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An anonymous reader wrote in to say"It turns out that famous map was not the end of it, a cybergeography alert linked to this site with lots of cool pictures and animations. Turns out they didn't measure time between hosts on the poster map, and it can be used to make cool pix!"

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  1. World Trade Center attack - an absurd Liberal myth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have allowed themselves to be so swiftly deluded by a fraudulent fabrication of such ridiculous proportions. The very idea that not one, but two jumbo jets would crash themselves into a famous New York skyscraper -- in broad daylight with vigilant air-traffic controllers and tight airport security watching every move of every craft in the air -- is laughable. Furthermore, it is a horrendous affront to the world-renowned intellect and common sense of the American people. The fact that anyone could actually believe this is evidence that the Liberals -- after decades of waging war against intellectual integrity and honesty -- have finally ripped the few remaining, tenuous strands of control of our educational system from full-blooded, hard-working, God-fearing Americans.

    As such wonderful documentaries as The Siege have so articulately exposed, the Liberal masterminds in Berkeley and their toadies throughout the nation have been silently waging war against the American people and their God-given rights to protect themselves, their worship, their family values, and their hard work. Much of this has been conducted under the guise of preventing "terrorism", a meaningless word engineered by radical left-wingers specifically to bring fear into the heart of honest Americans. Think about it -- can you remember any reference to so-called "terrorism" that occurred before Liberals invaded our government offices in the last decade? Of course you can't, because despite whatever the revisionist histories may tell you, there is no mention of any "terrorism" in classic literature before 1980. Only then did the neo-Marxists invent such absurd figures as Timothy McVeigh and Osama Bin Laden in order to legitimize their anti-freedom agenda, drowning the spirit of the American people in a blatantly-engineered machine of fear and mourning for "victims" of these "terrorist attacks".

    In fact, it should be incredibly obvious that the concept of a 110-story building even being built, much less two, is a clear and obvious fraud. No documentation of these "twin towers" existed before a "terrorist attack" occured on the previously-nonexistent pair of skyscrapers on September the 11th. Due to this hoax being perpetrated by the Liberal-controlled media, suddenly people all over the world mourned the loss of thousands of people who had not existed before. Innocent men and women, brainwashed by the left-wing education institutions, gave firsthand accounts of losing relatives they never had until the "attack" happened.

    But the most outrageous aspect of this hoax is the "Pentagon" -- a government office fabricated especially for this purpose. Liberal media claims this imaginary building to be "the center of America's defense system", although obviously an organization as proud and God-fearing as the United States Military would never think to station themselves in a building of five sides, so obviously close to the pentagram, mark of Lucifer himself. It is insulting to the nation's intelligence that eight hundred members of the world's proudest institution would be made to meet their Lord by something as graceful, efficient, and secure as our country's fine aviation system.

    Don't let the devious tricks of the Liberals allow you, a citizen of the greatest nation this Earth has ever or will ever know, to surrender your freedoms. Any lesser nation would have succumbed to their wills long ago, and indeed the socialist states in Europe already have. It is only the superior resilience, pride, and intellect of America that has allowed it to withstand the constant threat of Liberal control.

  2. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp!!!

  3. first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp?

  4. Re:World Trade Center attack - an absurd Liberal m by wbav · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dear Sir or Madem,
    I relize what has happened in the past day seems unreal, but let me assure you it is real. Denal is one way some of us deal with our problems, but that will not help. Finally, please put down your politic stick, it's time for all of us libral, conseritive, and other, to come together, and work together to help those who were hurt.

    --

    =================
    Unix is very user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are.
  5. This doesn't look good for Linux... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I just saw this FAA announcement on the wires. It doesn't look good:

    WASHINGTON, D.C. (ASSOCIATED PRESS) The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announced the immediate suspension of its test program for Linux-based flight control systems on commercial airliners.

  6. Good thing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Would you want hordes of k3wl h4x0rs reprogramming open source flight control systems? "Haha, let's attack Microsoft next"?

  7. Modern Art by diatonic · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    While preparing for the quinticentenial celebrations for general Custer's last
    stand in little big-horn, the commitee turned to a very big modern artist in
    New York, and asked him to make a painting for the occasion.
    Anyway, after some three months, and several hundreds of thousands of
    dollars, came the big moment. A whole lot of people gathered in a huge hall,
    with the media, politicians, and everyone who is anyone. Camera clicking, the
    microphones turning here and there...
    Then came the moment of revealing the picture. The artist takes off the
    cover, and everybody, but EVERYBODY, falls silent. The cameras stop clicking,
    and everyone is in total shock.
    In the middle of the picture, with a halo over its head, stands a huge cow.
    Around it, depicted in detail, are hundreds of couples of indians copulating.
    Well, after a few seconds a newspapermen stands up and asks the artist,
    hesitantly: "excuse me, but can you enlighten those of us who are ignorant in
    the ways of modern art and explain the picture?"
    "OK", says the artist. "I was thinking to myself, about Custer climbing that
    hill, and beholding all the indians waiting for him there, and I told myself
    that probably the first thing that came into his mind was: "holy cow, look at
    all those fucking indians!" "

  8. Vote for a Slashdot Cache by brute4ce · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What about a slashdot cache similar to the Google cache. Before things are posted on /. they automatically get cached and hosted on /. (which can handle *a lot* of traffic.

    Babes for the Geek

    1. Re:Vote for a Slashdot Cache by itsnotme · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      that idea was answered in the slashdot FAQ, basically they dont do that because they would have to get the permission of the authors, and would be at risk for copyright violation and so on and they'd have to be worried about keeping the cache up to date.. so they just link to it..

      also they dont cache it because some of the site owners earn money by people seeing the site so the cache would take money away from them.. you know those dorky banner ads actually do make money when people see them so thats why a cache is also a bad idea.. they need to make money.

  9. Re:mirror attempt... by Ghoser777 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Works now. Although the server is obviusly feeling the strain of the slashdot effect.

    I'm kind of curious on how google cache works. Would it be possible for slashdot to add these websites to the cache before the story is posted?

    F-bacher

    --
    James Tiberius Kirk: "Spock, the women on your planet are logical. No other planet in the galaxy can make that claim."
  10. Sound's like a great Idea! by orionpi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    One could set up an account with a script that would auto mirror the site when it recived an email. I'm sure someone here could set that up. The script could then respond once/if it successfully mirrored the site and those links could be posted in the story

  11. ... by Slitwrist · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    ..Right..a huge ass building that I personally have visited and spit off of DOESNT exist!

    And all this time i thought it to be a great achievement in loogie aerodynamics!

    OH HOW I HAVE BEEN MISLEAD...

    damn fucking troller. heh. =:-)

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    Carpe Noctem -=- Seize The Night
    1. Re:... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Shut up, you complete fucking moron idiot.

    2. Re:... by Oztun · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      HUH? I must of missed something unless you are refering to one of the WTC buildings.

  12. Re:fools by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well aren't you going to be embarassed when it turns out to have been a bunch of disgruntled pilots, eh?

  13. Re:More Posters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Thanks

  14. Re:Excellent! Kill all those filthy wogs. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Kind sir, please inform us the meaning of the word "wog"? We are poor arabic students living in the slums of Los Angeles, and our sense of English is somewhat niave.

  15. /. needs to mirror itself by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    with a site using the older slashcode

  16. Re:Destroy Muslims. Exterminate Islam. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes, it does. Right up the bumhole, in fact. And ungreased, with salt rubbed into the sores afterwards.

  17. Re:Personal Experience with these maps by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Your dad is a filthy rapist.

  18. Re:mirror attempt... by Emperor+Cezar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And, What makes this message a Troll?

  19. Re:World Trade Center attack - an absurd Liberal m by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm glad someone else is sick of the whole "I'm more upset than you are" show that's been going on since the attack.

  20. Re:World Trade Center attack - an absurd Liberal m by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You bastard! People died in there!

  21. Re:Mirror (another one) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Automatic "-1 lame" moderation doesn't give you the chance to make your comment less lame - or, more likely, give you a chance to work around the lame lameness filter.

  22. Re:Personal Experience with these maps by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Be silent you awful woman. My dad never did those things you say, it was never proven.

    -Dan

  23. Re:Destroy Muslims. Exterminate Islam. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Owch, that sounds like something my girlfriend's brothers do to each other.

  24. Re:World Trade Center attack - an absurd Liberal m by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I know you're just in high school, but when you grow up you might understand there are more important matters than your zits and the fact that you're not getting laid.

  25. Dumb Moderators! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    For crist's sake, I made a mistake, and admit it and I get modded down again? Both as trolls? I mean shit, come on. I tried to say I was sorry, but that got moded down? Get your head out of your ass moderators!

    1. Re:Dumb Moderators! by Nasheer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I think I saw somewhere before posting it something like "Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs! Don't forget the http://!".
      Or maybe I saw "You should have used the preview button" after posting...

      Nevermind... it's already done.

      --
      - Please, ignore everything written above.
  26. Re:World Trade Center attack - an absurd Liberal m by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Unfortunitly you never grew up you just became overly concerned with other trivial things.
    On a grand scale none of this really matters.

  27. Re:World Trade Center attack - an absurd Liberal m by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And when you get older, you'll look back on your life and realise that there was nothing more important than your zits and not getting laid. Everything else is just compensatory behaviour. The connection you feel with the WTC incident is an illusion. You are not involved.

  28. Hey moderators! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My post might have been off topic but it definitely was not a troll. I simply asked you to consider upmoderating a previous post. Needless to say, I'm posting this as AC.

    skybird0

    1. Re:Hey moderators! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I have to agree with you. What the heck happenend with the moderators? I've never seen so many down-moderations in /. until now. And some really deserves a "funny"... (Altought some deserves a -2).

      They would be Trolls if this was about the WTC catastrophe.

      (To avoid these problems I'll post as AC too)

    2. Re:Hey moderators! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      The moderators are doing their jobs. This article is about mapping the net. Any post in here relating to the WTC disaster is offtopic. All these responses about moderations (including this one) are also offtopic. I have modded posts down for this reason, and have metamoded offtopic posts as 'unfair' if anyone had modded them up as 'interesting'.

  29. Re:World Trade Center attack - an absurd Liberal m by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You have to love high school philosophers. An inch wide and an inch deep.

  30. Re:fools by Gordonjcp · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nobody knows if it was directed by a Middle Eastern country.

    Typical bloody trigger-happy American.

    My thoughts go out to all those who have lost family and friends in this tragedy, but simply turning the Middle East into radioactive glass would be a very stupid thing to do.

  31. Re:World Trade Center attack - an absurd Liberal m by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You are not involved.

    The first few nanoseconds that I heard the news, I thought the exact same thing. Then, I realized it was not one of my normal bizarre nightmares (as I dream about this crap every night.) This was in fact quite real, and happening in the US, a country that gets relatively few terrorist attacks.

    No, the US isn't better than the rest of the world, and no we shouldn't think we're too good to get attacked. But then, that's just it. We shouldn't think this because quite apparently we CAN get attacked. Now that it's OBVIOUS that it's apparently not real hard to do, we can all be sure there will be more to come.

    And when it comes to the possibility that you, I, or anyone we know/love/care about could get killed by some psycho religious person acting upon his superstitions while the victims are minding their own god damned "Uninvolved" business, then it most certainly DOES involve me, and it involves you, too. You're just too fucking stupid to see it.