current Events 5:45 am EST, Feb  2, 2004

website got a face lift, and more content. Adding more over the next week or so.


RE: Booble - The Adult Search Engine
Topic: Current Events 6:11 pm EST, Jan 31, 2004

IconoclasT wrote:
] ROFLMAO! Nice knockoff of Google...
]
] If you are under 18, or live in an area where it is illegal
] for you to view
] explicit content, please leave this site immediately.

Take a look under legal notices. The back and forth between them and google is great:

[Booble responding to Google]

3. the BOOBLE mark is distinct from the GOOGLE mark in that it differs in sound, appearance, commercial impression, and other relevant aspects:
1. it features a woman's chest;
2. it uses the phrase, 'The Adult Search Engine;'
3. it posts a warning that the web site contains explicit content; and
4. it disclaims any association with Google.com.

RE: Booble - The Adult Search Engine


RE: CNN.com - Georgia considers banning 'evolution' - Jan. 30, 2004
Topic: Miscellaneous 2:36 pm EST, Jan 31, 2004

inignoct wrote:
] ] The state's school superintendent has proposed striking
] ] the word evolution from Georgia's science curriculum and
] ] replacing it with the phrase "biological changes over
] ] time."

http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/01/30/georgia.evolution/index.html

Whats funnier is Jimmy Carter's Response to this:

"I am embarrassed by Superintendent Kathy Cox's attempt to censor and distort the education of Georgia's students"

Its not everyday that a former president personally and publically calls you a dumbass

RE: CNN.com - Georgia considers banning 'evolution' - Jan. 30, 2004


Microsoft: Why patch IE when you can just issue notices?
Topic: Technology 11:53 am EST, Jan 30, 2004

So Microsoft in its infinite wisdom has released a notices on their Knowledge Base to help users to avoid going to spoofed pages. There are a few sentences about looking for the padlock in the lower rigth corner, what Certificates are, etc.

The rest of the articles tells users how to type in 1-2 line javascript commands directly into the address bar to make sure they are really at Yahoo. All of this is to prevent the fun %00 %01 bug in IE what can let you spoof an address.

WTF is this? Do they really expect Joe Sixpack to actually do do this? There are the same morons how say "Oh look an attachment from someone I don't know" [OPENS]. You think they are reall going to type:

javascript:alert("The actual URL is:\t\t" + location.protocol + "//" + location.hostname + "/" + "\nThe address URL is:\t\t" + location.href + "\n" + "\nIf the server names do not match, this may be a spoof.");

This is retarded. This exploit came in early December, its now nearly January, and instead of a patch, Microsoft gives us a tersely worded notice to do things no normal user would do.

Microsoft: Why patch IE when you can just issue notices?


RE: Deaths in Iraq., vs Deaths in Los Angeles
Topic: Society 4:02 pm EST, Jan 27, 2004

] 512 killed in a WAR, compared to a 643 in L.A.

But we know what they are killing for in LA: Hoes, weed, and hoods. Why are we in Iraq again? oh thats right Oil! Maybe I should get a solar power car and go to Compton. :-)

RE: Deaths in Iraq., vs Deaths in Los Angeles


RE: Blackboard Looks Likely To Go Public
Topic: Business 11:49 am EST, Jan 27, 2004

] In the interest of fair play, you might point out that you are
] friends with the guy

In the Interest of fair play, I should point out that inignoct, Rattle, ryan, Elonka and others had no idea who I was at the time, and many still haven't met me. The only Memestreamer who knew me was Decius, who I met at the conference. I won't pollute my ego and think I can cause so many people to react to something a certain way. I think the numbers of people who reacted to what BB did and the strength at which did they speaks more about what occured then I could.

] BTW, I'm a former Blackboard employee. Worked there four
] years. Am I proud of everything Blackboard has done over the
] years? Nope. But it's a good company populated with plenty of
] decent free-thinking people. Particularly the techies, some of
] the most fiercely independent and idealistic folks I've ever
] met, and a group with whom your hacker friend would probably
] fit right in.

I concur you shouldn't fault the whole company. I'm sure there are cool folks there. However the executives, not Bill the Engineer or Sally in accounting made the choices on how to react, and executives have the most to gain from an IPO. For that reason I hope it fails. The lawsuit changed me very much: certain beliefs I've always had about motives and conduct were completely destroyed. After several talks with BB executives, I still cannot fathom these people's greed. It and it alone drives their actions, and that utterly sickens me. A failed IPO would deny they what they want, because believe me, they care nothing about Sally or Bill.

RE: Blackboard Looks Likely To Go Public


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