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USA Busted Trying to Bug China's Presidential 767
morcheeba writes "A new Boeing 767-300ER was refitted to become China's presidental aircraft. What goes into a plane like this? Besides the bedroom, sitting room, bath with a shower, there was a 48" TV, satellite communications, anti-missile defense systems and advanced avionics. And oh yeah, numerous high-tech listening devices. Wonder how those got in. Read the article at washingtonpost.com." CD: The question is, what was the bug in the headboard for?
In the immortal words of his final parable "Never count your blessings with haste / Even a prophet can catch a case".
We can all take solace in the knowledge, mentioned earlier in his works that "I'm a wild barbarian... Felonious / My description is doo rag pants sag down to my feet".
Read children, read and then reflect on what it meant to you. And then remember, remember where you were on 10:29, January 16th 2002.
Do not cry, but rejoice that change is coming, like I am right now over alt.binaries.erotica.redheads. Mr Thinly Sliced
Ummmm I'm just waiting for the washingtonpost to actually post these stories in their paper before I believe them ... and I would really like to see other sources.
Right now it's looking like someone is having fun with their systems and submitting the faked stories to slashdot. I mean really ... since when does slashdot link to any paper besides the (Registration Required) NY Times?
Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
How's M$ software like chineese plains?
Both are filled with bugs that are hack by the Chineese.
Payback for CodeRed anyone?
Make even shorter URLs - 8LN.org
OK- I've been on Slashdot for a while now. At first I read it for the links, which were great. Then I started reading comments. I didn't post for a long time. I watched the moderation system evolve into what it is today.
But the fact is, Slashdot is broken. If you're not familiar with the most moderated thread on slashdot, go here. Without going into too much detail, nameless Slashdot editors 'threadslapped' an entire thread of comments under the comment entitled "The first Slashdot troll post investigation." Every post there goes to -1, Offtopic within minutes it appears.. which is why I'm not posting this comment in that thread.
When I first read this, I was pissed - isn't Slashdot's moderation system "user based" as CmdrTaco has insisted on since the beginning? CmdrTaco has ALWAYS recommended a moderation system that was completely controlled by the users. He said he was against manually intervening.. until he admitted to bitchslapping users because he didn't like them. But that's old news and if you've been on Slashdot long enough, you know it's par for the course.
Let's compare: Why does Slashdot suck while K5 continues to be a good community? Don't forget that K5 editors reserve the right to kill comments and even ban users. Rusty is the first to admit that K5 is NOT a democracy. Still, the two biggest differences are users moderating story submissions, and the fact that you can SEE who moderated each comment, if you want. These two features are enough to prevent this kind of thing (wholesale downvoting of comments) from ever happening on Kuro5hin.
Is it hypocritical to disapprove of Slashdot's editors, while praising K5's editors, even though they have always reserved the right to dictate the content of their site? Yes. But do I care? No, I don't care. The fact is that Slashdot's editors are a bunch of hypocrites themselves. CmdrTaco, champion of "your rights online," violated his own philosophy by sticking his nose in a "user moderated" forum. Jamie McCarthy doesn't post stories often, but this comment on K5 makes you wonder if he wasn't behind the systematic downmodding.
From his comment: "But if editors (who of course have unlimited mod points, we've said this before) happen to notice off-topic threads taking over stories, we moderate them as such. Duh."
Ah.. but where do you admit to that, Jamie? Not in the Slashdot FAQ.. (no, admitting it on K5 does not count). Actually, the FAQ says "Slashdot is committed to the idea of a completely free and open forum." CmdrTaco wrote that, over a year ago. A completely free and open forum that silences an entire discussion because one person didn't like where it was going.
A couple things before I post this and lose all my karma (btw it's just a number and I don't care how much I have). This moderation wouldn't bother me so much, if it wasn't for all the (justified) bitching and moaning from the editors when MS wanted to get a comment taken off of Slashdot. Now they have the gall to do the same thing themselves, without any public comment? I think this deserves a front page 'sorry' from whichever editor did it.
You'll notice I didn't use the word censorship once. This isn't censorship! You don't have a god given right to post to Slashdot. The editors can do what they like. I prefer to look at the site as a sort of failed human experiment. In these comments, you can find humanity at its most eloquent and compassionate (read the 'Hellmouth' stories again. It's worth it. They are that good). You can also find, well, mindless garbage that gives real trolls a bad name. But in the end it comes down to the editors. They're the bread and butter of a site like this, and they used to be good. Many of us have watched this community die, thanks to them.
Well, that's just my take on the matter.
Expertly put, big ass spork.
Some of the idiots on here take it all way to seriously. Me, I had an epipthany, and now hope to waste my time on here posting offensive stuff in the hope that one day, I too, can offend as many people as possible. I'll need to work on my racism, or sexism, but I do love a good homo joke. And stuff about Hitler, thats always good for a gas. And the yanks, well I hate the yanks, I much prefer a long, smooth wank.
Oops.
I've said too much. Room on trolltalk for one more?
You're all a bunch of heterosexually frustrated taco worshippers.
Mr Thinly Sliced.
except their girls. Tiny, dark, and TIGHT. 100 yuan, about $12 US, for a fuck near Shenzhen, China, one of the best bargains of my life. Woo!
I like Chinese, I like Chinese,
They only come up to you knees,
Yet they're always friendly and they're ready to to please.
I like Chinese, I like Chinese,
There's nine hundred million of them in the world today,
You'd better learn to like them, that's what I say.
I like Chinese, I like Chinese,
They come from a long way overseas,
But they're cute, and they're cuddly, and they're ready to please.
I like Chinese food,
The waiters never are rude,
Think the many things they've done to impress,
There's Maoism, Taoism, I-ching and chess.
I like Chinese, I like Chinese,
I like their tiny little trees,
Their Zen, their ping-pong, their Ying and Yang-ese.
I like Chinese thought,
The wisdom that Confucius taught,
If Darwin is anything to shout about,
The Chinese will survive us all without any doubt.
So, I like Chinese, I like Chinese,
They only come up to you knees,
Yet they're wise, and they're witty, and they're ready to please
Wo ai Zhongguo ren,
Wo ai Zhongguo ren,
Wo ai Zhongguo ren,
Ni hao ma, Ni hao ma, Ni hao ma, Zai jian.
I like Chinese, I like Chinese,
They're food is guaranteed to please,
A fourteen, a seven, a nine and lychees
I like Chinese, I like Chinese,
I like their tiny little trees,
Their Zen, their ping-pong, their yin and yang-ese
I like Chinese, I like Chinese, (fade out....) .
Me is climbing down the karma rapidly.
Was up there with the +1 posting before all this rabid mod-down bollocks from our gods happened. Now I don't give a flying turds christmas bonus for karma.
It's so liberating. It's like finally coming to terms with mutual masterbation at slashdot headquarters.
Another four or five of these posts should sort my karma out though.
The Bugs could have been planted by another faction in the chinese government. But it was probably the US spooks.
Linux gives communism a bad name
so does slashdot
Disagree ?
Open Source is cimply marxism in another form
So, a regime that murders tens of millions of the people it rules through forced starvation doesn't bother you, but when that regime demonstrates hypocrisy, you have a problem all of a sudden?
I'm just boggling at the idea of "giving communism a bad name." It's like calling the Devil himself a "meanie".
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
So they can hear Xiang sob over his tiny, tiny Chinese penis.
pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.
I wish that Chinese Gov't would educate themselves, have culture and manners...in particlular when it comes to gross human rights violations.
this is why i am glad that i understand why so many people are glad with what happened some months ago
If you are talking about how your stupid, arrogant pilot flew a super sonic jet into a prop plane, and then your government duped you into thinking that somehow a prop plane could run into a jet for some malicious reason, and you *believed* it.....
I'm still working on a clever footer.