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It's actually the way I dealt with people 'stealing' images. If they can right click and 'copy image URL' they'll do that. So I did a combination of things.

The images are actually a CSS background. And on top of that they're a base64 dataURL. It also makes it trivial to put a watermark on it. I know numerous photographers that use right click disable but that's foiled easy enough or use the CSS background trick but if you read the HTML code that's easy enough to get around. I know a technically savvy person could probably figure it out. But typically people that look at source code get foiled by that.

It's not perfect but for tossing numerous images up on my personal website: http://www.exstatic.org/demo_script/index.php?image=Panorama%200

Like they said, "Stretch of time". The article nailed my specific 'sub generation'.

I had IRC, but not everyone knew how to get onto it. I used ICQ, but there weren't a ton of people on it.
MSN and AIM were competing back to back. I had friends in one school district that were on MSN and AIM in another, so I used both.
I also used.

It was around 99-00 that AIM started to take dominance among my friends. When I went to college in the Fall of 2001 someone posted a signup sheet in the hall way with AIM screen names. There was no Facebook, some people wrote on whiteboards, most just left AIM messages. Statuses were almost no different than what Facebook status are today, although more to the point of what you were actually doing. "Out to lunch, join us" "Class" "Running", etc. AIM profiles were served from your computer. You really couldn't data mine them and they were also limited in size. The article nails that aspect too. This was also before AIM would let you sign in from multiple locations, so I had my username, and username_laptop for when I was out and about.

Just because you weren't nostalgic for this era, doesn't mean there isn't a chunk of 24-34ish year olds that aren't. And when Facebook declines I'll chuckle to myself when I'm in my 40s and those 30 year olds couldn't imagine life without Facebook.

*There were even "AIM Trackers", since most AIM clients would replace %n with screen names. But they were all too heavy so I wrote my own. It's how I learned MySQL/PHP. I had a 'private' version working for a while but decided to make it generic and let anyone sign up. I finally got http://aim.exstatic.org/ right as AIM seemed to die.

Amazon also released photos of their East Coast datacenter today.

I love how that website demands compensation for that image. He just got Slashdotted. hahahaha

Amazon also released photos of their East Coast datacenter today.

Check out VirginMobile's Data Plans.

$25, prepaid, for 300 minutes and 'unlimited data'.

The LG Optimus V is on-sale right now at Target for $130 + $20 Gift Card. Plus, you can get cheap rates on the refills:

Save an extra 5% with your RedCard. I like to buy my Top Up Cards with my RedCard at Target, since I get 5% off. The best deal is getting the $20 RECHARGEABLE Top-Up card from Target. For every 5 charges, you get $10 free. Plus 5% off with the RedCard.

Does any provider in the US offer this kind of service on a GSM network? Last time I checked when traveling to the USA the minimum I'd have to pay for a non-trivial amount of data from AT&T or T-Mobile was $70-80/mo. Kind of crazy when I can get a pre-paid SIM with 500 MB (+voice minutes) for $30 from major Aussie providers, or even less through budget resellers.

Check out VirginMobile's Data Plans.

$25, prepaid, for 300 minutes and 'unlimited data'.

The LG Optimus V is on-sale right now at Target for $130 + $20 Gift Card. Plus, you can get cheap rates on the refills:

Save an extra 5% with your RedCard. I like to buy my Top Up Cards with my RedCard at Target, since I get 5% off. The best deal is getting the $20 RECHARGEABLE Top-Up card from Target. For every 5 charges, you get $10 free. Plus 5% off with the RedCard.

Rehosted. http://exstatic.org/Sketch.app.zip

Ok. Case in point, here is a VERY simple switch block. (And this could really be all that they did)

Brake_Override.jpg

If brake is 1, then 0 gets sent to the throttle, otherwise what ever the throttle is gets sent to the throttle.

How many lines of code would you guess that is?
157. (including blank lines between functions).

Want to wager how many the .h file has?

901.

For that little model right there, there were almost 1000 lines of code. Now do you see how you could easily get 100M?

*This is also quick and dirty, I didn't turn on any optimizations it's just the default C generated code to make a .exe (I didn't target any specific embedded device).

**Now in real production these would pull from sensors and it'd probably use a few more lines of code. (You have to read from the A/D, etc)

Ok. Case in point, here is a VERY simple switch block. (And this could really be all that they did)

Brake_Override.jpg

If brake is 1, then 0 gets sent to the throttle, otherwise what ever the throttle is gets sent to the throttle.

How many lines of code would you guess that is?
157. (including blank lines between functions).

Want to wager how many the .h file has?

901.

For that little model right there, there were almost 1000 lines of code. Now do you see how you could easily get 100M?

*This is also quick and dirty, I didn't turn on any optimizations it's just the default C generated code to make a .exe (I didn't target any specific embedded device).

**Now in real production these would pull from sensors and it'd probably use a few more lines of code. (You have to read from the A/D, etc)

Ok. Case in point, here is a VERY simple switch block. (And this could really be all that they did)

Brake_Override.jpg

If brake is 1, then 0 gets sent to the throttle, otherwise what ever the throttle is gets sent to the throttle.

How many lines of code would you guess that is?
157. (including blank lines between functions).

Want to wager how many the .h file has?

901.

For that little model right there, there were almost 1000 lines of code. Now do you see how you could easily get 100M?

*This is also quick and dirty, I didn't turn on any optimizations it's just the default C generated code to make a .exe (I didn't target any specific embedded device).

**Now in real production these would pull from sensors and it'd probably use a few more lines of code. (You have to read from the A/D, etc)

Not long after the first requests for proxies went out, went out the requests for "So how do I configure this again?".

So I created ProxyBox [mirror] to help people get stuff setup quickly. It has squid (listening on a multitude of ports), tor, & ziproxy. It was quick and dirty (and the file size shows). Not to mention I'm just a Mechanical Engineer, not a security expert. This was meant for the fark crowd and not for the slashdot, I'm sure everyone here is more than capable of setting up some proxies.

Austin Heap has been distributing the Proxies to Iranians on the inside via twitter and such. (Twitter) his biggest problem right now is ssh servers inside of Iran to make sure that proxies work. Supposedly he's also been able to set up VPNs on fast connections. But work is slow because the internet is slow and he's down to 1-2 SSH boxes ATM.

They've already started blocking ports 80,81, 3128 & 8080. And starting to send fake RESETs on TCP connections (Comcast anyone?).

How you can help:
Well I'd like some help making ProxyBox a ton smaller. If DSL can get a full GUI in 50MB, there's no reason ProxyBox should be 400MB. I'd also like to turn it into a LiveCD or LiveUSB so it can be set up by anyone not just with VirtualBox. (jjarvis98 at gmail.com)

Tor is being used quite extensively. Some people have setup exit nodes and had their connections filled with people hitting nothing more than twitter, facebook & youtube. Set up an exit node or bridge if nothing else.

Supposedly UDP and ping still work fine. So some people are looking into TCP over UDP or I was also thinking about Ping Tunnel (Tcp over Ping)

#irantech on irc.freenode.net is a bit unorganized but it's working for now.

Mirror 1
Mirror 2

Proxies:
Squid installed and listening on ports: 7, 13, 53, 993, 995, 3128
Polipo installed and listening on port: 8123. Polipo is routed through Tor.
Tor: port 9050 (a socks5 proxy)
Ziproxy: Port 8080 (good for low bandwidth connections. It recompress images & text.
Socat: Must be run manually, but listens on port 443 and routes through Squid.

SSH enabled, listening on ports 22,80,2222,22222
2 Users: root:#iran and iran:election. If you enable ssh to the world, change the root password (passwd). This should enable ssh tunneling.
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I created this for people on Fark who were having problems with squid. Everyone here shouldn't have a problem. It's a bare bones (netinst) debian install with all the above installed and setup.

I did NOT put ACLs in because there are reports here: http://iran.sharearchy.com/ that the ACL list is actually blocking some people in Iran.

And could one of the mods please change to the coral cache of Austin's website? He's already getting DDoS'd by Iran all this morning. Slashdot isn't going to help anything.

If any /.ers would like to help make it smaller, better, faster (VPN?), jjarvis98 at gmail.com

And you're free to inspect it to make sure I'm not trying to r00t you.

I'm quite happy with my unbranded Chinesium MP4 player that I bought from Chinavasion.. All I wanted was something that would let me watch TV shows or movies at the gym. I looked at the iPod Touch and Nokia N800 products but they were all over kill (and over priced). This fits the bill perfectly. The software is XP only and just a gui wrapper to mencoder, but the ini let me write a nice shell script to do it on Linux/OS X.

There are quite a few products on that website that seem pretty cool. I'm thinking of getting the toothbrush cam to see if it will make a cheap bore scope for engines, etc. This hard drive enclosure seems pretty cool (Although I'm sticking with my XBMC).

The BEST part about all of these products is that they can't afford a proprietary connector nor can they afford to lose market share to not being able to connect to everything. Everything is Mini-USB or USB.

The biggest problem they have right now is UI and translations. The "MP5 Player Manuals" is quite entertaining to read and full of Engrish.

2008 Panoramas
2006 Panoramas

I need to get the videos uploaded from GP this year. Line was past Qdoba.

BSME '06.

2008 Panoramas
2006 Panoramas

I need to get the videos uploaded from GP this year. Line was past Qdoba.

BSME '06.

The only thing cops hate more than you photographing some random building, is when you photograph them.

These photos were taken around 9 am on a Saturday morning in April. Bars open at 7 am so police are around to keep 'order'. I took a ton of photos to stitch together to make some good panoramas.

Since I was in drive mode I got off about 3 pictures before I even had my camera up to my eye, an which point they came over and asked me to move along. Next year I plan on not drinking *anything* (Anything over 0.00 can be arrested for Public Intox) and pushing the issue. They're standing on a public street in broad fucking daylight.

Picture 1
Picture 2
Picture 3

The only thing cops hate more than you photographing some random building, is when you photograph them.

These photos were taken around 9 am on a Saturday morning in April. Bars open at 7 am so police are around to keep 'order'. I took a ton of photos to stitch together to make some good panoramas.

Since I was in drive mode I got off about 3 pictures before I even had my camera up to my eye, an which point they came over and asked me to move along. Next year I plan on not drinking *anything* (Anything over 0.00 can be arrested for Public Intox) and pushing the issue. They're standing on a public street in broad fucking daylight.

Picture 1
Picture 2
Picture 3

The only thing cops hate more than you photographing some random building, is when you photograph them.

These photos were taken around 9 am on a Saturday morning in April. Bars open at 7 am so police are around to keep 'order'. I took a ton of photos to stitch together to make some good panoramas.

Since I was in drive mode I got off about 3 pictures before I even had my camera up to my eye, an which point they came over and asked me to move along. Next year I plan on not drinking *anything* (Anything over 0.00 can be arrested for Public Intox) and pushing the issue. They're standing on a public street in broad fucking daylight.

Picture 1
Picture 2
Picture 3

The only thing cops hate more than you photographing some random building, is when you photograph them.

These photos were taken around 9 am on a Saturday morning in April. Bars open at 7 am so police are around to keep 'order'. I took a ton of photos to stitch together to make some good panoramas.

Since I was in drive mode I got off about 3 pictures before I even had my camera up to my eye, an which point they came over and asked me to move along. Next year I plan on not drinking *anything* (Anything over 0.00 can be arrested for Public Intox) and pushing the issue. They're standing on a public street in broad fucking daylight.

Picture 1
Picture 2
Picture 3

My 215k mile TDI and my friends 415k mile '92 non turbo diesel beg to differ.

German cars can be more reliable than Asian cars, they're just "different" as in you MUST keep up on maintenance. Asian cars are appliances. You drive them until something big breaks and you go cut a new one out of its shrink wrapping.

German cars are tinkerer cars. I want my computer to "just work" that's why I own a Mac. I don't mind tinkering with my car and keeping up on maintenance. That's why I own a VW. Sure my vacuum locks gave it up a while ago and I had to rig new ones, but the engine and drive train are rock solid. (Akin to finding that damn linux driver for that new piece of hardware, but the rest of the system is rock solid).

Second. Dealers Suck. They've screwed up more things on the TDI forum than I care to recount here. (But You can check out the thread). If you don't know how to work on your car, learn. If you don't like working on your own car, don't own a VW.

34 MPG? I got 39 MPG out of a 5 seater with a car load full of stuff from my parents house. ...
TOWING a trailer full of stuff.
http://vw.exstatic.org/pictures/39MPG/080827-191907.jpg

A 'compact' car should be getting 60+ MPG. Before this 1998 I had a 1986 (yes. 1986). It got 48-50 MPG without a problem. This was back when diesel and gas were $1.00/gallon. I could drive that thing 4 hours to college and back again on a single tank.

And "making a come back" you mean "Americans pulled their head out of their asses and noticed other technology". Diesel never went away.

Breakfast Club at Purdue University. It's a big drinking event each year and the cops are always out in full force. This year I thought it was particularly more so than in the past.

So I decided to take some pictures.
http://www.exstatic.org/pictures/GPPolice/080419-093635.jpg
http://www.exstatic.org/pictures/GPPolice/080419-093638.jpg
http://www.exstatic.org/pictures/GPPolice/080419-093710.jpg

"Sir, stop taking pictures. NOW".

I had been drinking and I didn't feel like being hassled. (By the way the laws are written walking around at 0.00 or greater is a public intox, even if you're not doing anything).

Next year I'm thinking of going back sober and breaking out the video camera. Best part is how the ones that go 'undercover' as college students later in the day are the first to hide their faces.

Breakfast Club at Purdue University. It's a big drinking event each year and the cops are always out in full force. This year I thought it was particularly more so than in the past.

So I decided to take some pictures.
http://www.exstatic.org/pictures/GPPolice/080419-093635.jpg
http://www.exstatic.org/pictures/GPPolice/080419-093638.jpg
http://www.exstatic.org/pictures/GPPolice/080419-093710.jpg

"Sir, stop taking pictures. NOW".

I had been drinking and I didn't feel like being hassled. (By the way the laws are written walking around at 0.00 or greater is a public intox, even if you're not doing anything).

Next year I'm thinking of going back sober and breaking out the video camera. Best part is how the ones that go 'undercover' as college students later in the day are the first to hide their faces.

Breakfast Club at Purdue University. It's a big drinking event each year and the cops are always out in full force. This year I thought it was particularly more so than in the past.

So I decided to take some pictures.
http://www.exstatic.org/pictures/GPPolice/080419-093635.jpg
http://www.exstatic.org/pictures/GPPolice/080419-093638.jpg
http://www.exstatic.org/pictures/GPPolice/080419-093710.jpg

"Sir, stop taking pictures. NOW".

I had been drinking and I didn't feel like being hassled. (By the way the laws are written walking around at 0.00 or greater is a public intox, even if you're not doing anything).

Next year I'm thinking of going back sober and breaking out the video camera. Best part is how the ones that go 'undercover' as college students later in the day are the first to hide their faces.

Same error in Halifax, probably the same software:

I have a sample here.

I just had to laugh and take a picture.

15 mmegabytes? Where the hell are you getting your numbers.

I just made a randomly generated pdf using a Lorum Ipsum generator and copy and paste.

278 page, 1.1 MB. Looks the same on my Mac as it does on a Linux machine as it does on Windows machine as it does on a reader that supports PDF as it does on the printer.

That's why.

I think this is the data from that study: http://www.exstatic.org/images/pirates_vs_gw.jpg

DO NOT WANT

Dang it. This comes days after I get my PHP implemented so that it will work with ebay. http://checkout.exstatic.org/?280002299763 (it's sandbox, so don't worry, send money! [Not even my auction]) I used the cURL libs to scrape the auction and setup a nice check out. I've never used any other Google APIs, but setting up checkout was amazingly simple. It took me a few hours to set up everything and most of the time was getting the grep right on eBay. It doesn't work for every auction. I just sold something on eBay. I got payed in an hour or so. I shipped it and everything. It was just a great experience. Hotmail:Gmail::PayPal:Checkout. I have 2 other auctions ending soon. Hopefully they slip under the radar and get money for the other two. I have $900 in a limited account that I can't touch. I even sent all of the verifications and all I got was a "We're looking at it." Thanks PayPal. $900 is gone that I can't touch again. Now it looks like eBay doesn't want any more of my money. I was considering selling quite a bit more stuff now that I had a Payment processor again.

Reading some of these stories makes me think than noone has ever been caught. That there are no consequences. If you don't feel like reading my post it can be summed up as: Don't do pranks on the computer. Do something physical and do it intoxicated.

I've been booted, I have to say that it's disrupted my entire life. It hasn't been a fun experience. I went to a small engineering college in Indiana. My sophomore year was the year that the Olsen twins were choosing where to go. At this time the fake CNN news generator was out.

We recieved an e-mail from admissions that the Olsen twins thing was a joke (apparently they had a huge issue with alumni believing this.) On the way home from dinner my roomates and I sketched "Welcome Olsens" into the snow on the lake in 30' letters. Then I thought it would be a funny prank if I photoshopped the Olsen twins in front of one of our buildings. It was a quick and dirty job. I never intended for anyone to believe it. Not to mention the best photo I had found had them in the wrong age frame.

Our school had a "allstudents" e-mail address, however it could only be accessed by a few people. In addition it required a *.instudent.*.edu address. I did some scanning and found some computers that were turned off at night. I spoofed my MAC address and sent out the e-mail from the person that had originally sent the "it's not true" e-mail.

Nothing. No e-mail recieved. Nothing. A week later the dean of students called me into his office. They suspected me of sending the e-mail. What happened was the attachment was too big and bounced back to the woman I spoofed. She freaked out and contacted computer services. I guess how they caught me was my computer requested an old IP address in the DHCP negotiation. The dean forwarded the case onto the "Computer Use Policy", their ruling was that I had committed a felony: identity theft

I put up a fake news story on my away message to relay what had happened to my friends. At this point I wasn't suspended, but I was on probation.

One day the DHCP servers went down, so I did what any intelligent person would do: I set everything up on manual. The way I had done it a year before when the SAME THING happened. I got a call from the dean again. I had violated my probation, I was stealing IP addresses. This has elevated my case, and I was suspended by the Dean. I appealed, but on my appeal there were a few more 'charges' than a fake e-mail and a stolen IP address. Somehow someone forwarded on the fake news story on to the dean; in addition a year before I was running BitchX on my shell account. I eventually went before all of the faculty to beg (literally) not to kick me out. Explain to a room full of very intelligent Ph D engineers that know very little about computers (other than the CS/CO teachers) how 'BitchX' is nothing more than a chat client, how manually assigning an IP address is not stealing it, etc.

However as some people have posted, anything alcohol related is overlooked. Indiana Excise Police busted a party 3 weeks before I was suspended, however nothing was ever in the papers about it. My sophomore year someone, drunk, used an entire fire exinguisher in our dorm. It set off the fire alarms and everyone was evactuated at 3 am. Nothing ever came of it than a slap on the wrist. Someone 'stole' a fork lift that had its keys left in it and rammed it into one of the monuments on campus. Again. Nothing happened. People fear computers.

It's still upsets me when I think about what I was kicked out of school for: An e-mail prank, a fake news story among friends, a stolen IP addresses, and an IRC client.

It has disrupted my entire life. My ex girlfriend and I had a hard time with the distance. I lost quite a few credits and had to repeat course

Reading some of these stories makes me think than noone has ever been caught. That there are no consequences. If you don't feel like reading my post it can be summed up as: Don't do pranks on the computer. Do something physical and do it intoxicated.

I've been booted, I have to say that it's disrupted my entire life. It hasn't been a fun experience. I went to a small engineering college in Indiana. My sophomore year was the year that the Olsen twins were choosing where to go. At this time the fake CNN news generator was out.

We recieved an e-mail from admissions that the Olsen twins thing was a joke (apparently they had a huge issue with alumni believing this.) On the way home from dinner my roomates and I sketched "Welcome Olsens" into the snow on the lake in 30' letters. Then I thought it would be a funny prank if I photoshopped the Olsen twins in front of one of our buildings. It was a quick and dirty job. I never intended for anyone to believe it. Not to mention the best photo I had found had them in the wrong age frame.

Our school had a "allstudents" e-mail address, however it could only be accessed by a few people. In addition it required a *.instudent.*.edu address. I did some scanning and found some computers that were turned off at night. I spoofed my MAC address and sent out the e-mail from the person that had originally sent the "it's not true" e-mail.

Nothing. No e-mail recieved. Nothing. A week later the dean of students called me into his office. They suspected me of sending the e-mail. What happened was the attachment was too big and bounced back to the woman I spoofed. She freaked out and contacted computer services. I guess how they caught me was my computer requested an old IP address in the DHCP negotiation. The dean forwarded the case onto the "Computer Use Policy", their ruling was that I had committed a felony: identity theft

I put up a fake news story on my away message to relay what had happened to my friends. At this point I wasn't suspended, but I was on probation.

One day the DHCP servers went down, so I did what any intelligent person would do: I set everything up on manual. The way I had done it a year before when the SAME THING happened. I got a call from the dean again. I had violated my probation, I was stealing IP addresses. This has elevated my case, and I was suspended by the Dean. I appealed, but on my appeal there were a few more 'charges' than a fake e-mail and a stolen IP address. Somehow someone forwarded on the fake news story on to the dean; in addition a year before I was running BitchX on my shell account. I eventually went before all of the faculty to beg (literally) not to kick me out. Explain to a room full of very intelligent Ph D engineers that know very little about computers (other than the CS/CO teachers) how 'BitchX' is nothing more than a chat client, how manually assigning an IP address is not stealing it, etc.

However as some people have posted, anything alcohol related is overlooked. Indiana Excise Police busted a party 3 weeks before I was suspended, however nothing was ever in the papers about it. My sophomore year someone, drunk, used an entire fire exinguisher in our dorm. It set off the fire alarms and everyone was evactuated at 3 am. Nothing ever came of it than a slap on the wrist. Someone 'stole' a fork lift that had its keys left in it and rammed it into one of the monuments on campus. Again. Nothing happened. People fear computers.

It's still upsets me when I think about what I was kicked out of school for: An e-mail prank, a fake news story among friends, a stolen IP addresses, and an IRC client.

It has disrupted my entire life. My ex girlfriend and I had a hard time with the distance. I lost quite a few credits and had to repeat course

Reading some of these stories makes me think than noone has ever been caught. That there are no consequences. If you don't feel like reading my post it can be summed up as: Don't do pranks on the computer. Do something physical and do it intoxicated.

I've been booted, I have to say that it's disrupted my entire life. It hasn't been a fun experience. I went to a small engineering college in Indiana. My sophomore year was the year that the Olsen twins were choosing where to go. At this time the fake CNN news generator was out.

We recieved an e-mail from admissions that the Olsen twins thing was a joke (apparently they had a huge issue with alumni believing this.) On the way home from dinner my roomates and I sketched "Welcome Olsens" into the snow on the lake in 30' letters. Then I thought it would be a funny prank if I photoshopped the Olsen twins in front of one of our buildings. It was a quick and dirty job. I never intended for anyone to believe it. Not to mention the best photo I had found had them in the wrong age frame.

Our school had a "allstudents" e-mail address, however it could only be accessed by a few people. In addition it required a *.instudent.*.edu address. I did some scanning and found some computers that were turned off at night. I spoofed my MAC address and sent out the e-mail from the person that had originally sent the "it's not true" e-mail.

Nothing. No e-mail recieved. Nothing. A week later the dean of students called me into his office. They suspected me of sending the e-mail. What happened was the attachment was too big and bounced back to the woman I spoofed. She freaked out and contacted computer services. I guess how they caught me was my computer requested an old IP address in the DHCP negotiation. The dean forwarded the case onto the "Computer Use Policy", their ruling was that I had committed a felony: identity theft

I put up a fake news story on my away message to relay what had happened to my friends. At this point I wasn't suspended, but I was on probation.

One day the DHCP servers went down, so I did what any intelligent person would do: I set everything up on manual. The way I had done it a year before when the SAME THING happened. I got a call from the dean again. I had violated my probation, I was stealing IP addresses. This has elevated my case, and I was suspended by the Dean. I appealed, but on my appeal there were a few more 'charges' than a fake e-mail and a stolen IP address. Somehow someone forwarded on the fake news story on to the dean; in addition a year before I was running BitchX on my shell account. I eventually went before all of the faculty to beg (literally) not to kick me out. Explain to a room full of very intelligent Ph D engineers that know very little about computers (other than the CS/CO teachers) how 'BitchX' is nothing more than a chat client, how manually assigning an IP address is not stealing it, etc.

However as some people have posted, anything alcohol related is overlooked. Indiana Excise Police busted a party 3 weeks before I was suspended, however nothing was ever in the papers about it. My sophomore year someone, drunk, used an entire fire exinguisher in our dorm. It set off the fire alarms and everyone was evactuated at 3 am. Nothing ever came of it than a slap on the wrist. Someone 'stole' a fork lift that had its keys left in it and rammed it into one of the monuments on campus. Again. Nothing happened. People fear computers.

It's still upsets me when I think about what I was kicked out of school for: An e-mail prank, a fake news story among friends, a stolen IP addresses, and an IRC client.

It has disrupted my entire life. My ex girlfriend and I had a hard time with the distance. I lost quite a few credits and had to repeat course

Reading some of these stories makes me think than noone has ever been caught. That there are no consequences. If you don't feel like reading my post it can be summed up as: Don't do pranks on the computer. Do something physical and do it intoxicated.

I've been booted, I have to say that it's disrupted my entire life. It hasn't been a fun experience. I went to a small engineering college in Indiana. My sophomore year was the year that the Olsen twins were choosing where to go. At this time the fake CNN news generator was out.

We recieved an e-mail from admissions that the Olsen twins thing was a joke (apparently they had a huge issue with alumni believing this.) On the way home from dinner my roomates and I sketched "Welcome Olsens" into the snow on the lake in 30' letters. Then I thought it would be a funny prank if I photoshopped the Olsen twins in front of one of our buildings. It was a quick and dirty job. I never intended for anyone to believe it. Not to mention the best photo I had found had them in the wrong age frame.

Our school had a "allstudents" e-mail address, however it could only be accessed by a few people. In addition it required a *.instudent.*.edu address. I did some scanning and found some computers that were turned off at night. I spoofed my MAC address and sent out the e-mail from the person that had originally sent the "it's not true" e-mail.

Nothing. No e-mail recieved. Nothing. A week later the dean of students called me into his office. They suspected me of sending the e-mail. What happened was the attachment was too big and bounced back to the woman I spoofed. She freaked out and contacted computer services. I guess how they caught me was my computer requested an old IP address in the DHCP negotiation. The dean forwarded the case onto the "Computer Use Policy", their ruling was that I had committed a felony: identity theft

I put up a fake news story on my away message to relay what had happened to my friends. At this point I wasn't suspended, but I was on probation.

One day the DHCP servers went down, so I did what any intelligent person would do: I set everything up on manual. The way I had done it a year before when the SAME THING happened. I got a call from the dean again. I had violated my probation, I was stealing IP addresses. This has elevated my case, and I was suspended by the Dean. I appealed, but on my appeal there were a few more 'charges' than a fake e-mail and a stolen IP address. Somehow someone forwarded on the fake news story on to the dean; in addition a year before I was running BitchX on my shell account. I eventually went before all of the faculty to beg (literally) not to kick me out. Explain to a room full of very intelligent Ph D engineers that know very little about computers (other than the CS/CO teachers) how 'BitchX' is nothing more than a chat client, how manually assigning an IP address is not stealing it, etc.

However as some people have posted, anything alcohol related is overlooked. Indiana Excise Police busted a party 3 weeks before I was suspended, however nothing was ever in the papers about it. My sophomore year someone, drunk, used an entire fire exinguisher in our dorm. It set off the fire alarms and everyone was evactuated at 3 am. Nothing ever came of it than a slap on the wrist. Someone 'stole' a fork lift that had its keys left in it and rammed it into one of the monuments on campus. Again. Nothing happened. People fear computers.

It's still upsets me when I think about what I was kicked out of school for: An e-mail prank, a fake news story among friends, a stolen IP addresses, and an IRC client.

It has disrupted my entire life. My ex girlfriend and I had a hard time with the distance. I lost quite a few credits and had to repeat course