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Hacker Tinkering With Yahoo Stories
Lifter writes "A hacker named Adrian Lamo had access for three weeks to the web-based content control system for Yahoo!'s news section, according to a story at SecurityFocus. He tinkered with a couple of stories without anyone noticing, then edited an August Reuters story about Dmitry Sklyarov, so that it said that Dmitry's program raised "the haunting specter of inner-city minorities with unrestricted access to literature, and through literature, hope." He also added a quote by John Ashcroft,"They shall not overcome. Whoever told them that the truth shall set them free was obviously and grossly unfamiliar with federal law." Funny stuff in itself, but the SecurityFocus story explores the harm that could come from a trusted news site being easily hacked in these times."
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You don't need to be a streetlawyer to predict Adequacy.org's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Adequacy faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Adequacy.org because Adequacy is dying. Things are looking very bad for Adequacy. As many of us are already aware, Adequacy continues to lose site traffic.
Let's try to keep the facts and look at the numbers.
Slashdot leader Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda states that there are about 5000 semi-regular posters to Slashdot.org. How many users of Geekizoid are there? The ratio of Slashdot to Geekizoid posts is roughly in ratio of 100 to 1. Therefore there are about 5000/100 = 50 occasional Geekizoid posters. The ratio of Adequacy posters to Geekizoid posters is about 5 to 1. Therefore there are 50 * 5 = 250 occasional posters to Adequacy.org. This is approximately equal to the number of editors listed on Adequacy's website added to the eleven non-editors who read the site.
Traffic to Adequacy continues to diminish. In July 2001, Adequacy received approximately 160,000 pageviews. In August, Adequacy received only 80,000 pageviews. The number of pageviews in September (as of September 11) is 60,000, a
paltry 37% of its July traffic. At current rates, the amount of Adequacy traffic will hit 0 by the end of the year.
According to Netcraft, Adequacy's situation is grim. Due to the troubles of Speakeasy DSL, DoS attacks and so on, Adequacy was forced out of business and was taken over by JAT Computer Consulting which hosts another troubled website. Now JAT Computer Consulting is also dying, its corpse being turned over to another charnal house.
All major surveys show that Adequacy has steadily declined in readership. Adequacy is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Adequacy is to survive at all it will be among right-wing maniacs, Libertarians, and trolls. Adequacy continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Adequacy.org
is dead.
HOLY SHIT - how much did you spend to get all those domain names..... ohhhh wait... you can link to anything you want, duh.... I wonder who else was fooled?
Stumbling around $0.90-0.92, VA Linux doesn't stand to stay in the stock exchange by the end of the month.
Start packing Taco...
I've been getting spam that claims to be from Yahoo today. It seems to originate with a site whose front page says "this site is under construction.... ".
Here's the entirety:
Click these links to see recent news and up to the minute stats:
Current link
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ivoc.ob&d=v1
52 week link
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ivoc.ob&d=c&k=c4
Please FWD this email to your associates of similar interests..... Sorry for any
intrusions.
Disclaimer: Neither Corporate America nor the writers of this communique makes
specific trading recommendations or gives individualized market advice.
Information contained in this newsletter is provided as an information service
only. Corporate America recommends that you get personal advice from an
investment professional before buying or selling stocks or other securities. The
securities markets are highly speculative areas for investments and only you can
determine what level of risk is appropriate for you. Although Corporate America
obtains the information reported herein from sources that it deems reliable, no
warranty can be given as to the accuracy or completeness of any of the
information provided or as to the results obtained by individuals using such
information. In no way should this be construed as a recommendation to buy or
sell a particular security.
Not Interested: http://www.cyberxworld.com/cleanlist.html
How dare you insult the faith of our founding fathers!
As has been pointed out earlier there is no McDonald's in Hanoi square. That is a jingoistic yankee urban myth!!
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Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
This one seems to be functioning normally.
Right here. The compression filter can blow my asshole.
asdf This text pasted here for the heck of it. darn you /.
Wonder why you're such a pain sometimes.
No one ever says, 'I can't read that ASCII E-mail you sent me.'
And what does your employer think of you wasting his resources by posting crap like this?
What employer? I'm on welfare.
Now this is a first post!!
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I can't believe an A/C deserves a 6.
Lost at C:> Found at C.
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