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Perhaps you're a robot?

Here's what I do to the RIAA. As a professional cybersecurity mastermind, I know how to take down info-terrorists like Mattel, Michael Sims, and the RIAA.

1. First, find a good contact address like hillary.rosen@riaa.com.
2. Post the contact address, not munged (as in "sNOSPAMeNOSPAMtNOSPAMhNOSPAMfNOSPAM@NOSPAMsNOSPAM eNOSPAMtNOSPAMhNOSPAMf.NOSPAMcNOSPAMoNOSPAMm") to Slashdot.
3. Post spoofed e-mails from this address on the Usenet.
4. Leave negative reviews for the RIAA's products on respected review sites such as Epinions and Amazon.com.
5. Organize a boycott.
6. Organize an Internet petition.
7. E-mail the news media to get them to cover your story.
8. ???
9. Profit.

Have we finally found the root of michael's rabid privacy campaign?

" Hmmm... first the Higgs Boson doesn't exist, now Element 118 turns out to be a myth too. Or is it all just part of some wider, cosmic conspiracy? ;)"

The Higgs Boson likely exists & Element 118 may well be possible, we just don't have proof of them yet.

Please don't editorialize innacurately.

How childish to post a company's support e-mail address on the front page of SlashDot... Would someone mind telling me what will be accomplished by flooding Zero Knowledge's support staff with thousands of complaints by people who mostly have never used Freedom and never will?

eFront From Inside

Games | Posted by michael on , @:

"For the past 4 days, many of Undernet's servers have been hit with constant DDoS..."

[...]

Update: 01/08 09:49 PM by michael: The news story we linked to was ancient.

Not anymore. ;-)

The red, the yellow, the green, the orange and then the blue; a blue so deep and vibrant that it made the clear summer sky look like a piece of faded crepe. The string too; white as a fluff of cotton. I wound the strings tightly around my hand as the balloons slowly lifted me to a low hover. A gentle breeze carried me over the rooftops of middle-class houses with fat, middle-class families and rich, middle-class barbecues.

I savored every scent as I floated along, subtly changing directions at the whim of a whisp. Some families cooked chickens, others cooked steaks, most lined up in droves for a good old cheeseburger or hot dog. Occasionally, a child would look up from the feeding trough, smiling and pointing at the rich color of my balloons. Excited grandparents would look up and wave at me, smiling wide enough that I could see the metal holding their partials to the rotting yellow-green remains of their natural teeth.

A strong gust of wind carried me northward along Cherry street. I groped around in my jacket pocket and found my cigarettes. I managed to get one loose and into my mouth, where I was able to light it with my patented Zippo. Even the winds couldn't overwhelm the strong scent of lighter fluid. I flicked the Zippo shut and returned it to my pocket, savoring that precious first drag of smoke like it was a french kiss.

It was only a few minutes before I had drifted several blocks north. I caught that sweet scent. My hairs stood end, rising to attention like a million soldiers faced with Old Glory. My pulse rose and my blood pressured harder into my veins. I felt a new life absorbing into me. The odor was unmistakable and it was close. closer.

I looked down at the particularly indestinct house just below me. In the mowed eveness of the rich green lawn, I saw the vision I had bated my breath for. A small lady; tiny in frame. Her brown hair flowing in the breezes that carried me to her. Her brown eyes looking up at me; her gaze was like a warm fireplace in mid-winter. She knelt on the ground, raising her legs up and down, beconing me to her in her catlike manner.

One by one, I raised the glowing ember of my smoking tonic to the balloons causing them to burst like a mind on hallucinogenics. Slowly, I descended until I was low enough that I could unravel the cottony strings and plop easily into the mattress of green.

Gently, I took Natalie in my arms. She looked deep into my eyes, "OSM, a graceful swan you are. And Michael ( jellicle@inch.com) is a fat turd."

i took a bitchslapping for natalie portman!!

michael commented that this article was "(a) little different than the usual Slashdot fare, but good reading nonetheless." I agree with him that it was an interesting read - the fate of modern media is an interesting topic and definitely open to discussion. I just wanted to comment that I think that articles like this should definitely be included on /. I know that at least I want to see salient news from across the board, from our *nix updates to important trends in the world today.

Whoever posted this must have been having and extremely bad day. Let's review the post (posters notes, not quotations from the article):

1. "It seems clear to me that Netscape cares a lot more about shopping tabs and similar deadwood": Err, excuze me? Isn't that netscape's primary goal? Bring value to its (aol's *shiver*) stockholders? Are you forgetting all of the good things that it has done? Are you forgetting just how good mozilla really is?
   
2. "that bring immediate profit to the Netscape Corporation but absolutely no value to the user": Again, I'm flabergasted. Perhaps slashdot has completely forgotten what that "mozilla" icon represents. Netscape 6 != Mozilla. Mozilla is open source, you can put anything you want into it and take anything away. Maybe "michael" should have a chat with RMS about free software...
   
3. "than they do about putting out a decent browser": >reinsert comment about how good mozilla is<
   
4. "Personally, I'd recommend beta-testing IE 6": Errm... who are you kidding bucko? Have you forgotten that slashdot is effectively a Linux fan site (not exclusively, but very few avid Windows fans read slashdot). Have you forgotten that IE6 doesn't run on anything except various flavors of windows (ok and mac, and *gag* solaris)...
   
5. "since IE not only has won the browser wars, it's clearly a better browser - and will remain so": Hrm... "won" the browser wars? On what platform? Windows? Is windows really the "browser war"? How many settop boxes do you expect to be running windows in the next couple of years? I thought so.
   

1. Having a really bad day, or
   
2. Trying to not appear completely anti-microsoft or
   
3. Trying to get people riled up and pissed at Netscape, after constantly chastising Netscape for not releasing a product.
   

I remember a slashdot that was run by a single person, and that person ran a quality site. Back then the quality of the site was directly tied to his reputation... now however, things are seeming different.

-Chris

Autospy of a Furby
Posted by michael on Friday August 18, @3:43PM
from the deja-vu dept.

Vladinator writes "Ever wonder what it's like to take apart a Furby? I don't, because I saw this on Slashdot two years ago, but I needed some karma so I submitted it anyway. Fawking trolls!" Those of who you started reading Slashdot this week may not have seen this page yet, so I'm re-running this classic for you three newbies.

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Only 1 first post? I'd have expected atleast 15. :)

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Miniskirt-clad girls save universe
Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday August 18, @08:25AM
from the roketto-ga-sugoi dept.
AnimeNewsNetwork.com is reporting that earlier this morning in Tokyo, five girls in color-coded blouses and miniskirts transformed into scantily-clad superheroes. The five girls then screamed, hurled glowing balls of energy, and screamed some more at a thirty-tentacled monster. Still no word on whether this is connected to the large humanoid robots spotted battling last week in Osaka.

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Slashback: Frisson, Sesquipedalianity, Responsitivitiness
Posted by timothy on Tuesday August 08, @10:45AM
from the beware-the-froomious-bandersnatch dept.
It was a dark and stormy night. In a salutiferous octastyle basement, an ultracrepidarian man was hermtically hunched over a piperaceous desk beneath a ornate mazarine, typing furiously away on an obumbrate keyboard. Meanwhile, in a meandrine corner of the world, several setose seeds were being entrenched in the muculent minds of the hoi polloi.

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Traffic Cops' "Justice" and Napster
Posted by JonKatz on Friday August 18, @11:30AM
from the post-hellmouth-world dept.
Just as Shadowrun predicted, The Corporate Republic took another step in assailing geeks today by handing Shawn Fanning a $L00 speeding ticket. This narcissism is harmful because it shrinks the creative universe of media workers and disconnects them from the new global conversation taking place online. Hubcaps have sparked a cultural and economic revolution that is just beginning to be understood. Will we see an increase in the number of Chickdrivers receiving "closed" traffic tickets as well, or will the Edge power a paradigm shift to "open" community-based traffic laws?

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Ask Slashdot: Are Corporations Trying To Make Money?
Posted by Cliff on Friday August 18, @1:25PM
from the yet-another-article-from-the-something-to-think-ab out dept.
www.sorehands.com writes: "Today I visited Yahoo and was shocked to see a banner advertisement - I thought I'd managed to block every form of advertisement possible with Junkbusters. After thinking about it some, I realized Yahoo was probably running advertisement in a crass, commercialized attempt to make money off of my web-surfing habits! Could there be any other corporations out there engaged in similarly devious practices?" An interesting question here: Are some companies attempting to turn a profit, and, if so, what can we do to prevent it?

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Autospy of a Furby
Posted by michael on Friday August 18, @3:43PM
from the deja-vu dept.

Vladinator writes "Ever wonder what it's like to take apart a Furby? I don't, because I saw this on Slashdot two years ago, but I needed some karma so I submitted it anyway. Fawking trolls!" Those of who you started reading Slashdot this week may not have seen this page yet, so I'm re-running this classic for you three newbies.

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Interstate Highway Boycott Planned
Posted by emmett on Friday August 18, @6:25PM
from the fight-the-power dept.
Bowie J. Poag writes: "You guys are idiots and VA sucks, but being the nice guy that I am [Update: 08/18 11:11 AM by CT: Further investigation reveals that he isn't ] I thought I'd let you know that know Wired is reporting that a boycott is being proposed against the interstate highway system for its treatment of Shawn Fanning. The interstate highway sucks almost as much as anime! PROPAGANDA RULES!!!!!" It's good to see that some people are taking the battle for free (as in Willy) highways into their own hands.

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Holland Convenience Store Switches To Linux
Posted by Hemos on Friday August 18, @9:33PM
from the key-victory-for-open-source dept.
Today while visiting my local 7-11 in Holland, MI, I noticed that their inventory computer was running Linux! Best of all, a representative from the store assured me, due to complaints from Bruce Perens, that the store may consider GPLing its inventory "sometime in the future." Looks like another business has finally "got it" and adopted the tenets of the free software movement.

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Napster? Napster Napster
Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday August 18, @11:25PM
from the napster dept.
Napster Napster Napster. Napster, Napster Napster Napster! Napster Napster (Napster) Napster Napster Napster, Napster Napster Napster. "Napster Napster Napster," Napster Napster. Napster Napster, Napster Napster Napster.

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