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Details from VT gunman's suicide note revealed, blames actions on "rich kids" and "debauchery" but makes no mention of Anna Nicole Smith, Don Imus or violent video games

Turned into a whole string of "I blame..." responses.

Usually art imitates life, but sometimes life imitates art. A few threads later After Columbine, Tom Delay blamed the shootings on science classes teaching evolution. Surely, we've learned from past idiots, right? Well... a day after the VT massacre, it appears not showed up, with a link pointing to a Crooks and Liars article in which Tom Delay blamed the Columbine attack on the teaching of evolution, and some other contemptible ghoul of a fundie whackjob blamed the VT shooting on the teaching of evolution.

Just when we'd thought we'd blamed it on everything, some fucking fundie freak has to play a game of one-upmanship.

http://www.fark.com/ ?

I have heard reports that the shooter's livejournal page is here.

From the profile:
Birthdate: 1984-02-22

NBC5 quotes a Chicago Sun-Times columnist Michael Sneed as saying the shooter was a 24 year old male student on a student visa from China.

Plus the livejournal I point to above is all about guns, killing, shooting, depression, etc... so it is a pretty decent first guess as to who the shooter might me?

See headline. Check favorite news outlets, or see the developing story, including people monitoring scanners, several students posting live in the thread, and people grappling with the various sources of information in this Fark thread.

First Surf of The Day

Slashdot The Milwaukee Journal Gnews Fark Digg Mac OS X Hints Google Calendar Upper Room Google Personalized Home Page My Stumbleupon Page BuzzFeed Brookfield Now Facebook Three Random Stumbles

After the first run it is /., jsonline, Gnews, Fark, and Digg.

http://www.rightwinglunatic.com/ http://www.fark.com/ http://www.slashdot.org/ http://www.foxnews.com/ http://www.compfused.com/

Fark ran pretty much this same article in July 2005: http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink =1576530 As I (o4tuna) pointed out then, it was from a June 2003 press release. The 3000 cars/year thing is just their strange licensing scheme...

Well, having had my computer taken by the cops as "evidence", I've learned several important lessons:

1) The cops have _no_ sense of humor. Thanks to Fark, I had This, and This in my cache. Apparently, I'm now into terrorism and child trafficing.
 
2) EFS doesn't help. Microsoft's Encrypting File System doesn't encrypt anything that can't be broken in seconds with the password (and usually minutes/hours without).
 
So, especially for farkers, get TrueCrypt. It's free, and open-source. Then, get TCTEMP. It makes it so your temporary files encrypted with a random key. Restart, and they all go "poof". Then get TCGina. You get to encrypt your home directory (and history, documents, etc.) - it automatically mounts it when you login.
 
Use AES/SHA-1 as your encryption scheme, and pick a good password. If you're _really_ paranoid, grab Shred Agent (wipes files you delete automatically), and Distrust (a firefox addon that automatically deletes your history and cache for you). Nobody is _ever_ going to be recovering your data (even you, if you forget your password).

If you are looking for a quick, easy, fool-proof way to wipe your hard drive so _nobody_ will _ever_ recover _anything_ from it, make yourself a DBAN disk. Easy to use, and it gets the job done right.

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink =2390696

Here's some Michale Crook fun at Fark: http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink =2390696

Duke Sucks.
Fark

"Indonesian mud volcano may have been caused by oil drilling, not Taco Bell lettuce as previously reported"

from
http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink =2546705

Are you Muddie?

Really, we need a new word, for news which isn't functional information, but just amusing/entertaining.

"USAF F-22 Faptor at EAA (Experimental Aircraft Association) AirVenture Oshkosh 2006 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA"

Video clip at http://planeplaces.com/gallery2/v/osh06_001/f22/tr ansonic.avi.html and http://planeplaces.com/gallery2/d/833-2/transonic. avi

Photo gallery at http://planeplaces.com/gallery2/v/osh06_001/f22/

Source/Via: http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink =2375308

He doesn't work for Firebird, it's an Internet cliche. It follows the standard form:

"I work for (insert company name); So I am really getting a kick out of most of these replies. Some of you guys are very good at making it sound like you know what you are talking about. But trust me.... You don't. I think you just want to make yourself sound smart, when in reality you don't know what you are talking about. This is how bad info gets passed around. If you dont know about the topic....Dont make yourself sound like you do. Cos some (insert target group) believe anything they hear."

According to this Wikipedia article on Fark.com cliches, it originated in this Fark forum thread (search for "I work for the U.S. Mint" about halfway down the page), but I've seen in take different forms in different places.

Just thought you should know.

Parent, you sound remarkably like this story on Fark.
"MacArthur Foundation spending $50 million to determine why kids use the internet. Here's a clue: pr0n, WoW, MySpace - that'll be $18 million"

"I believe that many people will be doing lots of 'natural experiments' with collective intelligence in the next few years -- with or without us,"

Instead of straining yourself to figure out how to merge a chatroom with a message board, I'd recommend simply streamlining whatever message board configuration you're using for the fastest post/refresh rate you can get. The faster a user can post and refresh, the more simultaneous user connections your message board will be able to handle at one time.

The ideal way of doing this, is to make it so the user can post and get immediate results within a single mouse-click. Messages should be displayed in a linear fashion using a single page, rather than broken up into pages or nested by reply. A good example of such a setup is theFark.com website. Users can respond as quickly, or as slowly, as they like.

Just remember, any system that makes a user wait too long or makes it difficult for the user to find information will almost always fail in the end.

End *quest for the holy grail voice* I don't know why someone modded me troll, above, but they might also want to mod down this thread on Fark, about 1200 odd posts long. That would be moderation abuse for four points, Trebek. The fact is they DID TRY TO PARDON THEMSELVES FOR WAR CRIMES. Don't know if it got through or not.

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink =2294440

There are some really great shots in that thread as well
as some co-ordinates to follow up on. One is a wierd land
area in New Mexico where some scammers had built out all
the roads for an entire city development and then skipped
out with the money and never built a thing.

Very wierd stuff.

Tragically, you picked the wrong site to make that comment on.

I suggest you go where it would be appricated: http://www.fark.com/

/loves fark
//See the slashies?

Clearly what's needed is more violence in Pac-Man.

I better get some Karma :P

Fark photoshop thread from Fark today.

I better get some Karma :P

Fark photoshop thread from Fark today.

It's called Fark

... trailing Fark by six hours for the past five years!

Sure, this photographer is at fault, and you can make assumptions about his political motives for photoshopping this image. But what's worse is how did Reuters let such a piece of crap into the system? The guys on SomethingAwful or Worth 1000 all do a much better job, and that's just for the glory of the contest. They're not trying to pass their stuff off as "news." Even the guys at Fark aren't this bad (not even Heamer :-) No, this photoshop was of "The Daily Show" quality -- comically bad.

The only conclusion I can come up with is that Reuters isn't actually looking at the images that come in the door. Even if someone at Reuters had the same political agenda as the photographer, he should have had the good sense to deny that picture because the photoshopping was so obvious. Actually, neither conclusion is good news for Reuters at all.

No, farking isn't. Fucking might just be though.

Basically, what I say is how I've been able to mod once, and because 2/3 of my mods were M2'd I've never been offered mod again. I've been /.ing for 6 years now, and got those mod points after a year. I M2'd everyday until I noticed that there's a disclaimer saying basically if you get M2'd adversely often enough you never get to mod again. So then, I decided to M2 everything negative (I used to take great care as to how I M2'd) and I would stop posting AC or not using karma bonus if I didn't think what I had to say was important enough -- the wierd part of this is I actually started getting modded up for things that I would have been afraid to say before -- until my karma was back down to basically 0, at which point I'd start again with a whole new account. Part of what started this was introducing someone to /., and them getting mod points 2x a week with somewhat weakish karma (no negatives, but not excellent either). I pretty much gave up on the whole thing because I found Fark, where the crowd is a lot more laid back, there is no moderation except those appointed to moderate the forums, and the articles are a lot more interesting (IMO). I just pop over here now and again to see what's going on (went from reading everyday to maybe 2x a month).

Anyway, that's my story. Mod me offtopic, I only grow stronger than you can possibly imagine!

I bet the Fark article on this is full of references to thermite, missiles, and crazy conspiracy theories all over again.

Imagine if it were a day on fark.com, (and that day was April 1)

"muninsfire: Calling erewhon....

Last time this came up, IIRC, it was stated that NASA, et al, have 'honeypot' systems filled with spurious, though tantalizing, information--if you go cracking into 'em multiple times, they trace you and send the guys in the suits who have no sense of humour.

You rang? This is what, like rerun #4 for this one guy?

Ok, kiddies, here is something that is the absolute truth. Consider it closely when you go groping around other people's systems.

All these agencies have their very own MIS departments, who, contrary to popular opinion, are very VERY good at what they do. The military guys have the Defense Information Systems Agency, for example, although quite often the intelligence branches for the various services get in the game as well. We have at least two military MIS guys that post regularly on Fark. One of them works at NORAD, for example.

Now, it's not unheard of for DIA to launch attacks on various military MIS systems just to see how well they are doing. I recall one physical invasion where they infiltrated a Marine base and corrupted their system, but I digress.

Here's the deal. There are no less than three military networks. The lowest level is NIPRNET, and it is tied to the civilian internet by gateways. It is fairly secure, but no secure data is trusted on it.

Next is SIPRNET. SIPRNET is ok for traffic up to 'TS'. SIPRNET is not physically connected to the civilian Internet. Anywhere. At all. You can't "hack into it" because there are no systems with both connections. That is verboten. They audit you to make sure you didn't do some dorky multihomed system with links to both. All the time. There's even rules about how close you can put a NIPRNET and a SIPRNET machine in the same room.

But wait, SIPRNET is TS at best. It has its very own web program called Intelink-S. SIPRNET has all SORTS of cool stuff on it, but it's been described as tactical instead of strategic and while I don't go surfing around just to see what I can get into (bad form) that's probably true.

Then you have JWICS. JWICS is top level. It has SCI level stuff. You use Intelink-SCI. It has battle plan type crap, strategic level info. On JWICS the elder gods of They® reside, like Zeus on Olympus. You thought DISA was a biatch about SIPRNET. JWICS isn't the sort of thing you want due to the asspain level it brings you.

Like SIPRNET, JWICS is totally separate, it has NO physical connections to ANYTHING civilian. It's the sort of thing where they might monitor the freaking dispersion characteristics and signal flight time of the fiber for taps. The sort of thing where they'll probably end up using OAM-entangled modulation. Where the cable sheath might be pressurized and double walled with marker gas in the outer sheath that sets off alarms when the slightest pinhole occurs. Personally, I don't know how the physical level of JWICS is protected and don't want to.

Now, for the sort of thing our young Brit is discussing, data for SCI projects, that would be on JWICS, if it were stored on ANY accessible server. You would not be getting into JWICS. I can't imagine a more classified project. Hell, it's probably OVER SCI, whatever's up there in the security stratosphere. But it couldn't be less than SCI.

It would be a violation of any number of legal documents and/or oaths to put something like that on NIPRNET, much less on a civilian web server.

So, what did he find? Well, they put out honeypots. The term is "military intrusion detection honeypot". You can't readily get to it,

To all of the people who complain about the stunts, the immaturity, the panic, the idiotic ideas...lighten up!

I hate to generalize (Ok, I love it, but pretend for a second I don't) but our society today needs some humor. We hear "terrorist this" and "gas prices that" and "x troops killed today in Iraq by insurgents..." every day. We seem so drenched in sadness and tragedy sometimes we forget what we are: free!

As long as a flash mob/stunt doesn't injure innocent bystanders and cause undue distress to officials I don't see the harm. The way that these people carry out "missions" with their "agents" is harmless. I admit that there is no screening process and no, I wouldn't want to be a manager on duty that day at Best Buy. But these stunts are things that you can look back upon 2 days, 2 weeks, 2 months, or 2 years later and grin. We need humor! I give my props to the people who have the audacity to go out there, do something very strange while surreptitiously documenting it, and post it for the rest of us to enjoy later! Way to go!

In a world filld with bad news, depressing ideas, and bad people, it's enlightening to smile at the deeds of others without having read it on Fark or the Darwin Awards.

I know I enjoyed the missions (the pantsless ones are priceless!) and I think that they have a great way of making people laugh. If you don't enjoy, that's fine. I don't get British humor and I hate Monty Python. Some humor isn't for everybody. But lighten up!

I know that you were being sarcastic (At least I hope you were), but this won't change a thing.

Over a year ago, Bush created the "Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board". They haven't met a single time since the board was created.

The LA Times article that talked about it is now in their archives, and I believe is unavailable unless you pay for it.

Here is a posting that made Fark about it a while ago, although the linked to article is dead.
http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink =1923742

Hah. When salesforce is down I reload the following pages repeatedly: http://trust.salesforce.com/, http://slashdot.org/, http://www.fark.com/, etc... Its fun to watch them keep tacking time on to their estimates as they completely fail to fix whatever it is that is preventing me from getting anything done. Of course, salesforce is fine right now, and I am still failing to get anything done... but at least it is my own fault this time.

Linked on Fark.com, a discussion about the Ric Romero article.

Linked on Fark.com, a discussion about the Ric Romero article.

This is a few days old, yeah.

I think the Farkers have already made every possible anus joke.

come on, i mean...come on... i can understand that in the world you cant always be the first but showing this article that's 4 days old is making slashdot look like a retard.

This topic was actually covered last thursday on CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/03/30/prayer.study. ap/index.html/

which you can prove by looking at what fark.com (http://www.fark.com/ published last thursday (30/04/06). (looking at the date on the CNN article is also a proof).

This is just ridiculous. From now on, I'm sticking to Fark, where /. gets a lot of its stories anyway.

Thanks to the cute link we know where all the kittens are teh PIGs rule!

They miss you over here

Martin Bishop : Organized crime?
Cosmo : Hah. Don't kid yourself. It's not that organized.

There's a bell curve, as with a lot of things. Some of the bad guys are extremely well educated, and experienced in their business. Some are dumb as bricks, and thereby keep some news(?) reporters in beer money.

I guess you're getting your remedial comedy lessons from Fark

-l

p.s., ... "a controversial new study argues". ;)

Dr's say drinking four cups of semen a day while on Spring Break due to your being a total whore probably not good for your health either.

Will wonders never cease!

At the moment it does.
I hotlinked Calabro's image to Fark's scratchpad page (lifespan=2 hours) and it seems to work.

Until Google notices someone doing this, then they'll probably put a stop to it.

Slashdotted, and Farked simultaneously.

No web server can survive the combined trampling of 2 herds of geeks.