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Happy Birthday Code Red
totallygeek writes: "One year ago today (July 19, 2001), more than 359,000 computers were infected with the Code Red worm in less than 14 hours. At the peak of infection, more than 2,000 new machines were infected each minute. Servers running Internet Information Services from Microsoft were propagating this worm across the Internet faster than anything has up to then or since. For the first time, systems running the Apache web server were getting requests for a document called "default.ida". Here we are a year later, and my web log shows an average of forty-two requests per day for default.ida over the last five days. To really appreciate the spread of this program, look at this animated image."
That animated gif is going to be /.'d before I get this posted.
I do security
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered trolling community when recently Slashdot confirmed that, after several changes were made to production Slashcode, wide posts account for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all Slashdot posts. Coming on the heels of the latest verions of IE which make page-widening more difficult, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. the wide posts that we love are collapsing into the narrow posts that we are used to, as further exemplified by the lack of Slashbots complaining about difficulty reading Slashdot's articles.
You don't need to be a Klerck to predict PWP's future. The hand writing is on the wall: PWP faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for PWP because PWP is dying. Things are looking very bad for PWP. As many of us are already aware, PWP continues to be defeated by users with thresholds of 1 or higher. Mod points flow like a river of blood. Klerck's PWP-bot posts are the most endangered of them all, having been filtered early on because of their uniformity.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
PWP leader Klerck states that there are 7 wide posts in the average Slashdot article. How many non-wide crapflood posts are there? Let's see. The number of crapflood versus wide posts on Slahdot is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7*5 = 35 non-wide crapflood posts in every Slashdot article. Tacosnotting posts on Slashdot are about half of the volume of crapflood posts. Therefore there are about 17 tacosnotting posts per article. A recent article put Goatse.cx trolls at about 80 percent of total troll posts. Therefore there are a hell of a lot of homosexual trolls. This is consistent with the number of Goatse.cx Slashdot posts.
But Slashdot is only part of the picture. Due to the troubles at Slashdot, negative revenue and so on, the site will soon go out of business and many users will flock to alternative weblogs, where PWP is almost completely unknown. Trollaxor.com, the popular troll hangout, is also dying, its corpse sodomized in yet another Greek bath house.
All major surveys show that PWP has steadily declined in the scope of all troll posts. PWP is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If PWP is to survive at all it will be among Blog faggot using outdated versions of Slashcode. PWP continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, PWP is dead.
- posted by poopbot: because we're all crapflooders at heart
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That is pretty sad when you can't even get first post on your own post!
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oops false alarm
Thank you for contributing to Slashdot. Your comment was so very insightful.
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> Is anyone else getting massive requests for:
No, but I frequently emit massive requests for:Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
I find it horribly absurd that Americans are still whining and crying over 9/11. Every time I turn on the television, its 9/11 this and 9/11 that. Its gotten to the point that even things that are completely worthless are somehow connected to 9/11. For example, someone told me that they will only shop at the cheaper non-brandname clothing stores because of 9/11. I asked them what 9/11 had to do with it and the response was a shrug. I hate the fact that people are running around like scared sheep. Everywhere I look, more "public security" is shown but in the end I don't think this will change anything. People have let there destroyed egos of yesteryear that chanted "America the strong and invincible" have made way for the public to curtail their freedoms for the desire of security. What they do not realize is that the freedoms we are given in this country aren't just for the good times but also for the bad times. I mean, an anology can be made that a 'friend in need is a friend indeed' because what matters more is not how much freedom (or in this case friends) we have, but how much freedom (or friends) we have when times are tough. People like Ashcroft should be taken out of office and charged with allowing the destruction of civil liberties. I'm sure its even worse for our fellow Americans who may happen to look like Middle Easterners or may be Muslim since the floodgates of racism and prejudice are wide open. First it was the Japanese and I'm pretty sure Muslims and anyone resembling a Middle-Easterner will be next to go through that.
I guess your post touched a nerve. Sorry for the rant, but come September 11th this year, I hope I don't see a story on Slashdot. What our country needs to do is look to ourselves and understand what we may be doing wrong in the world for people to hate us so much. Those interested in a history lesson can come back later when I feel like typing some more.
Long live a free and just America in a happy and just World.
how is this deserving of +5 funny? This same joke is said in about 90% of slashdot stories.
Instead of wasting your mod points blasting my post into oblivion like i'm sure you are just itching to do, why not mod the parent to (-1 redundent) and preserve what little respectability is left on slashdot.
This is the sysadm's sick joke to get back at us for slashdotting his site. Don't click on it.
>What's special about September 11th, 2002?
Nothing, yet.
casual suers, blah blah, not a world full of experienced admins blah blah
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